For this result, Shi Jinshui had actually expected it a long time ago, after all, in this entire fleet, just their five-column battleship, the other party could easily guess that this was their own flagship, and it would be strange if they didn't catch up. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Shi Shuiqiu, what should I do? We're going to be flanked! Seeing this situation, Rowan panicked a little.

"Don't be afraid! Our crossbowmen haven't seen blood yet, so we're going to take these Romans today! Shi Jinshui smiled and comforted.

Because he had to be familiar with the operation methods of the repeater and the heavy crossbow, the two hundred crossbowmen were all on Shi Jinshui's ship, so that he could guide nearby, and now the two hundred crossbowmen had become the biggest confidence in his heart.

Under Shi Jinshui's orders, the two hundred crossbowmen were divided into two groups and arranged on both sides of the battleship, each group was composed of fifty heavy crossbowmen and fifty repeaters.

When Habak saw Shi Jinshui's calm appearance, he no longer let the battleship dodge, but stayed where he was, waiting for the enemy to approach.

As the warships of the two sides approached, Shi Jinshui and they could almost see the faces of the enemies on the other party's battleship, and what surprised Shi Jinshui was that except for a small number of Roman soldiers on the other side's ships, most of them were barbarian mercenaries. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the inertia of history was really strong enough, with the continuous expansion of Rome, its own citizens became richer and richer, and the superior living conditions made more and more Romans no longer willing to join the army, so as a last resort, the Romans began to hire those fierce and warlike barbarian soldiers to fight for themselves.

But what these Romans didn't know was that this laid the foundation for the civil strife in Rome after that, after all, when most of the soldiers in a country are not its own citizens, it is no wonder that the country is not in trouble.

When Shi Jinshui was thinking about the appearance of those barbarian mercenaries, the two Roman Raven warships had already approached the five-column battleship he was in. Then, with two loud bangs, the huge crow's beaks of the two Raven warships had already stabbed heavily into the hull of the five-column battleship where Shi Jinshui was.

"Kill!" After a loud roar, a Roman centurion took the lead in holding a short sword and rushed towards the enemy ship through the gangplank that had just been erected.

Shi Jinshui, who was interrupted by this movement, looked at the enemy soldiers rushing from both sides, and ordered with an expressionless face: "Heavy crossbowman, release the arrow!" ”

With Shi Jinshui's order, the hundred heavy crossbowmen who had been waiting for a long time immediately stood up from behind the wooden low wall of the arrow tower where they were hiding, raised the heavy crossbow in their hands, and condescendingly aimed at the Romans who were rushing through the gangplank, and pulled the trigger.

Suddenly, the buzzing of the bowstring filled everyone's ears. At such a close distance, there was no chance that the heavy crossbowmen would miss, and all the hundred crossbow arrows were collected by the Romans.

Although the Romans were all wearing heavy armor and holding large shields, in the face of the heavy crossbow arrows with powerful armor-piercing ability, these defenses were completely useless, completely like a shield against a shield, and armor against armor. And because the enemy troops on the two gangplanks were extremely crowded at this time, after shooting over the Roman soldiers in the front row, the huge kinetic energy carried by the crossbow arrows drove the corpses of the Roman soldiers who were shot and crashed towards the other comrades behind them. For a while, on the gangplank, there were constantly Roman soldiers who were knocked out and fell into the sea, and once the Roman soldiers in heavy armor fell into the sea, the fate can be imagined.

Just one round of shooting, most of the Roman soldiers were reimbursed, in the face of this amazing scene, the soldiers on both sides couldn't help but be a little stunned, after reacting, the heavy crossbowmen on Shi Jinshui's side hurriedly stepped on the crossbow machine in their hands with their feet, ready to rewind the heavy crossbow, and the Roman side, under the leadership of a barbarian mercenary leader, launched a second round of charge.

"Everyone, rush with me, the enemy's weapons look like it will take a long time to reload, as long as we rush over before they reload, the victory is ours." In order to cheer up his soldiers, the barbarian leader shouted loudly at his soldiers as he charged.

But just as his words fell, Shi Jinshui's mouth on the other side was full of murderous breath and spit out a sentence: "Crossbowman, let me go!" ”

So, under the surprised gaze of those Roman soldiers and barbarian mercenaries, another group of hidden enemy troops suddenly emerged from the opposite ship, and then aimed their repeater crossbows at them.

Since they didn't know the difference between a repeater and a heavy crossbow, these enemies still thought that this weapon could only be fired once like the previous heavy crossbow, so although they were surprised, they did not stop the pace of charging, and prepared to take a hard round of shots and then directly engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, not giving the enemy a chance to shoot again.

However, they guessed wrong again this time, and the first round of fire from the crossbowmen soon came, and its power was not as great as the previous heavy crossbow, but it only shot a group of people who rushed to the front to the ground, and some Roman soldiers in heavy armor were only wounded but not killed, but just when these enemies secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the second round of shooting followed.

Not only the second, third, and fourth rounds of shooting followed, but these soldiers in the era of cold weapons, where had they ever seen a burst of fire weapons with such a fast rate of fire, and they were not finished as soon as they were shot. Soon, all the enemy soldiers who rushed to the gangplank were shot into hedgehogs, and the crossbowmen had just finished shooting half of their magazines, so the enemy troops on the two Raven ships became their targets, and basically as soon as they saw the enemy showing their heads, they were a rain of arrows, and they couldn't even lift their heads to shoot the Romans.

By the time the crossbowmen had shot all the arrows in their magazines, there was no longer a single movement of any living people on the two Raven ships, and the deck was full of enemy corpses full of crossbow arrows, and a small number of remaining enemy troops were all hiding behind the cabins and the ship's gang, not daring to make a single movement, for fear of attracting another rain of arrows.

However, it was useless to be a turtle with a shrunken head, as the crossbowmen had already rewound and reloaded their bolts. Under the cover of some sailors armed with swords and shields, these heavy crossbowmen boarded two enemy ships one after another and began to sweep away the remnants of the enemy. Compared with the high rate of fire and low damage of the repeater, although the rate of fire of the heavy crossbow is slow, but the power is extremely strong, as long as it is hit by an arrow, even if it is not dead, it is disabled. Therefore, the battle ended quickly without any suspense, and none of the enemy troops on the two Raven ships survived, and all died under the rain of crossbow arrows.

"I'll go! How did the fight finish so quickly, I originally thought that these Romans would be able to resist for a while! It seems that the crossbow is much more powerful than I thought! Facing the one-sided battle situation in front of him, Shi Jinshui couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

After making sure that all the enemies on the two Raven ships had been wiped out, Habak immediately divided a part of the crew, controlled the two Raven ships, and together with his original five-column battleship, they killed the battlefield on the other side.

On the battlefield on the other side, the two sides are fighting inextricably, one side is the number of battleships is superior, the other side is the tonnage of battleships, and no one occupies an overwhelming advantage, so if there is no Shi Jinshui and their joining, the battle here should be able to last for a while.

However, with the addition of Shi Jinshui and their three warships, the battle situation became completely unsuspenseful, and after the crew of another Roman five-column battleship was shot by Shi Jinshui's crossbowmen, the remaining two Roman warships hung up the white flag and surrendered.

Seeing this, Habak quickly ordered all the warships to stop the attack, and sent the crew to board the enemy ship to prepare for its complete occupation. When the soldiers of New Carthage boarded the two enemy ships, they were surprised to find that the Roman soldiers on the enemy ships had either been killed or tied up, and a group of barbarian mercenaries were waiting for their arrival on the ship with smiles on their faces.

Obviously, this is because the Romans on the ship refused to surrender, and those barbarian mercenaries could only control those Romans in order to survive, and then raise the white flag themselves and surrender.

When Shi Jinshui learned this from the soldiers, he couldn't help but sigh, none of these barbarians were reliable. However, on the surface, he was indeed extremely enthusiastic about these barbarian soldiers who voluntarily surrendered.

"Very good, you can recognize the true face of these evil Romans in time, and turn away from darkness to light, you are all great good citizens!"

"Welcome to the New Carthage family, and we will all be one family from now on!"

Seeing Shi Jinshui lying without blinking his eyes over there, Rowan couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, some people's cheeks are really thick! You don't even have to think about it.

After pacifying the barbarian mercenaries who surrendered, Shi Jinshui asked the Roman soldiers who were still alive to come up, and asked these people, "Who of you is willing to surrender like those guys?" As long as you surrender to me, you will be able to live. ”

"What are you? What qualifies us, the great Roman soldiers, to surrender? Faced with Shi Jinshui's inquiry, a Roman centurion asked in a contemptuous tone.

"I am the king of New Carthage, do you think I am qualified to make you surrender?" Shi Jinshui said as he took out his wooden crown and put it on his head.

After hearing Shi Jinshui's answer, the Roman centurion was stunned for a moment, as if he couldn't understand what this new Carthage was, but after he figured it out, he suddenly burst into bursts of laughter.

"Haha... It's ridiculous! It's ridiculous! Even the remnants of your defeated army still want to rebuild Carthage? I'm not afraid to tell you that your capital has now been razed to the ground by our Rome, and there is no Carthage in this world at all. ”