Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

But from the early morning, the battle situation is completely different from what Purlo Cassius envisioned.

The Dionysians launched ten ballistas on the opposite side and started firing stone bombs. When the stone bombs flew over the Tiber River, fell into the Roman array, and caused casualties, Cassius had to order the soldiers to disperse and withdraw to In a residential area 50 meters away from the embankment.

He believes that even though the Dionysians advanced through the vertebral bridge, the Roman soldiers still had enough time to rush to intercept the enemy outside the city of Rome.

Dionysian's ballista no longer attacked Roman soldiers hiding in residences, and instead bombarded the four towers on either side of the quasi-crossing bridge.

There are always two or three shots in each round of stone bombs that can hit the tower. The sound of the roar really worried Cassius. He had to urgently order the archers stationed on the tower to withdraw quickly. .

His concerns are correct.

After more than ten minutes, the two crumbling towers closest to Shiobashi finally collapsed... Then Dionysian ballista team focused on the two outermost towers.

Cassius and the soldiers watched the stone towers bombard the towers one after another, causing the four towers to finally fall, sending out a mournful roar, which stirred up the dust, and the powerlessness in their hearts could be imagined. They even It is hoped that the Dionysians will attack immediately and engage in close combat with them, so that it is no longer necessary to hear and see this terrible stone bombardment.

However, when the Dionysians had used ballistas to completely destroy the upper-air advantage occupied by the Romans-the towers were destroyed, they stopped using ballistas.

The suddenly silent battlefield puzzled the Romans.

At this time, the head of the Third Corps, Lizaru, was saying to the midship of the Third Fleet, Naval Commander Midolades: "Other legions have already launched an attack on the city of Rome, and we should also start preparing."

"Relax, I will soon be able to build twenty pontoons for your legion, and the crew can't wait!" After that, Midolades immediately rushed to the west bank of the bridge.

There are trenches on the periphery of the river beach, earth barriers and wooden fences are built, and there are rows of tents, and 40 crow warships are neatly parked by the river. Their heads face the river.

After the command of Midolades, the crew of the warships quickly boarded the ship, each of them.

Then, the soldiers of the Third Army rushed over and pushed the ship into the river in concert.

Immediately afterwards, these warships did not begin rowing in a swarm of bees. The first ship was adjacent to the south side of the Roman Spinal Bridge, and it was fully drawn to the opposite bank.

After the sailors of the second ship crossed the battleship, they tried their best to dock the stern on the shore. For this reason, the siege camp made many long wooden poles for the sailors sitting on the left and right sides of the battleship. It propped to the bottom of the river to stabilize the impact of the current on the warship, keeping its bow facing the opposite bank, and its stern was immediately fixed to the shore with wooden piles and ropes.

The small three-layer paddle warship in the sea is like a dragon on the Tiber River. The crow warship with an average length of more than 50 meters is under the oars of the sailors, and the bow quickly touched the opposite. embankment.

The operators on the deck immediately dropped the anchor, and the sailors on the right side of the hull quickly withdrew the oars, and then pulled out the long wooden poles prepared for the bilge, protruding the oar windows obliquely, and pressed hard against the river bottom.

Since this section of the Tiber River is the widest but not more than 100 meters, two ships have a bed stern on the north bank and a bow rests on the south bank, and there is a natural overlap between the two ships.When the sailors of the second ship tried their best to draw the bow toward the stern of the first ship, the operators on the ship looked at the opportunity and lowered the suspension bridge.

The spikes at the head of the suspension bridge pierced the deck of the stern of the first warship. Although the captain and the sailors felt heartache, they connected the two warships; the third and the fourth. Do the same; the fifth and sixth warships... It didn’t take long for nearly 20 "floating bridges" to be built on the Tiber River west of the Roman Spinal Bridge. The suspension bridge close to the warship on the other side was laid down and placed on the embankment, immediately connecting the north and south banks.

Lizzaru watched the whole process at the bridgehead in the north. He shouted loudly for the Third Fleet's clean and tidy completion of the established plan. Of course he knew: Yesterday afternoon, Midolades led a dozen warships in the section below the river port After repeated tests and training, it will be today's success.

Watching a part of the soldiers of the Third Army on the river beach quickly divide into 20 teams, and began to board the ship, a pity flashed in Lizaru's heart: Unfortunately, the crow warship could not pass the spinal bridge because of the high mast, otherwise it could The river on the east side of the Shibashi also built a "battle ship pontoon", which can force the Roman army on the other side to expand the defense width and add more weight to the smooth attack of the army.

Lizzaru felt a little emotion, and immediately turned his attention to the battlefield that was about to begin.

"Uraza!" Lizaru turned and said to Shen Sheng, the first captain of the Third Army: "You lead the first brigade, kill this bridge, and enter the city of Rome. This is what I want from you!"

Uraza, the former head of a small tribe of Lucania, a childhood friend of Bakul, as early as a few years ago, he became a veteran of the senate, like Xima and Lizaru, but he did not choose to Instead of staying in the legion, compared to Bakul, who has served as the chief executive of the key towns of Dionia, as well as the position of the chief executive of Copsa, he won Daves and the veterans with outstanding performance. The praised Kema, as well as Lizaru, who has served as the head of the army and has repeatedly achieved meritorious deeds. Ullaza is just a captain, the light is too dim. The reason why he stayed in this position for five or six years, It is because he likes to fight and is only good at fighting.

After listening to Lizaru's order, Uraza did not hesitate, but replied excitedly: "Legion, please look at it, the first brigade will open the door to victory for the Legion!"

Then he shouted to the soldiers of the first brigade already in the lineup: "The warriors of Lucania, it's time to show your courage and abilities to all the legions and his majesty here! Kill the bridge and destroy enemy!"

The soldiers of the Third Army mainly came from the Lukania region. The center of the Lukania region was Grummentum, but the soldiers of the first brigade were mainly from Nyutum, as the earliest Luni In the town of Kania, the Nyutums also fought with Davers early, so when the Third Army was established, most of their team members were Nyutums, which in turn prompted more Nyutums People are more active and active in the army, so they have the most veterans and richest combat experience. The first group, as the most powerful group of the third army, naturally gathers the best and strongest soldiers.

These Nyutum soldiers were radiated with strong fighting spirit under the orders of their Nyutum chief, shouting the name of Hades, and formed into a dense five-way column (the width of this Roman vertebral bridge is also only Can accommodate five people side by side), stepped on the vertebral bridge, quickly rushed to the opposite bank.

When Dionyssia’s crow warship was built as a pontoon, Cassius received an urgent return from the spies. Dionys’s strange attacking method was more than he expected, and it also meant that Dior Niah’s army will cross the river from the north and attack the city of Rome. There will no longer be only one way to the bridge. He has to urgently call the squadron of Rome to withdraw and order them to rush to the embankment for defense.

And when a Roman squadron left the shelter of the residential area, facing the Tiber River, and walked into the open area, the ballista team on the other side of the bridge immediately started firing stone bombs.

Although Cassius had long expected this, and let the army adopt a loose checkerboard formation to move forward quickly, there were still stone bombs constantly falling into the center of the array, and the terrified death of the soldiers hit caused a lot of confusion.

Cassius did not care about the deaths and injuries caused by the ballistas at this moment. He had seen the Dionyan soldiers on the other side like the black tide, rushing along the vertebral bridge quickly, she shouted anxiously: "Accelerate Go forward! Accelerate forward!!!"

In fact, he was not reminded. The Roman soldiers saw not only the Dionysian soldiers running on the vertebral bridge, but also the enemies that began to appear on the embankment...The home was about to be invaded!Every Roman citizen, young and old, had a strong crisis in their hearts at the moment. They accelerated their pace, braved the screaming stone bombs, rushed over, and faced the first Dionysian who had just rushed to the bridge head. The soldiers of the brigade also faced the other soldiers of the Third Army of Dionysia who had just stepped on the embankment and barely arranged in a row, intercepting them on the shore of the Tiber River.

At this time, the ballista team also had to stop firing, allowing the soldiers of the two armies to fight on the opposite side...

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In Dionysia’s Chinese military camp, the reconnaissance and herald soldiers of various roads hurried to the Chinese military camp, and hurriedly left, summing up the battle situation and enemy situation everywhere, and new The order is communicated...

"Report, the siege troops of the First Army have arrived under the city and started to attack!"

"The newspaper said that the five siege towers of the Second Army had already pushed down the trench, and they were carrying out long-range suppression attacks on the enemies at the head of the city. A siege tower was lit by a rocket and the surrounding soldiers were fighting fire!"

"The newspaper said that the siege vehicles of the 4th and 5th legions and the zhoushi lions have been pushed under the city, and the city walls are being destroyed. The enemy has been constrained by the siege of the 4th and 5th legions of soldiers. Do effective destruction!"

"Report, the soldiers of the Sixth Army have crossed the trench and have begun to attack the city!"

"Report, the Third Army and the Third Fleet have..."

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