Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 131: Strike the city of Rome (3)

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At first glance, Scipio and the soldiers were shocked, thinking it was a miracle!

But Scipio quickly understood and asked the guards to shout: "There are people in the car!! There are people in the car!!!..." This eliminated the soldiers' panic.

Scipio and the soldiers watched the nearly a hundred wooden carts enter the range of the bows and arrows, but they had no way to get them.

After a while, the front wooden car stopped in front of the trench, and the wooden cars behind were joined together, one by one, end to end, and soon they became five hundred meters long in front of the trench. The column of wooden carts extended beyond the range of the defenders’ bows and arrows.

There are a lot of panniers parked behind them. The panniers are full of sacks filled with soil made by the Dionian soldiers yesterday. Countless unarmored Dionian soldiers lined up. The sacks were passed forward one by one, and the soldiers in the wooden carriages did the same. Soon, one by one negative soil sacks were thrown into the trenches one after another.

This peculiar way of filling in trenches can't help but surprise the Roman soldiers in the city, but it makes them even more nervous.

Although Scipio didn’t know what these wooden carts were used for at first, he still ordered the soldiers to launch rockets at them out of intuition. Only a dozen of these wooden carts were covered on the roof. A thin layer of soil, and wrapped in soaked linen, is not so easy to be ignited.

At the same time, many arrow vehicles with a large wooden plank erected in the front are side by side. In the interval between the five wooden vehicle columns, they are advancing toward the city wall, and it is Dionia No. 2 who pushes them. The light infantry of the legion is blocked by wooden boards, and arrows can hardly hurt them.

These arrow vehicles were pushed to the front of the trench, forming a non-continuous wooden wall. Through the gaps between the planks, the Dionian light infantry fired arrows at the Roman soldiers at the head of the city.

Adorus is in a wooden car. Like other comrades, he is not wearing armor. This is to save energy and perform tasks more quickly.

Actually, Adoris didn't know how many sacks passed forward, and he felt very energetic.

At this moment, the team leader in front shouted: "Brothers, pay attention, push forward!"

Because the team officers had told the soldiers the plan of action before the siege, Adoris knew: The trench in front was filled, and the wooden cart in front would be moved over the trench to compact the ground, and then Lay wooden boards so that siege equipment can pass through the trenches.

Although the wooden cart is large, except for the roof and sides with wooden boards, the interior is hollow, which is not heavy, and the wheels of the wooden cart are double-wheeled so that it can jam against the wall instead of long. The axles are connected to both sides, ensuring that people and objects can pass through the middle of the wooden cart unimpeded.

Adonis and his comrades pushed the wooden cart forward together, and quickly connected to the front and rear wooden carts. Pieces of long planks passed quickly from the rear, passing by the hands of Adoris, and finally tamped in the trench. superior.

Then, the team officers organized the soldiers in the wooden cart to retreat quickly and orderly.

When Matonis in front of the siege array heard the news that "Adoris is intact and has retreated with other soldiers" from his subordinates, he breathed a sigh of relief and gave the adjutant an order: "Yes. Let the heavy infantry attack!"

"Thanks, brother, it's our turn!" The Legionnaires who passed by Adoris and his comrades said vigorously.

"May Hades bless you!" Adoris and the others offered their blessings to their comrades, and then began to put on their armor, while looking at the heavily armed Legionnaires with envy: some carried a ladder, some held a ladder The shield spears lined up in a two-way column, quickly entered the passage composed of wooden carts, and then quickly appeared under the opposite city, and the siege war began.

When Matonis saw the ladder hanging over the wall in front of the city and the hedgehog gathering the Second Legion soldiers under the city, he couldn't wait to give another order: "Let the Siege Tower attack!"

Under the loud yelling of the messenger, many soldiers rushed forward. Their task was to push the wooden cart in the front into the trench, so as to provide more access to the trench for subsequent troops’ siege, and at the same time It also cleared obstacles for pushing large siege equipment to the city.

Because some wooden carts have been ignited by rockets, the soldiers had to expend more effort when pushing them away. After the wooden cart was pushed away, what was exposed was a road leading to the city wall that was tamped to be very smooth.

The Great Scipio commanded the soldiers to attack the Dionian heavy infantry attached to the city, and at the same time attack and defend the Dionian light infantry behind the arrow car in front of the trench. He was unable to stop the man pushing away from the wooden cart, and he was also a little puzzled by the seemingly superfluous actions of the Dionians.

It didn't take long before he saw five towering, huge wooden towers appear in the distance. They seemed to be higher than the city wall, and they were slowly approaching the city wall.

He was as shocked as the soldiers around him. During his long career, he participated in the siege many times. The most difficult one was undoubtedly the attack on Wei Ai, which lasted for nearly ten years. Although it was difficult, it was also rich. His experience in siege and defense, but today, Dionian’s novel siege methods have made him feel a little nervous, and the super siege towers that have appeared today completely shocked him and the Roman soldiers. After all, the surrounding forces he had faced in the past had military technologies that were either lagging behind Rome or comparable to Rome. The Kingdom of Dionian clearly crushed Rome in this regard. This reflected the gap in civilization and made the West Pia felt a sense of powerlessness mentally, but he quickly cheered up and shouted: "Prepare the rocket! Burn it with fire!"

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The Dionian engineering team was able to build five siege towers in one day, not only because of the large number of production staff, but also because Daves had already considered the needs of the siege before setting off, and asked them to Some key components of the siege equipment were made and carried with the army, such as: the wheels, axles, pulleys, and L-shaped iron frames used to fix the wood connection that are the most difficult to make in the siege tower. This made engineers and carpenters in the past One and a half days can save time and complete production tasks.

Compared with Siracusa’s siege tower, this siege tower is very different. Its frontal width is less than three meters, which is exactly the same width as the wooden cart, so it can pass through them smoothly. The smoothed trench communicates with the section, and its rear obliquely descends, presenting a right-angled trapezoid. The wooden ladder is placed outside, allowing the soldiers to enter all levels of the siege tower smoothly and quickly.

The siege tower is being pushed, and the wooden windows on the penultimate floor have been opened. An abdominal bow placed inside has opened the bowstring and put an iron arrow on it. Soldiers clasped their motives, and the iron arrows roared. He flew to the top of the city in an instant, pierced the chests of several Roman soldiers, and led them to the back of the city.

The power of the belly bow made the Roman soldiers facing the siege tower terrified. They had to be distracted to guard against this terrible murder weapon, and naturally they could not attack the Dionian soldiers who were climbing. If it hadn't been for the mobile troops deployed by the Great Scipio on the city, they would almost have the Dionian soldiers on the top of the city.

Before the Roman soldiers had time to catch their breath, the Dionian light infantry at the top of the siege tower began to throw arrows at the defenders at the head of the city, which had already entered range.

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While the Second Army was attacking, the Sixth Army soldiers located on the east side of the Second Army, led by the commander of the Second Army, led by Trotiras, also adopted the first Army’s siege method against the southern wall of Rome. An offensive was launched in the eastern section of the city, forcing the defenders there to have to deal with it with all their strength, and they did not dare to divide their troops to aid Scipio.

In the western section of the southern wall, the Fifth Army led by Geogris and the Fourth Army led by Oliver concentrated on attacking the southwest corner of the prominent Roman wall.

Dozens of ballistas have been bombarding this section of the city wall since yesterday afternoon. To this day, one-fifth of the ballistas have been damaged, but the two commanders did not hesitate to order to continue the attack from the early hours of the morning. , And concentrated on attacking the lower part of the city wall.

I was hit by a stone bullet for a long time, and the stones on the outer wall of the city wall shattered, and large pieces fell off. In some places, the thick rammed earth layer was exposed.

Then, the ballista team focused the target of the live bombing on the uppermost part of the city wall. Although some stone bullets crossed the city wall as a result, the stone bullets hitting the city wall caused the stone fragments to splash and attack the defenders at the front of the city. The danger was created and they had to retreat.

Dionia’s heavy infantry took the opportunity to carry the thickened long and wide wooden planks, rushed to the trench, and laid it on. The following heavy infantry carried the ladder, stepped on the wooden planks, crossed the trench and began to attack the city. , The ballista's attack also stopped.

In the attacking tide, there were also siege vehicles and boat lion vehicles. They were carefully pushed across the wooden bridge by the soldiers and rolled towards the walls that exposed the rammed earth...

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The entire city of Rome is surrounded by tall walls. There is only one place where there is no wall, that is, the Roman vertebral bridge to the north and a total distance of one mile from left to right, but in front of it is blocked by the wide Tiber River, and there are seven The eight-meter-high steep embankment serves as a barrier, but the Romans regarded it as the safest place.

Decades ago, in the two wars with Rome’s biggest enemy in the Tiber Valley, the Romans repelled the enemy’s attack by guarding the bridge.

This time, when the Dionians occupied the other side of the Shiiqiao, the former patrol captain Porlo Cassius, who was responsible for the defense of the north of Rome, was still preparing to adopt the same tactics.