"Blow the attack trumpet and raise the star flag all over the sky!" Secrean gave the order again.

Although Secrets is enterprising, he is not reckless. He also knows that the Dionia fleet was established for a short time and the cooperation between warships was definitely not as good as that of the opponent. Therefore, if you want to win, you must use the Dionia Navy to win one after another in a row. The sailors are very morale and in good condition, they will advance bravely, fight against one by one, and use their high fighting spirit to defeat the enemy. If you avoid temporarily as the captain said, it will not only dampen the morale of the sailors, but also the Syracuse fleet is attacking. On land, there are probably Siracuse troops launching an attack on Mearo. The Dionia fleet retreated in front of the enemy and ignored friendly forces. I am afraid that what awaits him after the war will no longer be His Majesty Davers's smile, but the ruthlessness of the "Dionia's Military Law"!

Thinking of this, he glanced at the captain viciously and said simply: "You are not suitable for captain's position to be the captain anymore. Go and serve as the stern of the boat."

Then, he ignored the captain's defense, walked to the side of the ship, waved to the clutch closely accompanying the ship to them, and shouted: "Tell the sailors of every warship that this is the last battle of our Dionian Navy in this war, and it is also their last chance to earn achievements and win alliance honors and rewards. Don't miss this last good opportunity!"

When the sailors of each warship were in the bottom cabin to repost Seclian's words, the sailors were all excited and shouted: "For victory, kill the Syracuse people!!!..."

After more than two hours of sailing, the sailors were rowing at low pulp frequency. At this time, they seemed to have just finished their bodies. Under the repeated urging of the sailors, they finished their food. Under the hot fighting enthusiasm, the wooden oars in their hands seemed as light as nothing. Under the command of the flute player, the sailors began to gradually speed up the pulp frequency...

At this time, someone sang the hymn Hades, and soon all the sailors sang together. The lyrics of the sacred and solemn were extremely excited by them, and they broke through the bottom cabin and echoed on the blue sea...

When the Dionian fleet discovered the traces of the enemy ships, the Syracuse fleet naturally saw the opponent. Paronisus had been waiting for it and arranged the offensive formation of the "double columns", so he immediately issued the "offensive" order.

Logically speaking, Syracuse's warships are taking the lead in attacking. Whether it is the increase in the speed of the slurry or the increase in the speed of the warship, they should be better than the other side when they approach. But in fact, at the moment of contact, the speed of the Dionian warship was slightly stronger than Syracuse, which also shows the gap in the enthusiasm of the sailors on both sides in combat...

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The vast sea surface and the constant sound of tides covered up the collision between warships, making the battles at sea silent.

On land, Masias led a coalition of about 12,000 troops of Syracuse, and had arrived at the southern bank of the Alcantara River. Instead of immediately launching an attack on the town of Mearo as Antonios expected, he ordered the army to stop advancing and start arranging the array, and at the same time drove hundreds of carts to the front.

The soldiers on the Mealo sentry tower saw so many pack cars and finally knew why the Syracuse army made such a loud "rumble" sound when advancing. Then, in the midst of the noisy pack beasts, the sentry saw the Syracuse soldiers pulling off the crossbows hard from the trailer and suddenly opened their eyes wide.

"You said that the Syracuse army has arranged nearly a hundred crossbows on the south bank of the Alcantara River?!" Antonios wanted to keep his expression calm when he heard this news, but his slightly trembling tone could not hide the shock in his heart.

"Yes, Lord Legion. They not only arranged nearly a hundred cannons, but also a small number of arches!" the sentry replied.

Before Antonios could speak, several captains were already looking at each other and said, "How could there be so many crossbows?"

"I'm afraid Syracuse brought all the crossbows in their city. I heard from His Majesty that Syracuse was the first to invent the crossbows..."

"It seems that the Syracuse people have made up their minds to completely eliminate us in Mearo!"

"That just let them know how powerful our First Legion is!"

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"Where is the Syracuse's crossbows placed? Can our crossbows attack?" The second captain Zantiparis asked a key question.

"...about 500 meters away from the south wooden wall." The sentry thought for a while and replied.

"That is to say, if the Syracuse's crossbows use five kilograms of stone bullets, they can just attack the wooden wall south of Mearon." Giorgris immediately said worriedly: "If our crossbows want to attack them, we need to move the crossbows forward and approach the wooden wall south of the wall. This will be detrimental to the firing of the crossbows and are prone to attack. We only have six crossbows!"

Originally, the various legions of Dionia were equipped with cross-bridge cannons, but during the Battle of Crotone, the crossbows and other equipment were left in the camp on the north bank of the Neto River. Then the army quickly marched and surrounded Siliting. Therefore, the First Legion had no time to get the crossbows to which it belonged. In the end, Davers considered that the First Legion would definitely have an attack on the city when it was expeditioned to Sicily, so he urgently collected six fairly complete crossbows from the occupied Syracuse camp. After emergency repair by engineers, he handed them over to the First Legion. Syracuse's crossbows were large and bulky, and there were no standard-based devices such as scales, and the accuracy was relatively poor, but it could fire stone bullets up to about 30 kilograms.

"It seems that the generals of the Syracuse army are very cautious and have a detailed understanding of our combat methods." Antonios was also a little worried, saying: "Let the soldiers hide first, survive the first crossbow bombardment, and wait until the enemy starts to attack the town..."

Before Antonios finished speaking, he heard the deafening sound of "Boom! Boom! Boom!...", which made the senior team officials in the tent look a little disgraceful.

At this moment, the soldiers on the wooden wall south of Mearon saw such a terrifying scene: hundreds of stone bullets and short spears were sandwiched with strong wind, containing huge kinetic energy, and came towards them, as if it was a meteorite rain falling from the sky. Even though they had been through many battles, they were trembling all over.

"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat the wooden wall quickly and retreat to the back to hide!..." The team officials shouted anxiously.

Fortunately, when the Syracuses set up so many crossbows in front of the formation, the officers of the First Legion had already begun to retreat the soldiers sent to the wooden wall. It was only because the wooden ladder was small and the enemy arranged the crossbows too quickly that a few soldiers remained on the wooden wall.

At this time, the soldiers simply jumped down from the wooden wall walkway. The height of only three meters would not cause any major damage to them. After landing, these experienced soldiers immediately picked up the long shield they had thrown off before, protected their heads, and rolled and crawled backwards. Not to mention how ugly and embarrassed they were, the self-rescue actions they made in such a critical situation were correct.

Because the moment they jumped off the wooden wall, they heard a loud bang, and the entire wooden wall was vibrating. Some stone bombs hit the wooden wall, and wooden pillars as thick as fists broke in response to the sound; some stone bombs crossed the wooden wall, smashed on the mud, splashing dust. In the dust fog, what was even more terrifying were the wood chips that flew out because of the broken wooden wall. These hundreds of irregular tiny wood chips scattered in all directions with the powerful force of the stone bomb transfer, and easily pierced the legs, feet, arms, and some even penetrated the thick breastplate of the very few soldiers who had not had time to retreat to the rear...

After a round of bombardment, the entire southern wooden wall was already broken. Some were broken waist-length, revealing amazing holes; some of the entire wall collapsed inward, revealing gaps for the enemy to break into; the several hulls behind the curtain wall were also shaking...

The soldiers rushed forward while the enemy loaded stone bombs again and helped the comrades who were lying on the ground and moaning to the rear.

At this moment, Leothizides heard crying not far away. As a Spartan, what he hated the most was crying during wartime, because it meant weakness and would affect morale.

"What's going on over there?!" He roared, and immediately a soldier rushed over and said in a choked voice: "Captain of the company, Captain of the Parmanius, he...he..."

Leotizides' heart sank and rushed over quickly.

When the soldiers saw him coming, they hurriedly made their way.

I saw a short spear fired from the belly bow pierced directly through Parmanius's left chest, nailing him to the wall of the wooden house, and he was already breathing off.

"It's all my fault! It's all my fault! If I hadn't run slowly and fell down, the team leader wouldn't have been pulling me because he came over to pull me...." A soldier beat his chest and stamped his feet, and was crying and scolding himself.

Leotizides glanced at the soldier. A wooden thorn was pierced into his thigh, and the wound was bleeding out, dyeing his entire calf red: "Help him to the back and find a medical battalion to treat him."

Several soldiers went forward to grab the wounded soldier, but he didn't want to leave, and he still cried.

"Hurry me up and kill my legs, come back and kill the enemy, and avenge Captain Parmanius!" Leotizides roared in a low voice, causing the soldier to stop crying. He immediately wiped away his tears and said to Parmanius's body with a firm expression: "Captain, wait for me in the Valhalla!"

The injured soldier was helped down.

Leotizides looked at Parmanius with a complicated expression: As his former team leader, Parmanius gave him a lot of care and care when he first joined the legion. Although he was quickly promoted to the company captain because of his outstanding performance, Parmanius became his subordinate. However, Parmanius never showed his qualifications and always carried out his orders seriously and strictly. This is a respectable and excellent Dionian team officer!

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