Soldiers need not only courage but also skill to climb across this rope bridge in the dark and reach the other side, although it is only nearly 100 meters, it is actually very time-consuming, and when encountering clumsy soldiers, the speed of crossing the river is like a snail crawling. The comrades-in-arms in the back were in a hurry but did not dare to make a sound, because several of their comrades accidentally fell into the river and disappeared.

It was late at night, and a third of the soldiers of the 1st Brigade had not passed. Dracos felt that time was pressed and he could not wait here, so he ordered the commander of the 1st Brigade Company, which had not yet crossed the river, to organize the soldiers behind him to cross the river, and reminded Adrianx, the captain of the 1st Brigade who had crossed the river: When it is just dawn, immediately lead the 1st Brigade to raid the defensive camp along the river path, seize it, and ensure that the 2nd Army can enter the territory of Bissinia smoothly, and take the city of Bissinia together.

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Most of the soldiers who crossed the river were under the command of their respective detachment leaders and squad leaders, quietly and orderly lying on the river beach, seizing the time to rest, calming their nervous emotions, and recovering their physical strength and energy, so that they could cope with the next battle in a better state, while a small number of soldiers in better condition dived into the woods, sawed off the small trees as softly as possible with the tools they brought, cut off the branches, and made simple wooden ladders.

Adrianx, as the captain of the brigade, led a few guards and crawled not far from the defensive camp, observing the layout of the camp by the faint light of the camp.

At this time, he felt someone patting him on the back, and when he looked back, it turned out to be the captain of the first detachment.

He hurriedly followed him and crawled back, far from the camp, before he sat up: "What's the matter?" ”

"The warrior who swam across the Klatty River has an urgent matter and wants to see you."

"What's the urgency he's going to have, is he dying?!" Adriankos said impatiently.

For several days, he had been in a rather irritable mood, knowing that in order to organize a delegation to the Isthmus Games, he had even sought the approval of Davers and did not follow the Second Army to reinforce Tarantum. As a result, the troops who went out returned with honors, and the team he led became the laughing stock of the whole of Greece. After his return, a few senators in the Senate attacked him for this matter, and although he was not condemned much by Davers and the former mercenary senators, he felt very aggrieved in his own heart.

At the outbreak of the Bruti War, Dracos, an old friend who knew him, allowed his First Brigade to cross the river first, taking on the responsibility of occupying the defensive camp and taking over the whole legion, giving him a good opportunity to prove himself and wash away his shame, so he held back his strength.

Adrianx hesitated for a moment, but considering the credit for Seklian's work, he decided to take the time to meet him.

At the moment, Sekrian was being treated by the doctor who crossed the river, and in addition to the skin trauma, his most serious injuries were two broken ribs on his left side and some damage to his left lung. The doctor reduced the broken bone and fixed him while bandaging the wound.

Seeing Adriankos, he struggled to get up and was stopped by the doctors.

"You'd better lie down!" Seeing that he was seriously injured, Adriankos's tone became a little softer: "I heard that you have something to look for me?" ”

"Yes...... The captain ...... "As soon as Sekrian spoke, his lungs were tugged, and the pain made his face distorted, and his voice hissed like a broken bellows, and he said with difficulty: "I heard that you gave the order, and it was just dawn...... Just...... will attack the enemy's defensive camp to the east......"

"Yes, this is the order of the corps commander." Thinking he was going to fight, Adrianx said, "You need to rest now and not have to fight in the next battle." ”

"What if...... If you attack the defensive camp first...... The enemies of the city will know...... Here we go...... will defend with all its might...... We want to take the Bissinha ...... will increase the difficulties, and the casualties of the brothers will increase...... Why...... Why not just attack the city of Bissinia?! …… I swam across the river...... I know they would never have thought of it...... Let's ......," Sekrian said anxiously, panting even harder, and the doctor hurriedly told him to stop talking and rest.

Although his voice was choppy and his words were a little slurred, Adrianx already understood what he meant: Bissinia is defenseless, we should sneak attack and take him!

Adriankos' eyes lit up: being able to lead a brigade to take a city independently will undoubtedly wash away the previous humiliation! As for the sneak attack on the city, Dionya has had a lot of successful experience in this regard, and the key to capturing Amendolara, Niutum, and Grumentum is to act suddenly, attack violently, and advance quickly, so as to give the enemy the greatest blow in the shortest possible time and plunge it into chaos. This has been summarized by Davers and written into the tactical chapter of the "Dionian Military Law".

Adrianks remembers what Davers repeatedly emphasized: take risks and plan carefully.

Now, he had made up his mind: not only to take the defensive camp, but also to attack the city of Bissinia! Therefore he had to think carefully about the situation in the city of Bissinia.

Davers once wrote a pamphlet about the city of Bissinia (thanks to Antrapolis), and the officers of the Second Legion memorized it with ease. Adriankos closed his eyes, and a sketch of the interior of the city could come to his mind: the city of Bissinia was a small city, and the walls were not made of stone, but double-layered wooden walls (the Bruti region was surrounded by Greek city-states, and was greatly influenced by the Greeks, and the walls of each city were diversified according to their economic strength and degree of threat, the cities of Knappetea, Cosenza, and Vig were all stone walls, Bisinia was wooden, and Ambania was just a rudimentary wooden fence), and there were about 3,000 warriors in the city, And according to the continuous prospecting and reconnaissance on the other side of the bank in the past few days, the city of Bissinia once sent no less than 2,000 troops to the west, and has not yet returned, so the city of Bissinia is counted as a defensive camp, and its remaining strength should be about the same as that of the first brigade.

Adriakos didn't think that it was because he was used to obeying orders from his superiors, but now, after much thought, he decided to send 300 men to attack the defensive camp, and he personally led 700 men to attack the city of Bissinia.

He immediately called the captains of the companies and the leaders of the detachments, renegotiated the attack plan, and sent more soldiers into the woods and made more wooden ladders, which were naturally more quiet than before, but the darkness and the rushing river provided the best cover for their movements, and the Bessininians, who had been safe and sound for a hundred years, did not build a watchtower outside the city, and the only few sentries on the wooden wall fell asleep early, and the city of Bessinia was still silent......

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The minutes ticked by, and it was too hard for Adriacus, who tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

But the night will eventually pass, and when there is a glimmer of light in the sky, he turns over and sits up, wakes up the herald beside him, and whispers: "Inform the captains of each company to start moving!" ”

The herald informs the company commanders, the company leaders notify the sub-leaders, the sub-captains notify the squad leaders, and the squad leaders wake up their soldiers one by one.

The soldiers yawned, picked up wooden shields and bayonet guns, and a few of them carried wooden ladders and began to hobbly follow the officers.

There were no drums, no bugles, everything was done in silence. The soldiers' eyes stared at the swing of the military flag in front of them in a daze, and as the team slowly marched, the scattered formation gradually became neat and orderly, and the confusion on the soldiers' faces had been replaced by sobriety.

150 m ...... 100 m ...... 50 m ...... The procession had reached the front of the ditch near the city, but there was still not a trace of movement on the walls.

The three-meter-wide and three-meter-deep trench was filled with numerous sharpened wooden stakes that the soldiers could not cross with their bare hands, and on the other side of the trench there was no open space, just a towering wooden wall.

The wooden ladder was put up and plunged into the earth at one end, and the soldiers held it up, and the other end was not long enough to reach the end of the wall, and it didn't matter. When the soldier climbed to the far end of the wooden ladder, he stretched out his hands as hard as he could, grabbed the wall, and with a strong grip, he climbed onto the wall.

The fur-wrapped sentry in the walkway was sleeping soundly against the wall, but the vibration and noise of the battlements made him open his eyes in alarm, but it was too late, a dozen wooden ladders were set up on the wall, and there were more than a dozen soldiers who climbed over the wall at a time, and soon the walkway was full, and the sentry did not understand what was going on, and either died by the gun or became a prisoner.

Then, the soldiers at the head of the wall quickly opened the city gates, and the captains of each wing, according to the prior plan, led the soldiers into the city immediately, divided their soldiers into three roads, and quickly advanced along the streets.

It worked! Adriankos waved his hand excitedly: "Blow the trumpet!" ”

The trumpets and drums sounded together, and the soldiers roared, and the city immediately became chaotic as if an earthquake had struck. Whether it's naked or going out to check the situation; In a hurry, he picked up his weapon and rushed out of the room, but he was bumped into by the soldiers marching along the street, and he couldn't help but stab himself with a gun, and for a while he screamed again and again...... The bloody slaughter frightened the Bessinas, who simply hid in their houses, not daring to make a move.

Although the city of Bissinia was built in the mountains, it was located in a mountain col, and it was actually a flat city, so the first brigade advanced quickly, and in front of it was the mansion of the great chief in the center of the city, which was also the seat of the council hall.

Such a big movement in the city, of course, alarmed Kanaru, who was still asleep, and as soon as he sat up with sleepy eyes, his subordinates broke in: "Chief, no...... Oh no! The enemy has entered the city! ”