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The Toledo Siege Trail was constantly being built in the long-range confrontation between the defenders of the city and the Seventh Legion, and the defenders of the city couldn't help but get anxious as they saw the level of the siege trail being built day by day, but there was no better way to curb the construction of this trail. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Both sides were Roman legions and knew each other's tactics, however, there was no better way to crack it.

A few days later, the patrolling soldiers on the castle of Toledo found that Appis's legion under the hillside seemed to be busy assembling something. The situation was beyond their imagination.

At the foot of the mountain, Apis ordered his soldiers to build a giant siege tower. This siege tower is different from the siege towers used by Roman legions during sieges. Giant siege towers not only have super-high towers that can send soldiers up enemy walls, and are equipped with small ballistas on top, but also have iron-clad outer surfaces to keep out flames, and each floor of the siege tower has a separate fire extinguishing device, and the bottom of the huge tower is equipped with an iron-clad sheep's head battering ram. Siege towers can be used to shoot while moving, forming a fire suppression on the enemy troops on the city walls. At the same time, the outer surface of the iron-clad iron can withstand the fire of rockets and prevent the tower from being ignited, and the huge battering ram at the bottom is the key, once this behemoth resists the city wall, the defenders on the tower can barely shoot and shoot the siege soldiers who are rushing through the city gate, this big guy is used with the siege trail, which makes the defenders of Toledo feel desperate, they originally thought that the city wall is so strong, such a dangerous terrain, Apis is afraid that he will have to besiege for several months, and at that time, they can wait for the reinforcements of General Certolius, and judging from the current situation, Appis may only need less than half a month to conquer this castle.

"For the sake of this big guy, I have paid a lot of money. You know, these iron sheets on the surface alone cost me no less than forty Orray assets. ”

During the bloody siege of Caledo, Appis shouted to Crassus the Younger. This was indeed the most extravagant expense since he commanded a siege battle, but Apis's idea was that it would be better to waste time and energy with his repeated attacks than to spend a lot of money and get it all at once. In this way, the soldiers can shed less blood and occupy the castle efficiently. After all, every Roman soldier had a family, and every Roman soldier killed on the battlefield meant the destruction of a Roman family behind him.

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Terrifying cannons whistled overhead, and Roman heavy javelins rained down from above the towers like a summer rainstorm. The veterans of the Seventh Legion continued to advance in the face of an endless rain of arrows, the Roman giant siege towers were slowly advancing, and the heavy infantry were closing in in a square formation in the rear.

Rockets and torchstones were bounced back on the siege towers, and the wind in late autumn was blowing from north to south, that is, the wind was in the direction of the castle, which made the archers on the castle shoot against the wind, and the power of the arrow rain decreased, and the throwing weapons of the besieging side threw stones and javelins into the city.

A flint shot swept through the sky with a black flue and smashed into the walls of Toledo. Below the city walls, there was a dense mass of Roman heavy infantry. The brutal battle for the castle unfolded in a scorching fire.

The large siege tower slowly approached, and the engineers operated the scorpion cannon on the tower, constantly aiming and shooting at the defenders on the city wall. As Appis had predicted, until the massive siege tower reached the bottom of the castle, the defenders of Toledo could not destroy it and set it on fire.

At any moment, the heavy infantry of the Seventh Legion, who had sworn by it, quickly poured into the tower through the open wooden door. Keep climbing up the ladder path in the tower.

Outside the huge siege tower, the sound of sharp weapons was heard. Apparently, the soldiers defending the city were still making a last-ditch effort, firing javelins at the siege towers.

Underneath the siege tower, eight legionnaires were holding iron-clad rams, pushing the battering ram and striking the first gate of Toledo with a roar. The gates of the entire ridge seemed to tremble, gasping to resist the fierce attack of this huge army.

In the dark space, the soldiers of the Seven Legions held their breath, and as the gate at the top of the siege tower opened, a golden ray of sunlight poured into their eyes. The Roman hoplites of the Seven Legions held the Latin shields, roared in unison, and rushed out.

"Courage and honor!"

Crane shouted, rushing ahead. The oncoming tomahawks and hammers fell, and Crane habitually half-crouched, covering his upper body with the large shield, and the next moment, the tomahawk slammed down with a dull sound. But before Crane could make a move, the defenders who attacked him had already been stabbed through the throat with a sword from a veteran of the Seventh Legion, and blood spurted out. Then, the siege veteran drew his sword in the enemy's throat with a blank face, and fought with another warrior who had come up.

On the tower of the city, there was the sound of weapons striking and screaming.

Downstairs, behind the crumbling gates, were hundreds of Toledo soldiers on standby. They temporarily reinforced the gate with wooden strips and stones, but the wooden gate was quickly unable to hold on to the battering ram again and again, and in the last blow, the sheep's head battering ram smashed open the gate of Toledo Castle with terrifying power.

Subsequently, the soldiers of the Seventh Legion, led by the centurion, bravely fought into it......

Like a swarm of heavily stacked ants, it constantly squeezed the defense line of the defenders of Toledo. At the gate of the city, the density of soldiers continued to increase, almost to the point that the soldiers on both sides could not move, and many people did not even have the space to pick up a short sword to make an assassination action, but just relied on brute force to hold the shield, pushing each other fiercely, wrestling.

"Kill the commander of the Toledo garrison and reward 10,000 Sestes!"

Little Crassus shouted, and the Roman GIs pushed their shields forward as if they had been doping.

"Roar, roar, roar."

The crowd erupted in a roar, and finally, pushed by thousands of Roman heavy infantry, the first line of defense of the defenders of Toledo was completely breached, and the human wall collapsed, and the fallen defenders were immediately mercilessly slaughtered by the soldiers of the Seventh Legion. The short sword entered with a white blade, and the red blade came out, flying with scarlet blood flowers.

A soldier defending the city who had no time to retreat was even pierced by the soldiers of the Seventh Legion with a sword, and the short sword pierced from the throat, back, abdomen, and face, and the defenders of the city were instantly unrecognizable.

"Siege formation! Siege formation! ”

As the army reached the narrow alleys, the centurion shouted again, for the soldiers defending the city were still making sporadic resistance to the houses and high walls that lined the alleys, throwing stones and javelins from the heights.

Several elite veterans quickly raised their large shields above their heads, covering the head of infantry commander Crassus Jr., and tightly protecting the senior legion commander. No matter how much the arrows and stones on the periphery were swayed, they couldn't hurt half an inch of little Crassus's skin.