This time, the Romans had at least done enough to deal with the known danger, and when they passed within range of Great Qin's Qin crossbow, heavy shields were erected.

Facts have proved that although the shield can't stop the soldiers from being shot by the Qin crossbow one by one, at least there will be no previous situation of wearing sugar gourds, which makes the Roman consuls who are still supervising the battle in the back feel a little relieved, after all, such a situation of several arrows is too big a blow to morale, he needs to progress, and this is exactly the progress he wants.

The range of the Qin crossbow has a range, indeed, as long as the Romans enter within a certain distance from the city wall, the Qin crossbow is difficult to play a role, but the Roman soldiers are more cautious after passing through the Qin crossbow, because they know that the Qin crossbow is still their known means of attack, but what they will face later, is not something they can predict, although none of them think that they can break through the city gate for the first attack, but it is better than anything else to be able to go back alive.

According to the arrangement of the Roman consuls, these horses did not attack directly here until all were lost, but would withdraw after three or four hours and replace them with other teams, so as to achieve an uninterrupted attack on the city.

The advantage of this was obvious, as it would allow the elite of the Romans not to lose confidence that they were participating in a siege that they knew they could not do.

After seeing that the arrows above their heads gradually disappeared, this group of Roman cavalry hurriedly reorganized their formation, and they guarded the siege equipment in the middle of the team, even if the people transporting the siege equipment lost their combat effectiveness because of the arrows, the companions around them were able to quickly go up, so that after walking through the rain of arrows, their engineering equipment was not damaged at all.

These details have been rushed to the head of the city above Meng Tian is in his eyes, he knows that the opponent he faces this time is very difficult, and he also knows that every wave of new Romans who come to attack the city will be more difficult to deal with, he still has a lot of hole cards in his hand, but if the hole cards do not come out, it can not be called a hole card, so Meng Tian knows that he still has to do his best to kill the Romans under the city, otherwise once the city gate is finally breached, The Romans would have known the fatal weakness of the city's inadequacy of the defenses, and it would not have been a matter of the Seleucians alone.

Thinking of this, Meng Tian looked at the rows of small trebuchets parked at the head of the city.

The trebuchets were being placed at an eerie angle, and a closer look revealed that once the trebuchets fired the stones, they were thrown high into the air and landed very close to the walls.

This kind of design was originally conceived by Zhang Kai, not only here, but everywhere as long as it involves the defense of the city, it can be applied.

These trebuchets placed here are the same as Qin crossbows, they all belong to the heavy weapons that only exist in Great Qin, originally the placement of trebuchets does not need to be so troublesome, and the distance of the trebuchet will overlap with Qin crossbows if they are placed normally, so Zhang Kai came up with such a way to get the best of both worlds.

For Daqin, this was indeed a good idea, but for the Romans, it was not so beautiful, and when they came closer to the city gate, there were only some stones falling from the city wall.

Originally, they thought that the Great Qin people only had these abilities, and the Qin crossbow was their only reliance, as long as they could support their siege equipment and start to attack the city gate, then the seemingly very strong city gate would not be able to withstand many impacts, and it would definitely be broken by them.

But this idea did not last long, just when the Roman warriors were all focused on tinkering with their siege engines, suddenly, many of the soldiers found that the stones that had fallen from their sides were very large, and when they looked back, they found that dense round boulders were rolling down on their side, and many of their companions had already died under the stones.

What's even more terrifying is that these stones are round, and they will not honestly stay in place after they land, but will roll on the ground indiscriminately, which not only caused damage to the Roman soldiers again, but also caused a very large loss to the siege equipment.

It was another perfect time to loosen and then tighten, and it was a time to capture the old man, and the siege equipment that the Romans were proud of still failed to play its due role, and under the role of trebuchets, even the elite of Rome suffered heavy losses this time.

After using a wave of trebuchets, Meng Tian saw that the Romans' siege equipment had been smashed, so he stopped throwing trebuchets and continued to throw stones manually to make the Romans uncomfortable.

Thus, after only two hours, the Romans retreated, believing that all the siege equipment had been destroyed.

If the first time it was deliberately done by the Roman consuls, then the second time is that the real Romans wanted to show their true strength but did not show it.

The Roman consul had to suspend his thoughts and return to the camp to discuss the next attack.

In fact, what the most unexpected thing about the Roman consuls in the two defeats was that Da Qin used a large number of weapons in this battle, from the giant Qin crossbow to the trebuchet, which the Romans had never seen before, and the power was far from what he had expected.

They were now able to accurately hit siege engines such as rushing carts approaching the city gates, telling the Romans from another angle that their previous tactics were completely unworkable.

"If we attack with such a position tomorrow, I'm afraid the result will be the same as today, and I don't know when I want to break through the Seleu gate."

The Roman consul sighed deeply in front of his generals and said such a sentence, apparently once again admitting the failure of this plan today.

But he did not discourage the generals below, but inspired the enthusiasm of many generals, after all, even if Daqin had such and such siege equipment, but they never dared to go out of the city to fight with the Romans, which made the Roman warriors occupy a lot of advantages in their hearts from beginning to end.

The Roman generals proposed many new methods of attack, and some even asked Ying to be the vanguard of the next attack, but all of these suggestions they said did not make the Roman consuls very satisfied.

In the end, he still looked at Zhao Hu, who had not spoken, because of his previous miscalculation of Qin's crossbow, Zhao Hu realized that Daqin must have researched more weapons over the years, and some of them were definitely not what he could imagine.

"You are the only one who understands Great Qin, tell me, at this point, how should we use the men and horses in our hands?"

At this level, it is not a question of whether Zhao Hu wants to say it or not, he has to stand up and say something, otherwise the Romans will think that this guy is really not my race, and his heart will be different, and he doesn't want to really help us attack Daqin at all.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Hu stood up, looked at the battle intent in the eyes of the Roman soldiers, and said loudly: "The craftsmen of Daqin are indeed very ingenious, they can create giant Qin crossbows and trebuchets, but they do not have this kind of fighting intent in the hearts of our Roman warriors, although now the hole cards of the Daqin people still do not seem to be exhausted, but we can no longer attack them in order to spy on their hole cards, we must use our way to let the Daqin people know our true strength." ”

Speaking of this, basically the eyes of all the Roman generals present were focused on Zhao Hu's body, obviously Zhao Hu's words had a following, after he finished speaking, he cleared his throat and started the real dry goods.

"Although Daqin has three cities, but I don't believe that they will have three main generals, since we can't easily break the three Seleu cities one by one, we can attack these three cities together, each city sends 20,000 soldiers, a battle can force out all the cards of Daqin, and in the previous battle we have always wanted to directly break through the Seleucian gate, which is very difficult under the close cooperation of Daqin's various city defense equipment, if we really want to break through the Seleucian gate, we must let the enemy know our determination, Not only the city gates, but also the city walls should be one of our goals, so that it is possible to break through the city. ”

After Zhao Hu's words, the Roman consuls and the generals under him looked at each other, Zhao Hu's proposal was indeed very bold, but for them, this can be regarded as a fierce medicine, and it was a cautious test before, but the effect was not good.

Everyone thought of this layer, and they all nodded slightly at his proposal, obviously looking forward to the scene of attacking three cities at the same time.

But at the same time, 60,000 elite soldiers were dispatched, although the number of troops brought by the Romans this time was very sufficient, but it had to be said that it was a very risky decision, in case all these 60,000 people were taken by the Great Qin soldiers, the rest of the people would not have any morale at all.

But the dictionary of the Romans is full of self-confidence and arrogance, but they are not very afraid of this word, since someone dares to bring it up, but if they think it is right, they dare to do it.

After thinking quietly for a while, the Roman consul slapped the table in front of him with a cloud of smoke, as if he was going to smash the defenders of Great Qin.

"Okay, tonight is a good night's rest, tomorrow the three armies will attack these three cities together, I want to see, how many fierce generals can be in the city in Daqin, and tomorrow we will put the ladder into battle, we can't let Daqin's soldiers shoot at ease on the city wall, but whenever there is a little opportunity, we must also fight for their city wall to destroy their bows and crossbows and trebuchets, once any warrior can successfully climb the city wall of Daqin, regardless of the final life and death, His family will become the nobility of my Rome! ”

This is the benefit of power, when there was a Roman Senate before, it was absolutely impossible for him to dare to say such a thing before the army, but now it is different, now the whole of Rome is in his own hands, he said that whoever is a nobleman, who can become a nobleman, this is undoubtedly a great stimulus for the Roman soldiers, these Roman generals have almost seen the next day in the war Roman soldiers desperately climbed the Seleucid wall, indeed, As long as a Roman warrior climbed the walls of Seleuc under such circumstances, the impact on the hearts of the defenders of Great Qin would be devastating.

After deciding on this matter, all the generals of Rome forgot about these two defeats and went to mobilize their soldiers one by one.

And in the city of Daqin, Meng Tian and Yinggao of course did not become complacent because of this time to repel the Roman army, after the Romans retreated, Meng Tian sent people out of the city as soon as possible, the purpose is to dispose of the corpses that are too close to the city to avoid epidemics, and the other is to pick up those intact arrows and round stones for trebuchets, these things are precious to them, although the reserves in the city are still very sufficient for the time being, but Meng Tian knows that he has to prepare for the future, You can't just sit back and eat empty.

After doing these things, Meng Tian called Ji Bu and came to the city where Yinggao was located.

"Today has given Rome another blow to the head, why is there no trace of victory on your faces?" Ying Gaoyi saw the two of them with a little sad faces, and asked with a smile.

"My Great Qin is on the defensive this time, if we don't wait for the news of General Han Xin to come, even if we can't win, even if we hold dozens of attacks by the enemy, we can only say that the war is not over yet, and the enemy army has not rashly continued to attack after these two defeats, which shows that they are digesting the hole cards of our army, if we finally use up our hole cards, I am afraid that we can only fight a war of attrition with them."

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