Chapter 56 Siege and Rescue

? The huge strength of the Romans forced the Volsci warriors and Dionian reinforcements in the two cities to dare not leave the city easily, and could only send a few light infantry to harass them, which obviously had little effect on the Roman army.

Camelus used half of his troops for defense, and the other half of the soldiers, slaves and civilians who transported baggage participated in the construction of the camp. The two were regularly rotated. As a result, it only took three days to lay between Setia and Poles. The Roman camp between Furnham was initially constructed.

Quintus and Licinius couldn't wait to propose to attack the city of Setia.

The well-respected Camillous initially objected, reminding the two military and political officials: These days, the Volsci have been building traps and ditches outside the city of Setia, and the defense of the entire city may be stronger than before. , and there are tens of thousands of Volsi reinforcements in the city of Bolefnum not far from Setia, as well as thousands of Dionysians with strong fighting power, who may go out of the city at any time to assist the Romans in their siege. Combat increases difficulty.

Therefore, he suggested: lay siege to Setia without attacking, pin Bolefnum, and then divide more than 20,000 soldiers, bypass these two towns, and go straight to the southwest, destroying the Volsci all the way. Fields, arrived at the city of Serscher, the important town of Wolsey. If the Volsey reinforcements and the Dionians come to the rescue, take the opportunity to fight them in the field; if the enemy doesn't rescue, attack the Celscher and eventually take it, thus changing the stalemate.

Quintus refused. In his opinion: the enemy is right in front of you, and with the powerful strength of the army under his command, he can completely take down Setia and at the same time fight the enemy army from Bolefnum, there is no need to march for another twenty or thirty miles. At the risk of being attacked by the enemy, it would be dangerous and too troublesome to attack the city of Selsche, which the Volsci called "dangerous terrain".

Licinius, of course, also supports taking Setia first.

As the youngest military and political officer, Frius remained silent, but in his heart he actually supported Quintus' proposal. This is derived from the Roman military tradition with heavy infantry as the main military force of the city-state. The vast majority of Roman citizens are accustomed to rushing to the front and have no great concept of detours, even if Frius and Camillous worked together. Long.

Camelus no longer insisted on his opinion, but asked himself to stay at the camp and build a new camp at the same time.

Thus, the Romans' attack on the city of Setia began.

They soon got a taste of the added defenses, aided and guided by the soldiers of the Dionian First Legion.

First of all, the wide trap belt in front of the trench made Roman soldiers suffer a lot. Many soldiers were stabbed in the feet by "meat hooks" and "lilies".

Just when they had to patiently clear the trap,

The defenders sent hundreds of light infantrymen familiar with the distribution of traps outside the city. They scattered and ran on the safe passages in the trap area, and attacked the Romans who were burying their heads in clearing the obstacles on the ground with javelins and arrows. This not only caused some Roman soldiers casualties, and also delayed the progress of their siege.

Therefore, although the ballistas 300 meters away from the city have been firing stone bullets for several days, and even damaged several due to excessive use, the ancient city walls of Setia have only recently been repaired. Where can withstand continuous bombardment, there have been several collapses.

This was a great opportunity to siege the city, but the Romans were blocked by traps outside the city and could not reach the city smoothly, and could only watch the Volsci men mend the gap with stones and mud oars. But this also gave Quintus, Licinius, and Frius more confidence to conquer Setia Cheng.

They sent thousands of light infantry, risking being stabbed by the traps under their feet, to attack the Wolsey light infantry who had sneaked out of the city, and finally forced the Wolsey light infantry who suffered a lot of casualties to dare not leave the city easily.

A few days later, the Roman soldiers paid a certain amount of casualties and basically cleared the traps in front of the trenches.

Quintus and Licinius left nearly 15,000 men in the camp, led by Camillous and Frius, to guard against the rescue of Bolefnum, and lead nearly 30,000 soldiers to attack Seti. Yacheng launched a strong attack.

The wide and deep trenches of Setia and the dense deer villages under the city walls became the biggest obstacle to the Romans' attack, but they were the most powerful helpers for the Volsci to kill the Romans. They poured javelins and arrows down desperately. Arrows, stones, rolling oil...

The Romans suffered heavy casualties.

After a long and arduous battle, the Romans finally used siege vehicles to break down the repaired gap in the original city wall. The soldiers poured into the city through the gap. The lower city wall is full of Worcese warriors.

The Romans found that they were fooled, but the unwitting comrades behind them continued to pour in, and the long and narrow corridor was soon crowded.

Wolsey commanded and attacked at long range from all directions, every stone, every javelin could inflict damage on the Romans. And the raging flames ignited by a large number of thrown oil tanks made the Romans fall into hell...

At the cost of more than 2,000 casualties, the Roman army failed to attack the city.

Quintus and Licinius returned to the camp with gloomy expressions on their faces. Camelus didn't say anything, just called the doctors and soldiers in the camp to treat the wounded.

The Volsci people in Setia City were greatly encouraged by this victory and strengthened their determination to defend the city.

After two days of rest, Quintus and Licinius did not listen to Camilus's dissuasion, and insisted on attacking the city again. With Frius's support, Camelus could only agree.

This time, Camillous alone led nearly 10,000 soldiers to stay at the camp, including some wounded.

Three military officials, Quintus, Licinius, and Frius, led more than 30,000 Roman soldiers, mainly from the east, west, and south, and launched a fierce attack on the city of Setia.

The battle was fierce.

By the afternoon, the Romans had attacked the city one after another, and the Volsci had to fully retreat to their new second wall. Because of the shortage of manpower, they even had to arm the old men and women and send them to the city to resist. The fierce attack of the Romans.

At this critical moment, reinforcements from Bolefnum came, and they tried to bypass the Roman camp to rescue Setia.

Camelus had been on guard for a long time, and after receiving the report from the scout, he left more than 2,000 people to guard the camp, and personally led 7,000 soldiers out of the camp to intercept it.

The reinforcements at Bolefnum were 8,000 fighters from the First Dionysian Corps as the main force. Although their strength was not much different from the last time, the attack of this mixed army was far less violent than the previous one.

Camelus felt uneasy when he realized this.

Sure enough, the report from the reconnaissance cavalry soon confirmed his fears: there were thousands of Volsi warriors rapidly approaching the city of Setia from the north.

Where are the Volsci forces in the north? ! When Camelus heard the news, he was extremely disturbed and at the same time puzzled.

In fact, after Polyphonum received the news that the Roman army had once again stormed the city of Setia early in the morning, Plintors concluded that it would be difficult for Setia to resist the storm of the prepared Roman army, so He made his own suggestion, and the Wolsey reinforcements heeded the bold suggestion.

They dispatched 5,000 Volsci warriors, first marching southwest, reaching the marshy area near the coast, then turning north, using their familiarity with the terrain, sticking to the edge of the marshy area, dodging the Roman scout Exploration, around a large circle, appeared in the north of Setia City.

At this time, the siege battle is going on to the heat of the hour.

The newly built earth wall has endured fierce fighting between the two sides, and there have been many collapses. The Setians, whether women, old people, or young people, were almost all sent to seal these gaps as long as they could pick up a spear. And Quintus also pressed all the troops up, hoping to break the city of Setia in one fell swoop.

When both sides were doing their best, Wolsey's reinforcements appeared, and they were 5,000 of the strongest fighters. Bolefnum tried his best to save Setia.

When Quintus, Licinius, and Frius got the shocking news, they were hit hard, and then they couldn't help but yelled: "Damn scout! Why didn't they find out until the Worcey reinforcements came close to them? ?!!…”

Of course, Quintus also scolded a few words casually, "Why didn't Camillous stop the reinforcements?..."

Of course, this accusation was absurd. The other two thought Quintus was saying it out of anxiety. After all, they had already received the news that Camelus was leading his army to resist the attacking Bolefna from the south. Mu reinforcements.

The Volsi reinforcements from the north were rapidly approaching, and the Roman army was already fully engaged in the siege, and it was difficult to mobilize troops to intercept it. As for the more than 2,000 soldiers in the camp, they did not dare to remove them, otherwise they would be attacked by the Volsci people, and they would lose the mountains of food, grass and ordnance in the camp. This huge army of more than 40,000 people will also Difficult to sustain.

"Let the soldiers use the outer city walls of Setia to block the Volsi reinforcements first, and we will concentrate on capturing the inner city of Setia." Frius suggested.

"The resistance of the Volsi people in the city is very tenacious. We have done our best. Even if we take the entire city of Setia, how can the tired soldiers have any extra strength to fight against the four or five thousand enemies who have just joined the battle!" Licinius looked at Quintus and expressed his opinion worriedly.

"Let's retreat." Quintus said simply: "The defense facilities of Setia City have been basically destroyed, and it will be difficult to hinder us in a short period of time, and there are no Volsi warriors left in the city. Many, these thousands of Worcey reinforcements came just right, tomorrow they will become our prisoners! Frius, your suggestion is very good, let the soldiers close to the outer city wall block the attack of the enemy reinforcements, for the retreat of the whole army To gain time."()

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