When Huang Shaohong announced that he was stopping, all the cavalry on Lucis's side were wiped out, and the infantry became a living target. The large shields were all covered with small dots of ink dye shot by arrows.

After the first battle, both Luques and Huo An were convinced, but they still had some concerns. Although this tactic was good, when the manpower was limited, the arrows carried and the number of times the bow could be fired were extremely limited.

These cavalrymen may be able to use this tactic to "fight ten against one", but if the enemy attacks with tens of thousands of troops, it may be difficult to defeat them.

Huang Shaohong smiled and said: "Don't worry, I still have a secret weapon!"

Huo An asked with a black line: "Don't tell me, it's just those bottles and cans you asked people to collect?"

"Ask whatever you want, you will know when the time comes!"

In fact, Huo An was right. Huang Shaohong had already studied the proportion of black powder and tested an earth mine. He had people buy bottles and cans to make earth bombs.

In addition, he also used the full strength of the city defense captain to open the arsenal and ordered people to move out all the iron caltrops used to defend the city and prepare to add them to the earth bombs to increase the power of the explosion.

Don't doubt that there was no caltrop in this era. According to records, it existed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so Huang Shaohong took it out and used it.

At this time, he had prepared more than a thousand earth bombs. Although they were not many, when used in conjunction with other defensive methods, they would definitely give the Roman army coming from afar a big surprise.

More than ten days later, the scouts came to report that traces of the alien army were found ten miles outside the city. There were at least tens of thousands of enemy troops!

While Huang Shaohong ordered people to light the beacon tower, he sent several scouts out of the city at the same time to poison nearby water sources as quickly as possible.

Then he immediately led his cavalry to attack. At this time, he had integrated the three to four hundred cavalry under Lucrez, and barely managed to collect more than two thousand cavalry.

Taking advantage of Tibbs being unprepared, Huang Shaohong led his cavalry to charge forward with two rounds of arrows, killing hundreds of the opponent's men and then turned around and retreated.

Thebans was furious and immediately let the Roman cavalry pursue him, but he fell into Huang Shaohong's trap.

The Roman side had come a long way and were exhausted, and the horses were not as good as the Dawan horses, so they had no choice but to follow the Han army and eat ashes.

When the Roman cavalry couldn't catch up and turned back, Huang Shaohong led the cavalry and turned around and fired another shower of arrows.

This was repeated two or three times, and the cavalry on the Roman side had suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, while Huang Shaohong's side had not even one injured.

When the horse leaped into Yanmen Pass, all the cavalry cheered at the same time.

Huang Shaohong laughed loudly and gave the order at the same time: "Close the city gate and prepare to defend!"

Tibes's army had just arrived at the city, and he was originally planning to play some tricks and tricks. He was waiting for his ally "Yinpo" to come and deceive the pass, and then offered Yanmen Pass with both hands.

As a result, spies came to report that the surrounding water sources were suspected to have been poisoned. Don't ask them how they knew, the fish were floating up, and they were not blind!

The Romans themselves could barely carry enough water for two days, so Thebes decided to make a quick decision and began to attack the city.

But they came all the way and didn't bring any large-scale siege weapons. They could only keep the large group of people out of the range of the arrows, and then let the tortoise-shell formation of the infantry legion protect the wood and rush to the city gate.

In this kind of offensive, Huang Shaohong didn't even bother to use rolling logs and stones, but directly poured the hot golden juice down. What kind of tortoise-shell array can hold bows and arrows, but can't hold dung soup.

Sure enough, Thebes' first wave of offensive failed.

Immediately afterwards, Thebes asked people to dig tunnels on one side, and on the other side, he asked people to use local materials to make ladders and prepare for a full-scale attack on the city.

Early the next morning, the Romans' general attack began. Dozens of ladders were carried by the infantry legions and rushed towards the city wall.

Huang Shaohong planned to let them climb for a while first, so he did not use earth mines, but chose a relatively gentle rain of arrows, rolling logs and rocks, and hot golden juice to entertain the guests.

In this way, the Romans suffered numerous casualties.

But the Roman side had an army of 100,000, and the advantage was too obvious. Just when someone was about to climb up the city, Huang Shaohong lit an earth mine and threw it towards the city.

There was a loud "boom" and the caltrops exploded. The ten-meter radius below the ladder was cleared. There were broken arms and limbs everywhere, and the ladder was also broken.

Huang Shaohong saw that the density of the Roman soldiers below was ready to be used up, so he called to the dumbfounded Huo An, Lu Kuisi and others: "Throw it away, waiting to give birth to a child for the Romans!"

"Oh!" Huo An took an earth mine and threw it down, directly killing a Roman soldier.

"Light it on fire and throw it away!" Huang Shaohong almost vomited blood because of this guy's anger. He personally demonstrated a 'bomb' and killed a piece of it.

Dozens of ladders were blown down in the blink of an eye, and the Romans left nearly tens of thousands of corpses behind.

The trumpet sounded, and the Roman soldiers began to retreat. Huang Shaohong immediately took his cavalry out to pick up opportunities, killing them all the way. In the end, the Romans left 20,000 corpses behind, and retreated thirty miles to find water.
Chapter completed!