Chapter 3: The First Battle

After a long day of trekking, Shi Jinshui and the nine strong men finally arrived at the barracks, and then formed a team with hundreds of strong men who were pulled from all over the country and conducted hasty training under the leadership of a veteran. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info how rushed it is! In a hurry, Shi Jinshui didn't have time to look at the environment of the entire barracks. Although there were no timekeeping devices such as watches on their bodies, Shi Jinshui was sure that this so-called training would not even take an hour, and then their group of cannon fodder was each issued with an oval shield and a short spear, and became a glorious town militia.

Coincidentally, the big man who saved Shi Jinshui before actually became the captain of the ten-person team he was in. For the upcoming battle, this guy seemed to be looking forward to it, and after receiving his equipment, he kept urging Shi Jinshui and them to hurry up and form a team and go to the battlefield.

When Shi Jinshui arrived at the designated location where their squad was on the battlefield, he found that the other troops had already been in place, and their group of cannon fodder strong men were the last to come. And as cannon fodder, they were naturally arranged at the forefront, and behind them, there were hundreds of Iberian infantry, all of whom stared at their group of cannon fodder with ill-intentioned eyes, obviously as a team of overseers, ready to see which one would run and cut which one first.

"I'm so excited! We'll be able to slaughter the Romans later! The big man who was the captain of Shi Jinshui didn't seem to notice this, and was still talking to himself with a smile on his face.

Because he remembered that the other party had saved his life, Shi Jinshui reminded him in a low voice: "Don't feel too good about yourself, we are just a group of cannon fodder, don't you see that we are arranged at the front?" If the war starts, we will definitely be the first to die! ”

After hearing Shi Jinshui's reminder, the big man looked left and right, and suddenly said, "It seems to be really like this!" However, he turned his head to look at Shi Jinshui's thin figure, and then compared his own, but a smile appeared on his face again: "But I am so much stronger than you, I will definitely live a little longer, and you will only die first." ”

"Hey! Why are you NPCs talking so hurtful! I kindly remind you that you are good, you actually cursed me to die first, I can tell you that labor and management are players and can be resurrected. After hearing the big man's angry answer, Shi Jinshui pointed at himself indignantly and said. Ever since he entered this damn gaming space, he hadn't enjoyed the slightest sense of superiority as a player, which had made him feel extremely depressed.

At this time, the Romans on the opposite side also happened to have finished gathering troops, more than 5,000 people, slowly approaching their side, in terms of numbers, there were more than 6,000 people on the Carthaginian side, more than 1,000 more than the Roman side, but sometimes quality is more important than quantity, at least in Shi Jinshui's view, like their gang of strong men who have just been captured and trained for less than an hour, they will not help much for the entire battle situation, and may even lag behind.

As the distance between the two armies approached about 100 meters, both sides sent long-range troops and began to deliver long-range strikes to each other's troops, but in this regard, Carthage suffered greatly, because in this game, Carthage actually did not have archer troops, and it can be seen from here that the game makers have deep malice towards Carthage, how to say that Carthage is an extremely powerful faction, and it has been on par with Rome in history! How could such a big faction not even have archers!

For this reason, the only ranged troops that came out of the Carthaginian army were javelinmen and slingers. One of these two arms has a hard range, and the other has too low lethality, facing the Roman legions with super high defense values, at most it can only play a role in harassment, as for how much damage can be done, it only depends on the will of God.

However, Carthage is not the only one who is not powerful in terms of long-range strength, and the Roman side is not much better, although it has the aura of the protagonist of the game, it has archers, but because of its heavy infantry as the main force of combat, the strength of its archers is not outstanding. In this way, the two sides can be described as half-pounds and eighty-two in the competition of long-range arms, and the fight is tepid, and the casualties caused are only a handful.

Shi Jinshui held his shield, and after suffering a rain of arrows, he secretly looked at the Roman army on the opposite side, and was surprised to find that the main force of the Roman army was not the youth army and adult army he imagined, but the early legionnaires. This discovery made his heart sink in his heart, compared to the youth army and the adult army, the early legionnaires had already begun to transform into professional soldiers, both in equipment and training, much better than these early citizen soldiers.

"Damn! It seems that in the eighteen years when labor and management have been asleep, the Roman dwarfs have developed well! Even the early legionnaires are out, it seems that they should try to avoid hanging up in the future, otherwise after the next resurrection, it is estimated that they will encounter Dachengguan. Shi Jinshui muttered in his heart while carefully observing the equipment of those early Roman legionnaires, at this time the distance between the two sides was only a few tens of meters, and any details of the equipment could be seen clearly. In terms of weapons, these early legionnaires are almost the same as in the game, they are all short swords, big shields and two heavy javelins, but in terms of armor, it is a little different, in the game, Shi Jinshui remembered that these early legionnaires were wearing chain mail, but these early legionnaires in front of him not only wore chain mail, but also wore a set of hard leather armor outside the chain mail. The outer layer of hard leather armor is obviously used to defend against long-range attacks, and the defense is extremely good, just Shi Jinshui saw that his javelinmen have hit these Roman infantry several times, but those javelins have been bounced away, only on the surface of those leather armor, leaving a few white marks.

When the distance between the two sides was close to only a dozen meters away, those early Roman legionary infantry took out their heavy javelins, and after a burst of charging, they threw javelins at Shi Jinshui and them.

Shi Jinshui, who knew the power of the Roman legion's javelin, knew that the real test had just begun, and he stared intently ahead of him, and when a javelin was about to fall on him, he crouched down and narrowly avoided the blow. Because it is a throwing weapon, the flight speed is naturally not too fast, which may be the only weakness of this heavy javelin, which also gives Shi Jinshui a chance to dodge.

Due to Shi Jinshui's unexpected move, a strong man standing behind him was a substitute for the dead, although the militia also raised his shield to block, but the powerful kinetic energy of the heavy javelin shot directly through the simple wooden shield, and then the javelin pierced into the militiaman's chest.

"I'm sorry buddy, I've been delaying for a full eighteen years, and I don't want to hang back so quickly this time." Seeing the militiaman spitting blood and falling unwillingly, Shi Jinshui could only muttered apologetically to himself in his heart.

Under the blow of this round of javelin rain, Shi Jinshui and the cannon fodder soldiers who were at the forefront almost fell about half, which shows the terrible lethality of the Roman legion's javelins.

"Kill!" After throwing a round of javelins, the Romans on the opposite side took advantage of the demoralization of the Carthaginians due to heavy casualties and immediately launched a charge with a roar.

Shi Jinshui, who didn't want to wait for death obediently, did not wait for the Roman soldiers who rushed to the front to attack this time, so he relied on the length advantage of the short spear in his hand to make the first move. This blow Shi Jinshui had already used all his strength, but to his surprise, this thorn could not even break through the outermost leather armor on the opponent's body. Only then did he understand why none of his javelins could penetrate the other party's leather armor, because the leather armor of these early legionnaires was obviously specially tanned, extremely thick and tough, and his short spear pierced as if it were pierced on a piece of rubber, and only a little bit of it was pierced and then it could no longer be inched.

Before Shi Jinshui could retract the short spear, the Roman soldier opposite him had already swung the short sword in his hand and slashed it fiercely.

After a muffled sound, the shield in Shi Jinshui's hand was directly split and deformed by this sword, and the huge force from the shield also shook his body.

Seeing that Shi Jinshui was unstable by his own sword, the Roman soldier couldn't help but show a contemptuous smile on his face, and at the same time, he kept attacking in his hand, stepped forward, handed out the short sword, and stabbed Shi Jinshui in the chest.