44. Mace

Under the city of Metz, Attila's army had been assembled, men of all kinds of costumes, people of all races, Ostrogoths, dressed in bright green linen, with axes striking round shields, roaring, with strange totems painted on their faces, wolves, eagles, and strange creatures, but most of them had animal prototypes. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Heruloli, a Germanic tribe, were no different from the rest of the barbarians, almost all of them were soldiers, warlike and bloodthirsty, brave and fierce, preferring to use short spears, and also striking colored wooden shields with the shaft of a spear, and constantly roaring in their mouths, showing their yellow teeth.

The Alans, a people who breed horses, a people who are gradually declining, but still maintain their fierce nature, with totems painted on their bodies, they are winged horses, blue flying horses, and they believe that totems can protect them in the heat of battle.

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Countless peoples, almost all the nationalities from the Danube to the Volga gathered here for a bloodthirsty feast.

And above the city walls, in addition to countless Romans, there were also dense barbarians, Gauls, and Germanic peoples. rubbed shoulders just to enjoy the moment of stabbing the sword into the enemy's body. Just to harvest the lives of the enemy.

A Roman general wears a muscular cuirass and a general's helmet, the longitudinal crown feathers on the helmet are made of horsehair, while the vertical crown feathers symbolize the noble status of the general, and the centurion is the horizontal crown feathers.

The blood-red crown feathers symbolize the general's status through bloodthirsty battles, while the golden cuirass symbolizes the glory of Rome, and the scarlet cloak suggests that the battle will be baptized by blood.

And the Roman legionnaires are still the traditional light chain mail, God knows what this armor can resist, this simple armor psychological comfort is greater than his actual effect, a heavy Latin long shield, will make the Romans in defense in an absolute advantage, two light spears can also give the Roman legionnaires a certain long-range strike ability.

Barbarian mercenaries are not much different from their enemies, lacking heavy armor, making them extremely low in the face of heavy cavalry attacks.

In stark contrast to the city below, the soldiers above the city walls were extremely quiet, a centurion with a horizontal scarlet crest, wearing shin armor, a position usually reserved for centurions, who were staring at the timid soldiers with fierce eyes, ready to strike them as they fled, ending their shameful life.

Attila's falcon-like eyes scanned his own army and the strong military formation on the city walls, and he couldn't help frowning, he didn't expect that the cowardly Roman nobles would dare to resist in the face of his heavenly army.

Attila is not tall, with a sparse gray beard and a short and flat nose, but his whole body reveals a fierce momentum, and his every move reveals the majesty of the emperor.

"Let the Ghpids charge, they are the bravest soldiers!"

Attila looked straight ahead and said in a neutral voice. But he didn't notice a trace of dissatisfaction in Aldarik's eyes, every time the siege was attacked, the Ghpids went first, but the benefits of the Ghpid were not the most, and Aldaric had a nail of dissatisfaction with Attila buried in his heart.

But Aldaric still said loyally on the surface:

"Gepid, charge me!"

Raising a huge round shield, no one knew he was the leader if not those who knew him, led the brave and bloodthirsty Gepid to charge, and the rumbling sound of the run rang out, and swept like a great wave towards the city of Metz, the strongest of the great ships.

Waves rose from the sky and converged from the plains, and Attila had no interest in even being persuaded to surrender, and the Romans showed their attitude in anticipation, and in Attila's angry and burning eyes, Mace had been ignited, burned, and reduced to ashes by a raging fire.

A Mingpidian ran and ran, and was shot to the ground by their enemy's arrows, and the blood stained the green grass red, and fell to the ground, and the dense rain of black arrows smashed the formation of the Gepids into a smithereal, but the Gepids who relied on the defense of the large shield did not suffer much loss.

The black rain of arrows did not effectively kill the Gepids, the purpose of the arrow rain was not to kill, but to demoralize, but the speed of the brave Gepids not only did not hesitate, but accelerated, and the death of their comrades around them made the eyes of the Gepids red, making their actions swift.

"Rush! Gerpids! Kill them all! ”

Ardaric raised his huge round shield and roared and charged, and the ladder was carried forward, and the freshly made ladder even had the buds of leaves on it, swaying back and forth with the rapid charge of the Gepids.

Then there was a burning rain of arrows, rockets, this kind of extremely demoralizing arrows, the arrows were wrapped in flammable materials, and when it was time to fire, the soldiers set the arrows on fire, and then shot them out, although the range and accuracy of this arrow were shortened, but the blow to morale was extremely deadly.

The rain of fire was thrown upon the Gepids, and the battlefield beneath the city was like hell, with burning arrows, black smoke embers, and spotted flesh that stenched when burning. A terrible whistling sound, this is the third round of arrow rain, the sound of arrows, this kind of whistling sound like hell.

But the long-range strikes did not intimidate the fierce Gepids, because the Gepids had a belief in their hearts that the Romans were vulnerable, and hiding behind the walls and shooting arrows was just a sign of their cowardice, and that they would be easily routed in close combat.

With this belief, groups of Gepid people went forward one after another, and they were very close to the city wall.

Black smoke obscured the sun, and the drums of war were noisy!

The Ghpids ran like ants towards their lair, and Mace was overhead, and the tall walls could not stop the invasion of the Ghpids. The walls of the Romans were made of massive schist, about ten meters high and about two thousand meters long. It is about four meters wide. Typical Romanesque walls. There are sixteen main gates in total.

The Gerpides eagerly put the ladder up, and because there was a metal barb at the top of the ladder, it was extremely difficult for the Romans to push the ladder down.

The Roman lord took a contemptuous bite of the red apple, and threw the remaining apple off the wall, which, according to the laws of physics, rolled in the air a few times, and slammed into the head of a Gepid, instantly cracking, splattering juice and flying flesh.

And the Gepid man had a sour face, and he groaned, touched his head, thinking that he had been hit by a rolling stone and was about to die, and suddenly felt that the sky was dark.

The rest of the Gepids continued to climb the walls in a frenzied manner until death came.