"My lord, what shall we do now?" After finally calming down, a group of people gathered in the cabin and asked Shi Jinshui. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Among all the people in this fleet, the highest positions are Shi Jinshui and Hannibal, the fleet commander, but in view of Hannibal's terrible performance before, everyone almost regarded this fleet commander as a transparent person, and would not ask him for advice on such a matter of life and death now. In contrast, Shi Jinshui, a thousand-commander with a brilliant record, looks much more reliable.

In the face of everyone's inquiry, Shi Jinshui couldn't help but fall into deep thought, although he had expected that Carthage would be destroyed by Rome in the early morning, but he didn't expect that it would perish so quickly and so simply. So he didn't have time to prepare at all. Originally, according to his idea, he was prepared to wait for Carthage to show signs of defeat, so he secretly began to win over his officers and soldiers, and then waited for an opportunity to stand on his own. But now it was the case that Carthage had fallen so quickly that he had not yet had time to carry out his plan of co-optation. In this case, the idea of pulling a group of people to stand on their own will definitely not work.

"Go back to the Spanish province of Córdoba! As long as we help Governor Theophanes hold that silver mine there, we will have the capital to make a comeback. After hesitating, Shi Jinshui said a decision that he didn't want to say in his heart.

However, it is obvious that this decision is very much in line with the wishes of these Carthaginians, and after listening to Shi Jinshui's decision, these guys nodded in agreement.

In this way, the fleet turned around in place and turned back to the way it came. This time, the deputy commander of the fleet finally stopped playing with his eyes, obediently cooperated with Hannibal, adjusted the course, and it only took a week to sail the entire fleet back to Spain.

"What's going on? Why is there smoke in the city and in the port? As they approached the port of Córdoba, the crowd exclaimed.

You must know that when they left here not long ago, everything was fine, and the surrounding barbarian rebels were almost wiped out by them, and there were still 2,000 soldiers stationed in the city, how could it have become like this in less than a month!

Seeing the arrival of Shi Jinshui and their fleet, the few remaining Carthaginian soldiers in the city immediately came out of their hiding places one by one, and then rushed to the harbor, shouting and shouting at this own fleet. However, as soon as these Carthaginian soldiers appeared, a large group of soldiers dressed as barbarians also rushed out of the city and slashed at those Carthaginian soldiers.

"Lean in, fire ballistas, and cover the retreat of friendly forces!" Under Shi Jinshui's order, all eight warships approached to a distance of only a few hundred meters from the port, and then the ballistas installed on the ships fired one after another, beating the barbarian soldiers who were chasing and killing the Carthaginian soldiers on the shore to cry and retreat in a hurry.

Under the cover of the fleet, the remaining 50 or so Carthaginian soldiers finally boarded the battleship without any problems. The appearance of these soldiers can be said to be embarrassed, not only are the weapons and armor almost lost, but they are all tired, and their eyes are full of red bloodshots.

"What the hell is going on? What about the Governor? Looking at the embarrassed appearance of these soldiers, Shi Jinshui frowned and asked.

"The Governor is dead, everyone is dead, those barbarians are simply not human, the people in the city have basically been killed by them, if we were not lucky, I am afraid that by now we would have become a corpse." Facing Shi Jinshui's inquiry, the faces of these soldiers were full of sadness and fear.

"To be specific, what exactly is the army of that faction attacking you, and how many people are there? Aren't there two thousand soldiers in the city? How did it fall so quickly? Shi Jinshui was asking these soldiers, but he had his own guess in his heart, he felt that this was probably something done by the Romans, after all, the battle under the city of Carthage, the Romans must not have won at the beginning, so in order to weaken the strength of Carthage, they are likely to collude with these barbarians and let the other party come here to harass. Otherwise, the timing of this incident is too coincidental, the Carthage side has just finished fighting, and the Spanish side has also had an accident at the same time.

After some inquiry, Shi Jinshui was surprised to learn that the barbarian army that came to attack this time was as many as more than 20,000 people, so in the comparison of the disparity in strength, the city of Cordoba was broken in less than a day, and the governor Theophanes was killed on the spot.

After learning of the large number of enemy troops, Shi Jinshui gave up his plan to go ashore to recover the city, and instead let the fleet continue on its way, heading towards the exit of the Mediterranean Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar.

Shi Jinshui: What is this going to do? It's a bit funny to say, he wants to try to get the fleet to sail directly back to China, and after coming to this game world for so long, he is a little homesick. Since the Suez Canal has not yet been dug out, if he wants to go back to China, he can only take a detour, which is to sail out of the Strait of Gibraltar first, and then rub back along the African coastline little by little. There are many unjust paths to take, and it is likely that it will take a few years to sail back to China. However, this is also a helpless thing, the navigation technology of this era is still very backward, and the complete nautical chart is completely absent, if you don't rub slowly along the coastline, the fleet may go off course at some point.

Of course, on the bright side, Shi Jinshui would definitely not tell those subordinates his true purpose, and his words to everyone were to prepare to find an island along the coastline that no one occupied, establish a base and start developing again, and when the strength was strong enough, he would kill back again, drive out the Romans, and regain Carthage's homeland.

But God knows that the day of this reconquest of the homeland will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey, after all, Shi Jinshui knows very well that the current Rome is in the rising period of its strength, in the Mediterranean region, no faction can fight against it alone, it will not be long before those factions will be wiped out by Rome one by one, and the Mediterranean Sea will become the inland sea of the Roman Empire. This is also the reason why Shi Jinshui is in a hurry to leave the Mediterranean, if he doesn't leave, maybe the strait will be blocked by the Roman navy, and then they, the remnants of Carthage, will really become turtles in the urn.

After the fleet was back on the road, Shi Jinshui suddenly found that the time for him to stand on his own feet seemed to be ripe, and now Carthage can be said to be completely destroyed, even their only retreat Córdoba was occupied by the barbarians, and he was the most prestigious person in this exile army, I believe that if he proposed self-reliance at this time, there would not be too many people to oppose it.

It was almost as expected by Shi Jinshui, when he made this suggestion, no one objected, which made Shi Jinshui secretly happy, thinking that as a water force, he really had a relationship with water! In the end, it was officially self-reliant on the water.

"Good! Since there is no objection, then this faction of ours is called Water..."

"Ahem!"

Shi Jinshui just wanted to say the name of the long-brewing faction in his heart, but a dry cough interrupted him, he turned his head to look, and found that this guy Rowan was staring at him with an unkind face, as Shi Jinshui's bodyguard leader, this guy and Shi Jinshui have been together for the longest time, and he can also be said to know the best about this thousand-commander, so now that Shi Jinshui is just a head, he can probably guess what the other party is going to say, But he absolutely couldn't allow his own faction to have such an unreliable name in the future.

Looking at Luo Wen's vicious eyes, Shi Jinshui weighed it in his heart, and felt that he was definitely not the opponent of this strong man, in order to avoid provoking the other party, he could only sigh helplessly, and changed his words: "Let's call it New Carthage!" ”

After deciding on the names of the factions, Shi Jinshui immediately appointed the marshals of the three armies, among which Rowan was appointed as the field marshal, Habak was appointed as the marshal of the navy, and Hannibal, the second officer, was appointed as the marshal of the air force.

Rowan and Habak, who were appointed field marshals and naval marshals, were all happy, while Hannibal, who was appointed air marshal, was depressed. After all, I've never heard of the Air Force before!

"Air Force! Air force! This is to override my rhythm! Do these guys really hate me that much? In order to prevent me from meddling in military affairs again, he directly invented an air force branch that had never appeared in history. Dissatisfied, Hannibal returned to his captain's lounge. However, although he was dissatisfied, he did not dare to attack, because he could see that because of his bad performance some time ago, everyone in this fleet basically regarded him as a joke, and he had long lost the slightest prestige at all. What's worse is that with the fall of Carthage, the family power he relied on most in the past has also disappeared, and now he can be said to be completely alone.

Shi Jinshui didn't know that Hannibal, who was appointed as the air marshal by himself, would have such a big dissatisfaction in his heart, after all, the air force was an extremely promising branch of the army in his opinion! In the past, countries did not establish it because they did not recognize the importance of air supremacy. However, the establishment of this air force cannot be done overnight, and now Shi Jinshui's greatest wish is to strengthen the long-range attack force of his soldiers. The Carthage faction is really too weak in terms of long-range, which is a very fatal shortcoming in Shi Jinshui's opinion, although some time ago he has tried his best to recruit a team of Cretan archers to strengthen his long-range strength, but still failed to achieve the ultimate goal in Shi Jinshui's heart.

"Before, because I didn't stand on my own, I haven't been willing to take out this big killer, and now it's finally time to let it appear!" After digging out a large box in his room, Shi Jinshui said to himself with emotion.

As the box was opened, it could be seen that inside the box was several beautifully crafted heavy crossbows.