Compared with the light infantry of Dionia, the siege tower poses a greater threat to the defenders on the city.

Every time the belly bow is fired, all the arrows are killed in a tragic way, which makes the defenders facing the siege tower frightened and retreat one after another, which leads to several small open spaces appearing on the crowded city.

Of course, as the siege tower advances, the elevation angle between the belly bow and the city head increases, and the belly bow cannot be raised, which makes it impossible to accurately shoot to the city head, resulting in a greatly reduced threat. However, the legion javelins on the top of the tower began to exert their power. They rely on the protection of wooden railings to throw heavy javelins at the city head. This javelin is no more than arrows. The Roman heavy infantry is stabbed and will also be injured, forcing them to raise their shields and be careful. The Roman archers also shoot at the top of the siege tower to attack these Dionian javelins without armor protection.

The suppression of the city head by the siege tower caused the defenders of this section of the city wall to weaken the attack on the Dainian soldiers who were siegeing the city, and were attacked by the opponent one after another. Every time the enemy was killed or driven down the city, the Roman soldiers had to pay two or three times the price of casualties.

Now the biggest danger is that the siege tower is slowly approaching the city wall. Even though the Roman defenders kept throwing asphalt tanks at it, constantly igniting the tower body, and even turned into a sea of ​​fire on its way forward, nearly a hundred people from the siege tower were on the side and back of the siege tower. Under the cover of the wooden shed outside the tower, they kept pouring out the burning tincture oil on the ground with sand and soil, while pushing the siege tower forward. Even if someone was injured or even fell from time to time, they did not shake their determination to complete the task.

Finally, the behemoth finally approached the city wall.

"Get back from there! Go back!" Due to the critical situation, Scipio, the Great came to command himself. Seeing that the soldiers were still crowded by the battlements, he screamed in a hurry.

Just as the Roman soldiers retreated to both sides, the wooden iron bridge tied to the top of the siege tower smashed down, landed on the battlements, and smashed the Roman soldiers still below to the ground.

Great Scipio had no time to feel heartbroken by the soldiers who were overwhelmed under the wooden bridge. He shouted loudly: "Cruel oil! Scatter the turbulent oil quickly!..."

In fact, the Romans did not expect to be attacked by a large army in advance. The city did not have a large amount of asphalt. In the past two days, almost all the asphalt used for lighting in the Roman people's homes was plundered. The battle has been almost consumed until now. The Roman people had to urgently transport the olive oil they had to eat.

"Bang! Bang!..." Dozens of clay pots were smashed up.

But at the same time, the soldiers of the Second Legion of Dionia, who had been prepared in the tower, were already shouting the name of Hades and rushed to the wooden bridge from the siege tower. While they rushed forward, they shot down the flying pots with long shields.

Of course, some soldiers were splashed with olive oil, and then unfortunately hit by the flying torch, and instantly turned into a fireman. He screamed shrillly, but at this moment, his comrades would not stop to save him, but turned their vigorous fighting spirit into full of anger, without fear of the densely erected guns in front of them, blocking the long shield in front of them, jumping off the bridge, one by one, like Mount Tai, and resolutely jumping into the dense array of Roman soldiers, regardless of the gunshot wounds in their bodies, wielding the dagger in their hands, and stabbing at the surrounding enemies like lightning.

Although at this time of the war, the temporarily recruited Roman soldiers had begun to adapt to the atmosphere of the battlefield and, inspired by the belief in defending their homes, diluted their fear of death, they were either too young and lacked combat experience, or were too old and lacked physical strength. These soldiers of the Second Legion of Dionia were all elite, all like tigers, stirring up the Roman defenders' array, and most of the screams were from the defenders.

Fortunately, Scipio had already predicted this and arranged most of the 3,000 young and middle-aged Roman soldiers who had stayed in Rome to defend the South City Wall, and used 1,000 of them as mobile forces to deal with emergencies. At this moment, he transferred 400 strong soldiers to form dense gun arrays at both ends of the aisle at the top of the city, rushing the Roman soldiers in front to squeeze inward, trying to annihilate the soldiers who rushed to the top of the city by attacking forward and backward.

Unexpectedly, the soldiers of the Dionian who had rich combat experience ignored their own casualties and relied on their crazy attack to expand the space at the city wall. The subsequent Dionian soldiers braved the gradually increasing fire and rushed to the city wall... While they were attacking, they were also quickly forming formations.

When the Roman old and weak soldiers who were in front of them were injured, died, and retreated, and when the Roman elite soldiers faced the enemy directly, the Dionian soldiers had already stood on the top of the city wall. They formed a shield formation to defend against the front and back attacks, like a rock staggering on the top of the city wall.

Although Scipio was anxious when he saw this situation, he also understood that this could not be solved in a short period of time. Fortunately, the siege tower had already ignited a fire, and even the top javelins on the top of the tower that posed a great threat to the defenders retreated. It was impossible for an enemy to use it to rush to the city. This gave him some comfort.

But soon, his mood fell to the bottom again: "General Scipio! Over there... the siege tower over there is almost approaching the city wall!"

Scipio quickly led another 400 strong soldiers to rush over.

This time he decided to learn from his lessons and let these soldiers directly defend the city head near the siege tower, block the enemies rushing from the tower, and never give them the opportunity to stand on the city head.

But after a while, he made up for the leaks and found that the troops defending the city were already a little nervous.

At this time, the messenger who arrived finally brought him good news: the Senate sent more than 1,400 reinforcements.

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Martonis, who had been paying attention to the battle situation in the distance below the city, sighed for the burning siege tower. Soon he was excited that another siege tower approached the city wall.

"Hurry up, send another company up! This time we not only have to rush to the top of the city, but also break through the enemy's blockade, climb up to the top of the city for other soldiers and clear obstacles!"

"Legislative Commander, we... have no company to send." The adjutant reminded in embarrassment.

"What?! Didn't you just now--" Martonis turned around in shock.

Not far behind him were many people, but more than half of them were engineers and craftsmen, who were busy and rushed to make siege equipment; some were personnel from the baggage battalion, who were not only responsible for pushing the produced siege equipment, but also carried some injured soldiers back on the way back; some were doctors and nurses from the medical battalion, who were nervously treating the wounded soldiers who were carried back...

Martonis looked at the battlefield where bloody battles were coming forward again.

The dozens of rattles in front of the trench were burned a lot, and the rising smoke blocked most of the view; the frequency of light infantry firing arrows at the city was much slower than before, and they were afraid they were also tired.

Under the city, the heavy infantrymen of the Second Legion were all half-squatting on the ground, hiding their entire bodies under the long shield. When they looked in a daze, they seemed to be black and shining with dark light. Only a ladder stood up like big trees, leaning against the city wall. Then the soldiers crawling on it dyed the gray city walls into black paths. Soldiers kept falling down above them, and soldiers continued to replenish them below them. From time to time, a ball of flames rose under the city, mixed with shrill screams, which made Matonis heart tighten every time.

Three of the five tall siege towers have been burned down, and one of them has been burned through the trench, because some sandbags are not compacted, the siege tower has broken the wooden board and the wheel axle is broken and trapped in it. It cannot move forward and can only serve as a platform for the archer and javelin to attack...

In Matonis' sharp eyes, he also saw that under the shield formed by the soldiers under the city, some wounded soldiers were struggling with difficulty. Because they were too seriously injured, they could not move to the rear and were successfully picked up by the baggage personnel.

When Matonis thought of the dozens of soldiers surrounded by the city, he began to feel anxious: If the city of Rome cannot be captured today, the outcome of those soldiers who cannot retreat smoothly in the city and under the city will be very tragic!

Thinking of this, he threw away what Davers said before the war, "We must preserve our strength and reduce casualties in order to deal with the next battle" and said loudly: "Let the trumpet soldiers blew the attacking trumpets for me again and urged the soldiers to step up their attack! And... hurry back to the camp and tell your Majesty that I request another heavy infantry brigade!"

"Legislative Commander." The adjutant reminded: "I received a notice before that four brigades have been sent in the camp to intercept the reinforcements from Rome. There are only two brigades left in the camp, and I'm afraid--"

"Don't talk too much, go quickly!" Martonis shouted irritably with red eyes.

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At this time, in the central army's tent, Davers had just received the reward from the scout: Reportedly, there were nearly two thousand troops ten miles southeast of the city of Rome, marching north quickly.

Davers immediately looked at the map, and Claunessus, the staff officer responsible for analyzing the enemy situation, made a quick judgment based on previous information: "Your Majesty, this is still the reinforcements from Latin city-states such as Prinist, Bone, and Gabi."

He pointed to a red spot on the map and said, "Their target to attack is most likely the Sixth Legion!"

"Most of the soldiers of the Sixth Legion are siegeing the city..." Davers pondered for a moment and said decisively: "Immediately send the heavy infantry brigade of the Fifth Legion who stayed in the camp to intercept it!"

"Your Majesty!" Claunessus reminded: "If this heavy infantry brigade is sent, there will be only a light armored brigade of the Second Legion in the camp!"
Chapter completed!