However, the attention of the Dionian light infantry was mostly attracted by the tower, so that the light infantry of Syracuse could not only throw javelins at the tower, but also rush to the trenches and, under the cover of the archery wagons, throw javelins at the enemies on the wooden walls, and even shoot rockets at the curtain wall.

The Dionian legionnaires had to guard against javelins thrown from towers and walls, protect the wooden walls from being burned, and prevent enemies from climbing up the walls via ladders.

"Siege engines! The enemy's siege engines are under the wall! A soldier exclaimed.

Having just cut down a trench from an enemy who was about to climb the wall, Matolis was busy looking out, only to see an intact siege engine not far below the slope arching several flaming, piled up siege engines, through the filled trench, and almost being pushed under the wooden wall.

"Block! Pour the tar! Mattonis hurriedly shouted.

"Bell!" His bodyguard shielded him from a javelin.

"Commander, there's no more oil!" The soldier shouted in frustration.

"Look in the camp! And there is no leftover asphalt! As he gave the order to his guards, Matonis commanded his soldiers: "Smash it for me!" ”

The "banging" of wood and stones on the siege vehicles under the city seems to have little effect on it. On the contrary, under the protection of the herringbone roof, the Syracuse people pushed the ram with iron at the top and slammed it into the wooden wall, which made a "creaking" sound and shook so much that even the nearby Syracuse soldiers who were climbing the ladder fell down the trench.

Martonis was holding the wall stack with both hands, anxiously thinking about how to deal with it, when an exclamation came from behind: "It's burning!" The wooden walls are on fire! ”

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"Your Majesty, there is a section of wooden wall in the area where the Fourth Legion is taught, which has been repeatedly hit by the Syracuse with oil cans and rockets, and has been fired, and the fire has now been extinguished. However, a wooden wall up to 10 meters away was burned down, but fortunately the trench ahead was not filled, and the enemy did not immediately rush under the wall and destroy the wooden wall. Epitenis had already sent the Fourth Legion's Light Armor Brigade to set up a defensive position behind the wall...... "Tolmide reported to Davers, who had already walked out of the tent and was watching the defense of the Fourth and Seventh Legions.

Davos only frowned slightly, looked at the light armor brigade that was under the wooden wall in front of him, pondered for a while, and said: "It seems that Dionysius has concentrated the focus of his attack on my Chinese army camp, and the Syracuse people still have a very good way to attack the city, and it is a little difficult to block the attack of so many people by relying on the fourth and seventh legions alone...... Tolmid! ”

"In!"

"You go and inform the second, fifth, and sixth regiments of the left and right battalions to come to the Chinese camp immediately!" Davers gave a decisive order, but Tolmid was taken aback: "Your Majesty, all the troops are withdrawn, so ...... What about those two camps?! ”

"If Dionysius wants, give it to him." With a light-hearted word, the fruits of the soldiers' hard work for several days were in vain.

"Slow, don't let them all retreat yet, leave the light infantry defense for the time being, and when the enemy attacks, you can also give them some damage." Davers emphasized.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Tolmid turned to leave, but heard an exclamation in front of him, followed by a loud "boom", and in the "crackling" sound, a large gap appeared in the wooden wall in front of him.

"Your Majesty, the enemy has destroyed a section of our wooden wall with siege engines!" The herald who rushed back shouted urgently.

Davers looked calm, turned around and shouted, "Izzam! ”

"Brothers, follow me!" Izzam had been waiting for a long time, leading his mountain scout brigade towards the gap.

Seeing this, Tolmid also quickened his pace.

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"My lord, the armies of the left and right battalions of Dionya have begun to move towards the main camp of the central army!"

Dionysius heard the return of the scout and stood up excitedly: "Davos has finally been fooled!" Gather your forces now and attack the left battalion of Dionia! ”

"Yes!"

The large Chinese camp of the Dionian camp faced the western wall of the Celestial Garden, while the left and right battalions seemed to have outstretched hands to wrap around the north and south sides of the Celestial Garden. The left battalion is garrisoned by most of the soldiers of the Sixth Army and the Fifth Army, and the Fifth Army is the most lost Ionian Army in this war, although it was later supplemented by some soldiers, but the strength is definitely not as good as before, the Sixth Army is a legion that was just formed before the war, and so far it has participated in the battle of Crotone, so the left battalion is not as good as the Second Army and a small part of the Sixth Army soldiers stationed in the right camp. This disparity in strength can be seen from the traps and obstacles laid in front of the two battalions.

Dionysius had already understood this in the past few days, and naturally wanted to attack the weakest part of the Dionian army.

The north gate of the Cilitum was opened, and more than 10,000 elite Syracuse who had been reorganized and equipped with relatively complete armor, plus a few thousand freedmen who only took out rudimentary wooden shields and spears, a total of nearly 20,000 people were slaughtered to the left camp under the personal leadership of Dionysius.

The news soon reached the Chinese army camp in Dionia.

"Your Majesty, our left battalion may not be able to hold it!" Clerk Henipolis said in a lost voice.

"Didn't I say it before, Dionysius wanted, take it." Davers still said unhurriedly: "He thought that if he broke through our camp, he would be able to defeat us, but he didn't know that he had fallen into our plan. The current Dionysius is too obsessed with the outcome of a battle to consider the outcome of the battle as a whole......"

Hellibonis nodded as if he didn't understand, and quickly recorded what Davers said on the papyrus with a pen.

"Tolmid!"

"In!"

"Inform the two corps commanders, Phellisius and Oliver, to lead the troops to line up 20 meters from the eastern wooden wall, and at the same time let the second corps led by Amyntas stand on the wooden wall north of the Chinese camp, defend against the enemy and continue to attack the Chinese camp after occupying the left camp." Davers gave the order again: "And ...... When they were all ready, tell Mattonis and Epitenis not to send any more troops to close the gaps and let the enemy in. ”

"Yes!"

After Davers finished speaking the deployment in one breath, his heart also relaxed a little, turned his head to look at Henipolis who was a little dazed next to him, and couldn't help but explain: "The left battalion is lost, and the right battalion is also lost, and it doesn't matter to us. Our goal is to kill and wound as many Syracuse soldiers as possible, so that Dionysius will lose a large number of elite soldiers, and thus lose the ability to take the initiative to attack. When Dionysius led his army, breaking away from the protection of the fortified city, and took the initiative to attack us, he was in fact doomed to defeat......"

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The army led by Dionysius attacked the left camp after paying small casualties, the camp was already empty, and the attack was too easy, which surprised Dionysius a little, of course, he thought that this was mainly due to his previous heavy attack on the Dionian Chinese army camp and confused Davers to transfer the main force of the left battalion. But at this moment, he did not have time to slowly taste the joy of victory, the price paid by the large army in the brave attack on the camp of the Ionian army was very great, he must hurry up, quickly attack the camp from the flank, and completely defeat the Dionians!

Dionysius led his soldiers to run quickly through the passage between the tents, rushing southward, the shouts and screams of killing in front of them growing louder and clearer......

It's coming! Dionysius's heart grew more and more excited.

As they walked around the tent area, he stopped in astonishment: a tall, long wooden wall more than 20 meters ahead blocked his direction, and there was a trench dug in front of the wooden wall!

"How so?! Why did the Dioonians build such a thick wooden wall and dig such a wide trench throughout the interior of the camp instead of just separating it with a wooden fence?! The hope of victory was shattered at this moment, and the strong sense of disparity and fear of defeat made the determined Dionysius unable to suppress his grief and anger.

"My lord, be careful!" The light infantry of the Second Legion rained down arrows and javelins on the wooden wall, and the soldiers of Syracuse hurriedly set up round shields to defend themselves, and the guards also protected Dionysius.

Dionysius listened to the "Bell!" from the collision of the arrow with the round shield. Clang! The screeching sound of metal made the mood gradually become a little agitated: it seems that the Dioonians had built wooden walls and trenches in the camp to protect the Chinese camp, and apparently had long had the intention of abandoning the left and right battalions, but unfortunately there were wooden walls and traps outside the whole camp, and the scouts could not find out what was going on inside, and every time the messenger sent to negotiate with the Dionian camp entered and left the camp with a cloth blindfolded and did not know the details of the camp at all...... Could it be that he's fallen for Davers again?!

Because Dionysius thought in advance that he had broken through the left camp and continued to attack southward, he could successfully attack the Chinese camp, so the soldiers only carried ladders, no more siege equipment, and large equipment such as siege towers and siege engines could not advance into the camp, so in the face of the heavily guarded Chinese camp, the Syracuse people were a little helpless.

The plan of the attack that Dionysius had spent so much time and energy planning was about to be shattered, and a deep sense of frustration made him a little dazed, and he muttered the name of "Davers", and for a moment could not think of a good way to deal with the difficult situation in front of him......