"Fortify the walls, push these timbers up!"

Crane shouted, and several legionnaires filled the gaps in the walls of the theater with timber and stones. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info here was hit by Agrippa's wild ass cannon, and some of the gravel has fallen off.

The siege of the Teatro Tisdos lasted two days and two nights, and Agrippa did not expect that a large army had already entered the city, but was blocked by a small theater. With only 3,000 men, Apis was able to withstand several onslaughts of 10,000 Numidian infantry and 5,000 Roman hoplites. And here, war elephants are almost useless, and in the narrow alleys, African war elephants will only become meat targets for Roman soldiers in high places, and if Apis attacks them with fire, the war elephants will inevitably go crazy, and Agrippa will never allow this to happen.

So let's besiege it, right? But Agrippa didn't know how much food Appis had brought into the theater when he fled into it, and if he had prepared a large amount of grain and water in the theater, it would have been a waste of time to besiege the theater, and he would have missed the best opportunity to hunt once the Spanish fleet and reinforcements arrived. All of this left Agrippa in a dilemma.

A blazing blast of cannonstone struck the high wall in front of the theater with a loud popping sound, and then sparks scattered and rubble spilled down, preventing their soldiers from approaching. At the same time, at the top of the theater, dozens of Roman heavy infantry threw down their javelins and shot several more African infantry who dared to rush to the front, and blood splattered. In the night, it is like a sad mourning.

In the middle of the night, Agrippa ordered his soldiers to push the siege wagons they had built. Agrippa tried to take advantage of the overnight assault to deprive Appis's soldiers in the theater of rest until they were exhausted. Correspondingly, Apis also asked the soldiers to take turns to rest, about 5,000 people in the theater, more than 1,000 wounded, and the remaining more than 3,000 people took turns guarding day and night, so that just some of the tired soldiers could rest indoors without having to sleep in the stands of the Grand Theater.

Agrippa didn't know, and he didn't even know how many Roman soldiers were still in the theater.

Improvisation of Roman siege engines was pushed forward by a handful of Numidian soldiers, while above the theater, soldiers of Appis's 7th Legion tarred their javelins and set their heads on fire with torches. In the night, hundreds of javelins with flames fell from the sky, drawing brilliant fires in the sky. But it was a mortal threat to the African soldiers who stormed the theater and the Roman hoplites of Agrippa.

A burst of flaming heavy javelins flew from above the Grand Theater, and the Roman heavy infantry hurriedly went to the large shield to protect it, and the Numidian infantry also made a block action, and those who could dodge tried to dodge, but many heavy javelins still penetrated the large shields of the legionary infantry. In the classical era, the power of cold weapons, the javelin was far more powerful than the bow and arrow. Combined with the potential and kinetic energy carried by the javelin thrown from a high place, the fire flew in all directions, and Pyrrhus hit the enemy troops below the theater with a single shot. Many of the Numidian infantry, even after raising their shields to block, still had their spears piercing through the wooden shields, piercing their chests. Some of the legionn's infantrymen were even directly pierced through their heads by heavy javelins, although they wore iron helmets......

Although there were not many soldiers guarding the theater, they shot and killed each round so terrifyingly, almost every round of Roman soldiers on the high wall would kill dozens of siege soldiers. The improvised small ramming car was pierced and smashed by a lead stone thrown by the theater guards before it even reached the entrance of the Grand Theater. until it was set on fire.

Several small ballistas were even mounted on the roofs of apartments near the Grand Theater, bombarding the magnificent building. And the dark stones are often impossible to dodge. Most of the soldiers guarding the theater were injured by the stones. Flesh flew sideways and fell from the outermost stands.

However, compared to the increasing number of wounded, it was the food and water that were most troubling to Appis, and after two days, not a single well had been dug, and if this continued, the soldiers would die in two days at most. It is estimated that there will be a mood of surrender in the legion tomorrow.

But there was no end to it, and just as Appis and Crassus were racking their brains about it, on the third night a steady stream of food was thrown in from the periphery of the Grand Theatre, some vegetables and fruits, as well as flour and a small amount of meat. Then the soldiers looked in the direction from which the sound came, and a group of ragged local civilians were secretly throwing these objects into the theater.

Appis immediately understood that these were the local inhabitants who had been plundered by the Numidian soldiers under Agrippa three days earlier. They hated this group of desert invaders, Agrippa connived at these people to loot the city, took the property of countless people, some of the wives and daughters of civilians, and even suffered from these soldiers, so the local civilians, in this war, the choice of the position has long been very clear.

After seeing the situation clearly, Apis decisively asked the soldiers to lower the basket with pulleys, and asked the citizens to put the kettle on the basket and transport it to the Grand Theater. In this way, in one night, the rations of hundreds of people have been replenished. By the time Agrippa's patrols spotted the radical "mob", they had already fled.

In the days that followed, Appis had his soldiers dig tunnels leading to the perimeter of the Grand Theater. Narrow tunnels lead directly to densely populated areas. Civilians who were still able to do so handed rations and drinking water to the infantry of the Seventh and Eighth Legions.

This time, Appis fully felt the great power of the people's war. This kind of food collection does not need to consume capital and manpower at all, and it is almost a spontaneous work of the common people.

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"Are you sure you want to set foot on this ship, my friend?"

"What do you mean? Didn't Appis's order tell us to come to his aid? ”

In the harbor of the city of Magnus at the southern tip of Spain, Bunodius asked Maximus with a sly look. And the steps that Maximus had already taken suddenly tightened back, and asked in wonder.

"Yes, so is the command of Appis. But have you ever thought that one day the person who gives this order will be you, my partner? ”

The slaves and soldiers beside him were busy carrying supplies and grain, while Bunodius and Maximus stood on the docks. The atmosphere is eerie.

"You want me to replace Appis?"

"Do you want me not to rescue Appis, let Agrippa destroy Apis, and then Spain and Gaul, as well as Britain and Germania, will be our private property?"

Maximus was silent for a moment, then asked solemnly.

"I didn't say that."

But Bunodius still didn't answer positively. He looked at the burly Roman cavalry commander in front of him with a detached gaze. The desires of my heart are infinitely expanding.

"But that's what you think! Your eyes reveal your inner thoughts. ”

Maximus stood on the dock and asked harshly.