The Roman Spartan legion was about to attack, and the Persian general Palatton, who was in charge of defending the city, suddenly became nervous, although he was fully prepared, but after all, the Spartan legion was very strong, and his self-confidence in whether he could hold the city was still a little lacking. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"General, His Majesty the King has an order that the city must be defended no matter what, and the Roman army must not be allowed to enter the city." One of Shapur II's own soldiers rushed to the head of the city and gave the order to Palat.

Pratt nodded, and said, "You go back and tell His Majesty that Pratt will definitely defend the city and reassure him." ”

"Yes, General." The soldiers answered and turned to leave.

"General, the Spartan Legion is extremely elite, and we are under a lot of pressure in this battle." A general said worriedly.

Pratt nodded, and said, "That's right, we are indeed under a lot of pressure in this battle, but with the people of the whole city as our backing, I believe we can hold the city." ”

"Even if I can defend the city, my Persian national strength will be completely exhausted, and I really don't know how to respond to the provocations of neighboring countries in the future." The general said worriedly.

When Pratt heard this, he closed his eyes lonely, and what the general said made him very uneasy, the fact is that even if they can hold the city and block the attack of the Roman legions, the living force of Persia will be completely exhausted, so that they will not be able to resist the attacks of the surrounding countries in the future, and the Persian Empire will be reduced to a weak Persian state, which is naturally what Pratt does not want to see, and all the Persian people do not want to see.

"If the national strength is consumed too much, you can only rely on the Jin State in the future and honestly be a vassal state of the Jin State." Pratt said helplessly.

The general nodded in approval, obviously, at this time, the strength of Persia has been greatly damaged, if you want to maintain the Persian Empire will not collapse, you can only rely on the strength of the Great Jin, there is no other way.

Just when the Persian general Pratt was worried about the fate of Persia, the Roman Spartan legions, led by the infantry general Barbatio, had pressed towards Ctesiphon and prepared to attack.

The Persian general Pratt looked up and saw that the Roman Spartan legions were neatly and orderly arranged in an offensive formation, looking full of unstoppable momentum.

"Pass the order, let the soldiers cheer up and prepare for defense." Pratt ordered loudly.

"Yes, General." The general received the order and immediately conveyed the order.

When the Persian soldiers received the order, they all bothered and prepared to defend themselves against the attack of the Spartan army.

Under Ctesiphon, the Roman general Barbatio looked up in the direction of the city wall, and after a moment, he shouted from the side: "Invincible Spartans, the time has come for you to make meritorious contributions to the Roman Empire, and to attack Ctesiphon and capture the king of Persia alive." ”

"Roar, roar, roar,......" the Spartan soldiers shouted loudly and immediately began to attack.

A large number of Spartan soldiers slowly advanced in the direction of the city wall with their shields held high to prevent the Persian arrow raindown, and at the same time, a small number of Spartan soldiers carried ladders so that Spartan soldiers could climb the walls of Ctesiphon.

Of course, at the same time as the Spartan legions attacked, huge stones were also taking place on the long-range catapults of the Roman legions to cover the Spartan legions' attack.

The attack of the Roman legion's long-range catapult could not cause too many casualties to the Persian defenders, so the Persian defenders were not afraid of the Roman legion's catapult at all, they were only afraid of the Roman Spartan legion that was slowly approaching, after all, the Spartan legion had a strong strength, so that the Persian soldiers did not dare to take it lightly.

"General, the Spartan Legion has come within range of our army's bows." The general looked at Pratt and reminded softly.

Pratt looked at the dense shield array under the city, shook his head and said: "The shield array of the Spartan Legion is impermeable, and the bows and crossbows don't play much role at all, so it's better to wait until they get close before attacking." ”

Obviously, Pratt, who is experienced in combat, knows that the bow and crossbow will not play any role at all in the face of the shield array, and it is better to save the crossbow arrow than to attack without effect, after all, the crossbow arrow is an extremely important military material and should be used on the blade.

The Spartan legions lined up in dense shields to meet the rain of arrows from the Persian army, but they were surprised that the Persian army did not fire a single arrow, but their mission was to break Ctesiphon, and for this reason, none of the Spartan warriors cared about this anomaly and continued to advance slowly.

After arriving at the city, the Spartan army erected a large number of ladders, and the Spartan warriors, holding shields in their left hands and spears in their right hands, slowly climbed along the ladders to the walls of Ctesiphon, and many Spartan soldiers were bending their bows and arrows to shoot arrows at the city walls to cover the Spartan warriors who were climbing upwards.

"General, the Spartan legion has arrived under the city and is erecting a ladder to attack the city." The ministry general reminded loudly.

The corners of Pratt's mouth twitched slightly, and he ordered loudly: "Send the order to let the soldiers attack the Spartan soldiers under the city with stones and wooden blocks." ”

The general quickly relayed the order loudly, and the Persian soldiers immediately threw heavy stones and wooden blocks from the walls and slammed them on the shields of the Spartan soldiers.

Although the Spartan warriors were very strong and had shields to protect their bodies, the impact of dozens or even hundreds of catties of stones and wooden blocks falling from a high place was very huge, so even the strong Spartan soldiers could not resist the damage caused by this impact, and they were torn apart and died.

The large number of stones and wooden blocks caused great losses to the Spartan warriors gathered under the city, but the brave Spartan warriors were not afraid of casualties at all, on the contrary, the death of their comrades inspired them to fight bravely, and made them more brave and bloodthirsty.

The Spartan soldiers followed one after the other, and launched a very fierce attack on Ctesiphon along the ladder, and at one point climbed the city wall to attack the Persian defenders defending on the wall.

But the Persian army had long been fully prepared, for this reason, the Spartan army was repulsed again and again, and eliminated many Spartan soldiers, of course, the Persian army also suffered a lot of losses, many soldiers in charge of defending the city were stabbed by the spears of the Spartan soldiers, and caused great damage.

However, in any case, after nearly an hour of attack, the Spartan army did not break through Ctesiphon, and suffered considerable losses, which is an indisputable fact, and this made the Roman Emperor Constantius II very dissatisfied and furious.

"The Spartan army has always been invincible, why hasn't it broken through Ctesiphon yet?" Constantius II, roaring angrily.

"Your Majesty the Emperor is angry, according to our original calculation of the combat strength of the Persian defenders, Ctesiphon can be quickly taken by the Spartan army, but a large number of ordinary people in the Persian city were suddenly mobilized to participate in the defense of the city, so the pressure on the Spartan army is much greater, and it is understandable that it failed to break through Ctesiphon in time." A Roman minister said.

"Go and tell General Barbatio at once that he must take Ctesiphon before dusk, or else he will be removed from his position as infantry general." Constantius II looked at one of his own soldiers and said angrily.

Obviously, he didn't care about the minister's statement at all, in his eyes, the sudden increase of tens of thousands of people in Ctesiphon was not a reason why the Spartan army could not attack the city, and the powerful Spartan army could not win because the other party had tens of thousands of more people.

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor." His own soldiers received the order, and immediately rushed to Barbatio's position, passing the words of Constantius II to the Roman general Barbatio.

The Spartan army failed to break Ctesiphon in one fell swoop, and Barbatio's mood was also very bad, after all, this battle was personally commanded by him, and he couldn't break Ctesiphon, showing that his command art was not clever enough, and with the most elite Spartan army, he couldn't break Ctesiphon.

The resentment of Emperor Constantius II made Barbatio's heart even more uncomfortable, which showed that His Majesty the Emperor was already dissatisfied with his command, and this obviously did not bode well, so he had to break Ctesiphon as soon as possible.

Barbatio looked at the generals beside him and said loudly: "Send the order to go down and let the Spartan army build a ladder and quickly break through Ctesiphon." ”

"Yes, General." The general took the order and immediately conveyed the order.

When the Spartan soldiers heard the order, they immediately set up a human ladder under the city of Ctesiphon, the so-called human ladder is that a large number of Spartan soldiers gathered together and held the shield in their hands above their heads, thus forming a plane, and then, another group of soldiers boarded this plane and followed suit, the bottom plane was the largest, and the top was the smallest, so that after the accumulation of multiple planes, it could form a spacious human ladder leading directly to the city wall of Ctesiphon, just like the staircase of the later building.

After the ladder was built, the Spartan soldiers could quickly rush to the walls of Ctesiphon through this ladder, so as to quickly break through Ctesiphon.

Seeing that the Spartan army quickly built a human ladder with the intention of quickly breaking the city, the Persian general Pratt was shocked and immediately ordered: "Fire oil, prepare fire oil immediately, burn the Spartans, burn the Spartans." ”

When the Persian soldiers heard the order, they immediately poured oil from the city walls and poured it all down on the Spartan soldiers.

And with the fall of a torch, all the Spartan soldiers who were poured with fire oil were all ignited, and the human ladder of the Spartan army became a ladder of burning men, and the Spartan soldiers who formed the human ladder could not bear the burning of the fire, and all of them scattered and rolled on the ground in pain, in a vain attempt to extinguish the fire on their bodies.

Seeing the Spartan soldiers rolling in the fire, all the Persian soldiers were very excited and shouted loudly to show their victory, while the Spartan soldiers under the city were very resentful and gritted their teeth, as if they wanted to slaughter all the Persians in the city, but at this moment, the Persian soldiers were constantly launching fire attacks and caused great damage to the dense Spartan army, so if the Spartan army wanted to reduce its losses, it must immediately retreat.

"Retreat, retreat immediately." Several generals of the Spartan legion gave the order to retreat.

Soon, the Spartan troops besieging Ctesiphon quickly retreated and disengaged from the Persian defenders.

Seeing the Spartan legion retreating backwards, the Roman general Barbatio was very dissatisfied, he had not yet issued a military order, and the Spartan legion actually retreated on his own initiative, but he also saw the situation clearly just now, under the large-scale fire attack of the Persian defenders, if the Spartan legion did not retreat immediately, it would definitely suffer greater losses, so the private retreat of the Spartan legion was excusable.

But Emperor Constantius II had already given a death order to remove Ctesiphon from his post as general if he could not attack Ctesiphon before dusk, which made him very nervous and worried.

"General, the shameless Persians attacked tactics with fire, and we had to retreat." Several Spartan generals who ordered the retreat said apologetically.

Barbatio naturally saw it all, but still said dissatisfiedly: "Aren't you Spartan legions invincible? What's going on today? ”

Being counted down by Barbatio, several Spartan generals felt a little uncomfortable, but they had done their best, and it was not their intention to fail to break Ctesiphon, and they were also helpless.

"General rest assured, when our army rests for a while, it will attack again, and we will not stop until we break through Ctesiphon." A Spartan general shouted.

"General, let's rest for a while, and soon we will attack Ctesiphon again." Another Spartan general shouted.

Barbatio nodded slightly, and rode to the position of the Roman Emperor Constantius II, ready to plead guilty to Constantius II.

At this moment, the Roman Emperor Constantius II had a very bad face, and the most elite Spartan army under his command not only failed to break Ctesiphon, but also suffered heavy losses and was forced to retreat, which greatly damaged his face, which made him angry.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, Barbatio has come to plead guilty." Barbatio bowed his head and pleaded guilty to Constantius II.

Constantius II said angrily: "General Barbatio, it seems that you don't plan to continue to worry about the general, do you?" ”

Barbatio hurriedly bowed his head and said: "Failed to complete the task of His Majesty the Emperor, Barbatio is ashamed and willing to let the Emperor have to deal with it." ”

Constantius II sighed and said softly: "General Barbatio, I know that you have done your best, but the Spartan army failed to break through Ctesiphon, and also lost a lot of soldiers and horses, someone must be responsible for this, and you are the commander of the army, if you do not deal with you, how can you convince the soldiers." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor, Barbatio is convinced." Barbatio answered. (To be continued.) )