122.The Siege of Bruges (Part I)

"Attack, Roman warriors!"

Rabienus stood under the city of Bruges, waving his sword and roaring loudly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Behind him, 20,000 Roman legionary infantry lined up in a neat siege formation and poured towards the town of the Beturigis.

In any era, it is necessary to brainwash the soldiers before starting a war, and in the spirit of dedication to fighting for Rome and dying for Rome, the Roman legionnaires climbed the walls of the Gauls one after another. However, the battle was not so smooth, the soldiers of the Roman legions fought for food, for honor, the Beltu Regis in the city, also fought for survival, Bruges was their last city, all their homes were occupied by the Romans, they burned their towns, this was their last line of defense, the last hope, all the Betus people were like mad beasts, fighting to the death on the city walls, the battle was extremely tragic and bloody.

Appis organized the legion veterans to attack from under the city wall again and again, but every time they arrived under the city wall, the stones and rolling logs of the Betu Regis fell like raindrops, and the shields of the legion infantry could not resist the heavy debris hammering, under the city wall, the corpses of the Romans had been piled up, and the blood was like a river, but everyone had no possibility of retreating, Caesar had broken the idea of the legion trying to retreat, and all the food was drunk the night before, leaving only three days' rations, Caesar's meaning was very clear, The town of Betus must be captured within three days, otherwise no one will return alive. Will die here.

In the midst of the wreckage, the first siege tower was finally pushed to the edge of the walls of Bruges, and under the cover of the siege towers, a large number of legionnaires and infantry crowded under the towers, dodging the bows and arrows of the Gauls, spear projectiles.

A group of centurions squeezed into the tower first, led by Dennis, the veteran centurion who had fought with Apis in Britain. At the moment, his task is heavier than everyone else, he is responsible for being the first to tear through the defense line of the Gauls. The hundred-man squad behind them were all blood-stained, they had waited too long under the walls, longing to stain the blood of the barbarians on their short swords, longing for the food and women of the city.

"When the wooden door was opened, rush after me, soldier. If this battle is lost, all our honor, all our riches will be buried on this savage continent! ”

Dennis is a centurion who has read a few pages of a book, and his words are slightly rhetorical, but behind him, there are more Roman legionnaires, they don't have so much of a sense of honor, they just want to take the city, grab the food of the barbarians, ** their women. This is the truest thought of the Roman soldiers......

"Boom ......"

The wooden door of the siege tower was pulled up by the engineers, and Dennis was the first to rush out, and behind him eighty legionary infantry followed his centurion charge, and below the siege tower, there was the wall of the Gauls, swooping down, jumping on the wall of the Gauls, and the victory would belong to the Roman legions.

This time, however, what awaits Dennis and his veterans is the slashing of arrows and projectiles. Bedurigis is not an absolutely rude and reckless people, their town has been conquered by Roman legions, knowing that the most powerful siege weapon of the Romans is this giant siege tower, so, before the siege battle, the Bedurrigis specially built several more towers on their walls, the height is higher than the Roman siege towers, when the Romans sent archers to try to stand on the siege tower and shoot the Gallic defenders on the city wall, but they were shot by the Celtic hunters on the higher Gallic towers.

In the fierce shooting, Dennis raised his shield and defended with difficulty, but the Gauls did not give the legionary infantry a chance to gain a foothold, and soon the barbarians on the walls rushed like mad beasts, armed with rudimentary axes and short spears, and they screamed and roared, pushing the Roman soldiers who had just climbed the walls off the walls. Dennis raised his shield to protect his body, but was impaled through the body with a long sword by a noble Gallic warrior behind him......

The centurion looked desperately at the dense barbarian heads at the city, and under the blood-colored sky, the Roman banner was falling......

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"We can't go over, Vicintoli, there are thousands of Roman troops on the other side, and if we force our way through, we will only be like the last battle on the plains, with heavy casualties among our brothers."

Caesar's army attacked the city with all its might outside Bruges, and Antony ran with all the Roman cavalry to the Vicintoli camp and blocked the main force of the Gauls. Originally, Viccintoli wanted to use his tribal alliance to harass Caesar's large army and prevent them from attacking the city. But when the Gauls arrived in front of the Romans, they found that the Romans had outnumbered the tribal alliance.

The Romans' dusty positions and fronts stretched for several leagues, and such an army was by no means a few thousand men, but Vicintoli also wondered why Caesar had placed such a large army here. According to Vicintoli's previous estimates, Caesar should not have much food for the legions to consume at this time, and they could not hold out for a week at most, but at this time, Caesar placed a large army in front of him? Is he going to rely on a small group of elite troops to attack the city? Siege warfare is no better than grabbing food, and it is impossible to win with a few hundred-man teams.

The Gallic anti-Roman alliance was hovering outside the Roman legionary position, while on the other side, Antony was directing all the Roman legionary cavalry with broomsticks and leaves, dragging across the earth and rolling up dust. This was Appis's plan and arrangement before the war, and even if Antony was ten thousand unconvinced, but under Caesar's order, this cavalry commander had to strictly implement this order.

The Roman legions sent only a force of less than 2,000 men, and the soldiers even listed only a single line, deliberately stretching the battle line very long. Behind them were the madmen of the Roman cavalry, stirring up dust and flying in the air, and such a formation looked like an army of 100,000 men arranged in front of the Gauls......

At the same time, such a position also put Vicintoli in a dilemma. According to the previous plans and arrangements of the tribal alliance, after the start of the war, Vicintoli had to lead a large army of the anti-Roman alliance and entangle Caesar in the siege of the city. But now looking at the momentum of the Roman legions, the Gauls rushed forward and would only be killed...... Almost all the tribal chieftains watched the Roman legions move, and did not dare to step forward and make a tentative attack......