Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Don't worry, Hurney. Summoning the general is the job of Tolmed. You will be unhappy if you take his job." Daveus patted his shoulder with a smile and whispered: "You just served My clerk, I need to adapt slowly. Now the first task I give you is—"

Henripolis immediately straightened his posture, waiting for Daveus to order.

"Just eat breakfast with me." Davers said narrowly.

"Ah! The enemy is about to attack, and your majesty, are you going to have breakfast?" Hernipolis exclaimed with a bit of scolding, and the servant glanced at him: that is why Henipolis dared to confront him like this King Firth spoke, and the other generals were in front of Daveus, who was not respectful!

Daveus didn't care, he signaled his servant to serve breakfast, then walked to the door, looked at the weather outside, and said, "If you don't eat breakfast, there is no power to fight the enemy. Maybe, now the soldiers outside Chewing bread and drinking hot soup to warm up... A battle has its own rules and rhythm. We can neither slow nor rush. Only by grasping the rhythm of action can we maintain the physical strength and morale of the soldiers!"

Hernipolis nodded inexplicably.

Compared to the calm atmosphere in the larger tent, the atmosphere in the camp was tense.Because of the thick fog, it is impossible to see where the flags of the detachments and companies belong. The captain is very important. Not only should he gather the nine soldiers under him to check whether their weapons and equipment are in trouble, but also in a noisy camp Identify the shouting of the superior team officer, and then rush the soldiers to meet, while also avoiding being crowded in the passage of people.

Stacks of campfires were ignited in the camp one after another, not only to bring light to the misty and gray weather, but also to cook bread, gravy, and hot porridge for the soldiers of the various camps.

The reason why the soldiers of the Dionysian legion has not been urgently transferred to the east camp wall to defend against the enemy's attack, it is because the Syracuses have not yet appeared in front of the trench.Over the past few days, the Dionysian soldiers have worked tirelessly, laying over 60 meters of various traps and deer villages in front of the camp, hindering the rapid advance of the enemy.

As the Syracuse expedited the removal of these sinister and terrible traps under the cover of dense fog, nearly 40 ballistas of all legions were concentrated in the Dionysian Army Battalion, and they were soon in place (these The ballistas migrated with the large camp on the north bank of the Neto River on the second day of the Dionysian army’s siege of Siriting.)

Kurdoro, the fourth-army siege battalion corrector of the Croat Inner City's defensive battles, has more experience in using ballistas, and was appointed by Daveus as the command of the entire ballista force. official.

At the moment, in front of Kurdolod, there was a white field, and no suspicious target was observed, and the distance could not be judged.But Kurdolod had his mind in mind, and the data was kept in his mind. How far was the ballista from the east wooden wall?How high is the wooden wall?How long is the trap area outside the camp?...

He pondered a little and began to give orders: "50-degree elevation angle, five kilograms of stone bullets, back three grids, prepare!"

The herald quickly transmitted the order to all ballistas in the area.

They immediately mobilized the ballista's pole to lower the chute, increase the elevation angle, and then shake the pulley. The strong spring arm was "creaky" pulled and fixed, and the five-kilogram stone bomb was placed in the smooth groove. .Due to the limitations of craftsmanship and materials, the 50-degree elevation angle is the maximum elevation angle that the Dionysian cannon can reach. In this state, the parabola shot by the stone projectile is high, but the distance is close.Backing off the grid means that the spring set made of several tendons that are twisted together and pulled apart is only half full.The five-kilo stone projectile is the smallest weight that the Dionysian ballista can fire this type of stone projectile (the maximum weight is 15 kg, which is different from the Siracusa ballista, because Siracusa is in Sicily Frequently attacking other city-states, the ballistic artillery has high requirements for the destructive power of the city wall, and the ballista is therefore larger and heavier, capable of shooting a Tarantine-weight stone projectile (that is, 26 kg) out of nearly 300 meters).

Kurdorod’s idea was: Siriting’s morning was foggy, watery, and the weather was cold. It had a great influence on the structure of the ballista, especially the spring set made of beef tendons, so first use small weight stone bombs. Come to warm up the equipment and test the enemy's main force.He estimated that the location of the stone projectile was 80-120 meters outside the trench. If the enemy attacked heavily, this area should be the most concentrated place for the enemy, but usually a five kilogram projectile was fired, and the range was often more than 500 meters. It is to raise the elevation angle and to reduce the tension of the spring set, hoping to achieve the range he wants.

The soldiers of the First Legion sat on the ground, chewing bread, looking up at the stone after stone was shot into the air, and disappeared into the dense fog...

For a moment, the thick fog outside the camp suddenly looked like a frying pan, and a scream and exclamation sounded, completely confirming the fact that the Siracusa army attacked.

"50-degree elevation, ten kilograms, one space back, prepare!" Kurdorode, a student of the once-elegant Dionysian Academy, was immersed in the war, and he had a murderous body. The ballista team started. The news of the hit did not make him cheer up like his men, he continued to give orders calmly.

Yesterday, the Dionysian First Army was bombarded with nearly a hundred ballistas and ventral bows in Syracuse in the town of Meyaro, and today the Dionysians were outside the Siri court in the same way In color, retribution really came too fast.

Dionysius did not want to use ballistas to fight back, but the ballistas he had brought were brought to the large camp of the Tachnadi River because of the attack on the city of Crotone. As a result, the battle failed, and the army only escaped. All the siege equipment was abandoned in the camp and fell into the hands of the Dionysians.It was not a problem to remake dozens of ballistas in a short period of time with the engineers, craftsmen and apprentices of nearly 1,000 people under his command, but there was a key ballista device that the Syracuse people could not manufacture immediately. That is the ballista spring set made of beef tendons.They were surrounded by Dionysians in the city, few people kept cattle and sheep in the city, and most of the army’s pack animals were lost in the Tachnadi River Camp, not to mention that even if there are cows in the city, they are now killing cattle. It takes nearly half a year to make beef tendons, and it takes nearly half a year to produce a qualified spring set. Therefore, Dionysius gave up making ballistas and concentrated his manpower on making other instruments.

At this moment, tens of thousands of Syracuse slaves and freemen are hurrying to destroy the traps and deer villages, and then tamping the ground, spreading wooden boards, and sudden stone bombs fall into the dense crowd, with broken bones and blood splash.

In fact, because of the high parabola of the stone bomb, it rarely bounces after landing, causing a total of more than 20 casualties, but each bloody horror scared the people around him, the team officials of Syracuse It took a lot of effort to stabilize their emotions.

Now that they have been noticed by the Dionysians, the Syracuses are no longer hidden. They began to launch the siege equipment one by one.In order to make them, the Syracuse stripped almost all the houses in the Silitinium, collected the door panels, timber, and even cut the trees of the port...

The biggest equipment manufactured among them is undoubtedly the nearly six-meter-high mobile tower. In order to allow these towers to be transported out of the city, Dionysius decisively ordered his men to organize people and secretly pulled out a small section of the city wall until last night. Turn it into a passage from the city to the outside.

The reason that Dionysius dared to do this was because after receiving the alarm from Lockley, he realized that the cunning Dionysians built the camp and besieged the Silitines, not to attack the city, but to blockade. Lived in the Syracuse army and turned to attack Syracuse's weak allies.In order to achieve this insidious purpose, the young Davers even used peace talks to paralyze himself (of course, he naturally ignored that Syracuse was also using peace talks to delay time)!

Syracuse certainly cannot allow Dionia to successfully reach their plan.Since the Dionysian army turned to attack the Lockley League, the troops stationed in the large camp outside the Siriting city will naturally decrease, and the Dionysians also built a huge military camp that stretched for ten miles to surround the Siriting. Divided Dionysia's strength...

Davos' arrogance made Dionysius see a good opportunity to defeat the Dionysian army.Over the past few days, Syracuse soldiers have gradually recovered from the failure, and he has also spent a lot of energy to convince the tens of thousands of freemen and slaves to join the ranks of the soldiers with expectations."Give freedom, give citizenship, give land..." These methods can be done not only by Dionia, but also by Syracuse, but before it was mainly for mercenaries, and this time Dionysius was to defeat Dionysia, out of danger, expanded the scope of application. Of course, the most important reason for them to take up arms is that everyone wants to go back to Sicily alive.

Therefore, when nearly two thousand light infantry of Dionysia rushed to the wooden wall and began to throw countless arrows at the misty camp outside, causing many Siracusa people to be injured and died, although they were panicked, they still Without major chaos, the task of leveling up defensive facilities can basically continue.The trap zone of less than 100 meters in length was quickly filled with tens of thousands of intensified efforts.

Then, these freemen and slaves evaded the arrow rain and stone bombs, and retreated to the rear, following the guidance of the screamer, to a place hundreds of meters away from the Dionysian camp, where thousands of Thira stood Kuzza civic soldiers, they formed a long course with a distance of one mile, on the ground in front of them were piled piles of simple spears and wooden shields.