"It's an enemy attack!"
Aulus roared at the top of his lungs. He quickly pulled out his command sword, but then he stayed there at a loss - he wanted to order a counterattack, but he couldn't figure out how to counterattack this flying object floating in the sky. . The height of these hot air balloons is far beyond the range of bows and arrows.
Not just Aulus, all the soldiers stayed on the deck at this moment, looking at the fire burning on the water at a loss. The fire of the ocean was supposed to be a winning weapon that only they had, but the scene in front of them was beyond their brain's ability to react.
"Use the ballista!"
Aulus was the first to react. Seeing that the soldier beside the ballista was still in a daze, he rushed over and kicked him away. His colleague yelled at the soldier in front of the ballista: "Find something to raise the front end of it and hit it diagonally upwards!"
As soon as they finished speaking, the hot air balloon that had already arrived above them dropped the second bottle with a bang, and it landed right next to Aulus. Aulus's body suddenly burned. He writhes on the ground in agony, but that only causes the flames to ignite more boards. In panic, he jumped into the sea——
explode.
The ocean fire prepared by Paracelsus will explode when it comes into contact with water. This is a characteristic that the ocean fire of the Seven Hills Empire does not have. The naval soldiers of the Qiqiu Empire looked stupidly at the water splashed by the explosion, and watched the sails on the flagship burn to ashes in the fire. After a brief silence, the ship under their control started running around in a disorderly manner like ants whose nests had been washed away by the flood!
However, this sea area is too narrow. It takes a lot of time to pass through in batches in an orderly manner. With this chaos, the entire fleet was immediately stuck, making it difficult to move at all!
A large number of hot air balloons floated above them. Bottles filled with ocean fire fell one after another, each causing explosions and fire. The ability to burn on the water turned the sea area into a sea of fire. The narrow terrain that Aulus specially chose in order to unleash the power of ocean fire turned into a cage trapping themselves!
Ella looked at the fire from a distance and listened to the wails of the Seven Hills Empire soldiers.
"What's going on?" Pocaarios felt at a loss. "It's flying, exploding, and fire. What kind of magic is this?"
"We need to calm down the soldiers first!" Ella shouted, "I want to go over, hurry up and row hard!"
War drums. A medium-sized fleet came from the northwest, which was the warship stationed in the capital of the island republic.
"You're actually taking advantage of the situation!" Ella was anxious, but she still tried to keep her voice calm. "This fleet is not large in size. As long as it can be organized, it should be able to break through smoothly!"
There was another burst of war drums, louder and denser than the previous one.
Ella looked back with a pale face, only to see the main fleet of the Island Republic, which she had left behind, lining up and sailing towards this side.
They were flanked.
The northwest wind continued to blow strongly and violently.
Ella has long known that the island republic possesses ocean fire, and has also experienced aircraft that can fly in the sky. But she never imagined that naval battles could be fought like this - not through the sea, but through the sky.
….
——Who planned this battle? "
The black smoke from the burning ships was faintly visible even in the capital of the island republic. There was a luxurious seat placed on the port, with Patisipaccio's fat and oily meat pressed on it. He was holding a glass full of wine in one hand and playing with a few gold coins in the other. On the left and right sides of it stood the silver-haired maid Impolita and the well-dressed messenger Giovanni.
The black smoke in the distance made Patisipaccio feel happy
"There's a big fire. Yinbolita, this time, your plan is good."
Hearing Patisipachio's praise, the maid named Impolita laughed strangely. She crawled on the ground and swam to Patisipachio's feet like a snake. She took off Patisipaccio's boots with both hands and kissed his toes affectionately: "I would like to give this victory to you." To you, my noble Governor-General
people. "
Giovanni obviously couldn't stand Imperita's behavior. He frowned and said, "The navy is still fighting. How can you give victory to the governor?"
"Faced with such a sudden attack, the enemy's soldiers must have panicked and ran around disobediently. I'm afraid even the general on the opposite side didn't know what kind of orders to give."
Impolita put down Patisipachio's toes and wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, smiling contemptuously.
"No general can let his soldiers face the fire calmly. We have won. The fleet of the Seven Hills Empire will be destroyed today."
"Giovanni, do your own thing." Patisipachio said meaningfully, "At the beginning you were confident that you could find strong allies for the island republic. Where are the people? The war has been going on for more than a month. Now, I only saw Count Babenberg’s team of about a thousand people, and they ran away after the hot air balloon. The Seven Hills Empire attacked earlier than you expected. If the capital’s supplies were not sufficient, the island The Republic was almost destroyed because of your boast!"
Faced with such harsh words, an ordinary person would have been so frightened that he would have knelt down in front of Patisipaccio and apologized. But Giovanni replied without changing his face: "Sir Governor, in fact, tens of thousands of troops have already been ready to go, they are just waiting for a signal."
"Signal?" asked Patisipachio, "What signal?"
"A victory - an overwhelming victory." Giovanni said, "When the building is about to collapse, everyone will push it down. The princes of the Alemannic Federation, the countries of the Apennine Peninsula, hundreds of lords, and tens of thousands of soldiers are all waiting. Following this signal to invade the Seven Hills Empire."
Patisipachio snorted: "They do know how to do business."
"Then it seems that the signal is today." Impolita smiled sternly under Patisipachio's toes, "Once the Seven Hills Imperial Navy is defeated, the sea is under our control. Our army You can launch an invasion from any point along the long coastline and plunder at will, leaving the Army of the Seven Hills Empire to focus on one thing and the other. Even if Constantiniya cannot be captured in the end, the Seven Hills Empire's national destiny will come to an end."
"Looting. Those barbarians from the Alemannic Federation should like it very much."
Patisipachio laughed.
"Yin Bolita, what kind of reward do you want after the success of this naval battle?"
"I don't want to get any reward, but I have a small request."
Impolita stuck out her tongue and licked Patisipaccio's soles all the way to the instep.
"I hope the Governor will order the execution of all the soldiers who surrendered in the Qiqiu Empire. Then, let all the people of the Qi Qiu Empire, the men be slaves for generations, and the women be prostitutes for generations to come."
Corsica 14
