#143 Storm the City of Rome (15)

Although their number is less than a thousand people, their attack method has made the light armored 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.

Davers had to say, "Herney, sit down quickly, don't walk around, it makes me dizzy."

Henipolis said anxiously: "Your Majesty, there are more and more enemies attacking the camp, and even enemy reinforcements have appeared in the east of Rome, threatening the camp of the First Legion... Now we are surrounded by enemies. There are no extra troops in the camp to call, and the legions are still blocked under the city, and the soldiers have suffered a lot of casualties. If this stalemate continues, in case the city of Rome cannot be captured before dark, I am worried... I'm worried about..."

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. 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 head, and has gained a firm foothold; the third legion also occupied the Roman vertebral bridge The bridgehead on the south bank is expanding the scope of its attack; the 4th Corps used siege vehicles to collapse the city wall, and the soldiers have broken into the gap and are temporarily blocked under the city...

We are in a tug-of-war with the Romans. The Romans have tried their best to be at a stalemate with us, but this burst of power cannot last. We are increasing our strength, little by little. Pull the red rope over until the Romans are completely overwhelmed, and they are bound to collapse! "

Davers clenched his right fist,

With a strong wave, he said confidently: "As for those Roman reinforcements—"

"Your Majesty, good news! Lord Epithenes led 4,000 soldiers to the battlefield, and cooperated with Lord Tormed to completely defeat the Roman reinforcements in the southwest. The first and second cavalry corps were chasing the routed soldiers. Thormed And Lord Epithenes is coming with an army!"

"That's great!" Henepolis, who used to have a sad face, is 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. The command!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Athenarus quickly sent out the tent to notify the messengers, and soon he hurried back to the tent, saying excitedly: "Your Majesty, the reconnaissance cavalry reports, some troops from the Sixth Army and the First Army have attacked the city! "

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On the surface, the I Corps and Sixth Corps are taking the conventional siege method, but Davos has 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. Trotiras, the commander of the sixth legion, was also a member of the Persian expedition mercenary. Turii, who came with Davos, has grown from an ordinary soldier to a legion commander. Not bad either, 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 section of the wall between the Capitoline Mountains and the Quirreno Mountains, 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 arouse the suspicion of the enemy and take precautions. After thinking about it, he decides to let the soldiers do this...

Davos applauded after learning about Trotiras' idea, and the Sixth Legion'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 fierce attack 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 draw soldiers from other wall sections to strengthen it. Defense, the defenders who have been doing nothing on the southeast corner are of course also within the scope of being drafted.

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 didn't know that these Roman auxiliaries were dressed by Dionian soldiers, who deceived the defenders by wearing the armor and equipment of Roman soldiers who had been cleaning the battlefield after the victory of the battle two days earlier. When they came to the southeast corner of the city successfully, they avoided the sight of the defenders, connected the ropes wrapped around their bodies, and put on the hooks. Dozens of rope hooks were quickly made.

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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