Battlefield of All Sides

Chapter 153 Provocation again and again

The corpses of a hundred Macedonian soldiers on the city wall of Tire caused Alexander to completely fall into a state of rampage.

It was the first time Li Mu saw the young monarch kill two captive soldiers on the spot with his dagger, and then cut down the surrounding things, while the Macedonian officers all lowered their heads and did not dare to make a sound.

On the field, only Alexander was pouring out his anger, while all the Macedonian soldiers outside the field had assembled amidst the sound of horns, and the surrounding area was surrounded by swords and guns.

Li Mu also stood silently among the crowd. It was not until Alexander fully vented his anger that Li Mu raised his head and glanced at him.

And at this glance, Alexander's eyes met his own immediately, Li Mu quickly lowered his head, but Alexander asked Li Mu.

"Yake, do you have any good ways to completely overcome seasickness?"

Li Mu raised his head and asked with some surprise: "Your Majesty is going to send a boat to land on that island? The distance is only a few tens of meters, and no soldiers will get seasick."

Alexander shook his head, looked at the distant port with some blood red eyes, and said fiercely: "No, I will send troops to sink those Tire ships first, and then land on the island at that time!"

As soon as Alexander's words came out, everyone in the audience was a little stunned, but at that moment they realized that Alexander was advocating a naval war.

Hearing this sentence, Li Mu's expression also surged. After all, Alexander emphasized the importance of the infantry when he went in before, and it was precisely because of this that the soldiers were asked to lay out a route to the island city.

But now he has completely changed his mind. He now hopes to use ships to destroy the most threatening fleet in Tire.

This is a change. It is a good thing to be able to correct the combat thinking at any time, but let these infantry serve as the navy...

Li Mu felt that things would not be that simple.

Sure enough, at this time, a general stood up and raised questions. He said that the number of navies mobilized from the Greek city-states was not enough. Although there were very powerful Greek ships, the number was too sparse, and it would probably be a different situation by then. .

But Alexander soon stopped the other party's words.

"Don't always think about the troops brought by our old place. What do I want from these city-states who are standing by and doing nothing?"

When Alexander said this, the people in the field suddenly realized that the Phoenician city-states along the way were all on the Mediterranean coast, and they all had sufficient naval combat power.

Now that they have surrendered at Alexander's feet, they must agree to Alexander's call at this moment.

Some generals began to analyze Alexander's proposal, but at this time Philip tugged at the corner of Li Mu's clothes.

"Yake, Your Majesty wants us to take a boat again? Do you want to fight?"

Philip was gloomy at the moment. Although he hated the city of Tire extremely, he couldn't make any compromise on the matter of taking the boat. He was tortured to death last time, and this time he had to fight on the sea. Obviously more difficult.

"And I can't swim, if our boat is..."

Philip paused when he said this, but he still looked flustered when he looked at Li Mu.

Li Mu glanced at him, but said nothing. He just reached out and patted his shoulder.

All Macedonians can only carry out Alexander's order, and there is only one way.

So in the evening of that day, all the work of building embankments stopped. Instead, many messengers took Alexander's letters to various city-states with naval ships, ordering them to bring their ships to gather.

Although Li Mu's troops were spearmen, they still wanted to board the ship, but instead of being the main force of the naval battle, they landed on the island city after the naval battle.

It can be said that Li Mu has received a good mission, and at the same time, he also expressed that the pressure is so great that he will destroy the city immediately after killing the Tyro Navy!
Although the gunpowder smoke did not fill the air, the atmosphere in the city had already changed. Until two days later, the ships of Greece and the surrounding city-states continued to arrive, and the imposing manner of the sword had reached its peak.

But in order to distract those Tirians, the construction of dikes also began to speed up. A large number of building materials were directly dismantled and thrown into the water. All the collected wood began to be used to build a large number of wooden towers and stone tools, everywhere busy scene.

The inspections collected by 140 Alexander ships can only be regarded as evenly matched in front of dozens of Tire warships. A batch of transport ships among them are ready to transport troops, but the generals are still struggling to think about it.

And at this time the Phoenicians gave Alexander a surprise.

The city-state of Cyprus in Phoenicia chose to stand in line at this time and bring a hundred ships to support it because it heard that Alexander had beaten Darius III of Persia all over the place in Issus.

The addition of a powerful force immediately accelerated the timing of the entire battle. On the second day, when the dike was basically piled up with remaining materials, more than 200 ships also took advantage of the situation.

More than 200 ships were dispatched on the vast sea, and they were lined up all the time. All the ships were equipped with the most elite infantry guards. A large part of the Tyre navy went away.

The people of Tyre were also dumbfounded by the sudden change of scene, but they didn't know that the city-states in Phoenicia with a considerable number of navies had joined the battle, and they sent messengers for help on their own.

Alexander, who had a sufficient number of warships, immediately ordered his troops to approach another shoal facing the sea in the island city.

But he didn't expect that these Tyrians had already made preparations. They didn't even fight with Alexander's ships, but directly drove three huge ships to the port outside the shoal, and then shoveled the three ships Shen, and happily swim back to the island city.

At this moment, the naval battle lost its practical significance again, and the remaining Tire warships were piled at the port, as if they were mocking them.

This undoubtedly made Alexander furious again. The hard-earned navy was ready to sink all the Tyrean navy, but now it caused such a scene, and was laughed at by the Tireese.

The people of Tire were challenging Alexander's bottom line again and again.

And in this way, infantry has once again become the top priority of this battle, and this time, it will be the most difficult siege battle.

But the Tyrians had already made preparations. They had already erected wooden towers on the walls of the island city, and threw many stones into the shallows, making all places where they landed on the island extremely rugged.

On the side of the Tyrians, that was what he had to do, because they were guarding their homeland.

But only Li Mu is the attacker, and the soldiers around him now have only one thought, which is to tear up the city-state in front of them, and tear up everyone inside.

This is destined to be a cruel battle, and Li Mu's current position will make him bear more things in the future.

Clearing the stones to prevent the ships from running aground, and at the same time completely surrounding the city also made Alexander work hard, and the decisive battle officially came.

"Yake, they all said that this kind of battle is the most terrifying, and our phalanx is still in front, it must be unusual then?"

Philip said beside Li Mu who was getting ready for the soldiers. Although his expression didn't change because he had to have a landscape in front of the soldiers, there was still anxiety in his words.

He is still the nobleman, still the nobleman with emotions.

Li Mu glanced at him, and didn't want him to be too nervous at this moment, so he said to him right now.

"I promise you."

"Promise what?" Philip asked suddenly.

"As long as you can survive, I agree with you to marry my sister." Li Mu said, Philip's eyes lit up immediately.

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(End of this chapter)