After all, it was a hastily established defense line, that is, there was a Roman city building method, before there was time to go through layers of reinforcement, only solid mud and stones, if you face a completely cold weapon attacker, it can naturally play a good defensive effect, but in the face of the Han army with firearms, it seems to be disregarded.
The artillery units of the Han army first fired three rounds of shelling, and then the shelling stopped.
The cold weapon troops of the Han army on the left and right flanks each had a song of sword and shield soldiers to break away from their own formation.
"They're going to attack" Elbata didn't go to the wall, he didn't go to the wall, he didn't go to the wall, even if there was only a 1 in 10,000 chance of being hit by a flying cannonball.
He waved back the people who had come to report and asked Malus, "They just sent sword and shield soldiers, should we send troops to fight back" Malus, however, looked worried.
They have been suffering repeated defeats on frontal battlefields, and the results achieved by throwing in their own troops are almost no different from those of the miscellaneous troops of various ethnic groups.
If there is anything to say about the strength of the Persian army and the Roman army than the miscellaneous soldiers of various ethnic groups, it can only be said that they consumed more ammunition and gunpowder of the Han army's firearms unit, nothing more.
"Counterattack" Malus took a deep breath and said, "We must not let them attack the city wall leisurely, we must fight back."
But the tribes are already frightened, and we are the only ones. ” The Romans and Persians fought a great battle, and nearly 15,000 cavalry shook the Han army of about 10,000, and as long as anyone who was not blind saw the final result.
After an hour and a half of fighting, the Romans and Persians fled back about three or four thousand, of whom about 1,500 were archers alone, which means that more than seventy percent of them lost their lives on the battlefield.
When the Han army was advancing, the Persians and Romans who were dead and not dead would make up for it, and there was no action of taking prisoners at all, so it was seventy percent of the Romans and Persians who participated in the attack who really lost their lives on the battlefield.
The Romans and Persians were either resentful and fearful, while the peoples were filled with fear and fear.
"The Han are too ruthless" Elbada had just ordered his troops to attack, and waved off the herald again, before he gritted his teeth and said, "We don't want to take prisoners next" "Hehe," Marus chuckled, and asked, "Are we really going to do that without leaving prisoners?"
Elbata's face changed for a moment, blue and white, white and blue.
He ended up slamming one hand on the table, both angry and frustrated: "We don't have the right to do that."
The Han people can be unscrupulous, but they don't have that qualification now.
If one day the Persians can kill all the prisoners on the battlefield without leaving prisoners, they need to wait for the progress of this war to the stage where the anti-Han Axis coalition is in the winning stage.
"We threw in more than 2,500 people, and you lost nearly 8,000 people."
Malus said bitterly: "I don't know if the results achieved have killed five hundred people on the other side. ” "There should be."
Elbata said with less certainty: "The cavalry successfully stormed their array, and we all know how much damage the cavalry can cause if they launch a decisive charge." ” Except for the cavalry and the Han army, the rest of the infantry could only shoot at the Han soldiers with bows and arrows.
Of their Persian light cavalry, only some timid Persian knights escaped in advance to save their lives, and none of the Persian knights who really launched a decisive charge survived, but they were really the only ones who caused the greatest losses to the Han army in the whole battle.
The loss of more than 10,000 yuan, and the results obtained are uncertain whether there is such a battle loss ratio of 500 in the battlefield of three empires, or whether the two empires united to fight the other empire, which makes people wonder whether Rome and Persia are at the level of empires, and they are also afraid that the Han Empire is too powerful.
The exaggerated battle loss ratio was already showing results, and the commanders Malus and Elbata were not confident, and the rest of the tribes were confused and uncontrollable.
"This is the enemy of our ancestors" Aditya Batra watched the whole battle, because there was no telescope, he could only observe the general dynamics, but he saw that the Persian Sassanid and Rome suffered an exaggerated defeat: "Is it that the Romans and Persians are too useless, or the Han are too strong" Seriously, this group of descendants of the Northern Huns is the first time to see such a weapon, and they really don't understand what the weapons of the Han army are.
They don't understand, and they haven't been hit by those weapons themselves, and they know that those weapons are very powerful, but how powerful they are.
"There is no doubt that the Persians are powerful, they are the overlords of the southern lands."
Boneliyi is the captain of Aditya Batra's guard.
He gave an example: "On several occasions we sent warriors to their land to fight the grass valleys, but the Persian army generally did not take advantage of it, and on several occasions we suffered heavy defeats. ” To evaluate how strong a certain force is, it is basically necessary to have fought with that force in order to get more accurate data, otherwise it is really not so reliable to evaluate just to see how much territory that force has, how much population it has, how much wealth it has, and so on.
The simplest example, the population and economic strength of Da Yi are large enough, but they have been repeatedly taught to be a man by the Western Xia, whose population and economic strength are dozens of times less than their own.
The Mongols, who had a small population and no economic strength, became the "whip of God" and wreaked havoc on most of the world, killing no less than 200 million people directly or indirectly at their hands.
At that time, there were only a few people in the world, according to some historical data, there were about 350 million people in the world at that time, which means that more than half of them were gone.
The main thing is the spread of infectious diseases The meaning of the Persians is that the Persians are really not weak, and the Persians are at a disadvantage most of the time in the confrontation with Rome, so the Romans are stronger than the Persians.
Now, the Persians, who are not weak, the Romans, who are stronger than the Persians, have united to fight the Han Chinese, but they are on the battlefield of a dignified confrontation, not because of some conspiracy and trickery, and they have suffered a jaw-dropping defeat.
"Rome" Aditya Batra had heard of Rome and learned about the richness and power of Rome from the Goths.
He pinched the whip in his hand: "It seems that the Romans have entered a period of weakness, and they will inevitably weaken as well."
That rich land, how can we be missing?"
He didn't have much of a good education, but Aditya Batra was still a leader after all.
How could he not know that once the Persian Sassanid and Rome were repeatedly defeated on the battlefield, even if the Han did not fight the land of the Persian Sassanid and Rome, they would have internal turmoil due to repeated defeats on the battlefield, and the country would inevitably weaken.
"Go and tell the Romans and Persians."
Aditya Batra grinned: "We are willing to fight the Han Chinese, but they need to give us five boxes of gold coins and three thousand good horses first. ” Seeing the evil smile on Aditya Batra's face, he guessed what the intention was, followed the evil smile, and went to find Marus and Elbata.
On the battle line, two thousand Han saber and shield soldiers had advanced to within two hundred meters of the "city wall".
They collided with the Persians and were engaged in a fierce fight.
There were 5,000 Persians in the battle, all of them infantry on foot, they were very afraid of being attacked by firearms, and they charged with the greatest courage with trembling hearts, until they ran into the Han saber and shield soldiers, and they were not attacked by firearms, and many people were moved to tears at that moment.
Even if the Han army did not use firearms, the battle-hardened sword and shield soldiers still showed strong combat effectiveness, and after they collided with the Persian soldiers, the battle line was slightly stalemate for less than two minutes, and then continued to advance.
The appearance of firearms troops in the Han Empire is only a matter of recent years, and the number of firearms troops has not exceeded 40,000, of which 26,000 firearms troops are still the Praetorian Guards guarding Chang'an.
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It can be said that the current cold weapons Han army is on the verge of the peak, and they have repeatedly used their own achievements to prove to the world what it means to be strong, not only has sufficient experience, but also morale has never been low.
As long as the morale of the regular army is not low, no matter which country it is, it can guarantee its combat effectiveness, but the difference is that the training degree and organization of the armed forces of each country are different, and the combat effectiveness brought into play is high and bottom.
Those cold weapon soldiers of the Han army who originally thought that this war would be a one-man show by the firearms troops, they cherished the order to attack very much, and regarded every battle as a rare opportunity, and would never waste the opportunity to accumulate military exploits.
The Han saber and shield soldiers were equipped with willow leaf armor, and the vital parts were also equipped with heart guards, and a layer of chain mail and two layers of silk underwear were also worn under the armor.
The small round shield in their hands is also made of metal, and the war knife in their hands is a steel knife, which can be described as the most luxurious supporting set in the era of cold weapons.
Zhuo Bing slashed to death a Persian soldier who rushed forward with his sword, and the small round shield in his other hand slashed at another Persian soldier on the side, and looked bloodthirstily through his visor at a stupid Persian soldier not far away.
The reason why the Persian soldier was dumbfounded was that he saw that Zhuo Bing had at least five arrows stuck in his body, but he didn't look like he was injured at all.
Zhuo Bing, who had been charging ahead, had been hit by at least twenty arrows before, except for the five arrows inserted in his body, the rest were slid away by the willow leaf-shaped armor.
The five arrows inserted in the body, although they looked inserted, but in fact the arrows were stuck in the ring of chain mail, even if the arrows were still inserted deeper through the iron ring, but they only stretched out the silk and touched the flesh slightly.
On the battlefield of cold weapons, you can often see generals who are still alive with dozens of arrows in their bodies, which is nothing more than that the armor on the general's body is good enough, and it looks like he has been shot extremely miserably by arrows, but in fact, he has not been seriously injured.
This is the role of armor defense, and it is a life-saving armor in the true sense.
Killing and killing, Zhuo Bing suddenly found that there were no enemy troops around him, and some were robes with the same uniform.
They raised their swords and roared loudly, looking through their visors into a pair of eyes, they could see the obvious exuberance and excitement, and then shouted "kill" and continued to charge forward.
The Han army sent melee troops to charge, and the artillery units must stop the shelling in order not to be accidentally injured.
In order to understand the situation on the battlefield more clearly, the Han army's shelling stopped, and it was the Han army's sword and shield soldiers who were close enough to determine which Han army's sword and shield soldiers would not shell again before retreating, and he came to the "city wall".
Malus is a bunker in the rear, and in the event of an accident for Elbata, he will become the sole commander of the anti-Han Axis coalition on the battlefield.
The 5,000 Persian infantry who went out to fight, the will and tenacity they showed were not at all like before, they were broken by about 10% and collapsed.
This time, of course, they will break to the left and right, and they will hit the wall directly behind.
Elbata, who was observing with a telescope in his hand, suddenly stiffened his face when he saw something, and shouted, "Shoot, shoot those enemies with explosive bags", roaring as he ran towards the stairs as fast as he could.
The Han army had artillery, but destroying the "city wall" with artillery bombardment was not only wasteful, but also inefficient and no faster than directly approaching with explosives packs, which is why sword and shield soldiers were dispatched.
The defenders on the "city wall", only a few of them heard the roar of Elbata, and heard who Elbata yelled at clearly, only a very few were looking for Han soldiers with explosives bags in their hands, and more people were crying for their fathers and mothers to flee directly, and the stairs were too slow to go down, and they jumped directly from a high place when they were frightened to the extreme.
The main general fled in a hurry, and the people around him fled for their lives, and the rest of the city wall found an anomaly, even if they didn't know what was going on, they couldn't avoid causing a riot.
When they approached the Han saber and shield soldiers at the bottom of the "city wall", they were puzzled to find that there were very few arrows shot from above, and they did not drop any stones or trees, but only built a shield wall above their heads as they were trained.
Some soldiers dig pits under the "city walls" with shovels, and they dig pits with shovels, and some people wrap explosives into fuses and bury them.
About ten minutes later, the Han army's sword and shield soldiers removed the shield wall above their heads and began to retreat, and some soldiers retreated while putting the fuse.
As they retreated, they wondered how empty the "walls" had become.
"Don't force your mouth, open your mouth wide and cover your ears."
Zhuo Bing had already done that, urging Pao Ze, who had not done so, to urge Paoze, who had not done so: "We have retreated to a safe distance, but we still have to be prepared." ” It didn't take long for the fuses to burn, and the sparks moved quickly towards the explosive packets buried at the base of the wall, and the next moment there was a loud explosion.
The explosion was not small, starting with a flash of light, followed by a splash of dirt and debris in the smoke-filled air.
In the series of explosions, the "mighty Han army" shouted by more than 10,000 soldiers is still clear: