Chapter Thirty-Nine: Conquering the City

Abrias marched north with the Sixth Legion and headed straight for Jaski, an important city in Dacia.

For the first time, Abrias personally led his troops into a foreign war, hoping that he would be able to bring glory to the kingdom.

Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use soldiers for a while. Abrias was hell-bent on victory. He is strict not only with himself, but also with his subordinates. They marched unusually fast. This was to match the rhythm of Oonos' attack, to reach the central city of Dacia Jaski as soon as possible.

After several days of rapid marching, the troops of Abrias turned the mountain pass and came to the plain. At this time, the sentinels spotted a Dacian army.

According to the briefing: the team appears to be loosely disciplined and dominated by infantry. Most of the sergeants were playing and having fun when they were found.

When Abrias learned of this information, he thought it should be a foreign army that had broken away from the main force, or a careless brute army from other tribes who had come to reinforce it.

He wanted to find out. So the general marched quickly with the guards and cavalry, as well as the light infantry, and ordered the other troops to follow. When the vanguard of Abrias found the enemy, they immediately launched a surprise attack. In the panic, these barbarians could not find their clothes and weapons, and the queue was even more scattered.

The Macedonian cavalry disposed of them cleanly and without mercy.

It is said that this team is not a lot of people, but they are scattered and do not want an army at all. Abrias thought, it seems that the strength of the Dacian army is really average, but so many soldiers are like a plate of scattered sand. They fought against the Macedonian army at the expense of organization and morale.

When the troops in the rear arrived, they learned that the forward troops had won a great victory. Their general won a big victory with only a part of the fast troops, and the Sixth Army became even more demoralized. They continued their march and soon came to the outside of the city of Yaski. Jaski claims to be a city, but it has developed only to the level of a large town.

Abrias ordered the siege of the city and made siege equipment.

A day later, the Macedonian army began to siege the city. The soldiers of the 6th Army enthusiastically signed up for the first echelon.

The siege engines were still beating, and the archers had already fired countless arrows into the city.

The Dacia soldiers standing at the edge of the city were so overwhelmed by the rain of arrows that they couldn't lift their heads, and there were many Dacia soldiers lying on the street next to them who had fallen to the ground with arrows.

When the Macedonians opened the passage to enter the city, the rain of arrows stopped, so as not to injure the friendly troops. Before the Dacia defenders could catch their breath, the white-knuckle soldiers who attacked the city became more ferocious, and the Dacia defenders could not resist the enemy's position and retreated.

In battle, Dacia's archers could still effectively fight back, and the rest of the troops were in the narrow streets, facing each other head-on, and could not defeat the Macedonian pikes phalanx.

As the Macedonian siege forces advanced all the way into the city, the Dacian army defending the city was also depleted. In the end, the general who defended the city, Saulius, was stabbed under his horse and killed on the spot.

The first step of Abrias was successful, and they triumphantly planted the banner of the kingdom on the city of Dacia.

Macedonia announced the occupation of Yaski. In this way, the army of Dacia in the area east of the city was isolated.

Besides, on the side of Oonos, they have been besieging the city of Pololison for many days. Enough siege engines were built. However, Oonos felt that there were too many defenders in the city, and fighting directly was not necessarily the only way to break the city. Perhaps it would be better to continue to besiege the city and force them out of the city to fight.

However, after a long siege, the Dacians did not leave the city. When Oonos heard the news that Abrias had broken the city, he decided not to wait any longer and attacked the city on the same day.

The army came to the edge of the city, and the first echelon pushed three siege vehicles at the same time to ram the city gates and walls. Oonos let his archers unleash their arrows as much as they could, and they stocked up on plenty of arrows. In addition, in addition to the two corps of archers that were mixed in the legion, Oonos transferred four more squadrons of archers from Tyris.

For a time, thousands of arrows were fired at once, and an overwhelming rain of arrows poured into the city, and many defenders fell one after another. The Dacian archers, distracted by the Macedonian light infantry, hurried to the eastern gate. But they have lost their fighters. Unprepared for unprepared, and before he could gain a firm foothold, when he drew his bow and shot an arrow, he was aimed and shot by Macedonian archers. The Dacians had already been defeated in long-range attacks, and even if there were more defenders, they could not withstand the constant bow and arrow blows outside the city.

By the time the siege engines opened the gates and the passages above the walls, the enemy's strength was reduced by thirty or forty percent, and the task of the siege troops was much easier.

The first echelon began to enter the city, and the Dacian defenders also fought desperately, all blocking the small square that entered the city. It seems that a fierce battle is inevitable.

The four Macedonian phalanxes of spears were placed side by side in the square, and Dacia's swordsmen poured up one by one. The phalanx infantry stabbed the enemy desperately with their spears, stabbing them in the face and body, and the longsword infantry was killed and wounded. The enemy general, Parakos, saw that the infantry alone could not break through the Macedonian line, so he sent the cavalry auxiliary infantry with him. However, the Dacian cavalry was lightly equipped and had thin armor.

The pikes were lined up in close proximity on the wide streets, and the cavalry could not launch a flank charge, but could only engage head-on. Although they made a coordinated charge of infantry and cavalry, they were unable to break through the Macedonian phalanx's defenses, only aggravating the casualties.

As the saying goes, there are not many soldiers, but there is no military advance. On the Dacian side, the number of soldiers could not compensate for the poor collective fighting strength of their brute troops. Even though the Dacia soldiers were brave and aggressive, they were too pale in the face of the advanced Macedonian army, which was victorious in their team.

In the first battle of the street, the defenders were completely defeated. The remaining brutes huddled in a corner of the central plaza, shivering.

The Macedonian archers and infantry eliminated the remaining remnants of the enemy and killed the defender Parachus.

The Macedonian army was victorious and declared the capture of the city of Pololison.

Oonos settled the city, and the local people seemed friendly, but they were not entirely loyal to the Dacian barbarian leader. It may also be that the inhabitants here are accustomed to the fact that the tribes are fighting each other. The political environment in which I came to power has caused the people here not to care who will rule in the end, as long as it does not affect the safety of themselves and their property, life still has to go on.

A week later, Oonos saw that the stronghold was well established, and left a small number of Macedonian defenders behind. Appoint a general as a military governor. He himself went with the Seventh Army to Yasky in the west. He was to join up with Abrias, and then conquer the lands of Dacia from both directions with a clear division of labor, destroy this faction as soon as possible, and win a solid northern depth for the Macedonian kingdom.