"General Zhao, we might as well break through!" Karen Sa suggested. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhao Yun hesitated for a moment and shook his head, "No! If we hold on, we still have the chance to win! And if we retreat, we will lose this war! ”

Karen Sa's brow was furrowed, and his heart was crossed, "Okay! Then my department will live and die with the Great Wei Army! ”

Zhao Yun nodded.

Zhao Yun said to Karen Sa: "In the next battle, our army's Fifth Army must accumulate strength as much as possible!" I hope you can withstand the onslaught of the Roman army as much as possible! ”

Karen Sa nodded, "I understand! We, the Assyrian army, will do our best! ”

While Zhao Yun and the others were still deliberating, the Roman army was surging towards the city wall again, and this time they learned the lesson of the previous time and made complete preparations.

Zhao Yun and the others, who received the report thereafter, immediately rushed towards the city gate, and at the same time, Karen Sa hurriedly ordered all the Assyrian troops to converge in the direction of the enemy's main attack.

Ekbatana.

After resting for half a day, hundreds of thousands of Wei troops set out and divided into three parts to form battle formations on the east, west, and south sides. Wei Jun seems to be on a desperate gamble!

The Roman army sensed that the atmosphere was unusual, and hurriedly prepared to resist the coming landslide and tsunami-like offensive of the Wei army.

As the war drums of the Wei army rumbled like thunder, the 60,000 Wei troops from the east, west, and south were preparing to launch the first wave of attacks. At the same time, the Wei artillery group inflicted a devastating blow on the walls of Ekbatana, and stone bullets rained down on the walls, and only smoke and debris flew in the sky, and the scene was spectacular and thrilling.

Two quarters of an hour later, the Wei catapults came to a halt, and the southern section of the city wall, which had been bombarded by the catapults, collapsed in two large breaches.

In front of the Wei military command banner, 60,000 soldiers of the Wei army garrison launched a charge towards the east, west and south city walls.

Like a torrent of broken embankments. Everyone was yelling and looking very excited. The soldiers of these garrison forces have become quite strong after these days of bloody battles, and in some respects they are close to the elite troops of the Wei army, of course, they still cannot be compared with the real elite of the Wei army.

The 20,000 Wei troops, attacking from the south, quickly rushed under the city walls, and then burst inward through two gaps opened by catapults. The soldiers on both sides crowded into the gap and fought desperately, the soldiers on both sides roared, only to see the blood rain constantly rolling up, and the soldiers on both sides fell in a pool of blood one after another. The Wei army was afraid that it would be difficult to achieve a breakthrough from here for a while.

Just when the Wei army attacking the southern city wall was holding the enemy at the gap, the other two groups of Wei troops violently attacked the city wall through siege equipment such as flying arms and ladders, and the battle situation was also in a stalemate.

The fierce battle lasted for half an hour, and the Wei army still did not make a breakthrough.

At this moment, the Wei army's catapults once again exerted their might and concentrated their fire on a city wall in the southern section where there was no fighting.

In just two quarters of an hour, the gap that had been plugged by the Romans not long ago collapsed again.

A Roman officer rushed to Batra and hurriedly reported: "General, the wall has collapsed again!" Before the words fell, everyone saw more than 10,000 Wei army iron horsemen surging towards the gap that had just collapsed.

"Are there any reserves?" Batra asked urgently.

The generals around him all shook their heads.

Batra frowned, suddenly pulled out the Roman short sword at his waist, and shouted: "Follow me!" Then he ran towards the gap with a thousand personal guards.

Batra and more than 1,000 of his own soldiers rushed to the gap before the Wei cavalry broke through to the gap.

Batra couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw the scene, the gap that had opened was six or seven meters wide.

"The first team strikes the enemy with javelins on the city walls! The others come down with me!! ”

Batra led 500 guards to the gap in the city, and immediately formed a shield and spear line typical of the Roman army.

In the face of the coming flood of cavalry, these Roman soldiers looked very calm.

Actually, this is normal! These personal soldiers under Batra are all the elite of the main army of the Roman army, and they have been in battle for a long time and are brave!

Twelve thousand light cavalry of the Eighth Regiment rushed towards the gap.

At the same time, 30,000 soldiers of the Eighth Army followed closely behind and rushed towards the gap.

The torrent of cavalry rushed into the gap and slammed heavily into the Roman army's shield spear line, only to see people on their backs, and several Roman shield spearmen were knocked out.

The torrent of cavalry came to an abrupt halt in front of the shield spear line.

"Kill!!" Batra shouted, and the five hundred Roman shield spearmen shouted together, and their momentum was not weaker than the more than 10,000 Wei light cavalry in front of them.

Five hundred shield spearmen took cover with a large shield in their left hand, while their spears in their right hands attacked the Wei cavalry.

The Wei cavalry, crowded in this narrow area, was completely in a situation of being passively beaten, only to see that one by one was stabbed by the other party. At the same time, the Roman soldiers on the walls on both sides of the gap attacked the dense Wei army under the city with javelins, and the Wei soldiers constantly fell from their horses.

Seeing this, the cavalry general who led the army hurriedly ordered the cavalry team to withdraw from the gap.

In this short encounter, the Wei cavalry lost more than 600 cavalry, while the Roman army lost less than 100 people.

This can be regarded as the largest battle loss ratio between the Wei army and the Roman army since the confrontation between the two sides.

The light cavalry of the Eighth Army of the Wei Army retreated, and then more than 30,000 foot soldiers of the Eighth Army rushed up.

It crashed like a raging tide against the Roman line. The two sides fought desperately in this narrow area, and the Wei soldiers fell one by one under each other's spears, and of course, there were also brave Wei soldiers who fought hard to cut the Roman soldiers to the ground.

The combat strength of these personal soldiers under Batra's command was significantly higher than that of the Eighth Army of the Wei Army, but their numbers were too small.

The battle lasted less than a quarter of an hour, and the Wei army relied on the superiority in numbers to break through the defensive line of the Roman shield spearmen.

At the same time, the crossbowmen outside the city completely suppressed the Roman troops on the walls on both sides of the gap.

The Roman soldiers who were fighting the Wei army in other places saw the critical situation here and wanted to come to support, but they couldn't get out at all.

At this moment, another 20,000 Wei troops rushed towards the city wall with siege equipment.

The Wei army planned to storm the city of Ekbatana in one fell swoop.

After the wave of Wei army's infantry broke through the line of the Roman army, it swept these hundreds of brave Roman soldiers into the turbulent sea of soldiers.

The Roman soldiers were invincible with two fists and four hands, and they were killed under the fierce attack of the Wei army.

In just a few moments, these brave soldiers under Batra's command collapsed, and the remaining nearly 100 soldiers escorted Batra desperately to break out of the siege and head towards the city gatehouse.

The Wei army rushed through this gap and immediately divided into three parts, one to take the central seat of Akbatana, one to attack the west gate, and one to attack the south gate.

Batra, who returned to the city gate, glanced at the situation of the entire battlefield and decisively ordered: "The whole army retreats to the city office!" ”

The Roman army fought and retreated, retreating in the direction of the place of governance.

After the break, about 4,000 people were cut off by the 6,000 Wei cavalry who rushed fiercely. The desperate 4,000 Roman troops fought back desperately.

The two sides engaged in a fierce fight in the streets.

These 4,000 Roman infantry soldiers are worthy of being the main legions of the Roman army, brave and fearless, even in a desperate situation, they fight desperately without fear; And the soldiers of the Wei Army Garrison and the Eighth Legion, who were fighting with them, were also red-eyed, roaring angrily, and the blades in their hands desperately beckoned to each other.

The whole long street saw the light of swords, a scene of purgatory.

At the same time, the Wei army attacking the West Gate broke through the West Gate with the cooperation of the Wei army in the city. The defenders hurriedly retreated in the direction of the office. On the eastern city wall, the Roman army was still holding on to the Wei army.

Just when the Wei army and the Roman army were fighting to the death on the long street, a horse came like a whirlwind, and the momentum was arrogant and intimidating, like a dragon and a tiger, it was none other than Ma Chao, the general of the Wei army.

Ma Chao rushed into the battlefield with a dragoon spear, galloped through the long street, and the dragoon spear in his hand flew around like a horse, only to see the Roman soldiers on the long street splashed blood one by one.

The Wei soldiers took advantage of the momentum to attack, and in a moment the Roman army, which had been fighting desperately before, collapsed.

The cavalry immediately rushed up, trampled and pursued, and slaughtered the Roman army to the point that the corpses were all over the field.

As soon as Batra returned to the office, a scout came to report, "General, the Wei army in the south has attacked!" The western wall has also been lost!! ”

Batra frowned.

"General, abandon the city! Otherwise, we're all done!! One of the generals said urgently.

Batra hesitated.

At this time, another scout rushed to report: "General, Dongcheng has been lost!" ”

Just as Batra hesitated, another scout rushed in and reported: "General, it's not good! Dongcheng is also lost!! ”

Batra was taken aback, and immediately ordered: "The whole army retreats from the north gate!" ”

When the generals heard this, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and promised in unison.

The remnants of the Roman army retreated in the direction of the north gate, and the troops that fell in the rear were very conscious of blocking the pursuing Wei army.

Moments later, most of the remaining Romans exited the city of Ecbatana through the north gate.

Suddenly attacked by 10,000 Wei light cavalry, the losses were heavy, but it was not defeated by the Wei army, which can also be seen from the strength of the Roman regular legions!

The remnants of the Roman army fled rapidly towards the desert to the northwest, while the Wei light cavalry kept falling behind.

The pursuit lasted until the border of the desert before stopping. At this time, the Roman army that fled into the desert was less than 40,000 men! The previous 150,000 army had less than 40,000 soldiers left, and almost all of them were wounded and looked hesitant.

Surrounded by generals, Cao Cao entered Ekbatana through the ruined city gates.

In front of you, there are corpse-strewn streets and broken walls, and there is a tragic atmosphere. (To be continued.) )