Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 221: Strike against Lola (2)

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At the same time, Aialos also noticed that the attack of the defenders at the head of the city was weakening. Obviously, the Lola soldiers who were defending at the head of the city had never suffered such a siege method, although in the long-range attacks on both sides, they Relying on the protection of the battlements, they still have the upper hand, but the increase in the number of injured also makes them feel a lot of pressure.

"The enemy is a little messy!" He smiled and said to Zantiparis, who was also in the back, observing the enemy's situation.

"This is a good thing, it can reduce the casualties of soldiers and people, but the hardest battle has yet to come." Zantiparis said calmly.

Aaloth understands what Zantiparis said is the most difficult battle-that is, the face-to-face fight after the close of the earth mountain and the city wall.

Compared with the lively battlefield of the South City, the outside of the West City Wall is much quieter.

First, hundreds of Campanian light infantry supported the flares made by the carpenters of Dionian, against the long-range attack of the defenders at the head of the city, came to the trench and opened the flares. Stand upright and let it stand diagonally to provide shelter for the light infantry. At the same time, they fired javelins and arrows from the gap between the shields from time to time to attack the defenders at the head of the city.

When the defenders were led by the control, the Onia heavy infantry pushed out the siege vans. We made this hollow wooden cart from the wood cut down from the mountain forest), just like what the soldiers of the Second Legion did when Daves led the army to storm Rome. Spliced ​​together, straight to the front of the trench.

Not only the Allied soldiers were surprised, but the defenders at the head of the city were also dumbfounded. They saw no people in the wooden cart, and the rocket could not ignite it, while the Dionia soldiers passed quickly in the carriage. The sack filled with soil quickly filled the trench that was not wide in front of him.

Then, one by one, the wooden carts continued to push forward until they withstood the city wall, thus forming two hollow passages formed by siege vans from the city wall to 40 meters away. The soldiers behind immediately carried them. A large log with an iron cone ram inlaid at the front end of the wood. This city rammer was passed by the soldiers and reached under the city wall. Six soldiers carried it and hit the city wall vigorously.

The hard hammer head violently hit the disrepaired stone wall. The stone was broken, the grout fell off, and the stone wall cracked...

The vibration of the city wall made the defenders at the head of the city panic. They stepped up their attacks, smashing stones and wood violently, splashing thin oil, and launching rockets...

Persevering, the vans closest to the city wall are specially made to be exceptionally strong. The craftsmen not only reinforced the entire frame, but also adopted a herringbone structure on the roof to facilitate unloading, and were tied with a bag of bags. The soil soaked with water is not easy to be ignited, so the soldiers can safely hit the city wall inside.

When the siege hammer broke through the outer stone wall, revealing the rammed earth layer inside, the soldiers picked up pickaxes and shovel, began to cut out the stones around the gap, enlarged the hole in the wall, and then continued to dig out The rammed earth inside...

The defense of the walls on the west and the south has already put a lot of pressure on the Lola defenders, who are not strong enough, not to mention that the coalition forces are also attacking on the east and north. In order to defend the city, the Lola people mobilized all the tribesmen who could fight in the city, including women, to defend the city.

South City has always been the fiercest battlefield. The battle lasted for half an hour. All the Dionian light infantry had sore arms that they couldn’t lift them up, and their fingers were wounded and bleeding because of their bows. The heavy infantry that formed the shield wall even worse More than 300 people were killed and injured, and the casualties of the people were also not small.

But the turning point finally appeared, and Lola's garrison ran out of javelins. In just half an hour, they threw thousands of javelins. In addition to the javelins thrown by the Dionians the other day in order to prevent the Dionians from building the earth mountain, all the javelins in the city have been used up, and the arrows have been used up. Almost consumed.

As for the javelin thrown by the Dionian light infantry, the tip is specially made. The iron rod connected to the tip is very thin. After hitting a hard object, it will bend and can no longer be thrown, but it can be used quickly. Disassemble the iron tip of the front end of the javelin, and then use the new tip to cover the wooden pole at the rear end, and it can be used again, but it is obviously impossible for the Lola Defender to do so.

So the defenders can only throw stones and wood at their opponents. Because Dionia’s shield wall is ten meters away from the city’s head, too heavy stones cannot be thrown, and those that can be thrown are more likely to be long shielded. Blocking, the threat to the Dionian heavy infantry is much smaller, the shield wall can continue to stabilize, and the people can drop earth bags more quickly.

Seeing that the valley was gradually being filled up, and the bag of soil had risen to the feet of the Dionian heavy infantry, they began to carefully move forward with their shields so that the people who followed could fill in the depression further ahead.

At this time, Aalos at the foot of the mountain is already gathering the 1,000 Campanian heavy infantry, ready to replace the army on the top of the mountain.

The sound of the bugle sounded, and the Dionian light infantry quickly withdrew to the foot of the mountain. According to Zanteparis’s plan, Aialos led the Campania heavy infantry into more than a dozen columns, separated them, and slowly marched towards the hill to facilitate the people and the Dionian heavy infantry to evacuate downwards. .

The Campania heavy infantry wears a Corinthian helmet and a large copper buckler. The field of vision is narrow and the movement is awkward. Climbing the mountain is a difficult task for them. Fortunately, the **** of the soil is gentle, which did not affect their march. Too much influence.

The Dionian heavy infantry lined up in a shield formation on the top of the earth mountain without the aid of light infantry, the more they moved towards the wall, the more violent the attack they suffered, and even some Lola fighters simply jumped over the wall and crossed the battlements. , Jumped to the dirt hill that had been almost filled, holding a spear, and directly attacked the Dionian heavy infantry.

During this long period of defensive battle, Lola’s garrison had already seen it clearly. These Dionian soldiers had no spears at all because they were holding shields in both hands, so Lola’s warriors went deep. Stepping on the uneven soil bag with one foot and a shallow foot, he directly knocked away the long shield with his body, and even knocked down the enemy, and then slammed the spear in his hand.

The shield wall formed by two columns of Dionian heavy infantry became fragmented. As the people fled down in panic, Dionian team officers shouted: "No retreat! Throw away! Drop a long shield and replace it with a short sword!!......"

In fact, the soldiers did not need to shout. These reserve soldiers from the Lukania Mountains had suffered long-range attacks from the enemy before, and they watched hundreds of casualties of their comrades. The direct attack caused dozens of deaths and injuries... They were all Lucanians who grew up after the establishment of the Kingdom of Dionian. Although the cultural integration of the kingdom weakened their wildness, military training allowed them to understand the team. Cooperating with the friendship of comrades-in-arms, with the anger of revenge for their comrades, they armed with short swords and long shields and fought fiercely with Lola's garrison.

However, the bugle of Dionia representing the retreat was sounded at this time.

Although the soldiers were unwilling, they had to obey orders.

And the Lola fighters did not continue to chase, because they saw the "tin tin cans" coming up, so they ran backwards and turned inside the city wall.

On this earthy mountain with a width of more than 50 meters, the heavy infantry of Campania slowly approached the defenders at the head of the city, gradually forming a dense formation, separated from the defenders by a battlement, although the lance can easily It stabs the enemy, but cannot use the charge and impact that heavy infantry is good at, and its power is reduced a lot. The bugle of the city's attack continued to sound, and the Campania heavy infantry on the Tushan Mountain, under the leadership of Ealos, began to fight fiercely with the enemy.

To be honest, in these years Campanias fought with Samonais, and there is rarely such a good opportunity to fight face-to-face, because Samonas always use javelins to throw first, killing and wounding Campania soldiers, and then Retreat and lure them to chase. During the retreat, they took advantage of the opponent's slow-moving weakness and repeatedly attacked with the javelin until the opponent's formation was completely chaotic, and then sent a infantry to intrude and completely defeat the opponent.

This set of tactics has been tried and tested repeatedly, and the successive failures have made the Campania people terrified, making them afraid to go out of the city for field battles, and today finally had the opportunity to avenge the shame, the Campania soldiers roared loudly. The stabbing guns were poking at the enemy forcefully.

As the defender of the city, Lola’s garrison, of course, could not adopt the effective guerrilla tactics in the past. They could only face the enemy head-on. They blocked the armored soldiers in front of the battlements, followed by lightly armed infantry, in the walkway of the city. Also formed a dense formation to counter the Campania heavy infantry. In order to be able to contend with the enemy, they also drew part of the defenders of the Western Wall, because they believed that the battle on the west was relatively calm, and even if there were not many defenders, they were enough to deal with it.

But shortly after some of the defenders of the Western Wall were transferred away, bad news came out: The Western Wall had collapsed in two places.

This is all the credit of the Dionian soldiers in the siege van. They took out the stone wall and rammed earth at the lower end of the city wall, destroyed the foundation of the wall, and caused the already weak city wall to collapse due to gravity and scattered. The stones that came out even injured a few Dionian soldiers who were too late to retreat.

The loud noise of "rumbling" and the morning mist that rose into the sky not only shocked the Lola defenders, but also made the Campania soldiers dumbfounded. They originally saw the uniqueness of the Dionian soldiers. The slow, slow siege method hasn’t seen any movement for so long. I can’t help but despise it. I think it’s time-consuming and labor-intensive. Some soldiers even said disdainfully: "They say that the Dionians are fighting bravely. Look They are also afraid of death when they come, only knowing to hide in a wooden box!"

And now the tragic experience of the city wall gave them a resounding slap in the face. They certainly don’t know: In the various military camps in the Kingdom of Dionia, not only will soldiers build a section of wall during training to exercise their fortification ability, but they will also exercise how to break through this section in the next training. The city wall, so Dionian soldiers are not digging randomly, but purposely and efficiently destroying the structure of the city wall.