At that time, the gates of Hilt City were opened, and soldiers hurried out of the city and went straight to the Tang camp.

Don army battalion.

"The city gate is open, hahaha, go and report to the prince and the generals, the gate of Hilt City is open!"

"Hahaha, this king just said, with his courage Francie, he doesn't dare to deceive my Tang Dynasty!"

Li Yuanba, who was in the camp, laughed out loud, "Order the three armies and order them to follow the king and enter Hilt City!" ”

"No!"

Li Ji, Li Jing and other high-ranking military officials responded in unison, and went outside to arrange the deployment and entry into the city.

……

On September 13 of the twelfth year of Zhenguan, Datang fully unified Dashi, and also purged the bandits and bandits in Dashi.

The former prince of the Great Food, Francy, was named the Marquis of Dingbei by the Tang Dynasty, and was stationed in Hilt City, although the fief was not rich, but if he wanted to feed this big family, he was still rich and surplus.

For more than two months after that, the Tang Dynasty died down, seemingly forgetting the stubborn resistance of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Great Eat, and everything was changing towards peace and recuperation.

However, at the beginning of December of the twelfth year of Zhenguan, Li Yuanba ordered 50,000 troops of Dingtiandao, together with an army of 10,000 Shenwuwei, with all kinds of light and heavy firearms, and brazenly invaded the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Because of the war of the Great Eclipse, the Eastern Roman Empire has long been defending against the Tang Dynasty, so for more than two months, the Eastern Roman Empire has been actively preparing for war, for fear that the Tang Dynasty will attack.

In the face of the brazen invasion of the Tang army, the Eastern Romans immediately reacted, and they quickly transferred the assembled army to the Dashi border area where the war was about to take place, preparing to give Li Yuanba and them a head-on attack on the border.

In addition, these Eastern Roman Empire troops did not dare to get too close to the Tang army, after all, they were not stupid. knew that if it was too close, it would likely attract an attack from the mysterious firearms of the Tang army.

The army assembled by the Eastern Roman Empire this time definitely exceeded tens of thousands, and they fought at home, so they far surpassed the Tang army in terms of troops.

Of course, they have also made other preparations, which is to continue to mobilize troops in other parts of the country. Because they clearly knew how powerful a country Datang was and how powerful the army was, they had no confidence that they could defeat Li Yuanba in one fell swoop.

I only hope that we can drag them out, and when another large army that is being requisitioned in China arrives, relying on the advantage of fighting at home, we will use the tactics of crowds to kill the Tang army.

……

The border of the Eastern Roman Empire chosen by Li Yuanba deliberately chose a place near the sea, one is to reach the Eastern Roman border as soon as possible. These two are just to give full play to the advantages of the steam battleship.

Speaking of which, the coastline of the Eastern Roman Empire is not long, and most of them are steep cliffs, and there are only two or three gentle beaches.

Therefore, the arrangement of this landing site is also particular, and the military of the Eastern Roman Empire has already set up an ambush in the territory where Datang is most likely to land, waiting for Datang to drill inside.

Standing on the warship, I saw those in armor from afar. Or the soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire who were driving chariots with iron spikes, or squatting next to catapults. Li Yuanba couldn't help but sneer.

These people of the Eastern Roman Empire are just in the era of cold weapons, at best, they have heard of the firearms of the Tang Dynasty, and as for the specific power of firearms, I am afraid they have not seen it yet.

With the current form of battle, if you face all kinds of light and heavy firearms in Datang, it will simply come to give people their heads.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The hapless army of the Eastern Roman Empire. Even when they had just seen the Tang army's army appear on the coastline, and their catapults couldn't reach the Tang army, the sound of thick artillery had already sounded.

The ferocious artillery cleared the way, and the incomparably hot brass-colored cannonballs pierced the void with a terrible whistling. With great momentum, he smashed into the ranks of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Fortunately, this is the coastline, the ground is quite soft sea sand, after the shells explode on it, the effect of the attack is reduced a lot, although the crater looks very large, and it also carries some flesh and blood of the Eastern Roman soldiers, but the killing effect is much smaller than the solid ground.

Although the people of the Eastern Roman Empire have long known that the Tang Dynasty has a rather strange but extremely powerful firearm, nine out of ten of the Eastern Roman soldiers recruited this time have never seen the attack power of firearms.

Therefore, just in the first round of artillery bombardment, these soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire were already beaten stupid.

Although they had been told that the other party had a powerful weapon before, the power displayed by these firearms was beyond the scope of their cognition, and even more than eighty percent of the people thought that this was a god descending from the heavens, and the Tang people were invincible at all.

In addition, with pure cold weapons against powerful thermal weapons, and with all kinds of light and heavy firearms, it is said that the people of the Eastern Roman Empire are only twice as many as the Tang army, even if it is more than three times or five times more...... Before the war began, the final battle was already doomed!

In this way, before the warships on the Tang side even approached the coastline, the Eastern Roman Empire had already lost tens of thousands of people, and the rest of the people had completely lost their fighting spirit.

When the battleship approached the coastline of the Eastern Roman Empire, and a group of Tang soldiers armed with firearms rushed down from the battleship, these soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire, who had lost their fighting spirit and were more or less injured, did not even have a chance to escape, and those soldiers fell down one by one like harvesting wheat during the autumn harvest.

Scimitars and swords that shimmered with cold glitter were no match for these short, flattened brass-colored bullets.

Therefore, the remaining 100,000 people of the 100,000 army were slaughtered by the 60,000 Tang soldiers under the crazy slaughter of the 60,000 Tang soldiers, and after only resisting for two hours, they had already been slaughtered by 60,000 or 70,000, and the remaining soldiers also completely collapsed.

Regardless of whether it was an officer or a soldier of the Eastern Roman Empire, they all lost the will to resist, and either fled like rabbits or stood still, and the whole person fell into a state of stupidity.

For these guys, Li Yuanba didn't even have any mercy, and directly let his army let go of his hands to kill, he didn't need prisoners, and he didn't need these people who had completely lost their fighting spirit to act as pawns for him. (To be continued.) )