Chapter 221: Attacking Lola (2)

At the same time, Aeos also noticed that the attack of the defenders at the city head was weakening. Obviously, the Lola warriors who were defending at the city head had never suffered such a siege method, although in the long-range attack on both sides, they used the battlements. They still have the upper hand, but the increase in the number of injuries has also put a lot of pressure on them.

"The enemy is in a bit of a mess!" He said with a happy expression to Zantiparis, who was also in the rear, observing the enemy's situation.

"This is a good thing. It can reduce the casualties of soldiers and civilians, but the toughest battle is yet to come." Zantiparis said calmly.

Aeros knew what Zantiparis was talking about as the toughest battle—a face-to-face slaughter after the mountains and walls were closed.

Compared with the lively battlefield of the South City, it is much quieter outside the West City Wall.

First, several hundred Campania light infantrymen came to the front of the ditch with the shields made by the carpenters of Dionia, and the long-range attacks of the defenders in the city headed to the front of the ditch. It stood obliquely to provide shelter for the light infantry, and from time to time they fired javelins and arrows from the gap between the arrow guards to attack the defenders at the front of the city.

While the defenders were being restrained, the Onian heavy infantry pushed out the siege wagons. (The engineers of the Dionian Corps guided the carpenters of Enona and Campania with soldiers from the mountains and forests. The felled wood made this hollow wooden cart), just like what the soldiers of the Second Legion did when Davos led his army to storm Rome before, the wooden carts were spliced ​​together in the process of pushing towards the city wall, straight to the front of the trench.

Not only the Allied soldiers were amazed, but the defenders at the front of the city were also dumbfounded. They saw that the wooden cart was nowhere to be seen, and the rockets launched could not set it on fire, while Dionysian soldiers quickly passed the clothes in the carriage. The sack quickly filled the ditch that was not wide in front of him.

Then, the wooden carts continued to push forward one by one until they stood against the city wall, thus forming two hollow passages from the city wall to forty meters away, formed by siege carts, and the soldiers behind immediately carried a large The front end of the wood was inlaid with an iron cone-shaped ram. The ram was passed by the soldiers and reached the city wall. Six soldiers carried it and slammed it hard against the city wall.

The hard hammer slammed violently against the disrepaired stone wall, the stone was broken, the mud fell off, and the stone wall cracked...

The vibration of the city wall made the defenders at the head of the city panic. They intensified their attack. Stones and wood were violently smashed down, thin oil was poured, and rockets were fired...

However, the vans closest to the city wall were specially made to be extremely strong. The craftsmen not only strengthened the entire frame, but also adopted a herringbone structure on the roof, which was easy to unload, and was tied with bags soaked with water. They are not easily ignited, so soldiers can safely hit the city walls inside.

When the battering ram broke through the outer stone wall, exposing the inner rammed earth layer, the soldiers picked up pickaxes and shovels, and began to take out the stones around the gap, expand the hole in the wall, and then continuously dig out the rammed earth inside. earth……

The defense of the city walls on the west and south alone has put a lot of pressure on the Lola defenders, who are not many, not to mention that the coalition forces are also attacking on the east and north sides. In order to defend the city, the Lola people mobilized all the fighting clansmen in the city, including even women, to defend the city.

Nancheng had always been the most intense battlefield. The battle lasted for half an hour. The Dionysian light infantrymen were too sore to lift their arms, and their fingers were injured and bleeding from pulling the bow. The heavy infantry who formed the shield wall suffered 300 casualties. Many people, the casualties of the people are also not small.

But the turning point finally came, and Lola's defenders ran out of javelins. In just half an hour, they threw thousands of javelins,

In addition to the javelins thrown a few days ago in order to prevent the Dionians from building the dirt mountain, all the javelins in the city have been used up, and the arrows are almost consumed.ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм

As for the javelin thrown by the Dionysian light infantry, it has a specially made spear tip. The iron rod connecting the spear tip is very thin. After hitting a hard object, it will bend and cannot be used for throwing, but the front end of the javelin can be quickly disassembled. The iron point of the gun, and then use the new point to cover the wooden rod at the rear, and it can be used again, but it is obviously impossible for the Lola defenders to do it.

Therefore, the defenders could only throw stones and logs at the opponent. Since Dionia's shield wall was ten meters away from the city head, too heavy stones could not be thrown, and those that could be thrown were more easily blocked by the long shield. The threat of the Dionysian heavy infantry is much smaller, the shield wall can continue to stabilize, and the people can drop soil bags more quickly.

Seeing that the valley was gradually filling up, the earth bags had risen to the feet of the Dionysian heavy infantry, and they began to carefully move forward with their shields so that the following people could fill in the depression further ahead.

At this time, Aeos at the foot of the mountain was already gathering the 1,000 Campania heavy infantry, preparing to replace the army on the top of the mountain.

The bugle sounded, and the Dionian light infantry quickly retreated down the mountain. According to Zantiparis' plan, Aeos led the Campania heavy infantry into a dozen columns, separated them, and slowly marched toward the hills to facilitate the evacuation of the people and the Dionysian heavy infantry. .

The Campania heavy infantry wore Corinthian helmets and held large copper shields. They had narrow vision and clumsy movements. Climbing mountains was a difficult task for them. influences.

The Dionysian heavy infantry, who had formed a shield formation on the top of the mountain, without the assistance of the light infantry, moved towards the city wall, and the attack became more violent. On the hills that were almost filled up, with spears in hand, they directly attacked the Dionysian heavy infantry.

In this long-term battle of defending the city, the Lola defenders have seen it clearly. These Dionian soldiers did not carry spears at all because they held shields in both hands, so the Lola soldiers had a deep kick and shallow Stepping on the uneven soil bag with one foot, he directly used his body to knock open the long shield, even knocked down the enemy, and then stabbed the spear in his hand.

The shield wall formed by two columns of Dionysian heavy infantry became fragmented, and when the people fled down in panic, the Dionysian officers shouted: "Don't retreat! Throw away a long side. Shield, for short swords!!  …”

In fact, without their shouting, the soldiers have already done it. These reserve soldiers from the Lukania Mountains suffered from the enemy's long-range attack before and watched hundreds of comrades casualties. Just now, the enemy suddenly attacked directly. Dozens of people were killed and injured... They are all Lucanians who grew up after the establishment of the Kingdom of Dionia. Although the cultural fusion of the kingdom has weakened their wildness, their military training has taught them teamwork and comrades-in-arms. Friendship, with the anger of revenge for their comrades in arms, armed with short swords and long shields, they fought fiercely with the Lola defenders.

However, Dionia's bugle on behalf of the retreat was blown at this time.

Despite their unwillingness, the soldiers had to obey orders.

And the Lola warriors did not continue to chase, because they saw the "tin cans" coming up, so they ran back and turned into the city wall again.

On this earthy hill with a width of more than 50 meters, the Campania heavy infantry slowly approached the defenders at the head of the city, gradually forming a dense formation. The enemy, but cannot use the charge and impact that heavy infantry is good at, and the power is greatly weakened. The bugles of the attack under the city continued to sound, and the Campania heavy infantry on the mountain, led by Aeos, began to fight fiercely with the enemy.

To tell the truth, in these years Campanians and Samonites have been at war, there are few good opportunities for such a face-to-face fight, because the Samonite warriors always use javelin throws to kill Campania soldiers first, and then retreat, lure They pursued, taking advantage of the opponent's slowness of movement during the retreat, repeatedly attacking with javelins until the opponent's formation was completely chaotic, and then sent armored infantry to break in and completely defeat the opponent.

This set of tactics has been tried and tested, and the successive failures have made the Campanias so terrified that they dare not even go out of the city to fight in the field. Today, they finally have the opportunity to avenge their shame. The Campania soldiers roared loudly. The stab gun stabs the enemy forcefully.

As the defending side of the city, the Lola defenders of course could not adopt the guerrilla tactics that were effective in the past. They could only face the enemy head-on. They let the armored soldiers block in front of the battlements, and the light infantry behind them. Formation against Campania heavy infantry. In order to compete with the enemy, they also deployed some of the defenders of the western city wall, because they believed that the battle in the west was relatively calm, and even if the number of defenders was small, it was enough to cope.

But not long after some of the defenders of the west city wall were transferred, bad news came out: the west city wall had collapsed in two places.

This is all due to the Dionian soldiers in the siege chariot. They took out the stone walls and rammed earth at the bottom of the city wall and destroyed the foundation of the wall, causing the already weak city wall to collapse due to gravity and scattered. The stones even injured several Dionian soldiers who were too late to retreat.

The loud noise of "rumbling" and the rising morning fog not only shocked the Lola defenders, but also dumbfounded the Campania soldiers, who originally saw the unique, slow-moving nature of the Dionysian soldiers. Teng Teng's siege method has not seen any movement for such a long time, and I can't help but despise it, feeling that it is time-consuming and laborious, and even the soldiers said with disdain: "It is said that the Dionysians fought bravely, it seems that they are also If you are afraid of death, you only know how to hide in a wooden box!" New 81 Chinese website updates the fastest computer terminal: https://

And now the tragic experience of the city wall has given them a resounding slap in the face. Of course they don't know: in the various military camps in the Kingdom of Dionia, not only the soldiers will build a section of the city wall in training to exercise their ability to build a city, but also in the next training they will train how to break through this section. The city wall, so the Dionian soldiers were not digging randomly, but purposefully and efficiently destroying the structure of the city wall.