Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 552

[Chapter 219: Offensive and Defensive Battle of Xiliting Camp (3)]

However, most of the Dionysian light infantry’s attention was attracted by the tower, so that the light infantry of Syracuse could not only throw javelins on the tower, but also rushed to the front of the trench, under the cover of the arrow shield, to the wood. Enemies on the walls threw javelins and even fired rockets at the curtain wall.

The Dionian Legionnaires had to guard against the javelins thrown from the towers and the walls, protect the wooden walls from being burned, and prevent the enemy from climbing up the walls through the ladder, which was a little overwhelmed.

“The siege vehicle! The enemy’s siege vehicle is under the wall!” Some soldiers exclaimed.

Matolis had just chopped down an enemy who was about to climb up the wall. He quickly looked out and saw an intact siege vehicle not far from diagonally below. Together, the siege vehicles passed through the filled ditch and were almost pushed under the wooden wall.

“Block! Pour the tar!” Matonis called hastily.

“Clang!” His guard blocked a thrown javelin for him with a long shield.

“Legion Commander, there’s no more kerosene!” the soldier shouted in frustration.

“Go to the camp and look for it! Is there any leftover asphalt?” Matonis ordered his guards while commanding the soldiers: “Smash it hard for me!

” The “banging” sound on the city car seems to have little effect on it.

On the contrary, under the protection of the herringbone ceiling, the Syracuses pushed the ram with iron blocks at the top hard, and slammed it against the wooden wall. A nearby Syracuse soldier, who was climbing a ladder, fell down the ditch under its influence.

Matonis was holding the wall stack with both hands and was anxiously thinking about how to deal with it, when an exclamation came from behind: “It’s burning! The wooden wall is burning!”

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“Your Majesty, a section of the wooden wall in the defense area of the Fourth Army was hit by the Syracuses with oil tanks and rockets many times, and a fire broke out. The fire has now been put out. However, there are wooden walls ten meters away. The wall was burnt down, but fortunately the trench ahead was not filled, and the enemy had not rushed under the wall and destroyed the wooden wall. Epithenes had already sent the light armoured battalion of the Fourth Legion to set up a defensive position behind the wall…” Thormid reported the danger just now to Davos, who had walked out of the tent and was watching the defense of the Fourth and Seventh Corps.

Davos just frowned slightly, looked at the light armoured brigade that was forming under the wooden wall in front of him, pondered for a while, and said, “It seems that Dionysius has focused his attack on my central camp. There is still a very good way for the Rakuza to attack the city. It is a bit difficult for the fourth and seventh legions to block the attack of so many people…Tormid!”

“Yes!”

“You go and inform The 2nd, 5th, and 6th legions of the left and right battalions immediately rushed to the central battalion!” Davos gave an order decisively,

but Thormed was startled: “Your Majesty, all the troops They are all withdrawn, then… what about those two camps?!”

“If Dionysius wants it, then give it to him.” Davos said lightly, and the results of the soldiers’ hard work for a few days were In vain.

“Wait a minute, don’t let them all retreat, leave the light infantry for defense for the time being, and when the enemy attacks, they can also give them some damage.” Davos emphasized again.

“Yes, Your Majesty!” Tormide turned to leave, but heard an exclamation from the front, and then heard a loud “bang”, and in the “crackling” sound, the wooden wall in front appeared A big gap.

“Your Majesty, the enemy used a siege vehicle to knock down a section of our wooden wall!” the messenger who rushed back shouted in a hurry.

Davos looked calm, turned around and shouted: “Izam!”

“Brothers, come with me!” Izam had been waiting for a long time, and led his mountain reconnaissance brigade, rushing towards the gap.

Seeing this, Thormid also quickened his pace.

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“Sir, the troops of the left and right battalions of Dionia have begun to move to the central camp!”

Dionysius was excited when he heard the report of the scout. He stood up and said, “Davos is finally fooled! Immediately gather troops to attack Dionia’s left camp!”

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Yes!”

The two battalions on the left and right seem to have stretched out their hands to encircle the north and south sides of the Xili Court.

The left battalion was garrisoned by most of the soldiers of the 6th and 5th legions, and the 5th legion was the Dionian legion that suffered the most losses in this war. Although it was later supplemented by some soldiers, its strength was definitely not as good as before. , The Sixth Army was formed just before the war. So far, it has only participated in the battle of Crotone. Therefore, the quality of soldiers and the tacit cooperation of the team in the left camp are not as good as those stationed in the right camp. This disparity in strength can be seen from the traps and obstacles placed in front of the two battalions and a small number of the soldiers of the Sixth Army.

Dionysius had already understood this clearly in the past few days, and naturally he wanted to find the weakest part of the Dionysian army.

The north gate of Xiliting was wide open, more than 10,000 Syracuse elites who were reorganized and equipped with relatively complete armor and equipment, plus several thousand freemen who only took out simple wooden shields and spears, a total of nearly 10,000 people. Twenty thousand men, led by Dionysius himself, went to the left camp.

The news soon reached Dionia’s central camp.

“Your Majesty, our left camp may not be able to hold it!” Secretary Henepolis said in a voiceless voice.

“Didn’t I say it before, Dionysius wants it, just take it.” Davos still said calmly: “He thought that if he broke our camp, he could defeat us, but he didn’t. We know that our strategy is right. Dionysius is too obsessed with the outcome of a battle now, and he can no longer consider the outcome of the entire battle situation…”

Helibones nodded vaguely, and at the same time Use a pen to quickly record what Davers said on the papyrus.

“Thormid!”

“Here!”

“Inform the two legion commanders, Felixius and Olivers, to lead the troops to form a formation 20 meters away from the east wooden wall, and at the same time let the second legion led by Amyntas stand north of the central camp. After the enemy has occupied the left camp, they will continue to attack the main camp of the central army.” Davos gave the order again: “And… after they are all ready, tell Matonis and Epithenes not to send any more troops. Block

those gaps and let the enemy in.”

“Yes!”

Davos said the deployment in one breath, and felt a little more relaxed. He turned to look at Henepolis, who was a little dazed next to him, and couldn’t help explaining. Said: “The left battalion is lost, and the right battalion is also lost. It doesn’t matter to us. Our purpose is to kill the Syracuse soldiers as much as possible, so that Dionysius loses a lot of elite soldiers and loses the initiative. The ability to attack. When Dionysius led the army, broke away from the protection of the strong city, and took the initiative to attack us, he was actually doomed to failure…”

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The army led by Dionysius attacked the left camp after paying very little casualties. It was because he used heavy troops to attack the Dionysian middle battalion to confuse Davos to transfer the main force of the left battalion.

But at this moment, he didn’t have time to slowly savor the joy of victory. The large army was bravely attacking the Dionysian Middle Army Camp, and the price paid was very high. Defeat the Dionians!

Dionysius led the soldiers to run quickly on the passage between the tents, advancing rapidly to the south. The screams and screams ahead became louder and clearer… It’s

coming!

Dionysius became more and more excited.

When they went around this tent area, he stopped in surprise: a towering, long wooden wall more than 20 meters ahead blocked his direction, and there was a trench dug in front of the wooden wall!

“How could this be?! Why did the Dionians build such thick wooden walls and dig such wide trenches inside the entire camp instead of just separating them with wooden fences?!” It was shattered in an instant, and the strong sense of drop and the fear of failure made Dionysius, who had a firm mind, roar with grief and anger.

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“Sir, be careful!” The light infantry of the Second Corps on the wooden wall poured arrows and javelins down, the soldiers of Syracuse hurriedly erected round shields to defend, and the guards also Onysius protected.

Dionysius listened to the harsh metal sound of “clang! clang!” from the collision of the arrow and the round shield, and his mood gradually became a little anxious: it seems that the Dionysians built wooden walls and trenches in the camp to prevent The main camp of the Chinese army was protected. Obviously, there was a need to give up the left and right battalions. Unfortunately, there were wooden walls and traps outside the entire camp, and the scouts could not detect the situation inside. The envoys negotiating with the Ada Camp covered their eyes with cloth when entering and leaving the camp, and did not know the details of the camp at all… Could he be fooled by Davos again?

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Because Dionysius thought that he had broken the left camp and continued to attack south, he could successfully enter the central camp. Therefore, the soldiers only carried ladders and no more siege equipment, and they looked like a siege city. Large equipment such as towers and siege vehicles could not be advanced into the camp, so facing the heavily fortified Chinese army camp, the Syracuses were a little helpless.

How much time and energy Dionysius spent to plan this attacking plan is about to be shattered. A deep sense of frustration left him a little dazed. He muttered the name of “Davos”. , I can’t think of a good way to deal with the difficult situation at hand…