Of course, it will not only be the cavalry that is ready to charge the city, but when the cavalry is moving, the infantry will also start to move, and they will follow the cavalry into the city through the gap.

The booming cannon fire continued, but it didn't seem to be that intense? It was a part of the artillery that was readjusting its fire, and almost all of it was concentrated on another crumbling but still standing wall.

At this moment, the city of Wanguo has become a mess, and the section of the city wall that was bombarded by artillery has long since run away without half a figure, and those who have not been bombarded by artillery have also run away.

You have to run, anyone who sees the picture of being bombarded by artillery, whoever doesn't run is a fool!

Abdullah knew that the city wall had been blown down and there was a gap, and he immediately knew that something was wrong, and he wanted to organize, but there were people running around everywhere, and the army that had lost its order wanted to be restored to its formation, and it was not possible to rely on the Supreme Commander to pull it again.

Knowing that he could not restore order on his own, Abdullah first looked for the second-level officers, and then the second-level officers went to find more officers. He will use such a method, at least to prove that he is not an idiot who does not understand military affairs.

The Imperial cavalry had already charged the gap, and at the forefront were the arrow-forming cavalry, who did not carry cavalry spears, but held shields in one hand and long-handled swords in the other, and almost always had two or three repeating crossbows hanging from their horses, and one cavalry bow was placed in the slot on the other side with almost all the arrows.

Cavalry is not suitable for street fighting, because the layout of the city is so complex that there is little room for cavalry to use their maneuver advantage. Therefore, they were only responsible for breaking down the first line of defense that the defenders of the city could organize as quickly as possible, and then it was time for the infantry to get to work.

Under the bombardment of artillery, the second gap in the city wall also collapsed with a loud bang, and its collapse once again caused a vast shout, "Wan Sheng!! At the sound of the slogan, the second cavalry attacked.

The first cavalry had approached the first gap, and they had not encountered any attack during this time. When the horse's hooves under the seat of the first cavalry stepped on the rubble of the collapse of the wall, and rushed in at great speed, one after another cavalry rushed in through the breach.

What is the cavalry vision chamber that rushed in? They didn't see the Wanguo soldiers organizing a defensive line, and there were people running around everywhere. It seemed that the artillery had been ordered to fire in an extended direction into the city, and some of the projectiles fell in the city, or smashed into a large crater, or rolled over any object.

Have you ever seen the sweep of a round projectile? It was a fatal motion with a grunt, a round projectile with great kinetic energy and inertia, which swept through everything that stood in its way, breaking both legs when encountering a person, and breaking open when encountering an object. Everywhere they passed, there were bursts of exclamation and screaming.

The artillery extended into the city, and the projectiles flew sideways, and the fear was spreading, and whoever saw the miserable situation that seemed to be hell on earth, no matter how the officers shouted, the soldiers did not listen to a word at all, but the soldiers became more chaotic because of the officers' increasingly severe shouts.

Those outside the city can't see what's going on inside the city, but listening to the noisy and earth-shaking sound, they can guess what the city looks like without looking.

"It must be running around, and everyone wants to have two more legs to run, right?" Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers struggled to get closer to the artillery position, and no one paid any attention to his actions. He wanted to know what the weapons of the Han Empire looked like: "It's terrifying, in just such a short time, it can actually destroy the city wall!" ”

The walls of the Wan people are built of rammed earth and stones. Luce. Scipio. Calvers didn't know what the quality of the walls built by the Wanguo people was, but as the main means of defense of a city, there should be a limit to how to do it.

A city wall with a thickness of six meters, it turned out to have collapsed in less than two hours of bombardment. Luce. Scipio. Calvers wasn't thinking about how fragile the walls were, he was concerned with the weapons that would cause it.

In Kirusrivi. Luce. Scipio. According to Calfuss, the weapon didn't look very complicated, a long barrel made of copper, a thick butt that looked large, and a base that resembled a carriage, it looked so simple.

"Clear the chamber!"

Pushing the shelf, a soldier with a large wooden stick climbed up, he was holding the first cloth-wrapped stick and was repeatedly barreling the inside of the barrel, and after frequent cleaning, another soldier brought a bag of gunpowder, which was pushed into the barrel with a wooden stick.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Kalvers was keenly aware of a problem, and he thought to himself, "It seems that the secret to the projectile being able to fly out is on that bag?" ”

At present, the only civilization in the world that knows gunpowder is Huaxia, and any other civilization will not know what gunpowder is, let alone know, it is estimated that there is no one who even knows the name of gunpowder.

A burst of cheers came from inside the city, sounding like shouting the word "Wan Sheng". Luce. Scipio. Calvers had memorized the syllables of the word "Wan Sheng", and he knew that the Han army would only shout the word "Wan Sheng" when something meaningful happened.

"Are you looking for death? Run ahead of the artillery firing trajectory! ”

"Huh?"

A military marquis was looking angrily at Kirosrivi. Luce. Scipio. Calvers, waving his hand to Kiruth Rich. Luce. Scipio. Calvers hurried away.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers didn't know what ballistics were, he thought that his behavior of spying on weapons was detected, and the officers of the Han Empire came to drive them away, and only after seeing some of the officers' body movements did he understand that it was not so simple.

"'Egg Island'? Is that how you read it? "Kirusrivi. Luce. Scipio. Calvers was the first of the aliens to hear the word "ballistic," and he repeated it until someone came to invite him.

It was Xu Zhi and Zhou Yin who asked people to go over and call those stupid-looking Roman envoys over. Luce. Scipio. When Calvers arrived, the two lieutenant commanders were sincerely satisfied with the "first rehearsal" of the artillery.

"In the past, if you wanted to collapse the city wall, at least trebuchets bombarded it for at least three or four days, sometimes even longer." Xu Zhi smiled and pointed to the artillery position that stopped firing, and grinned: "With those things, although the walls of this city are weaker, it is enough to show their power." ”

Zhou Yin is very satisfied, he is the middle of the mixed legion, he used to always feel that being the commander of a mixed legion seems to be like that, many generals think that only the commander of the cavalry corps can be regarded as the main force, but since the value of artillery has been recognized, those people no longer think so.

"City Buster!" Zhou Yin was full of emotion: "After the artillery appeared, I really couldn't think of what the city wall was. If it doesn't collapse in a day, there is enough gunpowder and projectiles, it will definitely collapse, and the role of the city wall has been infinitely reduced. ”

"That's it!" Xu Zhi smashed his mouth and nodded: "With such a sharp weapon, the walls of any city will not become an obstacle to attacking the city." ”

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers did not understand the imperial Chinese, and when he was brought over, he was still not received by Xu Zhi or Zhou Yin, but a general.

Zhang Cang is the reception of Ji Ru Sri Wei. Luce. Scipio. The people of Calvers. He was fluent in Greek and spoke to the Celestial Rites. Luce. Scipio. Calvers introduces the next itinerary.

"So...... Are we leaving in five days? "Kirusrivi. Luce. Scipio. Kalvers had anticipation and a little bit of disappointment: "At the speed of your country's siege, can I see another siege?" ”

Zhang Cang shook his head and said, "We won't immediately enter the next siege battle. ”

This time, the empire's war against Wan was not a very high-intensity war, it was the conscription of the Western Corps that came to the Western Regions for two years, and there was no large-scale battle, and the attack on Wan was just a warm-up.

The war between Wusun and the tribes such as Hujie, Ding Ling, and the Yue clan was in decline, and the Western Expeditionary Corps was waiting for orders anytime and anywhere, and then went to the northern part of the Western Regions to participate in the war.

It is precisely because he knows that he will go to the northern part of the Western Regions to participate in the war, and Meng Tian and other generals will launch a war against Wanguo, which is nothing more than to weaken Wanguo one step further, so as not to jump out of Wanguo to stir up the situation when the Western Corps uses troops in the northern part of the Western Regions.

"Take the two cities, and then carry out the necessary defenses, Wanguo can't jump even if he wants to." Xu Zhi glanced at Ji Ru Sliwei. Luce. Scipio. Where Calvers was, he looked at Zhou Yin again and said, "When the time comes, leave 10,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry?" ”

"Hmm." Zhou Yin nodded: "In terms of defensive warfare, those troops are enough." ”

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers was led by Zhang Cang to the two lieutenant commanders, and he said, "The Roman envoys have understood the next itinerary. ”

Xu Zhi and Zhou Yin just nodded and didn't say anything.

The commander of the Imperial Army, how can he not be arrogant? Especially Xu Zhi, if you put it bluntly, he is a pure nationalist ~ righteous person who looks down on any alien race, then don't think that he will give any alien a good face; However, Zhou Yin is relatively better, at least willing to show a smile to the alien race.

"And you're the escort?" Zhou Yin glanced at the Romans, and then said, "Everything that should be prepared, right?" ”

"Huh." Xu Zhi looked quite happy, and without waiting for Zhang Cang to say anything, he cut off: "A large number of valuable booty, and nearly twenty-five thousand slaves. Speaking of which, it is indeed the easiest way to get rich in war, and the general said that the sturdy slaves are very popular now, and the slaves in the Western Regions are also more popular than those monkeys in the South Seas. ”

"Do you want to wait a few more days?" Zhou Yin looked at the city not far away, there was nothing vague, and said bluntly: "If you capture two cities, the spoils of war can increase, and the number of slaves will inevitably increase." ”

Xu Zhi shook his head: "Let's take those as the next batch." ”

Zhou Yin knew that there were more level things, and after a little thought, he understood that capturing the two cities of Wanguo would not carry out large-scale plundering and plundering of young and strong, after all, the Western Expeditionary Corps did not know how long it would be busy in the northern part of the Western Regions, which was too exciting for the people of Wanguo...... No, it's not a wise move to provoke people in the west and southwest of the Western Regions.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers did not see the whole scene of the Han Empire's army attacking the city, he saw that Zhang Cang did not reject talking, and intended to learn more from Zhang Cang.

"Huh? Not as many as tens of millions, the latest statistics are 66 million. Zhang Cang doesn't think those are secrets, the center will announce them every year, and it's not difficult for anyone to know. He looked at Kireslivi strangely. Luce. Scipio. Calvers, rhetorically asked, "So how many people are there in Rome?" ”

"We?" Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers smiled bitterly: "I don't know if you're only about 1.3 million, there is no more accurate number." ”

Yes, in BC, the first country to conduct a national census was the Qin Empire, and after that, only the Chinese civilization would conduct a census, and other civilizations would not do similar things until the tenth century AD.

"That's a lot! Not as large as the population of one of our counties. There was no taste of contempt in Zhang Cang's tone, he was just stating a fact. He asked, "What about the size of your land?" ”

This point seems to be a bit of a putty to Kerus Sri Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calphus asked the Lord, there is no good way to measure the land in the current years, even the drawing of maps is basically based on Meng, how to calculate the square meters, only some Greek scholars have mastered some, and the rest have mastered the relevant skills of Chinese civilization.

"Probably...... It's about the size of Parthia, about two and a half times. "Kirusrivi. Luce. Scipio. Still, Calvers chose to tell the truth. But he also has pride: "We don't have a lot of land, but we control an entire ocean!" ”

"The Mediterranean?" Zhang Cang knew there, and he looked at Ji Ru Sliwei suspiciously. Luce. Scipio. Calvers, said: "Don't be ignorant of distant things, the Mediterranean is not controlled by a single power. There are many countries that control the seas now, and as far as I know, the Seleucid Empire has a sea fleet that is not weak. ”

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers was stunned for a moment, he originally thought that the Eastern Han Empire would not be interested in the outside world at all, and he knew nothing about the outside world, after all, the people of the Han Empire he encountered were too arrogant, and arrogant people would never try to understand the world. And it seems that ...... Is there a mistake in his understanding? (To be continued.) )