Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Not only did a small fortress be built in just three months, but also a new military barrack was built not far north of Leotini.

The fortress of Paragonia is not a fortress of Lahe, it is only used to charge cards, it is a real defensive fortress.

A trench of 5 meters wide and 5 meters deep surrounds Paragoria. The bottom of the ditch is covered with pointed wooden piles, and the sides of the ditch are covered with dense deer villages. This makes the siege equipment want to approach the city below, becoming quite difficult.

Although the outer city wall is only 4 meters high, its structure is rammed earth, stone brick, stone and cement from the inside to the outside. It is thick and strong, and the city wall is smooth and flat, and no obvious gaps can be seen. The city wall is also covered with thick lime Pink, this is not for the sake of beauty, but has a certain tactical effect. The white city wall will reflect under the sun, which will affect the attacking soldiers, and it will make it more difficult for the ants to attach to the city. At the same time, it can reduce the stone. The impact force of the bomb on the city wall.

The outer wall surrounded by a circle allows the defenders to better concentrate their defenses, and also allows the reinforcements dispatched within the city to reach the head of the city more conveniently.

Every other section of the city wall, there is a round wall tower that protrudes from the wall surface. It can strengthen the side attack strength on enemies shrinking under the city or enemies attacking the city, and its round wall can also reduce the impact of external forces. .

The walkway at the head of the city is not narrow, and the tops of the wall towers connected to it are even more spacious. At the top of each wall tower is a ballista and a belly bow placed side by side, and several boxes of stone bombs and iron pieces are placed on the ground. There are many defending soldiers beside the battlements, and they do not seem crowded.

Leotizides gathered all ballistas and ventral bows from the Katanai Barracks in Paragonia, not only on the wall tower of the outer city wall, but also on the top of the tower in the center of the city.This 6-meter-high tower is also a circular building with a diameter of 50 meters. Not only are multiple ballistas and belly bows placed on the top of the tower, but also a large number of soldiers can be deployed. They are protected by battlements and can stand high. Attack enemies who climbed into the outer walls or entered the city.There are also multiple windows under the tower, which can also be used by soldiers to attack the enemy under the tower.

What Marco did not see was that between the outer city wall and the central tower, there was a wall equal to the outer city wall, which surrounded the central tower. Once the outer city wall was broken by the Carthaginians, the Dionian guardian soldiers You can quickly retreat to the second wall for defense. If the Carthage believes that the outer wall is broken, you can capture Paragonia, so you can relax your vigilance and you will undoubtedly suffer a big loss.

The captain speaking to the soldiers manipulating the ballistas on the wall was the commander responsible for the defense of Paragonia. His name was Tyminides, the Lockley, the captain of the 7th Army’s first brigade, and took over. It didn’t take long for the fortress to see that the fortress that was usually only accessible during training was actually used in actual combat, and the fortress was larger and the facilities were more complete. He was very excited in his heart and was full of confidence in guarding Paragonia. These days, the soldiers of the Seventh Army have been familiar with the structure and facilities of this fortress so that they will not be busy during the battle.

Today there are nearly 4,000 soldiers in the fortress, which are the First Heavy Infantry Brigade, the Seventh Light Infantry Brigade of the Seventh Legion, as well as a Heavy Infantry Reserve Brigade and Light Infantry Reserve Brigade in Sicily. There are a total of 2,000 heavy infantry, 2000 Light infantry (excluding ballista units, medical battalions).Timminides felt that the number of soldiers and the proportion of soldiers defending the army were just right for this small fortress.

Although there are 4 captains in the fortress, and Timminides is just here, the first captain of the official legion is higher than the other captains of the same legion, usually the future captain, according to "Diao The "Niya Army Law" stipulates that "in combat, if the leader of the army is unfortunately killed, the first leader of the army shall act as the leader of the army." Therefore, the other three commanders of the army still respect him more.

Taminides walked along the aisle of the city, inspecting the soldiers’ defense work, and chatting with them from time to time. The main object of the conversation was Sicilian soldiers, not only to understand their status, but also to let these Sicilian wearers The Onia civic soldier is familiar with his commander, so that he can conduct operations in the future.

The Lockley soldiers of the 7th Legion are serious and hardworking, but they are introverted, but only with the exception of Timminides, he is outgoing, very friendly, and good at playing with the soldiers, which is why Breru sent him to Par One of the reasons why Lagonia served as the commander, because he was able to bring Lockley and Sicilian soldiers together well.

"Captain, the enemy may be attacking!" A soldier pointed out of the city and said aloud.

"That's great! The Carthaginians are about to give us credit!" Teminides said with a smile.

The soldiers around were also laughing, their faces filled with excitement, and the tension in their hearts was also dissipated in the laughter.

The team officers began to urge them to prepare for the defense, and Tyminides also stood at the battlement and carefully observed the situation of the Carthaginians.

Obviously the Carthages realized that they could no longer follow the previous method, under the long-range attack of the defenders in the city, they directly sent a large number of soldiers to clear the ground and have been approaching the city, so Marco asked the engineers to make it in advance. After dozens of arrow shields, the Carthage soldiers put them side by side to form a wooden wall and began to push down the city.His plan was that for every segment of the arrow car, the Numbian soldiers followed the soil and filled the road.

But things were not so easy. After a while, either the legs of the cart soldiers were injured by the wooden thorns or iron hooks buried in the ground, or the arrow car fell into the trap and could not move forward. The "wooden wall" was very It's about to fall into pieces, and it's completely gone.

The ballistic artillery and belly bow wearing Onia on the city head also began to show their power. The stone bomb hit the arrow car, and the broken wood chips flew around, becoming a nightmare for the surrounding soldiers. When flying thick and long iron arrows, not only the thick wooden board was broken into a big hole, but also the iron arrows that remained unrelenting could nail the soldiers in the rear cart to the ground, and the death was miserable...not only the cart The soldiers, including the soldiers preparing to fill in the rear, were frightened and fled backwards, leaving only the wounded soldiers to groan in the same place.

Not reconciled, Marco ordered the army to launch the ballistas and suppress the ballistas in the city.

However, the ballistic artillery of Dionysia occupies a high place and has a longer range than the other party. Therefore, the Carthage ballistic artillery has not been propelled to the proper position, and it has been continuously attacked by the ballistic artillery of Dionysia. And four bombarded one, which increased the hit rate.

As soon as Marco was cruel, he pushed all the ballistas out and let them completely spread out. They were widely spread out on the north side of the city of Paragonia, and wanted to reduce Dionys by virtue of quantitative advantages and angular deviations. The threat of the Asian Ballista can gain certain advantages.

But then he was surprised to see that not only stone bombs were continuously fired from the towers of the semi-circular wall on the north side, but soon the stone tower was also launched on the tall tower in the center of the city.After a while, more than a dozen stone shells were fired from the semi-circular city wall on the south side, and they fell across the entire city and fell near the Carthage ballistas. The accuracy is not low.

This is a large-scale ballista battle, which made the soldiers of both sides frightened, and also experienced an eye addiction, but the thrilling picture of dozens of stone bombs roaring in the air and constantly interlacing lasted for more than 10 minutes. Nine ballistas were destroyed in the Taiji army, and dozens of people were killed and wounded. In addition to the outer wall of the Paragoria fortress, several small pits were bombed, and almost no one was injured by the defenders.

Marco Tieqing looked at his face. He realized that he still underestimated the difficulty of Palagonia. He had to suspend the attack and return to the camp. He called his generals and discussed together. How can he capture this difficult stone?

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In October, the weather started to cool down, but the temperature in mainland Africa was still hot. At this time in the past, citizens of Carthage like to take their families to the outback of Numbia. There is a series of salt lakes here. Go swimming in the lake, or sit by the lake, enjoy the beautiful scenery, taste all kinds of freshly harvested fruits, and enjoy the service of the slaves of Numbia.

But this year, few citizens have done so, because the Dionysian warships have long cruised in the western waters of Sicily and attacked merchant ships between Carthage and Sicily from time to time. This made the Carthage merchants cautious to go out to sea.Although the land of Carthage citizens in Numbia had a bumper harvest, the recovered wheat and other crops were retained by the Carthage government at a bargain price, except for their own use, as preparations for the Carthage army. Military food...

Although the war between Carthage and Dionysia lasted only a few months, the ordinary people of Carthage have already felt the impact of this huge war on their lives, and they have not only reduced the income of their families. Anxiety is also more anxious for expedition to Sicily's relatives day and night, so they are paying close attention to the progress of the war situation on Sicily. The Greek kingdom that had nothing to do with them in the north of Sicily is now the object of their curse day and night.

Some time ago, when the people of Carthage learned that "Marco led the army, successively captured many Greek city-states on the south coast of Sicily, and invaded the Sicilian territory of Dionysia", the city was filled with joy and everyone shouted Marco His name blessed him, hoping that he would expel the Dionysians out of Sicily as soon as possible, so that the Sicilian waters would once again become a port of free trade for Carthage merchant ships.