Roman Slave Owner

"The teachings have nothing to do with me."

Appius Purker said.

"As long as I say it's okay, the teachings are also the law."

Levi said with a sneer.

It won't be long before he will be crowned the Pope, and after winning this battle, his momentum will be unparalleled.

Even if he used the citizens' assembly to kill Appius in the name of blasphemy, it would be nothing.

Appius was silent for a while, and finally said: "Okay then, I promise not to spy on the secrets of God-given weapons."

One carriage after another left the warehouse. They did not carry many artillery shells. In fact, Levi did not think they could throw many artillery shells. He did not believe that the enemy dared to attack with the explosion of hundreds of kilograms of black powder.

After the carriages pulling iron bombs left, some more carriages came to pull grenades.

Some Guardsmen had been waiting for a long time. Some of them were carrying bamboo baskets one after another, ready to put them into the bamboo baskets after the grenades were pulled out.

"Are these also weapons given by gods?"

Appius asked.

"Yes."

"They're going to shock everybody," Levi said.

Appius's expression was gloomy, he didn't expect that there was more than one kind of weapon given by the gods.

Not far away, Annius led some bishops and priests to pray devoutly, and their expressions were very fanatical.

Today will be the day God is born!

It will be the day when the Holy Religion defeats the alien race!

The true God will eventually spread His light throughout the world.

Li Wei walked onto the city wall, and the shadowy figures of the enemy cavalry could already be seen outside.

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In the fields outside Nabo City, an old Germanic woman prayed devoutly.

I saw her taking out a clay pot on the ground and shaking it gently. There were three wooden skewers in the pot, which made a swishing sound as the pot shook.

Nasuya, Burton and others stood carefully beside her so as not to affect her divination.

In this ancient age, both the Romans and the Germans liked divination before going to war.

If the divination is bad, they will often stop fighting, but sometimes generals will violate the results of divination.

There was a time in history when Luscus was leading an army in battle, and the fortune teller told him that today was an unlucky day, because the historical Battle of Cannae took place on that day, in which Hannibal defeated the Roman legions. Killed more than 10 legions of Roman soldiers, a consul, and more than 80 senators.

But Luscus told him that he would make that day an auspicious day for the Romans, and he led his troops into battle and returned with a great victory. His words were later widely recited.

When Caesar was fighting against the Arudes, one of the Germans, he found that the Germans did not fight.

The reason was that an old woman told the Germans that it was not appropriate to go to war that day, and Caesar took advantage of this to defeat the Germans.

The old woman looked up at the sky, pulled out a wooden stick with her hand, looked at it and put it in, three times in a row.

"What's the result of the divination?"

Nasuya asked.

The old woman priest thought for a while, and then said: "It is not a good time to go to war today."

"How is this possible? We have an army of millions, can't we defeat the enemy?"

Nasuya said with a look of disbelief.

"You should maintain respect for the gods."

The old woman said dissatisfied.

"I'm very sorry."

Nasuya said quickly, realizing that he had made a mistake.

The more backward the race, the higher the status of the priests, and the Germans are no exception. Even Wulfa needs to maintain respect for them.

"What should we do? Should we sit back and watch the Gauls capture the enemy camp and capture Livy alive?"

Burton said.

"Of course not."

Nasuya rolled his eyes and said, "We can try other divination methods."

After finishing speaking, he led everyone to a white horse pulling a chariot.

The Germans would raise white horses in the jungle for the gods.

These white horses do not perform any work but are used only for divination.

Priests are considered servants of gods, and white horses are regarded as messengers of gods. Obviously, the status of white horses far exceeds that of priests.

The Germans believed that there was no more accurate method of divination than listening to the snorting and neighing of a white horse.

Nasuya patted the white horse gently, then held its head and listened to its neighing.

"The messenger of the gods told me that I can go out to fight today."

Nasuya said with a smile.

Burton and the generals coughed slightly, then looked at the others.

The old woman looked unkind, this guy was such a bastard.

"It's your turn, respected priest."

Nasuya said with a playful smile.

The old woman snorted coldly, walked to the white horse and closed her eyes, while the white horse snorted lightly.

"You can fight."

The old woman said coldly.

"Oh, God bless you."

"..."

The generals cheered.

Nasuya waved his arms excitedly. He walked up to the German warriors and told them the news.

The German warriors cheered and sang the ancient and confusing song of Hercules.

Nasuya and Burton also joined in. Their singing voices were loud and loud, showing their strong desire to fight.

Then Nasuya took the lead in making various roars. This was a pre-war test for the Germans, and at the same time, they predicted the outcome of the war based on the roars.

If the roar is uniform, it means that the morale is high and enough to frighten the enemy.

If the roar is chaotic, it means morale is low and the battle is likely to fail.

Four hundred thousand Germans roared, and the scene was extremely shocking.

They probably thought that this battle would be won, and all those Germanic people had loud voices and were in high spirits.

It attracted the attention of the surrounding Gauls, and then kept secretly cursing the German barbarians and crazy people.

After all the farce, Nasuya and Burton finally began to attack Levi's military camp from two directions.

Those Germans, some riding war horses and some on foot, slowly approached the military clan according to their tribes and relatives.

At the same time, a large number of Gauls also launched an attack on the military camp.

Looking from the walls of the military camp, there are boundless enemy troops everywhere.

"An army of millions!"

Appius Purkel sighed and said.

Li Wei snorted coldly, "So what if it's a million-strong army? Under the power of the true God, it's nothing more than a wag."

Annius and Lysias both looked at Levi enthusiastically. What they just said was so good.

Appius Purkel had a complicated expression. If the true god really had such power, it would be really terrifying.

After watching the Roman defense, Naisua had a smile on his face.

After continuous renovations, the walls of the military camp became thicker and thicker, with a layer of brick walls added both outside and inside.

Not only did the city walls provide them with bunkers, but some sections were widened and ballistas were installed.

Roman ballistae could not only fire thick crossbow arrows, but also fire stone projectiles. Being able to fire stone projectiles also meant being able to fire cannonballs.

It was just that the Guards were insufficient in number, and Li Wei did not let them operate the ballistae, so these ballistae still fired conventional weapons.

However, the defense measures outside the wall were extremely crude. There were only two trenches, one under the city wall and one 50 steps outside the wall. There were a large number of spikes in the trenches.

"Their trenches are too wide and I'm afraid they need to be filled in."

Burton said.

Not to mention the Germans, even the Gauls did not have many siege tools.

The Germans are very good at field warfare, but not good at siege. It is good to be able to fill in trenches.

"You are right. After filling in the trench, we can use soil to build a slope under the enemy's wall, so that our warriors can fight up it."

Nasuya said.

The two discussed and finally agreed on several attack methods.

The wall of the enemy's military camp is really too short, only about five meters. In addition, the trench under the wall is only about eight meters. This kind of military camp is very easy to break.

So Nasuya immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare, and immediately launched the attack after preparation.

Looking from the top of the city wall, the mountains and plains are full of Germans wearing animal skins.

Someone was carrying a shield, a javelin, and a kind of short spear.

This kind of short spear is called a Fula spear, which can be used for short-range combat or long-distance throwing.

In addition, each infantryman is also equipped with some javelins, which are used for throwing.

Some Germans came over here carrying baskets of soil.

They were getting closer and closer to the first trench. After seeing that the distance was about the same, Li Wei finally gave the order to release arrows.

Suddenly, arrows rained down like rain, and various arrows were thrown or shot directly at the Germans.

At that time, the Germans immediately raised their shields to block the arrows.

In fact, bows and arrows do not do much damage to them, but as long as the ballista hits, they will definitely be killed with one arrow.

Crossbow arrows as thick as javelins can easily penetrate their shields and corpses, leaving a horrific bloody hole.

Fifty steps is a very clever distance. It is within the range of arrows but outside the range of those javelins.

The Germans could only endure the enemy's attacks silently. One after another the Germans were injured or killed, but they were persevering and did not fear at all.

The Germans who were carrying soil increased their speed and dumped boxes of soil into the trench.

There were many archers with excellent shooting skills in the Roman army, such as the Cretan archers.

After discovering that it did little harm to the Germans holding shields, they aimed at the Germans who were carrying soil.

The moment they poured soil into the trench, they would break away from the cover of their shields and expose their bodies.

They seized this moment and started shooting arrows. The arrows drew arcs one after another, and then pierced their animal skins as if they had eyes, and then hit their bodies.

Some Germans screamed and fell into the trench, and were impaled by the spikes in the trench, while others endured their injuries and retreated back.

The Germans silently suffered various injuries and kept pouring baskets of soil into the trenches. The trenches were being filled up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Don't you need to let the Guards attack?"

Lysias said with some worry.

"No, wait until they fill up the trench."

Levi shook his head and said.

The trench got higher and higher, and slowly all the spikes were buried.

Some Germans did not wait for the trench to be completely filled before jumping in with roars and then crawling out of the trench.

The Germans who were carrying soil also jumped down. They poured all the soil together and formed small slopes.

All those Germanic warriors rushed towards the city wall through this slope. They had already had enough of the Roman attacks, and they wanted to let the Romans know how powerful their great Germanic warriors were.

After rushing to a distance of thirty yards, both sides threw javelins, stones and various weapons at each other almost simultaneously.

Raining javelins shot at the wall and the Germans at the same time.

"Be careful, Lord Prophet."

Lysias said anxiously.

He pulled Levi and quickly squatted down, relying on the protection of the brick wall to resist the javelin shots.

A large number of javelins fell behind Li Wei, and then landed on the city wall, making various sounds.

Those Germans charged forward regardless of life and death, and some even rushed to the city wall. They beat their chests and roared like various beasts. They looked extremely ferocious.

"Aren't you going to launch an attack yet?"

Lu Yongas said with a bitter face.

"hold on."

Levi said after taking a look, there were still too few Germans in front.

More and more Germans crossed the first trench, and a large number of javelins kept shooting at the city wall. They had even suppressed the wall's ability to fight back.

Looking from the city wall, you can see that the mountains and plains below are full of Germanic people.

Nasuya laughed arrogantly: "Did you see it? This is the strength of our Germans."

"emission!"

Levi said decisively.

After receiving Levi's order, a bugler beside him blew the bugle with a unique rhythm, and the sound of the bugle spread in all directions.

Hearing the sound of the bugle, the Guardsmen next to the trebuchet immediately lit the fuse, and one by one the Guardsmen swung the firing hammer fiercely and smashed it down.

"boom!"

Iron bombs weighing 150 kilograms drew arcs and then flew into the sky.

They crossed the city wall and finally landed heavily about 100 Roman paces away from the city wall.

In that area, Li Wei ordered people to place a large number of cobblestones.

Some iron bombs hit the Germans hard, killing them directly and then rolling back.

The bombs bounced off the cobblestones from time to time, and then fell to the ground, killing countless people along the way and scaring the Germans into dodging.

Those iron bombs finally stopped, and some Germans felt extremely lucky.

They knew that this weapon had a huge attack interval, which was enough for them to rush under the enemy's wall.

But is there any strange smell in the air?

Just when many Germans were wondering, those iron bombs suddenly exploded hugely.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

"..."

Each bomb containing 100 kilograms of black powder exploded hugely, and then sent the pebbles inside the bomb and the ground flying around at supersonic speed.

The nearby Germans were blown into the sky and boarded the earliest earthen planes.

More Germans were thrown away by the terrifying air wave. The pebbles easily penetrated a shield and body, knocking them to the ground.