The centaurs did not realize their defeat when they began to suppress the civilians in the city of Athens, although it seemed to them that it was a sure thing to deal with the civilians with a well-trained army, but they obviously ignored another point, that is, they did not have time, for the close Tang army, although they wasted a night for the Romans to massacre the civilians in the city of Athens, but after dawn, they still made their way to the city of Athens, As a result, the Romans had to devote all their energy to the Tang army, which had made a siege posture, and there were only 20,000 elite troops left in the city to suppress the rebellious civilians, hoping to save the situation.

Athens is built on the mountain, is an important town in southern Greece, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Tang army almost mobilized all the ballistas to begin to suppress the fire coverage, after all, in the 400,000 Tang army, there are more than 50,000 Greek soldiers, so the Tang army's attack from the dawn can be described as extremely fierce, especially those Greek soldiers are unusually fearless of death.

In just half a day, the Tang army suffered nearly 7,000 casualties, most of them Greek soldiers, and after paying huge casualties, the Tang army climbed the city wall, but it was at a disadvantage, and it seemed that it could be driven off the city wall at any time. But at this time, something unexpected happened, at the location of the city gate, a team of thousands of civilians appeared at some point, with a variety of weapons to kill the Roman soldiers at the city gate, trying to open the city gate.

This sudden turn of events disrupted the Romans' arrangement of the city walls, and they had to send troops down the walls to suppress the civilians with weapons. So this gave the Tang army an opportunity, and Chen Qingzhi, who was in charge of the command, almost immediately noticed the movement of the Romans, so he immediately let Ran Min take his Spartan sword and shield soldiers and Mo swordsmen to take advantage of the weak links exposed by the movement of Roman troops on the city wall.

"Don't lose to those Athenians!" Ran Min, who climbed the city wall, shouted, he had been with the Spartans for a long time, and he also liked to call the Greeks Athenians as much as the Spartans.

"The Tang Army is mighty!" In response to Ran Min, the elite sword and shield soldiers of Sparta shouted, and under the influence of Ran Mindi, they had begun to completely regard themselves as a Tang people. For them. The Tang State is their country. As for Sparta, it represents the glory of the past.

Sword and shield soldiers can be described as absolute kings in hand-to-hand combat, and it is not easy to train a qualified sword and shield soldier, but in the establishment of Great Qin and Tang Kingdom, there is no existence of sword and shield soldiers, because the Han people have the terrifying infantry and cavalry double killing elite troops of the Mo swordsman.

Therefore, the only people in the world have sword and shield soldiers, and the Roman sword and shield troops are known as the most elite sword and shield troops in the world, but the Spartans have always scoffed at them. In their opinion, only the Spartan sword and shield soldiers are worthy of the title of the most elite in the world, but they have never had the opportunity to compete with the Romans before, but now on the walls of Athens, these two are considered to be the best sword and shield troops. The Spartans howled, forming the old formation of sword and shield soldiers and the Roman sword and shield soldiers colliding together, and the scene was like the tides of the heavens and the earth colliding with each other.

Ran Min understood the Spartans' pursuit of honor, so he did not intervene in their fight with the elite sword and shield soldiers of the Romans. It's just a knife hand with a subordinate Dimo knifeman. Hold a small position on the city walls, so that the troops under the walls can climb the walls in an endless stream. Under the invincible sword, the Roman soldiers could not advance an inch. In the end, the Romans had to use the heavy long-range weapons of ballistas and scorpion cannons on the city walls against Ran Min and them.

Even if he is as strong as Ran Min, in the face of the arrows like iron spears fired from the ballista, he has to fight up the spirit of 120,000 points, no one can take such a moment and not die, watching the Mo knife hand next to him fall from time to time, Ran Min's face became extremely cold, he stared at the Roman general commanding the soldiers in the distance, his eyes were bloodshot.

Finally, after enough Tang troops came up under the city wall, Ran Min broke out, and he took the remaining Mo swordsmen around him to rush towards the Roman ballista and archery positions on the city wall, full of broken limbs along the way.

Looking at the approaching Ran Min and those terrible Mosaman, the Romans panicked, and they began to transfer their ballistas and archers, if the long-range troops were broken by the enemy, they would not have to defend the city.

The battle situation on the city wall fell into a stalemate, I have to say that the Roman army trained by Julius was stronger than the army at the peak of the Roman Empire, but unfortunately, the Great Qin Army and the Tang Army of their contemporaries were only stronger than them, they could have revived the Roman Empire, expanded their territory, and established immortal achievements, but now they can only protect the country from being destroyed

War.

Li Ang's face is not good-looking, what he doesn't like the most is this kind of war of attrition, in the face of the opponent's single-minded stubborn defense, even as a famous general, he is helpless, when Bai Qi attacked Zhao, the Battle of Changping met Lian Po to defend to the death, that's it, compared with Bai Qi, Li Ang has fewer chips, Bai Qi is still a mediocre Zhao court, you can use a trick to drive Lian Po away, but Li Ang is facing an unprecedented unity of the Roman Empire, Constantine is a generation of heroes, how can it be so easy to fool.

"Your Majesty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used the savings of the Wenjing and Jing dynasties to counterattack the Xiongnu, and he has been fighting for decades, and the king is anxious." Cui Hao said on the side, he knew that Li Ang could not see the loss of his own family the most, since he became famous, except for the battle with the Huns of nearly one million, Li Ang has never lost more than 10,000 people in each battle, but now it is just the two battles of Hot Springs Pass and Athens City, and the casualties have exceeded 50,000, which is difficult to accept.

"I know that the fall of the Romans depends on Jingqi." Li Ang sighed, as a warrior and founding monarch, who doesn't want to see the biggest enemy who built the country with his own hands fall into his hands, and he Li Ang is the same, far from the realm of no desire and no desire.

"How is Jing Qi doing?" Since the Hot Spring Pass, Li Ang has never let Cao Ziyun and his two sons go to the battlefield, after all, they are different from themselves, they only need to see the cruelty of the battlefield, lest they treat the war as glamorous as in the legend, and they don't know that the war actually depends on the blood of soldiers to fight with their lives.

"The prince and the crown prince have recently been discussing how to subdue the remaining Germanic tribes west of the Romans in order to stop their trade with the Huns." Cui Hao thought of Li Jingqi, and couldn't help but show a knowing smile, this son of the world is half of his disciple, and he values it quite much.

"That's a good idea, have they come up with something?" Li Ang smiled, he knew that this kind of damage was mostly Cui Hao's reminder to his son, to defeat the Romans, not only to exert continuous military pressure, but also to suppress their economy, so that their country was poor and poor, and gradually decayed until they perished.

"They thought they could send our henchmen to lead the Han Chinese soldiers who had not yet been married to eat the remnants of the Germanic people, and at the same time subdue other uncivilized barbarian tribes, thinking that they were vassals of our country." Cui Hao replied, and then looked at the Athenian city wall in the distance, "The prince thinks that General Ran Min is the best candidate, and Helian can be used as a deputy." ”

"Yongzeng?" Li Ang frowned, and then laughed, it is true that Ran Min is a good candidate, look at him to subdue those Spartans, you know that he is not as rough as he seems, but has his own merits, "This matter will be discussed when Greece is incorporated into our country, don't tell Jingqi what I mean first." ”

"Yes." Cui Hao knew that Li Ang had agreed to this plan.

The attack and defense of the Athenian city gate ended at sunset, under the onslaught of the Tang army and the Greek civilians in the city, the city gate was finally lost, but the war was far from over, because the city of Athens was surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side was facing the sea, the Roman legions in the city had no way out, in the face of Leon's great reputation, they chose to fight to the death, although their troops were routed when the city gate fell, but those scattered soldiers and small groups were reunited under the leadership of officers at all levels, and the Tang army started street battles.

In order to reduce the casualties of his own soldiers, Leon used the headhunting order again, and the civilians of Athens had already united with the Roman army to the death, and the Romans killed nearly 100,000 people after a night of bloody suppression.

The frenzied street fighting lasted for half a month, and in the end, of the 100,000 Roman soldiers, only a few hundred were spared, and escaped from the city of Athens, which was like a purgatory of Shura, and the civilians of Athens survived after this bloody and cruel street battle, but those who survived were rewarded with large sums of money, and Leon was never stingy about it. The city of Athens was nearly completely destroyed in the battle and had to be rebuilt.

The battle of Athens made the Romans begin to evacuate Greece on their own initiative, they did not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, when they left, they faithfully fulfilled the orders of Constantine, they massacred the Greeks on a large scale, robbed all the wealth that could be robbed, when the Tang army repaired in southern Greece, northern Greece became as terrible as hell, since the Greeks did not want to be with the empire, then completely destroy it, so as not to pose a threat to the empire in the future, this is Constantine's idea, and Leon is the same, for him, the war against the Tang state, It was the war between the Romans and the Han Chinese, and there was no possibility of coexistence between the two, and there was always a nation to perish. It's not Han Chinese, it's Romans!