The Roman Seventh Legion was crippled.

The giant shield carts were set on fire by the Roman soldiers and played with themselves. After the explosion, the remaining Roman soldiers no longer had the courage to continue fighting. They lost their formation and fled back to the walls in a dense array of bed crossbows, catapults, and chain crossbows. Leaving behind corpses along the way.

The Seventh Legion, which had more than 5,000 men, went out of the city to destroy the shield carts, and after such a mission, less than 2,000 people were able to return alive. These were the elite of the Romans. The Romans simply could not afford to lose this loss.

"Finally eliminated those alien horrors." Looking at the remnants of the Seventh Legion, who had fled back in disarray, Arnubis said to Severus with a look on his face that he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

"......" Severus, who was distressed, glanced at him hatefully. If it weren't for the fact that the two of them were now grasshoppers tied to a rope, he would definitely not give up easily. This is the elite army in his hands, and it was crippled like this.

"What now?" Arnubis looked at the boundless army in the distance outside the city, and said with a tremor in his voice, "Do you want to continue fighting?" ”

"What else can I do if I don't continue?" Severus looked into the distance with a complicated expression and said in a deep voice, "They don't accept peace talks. So what else can we do? Really go to be the slaves of those aliens? Or do you want to flee north with the men, all the way to the Black Forest to join the Germanic barbarians? ”

Arnubis clenched his fists tightly, his expression was full of unwillingness, and he said hatefully, "In that case, let's live and die with the city of Rome!" ”

Before Arnubis's rhetoric had subsided, he was stunned to see a gap in the alien army formation in the distance, and another row of large shield carts that were exactly the same as before were slowly pushed out!

"This ...... This ......" Severus was also dumbfounded. Are those aliens joking? This horrible thing is not wheat in a wheat field. How can you get so many of them out casually!? How can this be fought?

"You can scare them to death if you scare them like that." Yuan said with a grin: "More than a dozen shield carts need thousands of elite Roman soldiers to change." Where did the Romans get so much power? They couldn't hold on anymore. ”

"I don't care." Gao Yang waved his hand and said with a smile, "If they don't surrender, then continue to fight." Fight until the city of Rome is completely captured. ”

"Are you going to use black powder to demolish the city? Bombed the city of Rome? The origin asked curiously.

"It's not." Gao Yang shook his head and said, "I just want to use the black powder to consume the living power of the Romans, and when I attack the city, I can greatly reduce the losses." After all, the environment in the city is complicated. Fighting these locals who are familiar with their environment can be quite costly. ”

"Do you think the Romans will continue to be fooled after a big loss?" Origin asked.

"Who knows?" Gao Yang shrugged his shoulders indifferently, looked at the ruined Roman city wall in the distance, and said softly, "Anyway, it's all death, so what's the difference between how you die?" ”

......

The Romans were not fooled again. Or maybe they can't afford to lose it. After urgent discussions, the Romans decided to abandon the walls. Anyway, the ruined walls won't do much at the moment.

There's no way around it. There was no point in continuing to fight near the city walls other than needlessly increasing casualties.

After another blasting and demolition, the southern part of the city of Rome collapsed completely. Gao Yang discovered through a drone monitoring the battlefield that the Romans had completely retreated into the city.

"The tactics are quite advanced, and you want to fight street battles?" Gao Yang sneered, and then ordered the army to attack. Enter the city of Rome!

In siege warfare in the age of cold weapons, under normal circumstances, the breach of the city wall means that the attacking side has achieved an absolute victory. Siege warfare can basically be over. However, in some exceptional cases, siege warfare will continue to descend into brutal hand-to-hand combat.

For example, the defenders still have strong strength, or the city is extremely important, and the defenders have a very high will to fight, etc. Siege battles will continue until one side is completely defeated.

The city of Rome was huge, and it was definitely one of the top and largest megacities in the world at this time. This city at the heart of the Western world is home to millions of permanent residents, and even more so without identity statistics. The city is densely packed with buildings almost everywhere. Plenty of dwellings. The temple and various public facilities all show the prosperity and wealth of this city.

The military discipline of the Han army was very strict, and it was completely unique in this era. But even with the strict military discipline of the Han army, after entering the city, there were many looting incidents that ignored military discipline. It's enough to prove how amazing the city's prosperity is.

"Tut~~~" walked into a large temple built on a hill, and looked at the rooms that had been forcibly opened, and there were huge amounts of wealth piled up in them. Gao Yang shook his head and sighed, "There is so much money piled up here and moldy, and I didn't think of taking it out to motivate the soldiers to fight?" I really don't understand what these Romans think. ”

The temples of Rome had multiple identities and functions. One of them was to act as a bank for the Romans. Much of the wealth of the Romans was stored in temples.

"You blasphemous heretics, the gods will not let you go!" Seeing the treasures stored in the temple being removed by the alien armies with a smile on their faces, an elderly priestess roared to vent her anger.

Gao Yang turned to look at the priest who was cursing the Han army violently, and looked at the group of young priests behind her who were cowering under the supervision of the Han army's sharp blades. Smiled and walked over.

"Your Patronus has forsaken you. Otherwise, now that the city of Rome is going to perish, why wouldn't they have come to save you? Gao Yang put his hands behind his back and said with a smile.

"Heretics! You will receive the endless wrath of the gods! Wait until ......" Before the priest's words were finished, Gao Yang waved his hand, and when he turned to leave, he whispered to the Han sergeant on the side, "Kill her." ”

In just one day. The Han army copied a huge amount of wealth in just a part of the occupied city. There are also all kinds of metal objects, as well as a lot of art, precious furniture, and so on.

"What are you going to do with all this wealth? It's not going to be all distributed to the soldiers, is it? Yuan asked softly.

Gao Yang raised his hand and pinched his chin. Looking at the pile of various utensils in the square in front of me. After a moment of deep silence, he said, "Everything is divided into three parts, one for the soldiers and one for the generals. Bring one back to the court of the Han Empire, and one copy to keep as a reserve for the satrapy. ”

"You're not worried about Cao Cao's greed for ink?" Origin continued to ask.

Gao Yang smiled and turned around to leave the square, shook his head and said, "Are you all decorations when you are so many biochemical warriors?" I won't be staying here for long, but I'll come back from time to time. As long as Cao Cao is not stupid, he will not use his brains on this. How many countries and nations have you conquered in this westward conquest? How much wealth was looted? Who in the army of the Western Expedition had already filled his pockets? Cao Cao is the governor, and if he wants to make money, there is an opportunity, how could he use such an obvious thing to make trouble for himself? ”

"Then you are going to let Cao Cao stay here as the governor all the time?" Origin asked.

"How is that possible?" Gao Yang shook his head with a smile and said, "The governor will serve for five years, and no matter who he is, he can only serve for one consecutive term at most. After the end, I will go back to Luoyang City to arrange a position for retirement. No one can be a governor all year round. I don't want to cultivate one independent force after another. ”

Gao Yang strode up to a nearby tower, his eyes staring at the places in the distance where fierce fighting and flames erupted. He smiled and said softly, "We must speed up the construction of the Suez Canal." This time, so many prisoners were taken and all sent to dig the canal. The vassals also have to contribute. As long as this canal is opened, it will greatly shorten the connection and communication between the East and the West. Before the advent of railroads and airplanes, this was the most effective method. ”

"And what about the city?" Yuan asked softly.

Gao Yang frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice, "This place will be the wealth of Huaxia in the future, and the people here are also the lords of Huaxia, although they are second-class." The damage of war must be controlled, and it cannot be destroyed endlessly. As for the Romans who were still resisting, it would be best if they could take prisoners, and the construction sites were now desperately short of manpower. ”

"You've squeezed them all clean." Origin said with a smile.

Gao Yang shook his head and chuckled, looked at the city of Rome that was in the midst of war, and said softly, "I don't want to either." It's just that this world is like this. ”

As time passed, the Romans, who were still resisting, became more and more desperate. The alien armies that had entered Rome from the south were very stable. They quickly secured an area after taking it, and the Romans had no hope of retaking it.

The alien army approached step by step, encroaching on the city of Rome little by little. Severus set up several traps in an attempt to lure a part of the alien army into taking the bait so that he could launch a trap to fight the siege. Unfortunately, apart from once encircling and eating more than 2,000 vassals from Asia Minor, Severus's tactics yielded nothing.

As the area on the map under the control of the Romans continued to shrink day by day, the gray hair of Severus and Arnubis increased at a rate visible to the naked eye.

As the de facto rulers of the Roman Empire at the moment, Severus and Arnubis not only had to deal with the desperately powerful offensive of the alien army, but also had to endure the constant mental bombardment of the senators in the Senate.

The senators accused them of being incapable of defending the city of Rome, of betraying the trust of the Empire, and of failing to fight. In short, they are not satisfied with anything. (To be continued)