Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Feng Yu continued to grimace and said: "I don't care what I say. It depends on the judge's decision in court." In fact, if Feng Yu makes a promise at this time, it is very likely that these rebels will be forced to land without bloodshed. .But Feng Yu has no intention of peacefully resolving it now.

Felic's face suddenly changed.He knew that if it was done according to the laws of the Roman Empire.These thousands of craftsmen may escape the death penalty, but he, the mastermind, must die.He secretly thought in his heart, horizontal is death, vertical is death, it is better to fight.And this Feng Hu's army is full of recruits, except for those barbarian soldiers, the rest are not much better than his craftsmen.If you really fight, you won't necessarily lose.Even if he couldn't repel the opponent, as long as the Sicilian mercenaries arrived, he would win.

Felic suddenly yelled: "Shoot the arrows, shoot this guy!" The rebels who were more than ten steps behind him suddenly stood up. They all held scorpion crossbows in their hands, and the arrows flew down the hillside densely. shoot.

These arrows were completely inaccurate, but they also posed a considerable threat to Feng Yu under the intensive random shooting.It's just that the soldiers around Feng Yu were Liang Jun who followed him, and they cleverly raised their shields to block the arrow's path.

Those arrows not only crackled and shot at Liang Jun's shield.Some also hit the "turtle shell" covering Felici.Both Felic and Feng Yu hurriedly retreated behind each other.After Felic returned to the fortification line, he shouted angrily, and at the same time cheered up his own people: "Brothers, these are not Guards, they are just a group of recruits who have just joined the army. Don't be afraid of them, they are more dead than us It's just uniforms. With our fortifications, we will be able to repel them. And the Sicilian mercenaries are rushing to our aid."

As soon as his words fell, stone bullets from several ballistas flew towards the hill.Although these stone bullets were inaccurate, some flew directly over the rebel fortifications, and some fell into places where the fortifications had been nearly ten battles before, but the rattling of trees and bushes caused Felic to be shocked.He suddenly remembered that he also had a ballista, and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up, fire the ballista to fight back at them."

Soon, the same stone bullets flew down the hill, and they were also inaccurate.Although the Roman army formed a dense formation at the foot of the mountain, no one was injured by these stone bombs.But these stone bombs made Feng Yu vigilant.Only then did he know that the rebel army composed of these craftsmen actually had ballistas. He secretly rejoiced that Felic was a military blind, otherwise they would have suffered heavy casualties when they opened fire with ballistas when their army formed halfway down the hillside!

1029 Wrong plus wrong

After realizing that the opponent had ballistas, Feng Yu immediately ordered the army to retreat.Then, while looking at Mount Avantino, he thought about how to avoid the threat of the opponent's ballista.

He wanted to disperse the army and rush up the hillside in the form of skirmishers.But he immediately thought that this was impossible. Most of his soldiers were recruits. Once they left the army and acted alone, they would stop if they suffered a little casualties. If the casualties were more serious, the whole army might be defeated.He also wanted to find a commanding height so that the longbowmen headed by Dian Qing could snipe and kill the opponent's crossbowmen.It's a pity that the Avantino hill is an isolated hill on the plain, and there is no commanding height to be found.

He thought for a while and finally came up with a solution, and ordered: "Reform several of our ballista-carrying carts, remove the front two wheels, and remove the baffles on both sides and front of the carriage, so that they can be used as sculls. Shield car use."

The soldiers under Feng Yu's command followed suit immediately.In his regiment, there were more than a dozen veterans of the Liang Army's supply battalion, who came with the "caravan".Feng Yu asked them to stay so that they could train the logistical soldiers of the auxiliary corps that will be formed in the future.These veterans skillfully removed the front wheels of the four carts, and then removed the front left and right compartment baffles.In this way, it becomes a scull shield vehicle that can be manually pushed forward.And they also reinforced the removed fenders to what remained of the car's tailgate.

These sculls are the best weapons to deal with the ballista, because the direct fire of the ballista is the greatest threat to Feng Yujun, and a stone bullet can penetrate the bodies of seven or eight people in the dense formation.But after the chariot scull blocks the stone bullets fired in a straight line, if the stone bullets want to hurt people, they can only cross the scull shield in a parabolic trajectory and hit the people behind.Even if such a stone bomb hits one person by chance, it will only cause casualties of one person, instead of killing seven or eight people in a row.

When Felic saw the officers and soldiers retreat at first, he thought it was his ballista that scared the opponent back.Now, when he was secretly complacent in his heart, the horn of the army formation was blown at the foot of the mountain again.The Roman army assembled again, and their formation was a row of 20 people, advancing up the hill along the gentle hillside with a width of more than [-] battles.The difference is that this time there is a movable "wall" in front of them, and these Roman soldiers are pushing the scull shield chariot forward.

Felic became nervous again, he yelled and commanded in a disorganized way: "Quick, the officers and soldiers are coming up again, hurry up and shoot me with the scorpion ballista, shoot hard!"

Those rebels who were manipulating ballistas and scorpion crossbows were already extremely nervous. Before Felic finished speaking, stone bullets and crossbow bolts were thrown towards the Milan army like raindrops.Those scorpion crossbows had a limited range, and the arrows fell to the ground when they were still far away from Feng Yujun.

However, a stone bullet just hit the "scull shield", that is, the tailgate of the dismantled baggage car.With a muffled bang, the stone bullet fell to the ground, and the soldiers pushing the cart only felt a shock from the tiger's mouth.Because the distance is still too far, the power of the stone bullet has been greatly weakened when it hits the scull shield.Naturally, it cannot penetrate the scull shield.The rest of the stone bullets all missed, and they didn't know where they went.

Up to this time Felic hadn't realized that at such a long distance, he was shooting indiscriminately with ballistas and scorpion crossbows.It has no meaning other than consuming one's own arrows, stone bombs and the strength of one's own people.Felic continued to yell words that had no meaning other than embolden himself: "Hit! Hit me hard! Hey, why are you shooting so slowly... How soft are the stone bullets fired by this ballista? Yes, not even a plank can be broken?"

As Feng Yujun advanced closer and closer to the rebel defense line, the arrows shot by the Scorpion Crossbow were able to reach them.Some of the arrows hit the scull shield like a dead mouse. Naturally, they couldn't penetrate the scull shield, they just emitted fluffy, stuffy noises.

Suddenly, with a muffled bang, the stone bullet still cracked a hole in the two-layer plank of a certain oar and passed through the "shield".However, the kinetic energy of the stone bullet was also exhausted, and after passing through two layers of wood, it fell at an almost vertical angle, fell on the floor of the scull shield vehicle, and finally rolled to the ground, almost killing a cart veteran hit his foot.

Felic just saw this scene in his eyes, and shouted loudly: "They are blocked by wooden boards, and it's useless to shoot directly from the ballista. Let's lob them and hit them!"

Needless to say, those rebels who manipulated the ballista also knew this truth. They had already raised the nozzle of the ballista and threw the stone bullets into the air.It's just that the difficulty of hitting the target with this throw is much more difficult than that of a direct shot.Most of these stone bombs either passed over Feng Yu's army directly, or fell to the ground a dozen battles ahead of time.Only a few stone bullets could fall in the army formation, and one of them happened to fall on the head of a Roman soldier, immediately smashing his bronze helmet and head, but the stone bullet also fell with the soldier's body On the ground, another deep hole was smashed on the ground and then stopped.

Although the stone bombs thrown by the rebels could still cause some casualties, Feng Yu was not too worried.Because the most elite part of the entire legion, including veterans of the Roman army, barbarian soldiers with combat experience, and of course Liang army veterans, they are all in the front row, that is, immediately behind the scull shield chariot, and the stones thrown It is impossible for bullets to hit them because of the dead angle.

At this moment, Felic's face turned pale. He saw that the opponent was getting closer and closer, and because of the exhaustion of his own strength, the rate of fire of both the ballista and the scorpion crossbow was getting slower and slower.When Feng Yu's army advanced only ten battles away from them, Felic yelled: "Stop shooting randomly, get your weapons quickly, and get ready to fight them at close range with javelins!"

Following Felic's instructions, some rebels took out their javelins and lifted them over their shoulders, ready to throw them.On the opposite side, Feng Yu's army separated four scull-shield chariots in a sudden chorus of shouts, and the soldiers came like a flood.

A row of rebels stood up in the ditch, and when they threw their javelins at the opponent, they found that there were more black shadows flying towards them densely in the air.It was a crossbow gun fired by a salvo of individual ballistas.A rebel holding a javelin just stretched his arms, and when he was about to throw the javelin, a crossbow shot through his chest in an instant.He and the javelin fell to the ground together.The rest of the rebel javeliners who stood up were also shot to the ground by crossbow spears.Those thrown javelins were also chaotic, and most of them either missed or were blocked by the large shields of Feng Yu's soldiers.

Felic thought he had made another mistake, and he quickly corrected himself: "No, don't use javelins, let's use the cover of the trench and shoot them with scorpion crossbows!"

However, he didn't know that he was making mistakes.

Chapter 1030 Booty

On the hill of Afantino, seeing Feng Yu's army rushing like a tiger, the rebels under Felic's hands were already limp.It took them [-]% more effort than usual to load the arrows on the scorpion crossbow.Before most of the people hiding in the trench had time to release their arrows, the opposing soldiers had already rushed to the trench.

The first to rush to the trench was Bonnie's younger brother, Feng Yujun's new centurion, John Lawrence.Directly opposite him was a rebel soldier who had just loaded his scorpion crossbow arrows.The rebels leveled the scorpion crossbow with trembling hands. Before their fingers could rest on the hanging knife, a white light flashed in front of their eyes. The entire palm and some parts of the scorpion crossbow had been cut off to the ground.Before he could cry out in pain, John's dagger pierced his chest.

Another rebel soldier mustered up his courage and stabbed a rushing Liang soldier with his spear, but the latter deflected the stab with a light push of his large shield. The individual ballista he held fired a powerful crossbow gun, and shot through the rebel's head with one shot.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, Felic's rebels were beheaded and killed 30 people.This is the first time for the recruits behind Feng Yu's army to go to the battlefield. Everyone was trembling at first, but when they saw the elite robes in front of them slashing and killing the rebels like knives and tofu, they became more courageous. .They all carried the individual ballista on their backs, then waved their short swords and rushed forward with their shields held high.

On the top of the Avantino hill, the sound of fighting rang out.Feng Yu found that, as he expected, the so-called rebels were mobs.Except for a dozen craftsmen who may have some experience in the army, the rest of the rebels are either cowardly or stupid in combat skills. Even if they fight with their own recruits, they are often killed within ten rounds kill.

When these rebels were killed more than a hundred people, they began to crumble.More and more people lost their weapons and fled down the mountain from all directions. Some even ran the wrong way in a panic and fell off the cliff.Of course, Feng Yujun would not let them escape in vain.Under the leadership of John, Dian Qing and Simmons, he hunted down everywhere.

These defeated craftsmen were already killed, their legs were weak and their feet were weak, so they couldn't run away from Feng Yujun's soldiers.After hearing these soldiers shouting: "The surrender will not be killed!", they all knelt down and begged for surrender.Few craftsmen were able to escape smoothly in the end.

The sound of fighting on Avantino Hill finally calmed down, and Feng Yu led Douglas to search for Felic among the black captives, because the latter knew Felic.Douglas, the deputy head of the legion, inspected them one by one, and finally shook his head to Feng Yu in disappointment and said: "There is no one from Felic, it seems that this guy is still allowed to run away."

Feng Yu didn't care, and jokingly said: "It seems that this man's ability to run is as high as his ability to speculate."

At this time, Simmons, who was interrogating the prisoners, heard the news, and Feng Yu knew that Felic had slipped away along the path behind the hill just when the two sides had just met at close range.Feng Yu said: "Although the bandit leader ran away, today we put down the mint rebellion with minimal casualties. It is also a major victory."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard some of his soldiers exclaim in the camp abandoned by the rebels: "Gold, so much gold!" Inside the shabby house we built, we saw crates and crates of gold.

Ulysses, the financial officer of the legion beside Feng Yu, laughed loudly and said, "League commander, we will get rich now!"

Feng Yu wondered, did Ulysses suggest that our legion take this gold for ourselves?But he asked in his mouth, "What do you mean by your words?"

Ulysses sighed: "Your Excellency, Legion Commander, you must not understand our Roman military laws and regulations. According to Roman military regulations, part of the spoils of war is owned by the various legions participating in this battle. These spoils include prisoners of war who can be used as slaves." , the money directly seized, if it is a foreign war, also includes all the women in the captured towns, villages, and tribes of the enemy country."

It was only then that Feng Yu remembered that although Alexander had given him relevant documents, he really hadn't read this part of the military regulations carefully.In this way, I deliberately did not persuade Felic to surrender before, because in that case, these craftsmen were either executed or fined as slaves and auctioned to fill the treasury or serve as public slaves to all kinds of hard labor.Anyway, I won't get any benefits.Now these people are owned by their legion as slaves.

He had another question, and said to Ulysses: "These artisan prisoners of war are taken as trophies, and it is understandable to become our slaves. But these golds belong to the empire and belong to stolen goods. How can they be given to us as trophies?" .”

The smile on the corner of Ulysses’ lips has not receded, and he continued to explain: “So it’s only a part, and there are detailed regulations in the Roman military regulations. If money is stolen, and the owner is the Roman Empire or a citizen of the Empire The free people will return [-]% of it to the owner, and the remaining [-]% will be left as unwarranted spoils to the victorious legion. If it is not such stolen goods, the legion only needs to hand over [-]% to the imperial treasury. So we have [-]% of the gold It can be taken away openly."

At this time, Simmons, who was in charge of interrogating the prisoners, hurried over again.After he whispered a few words to Feng Yu, Feng Yu's expression suddenly changed, and he said to everyone: "This Felic has hired mercenaries with a lot of money. He may come here at any time, so this is not a place to stay for a long time. We will hurry up." Quickly sort out the items and prisoners and leave."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard loud exclamations from some soldiers on his side.

"Look, there's another troop over there."

"Maybe he was transferred by His Majesty Alexander to quell the chaos just like us."

"It's a pity that they came late, and the spoils of war have been taken by us."

But Feng Yu clapped his hands and said: "It's broken, the Sicilian mercenaries hired by Felic must have arrived. Now I can't leave."

Douglas was surprised: "So they are Sicilian mercenaries? They are the most ferocious mercenaries, and all of them are brave and good at fighting. They are not comparable to these mobs who were born as coin miners. And now we have so many prisoners to guard..."

Feng Yu said solemnly: "This is the end of the matter, we have to fight if we don't want to. Fortunately, there are ready-made fortifications for us here by Felic. Although most of us are recruits, I am still confident that we can conquer Sicily. The gang repulsed."

At the foot of the mountain, a man in ragged clothes was coming with well-armored Sicilian mercenaries.This person was none other than Felic. He ran into the Sicilian mercenaries who were coming shortly after he fled down Mount Aventino ahead of time.

Chapter 1031 Sicilian Mercenaries

Felic was in such a hurry when he fled down the mountain that he didn't even have time to take away a cronies.When he stumbled and ran down the hill from a path behind the hill.The hilltop of the Afantino Hill was already full of fighting sounds. After he secretly rejoiced that he escaped death, he was at a loss as to where to go.

He first thought about going to Rome to seek refuge with his backers?But this idea was immediately rejected. At this time, Alexander's Guards in Rome must be on high alert and heavily guarded.Besides, even if he was lucky enough to sneak into the city and meet those people, there was no guarantee that the other party would not tie him up and hand him over to Alexander in order to protect himself.

In the end, he decided to seek refuge in an overseas province first.After he touched the two hard gold bars in his pocket, he strode towards the west. There were many ports on the coast of more than a hundred miles that allowed him to go to sea.But after walking for a quarter of an hour, they found a large number of troops in front of them.He thought he had encountered the Roman army again, so he changed direction in a panic and ran away.The other party obviously also spotted him, and two fast horses galloped out of the team to chase him.

Felic was naturally a mount that couldn't run on four legs, so he was quickly caught.But Felitch turned his worries into joy instead.Because he found that the opponent was not a Roman army at all, but it was not a barbarian army either. He immediately thought of who else it could be except Sicilian mercenaries.

When he was escorted to a man who looked like a leader, he shouted before the other party could speak: "Oh, you trash! Why did you come here? You missed a big deal by being late. Hurry up! Let go!" Fuck me. I'm just..."

Before he could finish his sentence, the other party swung his horsewhip over him, and it hit his face firmly with a slap, leaving a bloodstain immediately.After receiving this whip, Felic immediately woke up. These people were not the ones his craftsmen could yell at and drive at will.

In fact, with Felici's smooth nature, he would not have been so gaffe.It's just that the accident he's encountering now is really big, and he's so anxious that he's so out of control.He immediately changed his face and said with a smile: "Don't fight, don't fight. I guess you are Sicilian mercenaries. Are you General Mossolis?"

Seeing that the other party revealed his identity and name, the leader of the Sicilian mercenary immediately asked in confusion, "Yes, I am Mossolis. Who are you? How did you know us?"

"Hi, I am Felici who invited you here. Felici, the director of the Roman Mint."

"Are you Felic?" Mossolis asked while looking at Felic with suspicion.Felic's clothes were torn by thorns in many places, and he became in a mess. Naturally, it was hard to imagine that he was the majestic chief executive of the mint.

"Hey, I'm really Felic. It's just because I was defeated by the officers and soldiers just now, and I escaped by chance, so I'm in such a mess. Oh, don't believe me, I still have a seal here." Felic explained He took out the seal that he carried with him in his pocket, but he also took out the two gold bars.

Mossolis took the seal and glanced at it before returning it to Felic, but snatched his two gold bars.Felic's lips moved, but in the end he restrained himself from speaking.

While banging two gold bars, Mosolis said, "Well, yes, I am Mosolis, and I also believe that you are His Excellency Felic. But now that you have been defeated, there is no longer any condition for fulfilling the agreement." So there is no need for us to continue to fulfill the agreement. The deposit and these two gold bars you sent the envoy to pay before will be considered as your compensation for our trip."

After that, he got on his mount and wanted to leave with the Sicilian mercenaries.Seeing that Felic was in a hurry, he kept shouting: "General, go slowly, I have something to say."

Mosolis reined in the reins and said with a sneer: "Don't talk nonsense, our mercenaries only accept money. If you can't get the money, it's useless to say anything. Now I see you as a gold coin, not even a copper coin." Don't come out now."

Felic said anxiously: "No, no, although I don't have any money with me, there are still... thousands of pounds of gold on the mountain, which are all the gold reserves of the original mint. Now the officers and soldiers have just attacked the mountain, and it is too late. Let's go. As long as you can eat them, aren't these thousands of pounds of gold all yours?"

When Mossolis heard the thousands of pounds of gold, his eyes lit up immediately, but he continued to hesitate and calculate the risks and benefits.Felic continued to encourage from the side: "General, don't hesitate any longer. It is Feng Hu's Milan Legion. It was not long after it was established, and they are all recruits. You will surely win a battle. If you still hesitate, let them go. These thousands of pounds of gold are gone."

"Feng Hu? I've heard of this man. He is a foreigner who came from a country called Liang in the far east a few months ago. He is highly valued by Alexander, and he was given the position of army commander when he came."

"Yes, yes, it is him. His legion has not been established for a long time, and it does not have much combat power. It can also beat my artisans who are not good at fighting. But it is definitely not your opponent of Sicilian mercenaries. General, hurry up Decide now! A few thousand pounds of gold will be gone!"

Mosolis was finally overwhelmed by greed and caution, and shouted to the surrounding subordinates: "Pass my military order, continue to advance to Mount Avantino, and destroy the Feng Hu army there!" Then the back fork said to Felic: "The front lead the way!"

When Mossolus came to the foot of Mount Aventino, he set up a tent and looked up the mountain. He could only see the low wall of the original camp on the hillside, but not a single enemy.

In fact, Feng Yu had already made preparations, and his infantry crouched in the trench or behind the low wall.The cavalry was waiting more than ten miles behind the mountain.

Mosolis waved his hand and said "attack", and the Sicilian mercenaries behind him rushed up the mountain like a tide.The equipment of his soldiers is obviously different from that of the Roman army, but it is similar to a mixture of Phoenician warriors and Celtic barbarians.Use a large round shield that is easier for individual combat but not suitable for formation. You have all kinds of weapons, guns, spears, swords, halberds, forks and axes. The armor on your body is either chain mail or cast in one piece from ancient times. It looks like a muscular body. "Muscle armor".

When they attacked, they didn't form a formation, they just rushed to the top of the hill as skirmishers along the hillside.Seeing that there was no movement on the mountain for a long time, Mosolis said to Felic beside him, "What? Could it be that they have already run away?"

Felic stammered, "No, it's impossible. It will take at least two hours for them to take in prisoners of war and search the camp. It's impossible to withdraw so quickly."

As soon as his words fell, he and Mossolis heard a whistle in the air, followed by a sound like cracking wood, and they saw with their own eyes the death of a Sicilian mercenary in front of him. The head suddenly disappeared!

Chapter 1032 The corpse is everywhere

Feng Yujun has started to release the ballista.But the Sicilian mercenaries advanced with skirmishers.Those ballista recruits are very unfamiliar with the operation.Therefore, the hit rate of these stone bullets is extremely low. It just happened that the blind cat encountered a dead mouse and shot a Sicilian mercenary.

Even so, the stone bullets whizzing through the air startled Mossolis, and he jumped off his horse in a hurry to prevent the target from being too obvious.But Felic, who was next to him, hid behind him.But Mosolis quickly regained his composure. He found that although the ballista looked amazingly powerful, its firing speed was slow and it could not be hit accurately. .

The rest of the Sicilian mercenaries thought the same as him.So they no longer worried about Feng Yujun's ballista bombardment, and continued to swarm towards the top of the mountain with shouts.

But they were still sixty or seventy battles away from Feng Yujun's position.However, more than a dozen fireballs rose into the air from behind Feng Yujun's position, and they finally fired Greek kerosene bombs with portable ballistas.When Feng Yu came this time, he didn't bring many of these things, and they were all small, only suitable for portable ballista projectiles.Before Feng Yujun had time to use them when attacking Mount Afantino, Felic's rebels were defeated.

The fireballs also didn't hit at all. They randomly landed in every corner of the hillside, setting up clusters of flames.Only one fireball happened to land at the feet of a Sicilian mercenary, and the flames instantly engulfed him and burned a soldier near him.Although these flames did not actually cause much casualties to the Sicilian mercenaries, the screams of the Sicilian mercenaries who were burned into people of fire still frightened them, and they all slowed down.

Mosolis shouted anxiously from behind: "Speed ​​up, as long as we rush up, they are just a pile of scrap iron and rotten wood. The slower we are, the more casualties will be, rush!"

Under his encouragement, the Sicilian mercenaries quickened their pace again, and they were less than twenty battles away from the ditch and low wall where Feng Yujun was hiding.

A Sicilian commander who took the lead in the charge found that the opponent had stopped throwing the ballista, and shouted happily: "Rush in and fight, these recruits are no different from lambs to be slaughtered. Watch out for their javelins!"

He thought that Feng Yujun would throw javelins at this distance like an ordinary Roman army, and the Sicilian mercenaries had repeatedly trained and blocked javelins.Each of them can use the buckler to block the javelins thrown continuously.

As soon as the commander-in-chief finished speaking, his head was pierced by a heavy arrow nearly four feet long, and his body fell straight to the ground.This arrow was a precise sniper shot by Dian Qing with a longbow, and the other three longbowmen also shot at the seemingly leader of the Sicilian mercenaries like Dian Qing.

At this moment, hundreds of Sicilian mercenaries rushing to the front were less than ten battles away from the low wall and trench.If they charge forward again, even if the opponent has a javelin, it will be difficult for them to cast it.

The soldiers of Feng Yu's regiment really emerged from the trench and behind the low wall as they expected, but they didn't completely stand up, let alone throw their javelins.Instead, a tool similar to a scorpion crossbow was exposed along with their heads and chests.It's just that the utensil doesn't have the crossbow arm like the crab slave.

Mosolis immediately felt something was wrong, and just shouted: "Not good!" Rows of crossbows shot at the mercenaries rushing forward.Those mercenaries waved their round shields reflexively to block them, but this thing is much faster than a javelin, and its size is much smaller, how can it be blocked.The mercenaries rushing to the front immediately fell to the ground in disarray.Some people were not shot at the vitals, but their limbs were pierced and broken by the crossbow gun, and they fell to the ground and wailed non-stop.

"Rush, rush in and fight hand-to-hand, as long as we can rush in, they will be finished!" Mosolis roared with red eyes.Under his personal supervision and encouragement, these Sicilian mercenaries are still rushing forward desperately.Mossolis thought that the opponent's crossbowmen were limited, and the time between releasing each round of arrows was at least seven or eight seconds long.But he was also wrong.I saw that Feng Yujun's soldiers were divided into two or three groups, sticking their heads out of the low walls and trenches non-stop, and shooting a dense array of arrows at close range, each wave had at least five or six hundred rounds.

These arrows poured towards the Sicilian mercenaries almost non-stop like a continuous shower.The latter fell to the ground in batches like crops hit by hail.

Cold sweat suddenly broke out from Mosulis' forehead, and no matter how many troops he kept going on like this, he would be exhausted.When Mossolis was about to give the order to retreat, he suddenly caught sight of a man who looked like a general standing on a boulder far away from the corner of his eye. aim.

He swiftly lifted Felic next to him like a chick in front of him to block him.After a muffled pop, Felic already rolled his eyes.A cluster of heavy arrows protruded from Felic's chest.The heavy arrow's power remained undiminished, and it only stopped when it drilled a distance of two feet.But Mosolis felt a burning pain in his cheek, it turned out that the arrow cluster scratched his face.Mosolis threw down Felic's body angrily, and shouted: "Get out, get out quickly!"

The Sicilian mercenaries retreated down the hill like a tide, but their nightmare did not end.On the top of the mountain, Feng Yu looked at the retreating enemy soldiers and said coldly: "Shoot the arrows, our heavy cavalry should be dispatched."

Following a loud arrow soaring into the sky, the heavy cavalry of thousands of horses who had stopped a few miles behind the hill galloped towards the front of the hill, making a roar like summer thunder.

When Mossolis heard this voice, his face turned extremely pale.Sicilian mercenaries do not like to use cavalry just like the army on the Mediterranean coast, but this time they came by boat, and it is even more impossible to bring cavalry.On this plain, if one's own infantry were to fight against the opponent's cavalry, it would be tantamount to hitting a stone with a pebble.But now the only Avantino Hill that can defend the cavalry is still occupied by the enemy.

Mosuo Li suddenly fell into despair.Most of the leaders under his command also knew that this time they were doomed.A commander advised him: "General, let's run separately. If we can run, count as one, otherwise the whole army will be wiped out." Mosolis nodded without thinking.The Sicilian mercenaries were immediately divided into ten groups under the leadership of a dozen chieftains, and fled from all directions.However, their action was a little late, and the thousand cavalry cavalry had already lined up, sweeping towards them from the horizon.After a moment of whistling and neighing of horses and the sound of weapons clashing, the field was already littered with corpses, most of which were the corpses of Sicilian mercenaries.

Chapter 1033 Turmoil in Rome City

Feng Yu looked at the corpses of Sicilian mercenaries all over the field, and coldly ordered the deputy army commander Douglas: "Send me an order to cut off the heads of all the corpses of this bandit soldier."

Douglas was surprised: "What is this for?"

"Of course, sitting their heads into..." Feng Yu thought for a long time, and there is no corresponding word for Jingguan in Latin.He had no choice but to say: "It is to use their heads to threaten those who have evil intentions."

Douglas nodded and said: "So that's what it means. But the commander of the legion, it's a barbarian way to intimidate the enemy with their heads. After they win the battle, they will cut off the enemy's corpse and hang it on the treetops all the way. And we in Rome Man's tradition is to nail a man to a shelf and stick it in the wayside."

Feng Yu said without hesitation: "Then use the traditional method. It's just that our soldiers have to work hard."

Douglas laughed and said, "Isn't there so many ready-made captives? Why do our soldiers need to work hard?"

Thousands of Feng Yu's army prepared for half a day before starting to march towards the city of Rome.The baggage wagons they brought back were restored, and together with the captured Sicilian mercenaries and Felic vehicles, there were nearly [-] vehicles.Their carriages were filled with the corpses of Sicilian mercenaries and mint rebels.Of course, twenty carts were still not enough to hold thousands of corpses, so the soldiers drove the captives to walk in groups of four carrying the corpses with wooden sticks.Along the way, they used local materials to erect wooden poles and hang the corpses on them.

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In the city of Rome, the usually bustling streets were empty.Soldiers of Alexander's Guards appeared in the streets and alleys from time to time.There was no martial law in the city of Rome, but the people knew that something big was about to happen, and most of them stayed indoors and stopped casually going out on the streets.Even the baths, which are full of tourists on weekdays, are empty.

In the consul's mansion, that is, in the imperial palace, Alexander and his mother Amias sat in the lobby waiting for news.Amiyas had an obviously anxious expression on his face, and he stood up from time to time and paced around.On the other side, Alexander didn't seem to care.