The sight of it startled Scipio the Great and the soldiers, and they thought it was a miracle!

But Scipio the Great quickly came to his senses and had the guards shout: "There are people in the car!!" There are people in the car!! ......" thus dispelling the panic of the soldiers. m.

Scipio the Great and his soldiers watched as the nearly 100 wooden carts came within range of their bows and arrows, but they could not do anything about them.

After a while, the first wooden cart stopped in front of the trench, and the wooden carts behind followed closely on the splicing, one after the other, end to end, and soon in front of the trench they were connected into five columns of wooden carts a hundred meters long, which extended beyond the range of the defenders' bows and arrows.

Behind them were a number of pack carts, loaded with sacks full of earth made by the Ionian soldiers yesterday, and countless unarmored Ionian soldiers lined up to pass the sacks one by one, hand by hand, and the soldiers who had pushed the carts in the wooden carriages did the same. Soon, bags of dirt were thrown into the trench one after another.

This peculiar way of filling the trenches could not help but amaze the Roman soldiers in the city, but it also made them nervous.

Although Scipio the Great did not know what the carts were used for, he still instinctively ordered the soldiers to fire rockets at them, but the dozen or so in front of them, the top of which was covered with a thin layer of earth and wrapped in soaked linen, was not so easy to ignite.

At the same time, a number of archery wagons with a wide plank erected in front of them were side by side, and in the interval between the five wagon columns, they were driven by the light infantry of the Second Dionian Legion, which was blocked by planks, and the arrows could hardly hurt them.

These arrows were pushed in front of the trench, forming a discontinuous wooden wall. The Dionian light infantry shot arrows at the Roman soldiers at the head of the city through the gaps between the planks.

Adoyous was in a wooden cart, and like the rest of his comrades, he did not wear armor, which was to save his stamina and make his mission faster.

In fact, Adorys didn't know how many sacks he had passed forward, and he felt energetic.

At this time, the detachment leader in front shouted: "Brothers, pay attention, push the cart forward!" ”

Because the officers had told the soldiers the plan of action before the siege, Adoris knew that the trench in front had been filled, and that the wagons in front of him would be moved to the trench, the ground would be tamped, and planks would be laid so that the siege equipment could pass through the trench.

Although the wooden car is large, in addition to the roof and both sides of the wooden plank, the interior is hollow, in fact, it is not heavy, and the wheels of the wooden car are double wheels, so that the car wall can be jammed, and the long axle is not used to connect the two sides, ensuring that the middle of the wooden car can pass through people and things without hindrance.

Adonis and his comrades pushed the wagon forward, and soon it was connected to the front and rear carts, and long planks were quickly passed from behind, passing through the hands of Adores and them, and finally rammed on the trench.

Then the officers organized a swift and orderly retreat of the soldiers in the wooden carts.

When Mattonis, who was in front of the siege array, heard the news from his men that "Adoris is intact and has retreated with the rest of the soldiers", he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he gave the order to his adjutant: "Let the heavy infantry attack!" ”

"Good work, brother, it's our turn!" The legionnaires who had rubbed shoulders with Adoris and his comrades said in high spirits.

"May Hades bless you!" Adoris blessed their comrades, and then began to put on their armor while looking at the heavily armed legionnaires with a little envy: some carrying ladders, others holding shields and spears, lined up in double columns, quickly entered the passage made of wooden carts, and then soon appeared under the opposite city, and the siege began.

When Matonis saw the ladder hanging all over the city wall in front of him, and the hedgehogs gathered under the city, he couldn't wait to give another order: "Let the siege towers attack!" ”

Under the loud shouts of the heralds, many soldiers rushed forward, and their task was to push the wooden carts in front of them into the trenches, which could not only provide more access to the entrenches for the siege of the followers, but also clear the way for the large siege equipment to be pushed under the city.

Since some of the wooden carts had already been ignited by rockets, the soldiers had to exert more effort when pushing them away. When the wooden cart was pushed away, what was revealed was a very smooth road leading to the city wall.

Scipio the Great commanded his soldiers to attack both the Ionian hoplites under the city and the Ionian light infantry behind the Blockade in front of the trench, so he was powerless to stop the Ionians from pushing the carts away, and he was a little puzzled by the Dioonians' apparent overkill.

It wasn't long before he saw five tall and huge wooden towers in the distance, which seemed to be taller than the city walls, slowly approaching the city walls.

He was as shocked as the soldiers around him, in his long career of conquest, he participated in the siege of the city many times, the most difficult one was undoubtedly the attack on Weiai, which lasted for nearly ten years, although it was difficult, but it also enriched his siege and defense experience, but today, until now, the novel siege method of Dionya has made him feel a little nervous, and the super siege tower that appears now completely shocked him and the Roman soldiers, after all, the surrounding forces he fought against in the past, their military technology is either backward than Rome, Either it was on par with Rome, and the Kingdom of Dioonia was obviously completely crushing Rome in this regard, which reflected the gap in civilization, which gave Scipio the Great a sense of powerlessness in his spirit, but he quickly picked himself up and shouted: "Prepare the rocket!" Burn it with fire! ”

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The Dionian engineering team was able to build five siege towers in a single day, not only because of the large number of people involved in the production, but also because Davos had already considered the needs of the siege before setting out, allowing them to make some key parts of the siege equipment in advance and carry them with the army, such as the wheels, axles, pulleys, and L-shaped iron frames used to secure the wooden connections in the siege towers...... This has allowed the engineers and carpenters to save time and complete the production tasks in the past day and a half.

And compared with the Syracusa siege tower, this siege tower is very different, its front width is less than three meters, just the same as the width of the wooden car, so you can smoothly pass through the several sections of the leveled trench communication, and its rear obliquely downward, showing a right-angled trapezoid, the wooden ladder is set on the outside, so that the soldiers can enter the layers of the siege tower smoothly and quickly.

The siege tower was pushing, the wooden window of the penultimate floor had been opened, and a belly bow placed inside had opened its bowstring, and iron arrows were placed, and the soldiers pressed the motive, and the iron arrows whistled, and in an instant they flew to the head of the city, pierced the chests of several Roman soldiers, and fell behind the city with them.

The power of the belly bow made the Roman soldiers facing the siege tower frightened, they had to be distracted to guard against this terrible killing weapon, naturally they could not attack the Dionian soldiers who were climbing the city with all their strength, if it was not for the timely arrival of the mobile troops arranged by Scipio the Great on the city, the Dionian soldiers almost landed on the top of the city.

Before the Roman soldiers could catch their breath, the Dionian light infantry at the top of the siege tower began to throw arrows at the defenders of the city, who were already within range.

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At the same time as the Second Legion attacked, the Sixth Legion, which was located on the east side of the Second Legion, under the leadership of the Legion Commander Trotilas, also adopted the siege method of the First Legion, and launched an attack on the eastern part of the southern wall of Rome, forcing the defenders there to cope with all their strength and did not dare to divide their forces to aid Scipio the Great.

In the western part of the southern wall, the Fifth Legion led by Giogris and the Fourth Legion led by Oliver concentrated on attacking the prominent southwest corner of the Roman wall.

Dozens of ballistae had been bombarding this section of the wall since yesterday afternoon, and by today, a fifth of the ballistas had been damaged, but the two commanders did not hesitate to order the attack to continue from the early hours of the morning, and to concentrate on the lower part of the wall.

After being hit by stone bullets for a long time, the stones on the outer wall of the city wall shattered, and large swaths fell off, revealing in some places the thick layer of rammed earth inside.

The ballistae then concentrated their live bombardment on the top of the wall, and although some of the stone shells crossed the wall, the stone projectiles that hit the wall caused the stone chips to scatter in all directions, posing a danger to the defenders at the head of the city, and they had to retreat.

The heavy infantry of Dionya took the opportunity to rush to the trench with thick planks of long and wide planks, and spread it, while the following heavy infantry, carrying ladders and stepping on the planks, crossed the trench and began the siege, and the attack of the ballistas stopped.

In the midst of the assault were siege engines and chariots, which were carefully pushed over the wooden bridges by the soldiers and rolled towards the exposed rammed earth walls......

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The whole city of Rome was surrounded by high walls, and there was only one place where there were no walls, that is, the Roman vertebral bridge to the north and a distance of more than a mile to the left and right, but it was blocked by the wide Tiber River in front of it, and there was a steep embankment seven or eight meters high as a barrier, and the Romans regarded it as the safest place.

In two wars with Rome's greatest enemy in the Tiber Valley, several decades earlier, the Romans had repelled the enemy's attacks by holding the bridge.

This time, when the Dioonians occupied the other side of the vertebral bridge, the former patrol captain in charge of the northern defense of the city of Rome, Pullo. Cassius was still prepared to adopt the same tactics.