At the same time, Earos also noticed that the attacks of the defenders at the city were weakening. Obviously, the Lora soldiers who were defending the city had never suffered such a siege. Although they had a siege in the long-range attacks between the two sides, with the protection of battlements, the increase in the number of injured people also made them feel a lot of pressure.

"The enemy is a little confused!" He said happily to Zantiparis, who was also in the rear and observing the enemy's situation.

"This is a good thing, which can reduce casualties between soldiers and people, but the most difficult battle has not yet arrived." Zantiparis said calmly.

Aaros understood what Zantiparis said was the most difficult battle - that was the face-to-face battle after the earthen mountains and the city walls were closed.

Compared to the lively battlefield in the South City, outside the West City Wall is much quieter.

First, hundreds of Campanian light infantry carried the shield made by the carpenters of the Dionians, and came to the trench with the long-range attack of the defenders at the city. They opened the bracket behind the shield and stood up obliquely to provide shelter for the light infantry. At the same time, they fired the javelins and arrows from the gap between the shields and attacked the defenders at the city.

While the defenders were in charge, the heavy infantry of Onia pushed out the siege vans (the engineers of the Dionia Legion guided the carpenters of Enona and Campania made this hollow wooden chariot with wood cut down by the soldiers from the forest). Just as Davers did when he led his army to attack Rome, the wooden chariots were spliced ​​together while pushing the city walls and headed straight to the trench.

Not only the Allied soldiers were surprised, but the defenders on the city were also stunned. They saw that there was no one in the wooden chariot and the rockets they launched could not ignite them. The soldiers of the Dionia quickly passed sacks of soil in the carriage, and soon filled the trench not wide in front of them.

Then, the wooden carts continued to push forward one by one until they hit the city wall, thus forming two hollow passages formed from the siege vans forty meters away. The soldiers behind immediately carried a large log, and an iron cone-shaped head was embedded at the front of the wood. The city-hitting hammer was passed by the soldiers and arrived under the city wall. Six soldiers carried it and hit the city wall hard.

The hard hammer head violently hit the disrepaired stone wall. The stones were broken, the slurry fell off, and the stone wall cracked...

The vibration of the city wall made the defenders at the city panic. They increased the attack force, smashed the stones and wooden blocks downwards, splashed thin oil, and fired rockets...

However, the vans closest to the city wall were specially made extremely strong. The craftsmen not only strengthened the entire frame, but also adopted a herringbone structure for easy unloading. They were also tied with bags of soil soaked in water, which was not easy to be ignited, so soldiers could safely hit the city wall.

When the siege hammer broke through the outer stone wall and exposed the rammed earth layer inside, the soldiers picked up pickaxes and shovels, began to remove the stones around the gap, expanded the holes in the wall, and then kept digging out the rammed earth inside...

The defense of the city walls on the west and south sides alone had already made the Lola defenders, who had few troops, feel a lot of pressure. What's more, the coalition forces are still in the east and the north sides also launch an attack. In order to defend this city, the Lola people mobilized all the people who can fight in the city, including women, to defend the city.

The most intense battlefield in Nancheng lasted for half an hour. The Dionian light infantry all had sore arms that they could not lift them, their fingers were injured and bleeding due to the bow. The heavy infantry that formed the shield wall was killed and injured more than 300 people, and the casualties of the people were also quite serious.

But the turn of action finally appeared, and the Lora defenders used up all the javelins. In just half an hour, they threw thousands of javelins. In addition, in order to prevent the Dionians from building the earthen mountain a few days ago, all the javelins in the city had been used up and the arrows were almost exhausted.

As for the javelin thrown by the Dionian light infantry, the tip of the gun was specially made. The iron rod connecting the tip was very thin. After hitting the hard object, it would bend and could no longer be thrown and used. However, the iron gun tip on the front end of the javelin could be quickly removed, and then the wooden pole on the rear end could be used again with a new tip. However, the Lora defenders obviously could not do it.

Therefore, the defenders could only throw stones and wood at their opponents. Since the shield wall of Dionia is ten meters away from the city head, too heavy stones cannot be thrown over. Those that can be thrown over are more likely to be blocked by long shields, which poses much smaller threat to Dionia's heavy infantry. The shield wall can continue to stabilize, making it faster for the people to put out soil bags.

As the valley was gradually filled and the soil bags had risen to the feet of the heavy infantry of the Dionia, they began to move forward with their shields so that the subsequent people could fill the sag further ahead.

At this time, Earos at the foot of the Tushan Mountain was already gathering the 1,000 heavy Campanian infantrymen to prepare to replace the army on the top of the mountain.

The sound of the war horn sounded, and the Dionian light infantry quickly retreated to the bottom of the mountain. According to Zantiparis' plan, Earos led the Campanian heavy infantry into more than a dozen columns, setting apart, and slowly marched towards the dirt mountain to facilitate the people and the Dionian heavy infantry to evacuate downward.

Campania heavy infantry wore Corinthian helmets and held a copper-skinned round shield. They had a narrow vision and clumsy movements. Climbing was a difficult task for them. Fortunately, the slope of the earth hill was flat and did not have much impact on their march.

The Dionian heavy infantry, which was arranged in a shield formation on the top of the dirt hill, moved towards the city wall without the assistance of the light infantry, and even some Lora soldiers simply climbed over the battlements and jumped to the almost filled dirt hill, holding spears, and directly attacked the Dionian heavy infantry.

During this long period of battle to defend the city, the Lola defenders could see clearly that these Dionian soldiers did not carry spears at all because they held shields in both hands. So the Lola soldiers stepped on the uneven earth bag with one foot deep and one foot shallow, directly knocked away the long shield with their bodies, and even knocked down the enemy, and then stabbed the spear in their hands.

The shield wall formed by two rows of Dionian heavy infantry became fragmented. When the people fled down in panic, Dionian team officials shouted: "Don't retreat! Throw away a long shield and replace it with a short sword!..."

In fact, without them shouting, the soldiers have already done this. These reserve soldiers from the mountains of Lucania were previously under attack from the enemy, watching hundreds of comrades casualties, and the sudden direct attack of the enemy just now caused dozens of casualties... They were all Lucanians who grew up after the establishment of the Kingdom of Dionia. Although the cultural integration of the kingdom weakened their wildness, military training made them understand team cooperation and friendship with comrades. With the anger of avenging their comrades, they held short swords and long shields and fought fiercely with the Lola defenders.

However, the military trumpet for the retreat of Dionia was sounded at this time.

Although the soldiers were unwilling to accept the orders.

The Lola warriors did not continue to chase after them because they saw the "iron jars" coming up, so they ran back and climbed into the city wall.

On this earthen mountain that is more than 50 meters wide, Campania heavy infantry slowly approached the defenders at the top of the city, gradually forming a dense formation, and was only one battlement separated from the defenders. Although the spear can easily pierce the enemy, it cannot use the charge and impact that the heavy infantry is good at, and its power is much weakened. The sound of the war horns of the attack under the city continued to sound, and the Campania heavy infantry on the earthen mountain began to fight fiercely with the enemy under the leadership of Earos.

To be honest, in recent years, the Campanians fought with the Samones, and there were few good opportunities for such face-to-face combat, because the Samone soldiers always used javelins to throw first, kill the Campanian soldiers, and then retreated, luring them to pursue them. During the retreat, they used the opponent's weak point of slow action and repeatedly attacked with javelins until the opponent's formation was completely chaotic, and then sent armored infantry to break in and completely defeat the opponent.

This set of tactics has been tried and tested, and the successive failures made the Campanians frightened, making them afraid to even go out of the city to fight in the field. Today, there was finally a chance to avenge their revenge. The Campanian soldiers roared loudly, and pierced the enemy with powerful guns.

As the defender of the city, Lola's defenders could not adopt the effective guerrilla tactics in the past, and could only face the enemy head-on. They let the armored soldiers block the battlements, and the light infantry behind them, forming dense formations in the upper corridors of the city to fight against the heavy infantry of the Campania. In order to be able to compete with the enemy, they also drew some defenders from the west wall, because they believed that the battle in the west was relatively calm, and even if the number of defenders was not large, it was enough to deal with it.

But shortly after some defenders in the West City Wall were transferred, bad news came out: two collapses occurred in the West City Wall.

This is all the credit of the Dionian soldiers in the siege. They took off the stone wall and rammed earth at the bottom of the city wall, destroying the wall foundation, causing the already unstable city wall to collapse due to gravity. The scattered stones even injured several Dionian soldiers who had no time to retreat.

The loud "rumbling" sound and the morning mist that soared into the air not only shocked the Lola defenders, but also made the Campanian soldiers stunned. They had seen the unique and slow siege of the Dionian soldiers for so long, and they couldn't help but look down on them, thinking that it was time-consuming and laborious. Some soldiers even said disdainfully: "It is said that the Dionians are brave in fighting. It seems that they are also afraid of death and only know how to hide in the wooden box!"

Now the tragic encounter of the city wall gave them a loud slap. Of course, they would not know: in the various military camps in the Kingdom of Dionys, not only will the soldiers really build a wall during training to train their city building skills, but also will also train how they can break through this wall in the next training. Therefore, the soldiers of Dionys are not digging randomly, but are destroying the structure of the city wall with purpose and efficiency.
Chapter completed!