Roman Slave Owner

"Yeah?"

A flash of light flashed in Caesar's eyes. He felt more and more that this kind of thing might be related to the god-given weapon. Maybe he should check the time when he acquired this kind of thing.

But what he didn't know was that his words were quickly reported by the slave.

After more than ten years of operation, Longcheng has been run like an iron bucket by Morris.

Not only are they baiting everywhere, but every relevant person is required to report all inquiries to them.

"Caesar? Send someone to pay more attention."

Morris said with bloodshot eyes.

The recent influx of a large number of outsiders has increased his workload a lot, but most of them cannot enter the inner city. He can only focus on those who can enter the inner city, and Caesar is one of them.

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"Rome is torn apart by us."

Menmuse sighed and said.

"You're right, but it's a pity that I started it too late, and in the end the Holy Cult succeeded."

Catiline said grimly.

A very small number of Roman citizens who believed in the Holy Religion fled, and most of them declared that they had converted to Roman polytheism, but they all knew what was going on.

There are homeless people yelling at him every day. Without the help of the charity home, they will be in trouble again, and maybe one day they will die in an unknown corner.

Even the poor were very dissatisfied with them because they could no longer receive the free breakfast in the church. Catiline knew all this, but what could he do.

"Let's not think about this anymore, let's take down Dragon City as soon as possible."

Menmuse said.

"Have Pompey and Crassus not returned yet?"

Catiline said, looking into the eyes of Menmus.

"No, Parthia is launching a fierce attack on them, and they can't get away."

Menmuse said calmly.

"Do you still want to hide behind? Are you afraid of Levi's trump card? I heard that he has tactics No. 2 and No. 3."

Catiline said with a mocking smile.

Menmuse raised his eyebrows and finally said: "Artillery and special ammunition are their No. 2 and No. 3 tactics. You don't have to worry at all."

"Hahaha! Hahaha!"

Catiline couldn't help laughing, it was chilling to have such allies.

"In this case, let's go to Dragon City. I hope you can bring enough God-given weapons."

said Catiline.

"Don't worry about this, we have already reserved a certain amount of gunpowder."

Menmuse smiled.

He did not deceive the Muse this time. They had been offering huge rewards for the method of making saltpeter. The last businessman traveling on the Silk Road said that he had seen this kind of thing in the East.

Since he had seen ice made of saltpeter in the summer, he was very impressed.

Pompey and Crassus were overjoyed when they heard the news.

They sent several caravans to the east, and just six months ago, one of the caravans returned. They finally learned how to make saltpeter.

Unlike Livy, they extracted saltpeter from saltpeter mines.

Just due to time constraints, some projects have not yet been sorted out.

"This is really great. I want to expose Levi's lies. This is by no means some god-given weapon. This is a weapon that everyone can master."

Catiline said with a smile.

The corners of Menmuse's mouth twitched. Now that the Holy Cult has said that white sugar and true divine paper are all gifts from the gods, how could they believe your words?

After discussing, the two led 20 legions to Dragon City, and ordered 1 legion to stay in Rome to continue recruiting troops.

After several years of careful preparation, their weapons and armor reserves were very sufficient, coupled with sufficient funds provided by the treasury and various nobles, so the speed of forming the legion far exceeded that of Dragon City.

They went south without encountering any obstacles. Emilia ordered all the cities to be abandoned. This did not make them happy, but made them very worried.

Because the more this happens, the stronger the enemy's troops will be in Dragon City, and the greater the resistance they will encounter in attacking Dragon City.

After arriving at Dragon City, both Menmuse and Catiline looked sad.

I saw that there were layers of trenches everywhere outside Dragon City, extending to hundreds of meters outside the city.

The outermost earth wall of Dragon City is lined with ballistas, and behind the earth wall there is a trebuchet turret made of blue bricks that is higher than the earth wall.

"How many people have they deployed?"

Menmuse couldn't help but wailed.

"This is their base camp, there is absolutely no shortage of manpower."

said Catiline.

"We'd better order people to fill in these trenches."

Menmuse said.

Catiline nodded, and then ordered the soldiers to take action to dig earth from other places to fill the trench.

At this moment, a cavalryman ran over on a war horse.

"Report to the dictator that the gates of Capua are wide open and no one is guarding them. There are only a small number of guards maintaining security. However, the city is sparsely populated and there are not many people at all."

said the cavalryman.

The two looked at each other, Emilia was really cruel, she didn't even want Capua, which was Levi's base camp.

"So they deployed all their forces to Dragon City."

Menmuse looked like he had a headache.

"That's probably the case. According to your intelligence, although their weapons and armor are somewhat insufficient, they already have 15 legions of soldiers. It is not an ordinary difficulty to break through the Dragon City guarded by 15 legions."

said Catiline.

Menmuse nodded. If they weren't afraid of fighting in the wild, what they were afraid of was that they were shrinking.

Once Li Wei returns with his army and reinforcements are sent from various countries, they will be doomed.

"We must break through Dragon City in the shortest possible time."

Menmuse said.

"That's right."

Catiline's eyes hardened.

Catiline did not order soldiers to garrison Capua because he did not trust the Capua people, but ordered the army to camp outside the city.

He ordered the soldiers to fill in the trenches quickly and made preparations for war.

After three days of hard work, they filled in the trenches in three directions, allowing men and siege equipment to pass through.

A blazing sun hangs high in the sky. After entering May, the weather becomes even hotter.

A homing pigeon flew into Dragon City, and soon someone handed it to Emilia with a letter.

After reading the letter, Emilia was overjoyed.

"Whose letter is it?"

Celebio asked.

"Livy's letter, he has returned to Gaul and is preparing to return to Rome. The Gauls and Germans also dispatched more than 100,000 coalition troops, plus the Roman army of nearly 200,000. Among them, Bellius led The cavalry is the fastest and has probably reached the province of Alpine Gaul. Livi ordered him to lead the cavalry directly back to Rome without waiting for the infantry."

Emilia said, and then handed the letter to everyone.

"It's great, we just have to hang in there a little longer."

Serabio said excitedly.

"They are simply asking for their own death. Even these few people dare to go against us."

Plautus also smiled and said.

"Not only them, but Pompey and Crassus also had to pay the price."

said Cicero.

"This is really too far away. Let's talk about the matter in front of us first."

Emilia coughed slightly and said.

At this moment, a guard walked in.

"Madam, Geta said they seem to be attacking the city. Please go over and take a look."

"Come on, let's go right away."

Emilia said, and then led everyone away from here.

After arriving at the outermost city wall, I found that a large number of enemy troops had gathered outside the city wall, and they had prepared a large amount of siege equipment, including not only siege vehicles, but also turtle-shaped machinery and so on.

Geta is here looking at the enemy in the distance. He has been patrolling around dutifully since the war broke out.

"How is the situation now?"

Emilia asked.

"They are currently preparing to launch attacks from three directions: north, west and east. However, due to their insufficient strength, they have no place to launch a full-scale attack. I guess it may be a feint attack in two directions and a main attack in one direction."

Geta said.

"Can we stop it?"

Emilia asked.

"Absolutely no problem, we have weapons given by God."

Geta laughed.

"Levi said that making gunpowder is actually not complicated. Last time, two carts of saltpeter were stolen from us. I'm worried that they will make gunpowder to deal with us."

Emilia said.

"Don't worry, I've already given the order, and the soldiers have already been mentally prepared."

Geta said.

"I feel relieved now. I also have good news. Livy's cavalry has entered the province of Southern France and will soon enter Italy."

Emilia said with a smile.

"Yeah, that's great."

Geta grinned. This was probably the best news today.

At this moment, a cavalryman came forward from outside the city.

"By order of Lucius Cornelius Catiline, the lifelong dictator of Rome and the ruler appointed by the Olympian gods, I come to ask you a question. Residents of Dragon City, do you really want to resist? In the end? If you are willing to give up resistance, the dictator is willing to guarantee the safety of your lives and property, and even allow you to continue to live in Dragon City. This is a rare gift, and I hope you can consider it carefully. "

Emilia frowned, thought for a while and said loudly: "We are devout believers of the true God and will never let anyone insult the true God and the Holy Religion. Catiline, you dare to expel the Holy Religion, just wait God's punishment, think about the consequences of offending the true God. In addition, I want to tell you one more thing. The Pope's army has entered Shannan Gaul and will soon cross the Rubicon River. You are destined to face a war. A shameful failure.”

Hearing this, many people were in commotion.

The incident of divine punishment was still fresh in their minds, and they did not expect that Livy had left Britain and came to the province of Southern France. This speed must have been too fast.

"So what if Li Wei returns to Rome in person? Do you think he can defeat us with God-given weapons? Let me tell you, the so-called God-given weapons are simply fake. They are lies made up by Li Wei. They are just They are just ordinary weapons. I will prove to you in a moment that we also have God-given weapons."

cried Catiline.

Soon the cavalryman couldn't help but relay his words.

"Catiline, do you dare to show some face? Come and tell us, who stole our God-given weapons last time? On the one hand, he stole the secrets of our God-given weapons, and on the other hand, he said that our God-given weapons were fake. , I have never seen such a shameless person."

Geta said loudly.

Hearing this, Catiline couldn't help but became furious, and was no longer interested in persuading them. He directly cursed: "Geta, wait for me and attack the city."

After receiving Catiline's order, his army immediately moved forward.

A large number of soldiers pushed the turtle-shaped machine forward slowly. In addition, there were soldiers carrying baskets of soil ready to fill the trenches.

"Should we use God-given weapons?"

said Plautus.

"Of course, but we are targeting those turtle-shaped machines for the time being. We don't have much gunpowder, so we must use it sparingly, and let the ballistae shoot at them."

Geta said.

Hearing this, Plautu was extremely excited. He could finally see the God-given weapon firing live ammunition.

Although I have seen training ammunition fired before, how can the power of training ammunition be compared with live ammunition.

The ballistas quickly started firing, shooting arrows as thick as javelins at the soldiers who were filling the trenches.

The powerful arrows easily pierced the bodies of each soldier, shooting terrifyingly large holes in their bodies.

Those trebuchets also aimed at the slow-moving turtle-shaped machinery. When they entered the shooting range, they immediately smashed the firing hammer, and the shells flew into the sky one after another.

Some of those shells hit the turtle-shaped machine hard, almost punching a hole in the turtle-shaped machine.

Some of them hit the front and kept rolling forward, and then were blocked by the turtle-shaped machine, causing a huge explosion.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"..."

Black smoke clouds rose into the sky, conflict waves raged, and shrapnel flew in all directions.

Almost all of the turtle-shaped machines were blown up, and a large number of soldiers screamed. One after another, nearly half of the football field was cleared away.

Seeing this, the soldiers on the wall were stunned, and Catiline's soldiers were frightened.

This is the power of a god-given weapon, it is simply not scary.

The attacking soldiers dropped their belongings in fear and fled back in confusion.

The soldiers on the city wall cheered, and Geta looked regretful. If they attacked at this time, they might be able to win a big victory.

Catiline's face was ashen, why was he like this.

"Why don't your God-given weapons have such shells?"

asked Catiline.

"This thing is too dangerous. Our people haven't studied it yet, so we only used hand grenades."

Menmuse said helplessly.

They didn't understand the principles of gunpowder at all, and they didn't even know there was such a thing as training ammunition.

Mistakes were made frequently during the experiment and training process. I don't know how many people died. It can be said that human lives were completely used in the experiment.

Therefore, the progress of trebuchet shells lags far behind grenades. Up to now, only the simplest grenades can be put into actual combat.

Catiline glanced at him coldly, with an unknown light shining in his eyes, but in the end he just snorted and did not blame him.

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