Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 775

[Chapter 121]

Ryders was not polite, and said directly: “The enemy in the granary will be eliminated soon. Half of you are monitoring the enemies in the city to prevent them from sneaking out of the city, and the other is preparing to put out the fire.”

Kutchius immediately Returning to their own legion, nearly a thousand soldiers soon jumped off their horses, took out the linen bags they were carrying, and began to load soil on the spot.

This is what the two legion commanders prepared in advance after receiving the order from Davos last night, considering the possibility of the enemy burning the granary. After all, the crock pot is not easy to carry, and the soil is everywhere.

After a while, more than 200 palace guards also arrived on horseback, surprising the two commanders: “Your Majesty is here so soon?!”

“Your Majesty is worried that the Romans will hold the granary and send troops out of the city to fight you, so let us Reinforcements are here, and the light infantry is rushing here.” Martius replied.

Ryders pointed at the head of the city with contempt: “Your Majesty is too worried, in fact, the cowardly Romans did not dare to leave the city at all!”

At this time, the screams of killing in the camp disappeared, the gate was opened, and the cavalrymen He immediately rushed in with a sack full of soil.

And Ryders saw the third team captain hurried over and asked: “How about the casualties?”

“…32 brothers died and 67 people were injured, of which 15 were seriously injured…” The third team The captain looked slightly frustrated.

“So many casualties?!” Ryders did not expect that his own side would pay nearly 100 casualties when they had an absolute advantage in numbers, which made him feel a lot of heartache.

You must know that the first cavalry regiment suffered a great loss in the previous battle at Setiana in Volsey. Although Turiyi sent some soldiers to replenish after the war, the number of the regiment was not full.

“What about the enemy inside?” he asked with hatred.

“All died, no one surrendered.”

Ryders stopped talking and strode into the granary camp.

Inside the gate, he saw a Roman soldier sitting against the wall, with sword wounds all over his chest, blood pouring out continuously, dyeing his body blood red. The lance, like a sculpture, with a bright red tassel on the top of the helmet, is obviously a team officer.

Ryders stopped and looked at him.

Unexpectedly, the seemingly dead Roman soldier suddenly opened his eyes, glared at Ryders angrily, and struggled to stab the stab in his hand.

“Legion Commander be careful!” The cavalry behind him rushed over immediately.

“Don’t move!” Ryders waved to stop them, then stood still, looking directly at each other with sharp eyes.

Roman Squadron Captain Gaius wanted to raise the lance, but the lance, which was usually light as nothing, was now heavy as a thousand pounds, and the little energy he had accumulated disappeared without a trace with the gushing blood. The leader who stabbed the enemy with full of anger through his eyes, but his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier. He wanted to shout out unwillingly, but blood suddenly poured out of his mouth…

Watching the other side slump down, Ryder Si was silent for a moment, then strode in.

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Seeing the big city standing in the distance, Davos couldn’t help but restrain the war horse: Rome, the first and only one in the Western history of the past life It has become the center of the great empire of Neihu, how many thrilling stories about it have been circulated among the people for thousands of years, and how many poems and articles about it have been written by scholars and writers!

It is a dream in the hearts of countless ambitious Westerners in past lives, a dream about unification…

In past lives, Davos had no chance to visit this great city that can be called the starting point of Western European civilization, but now He came, but what he saw was not a prosperous Rome that had become a historical relic, but a rudimentary city in the early stage of the republic that was just rising, although he had learned about this city in detail from intelligence many times. The city, but it is difficult to hide the excitement in my heart.

“Drive!” Davos put his legs on the horse’s belly, and the war horse neighed and galloped forward.

“Your Majesty!!!” The people around were startled and hurriedly chased after them, but soon they were relieved, because a group of cavalry in front greeted them, it was the palace guards sent out earlier, they quickly sanitation around Davos.

As soon as Davos saw Martius, he immediately asked: “Lydes and the others have captured the river port and the granary?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Martius replied: “The First Cavalry Corps and the Third The second cavalry corps captured the river port and the granary without much resistance from the Romans, and put out the fire in the granary in time. Now the two legion commanders, Ledes and Kuzius, are counting the supplies there. I’ll report back to you.”

“It’s good!” Davos sighed lightly: the successful completion of the first step gave him more confidence in capturing the city.

“Let’s go and see the city of Rome!” He pointed forward confidently.

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The Romans on the west wall of Rome saw the smoke rising in front of them, extending into the distance and out of sight, they couldn’t help but get nervous, because they knew: Dio Nia’s army is coming!

Then, they saw hundreds of cavalry galloping towards them, and they were standing 100 meters away from the city wall: two large flags were held high in this team, which was very different from the flags of the Dionian cavalry they had seen before. They are all shiny gold.

In the center surrounded by the cavalry is a general with a golden helmet and a golden armor and a crown with long feathers. Under the sun shining slightly west of the sky, it is particularly dazzling.

“Maybe the King of Dionia is here.” Some of the elders whispered uncertainly, and no one objected to this. They silently looked at the person who was suspected of King Dionia under the city. Pointing straight ahead and talking to the people around him, Er laughed.

Scipio the Great took a sip, suddenly took the long shield of the soldier next to him, drew out his sword, tapped the shield, and at the same time shouted loudly: “Rome! Rome! Rome!…” The

soldiers followed the city guard in rhythm He beat the long shield and shouted…

Soon, the elders also joined in…

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Seeing that the city wall in front of me was sometimes concave inward and sometimes outward, and the whole wall was curved unevenly, Clotokatax couldn’t help but say, “It’s so ugly. The city wall!”

Davos replied with a smile: “The reason why this city wall is so badly built is because the Romans were eager to rebuild the city of Rome after driving out the Celts in the north, and they did not plan the whole city at all, just only In order to meet the needs of the Roman citizens at that time. For example-”

Davos pointed to the left side of the city wall near the Tiber River and protruded outwards and said: “If I remember correctly, behind the city wall should be one of the seven hills of Rome. The Raventing Hill. And here—”

Davos pointed to a large section of the city wall that also protruded outwards on the right side: “And behind this section of the city wall is the largest ghetto in the city of Rome.”

“The Romans built the city like this .

, Haven’t you thought about how to defend the city if you are besieged in the future?!” Martius didn’t know much about Rome before, so he was surprised, he didn’t expect the Romans to be so short-sighted.

“But they built the city wall very high, and the trench dug in front of the city seems to be very wide…” Clotokatax looked at the towering city wall in front, and judged that its height was probably no less than 15 meters.

At this time, the staff officer Thormid said: “His Royal Highness, just the height of the city wall is useless. Its curved wall is good for our soldiers to avoid the concentrated and long-range attacks of the Romans from top to bottom, and it is also not good for The Romans quickly arrived at their destination on the wall and provided reinforcements. Moreover, although there were trenches in front of the city, there were no deer villages. As long as the trenches were filled, our siege equipment could easily be pushed under the city…”

Over the years, Although Thormed did not participate in combat, he had a career as a mercenary for decades, and later served in the Ministry of Military Affairs, with enough knowledge.

Therefore, Krotokatax listened carefully and asked for advice from time to time.

Davos did not disturb them, but was carefully observing the defense of Rome.

“Rome!!! Rome!!! Rome!!!…”

At this time, there was a thunderous cry on the city wall, neat and grand, giving Davos the feeling: as if the countless Roman soldiers on the city were integrated with the city wall.

With a dignified expression, he turned around and said, “Although the city walls built by the Romans are not very good, depending on the situation, this siege battle may not be easy.”

Tolmid, Martius and others agreed.

At this time, the scout galloped over: “Report to Your Majesty, the three army commanders of Amyntas, Matonis, and Lizaru have arrived with the army!”

Davos heard the words, looked around, and smiled: “Look Come on, we won, should Amintas lose something!”

Everyone laughed.

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Davers looked at the troop that were approaching in the dust behind him, and said, “Tormid, immediately notify the commanders of the corps… um, and let the captain of the mountain reconnaissance team. Izam came here at once!”

“Yes!”

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Although the river port of Rome has been expanded many times over the years, it has only five or six piers , the port area is not large, far smaller than the granary next to it, the only thing that interest Daves is that a lot of wood was found in the warehouse in the port: “After the various legions are properly placed, notify the engineering battalion, and They were all transported away and used to set up camps or make more siege equipment.”

“Yes, Your Majesty!” Tormid hurriedly asked his staff to take note of the matter.

Davos looked down at the sparkling Tiber River in front of him, the water was gentle and deep.

He moved his eyes to the distance again, the wide river surface made the other side appear indistinct, and he couldn’t see it very clearly. He turned his head to look upstream again. To his disappointment, there was only the river in his line of sight, and he didn’t see the connection between the south and north banks. vertebral bridge.