Beloea was a free-man city-state that thrived on commerce. Bookmark this site┏┛

During the few days when I traveled west to live here the year before last, the scenery and folk customs of the city-state left us with very good memories.

Not only did he sell all the silk he brought from the East, but he also got acquainted with Lin Jinxiang's righteous brother in Nan'an County of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

So I was very nervous when I thought that the revolt army commanded by me and King Ronier of Cézanne would bring ruin to this city-state.

On the eve of the siege of the city, after consulting with Ronier and other generals, we sent a number of spies to infiltrate the city disguised as merchants, and posted notices of the rebels to calm the people, so as to stabilize people's hearts.

The general content is that this uprising is only to rebel against the evil government of the Roman aristocracy, and after receiving the city-state in the future, regardless of the origin of citizens, merchants, and races, it will not be committed, and half of the taxes will be exempted.

In addition, we sent messengers to Sassanid Persia, the Duchy of Armenia, and other neighboring countries asking for peace and help.

These kingdoms have been oppressed by the Roman Empire, and now there are people who have risen up to help them clean up this mortal enemy, and of course they are willing to help our army.

We need to take Berroea with lightning speed before the Eastern Roman legions gathered in the city-state of Antioch get the news, and the time is extremely short.

Therefore, on the second day of the meeting of the infantry and cavalry corps, Ronier issued the order to attack Beroeia.

Light cavalry and heavy infantry worked together to take down eleven fortresses around the city-state, pocketing the largest purse in the Eastern Roman Empire's Syrian province in a single day.

Our total strength is now nearly 20,000 horses, the size of three Roman legions.

Among them were the Semitic tribesmen led by Captain Salander's father, the elder Chief Salander, and some outcasts received by the infantry regiment on its way north.

The Romans would never have dreamed that we, a rabble of slaves and outcasts, would be able to march north and conquer the city of Belroea in just half a month.

Of course, it would not have occurred that among the ranks of the uprising, there were still a few of us merchants from the Far East.

Ming repairs the plank road to the darkness of Chen Cang, hides the sky and crosses the sea, surrounds Wei to save Zhao, and the empty city plan and so on.

They are all classic examples of the soldiers of the Eastern Han Kingdom who were strategizing and winning thousands of miles away.

Therefore, as far as the blade of our forward rider goes, the defenders of the Walled Fortress of the city-state of Belroea are vulnerable.

The hoplite regiment that followed basically did not encounter major obstacles, cleaning up the trophies, receiving the city defenses, and changing the flags, in an orderly manner.

As the commander of the cavalry corps, I and the three lieutenant generals Qin Chong, Liu Zhen'er, and Shamihan led various horse teams quickly joined forces, and against the garrison corps temporarily organized by the governor of Berroea and the Roman general defending the city, we launched a dark battle in the desert outside the city.

Although it was a temporary legion, its soldiers were composed of freemen, knights, and cultists loyal to the Eastern Roman Empire, so the individual soldiers were extremely capable of fighting.

The advantage of the cavalry corps lies in the long-distance run, the jockey on the horse.

In the face of the enemy's infantry long shield spear forest siege of the defensive position, I successively sent several centaurs to rush forward to meet the battle, but they were defeated, and suffered heavy casualties.

Although the fierce general Qin Chong rushed out of a hole and led more than a dozen knights to kill it, he was almost beaten by the opponent and suffocated in the formation.

"Young master, our cavalry can't be killed! Just dismount them all! The humble position can be used as ten, and kill him without leaving a piece of armor! ”

Qin Chong, who was led by Liu Zhen'er and Sha Mihan to fight his way out of the encirclement, shouted loudly in anger.

"The hoplites of Bourne and Salander are coming up! Let them take the lead! When the enemy's position is out of order, I'll rush forward later! ”

Looking at the Romans' three-layered, impenetrable arc-shaped shield formation from a distance, our light cavalry rushed to kill without the cooperation of the infantry, which would only increase unnecessary casualties.

So I ordered Qin Chong to immediately mount his horse and return to the team, and the entire cavalry corps also changed from the original charging formation to a defensive formation.

As he spoke, the javelin arrows on the enemy's side flew like locusts in the sky with a sharp whistling.

After the rain of arrows, the Roman infantry legions, which had been on the defensive, began to spread out like a large net, not knowing whether it was a lure for the enemy to penetrate or a prelude to a charge.

But for our department, which originally had nowhere to bite the hedgehog, it was a fleeting opportunity.

The infantry corps commanded by the three generals of Bourne, Hami, and Salander in the rear has also arrived in front of the formation, and the time for the decisive battle has arrived!

The signal soldiers issued a banner to attack with all their might, and I held high the Persian long sword, and led the three lieutenants Qin Chong, Sha Mihan, and Liu Zhen'er, as well as a team of 500 cavalry forwards, to rush into the enemy formation like an iron stream.

The remaining 20 or so centaurs, led by their respective captains, rushed into different gaps.

Before the gap in front of the enemy could be resealed, it had already come into close contact with our infantry corps, and the originally impregnable Roman battle formation collapsed, and the shouts of soldiers on both sides were earth-shattering.

Although the total number of troops in this temporary garrison corps of the city-state of Belroea is less than 10,000, its ability to kill a single soldier is far superior to that of our division.

Seeing two or three of our infantry sergeants surround each other, only to be cut down in the end, I suddenly turned red-eyed.

Originally, relying on the superiority of three to one, we thought that there would be no suspense in the victory of our division in this legion battle.

But with today's landscape, it is really difficult to predict what the final outcome will be.

The opponent is not only strong in infantry, but also in light armor cavalry, all outlaws who are not afraid of life and death.

In the process of slashing and slashing on horseback, every enemy knight I encountered fought hard to the death.

Even if I cut off an arm, I will tenaciously use the remaining flesh and blood to fight against me to the last breath, and the sacrifice is so heroic that people can't bear to look at it directly.

After slashing and killing four or five knights of the enemy, I couldn't kill them anymore, and my heart was filled with a deep sense of guilt.

Perhaps in the eyes of these Roman soldiers, we were savage invaders, and they were fighting with their lives to defend their homeland.

But the two armies must not be merciful when they come forward, and the cowardly have no way to live.

At the moment of my slightest cowardly hesitation, the sword of the Roman knight on the opposite side pierced my left arm, blood gushed out, and the pain in my heart almost made me fall off my horse.

The enemy soldiers had already seen my identity, and in an instant hundreds of infantry soldiers gathered to surround me.

The thief captures the king first, and the Roman legions, which are already at a disadvantage, try in vain to capture me, the enemy master, and change the situation of the battlefield in the future.

And I only have a dozen hoplites by my side, but fortunately, the three brothers Qin Chong, Sha Mihan, and Liu Zhen'er are still on my side.

Qin Chong hurriedly helped me bandage my wounds, and the enemy Roman soldiers had already killed us like trapped beasts, and the infantry soldiers were slashed and fell to the ground one after another.

"Kill! Brothers, kill! ”

The only pity in my heart was replaced by an angry murderous aura, and I turned my horse's head and swung my sword to charge away at the enemy's line, and the two Roman knights who met me with my sword were instantly killed by me.

The form of the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the Roman sergeants who outflanked us just now have been counter-surrounded by hundreds of cavalry divisions of our army.

After a single charge inside and out, the last effective attack organized by the Roman legions was invisible, and only two knights were left in the circle in their dying struggles.

But seeing these two Roman warriors standing on their horses with their swords on their backs, they had no fear, and the soft armor on their bodies was already bloodstained, which had the style of Jing Ke, a swordsman in the Yandi of Middle Earth in the past.

"Young master! What to do? These two! ”

Perhaps impressed by the Roman knight's spirit of forgetting life and death, Qin Chong patted his horse and came to me.

It's not so much an inquiry, but a plea for them, which is very heroic, begging me to spare them.

"Kill!"

Before I could speak, General Bourne, who was beside me, had already issued an order to kill.

The long marks and arrows of the infantry battle array flew together, and the two Roman knights galloped towards us with a rain of locust-like arrows, and soon the bodies of men and horses were pierced like hedgehogs.

The warrior fell from his horse and died, while the war horse fell heavily on Yin Hong's blood after gently sniffing his master's breath.

If there really is God, there is heaven as described in the Christian teachings of the Romans, these strong men who sacrificed their lives for righteousness should already be on their way to heaven.

The battle between the two armies had come to an end at this time, and some sporadic remnants of the enemy were still resisting stubbornly, and were surrounded and killed by our sergeants one by one.

After the battle, we found that the Roman garrison of Beroeia, which numbered more than 7,000 people, did not surrender or abscond, and all of them died heroically in the face of swords.

Although our department won, it was also a tragic victory, paying the price of more than 10,000 people.

If the two sides were evenly matched, we would probably have been left in the wilderness by now.

Rivers of blood, neighing horses, gloomy clouds, and helpless wails of wounded soldiers.

Riding a horse to a high place and looking around the entire battlefield, it is a suffering hell, and the initiator is me!

A deep sense of guilt came over me mercilessly, and every time I made a mistake in the past, I could pray a few words of "Amitabha" and ask for the Buddha's forgiveness.

Now, in the face of these tens of thousands of dead souls who died in battle, I don't even dare to do such a prayer, for fear of blaspheming the mercy of the gods and Buddhas.

There seemed to be countless voices in my head that were attacking me, "Yi Jincheng! Go to hell! "Yi Jincheng! Go to hell! ”。

The aftermath lingered, as if it came from the earth, and as if it came from outside the sky, far or near, high or low, which made me have a splitting headache.

The battlefield was cleared, and the bodies of all the victims were buried on the spot.

The priests and priests from the Christian church in the city-state of Beloea, who were willing to take in and treat the wounded who were missing arms and legs, made me feel a little more at ease.

Otherwise, according to Ronier's military order, all the wounded and captured Roman soldiers were buried alive, regardless of their severity, to avenge the more than 10,000 soldiers who died in battle.

The army regrouped, and the captured booty filled several hundred wagons.

The leaders of the Civic Council and the Merchants' Guild of the city-state of Berroea left the city one after another, trembling like a herd of lambs to the slaughter.

Ronier, king of Cézanne, presented the seal and scepter of the governor of the city-state, plus one hundred and ten stunning Roman beauties, ten taels of gold, and a thousand quintals of wheat.

Cattle, sheep, cloth, grapes and wine, there are too many to count, it can be said that the whole city is the power of the whole city to reward my teacher.

The only wish of these citizen representatives is to beg us not to slaughter the city and to give a way out of life for the more than 100,000 Lebanese people in the city.

All the tributes, Ronier took them in full.

Especially for those Roman beauties who were beautiful in the country, Ronier generously allowed me to choose twenty of them, and the rest were all assigned to the six lieutenants and lieutenants.

The law of the jungle eats the strong, and the king is defeated!

At such a moment of victory with a toast and celebration, even Qin Chong and Liu Zhen'er were carried away by the beauty and power, and just the faint protest between me and Shamihan had no effect.