Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 52: Broken City
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"We're attacking the city, you know! Siege!" Tima Song shouted angrily, "Heavy infantry can't get up, they can't take down this city. They've saved their lives and they can use ass! Go! Go! Go!!!"
Tima Song watched the messenger cross the moat and ran towards the light infantry. He turned his gaze and swept across the ground below the city. There were corpses lying all over the city. There were also struggling and wailing soldiers, mercenaries and Crimea. People...
Tima Song has seen too many such pictures. Before coming to Great Greece, they had just conducted a siege war against Larissa in Asia Minor for several months under the command of Tiburon. The siege was difficult. , He has a deep understanding. It's just that he has no other choice but to attack. Time is the key to his success.
"Be careful, boss!" The shouts of his men made him subconsciously hide his head under the buckler, only to hear the sound of "clang", the back of his hand shook, and an arrow hit the surface of the shield again. Bounce up.
As soon as he exhaled, he heard an exclamation of "Ah! Ah!", followed by a loud bang.
Don't look at it, he also knew that the siege ladder must have been pushed down by the enemy, and the irritability in his heart began to breed.
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"General, the enemy's light infantry is coming up!" The panic shout of the citizen soldier made Eulikpus's heart startled.
The light infantry originally in front of the moat has moved quickly under the wall. Compared with the lack of training, the Crimson Citizens’ archery skills are extremely poor. These enemy’s bows and arrows are both accurate and ruthless, and soon the citizens of the city Most of the soldiers' deaths and injuries were caused by them.
"Don't worry about the enemies on the long ladder, give me focus on shooting those light infantry!" He ran along the aisle of the city and gave orders to the archer.
"The enemy is coming up again!" The soldiers yelled in panic and made him stop. Not far away, a mercenary had already stood on the battlement, facing the stabbed spear, he shielded his upper body with a shield and worked hard. He jumped forward. Not only did the spear fail to stab him, but he was pressed underneath him. Instead of getting up immediately, he quickly swung the saber with his right hand and slashed it. Several civilian soldiers nearby were not hit by him. The protective thigh fell screaming. He got up, but instead of taking advantage of the chaos, he retreated to the entrance of the long ladder, squatted with his back against the battlements, and shielded his whole body with a round shield.
The stabs of the soldiers didn’t hurt him much, but they didn’t dare to approach him because they were afraid of his saber sticking out from under the shield and hacking their feet. During this delay, another mercenary came on Up the battlements.
"Come on! Stop them!" Euricpus led the reserve team to arrive, and the intensive spear jabbing forced the enemy to the corner.
"Pick up their shields!" As soon as Euricpus's voice fell, the soldier next to him let out a scream, and a javelin plunged into his ribs.
The light infantry under the city did their best to support the comrades in the siege. Bows, arrows and javelins were concentrated at this section of the city, and the heavy infantry also accelerated the speed of the city.
Eurikpus urgently mobilized all the remaining troops to block it here. After a fierce fight and fight between the two sides, the mercenaries were driven down, but this section of the aisle was full of wounded Kerry. Misa Citizen Soldiers.
In the face of such a group of enemies who are obviously experienced in combat and bloodthirsty and fierce, every intrusion will cause a lot of damage to the defenders. Eulikpus felt a little weak, and his manpower began to tighten. : "Go and inform General Anta Auris that the enemy has put all their strength in the North City! It's almost impossible to hold it here, let him send reinforcements!"
Anta Auris has no soldiers to send. However, since the enemy is always violently attacking the north and west, the troops responsible for the defense of the east have been idle at this moment of crisis.
Anta Auris made a decision immediately: Send people to inform General Pleards to immediately lead the troops stationed in the East City to reinforce Auricops.
"Leader Tima Song! Chief Tima Song!..." While avoiding arrows, the messenger hurriedly ran towards Tima Song: "The enemy on the east wall has left!"
"I have seen it!" Timathon's tone revealed a bit of excitement: "Go tell Tolix and let him act immediately!"
"Yes!"
Watching the messenger leave, Tima Song immediately raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, work harder! Attack with me! The enemy can't stand it anymore!" After finishing, he wore a round shield and several Stepping to the front of the long ladder, grabbing the wooden ladder with his right hand, the soldiers holding the ladder supported his hips and sent them up vigorously. He jumped up several blocks along the way, and the soldiers in front had already entered the city wall. He used his hands and feet together. Soon I came to the top of the long ladder, quickly drew my saber, stepped on the battlements, shielded the front of the chest, ignoring the piercing spears and swords, leaped forward, and smashed the enemy away by the force, and the saber in his hand also pointed at the same time. Before slashing.
"Back to back! Back to back!" he shouted as he chopped.
The mercenaries who had been huddled in the corner immediately moved closer.
Inspired by Timathon’s pioneers, the mercenaries launched a fierce attack again, and they broke into many places on the north wall. If Pleards hadn’t come to support them, Euricpus’s garrison had already supported it. Can't help.
The two sides fought fiercely on the aisle. Seeing that due to the influx of reinforcements, Crimea's morale was soaring, and they were ready to drive the mercenaries down the city again.
At this moment, there was a huge commotion from the east.
"The enemy is coming up! The enemy is coming up!..." the citizen soldiers yelled in panic.
Eurikpus hurriedly turned his head and looked east, and saw that many of the enemy's light shield soldiers were holding leather shields and inverted blade knives and rushing straight along the corridor of the east wall.
Eurikpus didn't have time to think about how these people climbed the wall. He hurriedly asked Pleards to lead reinforcements back to intercept, but the two sides fought in canine teeth on the aisle, and it was difficult to mobilize troops.
The offensive of these Thracian light shield soldiers of the mercenaries was quite swift. They broke into the crowd, and in a small space, the long-handled counter-blade knives exerted terrifying killing power and were caught by the sharp blades. Hands and feet, the muscles and bones will be severed; if the neck is hooked by a knife, the blood vessels will be severed...The Crimean citizen soldiers fell down in an instant, scared them to retreat in a hurry, while the light shield soldiers tightened like maggots attached to bones. After chasing, nearby mercenaries also took advantage of the chaos to board the city...
The eastern end of the defense line of the entire northern city wall of Crimea has been breached. The experienced mercenary soldiers drove the defeated Crimean citizen soldiers to the west...
On the crowded walkway, the panicked Crimesa people pushed each other to escape, some of them fell directly from the inside of the city wall...
Eurikpus and Pleards were also panicked when they saw this tragedy. They were afraid of this bad luck and retreated from the tower in a hurry, causing the mercenaries to easily go up to the city’s head and occupy close to the city. The aisle of the door blocked countless Crimesa people on the aisle...
The mercenaries carried out the killing mercilessly, forcing more Crimesa people to jump off the wall...
Anta Auris, who originally organized and coordinated defenses under the city, saw this tragic scene, and listened to the continuous screams of the citizens, heartbroken. But at this critical moment, he must also hold back his grief and arrange for the evacuated citizen soldiers and the people to retreat to the acropolis south of the city as the final defense.
The mercenaries occupied the northern city and opened the gates. Soldiers from outside the city swarmed in...
"Leader, we are victorious! We have taken this city!" The subordinates supported Timathon and shouted joyfully.
Tima Song was stabbed in his thigh, and there was a stab wound on his right arm. If the enemy did not collapse on his own, he would probably die under the spear. At this moment, he was also very excited: "It should be said that we also own one. City!" He said triumphantly. The mercenaries were able to take down the city wall, thanks to the success of his strategy: in the Alliance of Dionia, under his deliberate inquiry, his former comrades in arms told him in detail the details of the capture of Amendorara and let him know. After receiving the rope hook, this special siege equipment, and getting its sketches, he sent people to the blacksmith's shop in Heraclea one after another and made dozens of them. When attacking the city, he deliberately attacked both the west and the north. Once the Crimesans on the east side of the defense were forced to come to support (the Umbria River to the south), he asked Torikos to lead dozens of trained light shields. The soldiers sneaked under the east wall with rope hooks. Even if they were found, they did not carry the siege ladder, they would not attract the attention of the enemy. In this way, the light shield soldiers climbed up the city wall with a rope hook and dealt a fatal blow to the Crimea.
After Timathon went down to the city, he coincided with Crianno who had captured the west gate and commanded the mercenaries to continue chasing the defeated soldiers.
In the beginning everything went well, but gradually the mercenaries got out of control. They started rushing into houses, looting property, and even capturing women...
Tima Song was furious. It was not that he opposed the looting, but that the battle was not over. It is reported that the remnants of Crimea were hiding in the Acropolis. They had to take it all at once and completely occupy the city to celebrate the victory.
But the mercenaries who are in a state of excitement do things by instinct and refuse to obey his orders. Timathon had the feelings of Davers at this moment. Knowing that it was of no avail, he still yelled and vented the grievances in his heart.
"Leader, anyway, they are in the acropolis, and they can't run away. We will block the acropolis. When the soldiers are over, we can gather them again and take the acropolis." Toli Coase advised.
"I am not worried about the Crimea, I am worried about Crotone!" Timathon said anxiously.
"Even when we were attacking the city, Crimea asked Crotone for reinforcements, but the messenger arrived in Crotone, and after discussion at the council, a decision was made, the army was mobilized, and he came here... so many In the process, when they come here, it will be night at the earliest. I don’t believe that the Crotone people have the courage to attack the city at night! I am afraid that the sent envoys have already arrived at the Dionian Senate. When Crotone attacks tomorrow, Daves and the others should have made a decision." Kriano seriously analyzed it to him.