Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath and calmed himself down. After a quick calculation in his mind, he said in a deep voice: "The elevation angle is unchanged, the gun body is deflected to the left by one degree, the range is reduced by one grid, and the original live ammunition weight is used. "

The gunner immediately followed suit.

"emission!"

The stone bombs roared away, and one stone bomb after another flew out of the city...

But more stone bombs flew in from outside the city. The sound of "Boom! Boom! Boom!..." was mixed with exclamation and screams.One of the stone bombs landed near the ballista where Kurdorod was located.Kurdolod was unimpressed. After this period of training, he was no longer a scholar who had just left the academy (the nickname of the legionnaire), but became a qualified soldier.

The siege tower of Syracuse is far from what Dionya used to break the Knapitia before. It is 20 meters long, 10 meters wide, and 12 meters high, and its shape is Trapezoidal, with seven floors.The topmost layer is a ring-shaped wooden vertebral disc, which contains five archers, who can stand high and drop arrows to the city head; the bottom layer also hangs a siege hammer, which can directly hit the city wall; the penultimate layer is almost the same height as the city wall, You can put down the suspension bridge and let the soldiers entering the tower rush to the head of the city; the penultimate layer is slightly lower than the head of the city, which contains another terrible weapon invented by the Syracuses-the belly bow... so This is a super siege tower that requires hundreds of people to push it behind and on both sides.

Dionysia's stone bomb kept falling around it, splashing mud after mud, splashing mud mixed with rain and hitting people, and it was painful.Those hit by stone bombs were even more terrifying, scaring the surrounding soldiers to evade.In the case of siege soldiers advancing under the city, only a large area was left near the siege tower.

The commander of the siege tower certainly felt a bit dangerous. He urged the labor behind the tower to push the siege tower forward. As long as it reached the wall, nothing could threaten the siege tower.

At this time, the outermost wooden board on the third-to-last layer of the siege tower has been opened, and two belly bows have revealed their true bodies. Its structure is similar to a ballista, but the device used for launching is a huge bow that is laid flat. Fixed on the launcher.The operator turned the pulley vigorously to pull the thick bowstring away and fix it, and put an equally huge iron arrow.

The distance of 30 meters is very good for the belly bow. The belly bowman on the right side even pointed the iron arrow to the general with the colored crown on the helmet on the city head.

"Hoo!!......" With the huge bow string, the iron arrow flickered to the head of the city with a scream.

When Askamas “opened the window” of the siege tower, many years of battlefield experience made him feel uneasy. He sat down next to the battlement under the consciousness, and heard two screams of screams, lifting him behind him. The shield shielded the soldiers who were attacked by earthen arrows and siege towers. The iron arrow penetrated the chest, and the powerful kinetic energy also penetrated the soldiers behind him, finally nailed to the wall behind him, and the other iron arrow was once. Three people were shot through, and the surrounding soldiers, including Askamas, were shocked when they saw this.

The Siracusa giant siege tower, which played a key role in the capture of Carthage, the town of Mothia, in Sicily, revealed its fierce appearance. It was like a giant beast with teeth and claws, slowly approaching the city wall, getting closer and closer. , Getting closer and closer, the soldiers in the city were panicked...

At this urgent moment, a black dot flew over the wall like a meteor, hitting the arrow tower on the top of the siege tower with strong kinetic energy, only listening to the sound of "Boom!", the hard and thick wooden board was easily A hole was opened, and splattered wood chips pierced like a steel needle into the face and body of the archer in Syracuse, causing them to scream.But it was not over yet. The stone bomb that fell into the tower fell down the wooden ladder and fell to the feet of a soldier who was winding the belly bow on the penultimate floor of the siege tower. He screamed and caused the other soldiers to panic. Delayed the launch of the abdominal bow.

"Hit! Hit! Our ballista hit!!!!" The soldiers defending the city cheered as if they had won the whole victory, and used this action to dispel the fear in their hearts.

Astamas sighed in his heart: Compared with the huge siege tower, the ballistic artillery's stone projectile is just a short shot, not enough to cause great damage to it.

Askarmas sighed, he saw one after another stone bombs flying one after another, slamming into the siege tower.

Just as the soldiers sighed that they were not hit, some even started praying to Apollo, their prayers seemed to have worked.

A stone bomb flew from the side and hit the side of the middle of the siege tower, causing the enemy to exclaim.

Then another stone bomb flew into the layer where the flap was opened and the belly bow was ready to be launched. The belly bow echoed and brittle. Various parts and sawdust flew in a narrow space in exchange for It was the screams of soldiers and the splashing blood.

Then another stone bomb hit the lower part of the siege tower.

Although the cheers of the guards continued to cheer, the siege tower, which had been penetrated by stone bullets in several large holes, was slowly approaching the wall, but during the movement, the tower began to sway, and the loose wooden boards continued to fall down. The laborers who labored to push it evaded in panic, and the siege tower collapsed from top to bottom...

On the earth barrier outside the city, Dionysius looked at this scene with an iron face. He knew that although under his own supervision, Fasi Pesas concentrated nearly 10,000 people and stepped up the construction work under the command of the engineer. Three towers were built in a few days, but the time was too short, making the siege tower not too strong. The violent impact of the stone bomb must have destroyed the internal structure of the siege tower...

"Sir, look! That engineering tower has crossed the moat!" Damocles shouted excitedly to divert Dionysius' attention.

"Our siege hammer has reached the bottom of the city, and I think Crotone's wall will tremble under its impact!" Another man said unwillingly.

Indeed, the walls of Crotone are full of Syracuse soldiers attached to the ants. They attracted most of the garrison’s attacks, causing siege towers, siege hammers, and rams (that is, the previous moat After it reaches the bottom of the city, people in the vehicle can use tools such as pickaxes to dig out and loosen the hardest shell of the city wall-stones, making the city wall collapse), ... these large siege instruments Reached the city smoothly.A siege tower was knocked down and could not affect the battle at all.Once these siege equipments are turned on together, Crotone's walls are in big trouble.

However, Dionysius looked up to the sky with anxiety. The dark clouds thickened in the sky, and the rain became heavier and heavier, making him almost unable to open his eyes: the rain would continue like this, but...

As if responding to his worries, "Click!!!!!! Boom!!!" A gleaming light flashed through the sky, followed by a thunderous thunder that overshadowed all the hustle and bustle on the battlefield. The soldiers who lived on both sides looked up to the sky.

The wind rose...

The rain was heavier and soon turned into downpour...

Lightning, thunder, gusty wind, and heavy rain became the protagonists of this world.

The soldiers no longer fight, but hide under the city walls or towers, because a lightning striking the earth and struck the ground just now, even splitting a huge siege tower in half!

Everyone who saw the tragic phenomenon was stunned.

This is God Zeus angry!The soldiers on both sides trembled in their hearts and began to pray to Zeus.

"Sir, this is too dangerous, let's go on!" The entourage came to persuade Dionysius.

Dionysius looked extremely reluctantly, but the rain was too dense, and his vision was all white...

He reluctantly ordered: retreat immediately!

In such extremely bad weather, the sound of the bugle could not be transmitted at all. Fortunately, the soldiers of Syracuse did not need to order at all. They had already consciously retreated back.The Crotonians did not dare to chase out of the city in such terrible weather.A large-scale siege battle has just begun, aborted under the interference of nature...

Dionysius had just lowered the earth barrier, and it took thousands of people to build it for two days. The earth barrier was slowly washed down by the rain and slowly collapsed. He scolded helplessly: "count Crotonians are lucky!"

"It seems that Zeus is blessing them this time." An entourage said casually.

Dionysius immediately stared at him fiercely: "Shut up your mouth! This has nothing to do with Zeus, it just happens to be."

Askamas in the city is praying to Zeus piously.

Crotone has few rainy days in winter. It can be said that today’s heavy rain is rare in the past few years, so the Crotone people think that this is the blessing of the gods. Although they are being washed by the wind and rain, but The morale of everyone was boosted.

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The war between Syracuse and the Confederation of South Italian Nations has always been under the attention of many forces due to the hegemony of the Greek city-state in the Western Mediterranean.

Carthage needn't say that they hated Syracuse for a hundred years of fighting with themselves.But desperately, the real predicament made the Carthage Senate reject Dionysia’s request for alliance. Of course, they hoped that Siracusa’s army would suffer setbacks and even heavy losses in the Great Greek War, but the news came However, the Syracuses have always won, and even Crotone and Dionia are at risk under the fierce attack led by Dionysius. The Carthaginians are even more afraid of the strength of Syracuse .

Marco, who was in charge of defense in Sicily, wrote several times and asked the Senate for a small attack on the Syracuse allies to divert Syracuse’s sight and slow Dionysius’s attack on the north. , To prevent him from conquering Greater Greece, integrate a more powerful Syracuse.

The Senate headed by Hanno rejected his proposal.In order to prevent him from messing up, the Senate also sent an inspector to Lili to monitor the movement of the Sicilian army.

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The Carthage Senate was concerned with the progress of the Great Greek War, while the Corinthian offense and defense on the Peloponnesian Peninsula continued.

However, the unhealthy Agassius returned to Sparta and handed over the command of the Spartan coalition in Corinth to Uncle Prak, another new Spartan king Agassipolis Sitas, the army that Agassius brought back from Asia Minor also stayed in Corinth.