Amintath was stunned for a moment, and when he heard about this good idea, he was so excited that he forgot that the Carthaginians also had ballistas.

Calcides had obviously thought about this problem, and he said unhurriedly: "The Carthaginian ballistas do deserve our attention, but in fact the accuracy of their ballistas is not too high, and we can find ways to overcome them, such as ...... Cover the outside of the wooden walls with taut fishing nets, or also fill the wooden frames with enough earth......

In addition, since the city wall is made of wood, can we first let the engineering battalion make a frame in the city like we usually use to build the watchtower that can be built in the camp, and when the Carthaginian earth hill is completed, we will move the frame of the wooden city wall to the city wall and quickly complete it, and then condescendingly suppress the Carthaginians, and suddenly kill the Carthaginian light infantry on the earth mountain, so that the Carthaginians spent so much time building the earth mountain in vain, and they have to rebuild a larger foundation if they want to regain the initiativeto build a higher dirt hill, which will take more time......"

"Great idea! It's a great idea indeed! Amintas laughed: "I can't wait to see the faces of the Carthaginians who thought they were proud but suddenly turned into frustration and disappointment. Aristornos, go and call the engineers of the engineering battalion at once, let them survey the wall, and then, according to the suggestion of Calcides, make me such a wooden wall, which will be able to resist the Carthaginian attack!" ”

"Yes, Commander." Aristonos immediately turned and went down to the city.

Not long after, the slingers of the light infantry brigade arrived at the head of the city, and they began to attack the Carthaginian heavy infantry below the city according to Amintas's instructions......

Soon, the long orderly line of the Carthaginians became confused, and the soldiers, ignoring the officers' obstructions, threw down their baskets, screamed and jumped to dodge the incoming lead pellets, and began to flee back in confusion.

The slingers' attacks worked.

But it didn't take long for the Dionian soldiers at the head of the city to suddenly shout in panic: "Be careful! Flying Stones! ……”

Amintas was amazed to see countless tiny black dots flying out of the inner wall of the Carthaginian camp a hundred meters ahead.

Now it was the turn of the Dionian soldiers at the head of the city to get nervous, and they hurriedly raised their long shields diagonally, hoping to form a shield wall to provide shelter for themselves and the slingers.

In a groan of pain, Amintas gritted his teeth: "It must be the Balearic slingers!" ”

After the main army landed in Sicily, Leotizides once mentioned to Davers and other senior generals of Dionya that Carthage had thousands of Balearic slingers, and Amintas, the only one with slingers, asked with concern about the fighting power of the other party, but did not expect to experience it in Selinus himself.

Of course, the slingers of the First Legion were not to be outdone to fight back, countless lead pellets were constantly intertwined in this air, and the other soldiers at the head of the city could hold on to the long shield to dodge, but the slingers could not provide protection for them in the process of throwing stones, so people were constantly injured.

After all, the Dionian slingers were small in number, and gradually some of them could not be supported, and in order to preserve their strength, Amintas had to replace them from the city, so he soon saw the Carthaginian heavy infantry lined up in a long line, carrying wooden frames on their backs, and began to pile up mountains of earth again.

Just then, he heard someone shouting, "General Calcidis! General Calcidis! ……”

He stared at the person who shouted, vaguely remembering that it seemed to be a captain of the reserve team, and immediately shouted angrily: "What are you shouting!" What's the matter?! ”

The captain hurried up to the city, and before he could report the situation to Calcides, he was reprimanded by Amyntas, who immediately remembered the rumors about him and panicked when he saw Amyntas's angry face.

"Commander Amintath asks you something, just tell me what the situation is." Calsides quickly woke him up.

"Oh...... Finger...... Lord Commander...... That's right, we found something unusual while digging the trenches, and the Carthaginians may be digging tunnels! ”

Amintas and the people around him were taken aback.

"Where did you find it?! Take me there! Amyntas said eagerly.

It turned out that after Amintas became the commander of the defense of Selinus, he also began to build the inner wall in the city according to the suggestion of Calcidis, and in order to ensure that he could repair a few more roads, he set the location of the first inner wall less than 50 meters away from the outer wall.

Often, the walls and moats were built together, so that the excavated earth could be used directly as rammed earth for the construction of the walls. Amintas also made strict demands: the trench must be 4 meters deep and at least 4 meters wide, and the task of digging the trench was mainly carried out by the original Selinus defenders (some of the reserve soldiers complained about this, but Calcides reassured them).

After these days of hard work, the trench was basically dug up, and then the soldiers had to bury the stakes in the trench, and today when they were doing this work, there was a soldier who had just dug a pit and was about to bury the stakes in it, but he found that the mud and sand continued to seep into the pit and sink down, he was frightened, and thought that he had provoked some kind of monster, so he hurriedly jumped out of the trench, knelt on the ground, and prayed to Hades sincerely.

Soon, the news spread.

After all, the captain of the reserve team, who had more military experience, immediately felt uneasy when he saw this strange phenomenon, and immediately asked the soldiers to keep quiet, and then carefully jumped into the trench, put his ear close to the place where the earth was constantly sinking, and listened carefully, only to hear the sound of digging from below.

He immediately came to report.

The place of the accident was not far from the north gate, and after Amintas and his party arrived in a hurry, he personally climbed down the trench and confirmed the situation reported by the captain of the reserve, and then was pulled up by the guards with a gloomy face, and scolded with palpitations: "Cunning Carthaginians! ”

He really didn't expect that the Carthaginians were building inner walls and piling up mountains of earth, posing as if they were going to attack Selinus on the ground, but secretly they were digging tunnels and wanted to attack Selinus!

Amintas was completely kept in the dark, of course, in part because the Carthaginians had built up the inner walls, which cut off the observation of the Carthaginian camp from the head of the city and made it impossible to know the Carthaginian movements in the camp.

"Legionnaire, the Carthaginians may have dug more than this tunnel!" Calcides stepped forward and reminded in a low voice.

Amintas nodded, and immediately ordered: let all the soldiers stop digging the trench, and the mountain reconnaissance team led the light armor brigade to use the trench built in the inner city to carefully explore whether there were other tunnels.

After a while, the leader of the mountain scout team came to report that they had also discovered the Carthaginians digging tunnels under the eastern and western walls.

Although Amintas and the others were mentally prepared, they were still a little shocked when they heard the news, and the adjutant Aristonus even speculated: "It seems that the soil used by the Carthaginians to build these three earth mountains came from the soil used to dig tunnels, and they are really cunning!" ”

Amintas's face was already blue at this moment, and he gave an order sharply: "Hurry up and call the engineers, let them carefully survey the site, estimate the direction and depth of the tunnel dug by the Carthaginians, and then design a tunnel that we want to excavate, which can quickly access the tunnels of the Carthaginians, and then" Amintas waved his hand vigorously: "Destroy all the Carthaginians in the tunnel!" ”

The order was immediately executed, the engineer determined the route, the reserve soldiers were responsible for digging, and the three detachments of the 1st Army were responsible for killing the enemy.

Thousands of soldiers dug with all their might, and soon the tunnel was connected, and the legionnaires, who were already ready, immediately rushed into the tunnel.

The Carthaginian soldiers were caught off guard, and in order to dig, they did not wear armor or carry weapons, and as a result, they were killed, and the Carthaginians, who were in charge of transporting the soil in the rear, fled in panic.

Instead of continuing the pursuit, the legionnaires retreated to the rear, allowing the reservists to come in and block the tunnel.

After a while, the heavily armed Carthaginian soldiers entered the tunnels again.

The legionnaires hurried forward to meet the enemy.

As a result, Carthage and Dionya were still intermittently attacking each other from a distance on the ground, but they were engaged in bloody frontal battles beneath the ground.

This fighting continued throughout the day, with both sides sending soldiers into the tunnels.

In the narrow tunnel, the superior force cannot be deployed, and it depends more on the ability of the individual soldier, in this regard, the superb stabbing skills of the soldiers of the First Dionian Army are obviously stronger than the opponent, and the narrow tunnels are more suitable for short weapons, so the Dionian soldiers have a clear advantage in the fight.

Based on this, Amintas did not hesitate to send the various detachments of the First Army to the field in turn.

The Carthaginian army was not without daggers, Lusitania and the northern Iberian Celtic warriors were masters of it, but when Margo asked them to participate in the battle, the leaders of the hill tribes firmly refused, claiming that their warriors were accustomed to standing on solid ground and fighting the enemy in the scorching sun, and hated burrowing into the dark and damp ground like rats.

When the Carthaginian soldiers, as well as the Phoenician soldiers and southern Iberian soldiers that Marco relied on, were defeated from the tunnels again and again, he finally realized that, except for the natives of Iberia, the main force he relied on may not be weaker than his opponent in frontal combat, but it is obviously weaker than the opponent in the narrow space that depends more on personal ability.