Chapter 659: White-Knuckle Battle

Time passed little by little, and the defenders found that the number of enemies who could rush to the city was already a little more and more, but whenever they were about to be killed by the enemy who suddenly rushed up, there was always a companion who arrived in time to cut down the enemy who rushed to the city.

This is no one else, but one hundred of the two hundred guards under Yinggao's command were forcibly ordered by Yinggao to go up to the city wall to help defend the city, and their main task is to guard the ladder that has been set up by the enemy at the head of the city, and kill the enemy who suddenly rushed to the city wall in time.

Although according to the prediction of the guards under Yinggao's command, if they don't go, the defenders should be able to hold out for as many as two hours, but after these two hours, the defenders who can survive are estimated to be 1,800 people, Yinggao will certainly not allow this to happen, although he can't take care of the other two cities for the time being, but in the end, these sergeants are working for him, if he can't help them properly, Yinggao's own heart will not be able to pass.

At the same time, Meng Tian and Ji Bu and others took their soldiers out of the city from the back doors of the three cities, and then met in the open space behind the city, and no one found them by the night, although according to Meng Tian's previous deployment, the vanguard was Macedonian, but Meng Tian still decided to personally lead and command them, while Ji Bu took the remaining Huns and Daqin cavalry to observe in the dark, and decided when to send troops according to the situation of the vanguard.

"General, after this attack, the Roman consuls who are watching the battle in the rear will definitely lead the rest of the Roman cavalry to attack, you must be careful, the Roman generals, it is said that there are still some very powerful characters, and I heard that Zhao Hu who defected to the Romans is also very powerful, the general must not fight alone!"

At the last moment when Meng Tian led the army to set off, Ji Bu asked, because according to the age of this era, Meng Tian obviously belongs to the veteran, and he is a very old kind of veteran, and Zhao Hu is a person with a very strong ability to fight alone, he has no merit under the command of the Roman consul, of course, he will want to kill Meng Tian, the famous general of Daqin, on the battlefield.

After Meng Tian listened to Ji Bu's words, he nodded heavily, of course he knew that he would definitely not be the opponent of Zhao Hu who was fighting alone, and they were completely unprepared this time, he was no longer a hot-blooded young man, and Meng Tian would definitely be able to grasp it very clearly on the battlefield.

At this time, on the walls of the three cities, the defenders of Daqin knew that the two hours that Meng Tian said when he left were almost up, and the city in the middle was not so much pressure because of the hundred ghost-like masters sent out by Yinggao, but the defenders on the two cities on both sides knew that they were about to be unable to hold on.

Suddenly, a circle of torches that looked small from the city appeared on both sides of the city, but the eyes of the defenders all lit up, because they knew that the faint torches were Meng Tian's signal, and Meng Tian's team finally appeared, and their appearance meant that the battle on the city wall should be over.

After the defenders who were still sticking to the city wall saw this scene, they all threw down their crossbows or other equipment, picked up the weapons around them, and went to kill the Romans who had rushed to the city or were about to rush to the city.

The Romans were attacking Huan, and suddenly found that the defenders on the city suddenly had no arrows down, and their first reaction was, of course, that the defenders had finally run out of ammunition and food, and their victory was finally coming, but after calming down, they found that if the arrows were gone, there should be a weakening process, not so suddenly.

"Could it be that the enemy has a plan?"

The tactical literacy of the Roman generals is still very high, but how can Meng Tian give them a chance to think, the men and horses in the three cities gathered together, and the Romans outside the middle city have been surrounded from both sides, and then, with Meng Tian's order, the Macedonian cavalry, which is almost inseparable from the Romans, suddenly burst out and rushed into the Romans' position, almost killing people on sight.

The Roman generals who attacked the middle city reacted at this time, and this was not that they had reached the point of running out of ammunition and food, but that they had used a strategy.

"Quickly go and inform the consuls and the soldiers on both sides, come to support quickly, and don't let the Great Qin people defeat us individually!"

The first time he saw the situation he was facing, the Roman generals issued such an order, this order was obviously correct, but it was precisely because he was correct that Meng Tian also knew in advance, although it was a little difficult to prevent in the dark night, but Meng Tian had already given an order, but if the Romans wanted to run out to report the news, they must do their best to stop and kill them, otherwise the little victory they racked their brains to get would all be in vain.

Under such circumstances, the Roman army in the middle of the city was attacked by the Macedonians led by Meng Tian and the Great Qin cavalry who rushed out of the city, and the people sent by this general to report the news were also intercepted and killed by the Great Qin soldiers one by one.

It took a long time for the Roman consuls to learn of the chaos ahead through the scouts.

"What? The Great Qin people have come out? Hurry to the rescue! Now that they have been killed, it is very likely that they are already unable to resist our attack, if we can kill all these defenders of Great Qin outside the city, we will be able to capture Seleucus tonight! ”

After hearing the news, although the Roman consul flashed a trace of panic in his eyes, the words he said were still very inflammatory, and after listening to his words, the tens of thousands of people who were resting behind him were dressed up and rushed to the city in the middle.

At this time, Jibu finally knew that what Meng Tian said before setting off was very correct, the Romans would not flee because they were attacked by surprise, it would be a very tragic white-knuckle battle, just before this Seleu barrier, the final victory was the Seleucian master.

Ji Bu's task was to lead tens of thousands of Hun cavalry behind him to block the enemy's rescue when the armies of other parts of Rome wanted to come to the front of the city, and buy time for the Macedonians led by Meng Tian and the Great Qin people who rushed out of the city to first destroy the part of the men and horses who were already under siege before they were already a little exhausted.

Ji Bu always thought that the Huns under his command should be the best at white-knuckle combat on horses, because the Huns were not good at defending the city, so Meng Tian did not force the Hun warriors to play too much role in the process of defending the city, and now, when it was time for them to play a role, they must be able to resist the attack of the men and horses that may be brought by the Roman consul himself.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Roman army that had been resting for a long time before it came straight to this city, and Jibu was naturally waiting for this moment, he took his men and horses, and went straight to the Roman consul's men and horses with a scimitar in hand.

The men and horses in front of the three cities, the people and horses from the city, the men and horses carried by Meng Tian, the people and horses carried by Ji Bu, plus the people and horses brought by the Roman consul, several groups of people and horses fought together in the dark night sky, and there was more than one battlefield, everyone had already gone through this month's offensive and defensive battles, and their mental and physical strength were about to collapse and come back to such a moment, it was really time to test the quality of will.

Yinggao stood on the city wall in the middle, looking at the two groups of people fighting in one place by the light of the fire and moonlight under the city, Yinggao did not have any expression on his face, but Tian Yan, who was closely protecting Yinggao's side, knew that Yinggao's heart was beating faster at this moment than when it was time, and this battle was too important for Yinggao.

Although Tian Yan did not experience his previous glory with Yinggao, there is one thing that Tian Yan knows, that is, in the battles that Yinggao commanded and participated, there was definitely no very big damage, but this time it was different, this time it was inevitable to have a lot of losses, although less than 50,000 of the more than 100,000 horses left to defend the city were Daqin's cavalry, but after all, these were all losses under Yinggao's nose, and Yinggao could not ignore them.

In fact, at this time, Yinggao knew that he might have really overestimated his own strategy, he originally thought that Han Xin would come back at this time, even if he didn't come back, the news would be transmitted to the ears of the Roman consuls, but at this time, neither of these things happened, the Romans were still sitting in the last effort to drive the Great Qin people back to their territory after they were able to break through the Seleucian gates, obviously the Romans were convinced that as long as they could defeat this group of men, The entire Seleucid and Mauryan Empire will be all the way to Pingchuan.

Although the Roman consuls had not expected these defenders to be so resilient before, nor did they expect them to go out of the city to meet the enemy at such a time, the more these things that he could not imagine, the more he could believe that this was just a return to the light of the defenders.

And in the territory of Macedonia, the Romans also left some troops, which was also a relatively large reliance on the Roman consuls, even if he suffered heavy losses, he could also mobilize tens of thousands of elite soldiers after the war, which was enough to deal with the affairs of the Seleus, although from the normal situation it is a bit inappropriate to lose so many men and horses just for one Seleus, but if the main force of Daqin has to be killed at the same time, then this matter is very worthwhile.

After a few hours, the white-knuckle battle turned into a red-knuckle battle, and at the beginning, the generals on both sides were still relatively restrained, and did not enter the battle formation, but just observed the situation faced by their side from the outside.

But after fighting for a while, they finally found that there were no more combat methods and tactics in this battle, and the soldiers were almost all red-eyed, and they didn't know what faith in their hearts was supporting them to rush towards the enemy in front of them little by little.

In the end, the Roman generals and Meng Tian, Ji Bu and others also joined the war, and there was no other sound for miles except for shouting and killing.

It is not that there are no people who did not participate in the war, and of course they are Yinggao who stands on the top of the city and observes, and the Roman consul who stands in the distance and observes.

Of course, the Roman consul didn't know that Yinggao was standing at the head of the city at this time and watching the battle in front of him, he looked at those fierce Daqin warriors who were not afraid of death, and his heart was still quite irritable, he didn't know why the emperors of Daqin had already run back to the realm of Daqin, and these people were still here to give him their lives, but the matter had come to this, although he also knew that he was a bit of a dilemma, but if he withdrew now, all the people he lost would be lost, although there was no Senate now, But those aristocrats don't know what to say about themselves behind their backs.

"This time we must take Seleu down!"

The Roman consul glanced at the battlefield in front of him with his eyes, because the previous reports let him know that at least he still has a certain advantage in terms of troops, even if he can't leave many soldiers left after killing the defenders here, he still has to do this, because wars between the strong need to shed blood.

"Your Majesty, since the Romans have not been able to break through these three cities at such a cost, why don't they retreat now, they have now occupied the main cities of Macedonia, are they not satisfied?"

Tian Yan followed Yinggao on the city wall for several hours, and the news continued to be passed on, so that Tian Yan once again realized how cruel war was, and she couldn't help but feel a little unable to understand the way the Romans behaved, and asked Yinggao.

"It's not a question of whether the Romans are satisfied or not, but if they want to be stable in this world, they can't have Great Qin, and if Great Qin wants to be stable in this world, there can't be Rome, and I and the Roman consuls probably understand this truth, if not, I will give this Seleu to the Romans, and none of the soldiers under my command will have to die, so why don't I do it?"

Although Yinggao's words were a bit euphemistic, Tian Yan heard a cruel truth in them, that is, Yinggao was actually the same as the Roman consul in this regard.