Augustus Road

"We must be patient and don't be anxious. Wait until they (Saracens) return with their goods. After they take the property, they will have their own agenda to ensure our victory. + Top novel,." - Charlie Martel in Poitiers Before the Battle of Egypt

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Macmillan was surrounded by a group of rough pirates' followers. This group took the lead in playing a killing entertainment game on the prisoners of war. They chopped off the heads of two unlucky guys, then tied their heads to the sail ropes and hung them. He reached the mast and then kicked the body into the water.

"You guys with no good looks! I don't have any pity for you. You are so different from Little Babu. If you don't end up like these two people, the current situation will be different." Tell me everything!" MacMillan let out a horrifying laugh and threats, and then the followers around him also laughed ferociously and raised their shining blades.

The remaining few were completely frightened. They readily told Macmillan the configuration of their own army, fleet and positions, "Hold all the prisoners under the cabin, boys, let this bastard Cassiyo see it." Show how powerful our hardened pirates are! We don't want to rush into the harbor and fight with them, but block the harbor with our backhand!" Macmillan gave the order in an extremely cheerful manner - many pirates were howling and whistling in small boats. Quickly rushed across the water, some jumped directly from the deck and swam. They climbed onto the part of the sunken ship left on the water and stuck the boats one after another. Then Macmillan sent two or three ships to board. The pirates quickly used scratching hooks, ropes and chisels to help. Sunk in the waterway.

Then the pirates stood on the sunken ship. Dancing. He yelled loudly and raised the small tube in his hand high. "Swish, swish, bang, bang, bang," and shot out streaks of light, cutting through the gray twilight.

"What? All the reinforcements on the outside have been captured?" Casillo, who was in command of the flagship, made an immediate decision after seeing and hearing the news, "All ships, paddle quickly. Don't be afraid of the night, rush out with me, otherwise Are you going to be trapped here? Damn it, could it be that the goddess of fate is really Lepidah's mistress? They surrounded us as soon as we made a surprise attack."

Then it was a scene of catching a turtle in an urn. Outside the shipwreck defense line, Macmillan ordered all the big ships to line up in a row, using huge trebuchets and noble cannons to continuously throw stone and lead bullets into the harbor. Even though it was night, there was no need to aim, as the water columns kept rising. About every three stone bullets, one is enough to hit the target. When Cassiyo was on Cambridge, he saw pieces of wood flying everywhere. He could only reluctantly order, "Tow the boats that can be towed to the water's edge." Go over and notify the legions outside the city to prepare for the enemy to come ashore."

During the night, fireballs continued to hit the walls and houses of Camelot, lighting up the water. Cassio's soldiers faithfully and bravely carried out their commander's intention, and everyone risked being hit and burned to death. , using ropes to pull the ship with billowing fireworks towards the Rhode Islanders' dock, many people died silently and drowned.

Even in the dark night, there were many pirates under Macmillan, carrying daggers and swords on their backs, diving over like schools of fish, attacking Cassius's troops who were still in shock, and setting fire to the acropolis of Camelot. Shouting, and responding to each other with the guarding law officer Clearkus, and the Rhode Islanders guarding the city heard that the high priest's fleet and legions had arrived outside the city, and everyone was happy and full of joy. The courage to keep fighting.

On other fronts, Casillo's order was also a little late. He was really an unfortunate general. In terms of military ability and tactics alone, he was by no means worse than Lepidus. He might even be better in commanding naval battles. , but like Labienus, "Fate has never favored me."

Macmillan, a big pirate, with great energy, ordered the remaining warships in the fleet to be turned around, lit torches, and rushed to the beach where the Cassillo fleet was anchored. There was a melee. The sentries on the shore were dumbfounded when they saw the brutal naval battles under the stars and on the sea.

Orders from all walks of life arrived at the camps of the fifth and sixth legions of Cassiyo successively. The centurions received the urgent military orders from the commander, and naturally they did not dare to neglect them. The soldiers were all armed. Almost all the elite centurions were pulled out.

At this time, Macmillan handed over all the flat-bottomed ships transporting soldiers in the fleet to six decked warships and nine Libourne double-row raiding ships for escort. He bypassed the battle group and quietly approached under the cover of night. They reached a flat beach farther away, and then under arrogant, rude and even inhumane demands, the soldiers of the Fifth Army and the Seventh Army jumped into the water without any protection. The most miserable thing was that of the Seventh Army A certain hundred-man team, half of whom were wearing armor, fell into a sandbar by the sea. They were all drowned and no one survived.

On such a night, the entire city of Camelot was a blend of black and blood. Casio's five legions were the first to rush to the opponent's landing site. In the shallow water, they beat their shields and demanded that some of the soldiers on the opposite side sink in the water. He stood up and surrendered, but as soon as he finished speaking, nearly a thousand people appeared from the water like ghosts, shouting and cursing in Gallic dialect, and pulled out the gleaming long swords from nowhere, swarming up and wading into the water, and Kaxi The five regiments were fighting together.

This is a duel between two five armies.

In the rest of the battle lines, fierce battles were also unfolding. The remaining five battalions of Cassius's Sixth Legion ran to the wall and then to the coast, struggling to cope with everything.

Cassius' three battalions were trapped in the harbor, separated by the Acropolis occupied by the Rhodesians. They could do nothing all night and could only passively endure the firepower from outside.

In the early morning of the next day, the waves floated all kinds of corpses to the shore, one after another. The losses of both sides were extremely heavy. In terms of casualties, the casualties of Lepidus's army were even greater. Most of the losses of the Skylark Legion and the Seventh Legion were drowned. However, they also occupied a position along the beach, and bravely landed continuously, finally forcing Cassius's soldiers back to their camp.

Then, the officers and soldiers of the Skylark Legion chopped up and demolished all the sunken and stranded ships, and planted the wood on the deck in front of their own army as fortifications. Then, after fighting all night, McMillan sent all the remaining transport ships to the shore. After counting, there were about 1,400 people on the shore from the Skylark Legion and 900 people from the Seventh Legion. All the centurions of the two legions were killed or wounded.

To ensure safety, McMillan ordered all the large warships on hand to line up on the sea outside the shore where they were, and to arrange the crossbows to serve as cover.

"Now, we just have to wait for the subsequent high priest to come with the main fleet!" This fearless pirate leader actually made such a wish. (To be continued...)