Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 336: Tunnel battle

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Amintas was stunned. He heard this great idea just now, and he patronized with excitement, forgetting that the Carthaginians also had ballistas.

Calcidis apparently considered this issue. He calmly said: "The Carthage ballistas are indeed worthy of our attention, but in fact the accuracy of their ballistas is not very high, and we still You can find ways to overcome it, such as...cover a tight fishing net on the outside of the wooden city wall, or fill enough soil between the wooden frames...

In addition, since the city wall is made of wood, can we let the engineering camp make a frame in the city like the outposts we can build for the camp, and wait for the construction of the Carthaginian soil mountain to complete At that time, we moved the frame of the wooden city wall to the city wall and quickly completed the construction, and then suppressed the Carthaginians from a high position, and suddenly killed and wounded the Carthage light infantry on the hill, making the Carthaginians spent so much time in vain. If they want to regain the initiative to build the earth mountain, they have to rebuild a larger foundation to build a higher earth mountain, which will take more time..."

"Good idea! This is indeed a good idea!" Amintas laughed hahaha: "I can't wait to see the Carthaginian proud face, but suddenly turned into a disappointed face. Aristonos, you immediately call the engineers from the engineering camp and ask them to survey this city wall, and then follow Calcidis’s suggestion to create such a wooden city wall for me to resist Katai. Attack of the base man!"

"Yes, Lord Commander." Aristonos immediately turned and went down town.

Not long after, the slingers in the light infantry brigade arrived at the head of the city. Following the instructions of Amintas, they began to attack the Carthage heavy infantry under the city. The egg-sized heavy lead pellets were at a short distance. When hitting the helmet inside, the impact generated can make people dizzy, and hitting the breastplate makes people painful...

Soon, the orderly long dragon lined up by the Carthaginians became chaotic. The soldiers ignored the obstruction of the team officers and threw down the wooden baskets, calling and jumping to avoid the constantly flying lead pellets. Began to flee back in embarrassment.

The attack of the slingers worked.

But not long after, the Dionian soldier at the head of the city suddenly shouted in panic: "Be careful! Flying stones!..."

Amintas suddenly saw countless small black spots flying on the inner wall of the Carthage camp 100 meters away.

The Dionian soldiers at the head of the city were nervous now. They hurriedly lifted their long shields to form a shield wall to provide shelter for themselves and the slingers.

Amidst a painful voice, Amintas gritted his teeth: "It must be a slinger from Balearic!"

After the main army landed in Sicily, Leonid Zides mentioned to Daves and other high-ranking generals of Dionia that Carthage had thousands of Balearic slingers, the only one with slingers Amintas also asked about the opponent's combat effectiveness with concern at the time, but he didn't expect to experience it personally in Silinus.

Of course, the first legion slingers will not be outdone to fight back. Numerous lead shots are constantly staggered in this piece of air. Other soldiers at the head of the city can evade with long shields, but the slingers are others in the process of slinging stones. It is impossible to provide them with protection, so people keep getting injured.

After all, the number of Dionian slingers was small, and gradually they could not be supported. In order to preserve their strength, Amintas had to replace them out of the city, so soon he saw the Carthage heavy infantry again. Rows of long dragons, carrying wooden frames, began to pile up dirt mountains again.

At this moment, he heard someone shouting: "General Calsidis! General Calsidis!..."

He stared at the person who shouted, vaguely remembering that he was like a reserve team captain, and immediately yelled, "What are you shouting! What's the matter?!"

The captain hurried up to town. Before he had time to report to Calcidis, he was reprimanded by Amintas. Seeing Amintas' anger on his face, he immediately remembered the rumors about him. , Suddenly felt panic.

"Commander Amintas asks you something. Let's just talk about it." Calcidis quickly awakened him from the side.

"Oh...referring to...Your Commander...That's it. We discovered an abnormal situation while digging a trench. The Carthaginians might be digging a tunnel! "

Amintas and the people around him were taken aback.

"Where did you find it?! Take me there!" Amintas said eagerly.

It turned out that after serving as the commander of the defense against the city of Silinus, Amintas also began to build the inner wall in the city according to Karsidis’s suggestion. In order to ensure that he could build more An inner wall was built at a distance of less than 50 meters from the outer city wall.

Often the city walls and trenches are built together, so as to ensure that the excavated soil can directly become the rammed earth for the construction of the city wall. Amintas also put forward strict requirements: the trench must have a depth of 4 meters and a width of at least four meters. The task of digging trenches is mainly undertaken by the original Serinus defenders (some reserve soldiers complained about this, but Calcidis comforted them very well).

After these days of hard work, the trench was basically excavated, and then the soldiers had to bury sharp stakes in the trench. Today, when they were doing this work, a soldier just dug a sharp He was about to bury the stakes in the pit, but found that the sand was constantly infiltrating into the pit and sinking. He was shocked. He thought that something strange had been provoked, so he hurriedly jumped out of the trench and knelt on the ground. Hades's pious sex.

Soon, the news spread.

The reserve captain who came after hearing the news has more military experience after all. Seeing this bizarre phenomenon, he immediately felt uneasy, and immediately asked the soldiers to keep quiet, and then carefully jumped into the trench and put his ears close. Listening carefully to the place where the soil is constantly sinking, the result is the sound of digging from below.

He rushed to report immediately.

The location of the accident was not far from the North City Gate. After Amintas and his party arrived in a hurry, he climbed down the trench personally to confirm the situation reported by the reserve captain, and then he was dragged by the guards with a gloomy expression. Coming up, he cursed with lingering fears: "Cunning Carthaginians!"

He did not expect that the Carthaginians were building internal walls and piled up dirt hills, posing a posture of attacking the city of Silinus on the ground, but they were digging tunnels in the dark, wanting to sneak attack on the citadel. Linus City!

Amintas was completely kept in the dark. Of course, one of the reasons was that after the Carthaginians built the inner wall, they blocked the observation of the Carthage camp from the Dionian garrison on the city’s head. , Unable to know the movements of the Carthaginians in the camp.

"Lord of the Legion, the Carthaginians may not only excavate this tunnel!" Calcidis leaned forward and reminded in a low voice.

Amintas nodded and immediately ordered: to stop all the soldiers from digging trenches, and the Mountain Reconnaissance Squad led the light armoured brigade to use the trenches built in the inner city to carefully investigate whether there are other tunnels.

After a while, the mountain squad leader came to report: They also found the Carthaginians digging tunnels under the east and west walls.

Although Amintas and others were mentally prepared, they were still a little surprised when they heard the news. The adjutant Aristonos even speculated: "It seems that the Carthaginians built the soil of these three earthen mountains. It comes from the excavation of the authentic soil, really cunning!"

Amintas was already pale at the moment, and issued a sharp order: "Hurry up and call the engineers, let them survey the site carefully, estimate the direction and depth of the tunnel excavated by the Carthaginians, and then design a The tunnel we want to dig can be quickly connected to the tunnel of the Carthaginians, and then—"Amintas waved his hand vigorously: "Exterminate all the Carthaginians in the tunnel!"

The order was executed immediately, the engineer determined the route, the reserve soldiers were responsible for digging, and the three units of the First Army were responsible for killing the enemy.

Thousands of soldiers excavated with all their strength, and soon the tunnel was connected, and the Legionnaires who were ready immediately rushed into the tunnel.

Carthage soldiers were caught off guard. In order to dig, they didn't wear armor and carried weapons at all. As a result, they were slaughtered. The Carthaginians who were in charge of transporting the earth fled back in panic.

The Legionnaires did not continue pursuing them, but retreated to the rear and let the reserve soldiers come in to block the tunnel.

At the beginning of working for a while, the heavily armed Carthage soldiers came in again down the tunnel.

The Legionnaires quickly stepped forward to meet the enemy.

As a result, Carthage and Dionia were still conducting long-range mutual attacks intermittently on the ground, but they were engaged in **** frontal fighting under the ground.

This fighting continued throughout the day, and both sides kept sending soldiers into the tunnel.

In a narrow tunnel, the superior force cannot be deployed, and it depends more on the individual abilities of the soldiers. In this regard, the exquisite stabbing techniques of the soldiers of the Dionian First Army are obviously stronger than those of their opponents, plus The narrow tunnels are more suitable for short weapons, so the Dionian soldiers clearly have an advantage in the fight.

Based on this, Amintas did not hesitate to send the teams of the First Army to the field in turns.

Carthage’s army is not without soldiers who are good at daggers. Lusitania and Celtic warriors in northern Iberia are masters in this, but when Margo asked them to participate in this battle, These mountain race leaders firmly expressed their refusal. They claimed that their warriors were accustomed to standing on solid ground, fighting fiercely against the enemy in the hot sun, and loathing to dig into the dark and humid underground like a mouse.

When the Carthaginian soldiers, the Phoenician soldiers whom Marco relied on, and the southern Iberian soldiers defeated again and again from the tunnel, he finally realized that except for the natives of Iberia, what he relied on The main force may not be weaker than the opponent in frontal combat, but it is obviously weaker than the opponent in the fight in a narrow space that is more dependent on individual abilities.