Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

It was thought that when the Dionysian army had just set up the ballista unit, a legion of ten ballistas was equipped with a sighting hand, and they were all from the Dionysian Academy, because it was necessary to accurately calculate the landing point and launch Curves require deep mathematical knowledge and fast computing power.More than ten years have passed, and now a ballista can be equipped with a sighting hand, which happens to illustrate the achievements of the Dionysia Kingdom in civic education.

At this moment, the ballista has adjusted the settings of the ballista under the prompt of the sighting hand, pulled open the spring arm, quickly placed the small stone projectile, fixed it on the smooth-bore wooden arm, and pressed the launch button to fix the stone projectile’s The copper ring and the iron hook holding the spring arm bounced at the same time, the spring arm retracted quickly, and the powerful torsion pushed the stone bomb out of the gun mount, whistling at a Roman ballista that was slowly advancing.

"Ballista! Diona's ballista!" The Roman soldiers pushing the ballista saw black dots flying in the air and shouted in panic, trying to avoid the ballista, but the bulky ballista moved slowly However, the stone projectile was almost instantaneous, hitting not far from the ballista and splashing the dust of the Roman soldiers.

The shocked Roman soldiers then saw eight or nine black spots flying out of the city head and attacking the other ballistas respectively. Although they finally failed to hit, Titus, who was watching from behind, was surprised. He never imagined that the Dionysians had left a lot of ballistas in the small city of Ostia, and placed it on the head of the city to attack their own ballistas. Never seen it before.

While he was still hesitating whether to withdraw the ballista, the second round of Diona's ballista attack had already begun.

Ten stone bombs struck again, and finally a Roman ballista was hit. Although only the arm was broken, the ballista is a more elaborate siege device. Once the balance is destroyed, it cannot be put into use unless it is repair.After the Romans obtained Carthage's ballista, they did not try to copy it, and made some progress, but they were only making core parts, such as metal ratchets, chains, metal cylinders, etc., which could not be cast to Carthage. It's so subtle. When they were still improving their skills, the Dionysians came, so the Carthage Ballista is bad, one less.

Titus can only order anxiously: "Withdraw the ballista!"

In the process of the retreat of Roman ballistas, the ballista fired by the city head once again destroyed a ballista.

Titus looked at the embarrassed ballista troops, and then looked up at the sky that had begun to be red by the sunset, and then looked at the enemies in the city, and quickly looked down, staring at the dense Luzhai in front of the trench... It took a while before he turned his gaze back and turned to look at the soldier behind him.

These Roman citizens from the colonies were already wearing armor and took up arms. Although the long march made them look tired, their eyes staring at Ostia were full of fighting spirit, because the desire to regain their motherland filled them. Power, their fighting spirit also infected Titus, let him suppress the concerns in his heart: Despite the previous contact and his own observation, the Dionysian defense of Ostia is relatively tight, But he has no time to restore the soldiers’ strength and prepare for the siege more comprehensively, but must recapture the city of Ostia before the arrival of Dionysian reinforcements, so she can only rely on the soldiers’ exuberant Fighters and huge numbers.

"Notify the troops and prepare to attack!" Titus said in a deep voice.

The soldiers were ordered to ride horses in the formation, and the squadron leaders shouted that the soldiers were ready. The soldiers stood up and carried the pre-made ladder and javelin from the accompanying packs according to the previous arrangement...

After a commotion and noise, "Woo!..." The trumpet sounded loudly, and the Roman army made a roaring roar. Then the soldiers led by the squadron leader walked east and south of Ostia Enter (to the west is the sea, to the north is the Tiber River, and to the southeast there are lakes and swamps as barriers).

Theris looked at the enemy troops under the city like a tide and subconsciously squeezed his fists.

The 300 Dionysian archers at the head of the city saw that the enemy was about to enter the range of 100 meters and began to bend their bow and shoot arrows.

The ballistas and belly bows at the head of the city have already started to fire stone bullets and iron arrows at the enemies under the city. Although the swarming enemies make their attack hit rate very high, and the death is terrifying, but the round of attacks is not The deaths and injuries of more than a dozen people, but for the siege wave formed by thousands of Roman soldiers, it was just a small splash that could not stop the Romans from advancing.

But it didn't take long for the Roman soldiers who rushed to the front to scream, "Ah! Pull me! My feet! My feet are cut!"

"Be careful of traps! There are spikes buried in the ground!!!"

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In the screams and screams of Roman soldiers, the speed of the entire siege force was hindered.

And while some Roman soldiers were helping their bloody comrades in the legs, while others were carefully observing the ground and moving carefully, the arrows at the head of the city fell like raindrops. It was a Roman heavy infantry, but because of the traps under their feet that forced them to panic, they had no time to defend the top with a shield, and some casualties were added.

What's worse is that they are blocked in the trap zone, so that the city's ballistas and belly bows have enough time to exert their lethality.

After Titus knew the situation ahead, he was very anxious. He realized that he still underestimated the defense of this small city by the Dionysians.

He took a deep breath and calmed himself down: "Go and order the offensive troops, don't rush forward, let me pull out those traps first!"

The commander drove away, and soon a reconnaissance ride came: "General Titus, the people of the Adi organization arrived!"

Titus was very happy in his heart. He was about to reply, and some scouts arrived: "Report to General Titus, the people of Antium arrived!"

While Titus led the army to march west, Camulus sent a messenger to inform the Roman colonial city and the Latin confederation in the west of Latium, hoping that they could send people to assist the army to attack the city of Ostia, and now these towns responded Camillus' request.

A team from only the west town carried materials and gradually gathered behind the Roman army...

Titus had a happy face on his face. He hurriedly thanked the leader, and sent hundreds of thousands of people under the authority to set up fires around him, and began to build camps and tents, preparing for long-lasting Combat.

Thelis watched the archers and ballistas attack the Roman soldiers who had approached the trenches on the east gate of Ostia, while other soldiers began to throw javelins down the city.

There are two east and south gates in the whole city of Ostia. In the past, Thelis let people block the south gate, leaving only one east gate, which was only used by reconnaissance rides and messengers, so that both sides of the road out of the city were buried Trap, the road became very narrow, the Roman soldiers offensive team here had to be arranged into a narrow and long team, which was concentrated attack by the soldiers in the city, lying in front of the trench full of wounded soldiers.

Thelis was not excited about such results. He saw the bonfires flaring behind the enemy lineup and the coming Romans. Realizing that this siege battle would become more difficult, the first thing he thought of was One command is: let the reserve team under the city block the East Gate completely with wood and stones.

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In Rome, there is a sharp contrast between the Roman civilians who actively applied for Dionysian citizenship in the square and the Roman aristocracy in the surrounding city who were crying because their relatives were taken away. The people of the entire city are at the extremes of ice and fire Agitated...

Daveus returned to the senate, hoping for a moment of tranquility, who knew that the Roman Chief Executive, Asistes, had hurriedly found it again.

"Your Majesty, since you went to worship the temples in Rome, the number of Romans who have come to the square has increased dramatically, and now the number of registered people has exceeded a thousand!" Yasisters reported excitedly to Daveus This is good news, because it means that the Roman civilians have further changed their attitude towards Dionia.

Daphes replied with a smile: "I saw it when I passed the square, this is a good thing, isn't it!"

"Your Majesty, but there is one thing I have to ask you for advice." Asistes continued: "Some Roman people asked that their relatives were in the Roman army outside the city, and they wanted their relatives to become The citizens of Dionysia, instead of fighting with us, hope that they can be persuaded out of the city and ask us if we can do it?"

"Oh?" Daveus became interested this time. He stroked his jaw and thought for a while, then turned his head and asked, "Clotto, what do you think?"

Cloto Kataks, who was standing by the side, immediately answered seriously: "Father, judging from the situation on the square these two days, we should believe what they said, allow them to go out of the city, and persuade their loved ones to submit to the kingdom. , This can shake the fighting spirit of the enemy, weaken their power, and at the same time enhance our power! Even if some of them are deceiving us, just want to escape from the city, but they are all old people, women and children. Saying that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages..."

Yasistes looked at Croto Cattaques. When he was in Turriy, he visited the Dave’s Palace many times. From time to time, he could see the king’s biological elder son. He was very impressed with his enthusiasm, but when he met this time, Yasisters found that he had become more calm.

Daveus nodded and said with approval: "Kloto is right, I allow them to go out of town, but I can't go out all. Only the elderly in the family can go out, women and children must stay in the city... and, I promised that the gift to Camillus would also take this opportunity to send it together."

Speaking of which, a sly smile appeared on his face.