Chapter 658: Darkness Before Dawn

Yinggao went to the city wall again during this time, and the purpose of his visit was to see what kind of situation the soldiers who were guarding the city for him, in other words, how long Yinggao could hold out on to the harvest equipment in his city, and he wanted to know whether these three-part warriors were prepared to fight the enemy without a numerical advantage.

"If you go out of the city to meet the enemy, how sure are you, the Huns are led by Jibu, who is the Macedonian? Once we are defeated after leaving the city, then we will lose the opportunity to retreat to the Mauryan Empire and then give the enemy a fatal blow, have these generals ever thought of it? ”

Ying Gao said this, obviously there is a door to this matter, Meng Tian came to the spirit at that time, of course he would think clearly about how his remaining less than 100,000 horses would deal with the Romans who were tens of thousands more than himself outside the city, otherwise he would not have said his own reason in Ying Gao's red mouth and white teeth.

"Your Majesty, it's hard to say that the Macedonians are fighting others, but if you let them fight the Romans, then there is no need to mobilize at all, they have a very deep hatred for the Romans, thinking that without the Romans, Philip V may have been the number one force in the world, so my plan is to let the Macedonians be the vanguard of this expedition out of the city, the battle of defending the city in the past few days has basically not allowed the Macedonians to participate, they are now full of energy, and they will be able to give the Roman cavalry a dismount when the time comes!"

Meng Tian said this, but it made Yinggao believe that he had indeed done his homework before coming, and even thought about arranging the troops, and now what he lacked might really be just Yinggao's nod.

"I never said that you were not allowed to go out of the city to fight the Romans, but I only have one request, that is, if you go out of the city, you must be at least fifty percent sure, so it seems that the general must have far exceeded fifty percent certainty, so I agreed, and I supervised the battle on the top of the city, and see how our three defenders beat the Roman cavalry again."

Before, Meng Tian felt as if he had a pot lid on his head, and he always felt overwhelmed, but at this moment, he finally felt that he was alive again.

"Although the king is relieved, he will stand at the head of the city at the king, if I don't fight this battle well, I don't have to be the general of Daqin anymore!"

After finishing speaking, Meng Tian strode in front of Yinggao, spread out a map on the table in front of Yinggao, and introduced his plan to Yinggao with his eyebrows.

Of course, Yinggao knew what Meng Tian's task was, although he was nominally a general guarding the Great Wall, but every time the Huns outside the Great Wall attacked, he led the army out of the city to kill the gang regardless of 3721, and even now, many Huns were still a little stunned when they saw Meng Tian, which shows how big the shadow he caused to the Huns back then.

After Meng Tian introduced Yinggao, he walked out happily in Yinggao's approval, he knew that the next day or two was also very important for him, although the strategy he and Yinggao proposed seemed to be very ingenious, but everything was based on the premise that the enemy did not know their plan, what he had to do now was to make the enemy not feel that they were about to run out of ammunition, only in this way, they would have a chance to make a blockbuster in the face of an enemy who was stronger than their own side.

This kind of tug-of-war is a waste of effort for the commanders of both sides, and the same is true of the Roman consuls, he always feels that the defenders of Daqin should run out of ammunition and food, but the news he got early in the morning is still very strong, he should shoot arrows, he should throw down stones, and occasionally a few Romans will kill the head of the city, and they will also kill the attacking enemies in an orderly manner, without any panic.

But one of the pieces of news made the Roman consuls a little calculating.

That is, among the defenders killed by them, there were both Macedonians and Huns, in fact, the Macedonians were understandable by the Roman consuls, because Philip V was not in Macedonia, and the Macedonian cities were very empty, and it was obvious that their forces were on the borders of Great Qin when he attacked.

But with the arrogance of Great Qin as Zhao Hu said, the Great Qin people still have to use the Huns to defend the city when they have so many troops, which is a bit less like the style of Great Qin.

As soon as he learned about this, the Roman consul found Zhao Hu, and after informing Zhao Hu of these things, he asked Zhao Hu what these things could represent with his understanding of Daqin.

Zhao Hu was originally a little bored because of the dullness of this war, but after listening to the archon's inquiry, he was a little excited at that time, he thought of a person, and thought that all this might be a surprise brought to him by this person.

The person Zhao Hu thought of was naturally Zhao Gang, and he even always thought that Zhao Gang had extraordinary ability, but he was suppressed by Zhao Gao, and Zhao Gang was a taciturn character, so he had not been seen by everyone.

Since Zhao Gang promised him to take Liu Bang's children to Pei County to rebel, and the Roman consul had also received the news that Ying Gao was very likely to be no longer in Seleuc, this means that what he asked Zhao Gang to do Zhao Gang has done successfully.

But in this case, if Zhao Gang can go further, then he will definitely let Yinggao go back with a lot of sergeants, such an anti-Qin thing, how much splash can be made, it all depends on Zhao Gang's ability, if Zhao Gang has the ability, it is also possible to reproduce Xiang Yu's original formation.

Under such circumstances, Zhao Hu seemed to see the emptiness in the Seleuc, since the Huns who were not good at defending the city had already been used by them, of course, it would not be too long before they broke through this city.

"In my opinion, we should increase the intensity of the attack, I think the Great Qin people will not be able to hold on for a few days, this time the emperor of Great Qin will definitely take away a lot of elite soldiers from this Seleuc, if we can take this opportunity to defeat the Seleuc, even if it is a further step, directly seize the Peacock Dynasty, and even threaten the territory of Great Qin!"

Zhao Hu's statement really coincided with what the Roman consul was thinking in his heart, so at that time, he ordered that he start to invest more troops to attack on this day, and used all the ladders he brought to kill the defenders in the city as much as possible.

Suddenly, the pressure on the defenders increased sharply, and Meng Tian naturally received the news as soon as possible, but this change did not make him feel uneasy, in his plan, the more troops the Romans invested to attack, the more likely his next plan would be successful.

Meng Tian's order was this, no matter how much strength and passion they used, they only needed to help him hold this place for another day, and after that, the city would no longer need them to defend it.

Rather than facing the enemy army who does not know when it will rush up and when the city will be breached, they would rather go out of the city and fight with the enemy with real swords and guns, even if they are killed by the enemy, they will die clearly.

Now, Meng Tian has told them that he will give them such an opportunity, and will let them follow him out of the city, and fight desperately with the Romans, whether they succeed or not, and they will not wait for Han Xin's news, in other words, if the Romans are really repelled this time, it will be entirely the credit of this team defending the city, and this credit is very large, it will stimulate the remaining soldiers here to fight for this credit alone.

Especially the Macedonian cavalry, Meng Tian had already told them that with them as the vanguard, if they could really play the expected role, Yinggao would give them permanent residence in the territory of Great Qin, and the opportunity to directly obtain the first-level title of Great Qin.

For them, although they are very reluctant to their homeland, but Philip V has already taken refuge in Daqin, and the territory of Macedonia can only become an appendage of Daqin, once Daqin can defeat the main force of these Romans in this battle, Daqin's homeland will be the easiest and happiest place in the world, not to mention the first-level title in hand.

The Macedonians heard that the soldiers of Great Qin said that in the territory of Great Qin, if they could get a first-class title, whether it was a mansion, a field or a maid, it was all equipped by the emperor, and they were not much stronger than ordinary people.

For a time, this goal became the yearning of almost all Macedonian soldiers, Meng Tian's words were very clear, in order to achieve this goal, they only needed to meet two conditions, the first is to help Meng Tian defeat the Romans in this battle, and the other is to survive after the end of the war, as long as they are alive, they can take their wives, children and parents to live in the land of Daqin.

In Meng Tian's arrangement, the main role of the Macedonians was to unexpectedly break up the formation of those who were attacking the Seleuc under the city, followed by the cavalry of the Xiongnu and Daqin, to deal a double blow to the Romans.

After all, things have developed to this point, and the Romans are already attacking more in the front and resting less in the back.

This month's fighting is enough to last for two months, or even three months, if it were placed elsewhere, because the Romans attacked the Seleucians day and night, and there was almost no rest for a month.

This is also the Great Qin with Meng Tian and Ying Gao sitting in the town, if it were any other force in this world, Ying Gao knew that it would definitely be impossible to hold it for such a long time, Daqin's family background is very thick, plus Ying Gao had thought of these things before, so since the occupation of the Mauryan Dynasty, almost all of the best offensive and defensive weapons and armor and heavy weapons have been transported to the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty, and after the capture of Seleuc, a large part of these are transported to Seleuc, Without these things, even 200,000 men and horses would not have been able to really defeat the Romans.

What neither Ying Gao nor Meng Tian knew was that after the end of this battle, it was a battle destined to go down in history, and Ying Gao would not know that later generations would attribute the fundamental reason for the victory of this battle and the final domination of Great Qin to his unparalleled vision of the plateau.

At this time, Ying Gao was thinking about whether Meng Tian was reliable or not, and whether he could really achieve the combat effect on the enemy, if not, then he would be embarrassed, and he could probably only flee to the land of the Mauryan Dynasty in a hurry under the escort of two hundred guards.

This night, although it was already past the middle of the night, there was still a shout of killing outside the three cities of Seleuc, and the Roman offensive continued, and the horses not only did not weaken, but were a little more fierce than before.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the Roman consuls were informed by the generals who commanded the siege that although the defenders in the city were well disguised, they were still keenly aware that whether it was arrows or things thrown down, the density was much less than before, which meant that the defenders' equipment might not be enough, or their personnel could not hold on to such an attack.

After learning the news, the Roman consul seemed to have seized the dawn of his victory, which was almost exactly the same as he had predicted before, everything showed that he might not be far from victory, and as far as he knew, Daqin had almost placed all the elite here, once this place was broken by him, the entire Seleucus fell into his hands, not to mention, even the Mauryan Dynasty he might be able to get involved.

Therefore, the attack of the Romans on this night seemed to be crazy, but the Roman consuls did not know that Meng Tian was expecting them to carry out such a crazy and fierce attack on the city.

Indeed, at this time, the defenders on the city wall were not much less than before, and in the face of the enemy army that was almost crazy, they knew that they might not be able to hold out for too long, but what Meng Tian told them before was that as long as they could hold out for two hours, they would be considered successful, and they themselves knew what their companions were doing, so they were gritting their teeth and persevering.