"Boom boom~" A burst of artillery roared out, although the walls of Caesar Augusta were strong, but after several days of non-stop bombardment and blasting, they were finally overwhelmed, and a gap collapsed with a 'boom', and the Roman army under the city swarmed in, shouting the slogan of overthrowing the rule of the Goths, while quickly attacking the city lord's palace of Caesar Augusta, and the original Romans in the city also began to sneak attack the Visigothic army, and the Visigoths' rule over this military town has come to an end.

When Wang Fangyi rushed into the city of Caesar Augusta with 10,000 cavalry, the Visigoths in the city finally couldn't resist, and finally were either killed or surrendered, but the result of surrender was often killed by the Romans in the city with stones or wooden sticks, and even many Romans began to storm the mansions of some Visigothic nobles, killing men, children and old people among them, and Gothic women were dragged to the street and raped to death, which looked extremely miserable.

Caesar Augusta is located at the northeastern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, originally belonged to the territory of the Roman Empire, most of the inhabitants here were the original Romans, but later the Visigoths occupied here, took away two-thirds of the land of the local Romans, half of the forest, and other slaves, tools, etc., were all demanded from them, although many people rose up to resist, but were brutally suppressed by the Visigothic army.

In normal times, the Visigoths ruled Caesar Augusta very harshly, especially some Visigothic nobles, who expropriated the Romans in the city, and countless originally wealthy Romans went bankrupt because of this, and even became beggars on the streets, and the lives of other Romans were also very difficult. So the Romans limited their hatred to the Visigoths who ruled over them. There are no other feelings, so now make this crazy revenge. It's no wonder.

For this situation, Wang Fangyi has long been accustomed to it. Not only Caesar Augusta, but also other Visigothic cities they had attacked before, and the local Romans were almost always very hostile to the Visigoths. The Visigoths were originally a very barbaric people, they didn't know how to rule a country at all, and they blindly used military suppression at home, coupled with the influence of the Romans, the Visigothic aristocracy only pursued pleasure, and the money they needed could only be exploited from the Romans. Fortunately, they were able to maintain a relatively effective army, otherwise they would have been overthrown by the Romans long ago.

However, the families of the Gothic nobles were very wealthy, and Wang Fangyi could not let the Romans in the city continue to make such trouble, so under his orders, his army began to maintain order in the city, and all those who participated in the burning and looting were driven home, if they dared to disobey the order. Then you can only make an example of a hundred.

Under this harsh military order, the city of Caesar Augusta was quickly restored to its original order, the fires that ignited in the city were extinguished, and the dead bodies were dragged outside the city to be burned or buried. At the same time, Wang Fangyi also sent people to inform Li Ke and others, who were supervising the battle in the rear, to enter the city.

Northeast of Caesar Augusta. It is Turus, the capital of the Visigothic kingdom, and there is no city barrier in between, so to speak. Caesar Augusta was the gateway to Tourus and occupied it. It also means that Toulus is like a girl who has been stripped naked, and now she is standing naked in front of Li Ke. He could lead his troops to ravage the Visigothic capital at any time.

Since Li Ke gained a foothold in the southwestern coastal region of the Iberian Peninsula, he soon discovered that the rule within the Visigothic kingdom was not very stable, and the Visigoths were invaders after all, compared to the original Romans in the area, the Visigoths were still a minority after all. Second, because the Visigoths lacked the corresponding cultural heritage, they did not know how to rule, and they just blindly oppressed the Romans, which made the domestic uprisings continuous, and the Romans were also very hostile to the Visigoths.

Li Ke was overjoyed by this discovery, and after consulting with Cen Changqian, they decided to implement a more lenient rule in the ruling area, and at the same time vigorously promoted the alliance between the Tang Dynasty and Rome, especially pointing out that he had personally visited Eastern Rome and was very good friends with Constans II and his wife.

The loose rule made the Romans really feel the changes around them, not only life is getting better and better, but the Han people who rule them are completely different from the Visigoths, and when they get along with each other, the Han people always show a polite appearance, and do everything according to the law and rules. This is 10,000 times stronger than the Visigoths, who were simply a bunch of barbaric destroyers in the eyes of the Romans, and as for the laws and rules, they were a joke in the eyes of the Visigoths.

It is always very easy for civilized people to get along with civilized people, coupled with the alliance between the Tang Dynasty and Rome, as well as the personal relationship between Li Ke and Constans II, especially in secret, there are legends that Empress Irina of Constans II fell in love with His Royal Highness King Wu of the Tang Dynasty who ruled them at first sight, and even the reason why His Royal Highness King Wu stayed in the Mediterranean to establish a kingdom was mainly to be closer to Empress Irina.

The material satisfaction and spiritual closeness made Li Ke's rule in the Iberian Peninsula very stable in a short time, which was far from being comparable to the Visigoths. Moreover, under the spread of well-intentioned people, the Romans in the Visigothic ruling area also began to look forward to Li Ke, secretly looking forward to the early arrival of this Roman ally and drive away the Visigoths who oppressed them.

In this favorable situation, Li Ke naturally will not give up this good opportunity, so he recruited the local Romans to form an army, while urging the follow-up materials, when the materials sent from the Tang Dynasty, Daqi and Tianzhu just arrived, Li Ke appointed Wang Fangyi as the general, from the 50,000 Wu Wang army brought by the Great Qi to divide 30,000 people, and 70,000 local Roman troops, to form a 100,000 army of crusade team, began to conquer the Visigothic kingdom.

In the war with the Visigoths, Wang Fangyi often used firearms troops to disrupt the formation of the Visigothic army first, and then the Roman armies on both wings swarmed up to attack the opponent's formation. In general, very few Visigothic armies were able to withstand such an attack, and most of the Visigothic armies were killed under this onslaught, and the blood was flowing.

Of course, there are also a small number of elite troops that can withstand the bombardment of firearms, and then when facing the Romans who have just been trained, they can also fight with each other, at this time Wang Fangyi will send 10,000 cavalry carefully prepared by himself, this cavalry is all composed of steppe Hu people who are proficient in horsemanship, dismount is a musketeer, and get on the horse is a cavalry, under the impact of this kind of cavalry, no matter how elite the Visigothic army is only slaughtered.

You must know that the main reason why the Visigoths moved westward was that they were pursued and killed by the Huns, especially in the Arati era, when the Germans in Europe lived in the shadow of the Huns. The Huns were originally nomadic people in the north of the Central Plains, and they were also a branch of the Hu people in the steppe, and the Hu cavalry brought by Li Ke was also very similar, so when the Visigoths faced the Hu cavalry, they almost mistakenly thought that the Huns were killing again, and the fear engraved in their bones made most of the Goths lose the courage to resist.

It was precisely the superiority in military strength and the covert cooperation of the Romans that made Li Ke's expedition very smooth, and in just one year, he occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula and pushed the battle line to the south bank of the Ebro River at the northeastern tip of the peninsula.

This time, Wang Fangyi led the rear to conquer the military town of Caesar Augusta, and had uprooted the last military town on the south bank of the Ebro River, and the army was approaching the Visigothic capital of Turus. It can be said that the Visigothic Kingdom has been forced to a dead end by Li Ke, either organizing the remnants of the forces to fight Li Ke to the death, or packing up and going back to their hometown.

After receiving the news, Li Ke in the rear was also very excited to rush to Caesar Augusta City with people. The city is surrounded by semi-desert plains, but it is a rare oasis that the whole city is built on this oasis, so it looks very beautiful, and at the same time, the business is prosperous, and the geographical location is also very important, so whether the Romans or Visigoths ruled here, they stationed a large number of troops in the city.

Although Caesar Augusta City is important, but Li Ke's objectives are not only here, Wang Fangyi led the army to rest in the city for a few days, and immediately attacked again, first along the Ebro River south, then suddenly turned northeast, and finally with the cooperation of the navy, took the Visigoths in Barcelona, the largest port city in the Mediterranean.

Finally the army marched north, and after a month, reached the Pyrenees pass, where it met the Visigothic army again, and after a hard battle, Wang Fangyi took this pass at the cost of nearly 10,000 casualties, and opened the passage with the European Gaul region, of course, most of the casualties were Romans, and the 30,000 Wu Wang army as the core did not suffer many casualties.

The Pyrenees are the natural boundary between the Iberian Peninsula and the European continent, and the whole mountain range can be divided into three sections, the western section near the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern section near the Mediterranean Sea. Now the eastern passes are in the hands of Li Ke, but the western passes are in the hands of the fierce Basques, and the Visigoths have not been able to conquer this ancient people before, and it is even more impossible to enter the Iberian Peninsula from there.

In other words, after capturing the mountain pass in the eastern part of the Pyrenees, Li Ke had blocked the Visigoths' way into the Iberian Peninsula, and although there were still many cities in the hands of the Visigoths, the entire peninsula had lost contact with the rear, like duckweed without roots, and it was only a matter of time before it was conquered by Li Ke. (To be continued......)