After landing on the island and observing for a while, these Carthaginian soldiers suddenly realized what kind of blessed land this place was! It was a desolate island, with no other creatures to be seen except for a few coconut trees, and all that could be seen was rocks and sand. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At this time, those barbarian mercenaries had been washed under the leadership of Obama, and the beard and hair that had been left in the old factory had also been shaved. In this way, Shi Jinshui looked much more pleasing to the eye, but then the problem came again, that is, the equipment of these barbarian mercenaries was all extremely poor, most of them only had a tattered light leather armor or cloth armor, and the weapons were also varied, not to mention the quality. This is all because the Romans did not pay attention to these guys and wanted them to be cannon fodder.

But Shi Jinshui can't do the same thing as those Romans, after all, he now has more than 1,000 horses under his hands, and he has no place to replenish when he dies. Therefore, not only could he not let these barbarian mercenaries die as cannon fodder in vain, but he had to arm them well and try his best to ensure their battlefield survivability. However, Shi Jinshui is now poor and white, and he has no extra armor and weapons to arm these barbarian mercenaries.

"Why don't all of these guys be pikemen!" After thinking about it for a long time, Shi Jinshui finally came up with such a solution. This decision he made was not to be imagined, first of all, all of these barbarian mercenaries were extremely strong, which was normal, after all, if you want to survive in a barbarian tribe with such a harsh living environment, you can't do without a good body. This ensures that after these guys become phalanx pikemen, the stability of this spear formation is guaranteed, and they will not be broken by the enemy. Secondly, most of these barbarian mercenaries were also spear and shield soldiers before, so it was not too difficult to change jobs. After becoming a phalanx pikeman, these barbarian mercenaries can use the super long spears in their hands to assassinate the enemy from afar, and try to avoid hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, so that the weakness of these guys' low armor defense can also be avoided to the greatest extent.

After coming up with such a good way to make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, Shi Jinshui hurriedly called Obama and asked him to lead those barbarian soldiers to find suitable wood to use to make guns. In his vision, the length of these super long spears should be at least five meters, so as to minimize the opportunity for the enemy to fight these barbarian soldiers in close combat.

On the other hand, the Carthaginians of Rowan and others were already preparing to burn cement. That's right, you read that right, it's cement! Shi Jinshui doesn't know what it was like in history, but in this game world, this thing has been invented by the Romans, although it is still extremely primitive, and the quality is far inferior to the current cement, but it was indeed invented by the Romans, the sworn enemies of the Carthaginians.

It was thanks to the great invention of cement that the Romans were able to build so many great buildings of their time. And now Rowan and them, the purpose of burning cement is naturally to build houses.

The subordinates all went to work, but Shi Jinshui, the boss, was idle, and at this time, an interesting soldier came out of nowhere, holding a coconut in his hand and handed it to him: "My lord, eat a coconut to quench your thirst!" ”

"Good! I'm still feeling a little thirsty! After Shi Jinshui took it with a smile, he pulled out the bronze short sword on his waist and slashed towards the coconut.

To his surprise, after a loud bang, Shi Jinshui not only failed to split the coconut, but instead broke the short sword that had been following him for several months.

"Damn! This coconut is too hard, right? After Shi Jinshui exclaimed, he picked up the coconut and looked at it carefully, and found that the full force he had just split only left a shallow white mark on the coconut.

While marveling at the hardness of this coconut, Shi Jinshui suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, thinking that since this coconut is so hard, I don't know if I can use it as armor?

He knew that in ancient China, there was a kind of composite armor, with a piece of wood in the middle, covered with a layer of leather, this composite armor not only weighed more than iron armor and bronze armor, but also had no low defensive power, at least it was no problem to resist the attacks of most bronze weapons.

This coconut also grows from a tree, and it can be considered wood, so it's not impossible to use it instead of wood chips! Thinking of this, Shi Jinshui hurriedly instructed the soldier who brought him coconuts beside him: "You take a few people and immediately find out all the coconut trees on the nearby islands and shores, and then put a square wooden frame on the outside of those coconuts that have not yet grown." ”

The little soldier was originally nervous because the coconut he sent broke the boss's weapon, and after hearing the other party's inexplicable order, the whole person was completely confused, but although he didn't know what his boss's order meant, but as a small soldier, he still didn't dare to disobey the other party's order, and immediately obediently took the order.

After the little soldier left, Shi Jinshui picked up his bronze short sword that was cut in two from the ground and looked at it, and couldn't help but feel a little sorry in his heart, he had used this sword for so long, and he had already used it easily, and if he suddenly changed it to other weapons, he might not even be able to exert seventy percent of his combat effectiveness. However, he also knew that bronze weapons would definitely be completely replaced by iron weapons in the end. Because in terms of the performance of weapons, iron weapons are superior to bronze weapons.

However, that was when the two were at the same level of casting, and the current situation is that in the time of B.C., only a few civilizations had mastered the technology of iron casting, and it was still the first kind of technology. The casting technology of bronze has been mastered by most civilizations in a few hundred years. If you go back to this era and compare a bronze weapon with an iron weapon, you will find that the quality of the bronze weapon that was forged with extremely mature technology is actually superior to that of an iron weapon.

Therefore, this is an era when iron weapons have not been taken seriously, and the common equipment of all countries is still bronze weapons. For this situation, although Shi Jinshui has the intention to change, but he didn't care when he studied before, and he was completely blind to how to improve the casting technology of iron weapons, so he had to use bronze weapons in general.

This time, he looked at his bronze short sword, which was cut in two, but he recalled in his mind another method that could improve the quality of iron weapons, which was the 100-steel-making technology invented by the ancient Chinese. This is a technique in which the iron is repeatedly forged to remove its magazines and increase its density and purity to make the weapon tougher and sharper.

This technology can make before there is no better casting technology, greatly improve the quality of iron weapons, its disadvantage is that it is both time-consuming and laborious, in order to create a high-quality weapon that can be called a hundred steel, this requires a skilled blacksmith, the iron embryo is repeatedly folded and forged dozens of times, which is much more difficult to manufacture than the bronze weapon that only needs to be heated and melted, and then put into the mold to be directly cast into shape. Perhaps by the time you've finally crafted a Hundred Steels, your opponent has already forged hundreds of bronze weapons.

However, even though this thing was so troublesome to build, Shi Jinshui still decided to let his subordinates start researching this technology. The reason is very simple, that is, he doesn't want to break down so easily the next time he wants to cut something with his weapon, which is really shameless.

When Shi Jinshui was still worried about his own face, the little soldier who went to put a wooden frame on the coconut according to his order was facing the constant questioning of his companions.

"Gus, you say! Why do we put these coconuts in these wooden frames? Is this really an order from an adult? ”

"That's right! This order is so strange that people who don't know it see it and think we're crazy! ”

Faced with the questioning of his companion, the little soldier racked his brains, and finally gave a self-righteous answer: "I think it may be that adults think that round coconuts will roll around, and it is inconvenient to eat, so we are asked to set these boxes and let these coconuts grow into squares!" ”

"Hmmm! It must be like this! Adults are adults, and the ideas are really different from those of us ordinary people. ”