The failed battle of crossing the river to attack Lugdunum did not break the confidence of the Germans, on the contrary, Appis did not know where the courage and faith of these barbarians came from, and the barbarian leader organized a tribal alliance again three days later to carry out a frontal assault. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This time, faced with the tall walls and intact fortifications of Lugdunum, the Germanic chieftains ordered the soldiers, holding large willow-shaped shields, to stand in front to defend themselves against the rain of arrows from the Romans, while the soldiers in the back filled the Roman trenches, traps with branches, gravel and debris. The trenches were slowly filled with sharp stakes by the tireless efforts of the Germans, during which the Germanic army endured the constant fire of arrows from the Gallic allies on the towers...... The corpses of fallen soldiers could fill the ravine, but the Germanic people managed to overcome the Roman legions with such tenacity and a bit of madness.

Subsequently, the Germanic army rushed to the city of Lugdunum in a scattered formation, if it was still a formation. If you look closely, you will find that the siege tools they used were simply ladders and battering rams made of thick tree trunks...... In the distance, large catapults were still throwing boulders at Lugdunum's walls and towers, and Appis was more worried about whether those boulders would hit some of the weak points of the walls than the barbarians' inferior siege methods under the city.

"Shoot them!"

At the forefront of the defensive front, Crane commanded the most elite veteran brigade to face the first offensive of the barbarians. Spears, heavy javelins, and stones were hurled from the walls and smashed into the dense barbarian army beneath the walls. The most ordinary siege and defense battles are also the most tragic. The Germanic people were more than ten times larger than the Roman army defending the city, and at least, standing on the city walls, Appis could no longer see how many barbarians were in this dense crowd of people outside the city. They were like a black sea, surging in the land outside Lugdunum. And the walls of Lugdunum, like a white lift, resist the impact of this black tide again and again......

The Roman garrison cannons, sporadically firing high-speed flying stones, with a whistling sound, struck the dense crowd of barbarians, splashing thick clouds of blood. And such a blow is like a small pebble thrown into the ocean, stirring up a slight ripple. Then, it was drowned out by the crazy roars of the barbarians. No matter how many warriors died in front of them, the tribal warriors behind rushed forward bloodthirsty as if they had seen fat prey. The earth trembled and wailed in pain as it was trampled by an army of hundreds of thousands of barbarians.

A rain of arrows from the walls of the city struck the center of the Germanic army, and the corpses of dead barbarian soldiers were piled up. Bloodstreaming. Gradually, however, the Germans climbed sporadically to the walls of Lugdunum through the siege ladders they had made.

Crane stabbed the barbarian soldier in the face with a sword that had just ascended the wall, and the Germanic infantryman fell down the ladder with a scream, and fell into the crowd with a dull thud. Then, more barbarians climbed the ladder and slaughtered the Roman soldiers on the walls......

"Hold your ground, your parents and children are all in this city, and if you don't want them to be destroyed, just stop these bloodthirsty beasts!"

The siege battle was in full swing, and the walls of Lugdunum were full of scenes of Roman soldiers fighting with barbarians, and the sound of weapons clashing was endless. Draped in a bright red cloak, Apis ran around the tower, inspiring his soldiers to fight the enemy. And this is more for the Gallic soldiers who temporarily joined the defense of the city, because in fact, these Gauls were more reluctant to fall to the city than the Romans, as Apis said, the city was full of their wives and children and parents, and the Germans were more cruel than the Romans, and once they entered the city, these Germans would slaughter all the inhabitants of the city, which was well known to the Gauls. Apis took advantage of this fact to boost the morale of the Gallic allies.

The gates also groaned in pain under the continuous impact of the barbarians, and the squeaky gates continued to fall with gravel dust and sawdust, and outside the city, hundreds of Germanic barbarians huddled in the narrow area, roaring like manic butchers. Inside the city gates, hundreds of Roman legionnaires were desperately resisting the gates, preventing the barbarians' rudimentary battering rams from breaking through this life-and-death line.

Subsequently, at the height of the battle, Apis gave the order to throw tar. The Roman soldiers above the gates carried buckets of ceramic vessels filled with asphalt and spilled all the black liquid. The barbarian soldiers tried to remove the black goo that had fallen on their bodies in horror, knowing that this was the most terrifying weapon of the Romans, and that the consequences would be terrible if they encountered open flames. However, it was already too late. On the tower, a Roman legionary infantryman, with infinite fear and anger against the barbarians, threw a torch from the tower.

The spark can ignite the prairie fire, and in an instant, the ignited barbarian soldiers screamed and fled in all directions, but there was no way to escape, because they were originally crowded and gathered under the city gate, at this moment, the flames spread in all directions, and the tongue of fire continued to invade the surrounding Germanic warriors, and the city of Lugdunum became a prison on earth.

The air smelled of burnt fire, and the barbarian army that was frantically fleeing for their lives no longer had the heart to fight, and one by one the burning men became the most terrifying nightmares on the battlefield. On the wall, Rabinus stabbed his Roman dagger into the side of a Germanic warrior, and then, with hatred for the barbarians, Rabinus drew his dagger and pushed the mortally wounded Germanic soldier off the wall.

After a full day of heavy siege, the Germans were still unable to break through the gates of Lugdunum. And under the city walls, there were once again piles of barbarian corpses...... Or burned by fire, or pierced through the heart by sharp arrows, or directly hit by artillery, unrecognizable. The spears and javelins of the Roman legions were stuck all over the land outside the city, and in just half a month, tens of thousands of Germanic people died under the city of Lugdunum, and the ground watered by blood and water even the grass and trees showed a strong scarlet. It seems that the barbarians are really defeated? At least, they again withdrew from the battlefield with their tails between their legs...... At this time, Appis finally breathed a sigh of relief, and could sleep peacefully on the bed in his office.