The huge Roman forces forced the Volcian soldiers and the Dionian reinforcements from the two cities to dare not leave the city easily, but could only send a few light infantry to harass them, which obviously had little impact on the Roman army.

Camillus used half of his troops to be responsible for the defense, and the other half of his soldiers, slaves and civilians who transported the baggage participated in the construction of the camp. The two were rotated regularly. As a result, it took only three days to initially build the Roman camp between Setia and Polefnam.

Quintus and Lisinius couldn't wait to propose to attack Setia.

The respected Camillus expressed opposition at first, reminding the two military officials: In the past few days, the Wolseys have been building traps and trenches outside the city of Setia. The defense of the entire city may be stronger than before. Moreover, there are tens of thousands of Wolsey reinforcements and thousands of powerful Dionians in the city of Polefnam, not far from Setia. They may go out to the city to provide assistance at any time, increasing difficulties for the Romans' siege.

Therefore, he suggested: to encircle Setia without attacking, nail Polephonham, and then divide more than 20,000 soldiers, bypass the two towns, and advance straight to the southwest, destroy the fields of the Wolsey people, and arrive at the city of Serche, a major town in Volsey. If the Wolsey reinforcements and the Dionians come to rescue, take the opportunity to fight them in the wild; if the enemy does not rescue, attack Serche, and finally take it down, thereby changing the stalemate.

Quintus expressed his rejection. In his opinion, the enemy was right in front of him. With the strong strength of his army, he could fight the decisive battle with the enemy from Polefnam while taking down Setia. He did not need to march for another twenty or thirty miles and risked being attacked by the enemy's rear route to attack the city of Selshe, which was called "the dangerous terrain" by the Wolseys. It would be both dangerous and too troublesome.

Of course, Lisinius also supported taking Setia first.

As the least experienced military officer, Frius remained silent, but in his heart he actually supported Quintus' proposal. This was derived from the Roman military tradition of heavy infantry as the main military force of the city-state. Most Roman citizens were accustomed to head-on rushing and had no big idea of ​​roundabout raids, even if Frius worked with Camillus for so long.

Camillus did not stick to his opinion, but instead asked to stay in the camp and build a new camp at the same time.

So the Romans' attack on Setia began.

Soon they tasted the power of the defensive facilities added with the help and guidance of the soldiers of the First Legion of Dionia.

First of all, the wide trap belt in front of the trench caused great trouble for the Roman soldiers, and many soldiers were stabbed by "meat hooks" and "lily".

Just when they had to patiently clear the traps, the defenders sent hundreds of light infantrymen familiar with the distribution of traps outside the city. They scattered on the safe passages in the trap area and attacked the Romans who were busy clearing the obstacles on the ground, which not only caused casualties to some Roman soldiers, but also delayed their siege.

Therefore, although the crossbows 300 meters away from the city have been firing stone bombs for several days, and even several damaged due to excessive use, the old Setia wall has only recently been repaired and cannot withstand continuous bombardment, and several collapses have occurred.

This was a great opportunity to siege the city, but the Romans were blocked from the trap outside the city and could not reach the city smoothly. They could only watch the Volseys repair the gap with stones and mud paddles. But this also gave Quentus, Lisinius, and Frius more confidence in conquering Sityacheng.

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

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

Quintus and Lisinius left nearly 15,000 people in the camp, led by Camillus and Frius to guard against Polefornum's rescue, and led nearly 30,000 soldiers to launch a strong attack on Setia City.

Setia's wide and deep trenches and dense Luzhai under the city walls became the biggest obstacle to the Romans' attack, but it was the most powerful helper for the Volsians to kill the Romans on the top of the city. They desperately poured downwards with javelins, arrows, stones, and oil...

The Romans suffered great casualties.

After a long battle of hard work, the Romans finally defeated the repaired gap in the original city wall with siege cars. The soldiers rushed into the city through the gap. They suddenly discovered that there was a slightly shorter city wall built with earth, and the city was covered with Wolsey soldiers.

The Romans found out that they were fooled, but the comrades who were uninformed behind them were still pouring in, and soon filled the narrow corridor.

Wolsey was condescending and launched a long-range attack from all directions. Every stone and every javelin could kill the Romans. The raging flames ignited by the large-scale thrown oil tanks made the Romans feel like they fell into the underworld...

After paying the price of more than 2,000 casualties, the Roman army failed to siege the city.

Kuntus and Lisinius returned to the camp with a gloomy face. Camillus was tactful and said nothing, but just summoned the doctors and soldiers in the camp to treat the wounded.

The Wolseys in Setia were greatly inspired by this victory and strengthened their determination to defend the city.

After two days of rest, Quintus and Lisinius did not listen to Camillus' dissuasion and insisted on siege again. Due to Frius' support, Camillus could only agree.

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

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

The battle went on very fiercely.

In the afternoon, the Romans attacked the city head one after another, and the Wolseys had to retreat to their newly built second city wall. Because of insufficient manpower, they even had to arm the old man and the women and send the city head to resist the fierce attack of the Romans.

And at this critical moment, reinforcements from Polephonam arrived, and they tried to bypass the Roman camp and rescue Setia.

Camillus was wary of this. After receiving the reward from the reconnaissance cavalry, he left more than 2,000 people to guard the camp and personally led 7,000 soldiers out of the camp to intercept it.

Polefornum's reinforcements were 8,000 soldiers mainly with the First Army of Dionia. Although their troops were not much different from the last time, the attack of the mixed forces this time was far less fierce than the last time.

After Camillus noticed this, he felt uneasy.

Sure enough, the reconnaissance soon confirmed his concern: thousands of Volsey soldiers were approaching Setia from the north.

Where is the power of the Wolsey people north?! When Camillus heard this news, he was extremely uneasy and also confused.

In fact, after Polefornum received the news that the Roman army once again attacked the city of Setia early in the morning, Printols concluded that this time Setia would be difficult for him to resist the prepared attack of the Roman army, so he put forward his own suggestions, and Volsey's reinforcements followed this bold suggestion.

They sent 5,000 Wolsey soldiers, first marched southwest, arrived at the swamp area near the coast, and then turned north. Taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, they obeyed the edge of the swamp area, escaped the exploration of Roman scouts, and circled a large circle and appeared in the north of the city of Setia.

At this time, the siege battle was at its peak.

The newly built earth wall was under the fierce battle between the two sides and collapsed in many places. Whether it was women, old people, or young people, as long as they could pick up their spears, they were almost sent to block these gaps. And Kuntus also suppressed all his troops, hoping to break through the city of Setia in one fell swoop.

While both sides were trying their best, Wolsey's reinforcements appeared, and they were the strongest soldiers. Polefornum also gave all his strength to save Setia.

When Quentus, Lisinius, and Frius received this shocking news, he was as if he was hit hard, and then he couldn't help but curse: "Damn the scout! Why didn't he find out until the reinforcements of Wolsey were forced into the eyes?!!..."

Of course, Quintus also cursed casually, "Why can't Camillus stop the reinforcements?"

Of course, this accusation was absurd. The other two thought Quentus was an unintentional word because of anxiety. After all, they had already received news that Camillus was leading his army to resist the reinforcements of Polefornum attacking from the south.

The Wolsey reinforcements from the north were approaching quickly, and the Roman army had already devoted themselves to the siege, so it was difficult to draw out troops to intercept them for a while. As for the more than 2,000 soldiers in the camp, they would not dare to take them away, otherwise they would be attacked by the Wolseys and lost the mountains of food and weapons in the camp, and this huge army of more than 40,000 people would be difficult to maintain.

"Or let the soldiers use Setia's outer wall to block Volsey's reinforcements first, and we will concentrate our efforts to capture Setia's inner city." Frius suggested.

"The Volsie people in the city resisted very tenaciously. We have tried our best. Even if we take down the entire city of Setia, the tired soldiers will not have the extra energy to fight against the four or five thousand enemies who have just joined the battle!" Lisinius looked at Quintus and expressed his opinion worriedly.
Chapter completed!