Chapter Seventy-Eight: Attacking the City, Attacking the Heart
The raging fire spread wildly in the city, and the pillars of smoke formed by the flames that burned into the sky were like black stone pillars supporting the sky, pointing straight up to a height of hundreds of meters.
The Burgundian soldiers who were based outside the city were in a commotion, and they did not know whether they were shaken by the flames burning in the city or frightened by the approaching Germanic army.
The Germanic people, who were the attackers, were not afraid of the fire, but on the contrary, it became a banner to encourage them to attack, and they raised their arms and cheered as if they had won the battle. A rough trumpet sounded, and the Germanic phalanx, which had been moving slowly, gradually increased its speed, and they roared and screamed, and rushed straight towards the Burgundian in front of them.
"It's a big show." I couldn't help but admire, for I saw Aetius' chariot, well, not the one destroyed, but a brand new, almost identical chariot, and I thought that no one in the army could sit in such a magnificent chariot except Aetius. "Aetius is here, presumably he is the supreme commander today."
"Hmm."
Andrew nodded and whispered to me, "Don't be too aggressive, because we should stay in the barracks, so sneaking out and getting caught, neither of us can afford to be a centurion." ”
"Oh, I see!" I casually complied, and then set my eyes on the battlefield below.
As the sun rises, everything becomes clear and bright. The Burgundians were silver in the sun because they were equipped with neat chain mail, but the Germanic mercenaries looked black from afar because of their fur equipment, and hundreds of people charged in groups, gathering into a sea of black. surging towards the rectangular silver "embankment".
The soldiers in the first row of the Burgundian army began to waver a little, I think they also knew the horrors of the Germanic people, and the Germanic people also had different temperaments, and there was a large part of the Germanic people in the Roman legions, but they became less fierce and aggressive because they had been baptized by civilization, on the contrary, these Germanic people who were engaged in mercenaries were barbarians from the north of the Rhine border of the empire. They were so savage that they would fight at the slightest disagreement, but it was good that my weary soldiers had not made too many impulsive moves, or had done anything disrespectful to the Germanic people in front of me, and I might still be lying in my tent in the barracks.
The roar of the Germanic people made even Andrew and I tremble in the distance, not to mention the Burgundians who were facing each other. I really can't imagine that if I were standing in the middle of the Burgundians' army, I am afraid that my legs would be weak by now.
The rushing and roaring "black torrent" crashed against the silver "", making a deafening loud sound, and on the dividing line between black and silver, the silver light flickered, the sound of the body hitting the shield, the screams of the downed soldiers falling to the ground, and the clanging sound of weapons hitting each other, all converged into the ensemble of the black torrent hitting the embankment. Countless lives were mercilessly pulled out of the broken and bleeding body at an astonishing speed. In the same way, everyone doesn't know each other, there is no grudge, and there are some who live or die, it's as simple as that.
"Dangdangdang......"
The voice sounded, and several fiery flying stones streaked across the sky, carrying long black smoke.
"Boom, boom, boom!!"
This time, the target of the flying stone was no longer the burning Worms, but the strong walls of the city of Worms, and the boulder smashed into the stone wall and was bounced off, falling into the silver squares under the walls, blood, splinters. The path that covered the falling boulders did not stop them from fighting under the city. Not to be outdone, the trebuchets on the top of the mountain in Worms were roaring, for they were far from the range of the new giant trebuchets, and could only throw stones at the attacking Germans.
Rubble and flames overhead, bloodthirsty beast-like Germanic people in front of them, flames and blood were close to themselves, and death, just above each of them, like the sun, hung over the heads of every soldier like an invisible dark cloud, foreshadowing that the invisible sword of death would fall from the sky all the time, taking away a person's precious life. But they didn't care about that, they just roared with red eyes, slicing their weapons apart and killing the flesh of their enemies.
People keep falling, dying in pools of blood, and just like that, they leave this world without concern and go to heaven where no one has ever touched it. Maybe they will also be like me, go to another time period, or like in the movie, die, and then take off the heavy armor, put down the weapons in their hands, and return to the place they want to return to, forever intoxicated, and never come out again.
Looking at the killing in broad daylight, I couldn't help but start to be afraid, my heart was trembling, but I didn't know why I was afraid, probably death, the pain of being killed was once again in my mind. In other words, will this era be the era that I hope in my heart, the era in my mind?
"Andrew, what year is it?" I asked him.
"What's wrong, Luga?" Andrew turned his head, stared at me incredulously, and asked, "Luga, why do you ask?" ”
"Oh no." I stroked my head to see if I had a fever, but my forehead was cold, and I said, "I just feel why all this is so unreal." ”
"Ha, Luga, your old mistakes are starting to happen again!" Andrew smiled at me, but the smile was so real, not at all the pompousness of dreams. I was silent, my mind blank, and in my eyes, the black torrents, the silver embankments, were rubbing against each other and devouring each other. These black and silver compositions, the vivid lives of each other, passed by in a very short period of time.
"Woo! Woo! Woo! ”
The rough sound of the trumpet sounded again, but soon the roar of the Germanic people drowned out the sound of the trumpet. Crazy, completely mad, the Germanic people were irritated by blood and became irrational, they wielded the battle axe in their hands, and like madmen, they desperately split the shield in the hands of the Burgundians in front of them, and the Burgundians who had lost the protection of the shield could only watch the axe slash at their already bloody bodies again and again, without the slightest ability to resist. A row fell, and the successors followed, their eyes closed, and they stabbed into the darkness in front of them, but each stab brought back not only the slippery shafts of the spears, but also large strands of blood.
The silver soon crumbled like the gray walls behind them, and the silver retreated under the onslaught of the boulders and Germanic people, gradually enveloping the black.
I figured out why Aetius was so willing to command the Germans,