17. Legion, siege!
"Arise, arise, the Romans are attacking! Damn it, it's all up to labor! ā
A guard frantically stormed the dormitory, waking up all the sleeping Remi. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoRoman army? While all Gauls were still asleep and did not understand what was going on, a fire bomb landed on the cattle pen not far from the house, and suddenly the farm used for raising livestock was ablaze, accompanied by the terrible tearing sound of the stone bullets hitting the beams of the house, and it was then that these sleepy Gauls realized that something was wrong, and this time, the Romans were really attacking the city.
"Take up arms and shields and go to the walls!"
The guard shouted loudly, eager to wake up the sleeping people of the city, but he didn't need to shout, the stone projectiles from the giant catapults of the Seventh Legion were enough to wake up the Gauls in the city.
Watching the meteor-like rain of boulders fall from the sky, Appis knew that the two Gallic hunters had successfully delivered the information to the legion commander Kota. Now, the group attacking the city outside the city is the same unit that they left a week ago.
Titus ran over, excitement on his face that could not be concealed. Apparently they have successfully completed the task.
The Gauls of the whole town were desperately running to the front line, the building that was more like a wall than a small dirt slope. The scene was chaotic, and no one noticed the expressions of the two Roman slaves at this moment.
"Siege formation, attack."
Inside the city, the Gallic defenders were in disarray. Outside the city, the Roman Seventh Legion, under the command of its commander Cota, launched the first and final assault on the Remi town.
The centurion shouted slogans, the standard-bearers raised the eagle flag, the drummers blew the heavy trumpets vigorously, the Roman legions marched in unison in a neat wave, and in the air, the boulders were like flaming meteors, piercing the silent night sky and lighting up the whole sky.
Seeing such a scene, Apis in the city was almost so excited that he wept and wept, the magnificent scene that could only be seen in blockbusters in his previous life, at this moment, he finally saw it with his own eyes, and this kind of formation, this kind of spirit, is simply more shocking than the ancient Roman blockbusters in American movies, the perfect combination of image and sound. The legion attacked, and the majesty of this ancient civilization was perfectly presented.
"What are we going to do now?"
Titus stood still, almost incoherent with excitement. But unlike Appis, the Roman slave was only happy that he was about to get rid of his slavery.
"Go to the chieftain's hall, or the front position, and find the patriarch of this tribe, preferably before the legion advances, hold them hostage, and let the barbarians open the city and surrender themselves. In that case, our military exploits will be doubled. ā
After being excited, Appis quickly remembered his current identity, which he could use to be a member of the Gauls, to deceive the Gallic guards, approach the patriarch of the Remi, and take him hostage. At this time, the Gallic defenders must have been in disarray.
Yes, after thinking it through, Appis took Titus into action.
"You two, what are you doing?"
Apis and Titus's actions were discovered by a Gallic swordsman, and in the narrow alley, Apis didn't have time to make up an excuse to deceive the other party, and directly lifted his long sword, the muscles of his right hand tightened, and the Celtic long sword was thrown into the air in a powerful swing, only to see a high-speed rotating white light flashed, and the Gallic warrior's chest was stabbed by the Celtic long sword, and the sharp Celtic long sword stabbed the Gallic warrior's chest, and the tip of the sword leaked out of the back.
Obviously, the power of this blow was very powerful, and the gladiator's arm strength was vividly displayed at this moment. It's just that after coming to the town of the Gauls for so long, no one knows that Appis was a gladiator before his profession. They all thought that they were just a lowly slave who did the lowest work for their masters, as the Romans themselves said.
"Let's go."
The Gallic warrior even twitched and shook twice as he drew his sword, and a large amount of blood gushed out of the broken wound, staining the feet of Apis and Titus red.
"Roar, roar, roar."
Outside the city, 6,000 Roman legionary infantry were now lined up in a neat phalanx of legions, like a tortoiseshell shield wall, slowly advancing, the Gauls' bows and arrows, spears were thrown down, and no damage was done, even if a sporadic infantry fell, and soon another warrior was on top. The red shield wall was like a red tide approaching the walls of the Gauls.
"Engineering ladder!"
The leading centurion shouted, and soon the Roman sappers who had arrived under the walls of the city set up ladders of four meters on the walls of the Gauls. The legionnaires began to methodically wait for the ladder.
In some places with low walls, the legionnaires only need to stack a layer of shield walls, and the legionnaires behind can climb the low walls of the Gauls with the shields of their companions.
Of course, in the entire siege position, the most powerful and effective siege equipment is still the heavy siege vehicle located at the city gate. The huge siege engine was loaded with a battering ram with a diameter of half an adult, and each impact could smash the Gaul town gate to the ground, and the Gallic soldiers behind the gate were also under great psychological pressure as the dust and wood chips kept shaking off the door beams with a deafening sound.
In the midst of the flames, the first platoon of legionnaires had already climbed the walls. The barbarians roared with their tomahawks and rushed in. The two Roman legionnaires instantly covered their chests with large square shields, and their bodies habitually crouched down in order to stabilize their center of gravity and resist the onslaught of the barbarians who were much stronger than themselves.
With a roar of rage, the barbarian's axe slashed at the legionnaire's shield with a dull thud, but the legionnaire seized the brief gap and stabbed the Roman dagger out from under the shield, and the barbarian was suddenly stabbed with a large hole in the abdomen. A large amount of blood slowly oozed from the place where the short sword pierced, and when the short sword was pulled out again, the blood intestines flowed out.
Because it was a sudden attack at night, the siege of the city. The pace of the battle was so fast that many of the Gallic noble swordsmen did not even have time to put on their chain mail before they climbed the walls to fight, and by this time, the Roman legions had already climbed most of the walls, and even captured the towers of the Gauls, with archers aiming at the Gallic swordsmen below.
On the scene, Gaul had almost lost its city defense base at the front. The remaining Gauls, led by their own patriarch, were slowly retreating into the town, preparing for street fighting with the Romans. In fact, in the frontal battle, the Gauls were not the opponents of the Roman legions, and the walls of the Gauls were really rough and rotten, the low walls were only more than two meters high, and the legionary infantry were stacked into a phalanx, and the legionnaires below jumped onto the walls with the shields of their companions below, and this kind of siege was originally a torture.
At this time in the night sky, if an owl passes through the sky, you can see such a scene, the Roman legions are like a red tide, is climbing the walls of the Gauls, thousands of tar torches float under the night sky, as if a thousand small boats are floating in the black sea, accompanied by the sound of tragic slaughter, the blood of the Gauls stained the city red, stained this black land.