Chapter 8: The Romans' Pursuers
After three days of repair, everyone reluctantly returned to the ship one by one. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 InfoWhen the men returned, they found that their boss was still fishing with a fishing rod in the bow of the boat.
Someone stepped forward and asked him why he didn't go ashore to relax, but he just got a sentence, "Brother is not catching fish, it's lonely." Answer.
"My lord, look! This is a crown that I asked someone to make according to your description. After everyone dispersed, Ao Bama stepped forward with a smile and said to Shi Jinshui.
Shi Jinshui turned his head to look and found that the other party was holding a golden crown in his hand, which was indeed the crown in his memory, but after he reached out to take it, he found that this crown was unexpectedly light, and if you looked closely, this thing was actually made of wood.
"Huh! You've got a heart! After chuckling, Shi Jinshui put this crown on his head, the size is just right, he may be the first king to wear a wooden crown, but it doesn't matter, after he unifies the entire game world and becomes the only king in this world, this wooden crown will become a symbol of supreme power, more valuable than those crowns made of gold and silver.
"Are you all here? When you're ready, set sail! Seeing that no one was on the boat anymore, Shi Jinshui turned to Habak and asked.
Faced with Shi Jinshui's inquiry, Habak replied with a gloating expression: "Not yet, Mr. Hannibal is still drinking in the tavern of the town!" ”
Seeing the other party's answer, Shi Jinshui knew that the two must have been fighting in secret, it seems that this time it was obvious that Harbuck had won, this Harbuck had the ability, but the jealousy was too heavy. Shi Jinshui reprimanded him with some displeasure: "When has this been, you are still engaged in infighting, it shouldn't be, how can you say that you are also the marshal of New Carthage now, be generous, understand?" ”
"Oh! I know! ”
"Now that you know, why don't you apologize to Mr. Hannibal and bring someone back."
Under Shi Jinshui's order, Habak reluctantly returned to the shore and asked Hannibal to go, and after more than half an hour, this guy finally pulled Hannibal back to the boat.
It can be seen that Hannibal drank a lot of wine, staggered on the road, and kept muttering something there: "Don't pull me, I still have to drink, I am the marshal of the Air Force, who dares to care about me, the birds, bats and dragonflies in the sky are all under my command, and which of you has the power of this marshal." ”
After hearing what the other party was muttering, Shi Jinshui immediately guessed that this air marshal was sulking for his position as an air marshal, presumably this guy thought that Shi Jinshui appointed him as an air marshal in order to completely overthrow him and make him a bare-bones commander.
In order to untie this knot in the other party's heart, Shi Jinshui felt that he had to do something.
"Welcome to this first session of the water forced science class, the reason why I want to hold this class today is to prove to our Marshal Hannibal that there is an air force in this world."
In the cabin of the five columns of battleships, which is the flagship of the fleet, all the officers above the centurion of the entire fleet gathered inside, and Shi Jinshui, as the boss, talked eloquently on it.
"First of all, let's talk about why there is wind in this world. That's because hot air is lighter than cold air, so when a mass of air is heated, it rises because it becomes lighter, and heavier cold air goes down, so that under the flow of air, wind is generated. ”
"Someone might not believe that, and that's okay! I'm going to do a little experiment in front of you to prove it. ”
Speaking of which, Shi Jinshui took out a Kong Ming lantern that he had just made.
"Come, everybody! This is the experiment I used to prove that theory, and I'm going to light the lamp in it and heat up the air in the cover. ”
At this time, everyone was already attracted by Shi Jinshui's experiment, and everyone, including Hannibal, stared at the poorly made Kong Ming lantern without blinking.
Under their gaze, the lamp was lit by Shi Jinshui, and then less than a minute later, as the air inside the hood was heated, a magical scene appeared, and this Kong Ming lantern actually staggered and floated. A few people still didn't believe it, thinking that it might be Shi Jinshui pulling it up with a thin rope, so they stepped forward and groped for it above the Kong Ming lantern with both hands, but in the end they found that the rope on it did not exist at all, and this thing did fly by itself.
"Good! I believe that now everyone understands the theory I mentioned earlier, and this theory is the basic theory for us to build our air force in the future, because our air force will also rely on this theory to rise into the sky. ”
Shi Jinshui said as he drew a sketch of an airship on a wooden board behind him, and explained to everyone: "This aircraft I named the airship is the device that our air force will ride in the future, and with it, the air supremacy will be completely in the hands of our Neo-Carthaginians in the future." ”
"Great! It turns out that this air marshal of mine is not an idle position, but a real marshal! My lord, when are we going to start building this airship? After listening to Shi Jinshui's explanation, Hannibal's decadent color disappeared completely, and he asked Shi Jinshui excitedly.
"Don't worry! Hold your horses! This airship is our new Carthage's secret weapon in the future, and we must find a hidden and uninhabited place before we can start making it! Shi Jinshui was also very happy to see that the other party had regained his fighting spirit, after all, he now has more than a thousand people under his hands, and each of them is very valuable, not to mention a highly educated talent like Hannibal who has received an elite education of the aristocracy, and now that the other party can regain his strength, this is naturally a good thing for him.
After more than an hour's delay because of Hannibal's affairs, the fleet finally set sail again. However, perhaps because Shi Jinshui had stayed here for too long, they had just set sail not long before they found that their road was blocked. It was a Roman fleet of three five-column warships and two ravens.
"Damn! These Romans are really haunted! It's all here, Shi Shuiqiu, it's time to show your skills again! After seeing this fleet blocking the way, Rowan didn't look worried at all, but said to Shi Jinshui with excitement on his face. Because in his impression, although Shi Jinshui is a little unreliable, he has two brushes in army command, and he can always come up with some strange tactics to defeat the enemy with extremely small casualties.
But under his expectant gaze, the commander, who was always full of tricks in the past, turned around and gave him a smile that was more ugly than crying: "That, I'm sorry! There is no naval combat system in Luo Yi, but there is one in Luo Er, but I can't afford to bring that scum machine! So what about ・・・・・"
"What do you mean? Are you saying that at such a critical moment, you are blind! After listening to Shi Jinshui's explanation, Rowan was also completely dumbfounded.
"Don't worry! Don't we still have Admiral Habak! I don't know how to command naval battles, so I can let him command! At such a life-and-death moment, Shi Jinshui did not hold on, and simply handed over the command to Harbuck.
At this time, in terms of the strength of the warships between the two sides, Shi Jinshui and they can be said to be slightly inferior, after all, they only have one five-column battleship and seven three-column battleships, among which the three-column battleship rescued from the sea near Carthage City is still wounded, and it is necessary to snicker if it can exert half of its combat power. On the other hand, on the Roman side, there were three full five columns of warships, and two Raven warships, which were advanced in this era. Shi Jinshui's three battleships, which were the main force on their side, were not even half the size of those Raven ships, which looked like a battle between a group of strong men bullying children.
Fortunately, in terms of the number of soldiers on the ship, Shi Jinshui's side finally had a little advantage, in addition to the original crew on the battleship, their side also carried Shi Jinshui's thousand-man team, which included a hundred round shield cavalry, a hundred long shield cavalry, two hundred Iberian infantry, one hundred Libyan spearmen, two hundred javelinmen and slingers who had been turned crossbowmen, one hundred Cretan archers and two hundred Spanish mercenaries. These thousand soldiers, following Shi Jinshui's expedition to the east and west, have all accumulated rich combat experience, among which the highest team of Cretan archers has even reached level 7 combat experience, and the lowest of the other soldiers also has level 4 combat experience, far exceeding those tabula rasa soldiers who have just been recruited from the barracks.
After taking command, Habak immediately ordered the heralds to not fight with the Romans, but to take advantage of the small and flexible nature of their own ships.
When the other ships saw the flag from the flagship, they immediately acted in accordance with the instructions. Due to the small size and flexibility of their ships, and at the same time they had three more warships than the other side, under the cover of each other, the Roman warships could not catch up with any enemy ships at all, but suffered several enemy ballistas.
Fortunately, the Romans' warships were relatively large tonnage, with rough skin and thick flesh, and they were only slightly injured by a few ballistas, which did not affect their combat effectiveness.
The Roman commander saw that he could not catch up with the enemy's nimble trilinear warships for a while, so he turned his attention to the five-column battleship that was obviously the enemy's flagship, and after leaving three five-column battleships to drag the enemy's small ships, the Roman commander took two Raven warships and went straight to the five-column battleship on which Shi Jinshui was riding.