Chapter Ninety-Six: The Decisive Battle of Worms (Part I)

In the third month, if it weren't for the fact that I was surrounded by so many soldiers who were also suffering like this, I would have gone crazy.

"Melt fast, melt now!"

It's not just my wish, it's the wish of thousands of people on the field.

The snow, after three days of falling at both ends, finally survived the long and severe cold for so long. I felt the moment when the snow melted.

Early that morning, the horn of the sky vibrated the eardrum of every soldier, and I was no exception, and when I opened my eyes and got up to open the curtain of the tent, I saw a pair of legs, slowly walking to the extinguished campfire in the center of the camp. Immediately after, I heard: "Hoo~hoo!" ”

The familiar wooden whistle sounded again, and then the rough voice of Chief Centurion Guy was heard: "Come out and assemble for me!" ”

It was early in the morning, earlier than any other time, and I knew that this time it was an emergency, perhaps the relief I had been dreaming of. Brushing my long greasy hair, I put the centurion's helmet back on top of my head, and took the chain mail that had been placed on the box again, blowing away the ash from it in one go.

Outside the door, the trumpet continued and spread from the central tent to the entire camp around it. I walked out of the tent in full dress, and the soldiers of the brigade were lined up in front of Chief Centurion Guy. He saw me, and just glanced at it, because it was the last time the soldier added the conflict, and a full three months passed, and this guy turned a blind eye to me.

I'm used to this kind of indifference, this guy has been treating me the same way for three months, I guess I've become a thorn in his side, a thorn in the flesh. But because my backer is Aetius, he doesn't dare to touch me.

The snow melted so that the daytime temperature was even colder, and I tightened my cloak over my shoulders and returned to the front row of my queue to take the shield that Briss had handed me. I snapped the strap of my shield to my left arm, and to the left, Andrew nodded to me in front of his phalanx, and then to the right, the centurion with the helmet carved with the cross on his head and the soldiers under Guy's command looked up and looked ahead. Their camp consciousness is still very firm, and for us who don't have Iron Cross helmets, it's very good not to face each other with swords.

"All right, all the soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the 14th Twins." Chief Centurion Guy stood in front of us with his stomach straight, looked around at us hundreds, and said loudly: "After waiting for more than three months, we have gone from spiritual young men to beggars whom even we dislike. ”

Everyone looked down at the faces of the people around them with unshaven beards, and couldn't help but smile.

"But!" "We are going to put an end to this, and finally, God has finally mercy on our waiting, and cleared all the waiting under the walls of Worms for us, so we must be grateful to God and seize this precious opportunity to put an end to this." ”

The soldiers all laughed, not as I had imagined, and Chief Centurion Guy took up the twin flags of the Twin Legions, and with a wave of his hand, everyone in the First Brigade turned and walked out towards the camp gate.

We walked along the muddy road, never thinking that Aetius was ready. From a long distance, the sound of "rumbling" was already heard.

"Put!"

Before he reached the battlefield, a large stream of fire appeared in front of him, and he saw a dozen flying stones with fire flying out on a huge trebuchet, and the walls of Naworms were already in tatters, and they were covered with gaps in the bombardment of boulders.

"Hah! The Burgundian must have a hard time now, because here we are! ”

"Rome!"

"Phew!"

I don't know who couldn't hold back the excitement in their hearts, and everyone raised their arms and shouted, and we stepped forward together in the mud, and every boulder smashed into the walls of Worms, and we would cheer at the concussive rumble, as if relieved of the anger in our hearts. Walking on the battlefield, it was even more muddy and difficult to walk, and we walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

In front of me was a large number of siege engines, as I saw every day, siege towers, siege cones. All the belongings that Aetius had prepared for three whole months were here, and when I saw that they were all put up, I understood Aetius's intentions, and if we couldn't take the city, we really had no way out.

"The Fourteenth Twin Legion, the First Brigade is at your disposal!"

At this moment, I heard a string of hurried horses' hooves, and when I looked up, I saw a cavalryman, and the cavalry was from far to near, and I could see his face clearly, the captain of the Praetorian Guard of Aetius, Levi. He rode up to us, pointed with his big hand, and pointed toward the siege tower.

"Go to the siege tower!"

This was obviously the intention of Aetius himself, Guy did not dare to disobey, he could only obey the arrangement, I led my phalanx all the way trott, climbed up the nearest siege tower to our position, nearly half of the hundred men climbed along the ladder of the siege tower, and nearly forty people below, led by the trumpeter Briss, pushed the huge siege tower together.

"Ahem, ......"

The siege towers marched like rusty machinery, relying entirely on manpower, and the speed of the march can be imagined.

"Second Brigade, listen to orders,"

I heard Levi's loud dispatch behind me, presumably this time, it was an all-out attack!

"Whoosh ......"

"Dangdangdang......"

The Burgundians, unwilling to give up on the walls of Worms, frantically launched a fierce attack on the siege tower, and countless crossbow arrows were bounced off by the iron plates outside the siege tower, making a clanging sound. Bows and arrows can't stop us!

"Ha, that's all the Burgundians can do!"

"Then today, I can go to the house of the Burgundian nobles and make a fortune!"

Seeing that the Burgundians had done no real damage to the sturdy siege tower, the soldiers inside the tower began to cheer for the siege tower. I stood at the front of the plank, looking at my men as they looked so heartless, mainly because I was worried, worried that the Burgundial trebuchets would lock us.

"Boom!"

Sure enough, a violent crash sounded in front of the siege tower, and the huge impact caused the entire tower to shake, and I and the other soldiers stood in the middle of it and almost fell due to the unstable center of gravity.

What a crow's mouth, I gently slapped myself twice and scolded myself without others noticing. Through the gap in the planks, I saw that the walls of Worms were close at hand.