Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Compared with Dionysia's light infantry, the threat to the city's defenders is the siege tower.

Every time the belly bow was fired, the archers were tragically frightened, and the defending soldiers facing the siege tower were frightened and retreated, causing several small open spaces to appear in the crowded city.

Of course, as the siege tower advances, the elevation angle of the belly bow and the city head increases, and the belly bow cannot be raised, making it impossible to accurately shoot the city head and the threat is greatly reduced, but the legionnaires at the top of the tower However, they began to exert their power. They were under the protection of the wooden fence, and they threw a heavy javelin at the head of the city.This javelin is not comparable to an arrow. The Roman heavy infantry was shot, and they were also injured, forcing them to have a shield to guard carefully. The Roman archer also shot at the top of the siege tower, attacking these Dionysian standards without armor protection. Gunman.

The siege tower's suppression of the city's head caused the defenders of this section of the wall to weaken the attack on the Dionysian soldiers who attacked the ant-attached city. They were attacked by the other party to the city head one after another, and each time the enemy was killed or driven off the city Roman soldiers have to pay two or three times the cost of casualties.

And now the biggest danger is coming, the siege tower is slowly approaching the city wall.Even though the Roman defenders kept throwing asphalt tanks at it, igniting the tower body continuously, and even turned into a sea of ​​fire on its way forward, but nearly a hundred Dionysian squadrons were in the siege tower Under the shelter of the wooden shed that protruded outside the tower, while pushing the siege tower forward with sand and sand, while pushing the siege tower forward, even if someone was injured or fell down from time to time, there was no Shake their determination to complete the task.

In the end, the behemoth finally reached the city wall.

"Quick back from there! Quick back!" Due to the critical situation, Da Xipiah came to command himself, he screamed anxiously as the soldiers were still crowded by the battlement.

As the Roman soldiers retreated on both sides, the wooden iron-clad bridge tied to the top of the siege tower crashed down, fell on the battlements, and smashed the Roman soldiers below to the ground.

Da Xipi didn't have enough time to heartache the soldiers who were overwhelmed under the wooden bridge. He shouted loudly: "Fire oil! Quickly throw fire oil!!!..."

In fact, the Romans did not anticipate that they would be attacked by a large army. The city did not store a large amount of tar. In the past two days, almost all the tar used for lighting in the houses of the Roman people has been scrapped. The battle has now consumed almost all of it. As a result, the Roman people had to urgently ship olive oil for consumption.

"Boom! Boom!..." Dozens of clay pots smashed up.

But at the same time, the soldiers of the Second Army of Dionysia prepared long ago in the tower have shouted the name of Hades and quickly rushed from the siege tower to the wooden bridge. They rushed forward while Use a long shield to shoot down the flying clay pots.

Of course, some soldiers were splashed with olive oil, and unfortunately were hit by flying torches, and instantly became a fireman. He screamed sternly, but at this moment his comrades-in-arms will not stop to save him. Instead, the vigorous fighting spirit was turned into a full of anger, without fear of the densely erected spears in front, blocking the long shield in front of the chest, and jumping off the bridge, one by one like the Taishan pressure, resolutely jumped into the dense Roman soldiers In the array, regardless of the gunshot wounds on his body, he brandished his short sword in his hand, and struck the surrounding enemies with lightning.

Although the Roman soldiers who had been temporarily recruited had begun to adapt to the atmosphere of the battlefield by the time of the war and were inspired by the belief in defending their homeland, they had diminished the fear of death, but they were either too young, lacked combat experience, or were too old , The physical strength is insufficient, and these soldiers of the Second Army of Dionynia are elite, all like tigers, disturbing the array of Roman defenders, most of the screams are from the defenders.

Fortunately, Great Sipiah had already expected this, and most of the 3000 young Roman soldiers who had left the Roman city were placed in the southern wall of the defense, and 1000 of them were used as mobile forces to deal with emergencies. .At this moment, he mobilized 400 elite soldiers to form a dense array of guns at both ends of the city aisle. He drove inward with the Roman soldiers in front, trying to pass the front and back to attack the Dionyan soldiers who rushed to the city. Annihilate.

Who knows, the Dionysian soldiers with rich combat experience, regardless of their own casualties, rely on crazy attacks to continuously expand the space in the city head, and the subsequent Dionysian soldiers braved the gradually increasing fire and rushed to the city head... While they were attacking, they also quickly formed a position.

Waiting for the wounded, dead, and retreating of the old Roman weak and wounded army who were in front, and the Roman strong soldiers directly faced the enemy, the Dionysian soldiers had stood on the forefront of about 60 people. They formed After the shield formation, the defense before and after the attack was like a rock stuck in the head of the city.

Seeing this kind of situation, Da Sipiah felt anxious, but she understood that this was not a short-term solution to the battle. Fortunately, the siege tower had already ignited a fire, even the top of the tower that threatened the defenders. The javelin throwers all withdrew. It was impossible for an enemy to use it to rush to the city head again, which gave him some comfort.

But soon, his mood fell to the bottom of the valley again: "General Sipiah! Over there... the siege tower over there will be close to the wall!"

Sipaia quickly led another 400 strong soldiers to rush past.

This time he decided to learn a lesson and let these soldiers directly guard the city near the city tower, stop the enemies rushing from the tower, and never give them a chance to gain a foothold.

But in this way, he went back and forth to make up for the leak, and he found that the troops of the defending city were already a little nervous.

At this time, the incoming herders finally brought him good news: more than 1,400 reinforcements were sent by the Senate.

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Mattonis, who has been watching the battle situation far away from the bottom of the city, sighed for the siege tower that was burning and collapsed, and soon he was excited about another siege tower approaching the wall.

"Come on, send another company! This time we will not only rush to the city, but also to break through the enemy's blockade, climb the city for other soldiers, and clear the obstacles!"

"Legion, we... have no company to send." The adjutant reminded awkwardly.

"What?! Not just yet--" Matonis turned back in amazement.

There are a lot of people not far behind him, but more than half of them are engineers and craftsmen. They are still busy and rushing to manufacture siege equipment; there are some people who are in the camp, they are not only responsible for pushing the production. At the same time, some wounded soldiers were brought back on the way back; there were also doctors and nurses from the medical battalion, who carried out the intense battlefield treatment on the wounded soldiers...

Matonis looked again at the battlefield in front of bloody fighting.

Dozens of arrow-blocking vehicles in front of the trench were burnt a lot, and a bunch of rising smoke obscured most of the field of vision; the light infantry fired arrows at the head of the city much slower than before, I am afraid they also felt Fatigue.

Under the city, the heavy infantry of the Second Legion squatted half on the ground, hiding their entire bodies under a long shield, and looked at them in a trance, as if the land under the city was black, and there was a dark and dark light; there was only one The ladder was erected like a big tree, leaning against the city wall, and then the Dionysian soldiers crawling on it dyed the gray wall to a black road, and the soldiers continued to fall down above it. Underneath it, soldiers continually added up; from time to time, a flame rose under the city, mixed with a scream of screams, and each time Matonis was tight.

Five tall siege towers have been burned down, and one of them passed through the trench, because some sandbags were not tamped, which caused the siege tower to break the wooden board, the axle broke and fell into it. And the javelin thrower's platform...

In the sharp eyes of Matonis, he also saw the shields formed by the soldiers under the city, and some injured soldiers were struggling. They were too heavy to move to the rear because of the injuries, and were picked up by the heavy staff. .

Matonis thought of the dozens of soldiers who were surrounded by the city, and his heart began to be anxious: if the city of Rome cannot be captured today, the soldiers who cannot retreat smoothly in the city and under the city will be very miserable!

Thinking of this, he put aside his words before the war, "To save strength, reduce casualties, in order to deal with the next battle", and said aloud: "Let the commanders give me a harder attack. Bugle, urge the soldiers to step up their attack! And... hurry back to the camp and tell your majesty, I request another heavy infantry brigade!"

"Leader of the Legion," the adjutant reminded: "I was informed that four teams had been sent to the camp to intercept Rome's reinforcements. There were only two teams left in the camp. I'm afraid—"

"Don't be verbose, hurry up!" Matonis cried irritably with his red eyes.

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At this time, in the Chinese military account, Davis had just received the return of the reconnaissance ride: the newspaper said that there were nearly two thousand troops ten miles away from the southeast of the city of Rome, and they were quickly marching north.

Daveus immediately looked at the map, and at the same time, the chief of staff who was responsible for analyzing the enemy's situation, Kronissus also made a quick judgment based on the previous information: "Your Majesty, this is still from the Latin city states such as Priest, Bone, Gabi Reinforce."

He pointed to a red spot on the map and said, "The target they are about to attack is probably the Sixth Army!"

"Most of the soldiers of the Sixth Legion are attacking the city..." Daveus pondered, and said decisively: "Send the heavy infantry brigade of the Fifth Legion staying in the camp immediately to intercept!"

"Your Majesty!" Klaunisus reminded: "If this heavy infantry brigade is sent, there will be only one light armor brigade of the Second Legion in the camp!"