I remember when the Dionian army first established a crossbow gun force, a legion of crossbows was equipped with a sight sight hand. They all came from the Dionian Academy because it required deep mathematical knowledge and fast computing ability to accurately calculate the landing point and launch curve. More than ten years have passed, and now a crossbow can be equipped with a sight sight hand, which coincides with the results of the Dionian Kingdom in civic education.

At this moment, the crossbow gunner had adjusted the settings of the crossbow at the prompt of the sighting hand, pulled the spring arm, quickly put the small stone bullet into it, fixed it on the smooth-bore wooden arm, pressed the firing button, the copper ring that fixed the stone bullet and the iron hook that pulled the spring arm bounced open at the same time, the spring arm quickly retracted, and the powerful torque pushed the stone bullet out of the cannon stand, roaring at a Roman crossbow that was slowly advancing forward.

"Boxcannon! Dionia's Birdcannon!" The Roman soldier who was pushing the birdcannon shouted in panic when he saw the black spots flying in the air, trying to push the birdcannon to avoid it. However, the bulky birdcannon was slow to move, but the stone bullet arrived in a blink of an eye and hit the crossbow not far from the birdcannon, splashing the Roman soldiers in dust.

The terrified Roman soldiers then saw eight or nine black dots flying out of the city and attacking other crossbows. Although they failed to hit them in the end, Titus, who was watching the formation behind, was surprised. He never expected that the Dionians had left many crossbows in the small town of Ostia, and placed them on the city to attack his own crossbows. He had never seen such a defense method.

Just as he was still hesitating whether to retreat the ballista, Dionia's second round of ballista attack had already begun.

Ten stone bombs hit again, and finally a Roman crossbow was hit. Although the force arm was broken, the crossbow was a relatively fine siege equipment. Once the balance was destroyed, it could not be put into use again unless it was repaired. After the Romans obtained the Carthage ballad, they did not try to copy it, but also made some progress. They were only making core components, such as metal ratchets, chains, metal cylinders, etc., which could not be cast as fine as Carthage. When they were still improving their own technology, the Dionians came, so Carthage ballads were damaged, one less.

Titus could only order anxiously: "Retract the crossbow!"

During the process of the Roman crossbows retreating in a hurry, a crossbow was destroyed by a stone bullet fired from the city.

Titus looked at the crossbows troops that were retreating in a mess, then looked up at the sky that had begun to be dyed red by the sunset, then looked at the densely packed enemies on the top of the city, and soon looked downwards, staring at the densely packed deer forts in front of the trench... After a while, he retracted his gaze and turned to look at the soldiers behind him.

These Roman citizens from the colony had already worn armor and picked up weapons. Although the long march made them look a little tired, their eyes were full of fighting spirit when they stared at Ostia, because the desire to regain their mother state made them full of strength, and their fighting spirit also infected Titus, which made him suppress his concerns: although from the contact just now and his own observations, the Dionians had relatively strict defenses against Ostia, but he had no time to restore the soldiers' physical strength and prepare for the siege more comprehensively. Instead, they had to regain Ostia before the arrival of the Dionian reinforcements, so she could only rely on the soldiers' strong fighters and huge numbers.

"Notify all troops and prepare for attack!" Titus said in a deep voice.

The messengers rode horses and galloped in the military formation. The squadron leaders called on their soldiers to prepare. The soldiers stood up one after another and carried the ladders and javelins from the accompanying carts according to their previous arrangements...

After a commotion and noise, the "Woo!..." The war horns rang out, and the Roman army made a deafening roar. Then, under the leadership of the squadron leader, the soldiers began to walk towards the east and south of the city of Ostia (the sea was on the west, the Tiber River was close to the north, and lakes and swamps were also used as barriers to the southeast).

Teris looked at the enemy troops coming from the city like a tide, and subconsciously tightened his fists.

The 300 Dionian archers at the top of the city saw that the enemy was about to enter a range of 100 meters and began to bend their bows and take arrows.

The crossbows and belly bows at the city have already begun to fire stone bombs and iron arrows at the enemies under the city. Although the rushing enemies make their attack hit rate very high and their deaths are terrifying, a round of attacks is only a dozen casualties. For the wave of siege formed by thousands of Roman soldiers, it is just a small splash of water that cannot stop the Romans from advancing.

But not long after, the Roman soldiers who rushed in the front screamed one after another: "Ah! Pull me! My feet! My feet are scratched!"

"Beware of the trap! There are pointed spikes buried in the ground!!"

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Amid the screams and urges of the Roman soldiers, the speed of the entire siege troops was hindered.

Just as some Roman soldiers helped their bloody comrades in their legs, while others carefully explored the ground and moved forward carefully, the arrows on the top of the city hit like raindrops. Although most of the Roman heavy infantry rushed in front were Roman infantry, they were so panicked that they could not use their shields to defend the above, which increased some casualties.

What's worse is that they are blocked in the trap zone, giving the city's crossbows and belly bows enough time to display their lethality.

After Titus knew the battle ahead, he was very anxious. He realized that he had underestimated the defense of the Dionians against this small city.

He took a deep breath and calmed himself down: "Go and send orders to the offensive troops, don't rush forward, just pull out those traps with all your might!"

The messenger ran away, and soon another scout came: "General Titus, the people of Adidas organization arrived!"

Titus was delighted and was about to reply, another detective arrived: "Report to General Titus, the people of Antium are coming!"

While Titus led his army to march westward, Camillus sent a messenger to inform the Roman colonial cities and Latin allies in the west of Latin, hoping that they could send people to assist the army in attacking the city of Ostia, and these towns now responded to Camillus' request.

Teams from the western towns carried supplies and gathered to the rear of the Roman army one after another...

Titus had a happy look on his face. He hurriedly expressed his gratitude to the leader, and sent hundreds of people under Deli to light fires around him, began to build camps, set up tents, and prepare for a long-lasting battle.

On the east gate of Ostia, Thelis watched the archers and crossbowmen attack the Roman soldiers who had approached the trench, while the other soldiers began to throw javelins under the city.

The entire city of Ostia has two gates in the east and south. Before, Theris blocked the south gate, leaving only one gate for the passage of reconnaissance and messengers, causing traps to be buried on both sides of the road out of the city. The road became very narrow. The attacking teams of Roman soldiers here had to be arranged into long and narrow teams, and were attacked by the soldiers on the city, and wounded soldiers lay in front of the trench.

Teris was not excited about such a result. He saw the bonfire lit up behind the enemy's army formation and the Romans who were coming. He realized that this siege battle would become even more difficult. The first order he thought of was: to let the reserve team under the city completely block the east gate with wood and stones.

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In Rome, Roman civilians who actively applied for citizenship in Dionia in the square formed a sharp contrast with Roman nobles who cried and shouted for the earth in the surrounding city because their relatives were taken away. The people of the entire city were restless in the extremes of ice and fire...

Davers returned to the Senate and hoped for a moment of peace, but he knew that the Roman Chief Executive Ascestes hurriedly came again.

"Your Majesty, since you went to worship the temples in Rome, the number of Romans who came to the square to register has increased dramatically. Now the number of registered people has exceeded a thousand!" Assisters excitedly reported this good news to Davers, because it means that the Roman civilians have further changed their attitude towards Diony.

Davers smiled and replied: "I saw it when I passed by the square. This is a good thing, right?"

"Your Majesty, but there is one thing I have to ask you for advice." Ascesters continued: "There are some Roman people asking that their relatives are in the Roman army outside the city, and they want their relatives to become citizens of Dionia, rather than fighting with us, hoping that they can leave the city and persuade us, and ask us if we can?"

"Oh?..." Davers became interested now. He stroked his jaw, thought for a while, and turned his head and asked, "Croto, what do you think?"

Crotokataks, who stood beside him, replied seriously: "Father, judging from the situation in the square these two days, we should believe what they said, allow them to go out of the city, and persuade their relatives to surrender to the kingdom, so that they can shake the enemy's fighting spirit, weaken their strength, and at the same time enhance our strength! Even if some of them are deceiving us and just want to escape from the city, they are all old people, women and children, and in general, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages..."

Ascesters looked at Crotokataks. When he was in Turiy, he visited the Davers mansion many times and could see the king's biological eldest son from time to time. Crotokataks was humble and polite, and warm to others, leaving a good impression on him. However, this time when he met, Ascesters found that he had become much calmer.

Davers nodded and said with praise: "Croto is right. I allow them to leave the city, but I can't go out all of them. Only the elderly in the family can go out, and women and children must stay in the city... Also, I will take this opportunity to deliver the gifts I promised to give to Camillus."

Speaking of this, a mysterious smile appeared on his face.
Chapter completed!