Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 143: Strike the city of Rome (15)

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Although their number is less than a thousand people, their offensive methods make the light armoured brigade staying behind the camp a bit in a hurry.

Because the time left for the Dionian army was too hasty yesterday, the soldiers only built large camps and trenches, and did not set up deer villages and traps in front of the camp. As a result, the Latin reinforcements were divided into multiple teams. The direction is close to the camp, standing in front of the trench, and launching rockets into the camp.

A Chinese army battalion with three infantry regiments and two cavalry regiments covers a large area. A light armored battalion with only 700 men cannot be fully protected, so there are tents from time to time. Being ignited, they forced them to separate their hands and run back and forth to fight the fire, because once the fire became bigger and part of the camp was burned, so that the soldiers who were attacking the city could see it, it would inevitably affect their fighting spirit.

As a result, the manpower to defend the camp is even more inadequate.

Davers urgently dispatched hundreds of heavy camp laborers to assist in the fire fighting, and at the same time he sent a hundred court guards as mobile troops for the camp's defense. Only then did he barely cope with the current situation.

The siege battle has been going on for nearly four hours now, but there is still no breakthrough progress. Davers sat in the big tent, still watching the staff make gestures on the map with a calm expression.

Henipolis, who was originally recorded on the side, seemed a little anxious at the moment, walking back and forth in the tent.

Davers had to say: "Heney, sit down quickly, don't walk around, it makes me dizzy."

Henipolis said anxiously: "Your Majesty, more and more enemies are attacking the camp. Even in the east of Rome, enemy reinforcements have appeared, threatening the camp of the First Legion... Now we are around. They are all enemy reinforcements. There are no more troops available in the camp, and the legions are still blocked under the city, and the soldiers have suffered a lot of casualties. If this stalemate continues, if it is impossible to capture the city of Rome before dark, I am Worry...I am worried..."

Daves waited for him to vent his worries, and then slowly said: "Except for Turíy, Rome can be said to be the largest city on this peninsula, even if its main force is not here, if you want to capture it Nor will it be easy.

It’s not that our various legions have made progress. You’ve heard it all just now. More than a hundred soldiers have already attacked the city’s head by using the siege tower and gained a firm foothold; the Third Legion has also taken over. The bridgehead on the south bank of the Roman Bridge is expanding its attack range; the Fourth Army used a siege vehicle to collapse the city wall, and the soldiers have penetrated into the gap and were temporarily blocked under the city...

We are playing a tug-of-war match with the Romans. The Romans have tried their best to be able to stalemate with us, but this burst of power is impossible to last. We are increasing our strength. Pull the red rope over a little bit until it completely overwhelms the power of the Romans, at that time they will inevitably collapse! "

Davers clenched his right fist, waved hard, and said confidently: "As for the reinforcements from Rome--"

"Your Majesty, good news! Master Epithenis led 4,000 soldiers to the battlefield and cooperated with Master Tolmeide to completely defeat the Roman reinforcements in the southwest. The 1st and 2nd Cavalry Regiments are chasing the routs. Ermid and Epithenis-sama are coming with an army!"

"Great!" Hernipolis, who had a sad face, is now full of joy.

The staff in the big account all applauded and celebrated.

Daves’s face also showed a smile: “Immediately notify Tormid and Epithenis, let them send a heavy infantry group to the defensive camp, and other troops rush to the rear of the Second Army to gather. , Waiting for my order!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Acinarus quickly went out to inform the messenger. He quickly returned to the tent and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, the scouts report back, part of the Sixth Army and the First Army have attacked. Chengtou!"

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On the surface, the First Army and the Sixth Army used conventional siege methods, but Davers once suggested that they try to climb the city with a rope hook.

Climbing the city with a rope hook. This is the first method of siege invented by Daves. It was originally used this method to capture Amendorara and gain a foothold in Great Greece for the mercenaries. As Dionia became stronger and stronger, various siege weapons were manufactured, and the method of siege became more and more perfect. This simple but huge help to the mercenaries has long been forgotten to the corner.

However, Daves did not forget, because considering that there may be a lot of siege battles after the army arrived in Latham, he specially sent people from the corner of the armory to collect dozens of dusty sets. The magic hook was taken out, re-sharpened and fitted with a rope, so as to be prepared.

Amintas has always admired offense and likes to take risks, so he accepted Davers's advice without hesitation. The commander of the Sixth Army, Trotiras, was also a member of the mercenary of the Persian Expedition. Turri, who came with Daves, has grown from an ordinary soldier to a legion commander, and his combat experience is not uncommon. It is not bad either. Of course he will not allow his army to be mediocre in this significant siege.

Both of them understand that in order to succeed in the "rope hook climbing", they must blind the enemy's sight and carry out a surprise attack. Otherwise, once discovered, it will increase a lot of casualties, so they both hooked on the rope. The place to climb the city was set at the southeast corner of the city of Rome.

Like the southwest corner, the city wall protrudes for a while, but unlike the southwest corner, it was folded a few times to form a small sharp corner, but it was far away from the several city gates in Rome. , The tortuous city wall is easy to block the line of sight and is not easy to be found.

So in order to achieve this goal, Trotiras asked the Sixth Army soldiers to concentrate on the wall between the Esquili Gate and the Vimina Gate, which is about 400 meters away from the southeast corner.

Amintas was even more ruthless, letting the soldiers of the First Legion storm the wall between Capitoline Mountain and Quirino Mountain, which was two miles from the southeast corner.

Tro Tiras is going to let his light armoured brigade complete this task. After all, their lighter attire is easy to crawl. For this reason, he also left two heavy infantry brigades in the base.

Although the camp of the First Army is far away from the Chinese army camp, Amintas boldly left only a heavy infantry group in the camp, and asked more than 700 mountain reconnaissance group soldiers who remained in the camp to carry out this Task.

However, after careful observation of the terrain, Trotiras discovered a problem: Although the southeast corner of the city wall is relatively remote, the Roman city wall is very high, and the soldiers on the city can see far below the city. , If the Dionian soldiers performing this task want to get close to the city wall, even if they don’t carry siege equipment, they will arouse the enemy’s suspicion and take precautions. After thinking about it, he decided to let the soldiers do this...

After Daves learned about Trotiras's idea, he was applauded, so the 6th Army's rope hook climbing plan was quickly established.

Originally, there were defenders on the southeast corner of the city, but over time, the continuous fierce offensive of the First and Second Army made the Roman generals in charge of the defense feel that their forces were tight, and they had to transfer other sections of the wall. The soldiers strengthened their defenses, and of course the defenders on the southeast corner who had been doing nothing were also within the range of being transferred.

It didn’t take long for the defenders of the nearby city to see: hundreds of Roman auxiliary soldiers in the distance to the southeast were being chased by Dionian soldiers, fleeing towards Rome in panic, although they occasionally had their soldiers The enemy caught up and stabbed, but most of the defeated soldiers crawled through the trench with difficulty and came to the southeast corner of the city. Perhaps because they were afraid of being attacked by the city’s defenders, the hundreds of Dionian light infantry stopped. In pursuit of the footsteps, but unwilling to stop and stare in the distance.

The garrison soldiers who saw this situation were guessing which Latin city-state these Roman auxiliary soldiers came from (most of the Roman auxiliary soldiers were served by citizens of the Latin Confederate States).

Because the enemy is attacking the city, it is of course impossible for the defending soldiers to allow these routs to enter the city, and the fighting is fierce, and they are not allowed to have more leisure to pay attention to the lives and deaths of these allies, but the appearance of these routs shows Rome Their reinforcements are fighting the enemy in places they can’t see, which has somewhat motivated the morale of the defenders.

But they didn’t know that these Roman auxiliary soldiers were dressed up by Dionian soldiers. They put on the armor and equipment of Roman soldiers obtained by cleaning the battlefield after the victory of the battle two days ago, thus deceiving them. After receiving the attention of the defenders, they successfully came to the southeast corner of the city. They avoided the sight of the defenders, connected the ropes wrapped around their bodies, and put on the hooks. Dozens of rope hooks were quickly completed.

The war is still going on. The Roman soldiers resisted the enemy’s attack with difficulty, and gradually forgot the existence of the broken soldiers. Occasionally, the corner of their eyes swept across the southeast corner of the city and saw dozens of them. The “Roman soldiers” garrisoned, all thought they were sent by the neighboring defenders, and did not attract attention. Great vigilance, after all, they did not carry any siege equipment, not to mention that there were soldiers stationed in the city.

But after a while, they discovered that something was wrong: Dionian soldiers began to appear in the southeast corner of the city, and more and more, those "Roman soldiers" did not fight the enemy!

The two defending generals, Marcus Attilius and Barbus Fabbia, were shocked when they heard the bad news. The situation was extremely urgent. Even though their forces were tight, they urgently put together one. The troops, led by two generals personally, rushed to the southeast corner of the city wall from the west and south, vowing to drive the enemy down the city.