Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 797

[Chapter 143 Storming the City of Rome (15)]

Although they numbered less than a thousand people, their attack method made the light armoured brigade left behind in the main camp a little chaotic.

Because the time left for the Dionysian army was too hasty yesterday, the soldiers only built large camps and ditches, but did not set up deer camps and traps in front of the camps. As a result, the Latin reinforcements were divided into multiple teams and approached the camp from multiple directions. , stand in front of the trench and fire rockets into the camp.

A Chinese army battalion that accommodates three infantry corps and two cavalry corps covers a very large area. It is impossible for a light armour brigade of only 700 people to achieve comprehensive protection, so tents are set alight from time to time. Forcing them to run back and forth and rush to put out the fire, because once the fire gets bigger, some camps are set on fire, and the soldiers who are sieging the city can see it, it will definitely affect their fighting spirit.

As a result, the manpower to defend the camp is even more insufficient.

Davos urgently dispatched hundreds of labor camps to help fight the fire. At the same time, he also dispatched a hundred palace guards as a mobile force for the camp’s defense, which was able to barely cope with the current situation.

The siege battle has lasted for nearly four hours now, but still no breakthrough has been seen. Davos sat in the tent, still calmly watching the staff on the map.

Henepolis, who was originally recording on the side, seemed a little anxious at the moment, walking back and forth in the tent.

Davos had to say: “Herny, sit down quickly, don’t walk around, it makes my eyes dizzy.”

Henipolis said anxiously: “Your Majesty, more and more enemies are attacking the camp, even Enemy reinforcements also appeared to the east of the city of Rome, threatening the camp of the First Army… Now we are surrounded by enemy reinforcements, there are no extra troops to call in the camp, and the legions are still blocked under the city , the soldiers suffered a lot of casualties, and if the stalemate continues like this, if the city of Rome cannot be captured before dark, I am worried…I am worried…”

Davos waited for him to vent his worries before slowly saying: “Apart from Turii, Rome can be said to be the largest city on this peninsula, even if its main force is not here, it will not be able to capture it. It is an easy task.

Our various legions are not without progress, as you have heard just now, the second legion has used the siege tower to have more than 100 soldiers attacked the city and gained a firm foothold; The third legion has also occupied the bridgehead on the south bank of the Roman Shibashi Bridge and is expanding the scope of its attack; the fourth legion has collapsed the wall with siege vehicles, and the soldiers have broken into the gap and are temporarily blocked under the city…

We are like the Romans. In the tug-of-war, the Romans have tried their best to be in a stalemate with us, but this burst of power cannot last. We are increasing our strength and pulling the red rope little by little until Completely overwhelm the Romans, they will definitely collapse!”

Davos clenched his right fist, swung it

hard, and said confidently: “As for those Roman reinforcements—”

“Your Majesty, good news! Epithenes The lord led 4,000 soldiers to the battlefield, and cooperated with the lord Tormide to completely defeat the Roman reinforcements in the southwest. The 1st and 2nd cavalry corps were chasing the routed soldiers, and the lords Tormide and Epithenes were leading the army to rush. Come!”

“That’s great!” Henepolis, who was originally sad, was now full of joy.

The staff in the tent also applauded.

Davos also had a smile on his face: “Immediately notify Tormide and Epithenes, and have them send a heavy infantry brigade to defend the camp, and the other troops rush to the rear of the Second Army to gather and wait for me. Your

order!”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

Asinarus quickly sent out the account to notify the messengers, and soon he hurried back to the tent, saying excitedly: “Your Majesty, the scout reports, the Sixth Army and the First Army Part of the Legion’s army has attacked the city!”

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On the surface, the 1st and 6th corps took the conventional siege method, but Davos had suggested that they try to climb the city with rope hooks.

Climbing the city with rope hooks is the earliest method of siege invented by Davos. It was originally used to capture Amendolara and gain a foothold in Greater Greece for the mercenaries.

As Dionia became more and more powerful, various siege devices were manufactured one after another, and the method of siege became more and more perfect. This simple rope hook that provided great help to mercenaries has long been forgotten in the corner.

However, Davos did not forget, because considering that there might be a lot of siege battles after the army arrived in Ladrum, he specially sent someone to take dozens of dust-covered hooks from the corner of the armory. Come out, re-sand and then add the rope to be prepared.

Amyntas has always advocated attack and liked taking risks, and he accepted Davos’s suggestion without hesitation.

Trotilus, the commander of the sixth legion, was also a member of the Persian expedition mercenaries. Turii, who came with Davos, has grown from an ordinary soldier to a legion commander. Not bad either, and he certainly wouldn’t allow his legions to be mediocre in this significant siege.

Both of them understood very well that in order to be successful in “rope hook climbing”, they had to blind the enemy’s sight and conduct a surprise attack, otherwise, once they were discovered, it would cause a lot of casualties. The location is located in the southeast corner of the city of Rome.

Like the southwest corner, the city wall protrudes outwards, but unlike the southwest corner, it is folded a few times and finally forms a small sharp corner, but it is far away from several city gates in Rome, and the winding The city wall is easy to block the sight and is not easy to be found.

So in order to achieve this, Trotiras directed the soldiers of the Sixth Legion to focus on the section of the wall between the Esquiri Gate and the Vimina Gate, which is about 400 meters away from the southeast corner.

Armintas was even more ruthless, and had the soldiers of the First Legion storm the wall between Capitoline and Quirreno, which was a full two miles from the southeast corner.

Trotiras was going to let his light armoured battalion do the job, since their lighter garb was easier to crawl, so he left two heavy infantry battalions in the main battalion.

Although the camp of the First Army was far away from the main camp of the Chinese army, Amintas boldly left only one heavy infantry brigade in the camp, and let more than 700 soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance brigade who stayed in the camp at the same time perform this task.

However, after careful observation of the terrain many times, Trotiras discovered a problem: although the city wall in the southeast corner is relatively remote, the Roman city wall is very high, and the soldiers on the city can see far below the city. If the Dionian soldiers on the mission want to get close to the city wall, even if they don’t carry siege equipment, they will cause the enemy’s suspicion and take precautions. After thinking about it, he decides to let the soldiers do this…

Davos learned about Tello After Tiras’s idea, the festival applauded, so the Sixth Army’s rope-hook plan to climb the city was quickly established.

Originally, there were defenders on the southeast corner of the city, but as time went on, the continuous and violent attacks of the First Army and the Second Army made the Roman generals in charge of defense feel the strength of the defense, and had to recruit soldiers on other wall sections to strengthen Defense, the defenders who have been doing nothing on the southeast corner are of course also within the scope of being recruited.

It didn’t take long for the defenders in the nearby city to see: in the distance to the southeast, hundreds of Roman auxiliary soldiers were being pursued by Dionian soldiers, and they fled towards the city of Rome in panic, although some of their soldiers were occasionally overtaken by the enemy. , stabbed, but most of the routed soldiers climbed through the ditch with difficulty and came to the southeast corner of the city, perhaps because they were afraid of being attacked by the defenders on the city, the hundreds of Dionysian light infantry stopped their pursuit. Footsteps, but unwilling to stop and stare in the distance.

The defending soldiers who saw this situation were guessing which Latin city-state these Roman auxiliary soldiers came from (the Roman auxiliary soldiers were mostly citizens of the Latin allies).

Since the enemy is attacking the city, it is of course impossible for the defending soldiers to allow these rout soldiers to enter the city, and the fighting is fierce, and they do not allow them to have more leisure to pay attention to the life and death of these allies, but the appearance of these rout soldiers shows that the reinforcements of Rome are on the way. They fought the enemy out of sight, which boosted the morale of the defenders somewhat.

But they did not know that these Roman auxiliary soldiers were dressed by Dionian soldiers. They put on the armor and equipment of Roman soldiers who had cleaned the battlefield after the victory of the battle two days ago. UU Reading www.sonicmtl.

Com thus deceived the attention of the defenders, and successfully came to the southeast corner of the city. They avoided the sight of the defenders, connected the ropes wrapped around them, and put on the hooks. Dozens of rope hooks were quickly ready.

The war was still going on, the Roman soldiers were struggling to resist the enemy’s attack, and gradually forgot the existence of those who were defeated. The soldiers” were stationed, they thought they were sent by the adjacent defenders, and they did not attract attention. Even when they saw the Dionysian light infantry crawling through the trenches and rushing to the southeast corner of the city, they did not cause much vigilance. , after all, they did not carry any siege equipment, not to mention that there were soldiers stationed on the city.

But after a while, they found that something was wrong: Dionian soldiers began to appear in the southeast corner of the city, and more and more, those “Roman soldiers” did not fight the enemy!

The two defending generals, Marcus Attilius and Barbus Fabia, were shocked when they heard the bad news. The situation was extremely urgent. Even though their forces were tight, they urgently assembled a force, consisting of The two generals personally led them from the west and south to the southeast corner of the city wall, vowing to drive the enemy down from the city.

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