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    "Is this the eagle logo of the elite Roman legion?" Gao Yang looked at the three tattered eagle-headed flags in front of him curiously and asked curiously.  "Replying to Sir Taiwei, it is the token of the elite barbarian master of the Great Qin Dynasty." Zhao Yun, whose armor was still stained with blood, said in response.  Gao Yang reached out and picked up the eagle, looked at it, and nodded with satisfaction.  "This is a good thing, let's take it back as a souvenir." Gao Yang ordered his guards to put away the eagle badge, turned to look at many generals, and said with a smile, "Everyone performed well. We successfully defeated the threat on the flanks.  Now you can go straight to the country of the Qin people with peace of mind." He paused and then said, "There are rewards for merit and punishment for demerits. After returning from this victory, you must appease the soldiers and give them rewards.  The wounded must be properly treated and all the spoils can be distributed. Let's set up camp and enjoy the food and wine. We can't treat the soldiers badly. "Gao Yang."  Many generals behind him responded in unison.  "Okay." Gao Yang turned around and looked at the huge military formation in the distance down the mountain. He lowered his eyelids slightly and took a deep breath.  Said, "Everyone, let us enjoy the winner's dinner now." "No!" When Gao Yang led his army to defeat the Macedonian army led by Tullus in the mountains of Macedonia.  Sun Jian and his fleet were also not idle.  On the sea more than a hundred nautical miles south of the Adriatic Island of Lissa (Croatia's Vis Island.), they had a battle with the Roman Imperial Navy fleet that came to challenge them, which was far more grand than during the Greco-Persian War.  A more grand and large-scale naval battle.  The Romans dominated three continents for hundreds of years and used the vast Mediterranean as their own lake. The most important thing is that they had powerful conveniences that no enemy had.  The Romans, who controlled the sea, could use a large number of ships to quickly transport troops and various supplies to any place along the Mediterranean coast.  This powerful ability is unfathomable in this era.  Unless you can also have an equally powerful fleet and defeat the Romans at sea.  The Carthaginians had done this before, and they became the sworn enemies of the Romans who would never compromise.  Even with a peerless commander like Hannibal, he could not escape the fate of being exterminated after a hundred years of fierce fighting.  Shipping in the Mediterranean was the cornerstone of the rise of the Romans.  Now, after the Romans have been glorious in the Mediterranean for hundreds of years, a powerful fleet from the far east has issued the most powerful challenge to them!  The Romans had no choice.  Losing sea control in the Mediterranean is equivalent to losing one's own empire.  There is no more convenient sea transportation.  Why could the Roman Empire, which only relied on Italy itself, control so many provinces and overseas colonies?  When Sun Jian¡¯s fleet appeared in the Mediterranean, the only thing the Romans could do was to gather all their strength to fight this powerful fleet to the death!  The battle in Egypt is no longer important, nor is the lack of supplies in Tulus, Macedonia.  For the city of Rome at this time, there was nothing more important than defeating the alien fleet on the sea.  The new emperor Severus and co-ruler Arnubis could no longer care about internal fighting.  The Roman Senate could not care less about continuing to be corrupt.  They frantically searched for ships and sailors everywhere, and in a short period of time they assembled an extremely large fleet.  The imperial emperor Severus personally led the attack on the powerful alien navy.  The Romans had already discovered the location of the foreign navy.  Those huge fleets were blocking the supply ships from the empire to Macedonia on the Adriatic Sea.  Severus led a fleet composed of various ships around the Ionian Sea and entered the Adriatic Sea, preparing to show off with Sun Jian's fleet.  The Roman fleet was numerically superior.  There were so many of their ships that they almost obscured the entire Strait of Otranto when they passed through it.  However, most of the Roman ships were temporarily modified ordinary transport ships.  It was too late to install the collision angle, but due to the day and night work of a large number of workers and slaves, ordinary ballistae.  There are still a lot of slings and other equipment.  Barely enough, it can be considered as possessing combat capabilities.  Although the Romans had ruled the Mediterranean for many years, they were not good at large-scale naval battles.  After all, the war with the Carthaginians was an ancient story countless years ago.  The Romans, who were completely invincible in the Mediterranean, did not need advanced naval warfare theories.  At the same time, their seagoing ships have not seen much development over the years.  This situation is similar in the Han Empire.  It is also an invincible existence in the surrounding area, and it also develops slowly.  But there is Gao Yang in the Han Empire, andThere is none on the horse people's side.  Gao Yang not only brought a large number of the top ships of the sailing era to the Han Empire, but also brought them the most detailed sea charts, training methods and naval battle tactics on the entire planet.  This is the most fundamental difference between the two imperial navies.  The gap between the two sides is as high as a thousand years!  "Father, those Great Qin people are already here." On the extremely huge three-masted warship, the heroic Sun Ce raised his head and shouted loudly to Sun Jian who was standing on the command tower.  "Yeah." Sun Jian put down the telescope in his hand and snorted coldly.  There was a flash of coldness in his eyes.  He has been waiting for this day for a long time.  He has a huge fleet under his command and is invincible across the sea.  But the opponents they encountered were all small fishing boats.  No need to hit them, just a direct collision would sink them all.  As the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, he possesses unparalleled strength.  They caught up with one glorious battle after another to destroy the country.  But he could only work as a transport worker and watch others destroy the country. He really couldn't take credit for his achievements in sinking so many fishing boats.  Now, the opportunity to go down in history has come.  A large sea battle involving thousands of warships.  As the commander, Sun Jian's face was stern, but his heart was already filled with passion.  "Come on." Sun Jian said silently in his heart, "I have been waiting for you for a long time." This large-scale naval battle in the cold weapon era broke out very fiercely.  It is different from the traditional way of chasing each other in the age of sailing.  Because of the narrow environment of the Adriatic Sea.  Because both sides hold the idea of ??defeating the enemy's war potential in one battle.  This naval encounter broke out and was extremely brutal.  Most of the ships of the Roman Empire were very small, and the small here refers to the three-masted sailing ships of the Han Navy.  Able to sail and transport on the sea.  Even a boat sailing on the calm Mediterranean Sea is naturally not too small.  Most of the Han troops used were large three-masted ocean-going sailing ships.  Although they are not equipped with hundreds of cannons, it is not difficult to deal with the Romans with those crossbows, trebuchets, and arrow towers.  In particular, most of the Han army's trebuchets were not loaded with stones. They used homemade incendiary bombs filled with a gasoline mixture.  The power of incendiary bombs is beyond words.  The Japanese, who had completed modern industrialization during World War II, had set an example by showing everyone the terrifying power of incendiary bombs.  People in the industrial age couldn't bear it, let alone the Romans in the cold weapon age, whose hands, feet, arms and everything were exposed?  As a veteran soldier who has been in the army for decades, Severus only has a small amount of information about the alien navy.  He could also deduce that if this naval battle was fought in a conventional way, the disadvantaged Roman fleet would have almost no chance of winning.  Since this is the case, it can only be won by surprise.  After the two sides met on the sea, they looked at the huge fleet on the opposite side that covered the sky like a wall of clouds.  While Severus was dumbfounded by the size of the alien naval fleet, he was also secretly excited by his foresight.  Severus¡¯s battle plan is not complicated.  The first was to use the Romans' advantage in the number of ships to quickly approach the huge enemy fleet and enter a melee mode, disrupting the enemy's attention and blocking the enemy's mobility.  Then came the assault of those carefully prepared fireships filled with dry firewood, sulfur and other kindling materials!  Severus¡¯ ultimate method is to burn the enemy¡¯s ships with blazing fire.  Ships in this era were all built of wood.  Even on the vast sea, ships are also very afraid of fire.  Moreover, if the alien ships are so huge at the moment, their maneuverability must not be strong.  As long as a large number of brave suicide squads drive fire ships and approach quickly, incredible results will surely be achieved.  The two top empires of the East and the West are tens of thousands of miles apart, and there is almost no communication between them.  This time, the large-scale exchange went straight to war.  This leads to information asymmetry between both parties.  Severus believes that aliens without culture and civilization will not understand what tactics are and what fire ship attacks are.  But he would not have thought that after seeing the Roman formation, Sun Jian immediately sneered, "These are all leftovers from my fun." "Everyone is ready, let's have a barbecue feast on the sea!" Sun Jian put down the monocular in his hand.  Telescope, shouted to the generals beside him.  Since Gao Yang last organized a large-scale seaside barbecue feast on the seaside of Basra City.  Both the land army and Sun Jian's navy were all very interested in this collective activity.  This naval battle was actually a trap.  It was a trap specially set by Sun Jian in order to destroy the Roman maritime power.  Sun Jian first led a large number of warships into Yad in a swaggering manner.The Sea of ??Aria cut off the Roman Empire's ability to provide logistical supplies to the Macedonian provincial legions via sea routes, thus forcing the Romans to assemble their own naval forces for a decisive battle.  Outside the battlefield, Sun Jian left a powerful fleet hidden in the distance.  Zhou Yu, who had risen to prominence at the age of eighteen and was hailed by Gao Taiwei as Sun Jian's successor, was led by Zhou Gongjin.  Zhou Yu's mission was simple. After the war began, he blocked the Strait of Otranto and sealed all the Roman fleets in this place of death.  Sun Jian¡¯s idea is very simple: wipe out the Roman sea power in one battle!  (To be continued)
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