Chapter 131 This Roman Commander Is a Bit Difficult to Deal With

Xiang Dalong never thought that there would be people using stones as weapons on the battlefield.

At this time, Zhao Hao thought about it and said quickly:

"It's not impossible. I remember there were many herdsmen on the grassland who could use leather ropes to shake stones and drive livestock."

"It's not impossible if these people impose training."

Xiang Dalong was even more confused and said:

"What kind of person would use such people as soldiers? Shouldn't they use archers?"

This kind of person obviously plays the role of long-range attack. The Chinese side all uses bows and arrows.

Zhao Hao looked at Xiang Dalong with a strange look at this time and said:

"If I give you Chu State's slaves who are not even fourth-class people, a rubber band, some stones, no other equipment, and enough to eat without starving to death, you can turn these people into long-range soldiers who can kill the enemy. Are you willing?"

Hearing this, Xiang Dalong was stunned.

In Chu State, those slaves who were not even human beings were at the lowest level. Even if they were allowed to die, he would have no obstacles at all.

If we can exchange some of the opponent's troops before these people go to die, it would be a great deal.

Isn't this how your father used to deal with the Qin army's thunder and artillery?

Almost instantly, he understood what the other party was doing, but soon he gritted his teeth and said:

"This group of people are going to use these lowly slaves in exchange for the elites of my great Chu?

Uncle Xiang Zhuang will not let them go! "

The 30,000 troops brought here this time were all elites. It would be so humiliating to die in the stone hands of these people!

Sure enough, despite being suddenly attacked, the Chu army responded extremely quickly.

Soon, teams of a hundred people separated from the larger team and headed directly towards the area where stones were thrown.

Although those slaves tried their best to escape, how could they possibly outrun the cavalry?

Several hundred-man phalanx slave slingers soon died tragically under the massacre of the cavalry.

But this did not have much effect on the other Roman infantry, who were destined to die.

Moreover, these slave slingers also slowed down the speed of these hundred-man squads. The nearby infantry phalanx seized the opportunity and came directly over.

Before the Chu cavalry squad could react, they threw out the short spears they had already prepared. This was a great weapon against the light cavalry at close range!

Almost instantly, the first few rows of cavalry fell down, and the surrounding infantry swarmed up, about to swallow up the hundred-man cavalry team.

Seeing this scene, the leader of the Roman legion also showed a smile, because everything was developing towards the scene he expected.

The Roman cavalry is indeed not that strong now, but this set of tactics is enough to restrain these people.

I thought these Chinese people were so powerful, but now it seems that they are just another barbarians.

Thinking of this, the leader of the Roman legion looked behind him. He knew that Hannibal was watching the battle there.

He had said it before, Rome was so powerful that there was no need for this Carthaginian to be its commander!

For example, he is very suitable!

At this time, on a high slope behind the Roman camp, Hannibal looked at the situation below solemnly. He was not in a good mood now.

Because the caravan just reported back, his daughter's whereabouts are now unknown.

He originally wanted to rescue him personally, but the Roman commander chose to attack today.

Although it seems that the progress is going smoothly now, he knows that it is definitely not that simple!

Otherwise, this country called China would not have been able to expand so fast and so far.

At this moment, bursts of dull thunder suddenly came from the battlefield!

Hannibal quickly looked over and found that the infantry phalanx of a hundred cavalry that had been almost completely wiped out just now was puffing out thick smoke.

All the infantrymen wailed and fled around, like a small doomsday scene.

Of course, that group of hundreds of cavalry was not much better. Everyone was mixed together and suffered injuries together.

But Hannibal's expression was extremely ugly. He knew that this was the rumored Chinese thunder, and that the opponent really had the power of thunder!

Fortunately, he was already prepared. He took a deep breath and quickly issued the order:

"Let the catapults, archers, and scorpion crossbows fire alternately, and let everyone withdraw."

He knew that this time the temptation had completely failed, and forcing a battle would only ruin all the legions!

And this time, he only had five elite Roman legions in total.

At this time, the other Roman infantrymen on the battlefield looked at this scene with some confusion.

They didn't know how to respond, so they looked at their superiors one by one, but the superiors didn't know how to respond either, so countless messengers headed towards the Roman legionnaire.

At this time, the leader of the Roman legion stood there with a pale face. Although he had been warned, he did not choose to believe it.

Because the power of sky thunder cannot be controlled by mortals, in fact many Romans felt this way.

But now facing this scene, he didn't know what to do for a while.

At this time, Xiang Zhuang had already led the Chu army and began to disperse and massacre!

A cavalry team of 500 people galloped past the side of a Macedonian spear phalanx.

When the Chu soldiers saw the bright phalanx of spears, they actually felt a little frightened.

But they didn't have to hit it directly, but threw countless thunderbolts from the side.

Although they didn't know what it was, the spear phalanx still shook their spears in an attempt to block it, but the effect was not great.

So the pikemen saw countless small bamboo tubes falling from the sky. It didn't hurt even if they hit them, but there was a thread that was burning.

Some curious pikemen even picked one up directly, and the next moment, black and red sparks bloomed in the pike formation! Between the sparks were countless miserable howls!

With almost one contact, the Chu army destroyed all the Roman infantry phalanx in front!

Of course, not many people were actually killed in the bombing, but without the tight formation of the infantry phalanx, they were nothing more than lambs to be slaughtered in front of the cavalry.

The Roman camp fell into dead silence almost instantly!

The Chinese side naturally burst into cheers, cheering for their comrades!

The Chu army was about to take advantage of the situation and launch an all-out attack, but in the next moment, the battlefield suddenly heard bursts of roaring sounds breaking through the air.

Standing at a high place, Zhao Hao could clearly see that from the rear of the Roman camp, bows and arrows, huge stones, countless pebbles, and thick crossbow arrows were hitting them overwhelmingly.

The Chu army that rushed at the front was completely wiped out in an instant, and the entire attack could not help but slow down.

The Roman infantry seized this opportunity and quickly retreated towards the city.

Even if Zhao Hao is not proficient in command now, he can still see that this Roman commander is very difficult to deal with.

(An An)

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