At the Battle of Brindisi, Octavian's naval fleet was defeated, while in the north, Marseille's garrison joined up with Agrippa's Spanish legions and marched north into the heart of Gaul. www.biquge.infoCrassus the Younger and Maximus led the Germanic legions on the path of Agrippa's army, and the war broke out on the west coast of the Mediterranean, and the scale of the Second Civil War was clearly greater than that of Apis's first invasion of Spain. The number of soldiers used by both sides even exceeded 100,000.

"Defending this pass in the valley is victory. We don't need to attack, Agrippa will be a hundred times more anxious than us. ”

In Gaul, in the southern mountains of Lugdunum, Crassus the Younger and Maximus arrived early on the route of Octavian's Roman legions, and set up camp in a difficult place. This is a shortcut to the heart of Gaul, the city of Lugdunum, and at the same time, the little Crassus is interested in the dangerous terrain here, the huge plain in the south to the mountain pass has become very narrow, to pass through here, the cavalry can hardly maintain any formation, the infantry can barely pass in small phalanxes, but it is also very difficult. As long as trebuchets and ballistas were erected on the slopes on either side, Octavian's heavy infantry corps would inevitably suffer a serious blow if they wanted to pass. The fact is that Crassus the Younger did exactly that, and the Germanic Legion, the rebuilt Thirteenth Legion, erected hundreds of ballistae, trebuchets on the slopes on both sides of the valley pass, and placed a large number of local Gallic archers, hunters. Waiting for Octavian's army to come.

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However, after a few days, the canyon did not appear in the same scene as Crassus and Maximus had imagined, and the dense crowd of human heads crowded into the mountain passes, and the difficult siege of the city was shattered to pieces by catapults and ballistas erected on the hillside. Yes, that did not happen, and Agrippa ordered the soldiers to build several tall and sturdy Roman siege towers within two weeks. Unlike normal siege towers, these siege towers have been designed to widen the top barriers, so that the top of the siege tower, which could only be equipped with one battery, can be equipped with three small scorpion ballistas.

The launch platform is surrounded by a fence to protect the life of the operator. In this way, five large siege towers poured into the positions and lines of the little Crassus on a foggy morning. Under the cover of the fog, push straight to the camp of the little Crassus.

By the time the sappers of Little Crassus on the hillside noticed this perverted move of the enemy, it was already too late.

"Damn it! Tell the commander this information. Oh no, launch these monsters now! ”

The centurion on the hillside of the front line shouted. The countless squeaks of the mechanical twisting in the valley in the early morning can be heard.

Soon, artillery stones and crossbow arrows carrying flames were thrown and struck at the large Roman siege towers. Some of the huge crossbow arrows were fired into the interior of the tower with great impact, killing and wounding the Roman soldiers who were preparing to attack the tower.

But more artillery shells and crossbow arrows simply couldn't penetrate these large siege towers. And Agrippa's legionnaires on the tower also began to fight back. Due to the height of the towers, there was almost no difference in height and position between the two sides, and Agrippa's Roman legionary infantry operated small scorpion cannons on the siege towers, counterattacking with stone bullets and large arrows. In the valley in the early morning, there were countless scenes of flints and hunting spears. And behind these large siege towers, there were countless Roman hoplites in full armor and slowly advancing. Agrippa's idea was to use these towers as armor to cover the besieging forces, attracting fire while the heavy infantry approached the opposing camp, and then using battering rams and pickaxes to capture the fortress.

This proved to be effective, as the defenders of Crassus the Younger paid attention only to attacking the large and obvious siege engines of these targets, but not to the countless Roman legionnaires behind the towers. By the time the soldiers defending the city realized the seriousness of the problem, it was too late. Or even if they found out about each other's tricks, there was nothing they could do. The narrow valley was blocked by these big guys, and without crushing these large siege towers, archers and ballista machines could not effectively shoot the Roman soldiers hiding under the towers.

It's maddening.

Soon, waves of Roman hoplites approached Crassus's camp the younger, and under the protection of the "tortoiseshell formation", Agrippa's Roman legionnaires drew their pickaxes and various tools used in digging fortifications, and began to dig up the earth and rocks beneath the camp, destroying the foundations of this wooden-walled camp.

"Damn it! Stop them! ”

Wearing a short shirt and pajamas, Crassus Jr. personally rushed to the front line, stood above the camp fortifications, and commanded the soldiers to defend against the enemy. Dense bars of spears and arrows rained down. But most of them were blocked out of the shield walls of the Roman hoplites, and the "tortoiseshell formation" was like a moving rampart, strong enough to block ordinary long-range attacks. With the exception of a few arrows that entered through gaps in the shield walls and hit the legionnaires, Agrippa's phalanx of heavy infantry was on the front lines of the battlefield with few casualties.

Looking at the dense array of Roman hoplites digging into the earth below the camp, little Crassus was so anxious that his mind was a little numb. Only fire attacks can be commanded.

Even if the jade is burned, it will not hesitate, otherwise, once the parapet wall of the camp collapses, the entire fortress will be leveled with the number of Agrippa heavy infantry.

For a moment, countless sticky asphalt was thrown down the parapet wall of the camp, and the soldiers defending the city threw burning torches at the dense crowd below the parapet, instantly igniting the Roman heavy infantry phalanx under the parapet. The unspeakable horror was repeated as the flesh and skin of the soldiers were burned by the flames, scorching and making a whirring sound of grease burning. The screams came and went. The iron armor that had been used to protect the body was now a shackle to death, as it was not easy to remove a piece of chain mail that covered the upper body, and many of the besieging Roman hoplites were even burned to ashes under the intense flames.

At the same time, the intense flames ignited the tall siege towers on the side, making the already narrow valley passage even more impassable, and the flames and high temperatures generated by the siege towers made the Roman legionnaires in the rear dare not advance. Countless arrows and spears were thrown down from the walls. The phalanx of Roman heavy infantry attacking the camp of Crassus the Minor suffered heavy casualties.