"Report to the governor, the Western Regions Alliance is five miles away!"

On March 10 of the third year of Xiping, the Western Regions Alliance launched an offensive towards Yumen Pass, Cheng Yu stood on the tower of Yumen Pass, looked at the slowly advancing Western Regions Alliance Army, and pointed to the forbidden army in the middle, "That's the Roman army?" ”

"Exactly! From the mouth of the defeated army, I learned that the Roman army was very brave! ”

Cheng Yu nodded when he heard this, and said secretly, "It's been more than a month since the first attack, and the reinforcements from Rome haven't arrived yet, does it mean that it will take some time for its reinforcements, in this case, do you want to think about going out of the city to fight?" ”

Huang Zhong also thought so, so he said, "Governor envoy, let a certain lead the army to the first battle!" It's better to test the enemy's reality. ”

Cheng Yu heard the words and replied, "The cavalry needs to increase the speed of the horse, such a close distance is not suitable for the cavalry to fight." Then he turned back to the Liangzhou Governor and said, "Please send 5,000 people to the First Battle to find out the enemy's reality." ”

"No!"

The Han army walked out of the Yumen Pass with neat steps, Cassius smiled slightly when he saw this, Cassius's heart has changed dramatically in this month, originally he wanted the Han to fight Rome, but in this month he found that the Han's soldiers and horses were so vulnerable.

He had the idea of establishing a kingdom here in his heart, and this gathering of the Western Regions coalition army was just his desire to march to the rich land of the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty in order to establish a country in the Central Plains.

Therefore, at this time, when he saw that the Han army came out with 5,000 soldiers and horses, he also wanted to reconfirm the strength of the Han army. The strength of the Ruohan army is very strong. Then find a way to get it to attack Rome.

Come to think of it. Cassius ordered a team of 5,000 people to slowly step forward, and all the countries in the Western Regions Alliance were watching this battle, if Rome won, then they would completely turn against the Han, if the Han won, then they would immediately withdraw their troops, and send an envoy to explain the reason to the Han.

Cheng Yu was also watching, but he was not a person who resigned himself to fate. After the 5,000 Liangzhou border troops left the city, Cheng Yu asked Huang Zhong to lead 30,000 iron cavalry out of the city from the east gate of Yumen Pass, go around the back of the coalition army, and deal a fatal blow to it.

The Roman soldiers slowly stepped forward, and the Roman soldiers were already tall, coupled with their equal ring armor and the one-person-high tower shield, it showed unusual heroism.

Cheng Yu looked at the short spear on the back of the Roman soldier, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

The Roman soldiers were still moving forward, but they were already within range of the Han army. So the captain who commanded the 5,000 Han troops out of the city ordered: "Crossbowmen, prepare!" ”

"Put!"

"Whoosh!"

A rain of arrows rained down on the Roman soldiers. However, the reaction of the Roman soldiers was also quite fast, and at the moment when the Han army shot a rain of arrows, the Roman soldiers used the tower shield in their hands to form a copper wall and iron wall, and even the arrow rain in the sky was blocked.

Cheng Yu frowned slightly when he saw this, because this time the rain of arrows in the sky did not hurt any Roman soldiers.

The Liangzhou Lieutenant on the side scolded angrily, "Damn, it's really a group of turtles, and the rain of arrows is useless." ”

"Turtles?" Cheng Yu muttered in a low voice, then waved his hand and ordered, "Bed crossbow release!" ”

With Cheng Yu's order, more than 20 bed crossbows that required several people to work together to twist the strings shot out a deadly giant arrow cluster!

"Whew!"

Clusters of crossbow arrows like spears appeared in front of the tower shield with a deadly sound, and Cassius's eyes widened at the sight of this.

"Click! Touch! ”

As soon as the giant arrow cluster of the bed crossbow touched the tower shield, the tower shield was like tissue paper, and it was broken by a bucket, and some of the tower shields were actually smashed by the bed crossbow.

Seeing this, the lieutenant outside the city hurriedly ordered again: "Shoot the arrows!" ”

As the saying goes, taking advantage of your illness to kill you, the captain outside the city ordered the release of arrows at the moment when the iron wall composed of tower shields was broken, and immediately shot many Roman soldiers.

Although they were tempted to form an impregnable wall again, the bed crossbows in the city were shooting giant crossbow arrows wherever there was a formation formation.

Cassius shouted, "All the army is attacking!" ”

"Kill!"

The Roman soldiers shouted murder and rushed forward, although many countries in the coalition army planned to withdraw, but at this time they did not dare, so they had to rush forward.

Seeing this, Cheng Yu snorted coldly and said, "Trebuchet, release!" Crossbowmen, receiving the army from outside the city back to the city. ”

"No!"

Under the double blow of trebuchets and Han crossbow arrows, the coalition army suffered heavy losses, and what angered Cassius the most was that the Han army that came out of the city to fight was not a single person.

Cassius was very angry that he didn't bring siege machines, Rome didn't have trebuchets, but Cassius originally planned to let the Han and Rome fight, so naturally he wouldn't bring siege trebuchets, as for manufacturing! Cassius and his men really don't.

These Cassius were so relieved that they had to order their armies to storm the city.

Cassius's Roman legions attacked the west gate, the army of the Otsuki clan attacked the north gate, the rest of the coalition army sent 30,000 troops to attack the south gate, and the remaining 40,000 allied troops were used as reserves.

I have to say that the combat power of the Roman legion is still very strong, and several Roman soldiers attacked the city half an hour after the siege began, which made Cheng Yu suddenly break out in a cold sweat, you must know that there is no fierce general in Yumen Pass at this time!

If it weren't for the courage of the Han army, I'm afraid that the heavily defended West Gate would be broken, Cheng Yu only hoped that Huang Zhong could quickly launch an offensive at this time, otherwise it would be hard to say whether the Yumen Pass could be defended.

After the Roman legion attacked the city for an hour, Huang Zhong's army finally launched an offensive, 30,000 iron cavalry killed the coalition army like a sharp knife, and the 40,000 coalition troops as a reserve were ordered to resist, but unfortunately it was really not enough in front of Huang Zhong, who is now the first in force.

What's more, Huang Zhong also has a growing future god of war by his side - Lu Bu!

The Han cavalry saw that Huang Zhong and Lu Bu were brave and invincible, and their morale suddenly rose, and the 40,000 allied troops could not resist even a quarter of an hour, and they were defeated, Huang Zhong ordered 5,000 cavalry to stay to expand the results of the battle, and he led 25,000 cavalry straight to the Roman legion.

Cassius was furious when he saw this, if the reserve troops behind him were his Roman legions, Huang Zhong might not be able to defeat them so quickly.

But there was no if in the war, but this Cassius was also very human, and after ordering his 5,000 soldiers and horses to be broken, he immediately ordered the troops to retreat. The other armies of the coalition were not informed at all.

Huang Zhong wanted to defeat the Roman army in one go, but the five thousand Roman soldiers behind the palace gave Huang Zhong a blow to the head, and they took out the heavy javelins they carried with them. Although the effective range of this heavy javelin is only a meagre thirty meters. But its penetrating power is extremely strong.

These elite Roman legionaries were interrupted on the hilt of their own heavy javelins. They were all wrapped around several circles of rope. In this way, the heavy javelin will be fired in a spiral pattern. Enhances its penetrating power. Even if I wear the armor finely. At a distance of twenty meters. Being shot with this heavy javelin is basically not dead or maimed.

Under the blow of a thousand javelins, the Han army's iron cavalry suddenly suffered heavy losses, and in a short moment, it was actually the loss of 3,000 soldiers and horses, which were not killed by javelin shots, but after the Han army's war horses fell in front, the soldiers in the rear failed to react in time and fell.

But Huang Zhong was not easy to get along with, and directly divided the two wings to implement the chiseling tactics on the 5,000 Roman legions, but the heavy armor of the Roman soldiers gave the Han army a headache, and finally after losing more than 2,000 people, the Roman legions of 5,000 people were wiped out.

However, at this time, Cassius had already led the army to withdraw, and in desperation, Huang Zhong had no choice but to retaliate against the Dayue clan and the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions, in this battle, the Han army lost more than 16,000 people, the coalition army lost more than 50,000 people, and the Roman legion lost more than 8,000 people.

But the turtle tactics of the Roman legions were well known to the generals of the Han Dynasty. (To be continued......)