The pirates who were attacked finally felt a difficult feeling, and even the slave army, as dead soldiers, could not continue to suppress the prey in their eyes.

"Retreat, retreat!" The little pirate leader who saw something wrong finally developed a desire to retreat, but Justinian rolled and jumped in front of him. The pirate who had come to react was about to raise the scimitar in his hand, but Justinian leaned over and cut off his calves with a sword. Then Neuski suddenly opened his head with an axe.

Now that he saw that his command was killed, the pirates on the deck finally couldn't hold back their anger, and their morale disappeared in an instant. First of all, the slave army abandoned the weapons in their hands, and the commander supervised their existence. No one can control them now.

The retreating pirates evacuated the deck and returned to the pirate ship, but Justinian did not stop but pursued the victory.

"Everyone, charge with me! Defeat them, these pirates can no longer resist."

Amid Justinian's call, both Byzantine soldiers, Italian mercenaries, or Turkic imperial guards, they all took the lead, which made the originally aggressive pirates even more frightened. They thought they were only facing the Genoese merchant ships, but the other party was not allowed to take the soft persimmons at all.

"Stop them!" The captain on the pirate ship shouted and ordered the archers to resist. The Bedouin archers hurriedly put the arrows on and shot them, but the Italian mercenaries in front had already penetrated into their ship with huge shields and hook and sickle spears. Moreover, the Italian crossbow and the strong bows of the Qinzha Turks were aimed at the already panicked Saracens pirates.

Almost instantly, several arrows were fired, and more than a dozen people were shot dead under the rain of locusts. This completely made the pirates on the ship lose their will to resist. The archers were not willing to maintain the formation without yelling by the pirate leader. On the other hand, the Italian mercenaries were walking as fast as flying, holding shields to cover themselves, and rushed towards the direction where the pirates disperse. Those who stood in front of them were either dead or injured.

Justinian continued to rush in front, and Neuski, who was waving the fierce battle axe beside him, also charged in the battle with the young man. Although the pirates were extremely brave, their equipment and weapons were all very simple.

But just as Justinian's performance was soon noticed by the leader of the pirate ship. Although he was very young, it was obvious that everyone's morale came from his encouragement.

"careful!"

Seeing rows of Bedouin archers lined up to set off bows, Neuskidon realized that Justinian was locked by the other party.

But it was too late. Neuski suddenly threw Justinian down to avoid the rain of arrows, but an arrow shot Justinian. The Byzantine soldiers and mercenaries who saw this scene were also stunned and the offensive slowed down and became panicked.

"Get out of the way, Neusky!" Justinian, who was shot on his shoulder, struggled to get up. Bedouin's archer happened to hit the gap in the armor. Although there was a layer of chain mail inside, he was still injured. But he no longer cared about it now. If his subordinates knew that he was not seriously injured, the situation would be out of control. When Normandy conquered Britain, the conqueror William almost lost control during the battle, and the army was almost out of control. It was his subordinates who ordered him to lift him up and take off his helmet to stabilize the morale. Justinian knew that the most urgent task was to stabilize the morale of the army. After taking off his helmet, the military flag of the guards beside him made the soldiers who were already a little panicked to know that their commander had nothing to do.

"They can't stand it!" Justinian was still inspiring morale at the front, but Neuski was by his side to prevent him from charging in person. In this kind of battle, the quality of the soldiers on both sides was not high. The key to winning was morale. It was like a group fight. Once one side could not support it, then failure would be as unstoppable as a domino.

Seeing that the other commander was fine, the crossbow of the Italian mercenary shot and killed several archers. At this moment, the situation had completely reversed. The pirates did not expect that it was so difficult as their prey. The arrows of the Turkic Censors flew over the top of their heads and sides, and the sharp arrows with barbs pierced the human body and teared the muscles and made the Saracens no longer have the fierceness they were before.

However, the men led by Justinian had no intention of stopping. They trampled on the pirate's body and continued to go up. In a blink of an eye, several helpless Saracens were immediately chopped down to the ground.

It was too late for the pirate ship to leave at this time. Justinian's soldiers became more and more brave, which inspired the soldiers on other ships and made the pirates fearless and no longer willing to stay for unnecessary resistance.

The pirates retreated one after another, and even if the leader waved his sword and shouted to kill the fugitive, it would be useless. The pirate leader finally felt something was wrong. He thought it was just an ordinary merchant ship, but it was obvious that they had provoked the wrong target. With the rest of the people, the pirates rushed to the sea, climbed onto the light boat, and wanted to escape. The battle conditions of the other pirate ships also suffered heavy losses, and the Byzantine army was unwilling to continue fighting and gave up the pursuit.

Seeing this scene, Justinian did not order his subordinates to attack and chase him. At this time, he did not pursue the enemy, and he was not willing to expose his target.

The pirates fled in a hurry, and the sailors on them fled one after another. The Byzantine soldiers even drilled through the bottom of the ship and disbanded the hull, leaving hundreds of floating corpses to rush into the sea. The remaining pirates no longer dared to stay and flee to the west in a panic.

Despite the victory, Justinian's army suffered a lot this time, with nearly one hundred casualties, and now there is a shortage of medical treatment and medicine at sea. Another worst news made Justinian's heart sank. The small transport ship transporting supplies behind was overwhelmed by a pirate ship. Although rescued immediately, there were still a lot of material losses.

Looking at the remaining food and supplies, Justinian's expression was also a little solemn. "How long can the remaining food and supplies last?"

Abudra, who had checked on other boats, looked very ugly and said with difficulty: "We can only last for five days, and we can almost reach our destination in three days."

"That means that we must solve the problem of food as soon as we get ashore, otherwise we will be sending our lives to the Latins." Justinian understood how serious this was. Although there were not many supplies, they were enough to capture the base after they arrived in South Peloponnese, but now this little food means that the tolerance rate of the next action will be extremely low.
Chapter completed!