To their surprise, these new artisans brought new weapons.

The general immediately smiled, he knew that they must have a way to help him break the city as soon as possible.

When he inquired about how many of them were captives from Rome, his face sank. He said he didn't trust outsiders. But the Roman craftsmen said there were better drawings of siege equipment. The general took a look and realized that this was the key to breaking the city. Say:

"As long as the weapons designed and manufactured are useful, they will still reward you for your merits.

But in three days, I'm going to see the first siege plane! ”

The general's words were noncommittal. The artisans gasped, their legs weakened and their faces turned sallow, but they didn't dare to say anything.

Oonos summed up the forces in his hands now, and the Hitstun troops were definitely superior, and the number of bows and arrows had more than doubled. You can now fight the defenders of the city. He counted the date of the siege. I don't want to fight directly for the strength of the bow and arrow.

He wanted to see if the so-called new device could make a big difference. One of the craftsmen was an engineer who explained to him during the day that this kind of machine was used to beat stone walls, and that it was powerful, had a long range, and was average in accuracy but could be compensated for by numbers.

Thinking of this, Oonos suddenly realized that since he could break the wall remotely, he could shoot at a distance. If you build two more siege planes and install them in the right places, won't you be able to suppress the archers of the defenders in the city? A stone the size of a watermelon can be smashed down to kill enemies in pieces. He's proud, tsk~, it's late, he must be able to sleep well.

Three days later, General Oonos got his wish to see the trebuchet he needed. This big guy is tall and looks like a wooden tower, but it has a large robotic arm that can move. The stone is placed on a catapult and thrown by a robotic arm.

Oonos was about to watch the trebuchet shoot on the spot, and several engineers immediately went up to operate.

When the soldiers loaded the stone bullets and pulled the launch card, the wooden trebuchet made a "squeak" sound. "Whoosh!" Huge rocks were thrown up and flew towards the town.

After firing three rounds in a row, two shots hit the target, which is not bad. It hit the wooden fence wall hard, and the wooden wall was smashed crookedly, and it basically looked like it was about to collapse. Another shot went straight into the city, and even the roof and wall smashed half of a small wooden house.

The soldiers of the Seventh Legion shouted, this weaponry was simply a tiger with wings.

Oonos said yes again and again, and he ordered the men to find the right stone bullets, as many as possible.

The engineer came to present his masterpiece, and he said proudly:

"This trebuchet is fixed and troublesome to disassemble. Another kind is mounted on a cart, or the one with wheels is called a catapult or a stone crossbow, which can be pushed away.

Now we are at a distance beyond the reach of both bows and arrows.

But this trebuchet can, and the stone projectiles it fires can hit targets in the city, and its range has covered a third of the area on this side of the city.

It can also shoot fire pellets by coating the stone with a layer of flammable material, then pouring oil on it, and modifying the firing belt. This will be much less accurate, but hitting the enemy array will cause a lot of damage and severe panic. ”

Oonos listened, and wanted to see the specifics, and the engineers were happy to demonstrate. Several engineers were busy for a while and launched.

A flash of fire streaked through the air, it was a perfect arc, and the result was crooked, indescribably biased, and the entire southern city wall, this cannon did not fall to the width of the wall. The arrow tower that grazed the wall on the right flew out. The soldiers booed.

Oonos:

"Dry. Is this a toy? I'll put you on and throw you in if you don't hit the next shot. ”

The engineer was in a hurry, went up and adjusted his breath, and then asked him to try again. This time, the flames streaked through the air and fell into the city, setting fire to a house.

Experiments outside the city are in full swing, and different tricks are coming. The Scythians in the city were first astonished,

"What a novelty is this, to fight such a long distance."

Later, I felt that something was wrong. Seeing the destruction of the buildings in the city, they probably knew that the power of this weapon was not simple.

The Macedonian engineers finished the stone bullets they had brought, and it took a long time to disassemble the siege engine, carry it away, and return to the camp with the large army.

The general ordered more stones to be collected, and ordered the craftsmen to build three more identical trebuchets within a time limit.

Oonos had new weapons, plus new archers and light cavalry, and he was confident.

Appropriate forces were reassigned to cut off the city of Scythia from the outside world.

When Memon heard that the siege was tight at the front, he sent another batch of conscription guns and militia guns. Now, the Macedonian corps on the Eastern Front was replenished with new recruits and readjusted its forces, as he had designed long ago. It was well prepared, forming an advantage in the fight against the Scythian army.

On this day, the Macedonian army set out in full gear, and they all wanted to fight a good battle. In particular, Zoiros Echinos and his soldiers, who not only went to war, but also asked to serve as the first echelon of the siege.

It's time to pay the blood debt to the Scythians! The general agreed to their request.

The army came outside the city and stood unhurriedly behind the catapults, waiting for the siege order. Of course, the first to attack were the four siege engines.

Multiple machines were launched at the same time. This not only increases efficiency, but also creates pressure on the enemy.

The catapults first concentrated their firepower and destroyed the southern walls of the city of Scythia, and then fired at random troops in the city. One would stone and the other would attack with fire, mutilating the Scythian archers' formation, and the defenders were heavily wounded, and the fire in the city caused confusion.

After the first group of fire was prepared, the second group of long-range fire - Macedonian archery units came up. Six squadrons of infantry archers, or more than nine hundred archers, were used to suppress the resistance in the city. The early catapult strikes had greatly weakened the Scythian archers and archers, and now a large group of Macedonian archers had appeared outside the city, and the Scythian soldiers were too busy to cope.

This time, the bow and arrow shooting between the two sides was too grandiose. It was a duel between the main archery forces of Macedonia and Scythia.

The bow and arrow were like a curtain, one moment to the city, and the other to the outside of the city. Arrows shuttle like a stream. The Macedonian archers formed a skirmisher, and the archers in the city had limited space to use them, but they were still able to keep moving and had excellent archery skills. The Scythian archers were also very powerful.

Macedonian archers hailed from the capital, Thessaloniki, and were excellent archers trained at the Praetorian Guard range.

Both sides were not afraid of losses, and the fighters were not afraid, and the fire continued for a long time. Scythia was defeated in this battle of archery, and with attrition, the losses of the enemy troops became more and more obvious, and the number of defenders rapidly decreased. Some squadrons have run out of arrows.

The arrows over the firefight were becoming more and more sparse, and the siege order was issued. The first echelon of Zoir Ross approached the edge of the city and entered the city through several gaps, and militia guns, levy guns, and light cavalry all entered the city in order. Soon the white-knuckle battle began.

The Sarmatian heavy cavalry met the infantry in the narrow streets, but could not play to the advantage, and were defeated by the phalanx of pikes.

The Macedonian light cavalry pursued and dispersed the enemy's archers and cavalry, and those who could catch up must have ended up with the enemy.

The phalanx of infantry continued to advance into the city, and the Scythian axes rushed to meet them. The heights could not save them. The axes were no match for the phalanx spears at all, and they were all quickly brought down.

Front-to-face battles in street battles exposed the shortcomings of the Scythian's weak infantry. Macedonia won outright. The cavalry faced the phalanx of spearmen in close and narrow contact, and was just restrained.

Zeboites, the leader of Scythia, was again cornered, and he rushed to the Macedonians with all his might.

He was a fierce general, and his cavalry guards, which numbered only sixty men, rushed head-on into a phalanx of militia guns and routed a phalanx of one hundred and sixty infantrymen. The Scythians pursued the militia without mercy, wielding their swords and slashing the routed soldiers from behind.

Later, the enlistment pike phalanx opened the gun array and stabbed the enemy.

Zepoites stepped forward again, but this time he wasn't so lucky. His mount was stabbed in the chest by a Phalanx infantry and fell.

Zepoites tumbled off his horse, but he immediately got to his feet. Armed with a scimitar, he jumped up, stepped over the spear, and stood in the middle of the phalanx to continue slashing.

The Macedonian infantry scattered and went up to melee combat, and they held Zepoitus back, but he struggled with all his strength and broke free. He was about to pick up the knife.

Turning back to see that his guard was surrounded, the Macedonian infantry cooperated in the battle and quickly eliminated it.

Oonos, who had just entered the city, saw the yellow-haired Zeboites at a glance, and this barbarian was particularly conspicuous in the chaos army.

Oonos rushed forward with a sword in his hand, and with a clean movement, he drew his sword with great speed, and slashed the neck of the Scythian leader with a single sword.

Zeboites' blood immediately gushed out and fell to the ground. Losing the protection of the heavy troops, the Scythian archers were forced to fight, and were soon surrounded and annihilated by the Macedonian light cavalry.

Oonos proclaims the occupation of Scythia.