Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 220: Strike against Lola (1)

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At the same time, Enona's administrative officials effectively managed a huge team of more than 20,000 old people, young people, and even women, and divided them into several groups. Some people trim the cut trees, lift them down the mountain, and place them in the place where the military camp engineer planned to build the earth mountain; the other people pile up the wood in a crisscross pattern, and gradually extend it upward toward the city wall; In addition, a group of people carried a basket of dug mud, filled it into a wooden base, and rammed it firmly.

Lola’s garrison saw the enemy make such a big movement on the southern city wall. While shocked, they were also a little curious, but they soon discovered that there was a mound about 50 meters wide in front of them. It was rising from the ground and swiftly approaching the head of the city, while the entire Muzha also moved forward.

Lola’s garrison did not launch a long-range attack on the enemy who is making a mound under the city, but the javelins and arrows they threw were either blocked by the wooden fence or blocked by the heavy infantry behind the wooden fence. There were also a few injured and fell to the ground, but they did not frighten the coalition people. Both the Campanians and the Naconians were deeply poisoned by the Samonais and hated them. The people's assistance in fighting will be recorded by the household registration officials, which will be of great help to the future development of the family in the kingdom, so they have invested in this project with great enthusiasm.

Lola’s garrison had no choice but to venture out of the city for several raids. They wanted to destroy the Mucha and the mound, but they were all repelled by the army led by the well-preserved Zanteparis. Not only did they fail to succeed, they let Ben The few defenders suffered considerable losses.

Lola's garrison could only watch the mound getting closer and higher. Not only did it approach the trench, but its highest height was almost equal to the city's head.

Zantiparis no longer needed Mucha, but directly sent more than a thousand Dionian heavy infantry and light infantry to stand on the hill, and shoot at a distance of more than ten meters from the defending army. .

Although there were many casualties on both sides, the Lola garrison, who had only one-tenth of the soldiers on the other side, couldn't bear this kind of consumption. They had to send messengers many times to urgently ask for help from the chief Segovanni.

In response to Zantiparis’s decision to "attack Lola city today", the commander general of the League of Campania, Aialos hesitated. Will the offense be too hasty at the time, do you want to wait another day?"

Zantiparis patiently explained to him: "Our Majesty Daves once said to the senior officers of the Kingdom of Dionia. He said,'When fighting a powerful enemy, don't Recklessly seek a decisive battle, but cautiously look for fighter opportunities, but once an important victory is obtained or the enemy reveals obvious weaknesses, it is necessary to continuously and quickly attack, not to give the enemy a chance to breathe, and completely disrupt the enemy’s situation. The entire deployment...',

Now that the main force of the Sammonite coalition is attracted to Beneventum, both Lola and Cesala have only more than 1,000 enemies stationed. They think they can defend for a long time with this number, but they obviously underestimate it. Our Dioria’s siege ability, we should take Lola City quickly before they react, so that the whole battle will be more beneficial to us.

In addition, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. So far we have been blessed by the gods. The weather has been pretty good in the past few days. It seems to be a sunny day today, but if there is a sudden heavy rain tomorrow, it is likely to wash away our dirt hills and let the soldiers and the people have a hard time. Heaven’s hard work was all in vain, and the key was also a missed opportunity, so we should take advantage of Hades's protection and hurry up to attack! ...Well, and...According to our usual experience in siege training, when Tushan is approaching the city wall, which is also the most difficult time, the enemy's defense will only be tighter. In order to speed up the progress and reduce the casualties of the people, we We must rely on a fierce attack to force them to reduce their attack on Tushan, so that our siege can be completed faster..."

Zantiparis carefully explained and persuaded the generals of the Campania League. Everyone agreed to launch an attack on Lola City today. The next step is to discuss the attack plan.

In this regard, Zantiparis had long considered: "Lola’s southern city wall is where the dirt hill is located, and is the focus of the offensive. I suggest using a heavy infantry brigade and a light infantry brigade from Dionia, plus Your 1,000 light infantry and 1,000 heavy infantry in Campania, a total of 4,000 people are focused on attacking here!"

Aalos nodded and said: "I agree with General Zantiparis. The two thousand Campania soldiers will be sent by us from Naples."

Zantiparis went on to say: "I suggest that the siege equipment made in the past few days is used to attack the walls of Lorasi. Since our Dionia soldiers can use these equipment proficiently, Dioni A heavy infantry brigade in Asia served as the main offensive, and another 1,000 Campania soldiers were added as auxiliary...The two walls of the east and the north would also have to arrange 2,000 soldiers to attack the city with long ladders to disperse the inner city of Lola. The few enemies weaken their defensive capabilities... In the end, there is still a Dionian light infantry brigade and 1,000 Campania soldiers. I suggest serving as a reserve team for the final raid."

As soon as Zanteparis finished speaking, Aialos said, "I think General Zanteparis’s plan is very good. Naples is willing to send 1,000 soldiers to attack the west wall together, and another 1,000 Neapolitan soldiers. Attacking the north, the remaining 1,000 Naples soldiers will be reserved as the reserve team according to General Zanteparis’s instructions, and the remaining vacancies will be filled by soldiers from your city-state.” Aialos brought him when he spoke to Zanteparis. With respect, he spoke to other Campania allied generals with a tone of command.

Zantiparis suddenly realized that Naples is the leader of the Campania League. As a military general, he did not think too much, but felt that Aalos was in charge of these Campania city-states. The general saved him a lot of tongue and a lot of time.

Once the plan is finalized, it will be implemented immediately.

The first to act was the coalition soldiers outside Lola's southern city. This is because the people are already prepared. They all carry sacks full of soil and are ready to complete the final closing of the soil mountain and the city wall. Of course, this is also the most difficult time.

It is said to be a soil mountain. In fact, it is a large inclined causeway. According to the design of Dionian engineers, its initial **** is only about 20 degrees, which is relatively gentle, extending from 40 meters away to the city wall. With wood as a support and tamped soil as flesh and blood, many soldiers stepped on it, neither slipping nor collapsing.

More than 200 Dionian heavy infantry, each holding a long shield in each hand, in two rows, mounted the Tushan Mountain and marched toward the city wall.

The defenders immediately launched a long-range attack on them, mainly with javelins.

The double-sided shields of the Dionian soldiers protected themselves tightly, but even so, there were still soldiers who were wounded by the javelin penetrating the long shield, and new heavy infantry would fill the array at any time behind them. The gap.

The light infantry behind the heavy infantry of Dionia also attacked the city. They were not only throwing javelins, but also shooting arrows. After all, the defenders of the city head were not as heavy as Dionia. The infantry has such a thick protection, although some of their soldiers also wear armor, but at least half of them are light infantry, bows and arrows can cause damage to them.

The heavy infantry reached the top of the earth mountain, squatted down, erected double-sided long shields, forming a densely arranged shield wall, the height of which was almost the same as that of the opposite wall, and the distance between the two sides was less than ten meters. The attack of the head defenders was naturally more fierce, and the return attack of the Dionian light infantry was also fierce, because they must suppress the attack on the city head and protect the safety of their comrades.

Within a distance of ten meters, the javelins and arrows staggered past, dense enough to collide in the air from time to time. There were constant screams from both sides, and soldiers fell to the ground injured.

On both sides of the Tushan Mountain, 1000 Campania light infantry also took advantage of the opportunity when the defenders were attracted by the Tushan Mountain. They quickly approached the trenches and attacked the enemies at the head of the city to ease the situation on the Tushan Mountain. Pressure from friendly forces.

At this time, the people carrying soil bags lined up in a column, bent over and bowed their heads, risking being hit by the javelin and arrows, and quickly ran to the top of the mountain.

On the top of the mountain, there is a gap between each Dionian heavy infantry and heavy infantry, and between light infantry and light infantry, thus forming a channel that can reach the top of the mountain. When the people reach the shield wall, the heavy infantry on both sides will raise the long shields with both hands, revealing a certain gap below, just for the people to push the soil bags down the mountain, and then the empty-handed people will return and run back down the mountain.

Countless bags of soil continued to roll down into the "valley" formed between the city wall and the earth mountain. The occasional wounded Dionian soldiers and Lola's garrison fell into the valley before they had time to climb out. Soon Buried by soil bags, it becomes a cornerstone of this man-made soil mountain.

On the hill, not only the people go up and down, the Dionian light infantry and heavy infantry are also constantly rotating due to their physical strength, injuries, and the addition of javelin arrows. Below the hill is the medical camp quickly giving The wounded people and soldiers provided emergency rescue.

Such a busy but relatively orderly tense scene was reflected in the eyes of the Naples commander Aalos in the rear. He couldn't help but sigh: The Dionians turned the tragic siege into a battle. Orderly, lively and efficient construction projects are not something that any Greek city-state can do. The military capabilities of the Kingdom of Dionian are terrible!