Chapter 474: The Destruction of Rome (Finale)
The next evening, after the slaves had finished their dinner, several centurions of the city guard led a group of soldiers and stood in front of the slaves who were eating, and said loudly: "You damned slaves, because of your laziness, you should have carried those weapons to the city wall in the afternoon, but they have not been moved until now, I don't think you want to live for time, do you?" ”
"It's not!" Fils sat in the crowd of slaves and said loudly: "Master centurion, the amount of food we eat has been greatly reduced these days, and there is only some pitiful batter per meal. If you give us a night's time, I think we should be able to move it before dawn! ”
The centurion was obviously aware of the reduction in food rations, and not only the amount of food for the slaves was greatly reduced, but even the food supply for the soldiers of the army was gradually decreasing, and many of the inhabitants of the city had run out of food, some of them for two days.
The centurion's grip on the hilt of the sword loosened, and he weighed it and agreed: "Okay, I'll give you another night, and if you haven't finished moving before dawn tomorrow, I'll order you all to be killed, and give the other slaves a stern warning, and there is still a quarter of an hour before the end of the meal, and after a quarter of an hour we will start working, and we will go."
Seeing the centurion lead the team away, the more than a thousand slaves breathed a sigh of relief, and Fils also breathed a sigh of relief, although they had more than a thousand people, and the centurion only had a hundred, but they did not dare to do anything wrong, knowing that they were unarmed. And I only drank two meals of thin batter for a few days in a row, and I didn't have any wild vegetables to eat, so where did I have any strength? Only if you get a weapon can you have the capital to fight. And now let's be honest!
A quarter of an hour passed quickly, and in fact, many people had already drunk the thin batter in the pottery bowl, and sitting here was just saving some body.
When the time was up, the overseers came up and shouted loudly for the slaves to line up and go to the weapons warehouse two miles from the East City Gate to carry weapons.
As he walked, he was thinking about how to do it, when a city guard soldier came up and pointed a spear at him and shouted, "You, go slower and keep your distance from the people behind!" ”
Fils took a look. This soldier of the city guard is none other than a representative of the Qin army outside the city, and this person will participate in the operation to seize the city gate with him. He hurriedly pretended to be scared and agreed: "Yes, my lord! ”
The man was walking side by side with him, only a meter apart, and the other overseers thought he was maintaining order. There is no doubt about him. So I didn't care.
"What are you going to do?" The man disguised as a soldier of the City Guard asked in a low voice.
Fils thought for a while and said in a low voice: "I must kill the soldiers guarding the weapon warehouse first, I have observed in the afternoon, the soldiers guarding the weapon warehouse have a team of 100 people, plus a hundred people who are guarding us, there are a total of 200 people, I mean wait until everyone has carried the weapons before moving, so that as soon as we launch, everyone can get the weapons and kill the enemy as quickly as possible!" After two or two hundred people settled. We took control of the weapons warehouse and distributed the best equipment to everyone. Then kill the city gate as fast as you can."
The guy disguised as a soldier of the city guard thought for a moment and whispered in agreement, "Okay, just do what you want!" ”
In about ten minutes, more than 1,000 slaves finally arrived at the weapons warehouse, and as the door of the warehouse opened, the slaves entered the warehouse to carry weapons under the watchful eye of the city guard soldiers.
The weapons used for the defense of the city were not very good, they were all some spears and arrows, some short bows, only a few swords, after entering the warehouse, there were fewer guards inside, most of the soldiers were outside the warehouse, at this time the soldiers were not so strict with the slaves, and Fils had time to communicate and contact with other slaves.
The invisible gestures of the soldiers kept transmitting information among the slaves, and soon the slaves who entered the warehouse were given the order to wait for the order to attack, and before going to bed last night, Sambus had already communicated with the slaves, they had long had enough of such days, and had long hoped that someone would come to rescue them from the sea of suffering, exempt them from their status of hard work, and let them become free people again.
Tonight they are going to take weapons to snatch the city gates, open the city gates and let the Qin army outside the city kill the city, kill all the damned, greedy nobles and rich people, this kind of thing has not happened, fifty years ago, when the Gothic leader Alaric led his army to attack the city of Rome, it was the slaves who risked their lives to open the city gate and lead Alaric's army into the city. It's a pity that Alaric didn't dare to stay in Rome for a long time, and after a lot of looting, he led his army to leave, and this time it was different, the Qin army was preparing to occupy this place for a long time.
One by one, the slaves came out of the warehouse with a bundle of weapons and gathered outside the warehouse, which was required by the city guards who escorted them, after all, there were only a hundred city guards, and if the slaves were scattered, it would not be conducive to their care.
After taking all the slaves out of the warehouse, Fils knew that it was time to act, he drew one of the bundles of spears he was carrying on his shoulders, and before the centurion of the city guard could order them to line up and walk into the street, he shouted: "Suffering slaves, it is time for us to resist, kill them, rob them of their weapons and armor, seize the city gate and let the Qin army into the city, we will become free men, kill!" ”
He yelled and stabbed the nearest City Guard soldier with his spear, but before the City Guard could react, he was stabbed in half, and Fils raised his foot and kicked it, drawing his spear and continuing to kill the other City Guard soldiers.
When the other slaves saw Fils move, they also shouted and pulled out a weapon from their shoulders to kill the nearby city guard soldiers, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.
Immediately a large number of shouts of killing erupted in front of the weapons warehouse, and the slaves joined the battle, and the door and inside the warehouse were soon covered with corpses and blood.
After less than twenty minutes of killing, the two centurians were all wiped out, and the slaves also died three hundred, and so many died in the case of a sneak attack. It can be seen that these slaves really have no combat effectiveness.
When Fils led the heavily armed slaves to the East Gate, they found that fighting was raging under the Gate, with some men dressed in clergy holding weapons and strangling with the City Guard soldiers guarding the gate. The scene was chaotic.
"How can someone do it before us?" Filth turned his head to look at his employer.
The employer thought for a moment and said, "I have not only been sent from above to do this, but it will not be in our favor, now we will kill them immediately, help those in clergy clothes to kill the city guards, and then open the city gates!" ”
"Good!" Fils agreed, then raised his big sword and pointed forward: "Kill the past, kill the city guards." Open the city gate and let the Qin army enter the city! ”
"Kill-" More than 1,000 slaves rushed towards the city gate with torches in one hand and weapons in the other, and the battle that had been in a state of anxiety at the city gate was one-sided with the addition of more than 1,000 slaves.
The defenders in the cave of the city gate were finally cleared. Seeing this, Fils immediately ordered the slaves to open the city gate, and organized men to kill the soldiers of the city guard who came down from the city walls on both sides, preventing them from regaining control of the city gate and attacking the city gate tower.
"Kill—" The entire East City Gate shouted murder, which shook the sky.
Outside the city, the army of Qindong. On a high platform. Qin Dong was standing in military uniform, observing the scene in the distance, and suddenly a shaking fire appeared on the opposite city gate building, and Felton next to him immediately said after seeing it: "Your Majesty, look, the signal has appeared, which means that they have seized the city gate, and now the city gate has been opened!" ”
Qin Dong took out his treasure knife and pointed forward: "Order." Attack the city without harming civilians or friendly troops! ”
"Kill—"
Iron Riders attacked. The ground shook, the whole ground began to shake, and the cavalry poured into the city like a black torrent in the moonlight, and soon the city of Rome was on fire!
The city of Rome was broken, Emperor Severus was captured, Qin Dong did not kill him, he was just a puppet after all, most of the other senators were killed, most of the Roman defenders surrendered, and in just one night, the whole of Rome completely fell into the hands of the Qin army.
The Qin army then ordered the posting of proclamations to distribute the lands of the slain landowners and nobles to the commoners and the slaves who had automatically become commoners, in order to gain their support, and soon gained a foothold in Rome.
Next, Qin Dong ordered the full occupation of Italy, and the northern and southern armies accelerated the speed of attack, and after the rule of Rome was consolidated, Qin Dong sent an army of 10,000 men and 20,000 troops to attack and occupy the surrounding towns and ports.
A month later, the Qin army took full control of Italy and began to rule the region, and the news quickly spread, forcing the Vandal Kingdom and the Eastern Roman Empire, which had been somewhat imminent, to die down.
After strengthening his rule over Italy, Qin sent envoys to the Vandal kingdom and the Eastern Roman Empire to warn them respectively and hasten preparations for invasion of the Visigoths in the west.
In 466 A.D., Qin Dong led the army to govern the Visigothic Kingdom, his Great Qin Praetorian Guard Iron Cavalry and Visigothic Kingdom Heavy Cavalry Cavalry and Guards fought a big battle, the Qin Army Praetorian Guard Iron Cavalry relied on excellent equipment and excellent combat effectiveness to defeat the Visigothic Army, this battle took a year, the Visigothic Kingdom perished.
In 476 AD, when Qin Dong was forty years old, more than 200 warships of the Great Qin Empire's navy fought with the Vandal's pirate fleet in the southern waters of Sicily, which lasted three days and three nights, and the Vandal's pirate fleet was completely annihilated. King Geseric was devastated by this.
The following year, King Gheserik of Vandal fell ill and died of illness, and his son Huneric succeeded him, beginning a mass persecution of Catholics.
In 480 AD, the Great Qin Empire made a comeback, with more than 300 warships of the navy carrying 100,000 troops landed on the coast of North Africa, and then launched an attack on the cities of the Vandal Kingdom, two years later, all the cities of the Vandals were occupied by the Qin army, Hunerik was killed, and the Vandal Kingdom was destroyed.
In 486 AD, Qin Dong was fifty years old, the Great Qin Empire began a large-scale attack on the Byzantine Empire, the army was divided into three routes, the commander of the southern route army was commanded by Qin Zheng, the eldest son of Qin Dong, and the 50,000 army marched from North Africa where the original Vandal Kingdom was located to the Egyptian province, the middle route army was escorted by the naval fleet, and the Qin army personally led 150,000 troops across the sea to land for operations, and the northern route army was led by Su He to lead 100,000 troops from the Caucasus to Georgia.
Emperor Zeno of the Byzantine Empire raised the troops of the whole country to resist, and the troops were divided into three ways to fight against the Qin army's three-way army, and personally led an army of 100,000 to fight a decisive battle with the middle route army commanded by Qin Dong in Galatia, Zeno was killed in this battle, Qin Dong was injured, Zeno's death caused the Byzantine Empire's middle army to be Kui, Qin Dong immediately commanded the army to chase and kill, until the occupation of the imperial capital Ankara.
In 490 AD, the Byzantine Empire fell. (End of the book) (To be continued......)