Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 873

[Chapter 220 Attacking Lola (1)]

At the same time, the administrative officials of Enona effectively managed a large team of more than 20,000 elderly, young people, and even women, and divided them into several groups.

Some people tidy up the felled trees, carry them down the mountain, and place them in the place where the barracks engineer planned to build the earth mountain; the other people pile up the wood in a criss-cross manner, and gradually extend upwards toward the city wall; In addition, there was a group of people who carried baskets of dug soil, filled it into the base made of wood, and tamped it.

Lola’s defenders saw the enemy making such a big move on the southern city wall. While shocked, they were also a little curious, but they soon found that a mound of more than 50 meters wide was rising in front of them. It started, and quickly approached the city head, and the entire wooden fence was also moving forward.

It’s not that Lola’s defenders did not launch long-range attacks on the enemies who were making mounds under the city, but the javelins and arrows they threw were either blocked by the wooden fence, or they were blocked by the heavy infantry behind the wooden fence with shields, although there were also a few people. Injured and fell to the ground, but did not scare the coalition people. Whether it is Campania or Nakonian, they were deeply poisoned by the Samone people and hated them, and the people of Enona assisted in the battle. It will be recorded by the household registration officials, which will be of great help to the future development of the family in the kingdom, so they have devoted themselves to this project with great enthusiasm.

Lola’s defenders had no choice but to venture out of the city several times to raid, trying to destroy the wooden palisade and mounds, but they were all repelled by the army led by the well-prepared Zantiparis. The defenders suffered a lot of damage.

The Lola defenders could only watch the mound getting closer and higher. Not only did it approach the ditch, but its highest height was almost flush with the city head.

Zantiparis no longer needed the wooden fence, but directly sent more than a thousand Dionysian heavy and light infantry to stand on the hill and shoot against the defenders at a distance of more than ten meters.

Although there were no small casualties on both sides, the Lola defenders, whose number of soldiers was only one-tenth of the other party’s, could not bear this kind of consumption. They had to send messengers many times to urgently ask for help from the big leader Segovani.

Regarding the decision of Zantiparis to “attack the city of Lora today”, Aeolos, the general of the Campania Alliance, hesitated a bit. He said: “The hills we built have not yet come close to the city wall, and the attack will be at this time. Wouldn’t it be too hasty, do you want to wait another day?”

Zantiparis explained to him patiently: “Our Majesty Davos once said a word to the senior generals of the Kingdom of Dionia, he Said, ‘When fighting against a powerful enemy, don’t rashly seek decisive battles, but carefully look for fighter opportunities, but once an important victory is won or the enemy shows obvious flaws, you must attack continuously and quickly, without giving The enemy took a breather and completely disrupted the entire deployment of the enemy…’,

now that the main force of the Samona coalition has been attracted to Beneventum, Lola and Cesara have only more than 1,000 enemies stationed, they thought they could rely on this A few people can defend for a long time, but they obviously underestimated our siege ability of Dioria. We should quickly capture the city of Lora before they can react, so that the whole battle situation is more beneficial to us.

In addition, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. So far, we have been blessed by the gods. The weather has been good for the past few days. It looks like a sunny day today, but if it rains suddenly tomorrow, it is likely to wash out our Tushan, all the hard work of the soldiers and the people for a few days was in vain, and the key point was to delay the fighter plane, so we should seize the time to attack while Hades is still protecting us! … Well, and … according to our usual From the experience of siege training, when Tushan is approaching the city wall and it is the most difficult time, the

enemy’s defense will only be more rigorous. In order to speed up the progress and reduce the casualties of the people, we must rely on violent attacks to force them to reduce The attack on Tushan enabled our siege to be completed faster…”

Zantiparis’ earnest explanation persuaded the generals of the Campania Alliance, and everyone agreed to launch an attack on Lora City today, and then Just to discuss the attack plan.

In this regard, Zantiparis has long considered: “Lora’s southern city wall is where the earth and hills are located, and it is the focus of the attack. I propose to use a heavy infantry brigade and a light infantry brigade of my Dionia, plus your Campa. Nia’s 1,000 light infantry and 1,000 heavy infantry, a total of 4,000 people will focus on attacking here!” The starter https:// https://

Aelos nodded and said: “I agree with General Zantiparis’ opinion, these two thousand A Campania soldier was sent by us from Naples.”

Zantiparis continued: “I suggest that the siege equipment made these days will be used to attack the walls of Lorassi, because our Dionian soldiers are skilled Using these equipment, a heavy infantry brigade of Dionia will be the main attack, and another 1,000 Campania soldiers will be added as an auxiliary… The two east and north walls will also have 2,000 soldiers each using long ladders to attack the city. , so as to disperse the few enemies in the city of Lora and weaken their defense capabilities… In the end, there is a Dionysian light infantry brigade and 1,000 Campania soldiers. I suggest that as a reserve, serve as the The last raid.”

As soon as Zantiparis finished speaking, Aeos said: “I think this plan of General Zantiparis is very good. Naples is willing to send 1,000 soldiers to attack the western city wall, and another 1,000 soldiers. The Naples soldiers attacked the north, and the remaining 1,000 Naples soldiers were reserved as a reserve according to General Zantiparis, and the rest of the soldiers were filled by the soldiers of your city-state.” Aeos spoke to Zantiparis. With respect at times, he spoke to other Campania allied generals with a somewhat commanding tone.

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Zantiparis then suddenly realized that Naples was the leader of the Campania League. As a military general, he did not think too much, but felt that he had Aeos took charge of these Campania city-state generals, saving him a lot of speech and a lot of time.

Once the plan is finalized, the implementation begins immediately.

The first to act were the coalition soldiers outside the city of Loranan.

This is because the people are ready. They are all carrying sacks full of soil, ready to complete the final closing of the soil mountain and the city wall. Of course, this is also the most difficult time.

It is said to be an earth mountain, but in fact it is a large inclined causeway. According to the design of the engineer Dionia, its initial slope is only about 20 degrees, which is relatively gentle. It extends from 40 meters to the city wall. The support has rammed earth as flesh and blood, and many soldiers step on it, which is neither easy to slip nor collapse.

More than 200 Dionysian heavy infantrymen, holding a long shield in each of their left and right hands, climbed the mountain in two horizontal lines and advanced towards the city wall.

The defending fighters immediately launched long-range attacks on them, mainly javelins.

The Dionian soldiers’ double-sided shields protected themselves, but even so, there were still soldiers who were stabbed by the javelins after penetrating the long shields, and new heavy infantry came forward to fill the gaps in the array at any time behind them.

The light infantry who followed the Dionysian heavy infantry also attacked the city. They not only threw javelins, but also shot arrows. After all, the city guards were not as thick as the Dionysian heavy infantry. Although they also have some soldiers in armor, at least half of them are light infantry, and bows and arrows can kill them.

The heavy infantry reached the top of the mountain, squatted down halfway, and erected a double-sided long shield to form a closely arranged shield wall. Its height was almost the same as the opposite city wall, and the distance between the two sides was less than ten meters. The attack of the city was naturally more violent, and the counterattack of the Dionysian light infantry was equally fierce, because they had to suppress the attack of the city head and protect the safety of their comrades.

Within a distance of ten meters, javelins and arrows constantly passed by, so dense that they collided in the air from time to time.

The two sides kept screaming, and some soldiers were injured and fell to the ground.

On both sides of the Tushan, 1,000 Campania light infantry, also taking advantage of the opportunity when the defenders’ attention was attracted by the Tushan, quickly approached the ditch and launched an attack on the enemy at the head of the city to ease the pressure on the friendly forces on the Tushan. .

At this time, the people with soil bags lined up in a column all the way, bending down and bowing their heads, and at the risk of being hit by the incoming javelin and arrows, they quickly ran to the top of the mountain.

On the top of the mountain, there is a gap of more than one person between each Dionian heavy infantry and heavy infantry, and between light infantry and light infantry, so as to form passages one by one, which can reach the top of the mountain.

When the people reach the shield wall, the heavy infantry on both sides will raise the long shields with both hands higher, leaving a certain gap below, just for the people to push the soil bags down the mountain, and then the empty-handed people will turn back and run back down the mountain.

Countless earthbags continued to roll down into the “valley” formed between the city wall and the earthy mountain. The occasionally injured Dionian soldiers and Lola defenders fell into the valley, and before they could climb out, they were soon caught by earthbags. Buried and become a cornerstone of this man-made soil mountain.

Not only did the people go up and down on the mountain, the Dionysian light infantry and heavy infantry were also constantly in rotation because of their physical strength, injuries, and the replenishment of javelin arrows. and soldiers for emergency rescue.

Such a busy but relatively orderly tense scene was reflected in the eyes of Aeolos, the general of the Naples commanding army in the rear. He couldn’t help but sigh: The Dionians turned the tragic siege into an orderly battle. , A lively and efficient construction project, this is not something that any Greek city-state can do. The military capabilities of the Kingdom of Dionia are terrible!