"Sir, he seems to be coming this time for something else." Taglu said softly.

"Then let him come in." Leothides rubbed his eyes, but his expression did not relax at all.

So as soon as Asitmis stepped into the door, he warned in advance: "I hope you are not here to talk to me about the cavalry attack. I have told you that it is not the time yet."

"Mr. Commander." Asitimis was stunned and explained quickly: "I thought of a way to reduce the threat of Carthage cavalry."

Leotizides finally turned his head, looked at him, and asked, "What's the solution?"

Asitmis said seriously: "My commander, the Carthaginian cavalry is huge, but most of them are Numibian cavalry. As far as I know, these Numibians ride short horses, but have strong running power, and they have another characteristic, that is, they are more able to endure hunger, and just eat grass to carry Numibians, but they must keep eating..."

Leotizides' heart moved, leaned forward slightly and asked, "What do you mean?"

When Asitmis saw that the commander with a bad temper became interested, he suddenly became energetic and his speech became more fluent: "The Carthaginians spread thousands of cavalry on our Catanian plains, which may not only destroy our villages and cover our ears, but also solve the food problem of these horses. It is autumn, and the grass on the ground has begun to wither and yellow. Since the Carthaginians have burned our villages, we can still use the night to burn the weeds on the plains with confidence, so that the Carthaginian cavalry would not dare to move so frequently on the plains."

"Burn the grass on the entire plain..." Leothisdes pondered for a while and said hesitantly: "Asitimis, you are from Katanai, you should be very familiar with the situation here. Even if the plain is burned out, as long as there are one or two rains, grass will grow on the land soon."

"But it rarely rains in Katanai in September and October." Asitmis obviously considered this question and he answered quickly.

Leotizides also made a decision quickly: "Tagru, go and invite Sipoulos immediately, I need to discuss it with him."

"Yes, sir." Taglu ran out immediately, because Siphorus had just walked for a while and should be able to stop him on the road. While running, he thought to himself: Siphorus is the governor of Sicily. He is open-minded and always comes to talk about problems. He feels that the commander seems to be accustomed to this and calls to Siphorus. This is not a good thing. He has to find an opportunity to remind him!

In the kitchen, Leotizides looked at the map and murmured: "Although I don't know if this method really works, I have to try it out to know that even if the current situation is not good for us, we should not lose confidence and try our best to find opportunities..."

"Mr. Commander, you're right!"

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As Leotizides analyzed, Mago did aim his offensive target at Paragonia.

The defenses in the north of Paragonia are also tight, but the terrain is wider than the south, which is conducive to the development of the army.

Ma Ge learned some of the lessons of the previous failure of the attack in the south. When building the camp, he ordered the engineers to assemble the crossbows. After giving the order to attack, dozens of crossbows began to bombard the sentry towers in the trap area.

At the same time, he ordered tens of thousands of Numibian infantry formed by Carthage to dig the soil. Because Paragonia is located at the foot of the mountain and the soil is hard, the soldiers had to dig the soil far away and then transport it over, landing all traps or trenches in the north of Paragonia, laying a wide and safe passage. During the cleaning of the periphery, in order to prevent the enemy from leaving the city to attack, he also asked his elite troops to line up in the front and ready to attack at any time.

Moreover, he also dispatched 10,000 soldiers stationed in Jera, increasing the number of soldiers in the Carthage camp to 60,000 to ensure that he had sufficient troops and could defend against attacks from the new military camps of Leotini and Dionia while attacking Paragonia.

Although the defenders did not stop harassing, the casualties of the Carthage soldiers were not large and their morale was maintained. Although the speed of siege of Paragonia was slow, it was steadily advancing forward.

Three days later, the Carthaginian army advanced within a hundred meters from the city, forcing all the defenders of Dionia to retreat to the city and stop attacking.

Ma Ge was finally able to approach and observe this small town that had caused him a lot of trouble. After walking around it for most of the time, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Is this the village among the people of Syracuse?!"

The adjutant next to him explained: "Sir, I remember that the people of Syracuse just said that Paragonia was a village before. Since the army of Dionia entered Paragonia a few months ago and moved the villagers, they have forbidden anyone to get close to it. They don't know what the situation in Paragonia is now."

Ma Ge glanced at him and said, "You are very good at expelling the Syracuse people."

The adjutant was so scared that he dared not speak anymore.

Ma Ge stared at Paragonia in front of him: among the dense forts, there was a white city erected. Its area was not large, but its shape was different from the cities that Ma Ge had seen. It was surrounded by a city wall about four meters high, and there were multiple protruding circular wall towers in the city wall. What was amazing is that there was a circular building two or three meters above the city wall, as if it was a large circle with a concentric circle in it.

Although Ma Ge had never attacked such a strange city, based on his years of experience in fighting, he also had a premonition that this small town of Paragonia was a little unusual. He subconsciously drove his horse forward and wanted to observe more carefully.

Suddenly, I heard the guards on both sides shouting: "Sir, be careful!"

I saw several black dots suddenly appear in the air ahead and roaring.

Brother Ma hurriedly clamped the horse's belly, but the war horse under his crotch did not move. The guards beside him hurriedly stabbed the spear to its buttocks. The horse neighed and rushed out, almost knocking Brother Ma to the ground.

At this time, several stone bombs had already fallen down, and a few shrill screams immediately sounded, and there was a bloody mess around where Ma Ge was standing just now.

Brother Ma finally controlled the war horse and turned around late. Seeing this scene, he frowned and said, "Retreat."

During the retreat, he did not forget to ask the adjutant: "Where did the enemy's stone bomb come out?"

The adjutant shook his head and said he didn't see clearly. Brother Ma glared at him again: Even though the young adjutant was a member of the Margonid family, he couldn't help but think of changing him.

"Sir, it seems...it seems to be shot out of the city." said a guard.

Brother Ma was stunned and asked, "Are you sure you are from the city rather than from the city?"

"Sir, I saw it too, it was indeed sent from the city." Another soldier responded.

Mago grabbed the horse's reins, turned around and looked at the blood-stained stone bullets on the ground, and looked up at the Paragonia wall ahead. There was no movement there at this moment, but Mago's expression became serious.

At this time, on the Paragonia city wall tower facing Mago, a team officer wearing a helmet decorated with a purple hat tassel was bent over and looking out through the gap between the battlements.

"It was a good fight, and the stone bullet landed quite accurately. Unfortunately, that big guy ran away!" He turned around and said with some regret.

"Captain, do you need us to continue firing?" asked the crossbow's eye sight.

Ten years ago, the sight sight of the Dionysian Birds was specially appointed by students from the Dionysian Academy of Mathematics, and they were responsible for providing the firing parameters and correcting the ballistics. Ten years have passed, as long as the sight sight of the Dionysian Birds was graduated normally in various cities in Dionysian schools, citizens with better mathematics could be appointed. This is because of the popularization of education and the improvement of the birds.

The captain shook his head and said, "He is already alert. It is impossible to raid again. Don't waste stone bullets. When the enemy attacks the city, you will be busy."

"Captain, don't worry. A few days ago, Carthage's crossbows were very rampant and destroyed many of our wardrobes. Now it's our turn to show our power!"

As soon as the sightseeing hand finished speaking, the belly archer next to him immediately said: "That's right, as long as the Carthage crossbow dares to enter our range, we can destroy it!"

Their words aroused the positive response of the soldiers around them.

The captain was satisfied that the soldiers could maintain such vigorous fighting spirit when facing the siege of the Carthage army. Of course, he knew very well that the source of the soldiers' confidence mainly came from this city.

Paragonia was still a village with only a few inhabitants half a year ago. When Leottizides decided to use it as a frontier for resisting the Carthaginian army, he did not just strengthen the walls, dig trenches, and lay traps on the basis of this village, but completely pulled the village out and built a fortress.

The Military Affairs Department's research and improvement of the military technology of the Dionia has been underway. In recent years, inspired by King Davers, the engineers of the Military Affairs Department have designed a new defensive city block and applied it to the training programs of various military camps - building cities and offensive and defense drills. Leotizides deeply felt its strength in defense, so he decided to use it in actual combat.
Chapter completed!