Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Although their number is less than a thousand, their attacking methods have left the light armoured brigade in the left camp a bit confused.

Due to the hasty time left for the Dionysian army yesterday, the soldiers only built large camps and trenches, and did not set up deer villages and traps in front of the camp. As a result, the Latin reinforcements were divided into multiple teams and approached the camp from multiple directions. , Standing in front of the trench, launching a rocket into the camp.

A large Chinese battalion that will accommodate three infantry regiments and two cavalry regiments covers a very large area. A light armor brigade of only 700 people cannot be fully protected, so tents are lit from time to time, They were forced to separate their hands and go back and forth to rush to fight the fire, because once the fire became larger, part of the camp was burned, and the soldiers who were attacking the city saw it, which would inevitably affect their fighting spirit.

In this way, the manpower for the defense camp is even more insufficient.

Daveus urgently called hundreds of heavy battalions to assist in the fire fighting, and he also sent a hundred court guards as a mobile defense force for the camp, which barely managed the current situation.

The siege has been going on for nearly four hours, but still has not seen breakthrough progress. Daveus sits in the big tent, still looking at the staff on the map calmly.

Henripolis, who had been on the sidelines, seemed agitated at the moment and walked back and forth in the tent.

Daveus had to say, "Herni, sit down quickly, don't walk around, it makes me dizzy."

Henipolis said anxiously: "Your Majesty, there are more and more enemies attacking the camp. Even the eastern side of the city of Rome has appeared enemy reinforcements, threatening the camp of the First Army... Now we are surrounded by enemies There are no more troops in the camp for the reinforcements, and the legions are still blocked under the city. The soldiers have suffered a lot of casualties. After this stalemate, they will not be able to capture the city of Rome before dark. I am worried... I'm worried..."

Daveus waited until he vented his worries, and then slowly said: "In addition to Turri, Rome is the largest city on this peninsula. Even if its main force is not here, it will not be able to capture it. It's an easy thing.

Our various legions are not without progress. You have just heard that the second legion has used the siege tower to have more than a hundred soldiers attacked the city head and stood firm; the third legion also occupied the Roman vertebral bridge The bridgehead on the south bank is expanding the scope of its attack; the Fourth Army collapsed the wall with a siege car, and the soldiers have burst into the gap and are temporarily blocked under the city...

We are playing a tug of war with the Romans. The Romans have tried their best to barely stay with us, but this burst of power is impossible to last. We are adding strength, a little bit. Pull the red string over until the Romans' power is completely overwhelmed, and they will inevitably collapse!"

Davers clenched his right fist and waved hard, confidently saying, "As for the Roman reinforcements--"

"Your Majesty, good news! Lord Epidene led 4,000 soldiers to the battlefield, and with Lord Tolmed, completely defeated the Roman reinforcements in the southwest. The first and second cavalry regiments were chasing the broken soldiers. And Lord Epitanes is heading for the army!"

"Great!" Hernipolis, who had a sad look, was now full of joy.

The staff in the big account also applauded and celebrated.

A smile also appeared on Dave’s face: “Immediately notify Tolmed and Epitanes to send them a heavy infantry brigade to the defense camp, and the other troops rush to the rear of the Second Army to gather and wait for me The command!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Asinarus quickly issued an account to inform the heralds, and he quickly returned to the account quickly, said excitedly: "Your Majesty, the reconnaissance rides back, and some troops of the Sixth Army and the First Army have attacked the city! "

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On the surface, the First Army and the Sixth Army are using conventional methods of siege, but Daveus suggested that they try to climb the city with a rope hook.

Rope hook climbing the city, this is the earliest invention of a siege method by Davos. It was originally used in this way to capture Amendolara to gain a foothold for the mercenaries in Greater Greece.As Dionia became stronger and stronger, a variety of siege tools were manufactured one after another, and the method of siege was becoming more and more perfect. This simple rope hook that has greatly helped mercenaries has long been forgotten into the corner.

However, Davers did not forget, because considering that the army arrived in Latham, there may be a lot of siege battles, so specially sent people to take dozens of sets of god hooks that have been dusty from the corner of the armory After coming out, after re-polishing, it is equipped with rope to be prepared.

Amintas has always advocated offensive and likes to take risks, and he accepted Davis's advice without hesitation.The Sixth Army Commander Trotila was also a member of the Persian Expeditionary Mercenary, and Turui, who came with Daveus, has grown from an ordinary soldier to a commander of the army. It is not bad, he certainly will not allow his army to perform mediocre in this significant siege.

Both of them understand that if the "Rope Hook Climbing City" is to succeed, they must blind the enemy's sight and carry out a surprise attack, otherwise, once they are found, it will increase a lot of casualties, so they both climb the city by the same way. The location was set at the southeast corner of Rome.

Here is the same as the southwest corner, the wall protrudes outward for a period, but unlike the southwest corner, it is folded a few times, and eventually forms a small sharp angle, but it is far away from the several gates of Rome. The city wall is also easy to block the sight and is not easy to be found.

So for this purpose, Trotilas let the Sixth Army soldiers focus on the wall between Esquiry Gate and Vimina Gate, about 400 meters away from the southeast corner.

Amintas was even more ruthless, allowing the soldiers of the First Army to attack the wall between Capitoline Mountain and Quirilno Mountain, two miles from the southeast corner.

Trotillas was ready to let his light armor brigade complete this task. After all, their lighter costumes were easier to crawl, so he left two heavy infantry brigades in the battalion.

Although the First Army’s camp was far away from the Chinese army camp, Amintas boldly left only one heavy infantry brigade in the camp, and let more than 700 mountain reconnaissance soldiers staying in the camp to perform this task.

However, after careful observation of the terrain, Trotiras discovered a problem: although the southeast corner of the city wall is relatively remote, the Roman city wall is very high, and the soldiers in the city can see far away under the city. If the Dionysian soldiers on the mission want to be close to the city wall, even if they do not carry siege equipment, they will cause the enemy to doubt and prepare for it. After thinking, he decides to let the soldiers do this...

After learning of Trotila's idea, Daphes applauded the festival, and the plan of the Sixth Army's rope-hugging city was quickly established.

Originally there were defenders in the southeast corner city, but as time passed, the continued fierce attacks of the First Army and the Second Army made the defensive Roman generals feel that their strength was tight, and they had to adjust the soldiers on other walls to strengthen Defense, the defenders who have been doing nothing in the southeast corner, of course, are also within the scope of being adjusted.

Soon, the defenders in the nearby city saw: hundreds of Roman auxiliary soldiers were being chased by the Dionysian soldiers in the distance to the southeast, and panic fled towards the Roman city, although they occasionally had soldiers caught up by the enemy , Stabbed, but most of the broken soldiers still struggled across the trench and came to the southeast corner of the city. Perhaps they were afraid of being attacked by the defenders in the city. The hundreds of Dionysian light infantry stopped the pursuit. Footsteps, but unwilling to stop and gaze at a distance.

The defending soldiers who saw this situation were wondering which Latin city-state these Roman auxiliary soldiers came from (most of the Roman auxiliary soldiers were citizens of the Latin Allies).

Because the enemy is attacking the city, the defending soldiers certainly cannot allow these broken troops to enter the city, and the fighting is fierce, and they are not allowed to have more leisure time to pay attention to the life and death of these allies. The emergence of these broken soldiers shows that the Roman reinforcements are Fighting the enemy where they can't see, this has somewhat inspired the morale of the defenders.

But they did not know that these Roman auxiliary soldiers were dressed up by Dionysian soldiers. They put on the armor and equipment of the Roman soldiers obtained by cleaning the battlefield after the victory of the battle two days ago, which deceived the defenders. Attention, after successfully coming to the southeast corner city, they avoided the sight of the defending army, connected the rope wrapped around their body, put on the hook head, and dozens of rope hooks were quickly completed.

The battle continued, the Roman soldiers resisted the enemy's attack with difficulty, and gradually forgot the existence of the broken soldiers. Occasionally, the afterglow of their eyes swept over the city in the southeast corner, and saw dozens of "Rome The soldiers were stationed, thinking they were sent by the neighboring defenders, and did not attract attention. Even if they saw continuous Dionysian light infantry crawling across the trench and rushing down the southeast corner, they did not cause too much vigilance. After all, they did not carry any siege equipment, let alone soldiers stationed in the city.

But after a while, they found that the situation was wrong: Dionysian soldiers began to appear in the city in the southeast corner, and more and more, those "Roman soldiers" did not fight the enemy!

The two defending generals, Margus Atelius and Barbus Fabia, were shocked by the bad news. The situation was extremely urgent. Despite the tightness of their hands, they quickly put together a unit. The two generals personally led, rushed to the southeast corner of the wall from the west and south, and vowed to drive the enemy down the city.