?? Separated by a wall, both sides were lined with heavily armed warriors. The defenders of the city were too numerous to count, and from the passages behind the frontal walls to the streets leading into the inner city, the Gallic infantry phalanxes were lined up one after the other.

As a matter of common sense, if there are too many defenders, it is not appropriate to forcibly attack the city. Oonos did not want to delay any longer, and he was determined to enter the city and seize the enemy's capital.

It takes great courage for a sieger. It was the order of Van Oonnos, and the soldiers of the Seventh Legion did not blink an eye, and they were determined to complete the mission with victory.

The engineers placed the catapults in a reasonable position, and 12 of them were concentrated here, and Oonos left the artillery of the Germanic legions behind for the siege.

The first round of stone shells is loaded and attacks the wooden walls of Alesia City. A flurry of arrows came in, some on the wooden ballista, some at the engineers.

The Macedonian soldiers were slightly surprised that they had the same range as archers. Oonos realizes that something is wrong and ascends to the pre-raised lookout. At this moment, another round of rockets was fired, and a ballista was immediately on fire. He saw it clearly. It was a Gallic forest hunter, a large formation of bows and arrows standing on a dirt slope at the edge of the city. It seems that the Gauls have done a lot of work on this defense.

He immediately ordered all the archers to attack in unison, including the javelinmen, and concentrate their fire on the counterattack. The artillery on the catapults bombarded the earth slope, and by this time two stone crossbows had already caught fire and could not be used. Forest hunters shoot arrows really fast and accurately.

The Macedonian infantry archers, by virtue of their numbers, overwhelmed the forest hunters with a few rounds of fire. The Cretan archers also suffered certain losses. Combined with the combined efforts of ballistas and javelinmen, all the special archers in Gaul were wiped out.

In this way, the Macedonian side gained a long-range advantage, and the besieging troops began to throw artillery shells into the city with impunity. Huge fireballs smashed into the defenders of the city, and archers and javelinmen also assisted in firing, and the Gallic soldiers were heavily wounded. Especially the town militia, those citizens who have been improvised and armed, have no combat experience and are poorly protected. The casualty rate was highest in the early Macedonian long-range attacks.

Alesia, as a barbarian city, is quite developed, with a large number of urban buildings and a dense population. Now it has been devastated by artillery fire, and artillery, stone shells, and rockets have fallen into the city. Either hit the defenders or hit the building. The city was on fire and in a panic. Residents crowded to the other side for shelter.

"Coax~" A stone bullet hit a hut and tore over half of the roof.

"Long," a large building that had been burning for a long time had finally burned out its columns or beams and collapsed on its own.

The Gallic soldiers looked at the past, their hearts grieving but unable to do anything. There are still thousands of troops outside the city to resist, and maybe the next arrow will fall on you.

The fire was still burning, making the nearby wooden houses crackle, and the terrible sound of stone crossbow projectiles could be heard not far away. The soldiers no longer screamed or shouted in panic. They are numb. Despair is spreading.

The Gallic garrison Dincomius agreed to let his troops withdraw to the inner city first. See the Gallic soldiers retreating into the city, beyond the range of the catapults. The engineers simply turned to the ramparts, the wooden walls were too fragile in front of the stone catapults. A single projectile can smash an arrow tower, along with the sentries and launchers inside.

The engineer corps divided five by two to open a large passage into the city. Oonos nodded, signaling that the centurion could lead the first echelon into the city.

Watching his teammates ruthlessly wreak havoc on enemies and cities, melee phalanx soldiers and cavalry watched silently, and no one cheered. The soldiers were tired of the endless fighting and slaughter, and they wanted to go home and live in peace. Observing the turmoil of this luxurious city in front of them in the howl of ghosts and wolves, the Macedonian warriors had their own thoughts, and they must have been relatively negative and gloomy pictures.

Of course, the general's mind was about when to invest in the main battle forces and capture the city at the minimum cost. When the time came, he didn't give the soldiers time to think. The people of the first echelon woke up from their cranky thoughts and instinctively marched in line to the rhythm of the drums and bugles.

At the gate of Alesia, there are six Macedonian phalanxes opening the way into the city. The infantry had a round shield in their left hand and a super-long spear in their right hand straight upward, dense as a forest of guns, and the phalanx was neat and beautiful, and orderly.

This was followed by a detachment of Cretan archers, responsible for the support after entering the city. At the end of the first echelon is a squadron of light cavalry, which will join the infantry in a decisive battle, or pursue a rout, and other mobile battles.

Seeing this, Dincomius ordered loudly:

"The enemy has entered the city, and now we can fight them face to face. Slaughter them! ”

The Gauls in the city fought back to the edge of the city again, and many of the squares were mutilated, and they ran out in a mixed group, armed with swords and guns. The first to arrive was the Gallic light cavalry, and by this time the Macedonian phalanx was already in formation, and the sharp spears were stacked on top of each other, and they were stiff and straight forward. Then here is the end of the Gallic cavalry.

Screams and neighing, people turn on their backs. The Macedonian phalanx stretched across the narrow streets, and the roads were sealed with tight stitches. Later, the elite Gallic infantry could not even touch anyone, but they were blocked by spears, and with a burst of stabbing, the Gauls fell in rows. The Macedonian phalanx took only a small amount of breakthrough or javelin damage.

They continued to make moves, unleashing mastiffs and beasts. The archers first blocked a barrage of arrows, and then a battle of spears that neither humans nor beasts could force their way through. Perhaps, later, these fighters will be asked by their teammates or loved ones:

"Are you scared of the beasts and the crowds?"

"I'm afraid. I was scared to death from the bottom of my heart.

But I have honor, responsibility, and discipline, and instinctively I am only a member of the Macedonian phalanx, and I will never back down and move forward bravely.

At that moment, if there was anything else I saw, it was the brothers who were in dire straits, and the opponents. ”

By the time the last of the Gallic warriors were routed and turned around and fled, the Gallic defenders had already been defeated. The centurion gave the order to give way, in pursuit. The phalanx immediately merged in unison, freeing up a few aisles in the human wall. The light cavalry quickly passed and pursued the enemy soldiers.

The militiamen and javelinmen who lined up at the back were frightened when they saw the cavalry, and they also turned around and ran with the crowd. The Macedonian light cavalry pursued and slashed all the way, and the enemy fell even more. The infantry also followed.

Coming to the one-way street of the central square, the hussars stopped, and there were few remnants left. The heavily armed phalanx caught up and re-formed the formation.

The Gallic cavalry, cornered, had no choice, they could not have surrendered. Tincomius rushed down the steps of the square with his cavalry, crashing straight into the phalanx of pikes. Dincomius's horse poked into his spear and he fell to his face, and he himself was tossed up and fell into the middle of the formation, and several of the phalanx soldiers around him drew their short swords and killed him. The rest of the Gallic knights followed, some dying on the spot, others rushing into the infantry.

The brawl and fighting soon stopped. The Macedonian siege team completed its mission and eliminated all the defenders.

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