Seeing that Shi Jinshui was about to be stabbed, a short spear suddenly poked out from the side, a short sword that held the Roman soldier. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Shi Jinshui turned his head to look at it, and found that it was the big man who rescued himself from the water, Luo Wen, the captain of their team. After holding the opponent's short sword, this guy raised his right foot and kicked it out, directly kicking the Roman soldier away.

Where would Shi Jinshui let go of this opportunity to beat the water dog, quickly chased in front of the Roman soldier who fell to the ground, used a short spear to pry the opponent's skirt armor, and then stabbed the Roman soldier between his legs.

"Ahh A terrible scream suddenly resounded over the battlefield.

"Attack them in three ways, the Romans' legs are low!" As Shi Jinshui spoke, a short body dodged the attack of another Roman soldier's short sword, and then stabbed the short spear in his hand at the sole of the opponent's foot, who was only wearing straw sandals.

After seeing Shi Jinshui's demonstration, Rowan immediately did the same, although he had great strength, but the armor of those Romans was too strong, even if he shot, it was difficult to pierce the opponent's two layers of armor with a spear, and it was easier to attack the opponent's weaker legs in comparison.

As a result, a number of Roman soldiers soon appeared on the battlefield, covering their legs and falling to the ground screaming. Most of the killings were caused by Rowan, who was about to fall into a lonely situation after knocking down a dozen Roman soldiers in a row, and as he continued to advance, there were fewer and fewer Carthaginian soldiers around, and he was about to fall into a situation of fighting alone.

Xin Hao, who had been following him at this time, grabbed him and reminded him: "Don't rush too forward, keep the formation, and get closer to the friendly forces around you." ”

"We're just bait, we just need to stabilize the infantry line!" In Luo Wen's puzzled eyes, Shi Jinshui opened his mouth to explain to him. He didn't say this nonsense, just now he had found out that the cavalry troops on their two wings were suddenly much less, originally on their two wings, there were more than a thousand cavalry troops each, but now there are less than half of them left, and they are all light cavalry such as round shield cavalry and Numidian mercenary cavalry, these light cavalry are not with the Roman cavalry, but use their speed to firmly entangle each other. So where did the rest of the cavalry go? According to Shi Jinshui's many years of experience in playing Luo warfare, most of these cavalry went around the rear of the Romans to carry out sneak attacks.

Due to the noisy voices on the battlefield, in order to let Rowan hear his words clearly, Shi Jinshui couldn't help but speak a little louder, which caused a Carthaginian general who happened to run by riding a horse near them also heard his words, and after hearing Shi Jinshui's words, the Carthaginian general glanced at the militia in surprise, and only rode away after remembering the other party's appearance.

As if to confirm Shi Jinshui's words, after a while, a sound of horses' hooves suddenly came from the back of the Romans, and what surprised Shi Jinshui was that among the more than 1,000 cavalry, there were more than a dozen huge war elephants. The cavalry included in it were also heavy cavalry such as the Long Shield Cavalry and the Holy Order Cavalry.

Although the Romans immediately mobilized a large number of auxiliary infantry armed with spears to defend after discovering that the rear was being attacked by enemy cavalry, the defense hastily built up by these auxiliary spearmen was completely destroyed in less than a minute in the face of the full charge of the heavy cavalry led by a dozen war elephants.

After breaking through the defensive line established by the auxiliary spearmen, the cavalry unit responsible for the sneak attack continued to rush forward without slowing down, and continued to rush forward non-stop, at this time, the enemy that appeared in front of them was some long-range troops such as archers and javelinmen who had almost no anti-cavalry ability, so after this Carthaginian cavalry unit rushed into the crowd, the scene was almost a one-sided massacre.

The sudden change in the situation of the battle, yes, the Roman commander was also a little caught off guard, and in the end, he had no choice but to hastily withdraw the heavy infantry group in front to save the field. At this time, the militia units on the Carthage side, which were cannon fodder, had suffered more than one-third of the casualties, and even the Iberian infantry and Libyan spearmen who came up later were also killed and wounded nearly half.

In terms of the comparison of infantry strength, Carthage is indeed several points weaker than Rome, the same third-level soldier, the difference in strength between the Libyan spearmen and the early Roman legionnaires is obvious, as for the Iberian infantry, compared with the Roman youth army or the Greek infantry, which is also a second-class soldier, it is more like a joke, but this scum with only five combat effectiveness, but the salary is not less than a penny, and the maintenance fee is the same as that of the second-level soldiers of other factions.

Xin is good at the cavalry troops, Carthage is still very powerful, no, even if the heavy infantry is transferred back to the main camp to save the field, but in the face of the Carthaginian cavalry that is rampaging in the rear, the Romans are still a little difficult to resist, especially the dozen or so huge war elephants, the damage and chaos caused are even greater, after all, in the face of such a super beast weighing seven or eight tons, even if the armor you wear is thick, you will not die if you are hit. The most terrible thing is that the javelin, a sharp weapon against war elephants, was also exhausted in the battle with Shi Jinshui and his cannon fodder troops just now.

In desperation, the Roman commander could only lead the remnants of thousands of soldiers under his command to slowly retreat.

"Haha! We won! We won! Seeing the Romans take the initiative to retreat, Rowan couldn't help but cheer excitedly, in the long war with the Romans, his father and several uncles died on the battlefield with the Romans, and finally became an orphan, if it weren't for the help of those kind villagers in the village, maybe he wouldn't have lived today, so he has a bitter hatred for the Romans.

Unlike Rowan, when he saw the Romans retreating in defeat, he could not see a trace of joy on his face, because he saw that although the Romans were defeated, the formation of the retreat did not seem to be very chaotic, which showed that their fighting spirit had not been lost, and although on the surface, a sneak attack by the Carthaginians had achieved considerable results, killing more than 1,000 people, but those were mostly auxiliary soldiers composed of non-Roman citizens, and the heavy infantry group, which was the real main force of the Romans, did not suffer much loss. This meant that with just a little bit of reorganization, the Romans could soon make a comeback. So in the final analysis, this victory of the Carthaginians was not as great as it seemed, and it did not give it much respite.

The next time the Romans came, what awaited the Carthaginians would probably be the final destruction.

More than five months later, aboard a Carthaginian five-column battleship. Shi Jinshui sat alone in the bow of the boat, holding up a fishing rod in his hand, staring at the buoy on the water with his eyes tight, patiently waiting for a stupid fish to return to the bait. Compared with a few months ago, his whole person has changed a lot, his original white skin like a baby has been tanned at this time, and his original skinny body has become much stronger, although the muscles on his body are not as exaggerated as those professional bodybuilding coaches, but they can be called angular. This is all due to the cruel battlefield tempering in the past few months, so man is really a very cheap creature, compared to the real world, Shi Jinshui's living conditions here can be said to be extremely bad, and the food he eats is far less nutritious than in the real world, but under the pressure of survival, his body is still getting stronger and stronger.

In addition to becoming much stronger, his status has also improved a lot, more than five months ago, he was just a militia sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder, but after his first battle, a Carthaginian general suddenly and inexplicably valued him, and took care of and cultivated him many times during this time, so that he became a commander in just a few months.

Of course, Shi Jinshui did not live up to the importance of this Carthaginian general, in the past few months, with his rich command experience in the Luo War, he has gone through dozens of battles, large and small, never defeated, and has made great achievements for Carthage, and at the same time, he has also won himself the titles of "qualified cavalry commander", "qualified infantry commander" and so on. Not long ago, he wiped out more than 3,000 rebels in Spain with more than 1,000 troops. Carthage preserved a large silver mine in that area.

This series of brilliant results made him promoted quickly, but there were few people in the army who were not convinced.