Chapter 1290: Attack on the camp

Inside the city. There was not a single pedestrian on the street www.biquge.info pen ~ fun ~ pavilion, only vigilant patrolmen.

The people hid in their homes, peeking through the cracks in the doors as the Romans hastily moved through the streets, gloating with schadenfreude on their faces. In a large mansion in the middle of the city, many people in disheveled clothes and armed swords gathered together to discuss something.

At dawn the next day, the soldiers who were still dozing on the walls were awakened by the constant tremors of the earth.

Looking out of the city blankly, his face changed suddenly. Immediately, the mournful sound of the golden bell rang loudly. On the grassland directly east of Wright City, I saw yellow clouds surging towards this side, and the scene of the surging wind and clouds carried a boundless murderous aura, and the whole earth trembled slightly.

The pot exploded when the city wall was climbed.

A moment later, the Roman general Seth, surrounded by his generals, climbed the gate tower and looked out of the city, only to see a sea of earthy yellow.

Several of the generals around Seth gasped in unison!

Immediately, I saw many soldiers of the Jin Army busy three miles away from the city wall, and they piled up high platforms with earth and stones.

"General, what are they doing?" One of the generals asked, puzzled.

Seth sneered: "Build a high platform, and then place the catapult on it, you can bombard us from the range of our army's catapult!" ”

The generals were taken aback, and one of the generals said urgently: "Then we will immediately attack to stop them from building a high platform!" ”

Seth shook his head and pointed to the tens of thousands of iron horsemen who were waiting near the high platform: "They have already prepared for us to attack!" ”

The general said anxiously: "Do you want to let them continue?" ”

Seth nodded, "There's no way we can handle it!" Luckily, we were prepared! ”

It took tens of thousands of Jin soldiers only half a day to build a high platform more than 20 meters high outside the east city, and then dragged more than 100 catapults up the high platform.

The catapult was quickly adjusted by the soldiers to adjust the angle of fire.

'Boom, boom! The earth trembled with an earth-shattering roar, and stone projectiles roared into the city, only to see smoke and dust flying in the sky, mixed with human stumps.

In the face of such an attack, the Romans were helpless.

However, the losses of the Romans were not large, because before the war, the Roman army had built many hidden caves in the city that could prevent artillery, and when the Jin people bombarded, most of the Roman soldiers had already hidden in the caves.

At the same time as the Jin people bombarded, tens of thousands of Jin State assault troops were ready.

With the order of Tokhtobuhua, the Jin State assault troops rushed towards the city wall with various siege equipment.

When the Jin people advanced to a distance of more than 300 steps from the city wall, the Jin country catapult stopped shooting, at this time a section of the eastern city wall of Wright City has been bombarded by the catapult, and the collapsed wall masonry formed a steep slope, although it is very steep, but people can follow it to climb the city wall.

The reason why the Jin people stopped shooting when their own assault troops were still more than 300 steps away from the city wall was mainly because the shooting accuracy of the catapults in this era was very poor, even if they were more than 300 steps away from the target, they might have accidentally injured their own people, in fact, before the Jin State assault troops advanced to a distance of 300 steps, their own stone bullets had already fallen among them.

Tens of thousands of Jin State assault troops relied on various siege equipment to storm the city walls, rushing upwards from the collapsed city walls.

The battle began to heat up.

The fierce siege continued until the evening and there was no sign of stopping, the corpses of the soldiers on both sides of the city wall were stacked on top of each other, shocking, the Jin people's offensive was very fierce, wave after wave, and the Romans were also desperately resisting.

On the other hand, after receiving the transfer order from the Wei Empire, the armies of various countries continued to converge towards the Changshi Mansion of the Western Regions located in Qiuci, and the total strength was estimated to exceed 200,000.

The enthusiasm of the countries was high, because in the previous wars, the countries that sent troops had gained considerable benefits after the war.

At the same time, the Wei armies continued to move.

Half a month later, the First Army, the Sixth Army, the Eighth Army, the Wei Army's Iron Cavalry, the Xianbei Army, the Rest Servant Army, and the Western Regions Alliance, totaling 750,000 troops, gathered on the Akbatana line.

At the same time, the Second Army Corps and the Hun Army had been transferred to Green Ridge as a general reserve.

In Assyria, the Romans also amassed a considerable number of troops, including five regular legions, a total of 250,000 horses, including the Fourth Spartan Legion, all of which were garrisons of the thirteen eastern provinces except for these five regular legions, totaling 400,000 people. Although the total strength of the Romans was not much different from that of the Wei army, its overall strength was significantly inferior to that of the Wei army.

The Great Tent of the Wei Army of Ekbatana.

Zhao Yun, who had been ordered to command the Western Expedition, sat at the top, and there were more than 20 generals standing in the left and right columns, led by Ma Chao and Yan Yan.

Zhao Yun said with a straight face: "Your Majesty's attack order has been issued!" Yan Yan, are the armies in place? ”

"Back to the general, a total of 750,000 troops from all armies are in place!"

"Excellent! Zhao Tuo, what is the situation of grain and grass? ”

"One million loads of grain and grass are ready, and three hundred catapults are in place!"

Zhao Yun took out an arrow on the handsome case and looked at Ma Chao, "Meng Qi!" ”

"In!" Ma Chaohong promised.

"Order, General Ma Chao led the Sixth Army to attack Qin Xifeng first!"

Ma Chaohu's eyes lit up, and he promised, "Get an order!" ”

"The rest of the armies will move with our Chinese army!"

"No!" The generals agreed in unison.

On the same day, Ma Chao led the 100,000 people of the Sixth Army to take the lead.

Early the next morning, Zhao Yun led another army of more than 600,000 troops to march towards Qinxifeng.

A day later, Ma Chao led the 6th Army of 100,000 people, only more than 30 miles away from Qinxifeng.

Ma Chao rode to a small hill next to the official road, glanced at the team, frowned, and said, "Faster!" Otherwise, once the enemy is prepared, it will be difficult for us to break through the Bluestone Ridge! ”

Qingshi Ridge is a mountain ridge more than ten miles east of Qinxifeng, the terrain is very dangerous, the Romans have 5,000 defenders here, not that the Romans are unwilling to station more troops here, but because the terrain here does not allow too many troops to be stationed.

Ma Tie panted and said, "General, the soldiers have been on the road for two days in a row, and they have hardly rested!" It couldn't be faster! ”

Ma Chao frowned and said categorically: "You stay and lead the team to move on!" All the light cavalry rushed to Bluestone Ridge at full speed with me! ”

Immediately, Ma Chao led 10,000 light cavalry to break away from the brigade and gallop towards Qingshi Ridge.

In fact, Ma Chao did not take all the light cavalry, according to the structure of the Wei army, a legion of the Wei army is divided into five battalions, each battalion has 20,000 soldiers, including 5,000 light cavalry, that is, a corps has a total of 20,000 light cavalry.

That night, the Roman barracks on Bluestone Ridge.

The Roman barracks were located on an open hillside on the south side of the Bluestone Ridge, surrounded by a fence overlooking the western entrance to the Bluestone Ridge, with a rudimentary wooden wall in the narrow passage below the ridge, where hundreds of Roman soldiers were stationed.

"General, the flying pigeon biography of His Excellency General Schneider!" An officer rushed into the big tent with a summons in his hand to report.

At this time, a Roman general was looking at a scroll of papers in his hand.

The general put down the scroll in his hand, took the handbook, read it again, frowned, and said with some emotion: "The Wei people are finally going to do it!" ”

The officer in front of him couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly asked, "General, are the Wei people going to attack our side?" ”

The general nodded, "The Wei people have already assembled an army of 750,000, and a big battle is inevitable!" Pass the order down, and all armies will be on strict alert! "Yes! But general, if the Wei army kills us, our 5,000 people will not be able to resist it at all!? ”

The general said: "The Nineteenth Army is coming, and it will arrive before dawn!" At that time, the command was transferred to the commander of the 19th Army Corps! ”

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of killing outside the big tent.

Suddenly there were sounds of killing and screams outside the tent. The two people in the tent were stunned for a moment, and hurriedly ran out, only to see countless black cavalry galloping up and down the mountain, and the Romans had no resistance under the iron hoof swords.

At this time, an extremely strong black war horse roared towards the two of them, and on it sat a general of the Wei army, wearing heavy armor, heroic and murderous.

The two were taken aback.

The Wei army general jumped in front of the two and shouted, and the two who were about to attack couldn't help but take a step back.

At this moment, I saw the general of the Wei army stabbing out with a shot, and in the blink of an eye, the Roman general was pierced through the chest.

The Roman officer on the side was shocked, and before he could react, the general of the Wei army rode his horse and galloped in front of the Roman officer, and at the same time grabbed the Roman officer's throat with his left hand and dragged him into the air.

The Roman officers were horrified and struggled incessantly.

The Wei general galloped to a burning tent and threw the Roman officers into the flames.

The Roman officer screamed and rolled and struggled, and the scene was chilling.

By this time, the entire Roman barracks had fallen into irreparable chaos, and the Roman soldiers were running around in panic, like headless flies, and many of them were wearing only a pair of trousers, and it seemed that many of them were still sleeping when they were attacked by the Wei army.

On the grassland more than ten miles west of the bluestone ridge.

A Roman army is approaching Bluestone Ridge.

"General, look!" An officer pointed in the direction of Qingshiling and said loudly.

The regiment commander looked in the direction of the officer's finger, and saw the flames at the bluestone ridge, and couldn't help but be surprised, "It's not good!" Bluestone Ridge has been attacked! Pass the order and go full speed! ”

"Yes!"

The Wei army annihilated the 5,000 Roman defenders stationed at Qingshi Ridge in less than two quarters of an hour.

"General, there is a Roman army coming this way, about 50,000 people, it should be a whole legion!" Duan Gang rushed to report. (To be continued.) )