Chapter 370: The Fall
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Annoyed by the Romans' inability to flinch, Contriiano began a bloody battle, with almost all the ballistae and trebuchets concentrated in one place and began a non-stop bombardment of a certain section of the Roman fortifications, and then the Greek infantry rushed to the Romans' impenetrable walls with siege ladders.
"Let the cavalry attack, not the Greeks." Kyle yelled at the cavalry general beside him when he saw the approaching Greek infantry, and although his legion was mainly infantry, it had an additional thousand-man cavalry force that was specially designed to deal with the situation.
"Are you finally willing to give it up?" Watching the Roman cavalry attack, Chen Qingzhi laughed, and then the soldiers beside him waved the order flag, and then the Macedonian cavalry flew out of the battle and rushed straight to the Roman cavalry troops.
"Cunning fellow." On the female wall, Kyle looked at the Tang army in the distance, and suddenly raised a large puff of smoke and dust in the main formation, obviously the cavalry team came over, and couldn't help scolding, and then asked his own soldiers to quickly send an order, so that his cavalry troops should not fall in love with war, and come back immediately after destroying the attack of the Greek infantry, and never fall in love with war.
The Greek infantry had already touched the corners of the wall, and several siege ladders had been erected, but at this time. The cavalry of the Romans had already galloped in, and the infantry against the cavalry, in addition to the formation and equipment, the most important thing was courage, without courage, even if the equipment was well-equipped and the formation was tight, it would collapse under the momentum brought by the cavalry charge. And the Greek infantry under the command of Contriano clearly lacked the courage to be fearless. And they don't have any formation to speak of. As soon as they made contact, they began to disperse, and once the infantry broke up in front of the cavalry, it was equivalent to waiting to be slaughtered.
Naturally, the cavalry of the Romans would not let go of such a great opportunity, and the horses stepped on the swords, but in a few moments, they harvested 300 lives. Just when they were still unsatisfied and wanted to pursue again, the Macedonian cavalry under Chen Qingzhi arrived, and under the leadership of the Han officers, they immediately launched a counterattack, and the Roman cavalry team also received the order of Kaierdi at this time, although they wanted to be superior to the Macedonian cavalry, but they still fulfilled the order. There is no love war. Rather, he consciously led the fire of the Macedonian cavalry king's own fortifications.
"It's cunning enough, it looks like the Roman legionary commander has some means." Ran Min, who had been watching the battlefield, suddenly laughed, and at this time, the Macedonian cavalry had already been ordered by the Han officer who led the team. The pursuit was stopped, and instead the Greek infantry retreated under cover.
Once again, in vain, Contriano's face was gloomy, and it was clear that he had suppressed a part of the Roman fortifications, but the infantry that had taken the opportunity to press them were scattered under the charge of one of the opposing cavalry, and he was simply disgraced and thrown home.
For Contriano's defeat, the group of Spartans under Ran Min also felt ashamed, at least they thought that they were affected by these cowards, so they began to refuse the name of a member of the Greeks, in their words, the Spartans were Spartans, and the timid Greeks were not the same country.
Although he did not break through the Roman fortifications, Chen Qingzhi did not find nothing, at least in the intensive bombardment of ballistas and trebuchets, he destroyed a section of Roman fortifications about 100 meters long, and from the mouth of the fleeing Greek infantry, he learned that the outer layer of those fortifications was at least three layers of green bricks, and the inside was nearly three meters thick and compacted loess, not a hollow wall, even if the power of the ballista was strong, it was difficult to destroy this kind of wall.
After learning about the structure of the Roman fortifications, Chen Qingzhi couldn't help but feel a little troublesome, the rammed loess is not only strong enough, but also has quite strong earthquake resistance, and the stone projectiles fired by the ballista are difficult to penetrate the three-meter-thick rammed earth layer, coupled with the three layers of overlapping green bricks, it is almost impossible to use siege equipment to destroy this fortification that is stronger than the turtle shell.
"It looks like the only way to storm with infantry is to storm it." Thinking of the Romans' stubborn defense that was more powerful than the shrinking turtle, Chen Qingzhi couldn't help but shake his head and sighed, what he hated most was this kind of defensive warfare that clearly relied on fortifications to defend to the death, especially those fortifications were still so strong, which was the most headache for the attacker.
"If you attack strongly, you will attack strongly, and there will be no dead in war." Ran Min, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, he knew that Chen Qingyi's pursuit was to achieve victory at the lowest cost, but now the Romans turned into a turtle with a shrunken head, hiding in the turtle's shell just can't come out, no matter what he has a thousand plans, it is useless to plan everything.
"It is true that there are no immortals in war, but it is not worth dying too much." Li Ang has always been generous to soldiers, and his pension is also extremely high, so for Chen Qingzhi, reducing casualties is also reducing military expenditure.
"Don't calculate so much, there are no mountains and rivers around here, you just want to make flooding." Seeing Chen Qingzhi's bitter face, Ran Min couldn't help but say.
"That's why I hate the terrain of Hercy, which is not conducive to the deployment of large groups of cavalry, and the climate is humid, and our compound bow is even more troublesome to maintain in this hellish place." Chen Qingzhi complained, and then said to Ran Min, "Tomorrow you take people to go, the dead will die, remember to take those Greek soldiers first." ”
"I know." Ran Min saw that the light in Chen Qingzhi's eyes was fierce, and he knew that his old friend was afraid that he would be caught up by the Romans, but he didn't care, originally, how could there be immortals in this kind of battle
The Romans are not the soft persimmons they used to face, and they are still fighting wars
The next day, Chen Qingzhi, who had moved the real character, didn't care about casualties or anything, in short, if he couldn't even take down a Roman legion of 6,000 people in front of him, he was afraid that he would really have no face to go to see Li Ang.
It was still a dense bombardment of ballistas and trebuchets, but this time, the besieging troops were not like yesterday, waiting for the Romans on the walls to be smashed to pieces. But from the very beginning, they rushed to the city wall with their ballista fire, this time, none of those Greek infantry dared to flinch, they all gritted their teeth and rushed to the Roman wall, anyway, if they retreated, they would also be cut off by Ran Min and those Spartans, it was better to fight forward. Even if it's dead. Also get a good name. The family can also receive a pension.
Kyle clearly felt the pressure, yes, the Greeks were not as hesitant as they had been in the previous two days, but relied on the cover of ballistas, and continued to climb the walls, regardless of their own casualties.
"Really attack!" Looking at the crimson black military flag in the distance, Kyle smiled bitterly. He knew that today was by no means the Greek commander of the previous two days, and the real commander of the enemy army had appeared.
"My lord, do you want to send cavalry to attack?" Seeing more and more Greek infantry rushing under the city walls, the adjutant next to Kyle was a little anxious, but Kyle did not have the slightest intention of sending cavalry.
"The other side's cavalry has long been prepared, and our team will go out, but I am afraid that there will be no return." Kyle looked at the Macedonian cavalry in the distance and knew he wouldn't be able to please him this time. "Get all the soldiers ready. Prepare for the Battle of the Walls. ”
Seeing that there were several strongholds occupied by Greek infantry on the walls of the Roman fortifications, Ran Min personally attacked with 5,000 Spartans and 1,000 Mo swordsmen, and at this time, Chen Qingzhi also ordered the positions of ballistas and trebuchets to stop bombardment. Instead, they replaced crossbowmen and began to suppress them until Ran Min and his troops reached the city wall.
The strength of the Spartan hoplites and the Moswordsmen was undoubted, and from the moment they climbed the city wall, Kyle knew that it was impossible for him to hold the fortifications, but fortunately, Julius gave him an order to inflict as much damage as possible on the Tang army, so he began to order his subordinates to rely on the fortifications on the city wall to resist, in short, not to let the Tang army take it too comfortably.
Since the Great Qin expedition to the west one hundred and fifty years ago, the military ideas of the Han people began to be introduced into Rome, which opened the eyes of the Roman soldiers, such as Sun Tzu's art of war series of military books have made the Roman soldiers improve their strategic literacy a lot, but the Roman soldiers have always been most concerned about the use of arrays, because since the Greek Empire, the scale of European wars has never been comparable with China.
China's wars, since the beginning of the Warring States Period, are hundreds of thousands or even nearly a million troops fighting each other at every turn, the role of strategy is more obvious, and since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty counterattacked the Xiongnu, China began to use and build cavalry troops on a large scale, and the role of infantry has been further weakened This refers to the Great Qin Empire, rather than real history. Although the Romans tried to learn from Daqin and establish the same powerful cavalry troops, but due to the limitations of national strength, they could not afford to raise too many cavalry, and more importantly, the Romans did not have a vast grassland as a horse breeding ground like Daqin, so the infantry still occupied the mainstream, so the Chinese formation was the focus of Roman military research.
Looking at the formation that the Roman soldiers were somewhat familiar with, Ran Min couldn't help laughing, these Romans actually changed the formation used by the Chinese infantry during the Warring States period in the past, although this formation was changed well, but unfortunately in the face of absolute power, the role of the formation was limited. "Mo Dao Hand, break the formation for me." Ran Min shouted, and then the Mo swordsman beside him quickly formed a cone formation and began to break through the formation of the Roman infantry on the city wall.
The terrifying attack of the Mo Dao Hand was displayed in front of the Romans for the first time, Kyle was stunned, he had long heard of this latest type of troops trained by the Great Qin Empire, and he had also heard that the Mo Dao Hand could confront the strength of the cavalry head-on, but now he was still shocked to see the terrifying killing of those giant double-edged long knives more than three meters long in the hands of Mo Dao.
"Hahahaha!" On the city wall, Ran Min, whose face was covered with blood, laughed wildly, what he liked most was that there was no false killing on this battlefield, Mo Daoist was a soldier specially prepared for him, as long as his enemies dared to confront him head-on, he could kill them all, kill gods when they met gods, and kill demons when they met demons.
Kyle quickly came back to his senses, the Mo knife in the hand of the Mo knife hand was too powerful, with the existing equipment of the Roman soldiers, it was impossible to withstand such an overwhelming and powerful attack, even if the formation was tight. "Retreat." Kyle made the decision to abandon the fortifications, not wanting to make a meaningless sacrifice.
Seeing the Romans retreating, some Greek soldiers and Spartans planned to pursue, but Ran Min stopped them, "Their ranks are not chaotic at all, they have no intention of being afraid of our pursuit, I am afraid that there may be an ambush ahead." After seeing the performance of the Roman soldiers on the city walls, Ran Min chose a steady approach.
After this battle, Chen Qingzhi felt that he did not take much advantage, in order to capture this damn fortification, he paid nearly 10,000 dead and wounded, although most of them were Greeks, but for the retreating Kyle, he was also uncomfortable, in the city wall and the battle of the Mo knife hand, he lost nearly 2,000 soldiers.