Hermanus's combined fleet was lined up with fifty six-story heavy warships, followed by ships of all sizes, all of which transformed the ship into a huge city floating on the sea.

Although they had learned from the Romans' ramming ships, it was impossible for the Vandals to learn them in such a few short years in the face of such a large six-column battleship. They scattered their warships, because the number was not much, not to mention the quality, but the threat was their capital, and their king was in Carthage, so this battle with a clear difference in strength was inevitable.

The Roman six-column battleship had a specially built tower on which scorpion crossbows were mounted to attack enemy ships. The soldier uses a torsion bar to round the crossbow and mount it with a penetrating metal bolt.

The sailors below were also armed with bows and pikes, and they did not dare to slack off, hoping that they could kill a few more damned Vandals when the two sides came into contact.

"Keep the middle pace, keep the formation, don't panic, the victory belongs to Roma!" Hermanus drew his iron sword and raised it above his head and shouted loudly, not only the ranged soldiers, but also the short-range soldiers drew their iron swords and waited quietly behind Hermanus and Belialus.

The front of the six battleships was designed to resemble a city wall, and the space above the women's wall was filled with people, and the armies of both sides slowly approached, and everyone's hearts were raised to their throats.

Most of the Vandals' warships were light fast ships, like pirates cruising in the Mediterranean, but the Vandals were like enlarged versions of the pirate ships, but there were more than twenty heavy warships in four and five columns, which were the backbone of their strength.

"Trebuchet! Trebuchet! ”

At the call of the officers, three or four trebuchet operators behind each ship laboriously pulled down the trebuchet's reload and secured it. Then four or five dragged the stone to the trebuchet with a rope tied to it, and everyone worked together to give it to the trebuchet on the platform.

Everything seemed to be ready, the two sides were getting closer, Hermanus was already sweating profusely with his right hand holding the scepter, and the war was full of too much uncertainty for anyone to know what the Vandals, who were clearly inferior in strength, would do, and perhaps surprise Hermanus.

"General!" The officer who gave the order came behind Hermanus and said in a deep voice: "The enemy is in range!" ”

"So what are you waiting for?" Hermanus turned around and said, "Don't care how I feel, fire freely, and weaken the enemy's combat power as much as possible." ”

The herald was ordered to retreat, and after a while, only to hear the roar of "click" behind him, dozens of stones were violently launched from behind the six columns of battleships in a row, and landed in mid-air with a whine in the Vandal army formation that was approaching here.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

Dozens of rocks fell, smashing through several hapless Vandal warships, and the rest fell on the tumbling sea, making huge splashes on the Vandal warships passing by.

"Woooooo

Suddenly, there was a loud trumpet in the Vandal army, which was supposed to be the one that commanded them to attack, and their oars led the ship to a noticeable speed, and rushed straight towards the Roman army.

"Prepare for war! Prepare for battle! ”

The officers roared, despite their already hoarse voices, and they slapped the busy soldiers passing by them, demanding that they return to their combat posts and be wounded.

"Light ramming ship, go! Let's go! ”

The approaching Vandal ships are always the greatest threat to the heavy ships, and the scorpion crossbowmen on top of the tower wield their scorpions to aim at the approaching Vandal vanguard ships.

"Click......"

Armor-piercing bolts wrapped in metal were fired from the dozens of ballistae without interruption, and because the crossbow machines were precision target weapons, the crossbow machines could shoot without missing arrows in the hands of skilled soldiers.

The armor-piercing metal arrows, each shot piercing with great penetration, did not smash a hole in the Vandals' ship every time it hit its hull or deck. It can even hit an enemy and then go through the whole thing, nailing it to the deck or mast.

This did not stop the Vandal naval attack, which allowed them to speed up and appear in front of the Roman fleet in an instant, following the flow of the waves.

"Click......"

The ship was full of Vandal's archers, who drew their bows and arrows, intending to show the Romans their wrath with this tiny arrow. Now the Romans on the hull of the good ship were not to be outdone, and they responded with bows and arrows and pikes, which could be regarded as a reward for the Vandals.

The ramming ship sorted, and they sped up as fast as they could, and swooped down on the Vandal.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

Naturally, the weak boat could not withstand the impact of the metal ramming horns of the ship, at least the bow was chiseled into a huge hole, or the whole hull was torn to pieces, the hull was overturned, and the soldiers on the deck fell into the water like dumplings, and instead of saving them, they could only cry and float in the water, and little by little exhausted their last bit of strength and sank, but the Vandals did not care about such losses.

"Not good!" Even when it seemed that he had won a small victory, Hermanus could not be happy, because after the ramming ship had defeated the Vandal spearhead, it stopped, but the Vandal ramming ship came with the wind and waves, aiming at the ramming ship that had stopped!

"Stop them! Block them! ”

The officers ordered the scorpion and the archers to try to stop the rushing Vandal ramming ship with bows and crossbows at all costs, but it was too late, and the bows and arrows could only kill the sailors standing on the deck, but could not do much damage to the hull.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

The sound of the crash together was extremely harsh, hitting the ship against the collision ship, the metal hitting the metal hitting the horn, more soldiers were overturned and overboard, and the first line of defense of the Roman navy was broken by the Vandals in an instant. The rest of the Vandal ramming ships were carrying heavily armed Vandal soldiers, who kept maneuvering the ships to rain arrows and shuttles, and stopped in the gap between the six columns, and the Romans never stopped resisting them, directing the slaves to use the long oars as counterattack weapons to try to overturn the small Vandal warship with the dozens of oars.

The Vandals took out long hooks with ropes tied to them from their ships, and they threw countless iron hooks at the six ships, grasping the ropes and trying to climb up with iron swords in their mouths.

"Stop them, stop them!"

This was to take advantage of their melee advantage, and not only Hermanus, but also his officers were well aware of the intentions of the Vandals, so they ordered their own soldiers to stop them.