Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 132: Strike the city of Rome (4)

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But from the early morning, the battle conditions were completely different from what Purlo Cassius had imagined.

The Dionians launched ten ballistas on the opposite bank and started firing stone bullets. When the stone bullets flew over the Tiber and fell into the Roman array, causing casualties, Cassius had to order the soldiers to disperse Retreat to a residential area 50 meters away from the embankment.

He thought: Even if the Dionians rush forward through the vertebral bridge, the Roman soldiers still have enough time to rush to intercept the enemy outside the city of Rome.

Dionia’s ballistas no longer attacked Roman soldiers hiding in their houses, and instead bombarded the four towers on both sides of the Quasi-quay bridge.

In each round of howling stone bullets, there are always two or three that can hit the tower. The roar really made Cassius worried, and he had to urgently order the archers stationed on the tower. Quickly withdraw.

His concern is correct.

After more than ten minutes, the two crumbling towers closest to the bridge finally collapsed... Then Dionia's ballista team focused on the two outermost towers.

Cassius and the soldiers watched one after another bombarding the towers, causing the four towers to finally fall, making a mournful roar, stirring up the dust, and the feeling of powerlessness in the heart can be imagined , They even hope that the Dionians will attack immediately and have close combat with them, so that they don't have to hear and see this terrible stone bombing.

However, when the Dionians had completely destroyed the towers, the high-altitude dominance occupied by the Romans, with their ballistas, they stopped using the ballistas.

The sudden silence of the battlefield puzzled the Romans.

At this time, Lizaru, the commander of the Third Army, who was standing on the opposite bank, said to Midorades, the commander of the Navy of the Third Fleet: "Other Army has already begun to attack the city of Rome, and we should also start preparing. "

"Don't worry, I will be able to build 20 pontoons for your legion soon. The crew can't wait!" After speaking, Midolades immediately rushed to the river bank on the west side of Shiiqiao.

There are trenches dug out of the river beach here, earth fortresses and wooden fences are built, and there are rows of tents inside, and 40 raven warships are neatly parked by the river, with their bows facing the river.

After Midolades gave the order, the crews of the warships immediately boarded the ships and took their positions.

Then, the soldiers of the Third Army also rushed over and worked together to push the ship into the river.

Immediately afterwards, these warships did not start rowing in a swarm. The first ship was next to the south side of the Roman vertebral bridge and rowed towards the opposite bank with all its strength.

After the sailors of the second ship smashed the warship horizontally, they tried their best to make the stern of the ship dock on the shore. For this reason, the siege battalion made a lot of long wooden poles for the sailors sitting on the left and right sides of the warship. Let them prop it to the bottom of the river to stabilize the impact of the current on the warship, keep its bow facing the opposite bank, and immediately fix its stern on the bank with wooden stakes and ropes.

In the sea, the small three-tiered paddle warship is as big as a dragon on the Tiber River. The raven warship with an average length of more than 50 meters is struggling to paddle by the sailors, and the bow of the ship soon touches. Arrived on the opposite bank.

The operators on the deck immediately dropped the anchor, while the sailors on the right side of the hull quickly pulled back the oars, and then drew out the long wooden poles that had been prepared in the bilge, leaning out the oar window, forcefully Resist the bottom of the river.

Since this section of the Tiber River is no more than 100 meters wide, the two boats have one bed stern on the north bank and the other on the south bank, so there is a natural overlap between the two boats. When the sailors of the second ship tried their best to move the bow closer to the stern of the first ship, the ship’s operators looked at the opportunity and lowered the suspension bridge.

The pointed nail at the head end of the drawbridge pierced the deck of the stern of the first warship. Although it made the captain and the sailors heartache, it connected the two warships together; the third and the fourth The same was done for the warships; the fifth and sixth warships... It didn’t take long before nearly 20 “pontoon bridges” were erected on the Tiber River on the west side of the Roman vertebral bridge. It is necessary to lower the suspension bridge close to the warship on the opposite bank and put it on the embankment, immediately connecting the north and the south.

Lizaru watched the whole process from the north bridge. He shouted for the third fleet to complete the planned plan cleanly. Of course he knew: Yesterday afternoon, Midolades led a dozen warships below the river port. The section of the river has undergone repeated tests and training, so it will have today’s success.

Looking at part of the soldiers of the Third Army on the river beach quickly dividing into twenty teams and already embarking on the ship, a trace of regret flashed in Lizaru's heart: Unfortunately, the Raven ship was unable to pass through the bridge because of its too high mast. Otherwise, a "battle ship pontoon" can be erected on the river on the east side of the bridge, which will force the Roman army on the opposite bank to expand the width of the defense and add more weight to the smooth attack of the army.

Lizaru sighed, and immediately turned his attention to the battlefield that was about to begin.

"Ulaza!" Lizaru turned to the first captain of the Third Army and said in a deep voice: "You lead the first brigade and pass through this bridge and enter the city of Rome. This is what I want from you. !"

Ulaza, the former leader of the small Lucanian tribe and a childhood friend of Baggul, became the senator of the Senate like Kesima and Lizaru a few years ago, but he Instead of choosing to work in a place, he continued to stay in the corps. Compared with Bagul, who has served as the chief executive of the key town of Dionia many times, he won Davers with outstanding performance in the position of chief executive of Kopsar. Kesimah, praised by the veterans, and Lizaru, who has served as the commander of the army and has repeatedly made battles. Ulaza is just a captain, and the light is too dim. The reason why he stayed in this position for five or six Years, because he likes to fight and is only good at fighting.

After listening to Lizaru’s order, Ulaza didn’t hesitate, but instead replied excitedly: "Legion commander, just look at it, the first brigade will open the door to victory for the legion!"

After that, he faced the soldiers of the First Battalion who were already in the line and shouted: "Warriors of Lucania, it's time to show your courage and ability to all the legions here and to your majesty! Kill the bridge! Go, destroy the enemy!"

The source of the troops of the Third Army mainly came from the Lucania area. The center of the Lucania area was Grumentum, but the soldiers of the First Brigade mainly came from Niutum, as the first to belong to Dioni In the town of Lucania in Asia, the Niutum people also followed Daves to fight early. Therefore, when the Third Army was established, most of its team officers were Niutum, which in turn prompted more Nigerians. The Utum people are more active in the army, so they have the most veterans and the richest combat experience. As the third corps with the strongest combat effectiveness, the First Brigade must naturally gather the best and strongest soldiers.

These Niutum soldiers were radiated with a strong fighting spirit under the order of the Niutum commander, shouting the name of Hades, and lined up in dense five-way columns (the Roman vertebral bridge’s The width can only accommodate five people side by side), stepped onto the vertebral bridge, and quickly rushed to the opposite bank.

When Dionia’s raven ship built a pontoon bridge, Cassius received an urgent return from the spies. Dionia’s peculiar attack method was beyond his expectation, and it also meant As Dionian’s army crossed the river to attack Rome from the north, Shiiqiao would no longer be the only way. He had to urgently summon the retreating Roman squadron and ordered them to rush to the embankment for defense.

And when a Roman squadron left the shelter of a residential area, facing the Tiber River, and into the open area, the ballista squadron on the opposite bank of the bridge immediately started firing stone bullets.

Although Cassius had expected this and let the army adopt a loose checkerboard formation to move forward quickly, stone bullets continued to fall into the center of the array, causing the terrifying death of the soldier who was hit. Not a small mess.

Cassius was not paying attention to the casualties caused by the ballista at the moment. He had already seen the Dionian soldiers on the opposite bank rushing along the vertebral bridge like a black tide, she shouted anxiously. : "Speed ​​up! Speed ​​up!..."

In fact, he didn’t need to remind him. The Roman soldiers not only saw the Dionian soldiers rushing on the Shiiqiao, but also saw the enemies that began to appear on the embankment... their homes were about to be invaded. ! Every Roman citizen, young and old, has a strong crisis in his heart at this moment. They speeded up their pace, braved the roaring stone bullets, rushed over, and ran into the first Dionia who had just rushed to the bridge. The soldiers of the brigade also ran into the other soldiers of the Dionian Third Corps who had just stepped on the embankment and barely lined up in a row, and intercepted them on the bank of the Tiber River.

At this time, the ballista team also had to stop firing, and let the soldiers of the two armies fight life and death on the opposite side...

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At the Chinese army camp in Dionia, scouts and messengers from all walks of life hurriedly rushed to the Chinese army camp, and then hurriedly left, summarizing the battles and enemy situations that took place here, and Communicate the new order...

"Report, the siege troops of the First Legion have arrived under the city and are starting to attack!"

"Report, the five siege towers of the Second Army have torn down the side of the trench, and they are carrying out a long-range suppression attack on the enemy at the head of the city. One of the siege towers was ignited by a rocket, and the surrounding soldiers are fighting the fire!"

"The newspaper, the 4th and 5th Army’s siege vehicles and Zhoushi chariots have been pushed to the bottom of the city and are destroying the city wall. The enemy has been restrained by the 4th and 5th Army’s siege. The siege equipment can effectively destroy!"

"Report, the soldiers of the Sixth Army have crossed the trenches and have begun to attack the city!"

"Report, the Third Army and the Third Fleet have..."

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