With a cold face, Jia Xu ordered people to drive away all the envoys of the vassal army who came to ask for help. A large group of people gathered outside his military tent and chirped crookedly and said incomprehensible bird language, which made Jia Xu very angry. What do you say to me when your army is trapped in the city?

Jia Xu didn't need to see it with his own eyes to know that those vassal armies must have not obeyed the established tactics of fighting steadily and steadily, step by step. These undisciplined sergeants killed the rich city and then herded the sheep. Now you still want to find the Han army to save your life? What did you think of the Han army?

Wait until dawn to talk about everything!

The morning sun is rising, and the sun is shining.

As a new day arrives, the noisy city of Rome gradually quiets down. The red-eyed Romans stacked the corpses and sent them away. Roman soldiers with short swords and shields in hand went from house to house searching for fish that had slipped through the net after last night's bloody battle. From time to time, short but fierce battles broke out in the city, and after a rush of fighting and screaming, everything was calm again.

On this crazy night, more than 30,000 vassals who stormed the city of Rome were almost wiped out. After the breakthrough was blocked by elite Roman legions. These vassals, who had no reinforcements, were besieged and annihilated in the city by a large number of Roman troops. In desperation, they were either killed or captured.

In the past, Roman captives were generally sold as slaves. But now the Romans, who were so angry and panicked, had no interest in doing so, and escorted the hordes of captives directly to the walls. Kill the alien armies outside in batches.

This is done to intimidate the enemy army, but also to embolden oneself. Although the Romans managed to win the defensive battle. But the real enemy did not appear at all, and their opponents were nothing more than vassals for pure attrition.

"They're coming." Dressed in Roman battle armor, Severus stretched out his hands and pressed against the city wall in front of him, staring at the huge military camp that stretched to the horizon in the distance, and said in a deep voice.

"Can you still hold on?" Arnubis, who was also dressed in armor, tightened his hand unnaturally with the short sword, and asked out loud.

Severus shook his head, sighed lightly, and whispered, "You should be able to tell, right?" It's just that a group of vassal armies has already fought like this. By the time those black-haired aliens come over, they probably won't be able to hold it. ”

Arnubis turned his gaze to the massive ruins not far away. It was a large gap, but it was now covered in endless corpses and congealed blood. At the height of the battle last night, the vassals who wanted to break through and rescue almost wiped out the Roman legions that held the gap.

Although the Romans managed to defeat the vassals, their losses were not small at all. The slaves of all stripes, who were used as cannon fodder, suffered heavy casualties. Many slaves took advantage of the darkness to escape, causing great losses in the city of Rome. As for the Roman legions, which consisted of citizens, nearly 20,000 men also fell when the vassals launched a desperate counterattack! Not all Roman soldiers were equipped with hoplites. Even the Roman Empire did not have so much steel to arm so many armies.

In last night's battle, several legions were crippled, and the nearly 6,000 elite veterans of the Roman 3rd Eagle Legion guarding the gap were almost completely wiped out. These are the real elite of the city of Rome.

"How can this be?" There was a hint of irrepressible anger and panic in Arnubis' voice: "Why do they have such godlike powers? Why not just use these powers all the time! ”

Arnubis was talking about the steel monster that slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Romans in the Grand Forum that day, and the terrifying force that destroyed a section of the fortified city wall yesterday. In the eyes of the Romans, this kind of power was not possessed by humans at all.

"I can't answer any of your questions." Severus gritted his teeth and stared into the distance. "All I can tell you is that they're coming!" ”

Arnubis's heart sank, and he hurriedly turned his head to look at the alien military camp in the distance outside the city. There, at this moment, the flags are waving, and the military trumpets are continuous. Countless figures swayed back and forth, and large groups of troops drove out of the barracks and headed in the direction of the city of Rome!

"Rush into the city, and kill them when they meet resistance. Capture this city, and our expedition will come to a perfect end. And you guys. I will also leave my name forever on the monument of history! Gao Yang, who was riding on a war horse, raised his chin slightly, looked at the large number of generals in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "The honor of conquering this great city is yours!" ”

"Wansheng !!"

The generals of the Han army, who had long been impatient, shouted in unison. They have been waiting for the order to strike for a long time. The morale of the army is high and it cannot wait for the war. They are hungry for more through war.

has already beaten the city of Rome, and Gao Yang is not in a hurry at the moment. In advance, the vassal armies were used to deplete the strength and morale of the Romans and destroy the city defenses. Then he invested the main force of the Han army to take the entire city of Rome little by little.

The walls of the Romans were of little use at the moment. The previous attack had already smashed the walls of this side to pieces. And it was also ruthlessly opened by black powder. The defensive effect is greatly attenuated.

The huge Han army lined up one huge army after another, marching towards the city of Rome with firm steps. The remnants of the vassal armies all let out a long sigh of relief. They can't go any further.

In the midst of the roar, a large number of bed crossbows, catapults. Ballistas and other long-range assault weapons tilted towards the defenders with a deadly greeting. Huge stones and crossbow arrows as thick as children's arms inflicted heavy casualties on the Romans.

When the Han army approached the city wall under the cover of a rain of arrows flying in the sky. The Roman slaves in the defenders could no longer bear such huge casualties and rebelled at this critical moment!

The armor of the heavily armed Roman soldiers and the metal shields in their hands served as a good defense against the Han army's chain of crossbows. However, those slaves had nothing but weapons in their hands. How can a garment made of linen resist the shot of a metal arrow? The ruined walls also did not provide much protection for them. Watching countless people fall in pools of blood. It was only natural that the slaves, who had no will to fight, began to run away.

The formation that the Romans had struggled to maintain was instantly thrown into disarray. This kind of escape before the battle is very terrifying. Because of being at a disadvantage, once someone takes the lead in escaping, it will lead to a large swarm. Volume effect. Those who fled were absolutely in droves until the whole army was dispersed.

Can you expect a group of slaves who have been tortured and humiliated, who live every day in a situation where life is worse than death, to work for their enemies and protect them?

The threat of a rain of arrows outweighed the fear of the daggers in the hands of the Romans. The slaves who were put in front of them, now the freedmen are beginning to crumble.

"Don't run! Don't run!! The anxious-looking Roman soldiers slashed at the fleeing slaves with their short swords. These veterans know very well in their hearts that once this kind of thing takes shape, no one can stop it.

"Ahh A panicked slave was brutally impaled in the stomach by a veteran centurion of a Roman legion. The centurion pulled his hand and immediately disemboweled. Blue-gray intestines and various internal organs gushed out, and the scene was extremely terrifying.

"Kill them! Kill! "The veteran centurion was a battle-hardened veteran who, when he noticed something was wrong, immediately began directing his men to kill them.

The cold light flickered, and the red-eyed Roman soldiers took action, and soon killed hundreds of escaped slaves. There were also slaves who chose to resist at a critical moment of life and death. It's just that how can these slaves, who have not had enough to eat all year round, be able to confront the soldiers of the elite Roman legions? All revolts were bloodily suppressed.

"Those who dare to retreat will be killed!" The centurion raised his blood-dripping dagger and pointed it at the cowering slaves, shouting, "Stand back!" All stand back! ”

The centurion strode forward and crouched down as he passed the disemboweled slave. Grabbing the slave's hair, he swung his short sword violently, and the howling slave was suddenly silent.

The centurion raised his head and cast a ferocious gaze on the slaves who tried to run and were frightened back, and casually threw a human head over. The frightened slaves were eventually driven back to the front line, ready to meet the blow of the Han army's deadly force.

Violent. The rebellion was not limited to this place, and slave revolts took place on almost all fronts. It's just that all of them were suppressed by those elite Roman veterans.

The Han army brigade suddenly stopped a few hundred meters away from the city wall. Specially made huge shield wagons, propelled by a large crowd of vassal armies chanting slogans, slowly marched towards the distant city walls.

"The devils are here again!" The Romans, who had seen the terrifying power of black powder blasting through the walls yesterday, shouted frantically. The mighty and invincible power of Zeus, which was as huge as a thunderbolt in the hands of Zeus, made everyone shudder.

"They must be stopped!" Severus, who had personally come to the city wall to supervise the battle, shouted with a pale face.

"Rush out, rush out! Can't let them get close to the walls! "I don't understand why those shield carts are so terrifying. Still, Arnubis roared and ordered the defenders to go out and stop the shield carts from approaching.

Hordes of slaves poured into the ruins of the corpse-strewn under duress from the Roman soldiers. Then as soon as they looked up, they saw a rain of arrows!

In order to prevent the Romans from counterattacking and destroying the shield car, Gao Yang specially arranged a whole army of 10,000 people to use a chain of crossbows to block the ruins. Imagine the spectacle of tens of thousands of chain crossbows taking turns firing.

How could a slave with only a short sword or a wooden shield resist such a rain of sharp arrows? The slaves who rushed out fell to the ground almost in pieces. There were so many corpses that the slaves behind had to crawl over them. (To be continued.) )