"God, I used to contribute to you. Today you must agree to my request and shoot arrows at the enemy!" - The ancient Greeks' congratulations

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"One with deck, two, three..." At the tower built on the east bank of the old port, two centurions of the local Ligurian army blinked, counting one by one the size of the local fleet that appeared at the port of Marcelia, "seventeen three-row rowing ships with deck, nine two-row rowing raid ships, and thirty-six fast warships without decks. The crew on it was complete, with long sickles, axes and 'crow' suspension bridge equipment." Finally, the person who was responsible for observing the counting leaned tiredly against the wall, rubbed his sore eyes to rest, and then the person who recorded handed the font board to Sabo.

On the vast sea outside the tower, the Marcelian fleet was showing off its power. Entering and exiting the port and showing off its military power was their daily necessity. Now Dumijius and Katu have recovered their confidence. Although the previous Albissi barbarians suffered heavy blows, Triali also attacked and occupied the city's external channel. In addition, Li Bida was unable to block the harbor, which means that in less than two months, Pompei's army will continuously transport supplies from both sea and land.

Don't you know that in the blockade line, Li Bida was also planning. He sent four brigades of the Sixth Legion to monitor Triali's movements on the flanks, and then let the rest of his legion, together with the Sixteenth Legion, start to build a more terrifying "siege beast" under the eyes of the city soldiers - the siege equipment assembly point designed by Li Bida. It is located in two places. One is the street close to Li Guria. The other is the street leading to Gaul and Spain. The former is located in the northeast of the city, and the latter is the west. In order to protect the equipment from being raided by the enemy, the soldiers of the Legion first carried shields in a longitudinal direction and built a nine-Roman foot high earth bulwark, which stretched to both sides in a trapezoidal shape. The upper end was about three wide.

The Roman ruler was left and right, so that the enemy's cavalry could be blocked from the horizontal direction and the enemy's forces could be divided in the front. Then, when stretched to the distance from the strong Acropolis of Marcelia (three-quarters of the Marcelia walls were coastal and only one-quarter were facing the land, and they built the fort acropolis at this location, between the acropolis and the market, there were fragments and steep cliffs, and extremely deep trenches). The soldiers began to shoot the crossbow and the bow and arrow, and then connected the earth and walls in a vertical direction together, forming a "t"-shaped wall. The soil was dug out and a circular trenches were formed. Then they built a slogan and moved the crossbow and rod caster forward, which was equivalent to tightening the blockade line inside.

Then, Li Bida's soldiers must have built siege equipment to the sky behind the T-shaped wall. At least this is how Dumijius judged, so he quickly sent Munagius, who came with Xiao Katu, and led the men and legal officer Marclus to strengthen the guardianship of the Acropolis to prevent the enemy's strong attack.

But unexpectedly, three days later, Li Bida personally led four infantry brigades of the 15th Legion, two archers and five hundred cavalrymen, and rode the only eighteen warships brought by him from Cyrani, and placed the transport ships transporting soldiers behind. While the city fleet returned to the port, he suddenly seized an unknown island on the southeastern sea of ​​Marcelia and moored all the ships in the island harbor. Such an action was completed in just one day and night, which shows that Li Bida had planned this matter for a long time. It can be seen that as long as the besieged did not force the siege and caused heavy losses, they had enough mobility.

When Xiao Katu learned of this trend, he immediately summoned all the Gangsou and the senior centurion, and consulted the city's Presbyterian Church about the origin of the island. The answer he received was:

"This island is called Seymours Island. When the old port was prosperous, it served as a beacon to command traffic. However, the old port was silted and declined, and the island was abandoned, so there was no force to garrison it before."

"Is there any water source on the island and a warehouse?" Xiao Jiatu continued to ask, which was his most concerned issue.

"The islands are mostly stones and only streams, so it is difficult to supply large numbers of people, but it is not far from the land area beside the old port, with only about five Stadias."

This answer made Xiao Jiatu very excited. After carefully evaluating the number of ships on the other side, he pointed to the sand table loudly and said, "Our fleet is the dominant number, especially the large ships with upper decks, which are three times that of the other side. What's more, I heard that Marcellia has the best seamen and helmsman, and the Albissi can fight on the water. Now the local commander, who is ignorant, has embarrassed onto the island with a large number of troops. We should attack, destroy his fleet, and isolate the island from the land. In this way, within three or five days, the other side will be completely finished!"

Xiao Katu's plan is bold enough, and many people agree, but his brother-in-law Dumijius was worried. "Li Bida clearly set up a large number of siege troops on the front of the Acropolis, but now he personally leads people to seize this island. It seems that it is not just a simple thing to want a base to command naval battles. Will he win the support of the Ligurians? He believes that Liguria can provide him with a large number of ships in a short period of time?"

"It's the hot rainy season soon. Even if the newly built ships in Liguria cannot dry the wood quickly, so the temporary advantage is still on our side. This advantage will probably be more obvious when the Spanish navy arrives. We will be the first to blow the horn of victory on the sea. Dumigos, this naval battle will be left to you to command." Xiao Katu is full of confidence.

In this case, Dumijius was unwilling to sit still, so he started to fuck him. He mobilized all the shipmakers of Marcelia to repair dozens of ships of large and small brought by Xiao Katto from Sicily in the dock with wood and glue paint, because many ships were damaged to varying degrees during the navigation, but the restoration work was not serious for the Marcelians. Dumijius was preparing to use these ships as second-line reserves to ensure that they could maintain uninterrupted attacks on Li Bida.

Then, he carefully armed all the seventeen large warships provided in the city. Because the copper impact angle was limited, he could only equip eight of them. Therefore, the remaining ones, Dumijius asked a large number of Marcellan citizens to board with bows and arrows, acting as long-range firepower suppression. As for the other small attack ships, Dumijius also let the Albissi hold spears and short swords fill it up, installing a suspension bridge, ready to approach the battle. As for the flagship he was sitting on, Dumijius not only hung the flag of the Golden Seahorse, but also armed a large number of tenants from the Katu family sheltered the people and served as his guardians in the naval battle.
Chapter completed!