readx; As Zhao Yun had predicted, Caracalla and Gaita were defenseless against the Han army passing by sea, in fact, even if they had been prepared, it would be useless, because the navy of the Great Qin Empire had been completely wiped out, and it was impossible to stop the Han navy.

After the Han army landed, they arrived at the city of Rome without encountering any obstacles along the way, and quickly formed a siege, but encountered great difficulties when attacking the city.

There were still four legions of the Great Qin army in the city of Rome, and these four legions were the Greek legions, the Roman legions, the Gallic legions, and the Germanic legions.

Although the Gallic Legion and the Germanic Legion suffered heavy losses in Parthia, they were the descendants of Caracalla and Gaita, respectively, and received a lot of care in the process of reorganization, from personnel to equipment, and their combat effectiveness was greatly enhanced, even exceeding the level before the invasion of Parthia.

And the Greek legion and the Roman legion are the famous royal legions of the Great Qin Empire, especially the Roman legions are named after this great city, the Roman legions from the commander to the man, the family is in the Roman city, protecting Rome is to protect their families, which makes the legion up and down 50,000 soldiers, almost everyone has the determination to die,

After besieging the city of Rome, the Han army did not immediately attack, but found many Great Qin people, and shouted to the city all night, telling them that the entire territory of Great Qin had fallen, and only Rome was still resisting stubbornly, hoping that the soldiers and civilians in the city would recognize the situation and surrender, and the Han army would ensure their safety.

In the process of shouting, there were also various music and singing voices outside the city, these musicians and singers were selected from all over Daqin, who had already read power, and transmitted a message to the city through singing, proving that the rest of Daqin had been captured.

In the early morning of the next day, the battle against the city of Rome officially began, and the "embattled" tactics arranged by Liu Xin did not seem to work, and the Qin soldiers defending the city used the fortified city as a support and put up stubborn resistance.

Unlike the Han army, the bow and crossbow are not much equipped in the Qin army, it is because of this information that Liu Xin seriously underestimated the difficulty of attacking the city, although the Qin army's bow and crossbow were unfavorable, but they were used to throwing spears, which also caused a lot of trouble to the Han army, and the Qin soldiers were tall and strong, when the Han soldiers finally climbed to the top of the city, one-on-one individual combat often fell behind, and many Han soldiers were in the process of climbing by the Qin army to swing a heavy double-edged axe to cut off their hands, Fell alive under the city of Rome, the battle was extremely fierce, and lasted until the evening, countless heroic Han soldiers fell under the city of Rome, and on the head of the city, the eagle battle flag of the Great Qin Empire was still fluttering in the wind,

The Han army had never encountered such a difficult situation in countless siege battles large and small in the past, and he couldn't stand it anymore, so he arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, if you continue to fight like this, the casualties will be too great, so let's call the trebuchet." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

In all the siege battles, trebuchets have always been the vanguard of the Han army, this time to attack the city of Rome, Liu Xin also made careful preparations, and even the psychological tactics of "embattled" were used, and the siege troops of the four gates also changed the main attack and feint attack from time to time, so that the defenders could not grasp the point.

However, this time, Liu Xin has always hesitated to use the super killer weapon of the trebuchet, because Liu Xin knows that the destructive power of the trebuchet is as great as its power, and a city will often become full of holes after being hit by a trebuchet, Liu Xin does not want this great city to be destroyed in his own hands, and he does not want to leave such a record in the future history books: In a certain year and a certain month, the Han Emperor Liu Xin led an army to invade, and the city of Rome was destroyed in the war.

But the stalemate of the battle, so that Liu Xin had to reconsider his tactics, he ordered to stop the attack, Ming Jin collected the troops, the loss of troops but could not climb the head of the Roman city, so that the Han army soldiers were a little disappointed and unwilling, and the city of the Great Qin army has made a deafening cheers, it is the cheers of the Great Qin army, so that Liu Xin made up his mind, no matter how great the Roman city is built, it is not as precious as the lives of the Han soldiers, even if it will receive thousands of scolding in the future, Liu Xin will also use trebuchets,

Not only did he use trebuchets, but Liu Xin also planned to use another tactic at the same time,

The Han army, which had collected its troops and returned to the camp, did not die down, but was busy overnight, knowing that there would be a bigger move tomorrow, and the oppressive atmosphere that had spread among the three armies because of the siege setback was swept away, and the trebuchets transferred from the rear began to be assembled rapidly, and one by one they were lined up outside the city of Rome, and more soldiers went into battle shirtless, wielding shovels, digging tunnels leading to the city of Rome,

In the city of Rome, Caracalla and Gaita personally climbed to the top of the city, while inspecting, while paying attention to the movements of the Han army outside the city, the commanders of the four major legions in the city are experienced veterans, and arranged a lot of detailed work to inquire about the situation outside the city, these details are not easy to make the city, but for the excavation of tunnels, they have their own methods, the actions of the Han army can not be hidden, they quickly judged that the Han army outside the city dug a total of fifteen tunnels, all concentrated in the south of the city of Rome,

For this kind of carving insect skills, Caracalla and Gaita were disdainful, and immediately ordered to dig a deep trench around the southern city wall, don't underestimate this trench, as long as the Han army digs here, it will be cut off immediately, and it will be impossible to dig into the city again, not only that, the Han soldiers who are responsible for digging the tunnel will definitely not be ready for battle, and they will not even have time to escape, they can only become the soul of the Great Qin army.

Gradually to dawn, the Han army outside the city of Rome began a new round of assembly, the sound of war drums shook the earth, with yesterday's victory, the morale of the Qin army in the city of Rome was greatly boosted, the spears on the head of the city were like a forest, and the crazy Qin soldiers licked their lips, as if they were tasting the blood in the air,

The soldiers outside the city did not charge, but there was a loud "boom" sound, and Caracalla was taken aback, and ordered in succession: "Disperse quickly." ”

However, it was too late, countless stones fell from the sky, crackling and falling all over the city, smashing the Qin soldiers all over the body, dead and wounded, this time, Liu Xin did not have the slightest reservation, and ordered the trebuchet to attack all the time until all the stone bullets were exhausted,

Seeing the heavy casualties of his men, Gaita couldn't help but burst into a rage and shouted, "Open the gates and rush over." ”

At the beginning, Lu Yi taught the way to deal with the trebuchet, one is to spread the troops as much as possible, and the other is to try to rush to the front of the trebuchet position, Gaita does not expect to rush to the front of the trebuchet position, because he does not know where the Han army's trebuchet position is, but he can rush to the front of the Han army's military formation, as long as the two sides start hand-to-hand combat, the Han army's trebuchet will be greatly reduced in order to avoid hurting his own family,

Caracalla was very cautious, and hurriedly stopped: "Don't do it, be careful of the tricks of the Han people, especially those tunnels, and give the order to go down, you must dig the trench in front of the Han people, and ambush heavy soldiers on both sides of the trench." ”

The trebuchet of the Han army is very powerful, there are many stone bullets flying directly through the city wall, falling into the city, the trench dug by the Qin army in the south of the city is very close to the city wall, from time to time there are stone bullets falling, the Qin soldiers who are digging the ditch are killed and injured, but Caracalla gave the order to die, the Qin soldiers braved the stone rain of the Han army to go one after another, a trench more than two zhang wide and more than one zhang deep gradually revealed the prototype,

A large number of Qin soldiers were sent to jump into the trenches, nervously guarding the possible exits of the Han tunnels, as soon as the tunnels were dug through, they would rush over and annihilate the Han army.

At this time, some Qin soldiers who jumped into the trench suddenly found that the stone bullets of the Han army rarely fell into the trench, and the news spread, more and more Qin soldiers took the initiative to jump into the trench, using this place as a refuge to avoid the attack of the trebuchet, and even some soldiers dug many potholes along both sides of the trench, and people hid in it, and there was no need to worry about the damage of the stone bullets.

The trebuchets outside the city attacked for a whole morning, and the stone rain finally became sparse, and Gaita shook his spirits and ordered: "Quick, there are not many stones for the Han people, all go to the city, and prepare to meet the enemy." ”

The city was already a mess, full of severed arms and limbs and bloody corpses, some houses in the city near the city wall were also damaged, either collapsed or smashed out of many large holes, and the Roman citizens hiding in the houses were also killed and wounded, but the Roman city was very strong, and under such continuous and fierce blows, there were only a few cracks in the city wall that were not very obvious, and there was no need to repair them.

The soldiers of the Qin army who rushed to the head of the city did not care about cleaning up the corpses of their companions and the messy stones, they picked up their spears one after another, and were ready to throw them under the city, suddenly, the already sparse stone rain rose violently again, and the Qin soldiers who rushed to the city were shot one after another, and more than half of the casualties were killed in a blink of an eye.

However, this is also the last round of stone bullets of the Han army, after the completion of this round of shooting, the Han army has no stone bullets available, the roar outside the city stopped abruptly, the trebuchet completed its mission, and the rest is still only by the soldiers to rush and kill with flesh and blood, to fight,

Although the trebuchet's attack did not achieve the expected effect, it still brought a strong psychological shock to the soldiers and civilians in the Roman city, after the stone bomb attack stopped, there were still few figures on the city, and most of the Qin soldiers were still hiding under the city, especially in the ditch in the south of the city, which was almost crowded with people.

At this time, it should be the best opportunity to storm the city wall, but yesterday's siege setback made Liu Xin become a lot more cautious, he did not order the infantry to charge, but first moved the crossbowmen forward, this time, he wanted to make full use of the advantages of the Han army's bow and crossbow, suppress the defenders at the head of the city, and cover the infantry to enter the city,