After all, the line of defense established in a hurry is the Roman city building method. Before it has time to go through layers of reinforcement, only compacted soil and stones can play a good defensive effect in the face of the attackers with completely cold weapons, but it seems to ignore the Han army with firearms.
The artillery troops of the Han army first fired three rounds of artillery, but then the artillery stopped.
The cold weapon troops of the Han Army on the left and right wings have their own sword and shield soldiers to leave the array.
"Are they going to attack?" Elbata didn't go to the wall. He regretted his life. Even if there was only one in ten thousand chance that he would be hit by flying shells, he wouldn't go to the wall. He waved back the people who came to report and asked marus, "they just sent sword and shield soldiers. Shall we send troops to fight back?"
Marus had a worried face.
They continue to encounter failures in the frontal battlefield, and the results achieved by investing in their own troops are almost no different from sending out miscellaneous soldiers of all ethnic groups.
To say where the Persian army and the Roman army are better than the miscellaneous soldiers of all ethnic groups, it can only be said that they consumed more ammunition and gunpowder of the firearms army of the Han Army, that's all.
"Fight back?" Malus took a deep breath and said, "we must not let them leisurely attack the city wall. We must fight back. But all ethnic groups have been afraid, and only ourselves."
The Romans and Persians fought a great battle. They rode nearly 15000 steps and shook about 10000 Han troops. As long as they were not blind, they saw the final result.
After an hour and a half of fighting, about three or four thousand Romans and Persians fled back, including about 1500 archers alone, which means that more than 70% of them lost their lives on the battlefield.
When the Han army was advancing, when it met dead and undead Persians and Romans, it would mend the knife, and there was no move to capture at all. Therefore, 70% of the Romans and Persians who participated in the attack really lost their lives on the battlefield. At this point, the Romans and Persians were filled with resentment and fear, while all ethnic groups were filled with fear and fear.
"Han people are too cruel!" Al Bada had just ordered his troops to attack, waved back the messenger again, and said with gnashing teeth on his face, "we don't want to be captured next!"
"Ha ha!" Marus smiled and asked, "are we really going to do that? Don't keep prisoners?"
Elbata's face changed, blue and white, white and blue. He finally slapped one hand on the table, both angry and depressed: "we... Are not qualified to do that!"
Han people can be unscrupulous, but now they don't have that qualification.
If one day the Persians can kill all without leaving prisoners on the battlefield, they need to wait for the progress of this war to reach the stage of victory of the anti Han axis coalition.
"We threw in more than 2500 people, and you lost nearly 8000 people." Marus said bitterly, "I don't know if I have killed 500 people."
"There should be." Elbata said with less certainty, "the cavalry successfully rushed into their array. We all know how much damage the cavalry will cause by launching a decisive collision."
In addition to the cavalry fighting with the Han Army, the other infantry of the anti Han axis coalition can only shoot at the Han soldiers with bows and arrows.
Among their Persian light cavalry, only some timid Persian Knights escaped in advance and saved their lives. None of the Persian knights who really launched the decisive charge survived, but they were the only ones who caused the greatest loss to the Han Army in the whole battle.
It has lost more than ten thousand, and it is uncertain whether it has achieved five hundred? Whether this war damage ratio occurred on the battlefield of three empires or whether the two empires united to fight another Empire, it makes people wonder whether Rome and Persia are the level of Empire, and it also makes people panic that the Han Empire is too powerful.
The exaggerated war damage ratio has been showing its effect. As commanders, marus and albata have produced self-confidence, and the rest of the ethnic groups have wavered at the same time.
"This is the enemy of our ancestors?" Adia batra watched the whole battle process, because there was no telescope, he could only observe the general dynamics, but he saw the exaggerated defeat of Persian sassanne and Rome: "are the Romans and Persians too useless, or are the Han too powerful?"
Seriously, this group of descendants of the northern Huns saw such weapons for the first time. They really didn't understand what the weapons of the Han army were. They don't understand and haven't been hit by those weapons in person. They know that those weapons are very powerful, but to what extent they are powerful, they are claws.
"There is no doubt that the Persians are very powerful. They are the overlord of the land in the south." Kyuli is the captain of Adia batra's close guard. He gave an example: "we have sent warriors to their land several times to dig grass and valley. The Persian army generally can't take advantage of it, and we have suffered disastrous defeats several times."
To evaluate the strength of a certain force, 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 just look at some intelligence such as the number of territory, population and wealth of that force.
The simplest example is that big counsellors have a large population and strong economic strength? But again and again, he was taught to be a man by Xixia, whose population and economic strength were dozens of times less than his own.
With a small population and poor economic strength, the Mongols have become the "whip of God", ravaging most of the world, and no less than 200 million people have died directly or indirectly at their hands. And how many people were there in the world at that time? 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. (mainly the spread of infectious diseases)
Supporting the bones means that the Persians are really not weak, and the Persians are at a disadvantage in the confrontation with Rome most of the time, so the Romans are better than the Persians.
Now, the Persians who are not weak and the Romans who are stronger than the Persians are united to fight the Han people, but they are on the battlefield of honest confrontation. They have suffered an astonishing defeat not because of any conspiracy.
"Rome?" Adia 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 will inevitably weaken. How can that rich land lack our figure?"
He didn't have any good education, but Adia batra was still a leader after all. How could he not know that once the Persian sassanne and Rome failed again and again on the battlefield, even if the Han people did not hit the land of the Persian sassanne and Rome, they would also have internal turmoil due to the repeated failures on the battlefield, and the country would inevitably weaken.
"Tell the Romans and Persians." Adia batra grinned: "we are willing to fight the Han people, but they need to give us five boxes of gold coins and three thousand good horses first."
The brace was stunned. Seeing the bad smile on Adia batra's face, he guessed what the intention was. He followed the bad smile and went to find marus and elbata.
On the front line, two thousand sword and shield soldiers of the Han Army have pushed within 200 meters of the "city wall". They collided with the Persians in the war and are fighting fiercely.
There were five thousand Persians in the battle, all of whom were foot infantry. They were afraid of being attacked by firearms. They took the greatest courage to rush until they hit the sword shield soldiers of the Han army. Many people were moved to tears at that moment.
Even though the Han Army did not use firearms, the experienced sword and shield soldiers still showed strong combat effectiveness. After they collided with Persian soldiers, the front was slightly deadlocked for less than two minutes, and then continued to advance.
The emergence of firearm troops in the Han Empire is only a matter of recent years. There are no more than 40000 firearm troops, of which 26000 are still the forbidden guards guarding Chang'an.
With firearms, it does not mean that the Han Army, which still uses cold weapons, has become vulnerable. It can be said that the current cold weapons Han army is on the edge of the peak. They have repeatedly proved to the world what is called strong with their achievements. They not only have sufficient experience, but also have never been in a low state.
As long as the morale of the regular army is not depressed, no matter which country can ensure its combat effectiveness, the difference is that the military training and organization of each country are different, and the combat effectiveness is high and solid.
Those cold weapon soldiers of the Han army who thought that this war would be a one-man show of the firearm army, cherish the command of attack. They regard every battle as a rare opportunity and will never waste the opportunity to accumulate combat achievements. Everyone is fully motivated.
The sword shield soldiers of the Han army were equipped with willow leaf armor, key parts were also equipped with goggles, and a layer of lock armor and two layers of silk underwear were worn under the armor. The small round shields in their hands are also made of metal, and the war knives in their hands are steel knives, which can be said to be the most luxurious matching in the era of cold weapons.
Zhuo killed a Persian soldier who was rushing up in front of him with a knife. The shield of the other hand swung to another Persian soldier on the side, and looked at a silly Persian soldier not far away through his face armor.
The Persian soldier was foolish because he saw that Zhuo Bing had at least five arrows inserted into him, but he didn't look like he should have been hurt at all.
Zhuo Bing, who has been charging in front, received at least 20 arrows before. Except for the five arrows inserted in his body, the rest were slipped away by a willow shaped armor.
Although the five arrows inserted into the body were inserted, in fact, the arrowhead was stuck in the collar of the lock armour. Even if the arrowhead was still inserted deeper through the iron ring, it just opened the silk and touched the skin a little.
On the cold weapon battlefield, we can often see the generals who are still alive with dozens of arrows. It's just that the generals' armor is good enough. They look miserable when they are shot by arrows, but they really don't suffer too serious trauma. This is the role of armor defense. It is a life-saving armor in the real sense.
Killing and killing, Zhuo Bing suddenly found that there was no enemy around him, and there were some robes in the same military uniform.
They raised their swords and roared loudly. Looking through their face armor at a pair of eyes, they could see that they were obviously happy and excited, and then shouted "kill!!!", Keep charging forward.
The Han army sent close combat troops to launch an assault, and the artillery troops must stop shelling in order to avoid accidental injury.
In order to understand the battlefield situation more clearly, elbata stopped the shelling of the Han Army, and the sword and shield soldiers of the Han army were close enough to determine which sword and shield soldiers of the Han army would not attack again before they retreated. He came to the "city wall".
Marus is the bunker left behind. Once albata has a slight accident, he will become the only commander of the anti Han axis Coalition on the battlefield.
The five thousand Persian infantry who fought in the war showed a completely different will and tenacity. They collapsed after a loss of about 10%. This time, of course, they fled to the left and right, and they would hit the wall directly back.
Holding a telescope to observe albata, he saw something. His face suddenly became stiff and shouted, "shoot, shoot those enemies carrying explosive bags!", While roaring, he ran quickly to the stairs.
The Han Army had artillery, but destroying the "city wall" with artillery is not only wasteful and efficient, but also no faster than directly approaching and bombing with explosive bags. That's why knife and shield troops were sent out.
For the defenders on the "city wall", only a few of them heard elbata's roar and heard who elbata roared. Only a few were looking for Han soldiers with explosive bags in their hands. More people were crying for their parents to escape directly. The stairs were too slow. When they were frightened to the extreme, they jumped directly from a high place.
The commander fled in a hurry, and the people around him ran for their lives. Abnormalities were found in the other sections of the city wall. Even if he didn't know what happened, it was inevitable that it caused riots.
When they got close to the sword and shield soldiers of the Han Army under the "city wall", they were surprised to find that there were few arrows shot from above, and they didn't drop any stones or logs. They just put up a shield wall over their heads according to the training.
Some soldiers dig holes under the wall under the shovel. They dig holes with their spades, and someone will shovel the fuse and bury them.
About ten minutes later, the sword and shield soldiers of the Han army withdrew the shield wall above their heads and began to retreat. Some soldiers retreated with fuses. When they stepped back, they were surprised to find that the "city wall" had become empty.
"Don't keep your mouth closed. Open your mouth and cover your ears." Zhuo Bing has done so, urging paoze who did not do so: "we have retreated to a safe distance, but we still have to be prepared."
Before long, the detonated fuses were burning, and Mars quickly moved to the explosive package buried at the root of the wall. The next moment was the explosion.
The power of the explosion was not small. First there was a flash of light, and then soil and gravel splashed in the smoky air.
In a series of explosions, the "mighty Han Army" roared by more than 10000 soldiers is still clear!