Chapter 131 Storming the City of Rome (3)

At first glance, Scipio the Great and the soldiers were startled, thinking it was a miracle!

But Scipio the Great quickly understood, and made the guards shout: "There is someone in the car!! There is someone in the car!!..." This allayed the panic of the soldiers.

Scipio the Great and the soldiers watched helplessly as the nearly 100 wooden carts entered the range of the bow and arrow, but there was nothing they could do about them.

After a while, the front wooden cart stopped in front of the ditch, and the wooden carts at the back were spliced ​​together, one by one, end to end, and soon formed five columns of wooden carts with a length of 100 meters in front of the ditch. , extending beyond the range of the defenders' bows and arrows.

And behind them parked a lot of carts, the carts were full of sacks filled with soil made by the Dionian soldiers yesterday, and countless unarmored Dionian soldiers lined up, handing hands. The sacks were passed forward one by one, and the soldiers who were pushing carts in the wooden carriage did the same. Soon, one after another, the negative soil sacks were thrown into the trench one after another.

This peculiar way of filling the trenches surprised the Roman soldiers in the city, but made them even more nervous.

Although the Great Scipio didn't know what these wooden carts were used for at first, he still ordered the soldiers to fire rockets at them out of intuition, but the dozen or so in front of these wooden carts were covered with a thin layer on top. Thin dirt, and wrapped in soaked linen, is not so easy to ignite.

At the same time, many arrow-blocking carts with a wide wooden plank erected in front of them were lined up side by side. In the interval between the five wooden carts, they were advancing towards the city wall. It was the light of the Second Dionysian Army who pushed them. The infantry, blocked by wooden boards, could hardly be hurt by arrows.

The arrow-blockers were pushed to the front of the trench, forming a less continuous wooden wall. The Dionysian light infantry fired arrows at the Roman soldiers at the head of the city through the gaps between the planks.

Adoyous was in a wooden cart. Like other comrades, he did not wear armor. This was to save physical strength and perform tasks more quickly.

In fact, Adoris didn't know how many sacks he had passed forward and still felt very energetic.

At this time, the squad leader in front shouted: "Brothers, pay attention, push the cart forward!"

Because the officers had already told the soldiers the plan of action before the siege, Adoris knew that the trenches ahead were filled, and the wooden carts in front would move over the trenches, ram the ground, and lay down planks , so that the siege equipment can pass through the trench.

Although the wooden cart is large, the interior is hollow except that the roof and sides are covered with wooden boards, which is actually not heavy, and the wheels of the wooden cart are double wheels.

In this way, the car wall can be stuck, and the long axles are not used to connect the two sides, which ensures that people and objects can pass through the middle of the wooden car without hindrance.

Adonis and his comrades pushed the wooden cart forward together, and soon connected with the front and rear wooden carts. Pieces of long wooden boards were quickly passed from the rear, passed by Adoris and their hands, and finally rammed into the trench.

The officers then organized a quick and orderly retreat of the soldiers in the wooden carts.

When Matonis, who was in front of the siege array, learned from his subordinates that "Adoris is intact and has retreated with other soldiers", he was slightly relieved, and he issued an order to his adjutant: "You can let the heavy infantry Attack!"

"It's hard work, brother, it's our turn!" said the legionnaires who passed by Adoris and his comrades in high spirits.

"May Hades bless you!" Adoris and the others offered their blessings to their comrades, and then began to wear armor, while looking at the heavily armed legionnaires with a little envy: some carrying ladders, some holding shields and spears, Formed a two-lane column, quickly entered the passage composed of wooden carts, and then quickly appeared under the opposite city, and the siege battle began.

When Matonis saw that the ladders covered the city wall in front and the soldiers of the Second Legion gathered under the city, he couldn't wait to give the order again: "Let the siege tower attack!"

Under the loud shouts of the messengers, many soldiers rushed forward. Their task was to push the wooden carts in front of them into the trenches. The siege equipment was pushed under the city, clearing the obstacles.

Because some of the carts had been set on fire by rockets, the soldiers had to work harder to push them away. After the wooden cart was pushed away, what was exposed was a road leading to the city wall that was compacted very flat.

The Great Scipio commanded the soldiers to attack the Dionian heavy infantry under the ant's possession of the city, and also attack and defend the Dionian light infantry behind the arrow shield in front of the trench. He had neither the ability to stop the wooden cart's move, nor was he somewhat puzzled by the seemingly unnecessary actions of the Dionysians.

It didn't take long for him to see five tall, huge wooden city towers appearing in the distance. They seemed to be taller than the city wall and were slowly approaching the city wall.

He was as shocked as the soldiers around him. During his long fighting career, he participated in many sieges. The most difficult one was undoubtedly the attack on Wei Ai, which lasted for nearly ten years. Although it was difficult, it also enriched his attack. The experience of city and city defense, but today, Dionia’s novel siege method has made him a little nervous, and now the super siege tower that has appeared completely shocked him and the Roman soldiers. The surrounding forces facing each other, their military technology is either behind or comparable to Rome, and the Kingdom of Dionia has completely crushed Rome in this regard, which reflects the gap of civilization, making Scipio the Great in There was a sense of mental powerlessness, but he quickly picked himself up and shouted: "Prepare the rocket! Burn it with fire!"

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The Dionia engineering team was able to build five siege towers in one day, not only because of the large number of producers, but also because Davos had considered the needs of the siege before setting off, so they made the siege towers in advance. Some key parts of the city's equipment, and carried with the army, such as: the most difficult to make wheels, axles, pulleys, L-shaped iron frames for fixing the wood connection... This made the engineers and carpenters in the past day and a half Time can save time and complete production tasks.

Moreover, compared with the Siracusa siege tower, this siege tower is very different. Its frontal width is less than three meters, which is just equal to the width of the wooden cart, so it can smoothly pass through those sections and be leveled. A good trench channel runs diagonally down at the rear, showing a right-angled trapezoid. The wooden ladder is placed outside, allowing soldiers to enter the various layers of the siege tower smoothly and quickly.

The siege tower was being pushed, and the wooden window on the penultimate floor had been opened, and an abdominal bow placed inside had already drawn its bowstring and put an iron arrow on it. He flew to the head of the city, pierced the chests of several Roman soldiers, and led them down to the back of the city.

The power of the abdominal bow made the Roman soldiers who were facing the siege tower terrified. They had to be distracted to guard against this terrible murder weapon. Naturally, they could not attack the Dionian soldiers who were climbing the city with all their strength. If not The mobile troops deployed on the city by Scipio the Great arrived in time, almost allowing the Dionian soldiers to board the city.

Before the Roman soldiers could catch their breath, the Dionian light infantrymen who were attacking the top of the city tower began to throw arrows at the defenders at the front of the city who had entered the range.

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At the same time when the Second Army was attacking, the soldiers of the Sixth Army, located on the east side of the Second Army, led by the army commander Trotiras, also adopted the siege method of the First Army and attacked the eastern section of the southern Roman wall. An attack was launched, forcing the defenders there to deal with it with all their might, not daring to divide their troops to aid Scipio the Great.

In the western section of the southern city wall, the Fifth Army led by Geogris and the Fourth Army led by Olivers concentrated on attacking the prominent southwest corner of the Roman city wall.

Dozens of ballistas have been bombarding this section of the city wall since yesterday afternoon. Today, one-fifth of the ballistas have been damaged. However, the two army commanders did not hesitate to order to continue the attack since the early morning. Focus on the lower part of the city wall.

After being hit by stone bullets for a long time, the stones on the outer wall of the city wall shattered, and large pieces fell off. In some places, the thick rammed earth layer was exposed.

Then, the ballista team concentrated the target of the live ammunition on the uppermost part of the city wall. Although some stone bullets crossed the city wall, the stone bullets that hit the city wall caused stone fragments to splash around, posing a danger to the defenders at the city head. , they had to back away.

The heavy infantry of Dionia took the opportunity to carry the thickened long and wide wooden planks, rushed to the front of the ditch, and spread it. The subsequent heavy infantry carried the ladder, stepped on the plank, crossed the ditch, and began to siege the city. The attack stopped there.

In the tide of the attack, there were also siege vehicles and lion vehicles. They were carefully pushed over the wooden bridge by the soldiers and rolled towards the city walls that exposed the rammed earth...

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The entire city of Rome is surrounded by tall city walls. There is only one place without a city wall, that is, the Roman Vertebral Bridge in the north and a distance of more than one mile to the left and right. However, there is a wide Tiber River in front of it, and there are seven or eight meters. The high and steep embankments served as barriers, but the Romans regarded it as the safest place.

Decades ago, in two wars with Rome's greatest enemy in the Tiber Valley, Vie, the Romans fought off enemy attacks by holding Shiibashi.

This time, when the Dionians occupied the other side of the Shibashi Bridge, the former patrol captain, Pullo Cassius, who was in charge of the defense of the north of the city of Rome, was still prepared to adopt the same tactics.