The confrontation lasted for a month, and Attila's army was not idle, building siege towers, one after the other, within the sight of the Romans.

"Ready, come, move, work together! Hard! ”

Under the command of Walkrick, the soldiers struggled to carry the newly created ballista to the tower of the city wall, which was already the fifth ballista to be placed on the wall, and the rest of the trebuchets were directly mounted on the roof of the house behind the wall.

Ananus summoned the nobles and soldiers of the whole city to prepare for armaments as best they could, and for a time the slaves and prisoners were all freed, and weapons were distributed to them in the armaments.

"The reorganized army has only three field regiments, and the citizens are still unwilling to fight for the country?"

Looking at the statistics in the hands of the civil servants, Ananus sat at his desk and clenched his fists and gently tapped his head, it seemed that he had a headache about this matter.

The hall was deserted, and the civil officials stood on the left and right without saying a word, until one of them was not bold, but most likely courageless, and had the courage to ask, "Lord Bishop, is there any news from the side of the soldier chief?" ”

Ananus raised his head and looked at the civil official, who was so frightened that he hurriedly lowered his head, ready to meet Ananus's scolding.

But Ananus did not speak, or that he did not raise his anger, yes, it was also a question that bothered him, whether Aetius would come?

"I heard that Augustus in the east is also here, in Treville." Seeing that Ananus was silent, the civil officials whispered in private.

"Oh my God, what do you say, Treville has fallen, how could Augustus be there."

"It is said that Augustus is our Augustus' nephew, the adopted son of Theodosius II."

"Isn't that the Captain of the Soldiers, Luga?"

"yes, where is he?"

"The reinforcements you want, they'll come!" Eventually, Ananus spoke, his tone languid, more like he was sighing and talking. The soothing voice stopped the whispering civil officials, who glanced at Ananus in unison, and then lowered their heads.

Ananus slowly got up and came to the window, at this time there was a clear sky in front of him, and the sun shone through the open window on Ananus's toga robe, such a gentle sunlight warmed Ananus's body, but somehow, his heart beat fast.

He couldn't help but look up to the north, where he saw a black dot in the air, he squinted his eyes and tried to look closer, but the black dot fell, and then, there was a roar in the distance!

"What's going on?"

Ananus's heart trembled when he heard the voice, and although he asked, he knew in his heart what was going on.

"Defense! Defense! Defense! ”

A stone overhead was seen sweeping from above, falling on a residential area and piercing the fragile houses.

The Romans on the city walls instantly understood what was going on, and Walcreek hurried to the battlements to look up, only to see dozens of trebuchets in the Huns' army, and under the control of the machine master, the trebuchets descended one after another, and the sturdy barbarians moved the stones and placed them on the trebuchets.

The flag-bearing barbarians waved their flags and shouted loudly at the city of Orleans in front of them.

"Click..."

I saw the trebuchets move in turn, dozens of trebuchets hurled stones like raindrops into the sky, and then fell behind the walls of Orleans in an arc.

"Knock knock..."

Flying stones pierced the fragile stone walls, scattering the smashed tiles and scattering the streets, scattering the citizens below.

"Click, boom..."

A house with trebuchets was so badly damaged that the walls collapsed, and the soldiers who operated the trebuchets on it fell screaming and were buried in the rubble.

"Steady! Steady! Hold on, don't be afraid! ”

Walcreek turned around, "brushed" and drew his iron sword and waved it in the air, pointing at the soldiers in front of him and shouting loudly: "Stay next to the ballista, steady, and the soldiers with spears and shields come to the city wall." ”

When I looked back, I saw a huge army like a sea slowly surging towards the walls of Orleans, and this army array was so large that there was almost no end in sight.

"Oh my God!"

Walkerrick couldn't help but sigh, his eyes widened as he watched the ten towering siege engines slowly press in front of him as such a huge army formation surrounded them.

"Step! Trample! Tread..."

The barbarian slowly advanced with heavy steps, and the sound of such heavy footsteps was enough to make people tremble.

"The barbarians are coming, defense! The barbarians are coming, defense! ”

The officers stood under the walls and beckoned the soldiers to climb the walls, which were once empty enough to be filled with soldiers again.

The archers drew their arrows and clenched them tightly in their hands, their eyes fixed on the approach of the ten siege towers.

"Click..."

There was another creeping of trebuchets, and only to see the stones raining down and smashing against the already grooved walls of Orleans.

The commanding officer of the archers drew their bows and arrows in the direction from which the barbarians had come.

"Boom!"

With a snap of the bowstring, an arrow wrapped in a white strip of cloth flew into the air and landed on the ground, some distance away from the barbarian.

"Look, as long as the barbarians walk through the white cloth, then let them have a long taste of being pierced by arrows!"

As the barbarians approached, the situation became precarious, and as the first row of barbarian soldiers crossed the arrows wrapped in strips of white cloth, the oncoming arrows rained down like a torrent of arrows, only to see the unsuspecting soldiers of the slowly advancing barbarian army fall in pieces.

Even so, it didn't stop the barbarians, and the soldiers who fell would make up for the gap, also because the bows and arrows made them stand up their shields, but their speed didn't change.

"They're getting closer, they're getting closer!"

The soldiers on the tower pointed to the barbarian army array below and shouted, "We must do something instead of waiting here to die!" ”

"Damn, I know!"

Walcreek shouted impatiently, and then, commanding the soldiers wielding the ballistas, pointed to the siege tower closest to the tower, and said to the soldiers: "See that siege tower, aim!" ”

Although the barbarian siege tower has the appearance of a Roman siege tower, there is a huge gap in protection, and it is everyone who can see which protection is better between the iron plate spliced and the cowhide wrapped.

At the top of the siege tower were Scythian archers, who drew their compound bows and aimed at the Roman soldiers below to shoot arrows, and the archers on the walls with only cowhide helmets naturally could not stop the arrows falling from the sky.

"Launch! Launch! ”

Walkrick shouted loudly, and the crossbowman jerked the lever.

"Click!"

With a loud bang, the ballista fired a stone projectile that went straight to the barbarians' siege towers.

"Click!"

There was a crisp and loud tearing sound, and the stone bullets pierced the siege tower, and on the back of the siege tower, several screaming soldiers landed in the crowd below.