But from the early morning, the situation of the battle was completely different from what Pullo Cassius had imagined.

The Dionians pushed out crossbows on the other side and began to fire stone bombs. When the rock bombs flew over the Tiber River and fell into the Roman array, causing casualties, Cassius had to order the soldiers to scatter and retreat to residential areas fifty meters away from the embankment.

He believed that even if the Dionians advanced forward through the bridge, the Roman soldiers still had enough time to rush up and intercept the enemy outside the city of Rome.

Dionia's crossbows stopped attacking the Roman soldiers hiding in the residence, but instead bombarded the four towers on both sides of the quasi-strait.

There were always two or three stone bombs that roared in each round that could hit the tower. The roars really made Cassius worried. He had to urgently order the archers stationed on the tower to retreat quickly.

His concerns are correct.

After more than ten minutes, the two shaking towers closest to the vertebrae finally fell down... Then the Bionia's crossbow team focused on the two towers on the outside.

Cassius and the soldiers watched helplessly as one stone bomber after another bomber bomber bombered on the tower, causing the four towers to eventually fall, making a roar of wail, stirring up dust, and the feeling of powerlessness in their hearts can be imagined. They even hoped that the Dionians would attack immediately and fight them in close combat so that they would no longer have to hear or see the terrible bomber bomber bomber.

However, when the Dionians had completely destroyed the towers occupied by the Romans with their crossbows, they stopped using the crossbows.

The sudden silence of the battlefield puzzled the Romans.

At this time, the commander of the Third Legion, Lizaru, who was standing on the other side, was speaking to the commander of the Third Fleet Navy, Midolades, and said: "The other legions have begun to attack Rome, and we should also start preparing."

"Don't worry, I will be able to build twenty pontoon bridges for your legion soon, and the crew will not be able to wait!" After saying that, Midolades immediately rushed to the bank of the river on the west side of the vertebrae.

There are trenches dug outside the riverbank, earthen cranes and wooden fences are built, and there are rows of tents inside. There are 40 crow warships neatly parked by the river, with their bows facing the river.

After Midolades issued the order, the crew members of each warship immediately got on board and took their place.

Then, the soldiers of the Third Legion also rushed over and worked together to push the warship into the river.

Immediately afterwards, these warships did not start rowing in a swarm. The first ship was adjacent to the south side of the Roman Bridge and rowed to the opposite bank with all his might.

After the sailors of the second ship crossed the warship, they tried their best to dock the stern on the shore. For this reason, the siege camp specially made many long wooden poles for sailors sitting on the left and right sides of the warship, allowing them to support them to the bottom of the river to stabilize the impact of the water flow on the warship, keeping the bow facing the opposite shore, and the stern of the ship was immediately fixed to the shore with wooden piles and ropes.

The tiny three-layer oar warship in the sea is as big as a dragon on the Tiber River. The crow warship with an average length of more than 50 meters was paddling hard by the sailors, and the bow of the ship quickly touched the embankment opposite.

The operators on the deck immediately dropped the anchor, while the sailors on the right side of the hull quickly pulled back the oars, pulled out the long wooden poles that had been prepared to be at the bottom of the bilge, and leaned out the oar window, and pressed against the bottom of the river with force.

Since the surface of this section of the Tiber River is only 100 meters wide, the two ships have one bed stern on the north shore and the other bow on the south shore, and there is a natural overlap between the two ships. When the sailors of the second ship tried their best to move the bow to the stern of the first ship, the operators on the ship seized the opportunity and put down the suspension bridge.

The tip of the suspension bridge pinned through the deck of the stern of the first warship. Although it made the captain and the sailors feel heartbroken, it connected the two warships together; the third warship and the fourth warship also operated the same way; the fifth warship and the sixth warship... Not long after, nearly 20 "floating bridges" were built on the surface of the Tiber River on the west side of the Roman Bridge. Just put the suspension bridge close to the warships on the other side and put them on the embankment, which immediately connected the north and south sides.

Lizalu watched the whole process at the north bridgehead. He praised the Third Fleet for the clean and neat completion of the established plan. Of course, he knew: Yesterday afternoon, Midolades led more than a dozen warships to conduct repeated tests and training in the section below the river port, so he had today's success.

Seeing some soldiers of the Third Legion on the river beach quickly divided into twenty teams and had already started boarding the ship, a hint of regret flashed through Lizaru's heart: Unfortunately, the crow warship was unable to pass through the vertebrae because of its mast. Otherwise, a "warship pontoon bridge" could be built on the river surface on the east side of the vertebrae, which would force the Roman army on the other side to expand the width of its defense and add more weight to the army's smooth attack.

Lizalu sighed a little, and immediately turned his attention to the battlefield that was about to begin.

"Ulaza!" Lizalu turned around and said in a deep voice to the captain of the Third Legion: "You lead the First Brigade, kill from this bridge, and enter the city of Rome. This is what I ask of you!"

Ulaza, the former leader of the small Lucanian tribe and Bagule's childhood friend, became a senator of the Senate a few years ago, just as he and Ksima and Lizalu became the senator. However, he did not choose to serve in the local area, but continued to stay in the legion. Compared with Bagule, who has served as the chief executive of the key towns of Dionia many times, and Ksima, who has won the praise of Davers and the elders for his outstanding performance in the position of Chief Executive of Copsa, and Lizalu, who has served as the commander of the legion and has made many military achievements, Ulaza is just a captain, and his light is too dim. The reason why he stayed in this position for five or six years is because he likes to fight and is only good at fighting.

After listening to Lizalu's order, Ulaza did not hesitate at all, but instead replied excitedly: "League Commander, just watch it, the First Battalion will open the door to victory for the Legion!"

Then, he shouted to the first group of soldiers who were already in the array: "The time has come for the warriors of Lucania to show all the legions here and His Majesty your courage and ability! Kill the bridge and destroy the enemy!"

The source of the Third Legion mainly comes from the Lucania region. The center of the Lucania region is Grummentum, but the soldiers of the First Battalion mainly come from Niutum. As the first Lucanian town belonging to Dionia, the Niutum people also followed Davers to fight early. Therefore, when the Third Legion was established, most of its officers were Niutum people, which in turn prompted more Niutum people to join the army and serve more actively. Therefore, it has the most veterans and the richest combat experience. As the brigade with the strongest combat effectiveness of the Third Legion, the First Battalion naturally needs to gather the best and strongest soldiers.

Under the order of Chief Niutum, these Niutum soldiers were radiated with strong fighting spirit, shouting the name of Hades, and lined up in a dense five-way column (the width of this Roman vertebra bridge can only accommodate five people side by side), stepped on the vertebra bridge, and rushed to the opposite shore quickly.

When the crow warships in Dionia were built into a pontoon bridge, Cassius received an urgent reward from the spies. Dionia's strange attack method was beyond his expectations, and it also meant that Dionia's army crossed the river from the north to attack the city of Rome, and he had to urgently summon the retreating Roman squadron and ordered them to rush to the embankment immediately to defend.

When Roman squadrons left the shelter of the residential area, faced the Tiber River and entered the open area, the crossbows on the bridgehead on the other side immediately began to fire stone bombs.

Although Cassius had expected this and asked the army to adopt a loose chessboard formation to move forward quickly, stone bullets continued to fall into the center of the array, and the terrifying death of the soldiers hit caused considerable chaos.

Cassius didn't care about the casualties caused by the crossbow. He had seen the soldiers of the Dionian on the other side shore rushing towards the bridge like a black tide. She shouted anxiously: "Start forward! Speed ​​forward!..."

In fact, he didn't need to remind him that the Roman soldiers not only saw the soldiers of the Dionian who were rushing on the bridge, but also saw the enemies that began to appear on the embankment... The home was about to be invaded! Every Roman citizen, no matter his age, had a strong crisis in his heart. They accelerated their pace and rushed over with the whistling stone bombs, collided with the soldiers of the First Battalion of Dionia who had just rushed to the bridge, and also collided with the other soldiers who had just stepped onto the embankment, barely arranged one of the other soldiers of the Third Army of Dionia, and intercepted them on the banks of the Tiber River.

At this time, the crossbows and artillery team had to stop firing and let the soldiers of the two armies fight for life and death on the other side...

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In the central camp of Dionia, the reconnaissance cavalry and commanders rushed to the central camp, hurriedly left, summarizing the battle situation and enemy situations everywhere, and conveying new orders...

"Report that the siege troops of the First Legion have arrived at the city and have begun to attack!"

"Reported that the five siege towers of the Second Legion have pushed down the edge of the trench and are conducting long-range suppression attacks on the enemies on the top of the city. A siege tower was ignited by rockets, and the soldiers around are putting out the fire!"

"Reported that the siege vehicles and boat lion chariots of the Fourth and Fifth Legion have been pushed to the city and are destroying the city walls. The enemy is restrained by the siege soldiers of the Fourth and Fifth Legion. Until now, our siege equipment has not been effectively destroyed!"

"Report that the soldiers of the Sixth Legion have crossed the trench and have begun to attack the city!"

"Report, the Third Legion and the Third Fleet have already..."
Chapter completed!