"Run!" Severus came to Arnubis's side and patted him on the shoulder with a complicated expression.

Arnubis's body trembled slightly, and his bloodshot eyes looked at him blankly. With a wry smile, he said, "Can't hold on anymore?" ”

Severus shook his head vigorously, his voice full of helplessness, "The blood of the Roman men is almost dry. Now my generals are starting to recruit boys for battle. I watched as the children, whose helmets covered half of their faces, and who were not yet as tall as javelins, walked into battle. ”

Speaking of this, Severus closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said, "It's really impossible to fight." ”

&+++mnbsp;"It's come to this point. Arnubis sighed bitterly and said, "Are all the empire's legions dead?" ”

A complicated look flashed in Severus's eyes, "Except for those who fled with the cowards, as well as the few legions that are now the last force in their hands. The rest of the Roman legions were almost all gone. Most of them were completely crippled, the remnants were integrated and stuffed in, and some recruits were still resisting. However, there are also many legions that have been completely wiped out. They held on to important places everywhere, and were surrounded by foreign armies and annihilated. Many legions didn't even have the Eagle Mark left. ”

"Is there 200,000?" Arnubis asked suddenly.

"There it is." Severus nodded bitterly.

Regardless of the losses of the civilians, the regular Roman soldiers alone had already lost 200,000 people! That's more than thirty Roman legions! How many times in the history of the Romans could there have been armies of this size? And again, defeated!

"That's really going to be unstoppable." Arnubis looked slightly stunned, and then nodded without knowing whether to cry or laugh.

"I'll go to Gaul, you go to Spain." Severus exclaimed earnestly, "We still have a lot of immigrants and wealth in the provinces. Once there, all the wealth of the wealthy was confiscated, used to recruit local immigrants, and barbarians were hired to form new legions. We've got to keep it up! The homeland of those aliens is too far away, and they have to go back after all. As long as we can persevere, there will come a time when the city of Rome will be regained! ”

Arnubis smiled bitterly, looked at Severus, and said in a dry voice, "You are from a military background, and you have a resolute character. The task of recovering the city of Rome is all on you. I am an archon of the Roman Empire. Now the glorious city of Rome is about to fall. How can I leave? ”

"You!?" Severus was shocked, he didn't expect that this competitor he had despised in the past would have such a noble character? He did not run when the senate and nobles fled, nor did he go when he asked him to retreat. When the empire was about to fall, he, the emperor, was ready to flee, and Arnubis actually chose to live and die with the empire! This character. Severus felt his eyes moisten a little, and he hurriedly turned around and raised his head, unwilling to allow himself to shed cowardly tears.

"At the end of a glorious empire, there should always be someone who will die for him." Arnubis calmly walked to the window and looked at the city of Rome in the distance, which had been mired in endless war and smoke, and whispered, "Let me, the consul, disappear with the empire." ”

'Da~da~da~' Severus, who tilted his head slightly, strode out the door, he needed to do his own thing

"So much loss?" Gao Yang was accompanied by a large number of generals to a Roman square. I looked at the square on one side of the painful wounded, and on the other side were rows of corpses of fallen Han soldiers covered with white cloths.

"Back to Lord Taiwei." Pound, with a bitter face, stepped forward and saluted, saying, "Those Romans are desperately resisting as if they were crazy. They are all hiding inside the building, and our crossbows are not very effective. If it was just a human rush, the Romans would have resisted wildly, and many Romans would even rush out and fall down the hill with their soldiers in their arms. ”

"Oh?" Gao Yang raised his eyes to look at the ruined temple on a hill next to the square. There were mangled corpses lying on the ground everywhere, and the original white marble pillars had now been rendered crimson by blood. From time to time, the figures of the Romans will flash between the columns.

"The last madness?" Gao Yang narrowed his eyes slightly and whispered to himself.

Turning to Pound, he asked aloud, "Why don't you use heavy weapons?" How much do you have to lose by relying on the soldiers' hard charges? ”

"Lord Lieutenant." Pound hurriedly replied, "There are a lot of goods in this kind of temple. If you use heavy weapons"

"You idiot!" Gao Yang scolded hatefully, "What kind of goods can be more important than the soldiers?!" We traveled thousands of miles to get here. Is it just for these goods?! Without the soldiers, will you defend a mountain of gold!? ”

Turning around and squinting at the temple, he shouted in a deep voice, "Push the black powder up and blow it up!" ”

Wealth doesn't matter or anything. Don't say that Gao Yang doesn't care about these things at all. Even if he really cared, he wouldn't trade the lives of his soldiers for these riches. What could be more important than the lives of soldiers fighting to the death in a faraway foreign land?

Several four-wheeled carriages were towed. Barrel after barrel of black powder was unloaded from the wagon. These barrels contain the most powerful weapons of our time. No building can stop the immense power of black powder.

The mountains in Rome are not very tall, but more like dirt slopes. These hills are not built with lavish mansion compounds. It is a magnificent temple. It is the place that all Romans aspire to.

A large number of vassals poured up, holding strong shields and forming a tight line to stop the Roman soldiers inside the temple.

Behind the vassals. Using sharp sapper shovels, a large number of Han soldiers began to quickly dig huge holes in preparation for a blasting attack.

Blowing up a temple with gunpowder doesn't necessarily need to be very close. The sheer power of the gunpowder explosion is very effective against this loose mountain, and if there are enough of them, even if they are a little farther away, they can easily destroy the temple.

The Romans were not fools either, and they naturally noticed the movements of the Han army. Although I don't understand what those Han soldiers are going to thank, it will definitely not be a good thing.

A large crowd of Romans rushed out of the temple in an attempt to launch a counterattack. As a result, he was baptized by a rain of sharp arrows. Before they could get close to the vassals, many of them were full of arrows and fell to the ground.

A small number of Romans rushed in front of the vassals, but they were unable to break through these strong shield formations. The Romans were brave at this time, but the vassals were no different. After repeated bloody battles, the two sides have already been in an endless situation, and when they meet, it is a fierce battle.

The Romans, who had lost the protection of the temple building, suffered heavy losses and had to choose to return to the temple. watched the Han army complete its deployment.

With the order of the general, the Han army and the vassal army retreated from the hill like a tide. Without waiting for the Romans in the temple to rush out and eliminate the danger. A violent roar resounded throughout the city of Rome.

The huge pillars of dust that rose into the sky were 100 meters high and could be seen throughout the city of Rome. The temple and the Roman soldiers stationed there were all destroyed. The powerful blast wave of the explosion was enough to destroy everyone's internal organs, leaving them bleeding to death incessantly.

Shaking his buzzing ears vigorously, Pound looked at the scorching dirt that rained everywhere in shock. I was shocked by the terrifying power in front of me. "Is there still a need for generals to exist in the future? What can the hard-working body and martial arts count in front of this kind of thing? ”

Gao Yang didn't have time to care about Pound's thoughts. After the explosion gradually stopped, he turned to the generals and shouted, "In the future, when they encounter the stubborn resistance of the Great Qin people, all the buildings that are not easy to attack will be blown up with gunpowder. The people of Daqin are now grasshoppers after autumn, and they can't stumble for a few days. The more crazy they become, the more we have to fight back with forceful means! ”

"Whoa!" A large number of generals responded in unison.

In the days that followed, the Han army began to switch tactics. When encountering Roman soldiers who were hiding in a sturdy building and resisting desperately, they no longer chose to break through strongly, and most of them directly destroyed with a large amount of black powder. A small number of more important buildings were directly besieged by large armies and cut off from water. Wait for the defenders to die of thirst or come out and surrender on their own initiative.

The change in the combat style of the Han army greatly accelerated the rate of loss of Roman soldiers. At the same time, it was weakening the will of the Roman soldiers to resist. After all, every explosion is so loud that few people will not see it. Faced with such a non-human ability to fight, it was only natural that the morale of the Romans began to gradually decline.

"I'm leaving." Severus, dressed in military uniform, came up behind Arnubis and said in a deep voice, "I am the emperor of the empire, and I cannot die until I drive out the foreign army and regain the city of Rome." ”

"Hmm." Dressed in a gorgeous purple robe, Arnubis sat on a chair and drank fine wine, and said without looking back, "I wish you success." ”

Severus looked around at the slaves who were piling up in the room with firewood and other fireworks. Turning his gaze back to Arnubis, he whispered with a complicated expression, "You are a real Roman, and I apologize for the previous dispute between us." Please rest assured, I will definitely recover the motherland! ”

"Let's go." Arnubis sipped his wine, still not looking back. He was afraid that he would not be able to continue his determination when he turned back, and that he would run away with Severus.

Severus departed, taking the last Roman legions with him all the way north to Gaul. He wanted to reclaim the Roman legions there, hoping to retake the city.

Arnubis stayed, and after a crazy night, as the hordes of Han armies approached his mansion, a blazing flame kept him in Rome forever.

Dust to dust, dust to dust. The beginning of everything is also the end of everything. (To be continued......)