Although their number was less than 1,000, the way they attacked made the light armor brigade that remained in the large battalion a little scrambling.

As the time left for the Dionian army yesterday was too hasty, the soldiers only built a large camp and a trench, and did not set up deer bars and traps in front of the camp, with the result that the Latin reinforcements divided into small groups, approached the camp from several directions, stood in front of the trench, and fired rockets into the camp.

A large battalion of the Chinese army, which has to accommodate three infantry regiments and two cavalry regiments, covers an area very large, and it is impossible for a light armored brigade of only 700 people to achieve comprehensive protection, so tents are lit from time to time, forcing them to divide their manpower to run back and forth and rush to fight the fire, because once the fire becomes bigger, let part of the camp burn, let the soldiers who are besieging the city see, it will inevitably affect their fighting spirit.

As a result, the defense camp is even more understaffed.

Davers urgently mobilized hundreds of baggage battalion laborers to help put out the fire, and at the same time he also sent a hundred palace guards as mobile forces for the defense of the camp, which barely coped with the current situation.

The siege had been going on for nearly four hours now, and there was still no breakthrough in sight, and Davers sat in the tent, still calmly watching the staff officers on the map.

Henipolis, who had been recording on the sidelines, looked a little restless at the moment, walking back and forth in the tent.

Davers had to speak: "Heney, sit down quickly, don't walk around, make me dizzy." ”

Henipolis said anxiously: "Your Majesty, there are more and more enemies attacking the camp, and even the east of the city of Rome has seen enemy reinforcements, threatening the camp of the First Legion...... Now that we are surrounded by enemy reinforcements, there are no extra troops to call on in the camp, and the legions are still blocked under the city, and the soldiers have suffered many casualties...... I'm worried about ......"

Davers waited for him to finish venting his worries before he slowly said, "Rome is arguably the largest city on this peninsula except for Turiyi, and even if its main force is not here, it will not be easy to capture it.

Our legions are not without progress, as you have just heard, the Second Legion has already taken the head of the city with more than a hundred soldiers using the siege towers, and has gained a foothold; The Third Corps, which also occupied the bridgehead on the south bank of the Roman vertebral bridge, was expanding the scope of its attack; The Fourth Legion had breached the walls with siege engines, and the soldiers had already broken through the breach and were temporarily blocked under the city......

We are in a tug-of-war with the Romans, the Romans have tried their best to barely hold on to us, but this burst of power cannot last, we are increasing our strength, little by little pulling the red rope over, until it completely overwhelms the power of the Romans, then they will inevitably collapse! ”

Davers clenched his right fist, swung it vigorously, and said confidently: "As for those Roman reinforcements—"

"Your Majesty, good news! Lord Epitenis led 4,000 soldiers to the battlefield, and cooperated with Lord Tormide to completely defeat the Roman reinforcements in the southwest, the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Corps are pursuing the router, and Lord Tormide and Lord Epitenis are leading the army to arrive! ”

"Great!" Henipolis, who had a sad face, was now full of joy.

The staff officers in the big tent also applauded and celebrated.

A smile also appeared on Davers's face: "Go and inform Tormid and Epitenis at once, and ask them to send a heavy infantry brigade to defend the camp, and the rest of the troops rush to the rear of the Second Army to assemble and wait for my orders!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Asinarus quickly sent out the tent to inform the heralds, and soon he hurried back to the tent, and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, the scouts report that part of the troops of the Sixth Legion and the First Legion have attacked the city!" ”

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On the surface, the First and Sixth Legions were conventional sieges, but Davers suggested that they try to climb the city with rope hooks.

Rope hook climbing, one of the first siege methods invented by Davers, was used to capture Amendolara and gain a foothold for the mercenaries in Greater Greece. As Dionia grew stronger, various siege machines were created, and siege methods became more and more perfect, and this simple rope hook, which was a great help to the mercenaries, had long been forgotten in the corner.

However, Davers did not forget, because considering that after the army arrived in Latim, there might be a lot of siege battles, so he specially sent someone to take out dozens of sets of magic hooks that were already covered with dust from the corner of the armory, and re-polish them with ropes, so as to be prepared.

Amintas had always been offensive and adventurous, and he didn't hesitate to accept Davers' advice. The commander of the Sixth Legion, Trotilas, was also a member of the Persian expeditionary mercenaries, and Turiyi, who came with Davers, grew from an ordinary soldier to a legion commander, and his combat experience was not insignificant, and his combat exploits were not outstanding, and he certainly would not allow his legion to perform mediocre in this significant siege battle.

Both of them knew very well that if the "rope hook climbing city" wanted to succeed, it was necessary to blind the enemy's sight and carry out a surprise attack, otherwise once it was discovered, it would increase the casualties, so both of them coincidentally set the location of the rope hook climbing city in the southeast corner of the city of Rome.

Like the southwest corner, the city wall protrudes outward, but unlike the southwest corner, it folds several times and finally forms a small sharp corner, but it is far away from several Roman gates, and the zigzag wall is easy to block the view, and it is not easy to be found.

So in order to achieve this, Trotilas had the soldiers of the Sixth Legion concentrate on attacking the section of the wall between the Porta Esquiri and the Porta Vimina, about 400 meters from the southeast corner.

Amintas was even more aggressive, and had the First Legionnaires storm the section of the wall between Capitoline and Quirilno, two miles from the southeast corner.

Trotilas was ready to let his brigade of light armoured men accomplish this task, as their lighter outfits made it easier to crawl, so he left two heavy infantry brigades in the main battalion.

Although the camp of the First Army was far from the Chinese camp, Amintas boldly left only one heavy infantry brigade in the camp, and let the more than 700 soldiers of the Mountain Scout Brigade who remained in the camp carry out this mission.

However, after observing the terrain many times, the careful Trotilas found a problem: although the southeast corner of the city wall was relatively remote, the Roman wall was very high, and the soldiers on the city were able to see far below the city, and the Dionian soldiers on this mission wanted to get close to the city wall, even if they did not carry siege equipment, they would arouse the suspicion of the enemy and take precautions, and after thinking about it, he decided to let the soldiers do it......

When Davos learned of Trotilas's idea, he applauded the joint, and the Sixth Legion's plan to climb the city with a rope hook was quickly established.

Originally, there were defenders on the southeast corner, but as time went on, the continuous fierce attacks of the First and Second Legions made the Roman generals in charge of defense feel that their forces were tight, and they had to draw soldiers from other sections of the wall to strengthen the defense, and the defenders who had been idle in the southeast corner were of course also within the scope of the transfer.

It didn't take long for the defenders of the nearby city to see that hundreds of Roman auxiliaries were being pursued by the Ionian soldiers in the distance in the southeast direction, and they fled towards the Roman city in panic, although they occasionally had soldiers caught up and stabbed down by the enemy, but most of the routs still climbed through the trench with difficulty, and came to the southeast corner of the city, perhaps for fear of being attacked by the defenders of the city, the hundreds of Dionian light infantry stopped the pursuit, but they were unwilling to stop and stare in the distance.

The defenders who saw this were speculating about which Latin city-state the Roman auxiliaries came from (most of the Roman auxiliaries were citizens of the Latin allies).

Since the enemy was besieging the city, it was certainly impossible for the defenders to allow these routs into the city, and the fierceness of the fighting did not allow them to have more leisure to pay attention to the lives of these allies, but the appearance of these routs showed that Roman reinforcements were engaged with the enemy in places they could not see, which somewhat boosted the morale of the defenders.

But they did not know that these Roman auxiliaries were disguised as Dionian soldiers, and they put on the armor and equipment of Roman soldiers who had been obtained by cleaning the battle grounds after the victory in the battle two days earlier, so as to deceive the attention of the defenders, and successfully came to the southeast corner of the city, and they avoided the sight of the defenders, and connected the ropes wrapped around their bodies, put on hooks, and dozens of rope hooks were quickly made.

The war continued, the Roman soldiers struggled to resist the enemy's attack, gradually forgetting the existence of those routs, occasionally the corner of their eyes swept over the southeast corner of the city, and saw that there were dozens of "Roman soldiers" stationed there, all thought that they were sent by the adjacent defenders, and did not attract attention, even if they saw that there were constantly Dionian light infantry crawling through the trench and rushing to the southeast corner of the city, they did not cause much vigilance, after all, they did not carry any siege equipment, not to mention that there were soldiers stationed in the city.

But after a while, they realized that something was wrong: Dionian soldiers began to appear in the southeast corner of the city, and more and more, and the "Roman soldiers" did not even fight the enemy!

Magus. Attilius and Balbus. The two defenders of Fabia were astonished when they heard the bad news, and the situation was extremely urgent, and in spite of the shortage of men at their disposal, they also urgently put together a force, led by the two generals themselves, and rushed from the west and south to the southeast corner of the wall, vowing to drive the enemy out of the city.

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