Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Amintas listened for a moment, just now he heard this good idea, patronized the excitement, and forgot that the Carthaginians also possessed ballistas.

Calcidis apparently considered this issue, he said without hesitation: "Carthage ballistas are indeed worthy of our attention, but in fact their accuracy is not very high, and we can also think of ways Overcome, such as... covering the wooden walls with tight fishing nets, or filling enough mud between the wooden frames...

In addition, since the city walls are made of wood, can we let the engineering battalion make the frame in the city like we usually build outposts for camps? When the construction of the Carthage’s earthen mountain is completed, we Then moved the frame of the wooden city wall to the wall and quickly built it, and then suppressed the Carthaginians from the top, suddenly killed the Carthage light infantry on the Tushan, and let the Carthaginians spend so much time building the Tushan, If they want to regain their initiative, they will have to rebuild larger foundations to build higher earth hills, which will take more time..."

"Good idea! This is indeed a good idea!" Amintas ha ha ha laughed: "I can't wait to see the Carthaginians think they are proud, but suddenly turned into a face of frustration and disappointment. Aris Tonos, you should immediately call the engineers of the engineering camp to have a good look at the city wall, and then, according to the recommendations of Karl Sedis, make such a wooden wall for me to resist the Carthaginians. attack!"

"Yes, Master Commander." Aristonos immediately turned to the city.

Soon after, the troopers in the Light Infantry Brigade rushed to the head of the city. Following the instructions of Amintas, they began to attack the Carthage heavy infantry under the city. The egg-sized heavy lead shot smashed in a short distance. On the helmet, the impact produced can make people dizzy, hitting the breastplate makes it painful and unbearable...

Soon, the orderly long dragon lined up by the Carthaginians became chaotic. The soldiers threw down the wooden basket regardless of the obstruction of the team officer. Flee back.

The attack of the troopers was effective.

But it didn’t take long for the Dionysian soldiers at the head of the city to shout in panic: "Be careful! Flying Stone!..."

Amintas suddenly saw countless tiny black spots flying out on the inner wall of the Carthage camp a hundred meters away.

The Dionyan soldiers at the turn of the city were nervous. They hurriedly lifted their long shields to form a shield wall to provide refuge for themselves and for the troopers.

In a painful groan, Amintas gritted his teeth: "It must be Balearic's Catapult!"

After the main army landed in Sicily, Leotizides once mentioned to Daphes and other high-ranking Dionysian generals that Carthage had thousands of Balearic troopers, the only Aminta who had troopers Si was also concerned about the other party's combat strength, but did not expect to experience it in Serinus.

Of course, the stone-throwing soldiers of the First Legion were unwilling to counterattack. Countless lead shots were continuously staggered in this air. Other soldiers in the city heads can use a long shield to escape, but the stone-throwing soldiers cannot help others during the stone-throwing process. They provide protection, so people are constantly injured.

After all, the Dionysian troopers were relatively small, and gradually became unsustainable. In order to preserve their strength, Amintas had to change them to the city, and soon he saw Carthage’s heavy infantry platoon grow up. , Carrying a wooden frame, began to pile up the mountain again.

At this moment, he heard someone shouting: "General Carl Sedis! General Carl Sedis!..."

He stared at the man who shouted, vaguely remembering as if he was the captain of the reserve team, and immediately shouted angrily: "Shout what shout! What's the matter?!"

The captain came to the city in a hurry, and before he had time to report the situation to Calcidis, he was reprimanded by Amintas. When he saw his face with anger, he immediately thought of the rumors about him. panic.

"Commander Amintas asks you something, just talk about it in any case." Carl Sedis quickly awoke him.

"Oh... refers to... Commander Master... This is the case. We discovered anomalies while digging the trench, and the Carthaginians may be digging tunnels!"

Amintas and the people around him were taken aback.

"Where did you find it?! Take me quickly!" Amintas said urgently.

It turned out that after Amintas served as the commander of the defense of the city of Celinus, he also began to build internal walls within the city area according to the recommendations of Carl Sidis. In order to ensure that several more can be repaired, he put the first one in The construction of the wall was set at a distance of less than 50 meters from the outer city wall.

Often the city walls and trenches are built together, so as to ensure that the excavated soil can directly become the rammed earth for building the city walls.Amintas also put forward strict requirements: the trench must reach a depth of 4 meters and a width of at least four meters. The task of digging the trench is mainly undertaken by the original Defender of Serinus. (For this, some reserve soldiers have some complaints, but Calcidis comforted them well).

After these days of hard work, the trench was basically excavated, and then the soldiers had to bury pointed wooden piles in the trench, and while they were doing this work today, a soldier just dug a sharp pit. To bury the pile, he found that the sand kept seeping into the pit and sinking down. He was frightened and thought he was caught by a monster. He jumped out of the ditch and hurriedly fell to the ground, then he went to Hades Prayerful prayer.

Soon, the news spread.

After hearing the news, the captain of the reserve team had more military experience. After seeing this strange phenomenon, he immediately felt uneasy, immediately kept the soldiers quiet, and then carefully jumped into the trench, keeping his ears close to the soil and sinking. Listen carefully, and you hear the sound of digging from below.

He immediately came to report.

The location of the accident was not far from the North City Gate. After Amintas and his team arrived in a hurry, he personally climbed down the trench to confirm the situation reported by the reserve team captain, and then the sullen face was pulled up by the guards, with fear. Yelled, "Cunning Carthage!"

He really did not expect that the Carthaginians built the inner walls and piled the earth hills, posing a posture to attack the city of Serinus on the ground, but secretly digging tunnels, wanting to attack Serinus secretly city!

Amintas was completely blindfolded, of course, one of the reasons was that after the Carthaginians built the inner wall, they cut off the observation of the Carthage camp by the Dionysian garrison on the head of the city. The movement of the Carthaginians in the camp.

"Master Legion, the Carthaginians may have excavated more than this tunnel!" Calcidis stepped forward and reminded in a low voice.

Amintas nodded and immediately ordered: stop all soldiers from digging the trenches, and the mountain reconnaissance team led the light armor brigade to use the trenches built in the inner city to carefully investigate the existence of other tunnels.

After a while, the captain of the mountain investigation team came to report: They also found the Carthage digging the tunnel under the east and west walls.

Although Amintas and others were mentally prepared, they were still shocked by the news. The adjutant Aristonos even speculated: "It seems that the soil where the Carthaginians built these three earth mountains came from It’s really cunning to dig out the earth!"

At the moment, Amintas was so blue-faced that he gave orders sharply: "Hurry and call the engineers, let them survey the site carefully, estimate the direction and depth of the tunnel excavated by the Carthaginians, and then design one we want to dig The tunnel can be quickly connected to the tunnel of the Carthaginians, and then—"Amintas waved his hand hard: "Destroy all the Carthaginians in the tunnel!"

The order was immediately executed, the engineer determined the route, the soldiers were prepared to dig, and the three units of the First Army were responsible for killing the enemy.

Thousands of soldiers excavated with all their strength, and the tunnel was quickly connected, and the soldiers who had been prepared immediately rushed into the tunnel.

The Carthage soldiers were caught off guard. In order to dig, they didn't wear armor or carry weapons at all, and they were tragically killed. The Carthage who was responsible for carrying the earth fled back in panic.

The legionnaire did not continue to pursue, but retreated to the rear, allowing the reserve soldiers to come in and block the tunnel.

After a while, the heavily armed Carthage soldiers came down the tunnel again.

The legionnaire hurried forward to meet the enemy again.

As a result, Carthage and Dionia were still intermittently attacking each other on the ground, but they were engaged in bloody frontal fighting under the ground.

This fighting continued throughout the day, with both sides sending soldiers into the tunnel.

In a narrow tunnel, the superior strength cannot be deployed, and it depends more on the individual ability of the soldier. In this regard, the superb assault skills of the soldiers of the First Army of Dionysia are obviously stronger than the opponent, plus the narrow tunnel It is more suitable for short weapons to play, so the Dionysian soldiers clearly have an advantage in the fight.

Based on this, Amintas did not hesitate to take turns in various units of the First Army.

Carthage’s army is not without soldiers who are good at using short swords. The Celtic warriors in Lusitania and northern Iberia are masters of this, but when Marco asked them to participate in this battle, these mountain races The chiefs firmly refused. They claimed that their soldiers were accustomed to standing on solid ground, fighting fiercely against the enemy in the hot sun, and hated to burrow into the dark and damp ground like mice.

When the Carthaginian soldiers and the Phoenician soldiers and the southern Iberian soldiers that Marco depended on were defeated from the tunnel again and again, he finally realized that in addition to the indigenous people of Iberia, the main force he depended on may be It is not weaker than the opponent in frontal combat, but it is obviously weaker than the opponent in the narrow space that depends more on personal ability.