Chapter 213: Offensive and Defensive Battle of Xiliting Camp (2)

"Don't worry, Heney. Summoning generals is Tormid's job. If you steal his job, he won't be happy." Davers patted his shoulder with a smile, and said softly, "You just took over the job. My secretary, you still need to get used to it slowly. Now the first task I give you is-"

Henepolis immediately straightened his posture and waited for Davos' order.

"Just having breakfast with me." Davers said narrowly.

"Ah! The enemy is about to attack soon, Your Majesty, do you still want to eat breakfast?!" Henepolis exclaimed with a bit of rebuke and let the servant glance at him: that is, Henepolis dared to treat Dai like this. King Firth spoke, and the other generals were not respectful in front of Davos!

Davos didn't care, he motioned his servants to serve breakfast, then paced to the tent door, looked at the weather outside, and said, "If you don't eat breakfast, you won't have the strength to fight the enemy. Maybe, the soldiers outside now. Chewing bread, drinking hot soup to keep warm... A battle has its own rhythm and rhythm, we can neither slow nor rush, mastering the rhythm of action can better maintain the physical strength and morale of the soldiers!"

Henepolis nodded vaguely.

Compared with the peaceful atmosphere in the larger tent, the atmosphere in the camp is tense. Because of the thick fog, it was impossible to see where the flags of the detachments and companies belonged to. The squad leader was very important. He not only had to gather his nine soldiers to check whether there was any problem with their weapons and equipment, but also in the noisy camp. Distinguish the shouts of the superior officers, and then rush to the rendezvous with the soldiers, while avoiding being crowded out in the passage of people.

Stacks of bonfires were lit one after another in the camp. It was not only to bring light to the foggy and gray weather, but also the cooks of the baggage battalion were cooking bread, gravy, and hot porridge for the soldiers of each detachment.

The reason why Dionia's legionnaires had not been urgently moved near the eastern camp wall to defend against the enemy's attack was because the Syracuses had not yet appeared in front of the trenches. In the past few days, the Dionysian soldiers worked tirelessly to lay various traps and deer villages more than 60 meters long in front of the camp, hindering the enemy's rapid advance.

Just as the Syracuses took advantage of the dense fog to speed up the removal of these sinister and terrifying traps, nearly 40 ballistas of all legions were concentrated in the Dionysian Middle Army camp, and they were all in place soon (these The ballista moved with the camp on the north bank of the Neto River on the second day after the Dionian army besieged Cilitin).

The 4th Legion Siege Battalion Ballista Corrector Kurdorod, who has more experience with ballistas and has performed well in the defense of Crotone, was appointed by Davos as the commander of the entire ballista force. official.

At this moment, there is a vast expanse of white in front of Kurdorod, no suspicious targets can be observed, and no distance can be judged. But Courdorod was confident,

The data was kept in his mind. How far was the ballista's position from the east wooden wall? How tall are the wooden walls? How long is the trap lot outside the camp? ...

He pondered for a while, and then began to give an order: "50 degrees of elevation, five kilograms of stone bullets, back three spaces, prepare!"

The messenger quickly relayed the order to all ballistas in the area.

They immediately mobilized the ballista's strut, let the chute drop, the elevation angle increased, and then shook the pulley, the strong spring arm "creaked" was pulled open and fixed, and the five-kilogram stone bullet was put into the smooth slot . Due to the limitation of craftsmanship and materials, the elevation angle of 50 degrees is the maximum elevation angle that the Dionysian ballista can achieve. In this state, the parabola shot by the stone projectile is high, but the distance is short. Back three grids means that the spring set made of several beef tendons that are twisted together is only half full. Five kilograms is the smallest weight of a Dionian ballista of this type that can be fired (the maximum weight is 15 kilograms, which is different from the Syracuse ballista, since Syracuse is located in Sicily They frequently attacked other city-states, so the ballista had a high requirement for the destructive power of the city walls, and the ballista was therefore larger and heavier, and could shoot a stone bullet with a weight of Tarant (ie, 26 kilograms) nearly 300 meters).

The idea of ​​Kurdorod is: the morning in the West Liting is foggy, there is a lot of moisture, and the weather is cold, which has a great impact on the structure of the ballista, especially the spring set made of beef tendon, so first use small-weight stone bullets Come warm up the equipment and test the enemy's main force at the same time. He estimated that the landing point of the stone bullets is 80-120 meters outside the trench. If the enemy attacks aggressively, then this area should be the most concentrated place for the enemy, but usually five kilograms of stone bullets are fired, and the range is often more than 500 meters, so he again It is to increase the elevation angle and to reduce the tension of the spring group, which is to hope to achieve the range he wants.

The soldiers of the First Corps sat cross-legged on the ground, chewing their bread, looking up as stone bullets were shot into the air one by one, disappearing into the thick fog...

For a moment, the thick fog outside the camp suddenly sounded like a frying pan, and screams and exclamations sounded, completely confirming the fact that the Syracuse army was attacking.

"50-degree elevation angle, ten kilograms, one step back, prepare!" Kurdorod, the once gentle and elegant student of Dionysian Academy, has been nurtured by war and has a murderous aura on his body, and the ballista team starts The news of the hit did not make him cheer like his subordinates, and he continued to give orders calmly.

Yesterday, the Dionian First Corps was bombarded by nearly a hundred ballistas and belly bows in Siracusa all day in the town of Meyaro, and today the Dionians are in the same way outside the Siri Court. In return for color, retribution really came too fast.

It was not that Dionysius didn't want to fight back with ballistas, but the ballistas he had brought were brought to the camp on the Tachinadi River because he was going to attack the inner city of Crotone. All the siege equipment was abandoned in the camp and fell into the hands of the Dionians. Originally, with his nearly 1,000 engineers, craftsmen and apprentices, it was not a problem to recreate dozens of ballistas in a short period of time, but there was a key ballista component that the Syracuses could not produce immediately. That is the ballista spring set made of beef tendon. They were surrounded by the Dionians in the city, few people kept cattle and sheep in the city, and most of the army's pack animals were lost in the Tachinadi River camp, not to mention that even if there are cattle in the city, they are now killed. It takes nearly half a year to manufacture a qualified spring set, so Dionysius gave up making ballistas and concentrated on making other instruments.

At this moment, thousands of Syracuse slaves and free people are hurrying to destroy the traps and deer villages, then ram the land and lay the planks. The sudden stone bullets fell into the dense crowd, the skulls were broken, the blood was four splash.

In fact, because the parabola of the stone bullet is high, it rarely bounces after landing, and the total number of casualties is only more than 20, but every bloody tragic image frightened the people around him, the team officers of Syracuse It took a lot of effort to barely stabilize their emotions.

Now that they have been noticed by the Dionysians, the Syracuses will no longer hide, and they begin to push the siege equipment they have made out of the city one by one. In order to make them, the Syracuses ripped off almost all the houses in the city of Silitin, collected door panels, wood, and even cut down the trees in the port...

The largest equipment manufactured is undoubtedly the nearly six-meter-high movable tower. In order to allow these towers to be transported out of the city, Dionysius decisively ordered his subordinates to organize manpower and secretly pull out a small section of the city wall, which was not completely until last night. Make it a passage from inside to outside the city.

The reason why Dionysius dared to do this was that after getting the alarm from Lokri, he realized that the cunning Dionysians built camps and besieged Celestial, not to siege the city, but to block it. Live in Syracuse's army and turn to attack Syracuse's weaker allies. In order to achieve this insidious purpose, the young Davers even used the peace talks to numb himself (of course, he naturally ignored that Syracuse was also using the peace talks to delay time)!

Syracuse certainly couldn't allow Dionysus to get their plan right. Now that the Dionysian army turned to attack the Lokri Alliance, the troops stationed in the large camp outside the city of Sirius would naturally decrease, and the Dionians also built a huge army camp that stretched ten miles to surround Sirius. Divided Dionia's forces...

Davos' "arrogance" gave Dionysius an opportunity to defeat the Dionysian army. In the past few days, the Syracuse soldiers have gradually recovered from their failures, and he has also spent a lot of energy to persuade the tens of thousands of free people and slaves to join the ranks of the soldiers with high expectations. "Give liberty, give citizenship, give land..." These methods are not only done by Dionysus, but also by Syracuse, but they were mainly aimed at mercenaries before, and this time Dionysius tried to defeat Dionia, out of danger and expanded the scope of application, of course, the most important reason for them to take up arms is that everyone wants to return to Sicily alive and smoothly.

So when nearly 2,000 of Dionia's light infantry rushed to the wooden wall and began to throw countless arrows at the outside of the foggy camp, causing many Syracuses to be injured and killed, they panicked, but There was no major chaos, and the task of sweeping the defense facilities could basically continue. The trap area with a length of less than 100 meters was quickly filled with the intensified efforts of tens of thousands of people.

Then, these freedmen and slaves avoided the rain of arrows and stone bullets, hurriedly retreated to the rear, followed the caller's guidance, and came to a place a few hundred meters away from the Dionysian camp, where thousands of Sira stood. Kuza civilian soldiers, they formed a line that was more than a mile long, and on the ground in front of them were piles of poorly made spears and wooden shields.