Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 213: Offensive and defensive battle in Xiliting camp (2)

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"Don't worry, Henney. It's Tolmeid's job to summon a general. If you take his job, he will be unhappy." Daves smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and said softly:" You have just served as my clerk, and you still need to adapt slowly. Now the first task I give you is—"

Henipolis immediately straightened his posture, waiting for Daves' order.

"Just have breakfast with me." Davers said narrowly.

"Ah! The enemy is about to attack, your majesty, you want to have breakfast?!" Hernipolis exclaimed with a bit of reproach and made the servant glance at him: that is, Hernipolis dared Speak to King Davos like this, and other generals are in front of Daves, who is not respectful!

Daves didn’t care. He motioned to the servant to have breakfast, then walked to the tent, looked at the weather outside, and said, “If you don’t eat breakfast, you can’t have the strength to fight the enemy. Maybe, now it’s outside. The soldiers are chewing bread and drinking hot soup to keep warm...A battle has its own laws and rhythms. We can neither be slow nor anxious. Only by mastering the rhythm of action can we better maintain the physical strength and morale of the soldiers. !"

Henipolis nodded seemingly.

Compared with the peaceful atmosphere in the larger tent, the atmosphere in the camp is tense. Because of the thick fog, it is impossible to see where the squadrons and company flags are. The team leader is very important. Not only must he gather the nine soldiers under him to check whether there are problems with their weapons and equipment, but also in the noisy camp. Recognize the shouts of the higher-level team officers, and then rush to meet up with the soldiers, and at the same time avoid being crowded out in the passages of people coming and going.

Pile of bonfires were lit one after another in the camp. It was not only to bring light to the foggy and gray weather, but also the chefs in the camp were cooking bread, gravy, and hot porridge for the soldiers of each unit. .

The reason why the soldiers of the Dionian regiment have not been rushed to the east side of the camp wall to defend against the enemy's attack is because the Syracuses have not yet appeared in the trenches. In the past few days, the Dionian soldiers have worked tirelessly. The 60-meter-long traps and deer villages laid in front of the camp hindered the enemy's rapid advance.

Just as the Syracuses were speeding up the elimination of these terrible traps under the cover of thick fog, nearly 40 ballistas from all the regiments were concentrated in the Dionian Central Army Camp, and they were soon in place. (These ballistas migrated with the camp on the north bank of the Neto River on the second day after the Dionian army surrounded Siriting.)

The 4th Corps Siege Battalion Ballista Corrector Kurdorod, who has more experience in the use of ballistas and has outstanding performance in the defensive battle of the inner city of Crotone, was appointed by Daves as the entire crossbow. Commander of the artillery unit.

At this moment, there is a vast expanse of white in front of Kurdorod, no suspicious target can be observed, and the distance cannot be judged. But Kurdolod is confident, and the data is always in his mind. How far is the ballista from the east wooden wall? How high is the wooden wall? How long is the trap area outside the camp? ...

He pondered for a while, and then began to give orders: "50 degrees elevation angle, five kilograms of stone bullets, back three blocks, get ready!"

The messenger quickly communicated the order to all the ballistamen in the area.

They immediately mobilized the pole of the ballista, lowered the chute, increased the elevation angle, and then shook the pulley. The powerful spring arm "creaked" and fixed, and the five kilograms of stone bullets were put into the smooth的槽内。 In the slot. Because of the limitations of handicrafts and materials, the 50-degree elevation angle is the maximum elevation angle that the Dionian Ballista can reach. In this state, the parabola of the stone ejection is high, but the distance is short. Back by three means that the spring group made of several twisted tendons is only half full. Five kilograms of stone bullets is the smallest weight of this type of stone bullet that the Dionian ballista can fire (the maximum weight is 15 kg, which is different from the Syracuse ballista, because Syracuse is located in Sicily. Frequent attacks on other city-states, so the ballistas have high destructive power on the city walls, and the ballistas are therefore larger and heavier, capable of shooting a talent-weight stone bullet (ie 26 kilograms) nearly 300 meters).

Kurdorod’s idea is: The fog, water, and cold weather in Xiliting in the morning have a great impact on the structure of the ballista, especially the spring set made of beef tendon, so use small Use weight stone bullets to warm up the equipment and test the enemy's main force at the same time. He estimated that the stone projectile would fall within 80-120 meters outside the trench. If the enemy attacked aggressively, then this area should be the most concentrated area of ​​the enemy. However, five kilograms of stone projectiles are usually fired and the range is often more than 500 meters, so he again It is to increase the elevation angle and to reduce the tension of the spring group, which is to achieve the range he wants.

The soldiers of the First Legion sat cross-legged on the ground, chewing on the bread, looking up and watching one stone after another being shot into the air and disappearing into the thick fog...

For a moment, the thick fog outside the camp suddenly felt like a frying pan, and a scream and exclamation sounded, completely confirming the fact that the Syracuse army had come.

"50-degree elevation angle, ten kilograms, one step back, prepare!" Kurdorod, a student of the once gentle and elegant Dionian Academy, gained a murderous look on his body after the influence of war. The news of the artillery team's first hit did not make him cheer like his men. He continued to calmly give orders.

Yesterday, the First Dionian Corps was bombarded by nearly a hundred ballistas and abdominal bows in Syracuse in the town of Meyaro. In the same way, with color, retribution really comes too fast.

Dionysius didn’t want to use ballistas to fight back, but the ballistas he brought with him were taken to the camp on the Tacinadi River because they were going to attack the inner city of Crotone. As a result, the battle failed. Regarding escape, all the siege equipment was abandoned in the camp and fell into the hands of the Dionians. Originally, relying on his nearly 1,000 engineers, craftsmen and apprentices, it was not a problem to reproduce dozens of ballistas in a short period of time, but there was a key ballista component that the Syracuses could not produce immediately. That is the ballista spring set made of beef tendon. They were surrounded by the Dionians in the city. Few people kept cattle and sheep in the city, and most of the army’s pack animals were lost in the Tacinadi River Camp. What's more, even if there are cattle in the city, they are now killed. It takes many processes to take beef tendon, and it takes nearly half a year to produce a qualified spring set. Therefore, Dionysius gave up making ballistas and concentrated on manpower to make other equipment.

At this moment, thousands of Syracuse slaves and freedmen are seizing the time to destroy traps and deer villages, and then flatten the ground and pave the planks. Suddenly, stone bullets fell into the crowd, and their heads were cracked. , Blood splattered.

In fact, because of the high parabola of the stone bullet, it rarely bounces after landing, causing a total of more than 20 casualties, but every **** tragedy scared the people around him, Syracuse’s It took a lot of effort for the team officials to barely stabilize their emotions.

Since they have been spotted by the Dionians, the Syracuses will no longer hide them, and they have begun to push out the siege equipment one by one out of the city. In order to make them, the Syracuses stripped off almost all the houses in Siriting City, collected door panels, timber, and even cut down the trees in the harbor...

The largest equipment manufactured here is undoubtedly the nearly six-meter-high movable tower. In order to allow these towers to be transported out of the city, Dionysius decisively ordered his men to organize a manpower to pull out a small section of the city wall secretly until yesterday. It was late to completely turn it into a passage from inside the city to the outside.

The reason Dionysius dared to do this was because he realized that after getting the police from Lockley, he realized that the cunning Dionians built camps and besieged Sirition, not to siege the city. Instead, it blocked Syracuse’s army and turned to attack Syracuse’s weak allies. In order to achieve this insidious goal, the young Daves even used the peace talks to paralyze himself (of course, he naturally ignored that Syracuse was also using the peace talks to delay time)!

Syracuse certainly cannot allow Dionia to successfully fulfill their plan. Now that the Dionian army turns to attack the League of Lokri, the number of troops stationed in the large camp outside Siriting will naturally decrease, and the Dionians have also built a huge military camp that stretches for ten miles to surround Siriting. Divided Dionia’s forces...

Davos's "arrogant arrogance" showed Dionysius a good opportunity to defeat the Dionian army. In the past few days, the Syracuse soldiers have gradually recovered from their failures, and he has also spent a lot of energy persuading the tens of thousands of freedmen and slaves to join the ranks of soldiers with expectations. "Give freedom, give citizenship, give land..." These methods were not only done by Dionian, but also by Siracusa, but before, they were mainly aimed at mercenaries, and this time Dionysius wanted to defeat Dionia, out of danger and expanded the scope of application, of course, the most important reason for them to take up weapons is that everyone wants to return to Sicily alive smoothly.

So when Dionia’s nearly two thousand light infantry rushed to the wooden wall and began to throw countless arrows out of the foggy camp, causing many Syracuses to be injured and killed, they panicked. , But no major chaos has appeared, and the task of sweeping defense facilities can basically continue. The trap zone with a length of less than 100 meters was quickly filled up with the intensified efforts of tens of thousands of people.

Then, these freedmen and slaves evaded the rain of arrows and stone bullets, retreated hurriedly, followed the guidance of the shouters, and came to a place a few hundred meters away from Camp Dionia, where thousands of people stood there. The Syracuse civic soldiers formed a course more than one mile long, and piles of crude spears and wooden shields were placed on the ground in front of them.