Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 137: Strike the city of Rome (9)

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Compared with Dionia's light infantry, the more threatening to the defenders at the head of the city is the siege tower.

Every time the abdominal bow is fired, all the arrows hitting them are terrible, making the defenders facing the siege tower frightened and retreating one after another, causing a few small open spaces to appear on the crowded city.

Of course, as the siege tower advances, the elevation angle between the abdominal bow and the city head increases, and the abdominal bow cannot be raised, making it impossible to accurately shoot to the city head and the threat is greatly reduced, but the army at the top of the tower But the javelinmen began to exert their power. They relied on the protection of the wooden fences, condescendingly, and threw heavy javelins at the city. This kind of javelin is no better than an arrow. The Roman heavy infantry is stabbed and will also be injured, forcing them to raise their shields and be careful. Roman archers also shoot at the top of the siege tower to attack these unarmored Dionian beacons. Gunman.

The suppression of the city head by the siege tower caused the defenders of this section of the city wall to weaken their attacks on the Dionian soldiers attached to the ant-attacking city. To drive down the city, the Roman soldiers would have to pay two or three times the cost of casualties.

Now the greatest danger is coming, the siege tower is already slowly approaching the wall. Even though the Roman defenders kept throwing tar cans at it, constantly lighting the tower, and even turning into a sea of ​​flames on its way forward, nearly a hundred members of the Dionian squadron were in the siege tower. Behind the side and rear of the tower, under the cover of the wooden shed extending outside the tower, while constantly using sand to extinguish the burning kerosene on the ground, while pushing the siege tower forward forcefully, even if someone was injured or even fell from time to time, there was nothing Shake their determination to complete the task.

In the end, this behemoth finally reached the wall.

"Get out of there! Get out of there!" Due to the critical situation, Scipio personally came to command. He yelled anxiously when the soldiers were still crowded by the battlements.

Just as the Roman soldiers retreated to both sides, the wooden iron-clad bridge tied to the top of the siege tower crashed down and landed on the battlements, knocking the Roman soldiers still below to the ground.

Scipio had no time to heartache the soldiers who were overwhelmed by the wooden bridge. He yelled: "Fire oil! Quickly throw the fire oil!..."

Actually, the Romans did not expect to be attacked by a large army in advance, and there was no large amount of tar stocked in the city. In the past two days, almost all the tar used for lighting in the homes of the Romans was raided, and the battle has been consumed until now. It was almost there, and the Romans had to urgently transport olive oil for consumption.

"Boom! Boom!..." Dozens of clay pots were smashed up.

But at the same time, the soldiers of the Dionian Second Legion who had been prepared in the tower already shouted the name of Hades, and quickly rushed up the wooden bridge from the siege tower, and they moved forward. Chong, while using a long shield to shoot down the flying clay pot.

Of course, some soldiers were splashed with olive oil, and then unfortunately hit by a flying torch, and instantly turned into a fire man. He screamed bitterly, but at this moment his comrades would not stop. To save him, instead of turning his vigorous fighting spirit into full of anger, he was not afraid of the densely erected spears in front of him, blocked the long shield in front of his chest, jumped down from the bridge, one by one, like a mountain on the top of the mountain, and resolutely jumped in. In the dense array of Roman soldiers, ignoring the gunshot wounds on their bodies, they waved the short swords in their hands and stabbed the surrounding enemies like lightning.

Although the Roman soldiers who were temporarily recruited had begun to adapt to the atmosphere of the battlefield at this time of the battle, and inspired by the belief in defending their homeland, they had diminished their fear of death, but they were either too young and lacked combat experience, or They are too old and lack physical strength, and these soldiers of the Second Dionian Army are elite, all like tigers, and they messed up the array of Roman defenders. Most of the screams came from the defenders. .

Fortunately, Scipio had already anticipated this. Most of the 3000 young Roman soldiers who had stayed in Rome were placed in the defense of the southern city wall, and 1,000 of them were used as mobile forces to deal with it. Unexpected situation. At this moment, he mobilized 400 strong soldiers to line up the gun formations at both ends of the aisle at the head of the city, and drove the Roman soldiers in front to squeeze inward together, attempting to attack the Dionian soldiers who rushed to the head of the city by pinching back and forth. Annihilate.

Who knows, the Dionian soldiers with rich combat experience ignored their own casualties and relied on crazy offensives to expand the space at the head of the city. The subsequent Dionian soldiers braved the increasing fire and kept rushing to the city. Head... While they are attacking, they are also quickly forming a battle.

When the old and weak Roman soldiers in front were wounded, killed, and retreated, and when the strong and strong Roman soldiers faced the enemy directly, the Dionian soldiers had already stood on the top of the city with more than 60 people. , They formed a shield formation, the attack before and after the defense, like a rock pierced the head of the city.

Sepia sees this situation, although he is anxious, but he also understands that it will not be able to solve the battle in a short time. Fortunately, the siege tower has already ignited a big fire, and it is even a great threat to the defenders. All the javelinmen on the top of the tower withdrew, and it was already impossible for an enemy to use it to rush to the top of the city. This gave him some comfort.

But soon, his mood fell to the bottom again: "General Scipio! Over there... the siege tower over there is about to approach the wall!"

Great Scipia quickly led another 400 strong soldiers rushing over.

This time he decided to learn his lesson and let these soldiers directly guard the head of the city where the siege tower was approaching, blocking the enemies rushing from the tower, and would never give them a chance to stand on the head of the city.

But by going back and forth like this, he found that the strength of the defending city was already a little nervous.

At this time, the messenger who rushed to finally brought him good news: the Senate sent more than 1,400 reinforcements.

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Martonis, who had been watching the battle in the distance below the city, sighed at the burning siege tower, and soon he was excited about another siege tower approaching the city wall

"Quickly, send another company up! This time we will not only rush to the top of the city, but also break through the enemy's interception, and clear the obstacles for the other soldiers to climb to the top of the city!"

"Leader, we...have no company to send." The adjutant reminded embarrassedly from the side.

"What?! It was not just now—" Matonis looked back in amazement.

There are many people not far behind him, but more than half of them are engineers and craftsmen. They are still busy rushing to make siege equipment; there are also some people who are in the heavy camp, they are not only responsible Push the made siege equipment, and at the same time carry some wounded soldiers back on the way back; there are also doctors and nurses from the medical camp, they carry out the tense battlefield treatment of the wounded soldiers...

Martonis looked at the **** battlefield ahead again.

The dozens of arrow vehicles in front of the trench were burned a lot, and the rising smoke obscured most of the view; the frequency of light infantry firing arrows at the city’s head was much slower than before, I’m afraid They also feel tired.

Under the city, the heavy infantry of the Second Army squatted on the ground, hiding their entire body under the long shield, and looked at them in a daze, as if the land under the city was black with a dark light; There is only one ladder standing up like a big tree, leaning against the city wall, and then the Dionian soldiers crawling on it dye the dusty city wall into a strip of underworld, and soldiers are constantly falling above it. When it fell, soldiers continued to replenish it below; from time to time, a ball of flames rose under the city, mixed with screams, making Matonis' heart tensed every time.

Three of the five tall siege towers have been burned down, and one of them passed through the trenches, because some sandbags were not compacted, causing the siege towers to crush the planks and the axles to break and sink into it, unable to move forward. As a platform for the abdominal bow and javelinmen to attack...

In the sharp eyes of Matonis, he also saw some wounded soldiers struggling hard under the shield of the shield formed by the soldiers in the city. They were too badly injured to move to the rear and were being overwhelmed. Smooth out.

Matonis thought of the dozens of soldiers surrounded by the city again, and began to worry: If the city of Rome cannot be captured today, the soldiers who cannot retreat above and below the city will have a tragic fate!

Thinking of this, he put aside Daves’s words before the war, "We must save strength and reduce casualties in order to deal with the next battle", and said loudly: "Let the trumpeters give me more effort. Blow the offensive bugle and urge the soldiers to step up their offensive! And...hurry back to the camp and tell your Majesty that I request another heavy infantry brigade!"

"Legislative commander." The adjutant reminded: "I was notified earlier that four brigades had been sent to stop the reinforcements from Rome. There are only two brigades left in the camp. I'm afraid--"

"Don't be fussy, go!" Matonis shouted irritably with red eyes.

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At this time, in the Great Tent of the Chinese Army, Daves had just received the scout's return: The report said that there were nearly 2,000 troops ten miles southeast of the city of Rome, marching northward quickly.

Davos immediately looked at the map, and at the same time, the staff officer in charge of analyzing the enemy's situation, Clonius, also quickly made a judgment based on the previous intelligence: "Your Majesty, this is still the one from Prinister, Bonnet, Gaby, etc. The reinforcements of the Latin city-states."

He pointed to a place with a red dot on the map and said: "The target they are going to attack is most likely the Sixth Army!"

"Most of the soldiers of the Sixth Army are attacking the city..." Davos pondered for a moment, and said decisively: "Immediately send the heavy infantry brigade of the Fifth Army that stayed at the camp to stop!"

"Your Majesty!" Claudius reminded: "If this heavy infantry brigade is sent, there will be only one light armored brigade of the Second Army in the camp!"