Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

At the same time, Ealos also noticed that the attack by the defenders of the city was weakening. Obviously, the Lola fighters defending the city had never suffered such a siege method, although in the long-range attacks of both sides, they rely on the battlements The protection is still slightly superior, but the increase in the number of injured also makes them feel a lot of pressure.

"The enemy is a bit chaotic!" he said to Zantiparis, who was also behind, observing the enemy's situation.

"This is a good thing, it can reduce the casualties of soldiers and people, but the most difficult battle has not yet arrived." Zantiparis said calmly.

Ai Luosi understand what Zanteparis said is the most difficult battle-that is the face-to-face fighting after the earth mountain and the city wall are closed.

Compared to the liveliness of the Nancheng battlefield, it is much quieter outside the west city wall.

First, hundreds of Campania light infantry supported the arrow shield made by Dionyan carpenters, against the long-range attack of the city defenders, came to the trench, opened the bracket behind the arrow shield, let It stood upright to provide shelter for the light infantry, and from time to time they fired their javelins and arrows from the gap between the shields to attack the defenders at the head of the city.

While the defenders were under control, Onia’s heavy infantry pushed out the siege cars. (The engineers of the Dionyan Corps guided the carpenters of Enona and Campania to use soldiers from the forest. The hollowed-out wooden car made this hollow wooden car), just like the soldiers of the Second Legion when Daveus led the army to attack Rome, a wooden car was spliced ​​in the process of pushing against the city wall. Straight in front of the trench.

Not only the Allied soldiers were surprised, but the defenders at the head of the city were dumbfounded. The wooden car saw no one, and the rocket was unable to ignite it. The Dionysian soldiers quickly passed the clothes in the carriage. The sack quickly filled the trench that was not wide in front of him.

Then, one by one, the wooden cars continued to push forward until they were against the city wall, thus forming two hollow passages formed by the siege car from the city wall to 40 meters away, and the soldiers at the rear immediately carried a large The front end of the wood is inlaid with an iron cone head. This ram hammer passed by the soldiers and reached the wall. Six soldiers carried it against the wall.

The hard hammer head struck the old stone wall in disrepair, the stone was broken, the mud fell off, the stone wall cracked...

The vibration of the city wall made the defenders at the head of the city panic. They increased the intensity of the attack. The stone and wood blocks were smashed down violently, splashing thin oil, and launching rockets...

However, the vans closest to the city wall were exceptionally strong. The craftsmen not only strengthened the entire frame, but also adopted a herringbone structure on the roof to facilitate unloading, and a bag was soaked with water They are not easy to be ignited, so soldiers can safely and forcefully hit the wall inside.

When the siege hammer broke the outer stone wall, exposing the rammed earth layer inside, the soldiers picked up the pickaxe and shovel, began to remove the stone around the gap, expanded the hole in the wall, and then dug out the ram inside earth……

The defense of the west and south walls alone has made the Lola garrison with little troops feel a lot of pressure, not to mention the coalition forces also launched attacks on the east and north sides.In order to defend the city, the Lola people mobilized all the fighting tribes in the city, including even women who went to the city to defend.

Nancheng has always been the most fierce battlefield. The battle lasted for half an hour. The light infantry of Dionysia could not lift their arms, and their fingers were injured and bleeding due to bow drawing. The heavy infantry that formed the shield wall were even 300 dead Many people, the casualties of the people are also not small.

But the turning point finally appeared, and Lola's javelin ran out.In just half an hour, they threw out thousands of javelins, plus the javelins thrown by the Dionysians in order to prevent the Dionysians from building the earth a few days ago, all the javelins in the city had been used up, and the arrows were also It's almost consumed.

As for the javelin thrown by the Dionysian Light Infantry, it is a specially made tip. The iron attached to the tip of the gun is very thin. After hitting a hard object, it will bend and cannot be thrown. However, the front end of the javelin can be quickly removed. The iron tip of the iron can be used again with the new tip attached to the wooden rod at the rear end, but it is obviously impossible for the Lola garrison.

Therefore, the defenders can only throw stones and wood at their opponents. Since Dionia’s shield wall is ten meters away from the city head, too heavy stones cannot be thrown, and those that can be thrown past are more easily blocked by long shields. The threat of Dionia’s heavy infantry is much smaller, the shield wall can continue to stabilize, and the people can put the soil bag faster.

Seeing that the valley was gradually filled, the earth bags had risen to the feet of Dionysian heavy infantry, and they began to carefully move forward with the shield, so that the subsequent people could fill the depression in front.

At this time, Ai Luosi under the earth mountain had already assembled the 1,000 Campania heavy infantry, ready to replace the army on the top of the mountain.

The bugle sounded, and the Dionysian light infantry quickly withdrew down the mountain.According to the plan of Zantiparis, Elos led the Campania heavy infantry into a dozen-column column, separated the interval, and slowly marched towards the earth to facilitate the evacuation of the public and Dionysian heavy infantry .

The heavy infantry of Campania wore a Corinthian helmet and a large copper shield. They had a narrow field of vision and clumsy movements. Climbing the mountains was a difficult task for them. Fortunately, the slopes of the hills were gentle, and they did not cause too much of their march. influences.

Without the assistance of light infantry, the Dionysian heavy infantry who formed a shield on the top of the earth hill moved towards the city wall, the more violent the attack was, and even some Lola warriors simply crossed the wall over the battlement and jumped to On the nearly filled earth hill, armed with a spear, he directly attacked the heavy infantry of Dionia.

During this long period of battle in the city of defense, Lola’s garrison has seen it clearly. These Dionysian soldiers did not carry a spear at all because of the double-handed shield, so Lola’s soldiers were deep and shallow. Stepping on the bumpy dirt bag with one foot, he directly broke the long shield with his body, even knocked down the enemy, and then thrust the spear in his hand.

The shield wall formed by the two heavy infantry of Dionysian became fragmented. As the people fled panic, the Dionyan officers shouted: "No backing! Throw away a long side Shield, change the dagger!!!"

In fact, without them shouting, the soldiers are already doing the same. These reserve soldiers from the mountains of Lucania have suffered long-range attacks from the enemy before, watching the casualties of hundreds of comrades in arms, while the enemy just attacked directly. It also caused dozens of deaths and injuries... They were all Lukanians who grew up after the establishment of the Kingdom of Dionysia. Although the cultural integration of the kingdom weakened their wildness, military training made them understand teamwork and comrades in arms Friendship, with the anger of revenge for their comrades-in-arms, they held short swords and long shields and fought against Lola's defenders.

However, the bugle horn of the retreat of Dionysia was blew at this time.

Despite the unwillingness of the soldiers, they had to obey orders.

The Lola warriors did not continue to catch up because they saw those "tin tin cans" coming up, so they ran back and turned into the city walls.

On this dirt mountain more than 50 meters wide, the heavy infantry of Campania slowly approached the defenders of the city, and gradually formed a dense formation, which was a battlement apart from the defenders, although the bayonet can easily pierce The enemy, but unable to use the charge and impact that the heavy infantry is good at, has weakened a lot.The trumpets of the offensive under the city continued to sound, and the heavy infantry of Campania on the earth hill under the leadership of Ealos began a fierce battle with the enemy.

To be honest, in recent years, the Campania and the Samone have been fighting, and there is rarely such a good opportunity for face-to-face fighting, because the Samona soldiers always use javelins to throw, kill Campania soldiers, and then retreat to lure They pursued and used the weakness of the opponent's slow movement during the retreat. They repeatedly attacked with javelins until the opponent's formation was completely chaotic, and then sent a infantry to break in and completely defeat the opponent.

This set of tactics has been unsuccessful. The successive failures made the Campanias tremble, making them even dare not to go out of town to fight in the field. Today, there is finally the opportunity to avenge the shame. The Campania soldiers roared loudly, one by one. The bayonet poked powerfully at the enemy.

Of course, the defender Lola, who is a side of the city, cannot take the effective guerrilla tactics in the past, and can only face the enemy head-on. They let the soldiers in the armor be blocked in front of the battlement, followed by light infantry, and they are also densely formed in the aisle of the city. Formation to counter the heavy infantry of Campania.In order to be able to contend with the enemy, they also mobilized some of the defenders of the Western Wall, because they believed that the fighting in the west was calmer, even if the defenders were not large enough, it was enough.

But shortly after the defensive troops of the western city wall were transferred away, bad news came out: there were two collapses in the western city wall.

This is all thanks to the Dionysian soldiers in the siege car. They took out the stone walls and rammed soil at the bottom of the city wall, destroyed the wall foundation, and caused the already weak city wall to collapse due to gravity and scattered. The stone even injured several Dionysian soldiers who had no time to retreat.

The loud noise of the "rumbling" and the morning fog rising from the sky not only shocked Lola's garrison, but also made Campania soldiers dumbfounded. Originally they saw the unique, slow Teng Teng's siege method hasn't seen any movement for such a long time, and I can't help but despise it. I think it is time-consuming and laborious, and even the soldiers disdainfully said: "It is said that the Dionysians are fighting bravely, it seems that they are also Fear of death, I only know to hide in a wooden box!"

And now the tragic encounter of the city wall gave them a loud slap.They certainly don’t know: In the various military camps in the Kingdom of Dionysia, not only will the soldiers actually build a wall during training to exercise their fortification ability, but also will train them how to break through this in the next training. The walls, so the Dionysian soldiers did not dig randomly, but destroyed the structure of the walls purposefully and efficiently.