"Don't worry, Heny. Summoning the general is Thormeed's position. If you steal his job, he will be unhappy." Davers smiled and patted his shoulder, and said softly: "You have just served as my clerk and need to adapt slowly. Now the first task I have assigned you is-"

Henipolis immediately corrected his posture and waited for Davers to order.

"Just have breakfast with me," Davers said in a naughty way.

"Ah! The enemy is about to attack. Your Majesty, you still have breakfast?!" Henepolis gave the servant a glance at him with a bit of reprimand exclamation: That is, Henepolis dares to speak to King Davers like this, and the other generals are respectful in front of Davers!

Davers didn't care. He signaled the servant to serve breakfast, then walked 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 with the enemy. Maybe, the soldiers outside are chewing bread and drinking hot soup to keep warm... A battle has its own rules and rhythm. We cannot be slow or anxious. Only by mastering the rhythm of action can we better maintain the soldiers' physical strength and morale!"

Henipolis nodded in a vague way.

Compared to the peaceful atmosphere in the tent, the atmosphere in the camp was tense. Because the fog was thick, it was impossible to see clearly the squad and the military flag of the company. The team leader seemed very important. He not only had to gather the nine soldiers under his command to check whether there was any problem with their weapons and equipment, but also had to distinguish the shouts of superior team officials in the noisy camp, and then lead the soldiers to meet, and at the same time avoid being squeezed out in the crowded passage.

Bunches of bonfires were lit in the camp one after another. It was not only to bring light to the foggy and gray weather, but also the chefs of the baggage camp were cooking bread, gravy and hot porridge for the soldiers of various squads.

The reason why the soldiers of the Dionian Legion were not urgently transferred to the east to defend against the enemy's attack was that the Syracuse people had not appeared in front of the trenches. In the past few days, the Dionian soldiers worked tirelessly to lay various traps and deer forts in front of the camp, which hindered the enemy's rapid advancement.

Just as the Syracuse people were speeding up the elimination of these sinister and terrible traps under the cover of thick fog, nearly 40 crossbows from all legions were concentrated in the camp of the central army of Dionia, and they were soon in place (these crossbows moved with the camp on the north bank of the Neto River the second day after Dionia's army surrounded Siliting).

Coldorod, the 4th Legion siege battalion, who had more experience in using the ballista and had excellent performance in the defense battle in Crotone, was appointed as the commander of the entire ballista unit by Davers.

At this moment, in front of Kurdorod, there was a vast white area, no suspicious target could be observed, and the distance could not be judged. However, Kurdorod was confident and kept the data in mind. How far is the position of the crossbow from the east wooden wall? How high is the wooden wall? How long is the trap area outside the camp?...

He pondered for a moment and began to issue an order: "50 degree elevation angle, five kilograms of stone bullet, retreat three grids, prepare!"

The messenger quickly conveyed the order to all the crossbow gunners in this area.

They immediately moved the support rod of the crossbow to lower the chute, increase the elevation angle, and then shake the pulley, and the powerful spring arm was pulled apart and fixed, and the five-kilogram stone bullet was placed into the smooth groove. Due to the limitations of handicrafts and materials, the 50-degree elevation angle is the maximum elevation angle that the Dainian crossbow can achieve. In this state, the parabola shot out of the stone bullet is high, but the distance is close. Retreating the three grids means making of several stranded together and beef tendon

The spring set is only half full. The five-kilogram stone bomb is the minimum weight of this type of stone bomb that the Dionian crossbow can fire (the maximum weight is 15 kg, which is different from the Syracuse ballast. Since Syracuse frequently attacks other city-states in Sicily, the ballast has high destructive power requirements for the city walls, and the ballast is therefore larger and heavier, and can shoot a Tarrant-weight stone bomb (i.e. 26 kg) out of nearly 300 meters.

Koldorod's idea was: the fog in the morning, the water is high, and the weather is cool, which has a great impact on the structure of the crossbow, especially the spring group made of beef tendons, so he first used small-weight stone bullets to warm up the equipment, and at the same time tested the main force of the enemy. The estimated landing location of the stone bullet was 80-120 meters outside the trench. If the enemy attacked in large quantities, 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 raised the elevation angle and reduced the tension of the spring group, hoping to reach the range he hoped to reach the range he hoped.

The soldiers of the First Legion sat cross-legged on the ground, chewing bread, and looked up at the stone bullets after stone were shot into the air and disappeared into the thick fog...

After a moment, the thick fog outside the camp suddenly felt like a pot of an explosion, and a scream and scream sounded, completely confirming the fact that the Syracuse army was attacking.

"50 degrees elevation angle, ten kilograms, one square, prepare!" After being influenced by the war, Kurdorod, a student from the once gentle and elegant Dionia Academy, had a murderous aura on his body. The news of the start of the crossbows team did not make him cheer like his subordinates. He continued to give orders calmly.

Yesterday, the First Legion of Dionia was bombarded by nearly a hundred crossbows and archers of Syracuse all day long in the town of Mearo. Today, the Dionians repaid their colors in the same way outside the Siri court. Retribution really came too quickly.

Dionysius did not want to fight back with the ballads, but the ballads he brought to the camp of the Tachinadi River because he wanted to attack the inner city of Crotone. As a result, the battle failed. The army was only concerned about escaping life. All the siege equipment was abandoned in the camp and fell into the hands of the Dionys. Originally, with the engineers, craftsmen and apprentices under his command, it was not a problem to re-create dozens of ballads in a short time, but there was a key ballad device.

The Syracuse people could not make it immediately, that is, the crossbow spring group made of cow tendons. They were surrounded by the Dionians in the city, and few people raised cattle and sheep in the city, and most of the pack beasts in the army were lost in the Tachinadi River camp. What's more, even if there were cows in the city, it would take many processes to kill cow tendons and take cow tendons. It took nearly half a year to create a qualified spring group. Therefore, Dionysius gave up making crossbows and concentrated manpower to make other equipment.

At this moment, thousands of Syracuse slaves and free people were catching up on time to destroy traps and forts, then flatten the land and lay wooden boards. Suddenly, stone bombs fell into the dense crowd, with cracked heads and broken bones and blood splattered everywhere.

In fact, because the stone bomb was high in parabola, it rarely bounced after it landed, causing more than 20 casualties in total. However, every bloody tragedy scared the people around him. The Syracuse team officials took a lot of effort to barely stabilize their emotions.

Since they had been noticed by the Dionians, the Syracuses no longer hid and began to push the siege equipment out of the city one by one. In order to make them, the Syracuses almost stripped off all the houses in the city of Silit, collected door panels, wood, and even cut down all the trees in the port...

The largest equipment made among them is undoubtedly a nearly six-meter-high mobile tower. In order to allow these towers to be transported out of the city, Dionysius decisively ordered his men to organize their men and secretly pull out a small section of the city wall. It was not until last night that it completely turned into a passage from inside to outside the city.

Dionysius dared to do this because after receiving the alarm from Locre, he realized that the cunning Dionys built camps and besieged Silitun, not to siege the city, but to block the Syracuse army and attack the weak allies of Syracuse. In order to achieve this insidious purpose, the young Davers even used peace talks to numb himself (of course, he naturally ignored that Syracuse was also using peace talks to delay time)!

Of course, Syracuse could not allow Dionyya to successfully reach their plan. Since Dionyya's army turned to attack the Locre Alliance, the troops stationed in the camp outside the city of Siliting will naturally be reduced. Moreover, the Dionyya also built a huge military camp that stretched for ten miles to surround Ciliting, which even reduced Dionyya's troops...

Davers' "arrogant and arrogant" gave Dionysius a good opportunity to defeat Dionysian army. In the past few days, the soldiers of Syracuse gradually recovered from failure, and he also spent a lot of energy to convince tens of thousands of free people and slaves to join the ranks of soldiers with expectations. "Give freedom, give citizenship, and give land..." These methods were not only done by Dionysia, but also by Syracuse, but in the past it was mainly aimed at mercenaries. This time, Dionysius expanded the scope of application in order to defeat Dionysia and escape from danger. Of course, the most important reason that prompted them to take up weapons was that everyone wanted to return to Sicily alive smoothly.

Therefore, when nearly two thousand light infantry from Dionia arrived on the wooden wall and began to shoot countless arrows outside the foggy camp, causing many Syracuses to be injured and died, although they panicked, there was no major chaos yet, and they could basically continue to carry out the task of sweeping the defense facilities. The trap area less than 100 meters long was quickly filled with the accelerated efforts of tens of thousands of people.

Then, the free people and slaves escaped the rain of arrows and stone bombs, retreated in a hurry to the rear, followed the guidance of the shouters, and came to a few hundred meters away from the camp of Dionia, where thousands of Syracuses stood, forming a row of more than a mile long, and in front of them were piles of simple spears and wooden shields.

Thanks to Yijian68, can I add more updates? Battle with Billy, mobile targets, and the handsome Xi Dapang reward! Your support is my biggest motivation for writing!! Although I was on vacation this week, my wife went back to her hometown to take care of her seriously ill father-in-law. She had to take care of her daughter and a two-month-old puppy at home. She felt she was even more busy than when she was working. Yesterday, her daughter was bitten by a puppy, but she ran to the hospital for vaccination. She took her to play football tonight to relax.
Chapter completed!