"Gold, silver! Antony hid much of his possessions in the city, and, having heard of him, was waiting for the Greek fleet and reinforcements. Tens of thousands, yes, as far as I know, so. ”

"And recently he has been collecting merchant ships and fishing boats to prepare to flee."

As soon as the meeting of Brindisi ended, Appis began to receive the latest information from some of Antony's deserters in the city.

It's better than spying. Although it is not certain whether the information in these populations is accurate, true and trustworthy. But according to Appis's own speculation, this situation is still relatively likely. Antony was not popular with the people, and it was common sense to occupy the natural harbor of Brindisi and mobilize troops from Greece. This would explain why he suddenly came to talk to him.

Appis rewarded the soldiers who had come to report the situation. And immediately decided to attack the city.

It is better to believe that it is there than to believe that it is not. In fact, before, with or without this information, Apis had planned to attack the city, and now, hearing the description of the fleeing soldiers in the city, it strengthened Appis's will to attack Brindisi.

Strike while the iron is hot.

The next day, dozens of giant catapults were pushed onto the front line, and the entire outside of Brindisi was covered with siege engines of the Gallic legions. On the horizon, the ups and downs are like a great wall of steel slowly advancing.

Behind these huge siege beasts, there were 50,000 Roman legionnaires, lined up in a neat phalanx, disciplined and sparkling with iron armor. They marched forward in unison amid a burst of earth-shaking shouts, as if the whole earth trembled. In front of the three armies was Appis, dressed in gorgeous and fine armor.

Looking at the city of Brindisi below the gloomy clouds, Apis knew that he was determined to win this battle.

A golden ray of sunlight pierced through the clouds, and Apis gave the order for the legion to attack.

Immediately, amid the roar of countless siege cannons and catapults, hundreds of lit cannons, heavy javelins were fired from behind Appis, and a gorgeous and splendid scene appeared in the sky. This is even more gorgeous than the fireworks display that Apis saw in later generations. It was as if thousands of meteorite fragments had fallen, leaving dense flues in the air.

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"Be careful!"

The siege broke out, and the Brindisi defenders on the towers were on standby. They had been preparing for a long time, but when the rain of missiles and heavy javelins flew outside the city, all the soldiers defending the city were still stunned. They hid behind the battlements of the wall, with large shields over their heads, trying to avoid the indiscriminate bombardment.

Hundreds of heavy spears flew over the walls, and many soldiers dodged the fatal blow. However, several flints thrown from large catapults hit the walls. The roaring boulder hit the city wall with a powerful lethality, and in a terrifying explosion, sparks splashed everywhere, and the strong city wall was shattered, and the Roman soldiers who were trembling and hiding behind the battlements of the city wall in the last second were all charred and flattened corpses at this moment and fell from above the city wall, and the defenders who were not directly hit were also sporadically injured. Of course, where the boulder hit directly, there were already ruins, and the soldiers above the city walls were either smashed to pieces and turned into a pile of rotten meat, or their bodies were set on fire screaming, or their arms or thighs were cut off, and they fell to the ground screaming and crying for their fathers and mothers.

And Appis's indiscriminate bombardment of the city had only just begun. Massive siege weapons fired cannons and heavy javelins at the city, and fire swept through the sky. Immediately, a large number of Gallic archers and Iberian slingers, under the cover of shield wagons, rushed to the front line and launched a rain of arrows at the walls of Brindisi.

Ignited, unlit cannons and arrows flew in the air, which was like a carpet bombardment.

The soldiers of the city began to fight back, they raised their shields and covered the shooting of their companions. Over the opposing positions of the two armies, arrows rained wildly, and the soldiers who were shot fell one by one, and were soon carried to the rear by their companions for treatment. The living take up the weapons of the dead and continue to fight.

Even the inexperienced slaves went into battle, and they received a promise from Anthony to free them after the war and make them free. However, it wasn't until they went to war that they didn't know that it was impossible for them to survive. Outside the city, there are tens of thousands of regular army regiments as fierce as wild beasts. Their siege skills are superb.

The Engineer wields a scorpion ballista and shoots every soldier on the city wall with precision.

The shooting frenzy continued for an entire Roman period, and after consuming a large number of stone bullets and arrows, Appis ordered the infantry phalanx to attack. By this time, Brindisi's walls were in tatters, with several gaps in the tall white walls and smoke billowing out. There was no doubt that Anthony had placed his heavy forces behind those gaps, ready for the most terrible of legionary assaults.

"Soldiers, raise your shields and meet the traitors in the city! We are the eagles of the republic! ”

Crane stood at the head of the legion and shouted. The eagle flag, which symbolizes the glory of Rome, reflects the golden sun. Outside the city of Brindisi, tens of thousands of Roman legionnaires slowly approached the burning city, like a black sea, surging forward.

Every shout of the soldiers was enough to shake the earth.

At this moment, no matter how many javelins and arrows the soldiers and archers on the tower throw, it was useless, just like small pebbles thrown into the vast sea. Not even a ripple can be stirred.

"Follow me, rush!"

Immediately, the field centurion of the Ninth Legion, Calicus, shouted, and first rushed into the gap in the wall.

Behind him, dozens of legionary heavy infantry also poured in with their centurions.

Soon, a bloody hand-to-hand fight unfolded inside the city.

In the gap in the wall, countless spears and javelins were sprinkled at the Roman heavy infantry entering the city, and after being taken by the veterans of Appis's legion, the soldiers of Antony and the soldiers of the Queen of Egypt surrounded the Roman heavy infantry entering the city on three sides.

Numerous axes and short spears struck the shields of the soldiers of the Ninth Legion of Appis, and many legionnaires immediately knelt down and used their large shields to protect their bodies and heads against the frantic counterattack of the defenders.

"Hold on! Stab them in the lower abdomen and head with a sharp sword! ”

Kariklius shouted, he personally went into battle, protected his head and chest with his shield, and after parrying for a while, he stabbed his short sword into the abdomen of the Syrian light infantry in front of him, and a pile of viscous intestines and a large amount of scarlet blood suddenly flowed from the bloody wound...... 8)