I took a leave of absence yesterday, and this chapter makes up for yesterday's-

The dark clouds pressed the sky very low, and when he stood on the city of Xinwei and looked at it, it was dark and dreary outside, and his vision could only be seen less than ten zhang.

In the northwest direction, a large area of torches suddenly lit, and then I saw countless barbarians shouting and jumping out from behind the grass, trees, and boulders, and there was no formation at all, like a group of wild bees that had been pierced by someone's honeycomb, 'buzzing' and flying towards New Wei City

The Gallic barbarians of the fourth century BC all had a ferocious face, almost all of them were a foot tall, and their faces and chests were painted with strange paints with inexplicable patterns; They rarely had weapons made of copper and iron, many of them were armed with huge stone axes, except for the chief, ordinary soldiers only had a small piece of leather armor used to cover the raw ~ colonizer, because there was no helmet, many soldiers put hollowed out cattle and sheep skulls on their heads to resist the bows and arrows of the Romans.

Due to the severe shortage of bows and arrows due to the long-term fighting, it was not until the Gallic barbarians were about to rush under the city of New Wei that the Roman soldiers hidden in the trenches outside the city jumped out at the command of the centurion and stopped the Gallic barbarians with their few throwing spears.

At the same time, the archers in the city began to fire, they didn't need to aim at all, they just needed to shoot from a crowded place, anyway, the Roman soldiers had complete armor and even shields, and the chance of being injured by mistake was not great. The Gallic barbarians, on the other hand, were targeted for their arms, chest, legs, and even buttocks, which were not fully covered by leather armor.

In the face of the long-range attacks of the Romans, the Gallic barbarians fought back with earthy respect, and on the other hand, they resisted with their bodies. Their muscles are incredibly strong. Because I haven't taken a bath for a long time. The body was also covered with a thick layer of dirt and dirt, like a natural armor, and only the most powerful Roman archers and Roman spears could penetrate them whole, nailing them to the ground like toads.

After paying thousands of lives, the Gallic barbarians gradually approached the city gates, and Gaius immediately ordered the horns of the retreating army to be blown, ordering the Roman spearmen in the trenches outside the city to quickly withdraw to the city and close the city gates. The remaining dozen or so trebuchets desperately fired stone projectiles outside the city, and almost at the same time, the Gauls also began to use the trebuchets, and one after another huge stone bombardment on the walls of the new Wei City, near the city gates, and even inside the city, their trebuchets were crude, and there was no accuracy at all, but the number was ten times that of Rome, and the 'firepower' of the Roman defenders was suppressed for a while.

When thousands of Gallic barbarians carrying siege ladders rushed to the city, Gaius saw a banner painted with a goat's skull and a blood-colored eagle in the light of the torches. His complexion changed suddenly.

"Commander, it's the king of Gaul!"

The adjutant general's voice did not fall. In the western direction, ten times more torches were suddenly lit than before, and in the light of the torches it was clear that there were fifteen more banners like this in the Gallic army! Fifteen blood-colored eagle and sheep flags! According to the establishment of the Gallic barbarians, each flag represents 3,000 barbarians, and the other party has gathered nearly 50,000 troops, and they are all the elite of the Gallic army!

The soldiers under its banner are completely different from those motley armies who only care about life~ breeders and buttocks, they have eighty percent of them with iron weapons, iron armor and leather skirts that can protect half of the body, and the actions are more organized!

"I see it, our old adversary is finally here! I'm afraid this attack is completely different from the previous ones, they want to break the city! Damn the Senate, even if those idiots give me one more legion, as long as there are five more thousand troops, I can be sure to hold New Wei City! Don't they know that the city of New Wei is the last barrier of Rome? If the new Wei is conquered, the barbarians will invade Rome, which has never been invaded by a foreign tribe for 500 years! ”

Gaius cried out hoarsely, and at this moment he thought not only of the city of Rome, which the Romans were proud of, but also of the parents, wives, and children who lived in it

"Those fools always thought that the city of Rome could never be conquered, and they," the lieutenant replied only half a sentence, and with a loud roar, drew his sword, and met the Gallic barbarians, who had already climbed the walls.

By the time the Gallic king's most elite legions appeared under the city of New Wei, the ruined city could already be abandoned, and all Gaius and his legions could do was to delay time with the last of their strength and wait for their eastern allies to land on the Salt Peninsula.

After only half a day, a raging fire enveloped the city of New Wei, and the Gallic barbarians, armed with stone axes, laughed wildly and rushed into the city, killing nobles, civilians, and even slaves who did not belong to their group; They piled the bodies of the dead directly in the center of the city and discarded them in the sewers, turning the once-thriving city into a domain of rotten flesh and flies. Bringing a terrible plague with every Roman city conquered was a favorite thing for the Barbarians to do, believing that the god of plague would only come to the Romans, but would be attached to them

When the news of the loss of Xinwei reached the city of Rome, the whole of Rome was shaken, but the members of the Senate still sat at the long table in their trademark white robes, discussing whether to mobilize the legions stationed in the south to aid Rome, whether to mobilize one or several legions. This is a difficult question to solve, as to whether the city of Rome will be conquered by the Gallic barbarians? Oh hehe, this is simply ridiculous, the city of Rome has walls ten times stronger than Xinwei, and it is guarded by a whole elite Roman legion, which is completely impossible, even if Marcus jumps three feet high because of this, even if the commanders of those southern legions keep asking for it, they will only turn a deaf ear.

Because a few barbarians emptied the Southern Legion, which would have been laughed at by the Carthaginians and Greeks, face was more important than everything in the eyes of the members of the Senate.

"Marcus, one of the two consuls of Rome, pay attention to your demeanor, but just a few barbarians, do you really think they will conquer Rome? It's ridiculous. ”

Gnaeus Manlius Capitoline Inperiosus, who had served two consuls, twisted his gray-haired head and laughed out loud: "Rome"

Rumble!

A loud bang suddenly came from the north, followed by dozens or even hundreds of loud tremors, and Gnaeus's face changed, and at the age of fifty-three, he was very well maintained, and his hearing was comparable to that of a young man, and of course he could hear the sound of the stone bombardment on the city wall.

Could it be the walls of Rome? How is this possible! Titus, who he trusted the most, was one of the greatest legionaries in Rome, and where were his elite legions? Are they all hiding in the warm pool and hugging women? (To be continued.) )