Zhang Yan quietly sent Vologis VI out of Mulu City and sent someone to escort him to Malakanda, the capital of the Sogdian Governor's Palace, where Fa Zheng was waiting.

Artaban IV did not know that Vologis had been transferred, he thought that his brother was in Mulu City, and the Han army openly protected Vologis and did not take himself in the slightest.

As the new ruler of the Resting Empire, he fought all the way, and the successive victories made him dizzy.

He thought that he had the powerful Roman Empire as his backing, so he could ignore the warnings of the Great Han, and he really sent troops to attack Mulu City.

There is only one division of the Fourth Division of the Haotian Army in Mulu City, but the mortar battalion and field artillery battalion are fully equipped.

In the face of the attack of the Anxi rebels, the Han soldiers were fearless, and they did not look down on the Anxi.

The Sabbatarians also had a small number of artillery, a dozen mortars, which were captured by Vologis VI, and several artillery pieces of their own.

This artillery was not as much artillery as the two artillery battalions of the Fourth Division, and after a confrontation, it was wiped out by the artillery of the Han army.

However, the rebels were numerous, and more than 100,000 people attacked the city day and night, causing heavy casualties to the Han army, and the ammunition was quickly run out.

When the elite Roman legions also joined the siege sequence, Zhang Yan finally couldn't hold on, and he led his subordinates to break through to the east to find reinforcements.

The hoplites of the Roman legions, dressed in slatted armor and armed with large rectangular shields, lined up in a neat line, which could effectively withstand bullet fire, and only cannonballs and grenades could effectively kill them.

Moreover, the Romans were very disciplined and trained in such a professional manner that even if one of them was wounded and fell, it would not cause a commotion, but would quickly be topped by the people in the back row, and always maintain a neat formation.

When Zhang Yan broke through the siege, many Han soldiers could not carry the light and serious wounded, and were captured by the rest people, but the rest people did not treat the prisoners as well as the Han army.

They even slaughtered and abused prisoners, and many of the wounded of the Han army carried a grenade, commonly known as "glorious bullets".

It is those who remain in the most dangerous moments, and die with the enemy, and many people have sounded their own bullets of glory, and they are glorified with the resters and Romans around them.

The explosions continued to sound, making Zhang Yan, who had finally stood out from the encirclement, burst into tears, so many good brothers were sacrificed like this, he must avenge them, rest in peace, Romans, you wait and see.

Zhang Yan broke through all the way to the east, and soon returned to the city of Maracanda, met Fazheng, and reported what happened to him.

Fa Zheng actually knew Zhang Yan's difficult situation through Vologis VI, and was mobilizing the Han army, but he didn't expect Zhang Yan to be defeated so soon.

Through Zhang Yan's description, we also know that the heroic fate of those captured Han soldiers is more than 1,000 people!

If it weren't for the fact that the breakthrough couldn't take them with him, when did the Han army abandon their comrades?

Although Fa Zheng is now the Minister of Foreign Affairs, he also came out of the army, and he is still a soldier of the Han Dynasty in his bones, and the style of the state army and the central army is deeply engraved in his bones.

He immediately ordered the Han army in Central Asia and the Western Regions, as well as the allied forces of the Western Regions and Central Asia, to assemble at the city of Maracanda as quickly as possible, and he wanted to teach these damned Sabbaths and Romans a lesson himself.

Fa Zheng has a special dual identity, even though he is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Deputy Chief of General Staff of the National Defense Forces, so although he has resigned from the post of protector of the Western Regions, in fact he is still the highest military commander of the Han Army in the Western Regions and Central Asian Theater.

The fourth division of the Haotian Army broke through from Mulu with less than 5,000 people, and the others either committed suicide and martyrdom after being captured or died on the battlefield.

Both artillery battalions were destroyed in Mulu City, and some of the personnel broke through, and the artillery blew itself up at the last moment.

In October 212, Fa Zheng led the first and second divisions of the Haotian Army, the first garrison division of the Western Regions, the first infantry division of the National Defense Army, and the first cavalry division of the Haotian Army, which were the first to complete the assembly, leaving the city of Maracanda and marching towards Anxi.

The first battle after leaving the division was to regain Mulu City, where Artaban IV left 10,000 defenders.

After capturing Mulu City, he did not dare to continue to invade the Sogdian Governorate, but returned to Ctesiphon to suppress the opposition in the country.

The Romans also continued to help him clear the country of dissent, anyway, it was the Sabbaths who were killed, and the cities that were destroyed were also rested, so why didn't the Romans do it?

The Han army was non-stop, and as soon as they arrived at Mulu City, they began to attack the city, and the artillery battalions of several divisions carried out artillery preparations for half an hour, and the walls of Mulu City were blown into a mess.

This time the siege was hasty, and no trenches were dug in the siege this time, but with the help of powerful artillery cover, directly set up ladders to attack the city.

The resting defenders at the head of the city did not have a chance to rush to the head of the city and defend until the ladder reached the head of the city and the artillery cover stopped.

The rest army defending Mulu City can also be regarded as the elite of Ardaban IV, and the defender is also his henchman, and his will to defend is relatively resolute, and he is not intimidated by the bombardment of the Han army.

The use of muskets and grenades on the city wall caused a lot of trouble to the Han army, but there were many Han soldiers, and the three walls attacked at the same time.

In less than two hours, the eastern city wall was occupied by the Han army, the east gate was wide open, and the Han army poured into the city.

The Han army summed up the experience of many previous street battles, and directly carried out blasting assaults when the attack was blocked, and there were no machine guns and pillboxes in this era, so the lethality of explosives was the most powerful.

The courtyard held by the rest people was directly flattened by explosives, and the Han army completely relied on the advantage of equipment to carry out a crushing attack, which also greatly reduced its own casualties.

Before dark, the Han army occupied the whole city, and the 10,000 troops defending the city were completely annihilated, and about 3,000 people were captured.

After interrogation, it was learned that after the Anxi army defeated Zhang Yan and occupied Mulu City, the bodies of the officers and soldiers who committed suicide and martyrdom of the Han army were collected and buried in a mass grave outside the city.

Many of the corpses were mutilated by the explosion of the grenade.

Fa Zheng sent troops, under the guidance of the resting people, to find this cemetery, and rearranged and counted the bodies of all the Han soldiers.

Each member of the Han army has an identity plate around his neck, recording his name, birthday, place of origin and soldier number, which is used to identify his identity and record military exploits after he dies in battle.

The Han Army's generous pension system is based on these metal nameplates to distribute.

The Han army now implements a universal military service system, and all men of school age, as long as they are not physically deficient, must be conscripted into the army.

According to the results of the assessment of cultural and physical fitness, they will be arranged to serve in different armies, and at the end of the three-year service period, they will be allowed to recover.