Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

After a period of bombardment, Titus sent a second wave of soldiers after a period of rest to continue the siege, while the Dionysian garrison has been busy defending against the attack and avoiding stone bombs. With the passage of time, the Romans gradually began to keep up with the defenders in terms of physical strength and energy.

In addition, when the Romans attacked the city, there was a place for the defenders to have a headache. Their heavy infantry was not idle except for the soldiers who climbed the ladder. While protecting themselves with long shields, they were facing The city head projected the javelin.

Throwing a javelin with heavy infantry-this was the tactic of the soldiers of the Dionysian Army. Camulus realized the power of this tactic after Walsey and the Dionysians, and began to work with The Helnikians tried to use it in battle and achieved some results.Before this time, when Camillus and Titus discussed how to attack the city of Ostia, they again mentioned the use of this tactic during the siege, although the heavy infantry of Rome did not pass by the soldiers of the Dionysian Legion. Long-term training, throwing javelins is not only accurate and powerful, but also rich in tactical changes, but the low wall of Ostia has increased the lethality of Roman soldiers to throw javelins, and the Roman army has far more heavy infantry than the city’s defenders. It is the key to becoming the Dionysian garrison who used javelins to suppress the city.

A wave of Roman siege soldiers receded, and another wave of black and fierce assaults came up, like a continuous surge of turbulent tide. The number of casualties of the Dionysian garrison increased, and the defense strength decreased. The enemy has already attacked the city several times.

Thelis had to send a reserve team, but inexperienced he did not dismantle these temporarily formed fresh troops, and split them among the defenders of the city, under the command of the soldiers of the legion, but let them go in teams. As a result of replacing the vacant position of the city head, the defense strength was not greatly enhanced, but a lot of confusion appeared.

"General, look! The wall is falling!!" The followers pointed to the front and started cheering.

Titus is also difficult to suppress the ecstasy in his heart.

A few days ago, the walls of Ostia had just undergone the baptism of the Dionysian ballista. Although it was repaired, it was only a few days long enough to allow it to fully recover. After the attack, a section of the city wall wailed and collapsed.

With the exclamation of the soldiers on both sides, a gap was exposed after the dust mist dissipated.

Seeing this situation, Titus would have missed the opportunity to break the city and immediately ordered: "The ballistas stopped bombing, and the whole army immediately attacked!"

It is said that the whole army is overwhelming. In fact, it is only the Roman civics who are fully engaged in the attack. After all, they march long distances during the day and continue to fight at night. Although there are intermittent rests in the middle, all the soldiers are extremely fatigued, plus the offensive regardless of casualties To make the Latin Confederate army and the Etruscan Confederate army bitter, their generals have repeatedly protested to Titusti, and their soldiers have begun to fight passively. Only the Roman colonial civilian soldiers with less than 5,000 people are in Supported by the belief of "regaining the motherland", under the constraints of strict discipline, the collapse of the walls of Ostia also gave them hope for success, and they roared in the loud trumpet sound, and once again greeted the city of Ostia A fierce attack was launched.

The high morale of the Roman soldiers also infected the Allied forces, and they barely followed...

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Georg Lisboa was a cautious person, and with his Kloto Kataks, he became more cautious, so he arranged four fast boats to lead in front, and the other ships were parallel to each other. At intervals, all ships lit torches, like fire dragons in a river, going downstream along the flowing water.

Giogris's caution played a role. On the way, a pilot boat collided and sank with the fast boat that was pulling up the fiber and preparing to report to the city of Rome. A pilot boat failed to control its direction at the river bay and ran into it. Sank by the reef...

All the troop carriers were unharmed and approached the mouth of the Tiber River safely, but the soldiers on the ship were shocked by the scene on the shore in the distance: it was almost late at night, but the sky was not yet visible, and the moon was still hanging. On the horizon, the sky is still dark, which is the best time for people to sleep soundly, but the direction of Ostia City is blazing, killing the sky...

Has the city of Ostia already fallen?!Whether it is Georgris, team officers at all levels, or soldiers have similar concerns, with the guidance of the fire in the distance and the lighthouse of the port, and in order not to attract the attention of the enemy, Georgnis immediately ordered: " Extinguish all torches on board!"

Soon, the patrol ship of the port came out to meet, and after learning that Ostia did not fall, the fleet quickly drove into its port.

After taking the boat to the dock, Giogris first came ashore, but he was surprised to see that numerous sailor-dressed people were gathering together and were starting to wear armor. The arrival of the Fifth Legion soldiers was warmly welcomed by them.

After inquiring, Giorgios learned that the Roman army began to attack the city at dusk, and it has not stopped. They lit a lot of fires outside the city as lighting to facilitate the Roman soldiers to attack.Due to the continuous assault by the Romans, the reserve soldiers led by Thelis suffered a lot of casualties. Not only did the reserve team composed of Latino refugees and slaves be sent to the city, but also the sailors of the warships in the pier , Ready to reinforce at any time.

With the help of the sailors of the Third Fleet, all the soldiers of the five brigades of the Fifth Corps quickly landed, and under the leadership of Geogris, quickly rushed to the city.

At this moment, exclaimed from the front: "Not good!!! The wall collapses!!!"

Giogris was shocked and the situation was urgent. He immediately ordered: "The whole army advances quickly!"

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Repeated hard work, coupled with the collapse of the city walls, had caused the soldiers' hearts to float. At this time, the Romans took the opportunity to launch a much larger attack than before.

The black-pressed Roman soldiers had not crossed the trenches, and some liberated slaves in the city had never seen such a loud momentum, and turned and ran away.

Thelis hurriedly led the guard to stop, and decisively slashed the leading slave to stabilize the army.But for a long mile of the city wall, he could care for this end, but he couldn't care for that end. As the enemy approached, the chaos in the city's head not only did not subside, but increased.

The turbulent Thelis did not even have time to dispatch troops to close the gap, and in the end he even lost his confidence...

Just when he was at a loss and ready to give up, "Woo!..." The familiar bugle sounded in the city, followed by a uniform chant: "Great Hades, you are a kingdom Guardian God, the ruler of the night, the incarnation of justice and strictness!..."

Without waiting for Thelis to respond, the soldiers at the head of the city began to shout: "Our reinforcements are here! Our reinforcements are here!!!"

I saw the fire in the city (in order to facilitate the soldiers to fight in the city, Thelis learned that the Romans also lit a fire in the city), a black long dragon was quickly rushing down the city along the street.

The face of the tall soldier at the front was clearly identifiable. He was dressed in thick dogskin, a legion of a legion was held in his hand by the tall engine, and the idol at the top shone.

"The Fifth Legion! It's the Fifth Legion!!!" The sharp-eyed soldiers shouted.

The city of Ostia has been saved!The Legion reserve soldiers had confidence, and the originally panicked Ostia reserve soldiers gradually fled, and Thelis also settled down.

Titus outside the city also heard the trumpets and chants. He didn’t even think that this was a reinforcement from the enemy, and thought that General Dionysia used these to inspire the soldiers and defend them with all his strength. Judging from the experience, there will be no enemy reinforcements coming at this special time, so he frowned and whispered: "At this time, the Dionysians still have such morale! Just like a dictatorship What the official said, the army of this kingdom can't be underestimated!"

And at this time someone in the city shouted: "Is Lord Theseis here?! Lord Theseis!..."

Thelis supported the battlement and looked down: I saw a young team officer with a black helmet and black armor and a red cap on his head who was walking along the wall and shouting.

"I am Thelis!" He responded immediately.

The team officer hurriedly saluted and said, "I am the deputy officer of the 5th Army Commander Georgris. The Army Commander asked me to tell you that he will lead the troops to close the gap and let you focus on the defense in the city. The reinforcements made up of sailors from the Third Fleet will help you!"

After consulting with the deputy officer of the Fifth Legion, Thelis urged the team leaders of the city to lead the soldiers back to their respective defensive wall sections, and placed more light infantry above the gap, and began to prepare enough asphalt, because Giogris prepared to return to the Romans the agony suffered by the Fourth Army during the attack on the city of Rome.

Titus saw the heroic Roman soldiers rushing into the gaps of the city walls under the blaze of fire in the distance, which made him excited and thought that victory was in sight.

It didn’t take long for the entire gap to be filled with Roman soldiers. The men who went to listen to the news came back and reported: “The gap was blocked by Dionysian troops, and the soldiers were temporarily unable to break through their defenses!”

And just at this time, the courier sent by Camillus also rushed outside the city of Ostia, (because the courier did not dare to let the Mercedes Benz in the dark, so he fell behind the fleet) to report to Proposal : "The Dionysians sent thousands of soldiers from the city of Rome, and they are taking the boat down the river!"

Titus was hit hard, but there was a hint of illusion in his heart. On the one hand, he ordered the snare drum to sound and the trumpet sounded to encourage the soldiers to attack bravely.On the one hand, he dispatched his men to the city to pay close attention to changes in the battle situation.At the same time, they called back the Etruscan Allies who had been at the end of the offensive team and asked them to line up in the rear in case of surprise.