At the same time, the administrative officials of Enona effectively managed more than 20,000 large teams of elderly people, teenagers, and even women, and divided them into several groups. Some people tied up the cut trees, carried them down the mountain, and placed them in the place where the barracks engineers planned to build the earthen mountain; the other people piled up the wood in a crisscrossing manner, and gradually extended upwards toward the city wall; in addition, there was a group of people carrying baskets of digging soil, filling it into the base made of wood, and tamping it.

The Lola defenders were shocked and curious when they saw the enemy making such a big noise on the southern wall. But soon they found that a mound about 50 meters wide was rising up in front of them and quickly approaching the city, and the entire wooden fence was moving along with it.

The Lola defenders did not launch long-range attacks on the enemies who were making mounds under the city, but the javelins and arrows they threw were either blocked by the wooden fence, or blocked by the heavy infantry behind the fence with shields. Although a few people were injured and fell to the ground, they did not scare the coalition people. Whether they were the Campanians or the Naconians, they were deeply poisoned by the Samonets and hated them to the core. The people of Enona would be recorded by the registered officials in the war, which would be of great help to the future development of their families in the kingdom. Therefore, they devoted themselves to this project with great enthusiasm.

The Lola defenders had no choice but to venture out of the city several times to raid, trying to destroy the wooden fence and mounds, but were all repelled by Zantiparis, who was prepared for it. Not only did they fail, but they suffered considerable losses to the already small defenders.

The Lola defenders could only watch the mound getting closer and higher. Not only did it approach the trench, but its highest height was almost flush with the city.

Zantiparis no longer needed a wooden fence, but directly sent more than a thousand Dionian heavy infantry and light infantry to stand on the hills and shoot at a distance of more than ten meters from the defenders.

Although both sides had considerable casualties, the Lora defenders, whose soldiers were only one-tenth of the other, could not withstand this consumption. They had to send messengers to the great leader Segovani for emergency assistance many times.

Regarding Zantiparis's decision to "attack Lora City today", Earos, the general of the Campania Alliance, was hesitant. He said: "The earthy mountain we built is not close to the city wall yet. Will the attack be too hasty at this time? Should we wait for another day?"

Zantiparis patiently explained to him: "Our Majesty Davers once said to the senior generals of the Kingdom of Dionys. He said, "When fighting against powerful enemies, do not seek decisive battles rashly, but be careful to find warplanes. However, once an important victory is achieved or the enemy reveals obvious flaws, you must attack continuously and quickly, without giving the enemy a breathing opportunity, and completely disrupt the entire deployment of the enemy...',

Now the main force of the Samonet coalition has been attracted to Beneventum, Lola, and Cesala, with only more than 1,000 enemies. They thought they could defend for a long time with this number of people, but they obviously underestimated our Dioria's ability to siege the city. We should quickly capture Lola before they could react, so that the entire battle situation would be more beneficial to us.

In addition, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. So far, we have received the blessing of the gods. The weather in the past few days has been pretty good. Today it seems to be a sunny day. But if it suddenly rains tomorrow, it is likely to destroy our Tushan, making the soldiers and the people’s hard work in vain. The key is to miss the opportunity for the fight. So we should take advantage of Hades’s still protecting us and seize the time to attack!… Well, and… According to our experience in siege training, Tushan is also the most difficult time when approaching the city wall. The enemy’s defense will only be tighter. In order to speed up the progress and reduce casualties of the people, we must rely on fierce attacks to force them to reduce their attacks on Tushan, so that our siege can be completed faster..."

Zantiparis seriously explained and convinced the generals of the Campania League. Everyone agreed to launch an attack on Lora City today, and the next step was to discuss the offensive plan.

Zantiparis had long considered this: "Lola's southern city wall is where the mountain is located and the focus of the attack. I suggest using a heavy infantry brigade in Dionia, a light infantry brigade, plus 1,000 light infantry and 1,000 heavy infantry in Campania, a total of 4,000 people will focus on attacking here!"

Earos nodded and said, "I agree with General Zantiparis, who are sent by these two thousand Campanian soldiers by our Naples."

Zantiparis continued: "I suggest that the siege equipment I have made in the past few days is used to attack the city walls of Lolasi. Since our soldiers of the Dionian skillfully use these equipment, a heavy infantry brigade in Dionia will be the main attacker, and another 1,000 Campanian soldiers will be added as auxiliary... The two walls of the east and north will also arrange 2,000 soldiers to attack the city with long ladders, so as to disperse the few enemies in the city of Lola and weaken their defense capabilities... In the end, there is a Dionian light infantry brigade and 1,000 Campanian soldiers. I suggest that as a reserve, the final raid."

As soon as Zantiparis finished speaking, Earos spoke, "I think General Zantiparis' plan is very good. Naples is willing to send 1,000 soldiers to attack the west wall, and another 1,000 Naples soldiers attack the north. The remaining 1,000 Naples soldiers will be kept as reserves as General Zantiparis said. The other soldiers of your city-state are filled with vacancies." Earos spoke with respect when facing Zantiparis, and he spoke with some orderly tone to other generals of Campania.

Zantiparis suddenly realized that Naples was the leader of the Campanian League. As a military general, he did not think too much. Instead, he felt that with Earos in charge of these Campanian city-state generals, he saved a lot of verbal talk and a lot of time.

Once the plan is determined, it will start to be implemented immediately.

The first thing to take action was the coalition soldiers outside Lolanan City. This was because the people were ready. They were carrying sacks filled with soil and preparing to complete the final closing of the earthen mountain and the city wall. Of course, this was also the most difficult time.

It is called a mountain of earth, but it is actually a large inclined causeway. According to the design of the engineers of the Dionia, its starting slope is only about 20 degrees, which is relatively gentle, extending from 40 meters away to the city wall. Because of wood as a support and solid soil as flesh and blood, many soldiers step on it, it will neither slip nor collapse.

More than 200 Dionian heavy infantrymen held a long shield on their left and right hands, and lined up the earthen mountain in two rows and advanced towards the city wall.

The defenders immediately launched a long-range attack on them, mainly javelins.

The two-sided shields of the soldiers of the Dionian soldiers protected themselves tightly, but even so, some soldiers were still injured by the javelin and penetrated the long shield. There were new heavy infantry behind them at any time to fill the gaps in the array.

The light infantry following the Dionia heavy infantry also attacked the city. They not only threw javelins, but also shot arrows. After all, the defenders at the city did not have the thick protection of the Dionia heavy infantry. Although some of them were armed, at least half were light infantry, and bows and arrows could kill them.

The heavy infantry arrived at the top of the Tushan Mountain, half-squatted down, and raised long shields on both sides to form a tightly arranged shield wall, whose height was almost flush with the opposite city wall, and the distance between the two sides was less than ten meters. The attacks of the defenders at the city were naturally more fierce, and the counterattacks of the Dionian light infantry were also fierce, because they had to suppress the attacks at the city and protect the safety of their comrades.

Within a distance of ten meters, javelins and arrows kept interlacing, so dense that they collided in the air from time to time. There were constant screams from both sides, and soldiers fell to the ground when injured.

On both sides of the Tushan Mountain, 1,000 Campanian light infantry also took advantage of the opportunity when the defenders were attracted by Tushan Mountain to quickly approach the trench and attacked the enemies on the city to relieve the pressure on the friendly forces on Tushan Mountain.

At this time, the people carrying earth bags lined up all the way, bent down and lowered their heads, risking being hit by the attacking javelins and arrows, and quickly ran to the top of the mountain.

There is more than one gap between each of the Dionian heavy infantry and heavy infantry on the top of the mountain, and between the light infantry and the light infantry, forming a passage that can reach the top of the mountain. When the people reach the shield wall, the heavy infantry on both sides will raise the long shields on both sides, revealing a certain gap below, which can be used for the people to push the earth bag to the bottom of the mountain, and then the empty-handed people will turn back and run back to the bottom of the mountain.

Countless earth bags continued to roll into the "valley" formed between the city walls and the earthen mountains. Occasionally injured soldiers and Lola defenders fell into the valley. Before they could climb out, they were soon buried by the earthen bags, becoming a cornerstone of this artificial earthen mountain.

Not only the people were up and down on the Tushan Mountain, but also the light infantry and heavy infantry of the Dionia were also rotating continuously due to physical strength, injuries and the replenishment of javelins. Below the Tushan Mountain was the medical battalion quickly providing emergency rescue to the injured people and soldiers.

Such a busy but relatively orderly scene was reflected in the eyes of the Naples general Earos, who was in the rear. He couldn't help but sigh: The Dionians turned the tragic siege into an orderly, lively and efficient construction project. This is not something that any Greek city-state can do. The military capabilities of the Dionian Kingdom are too terrible!
Chapter completed!