"Because there was no other fiber, the women cut off their hair and used it as a rope to bend the ballista." - The History of Rome describes the preparations of the inhabitants of the city of Carthage during the defense of the city of Zuihou

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Just when Philip was immersed in the "deep love" with the princess, in order to take the Acropolis with one drum, Menander's bronze shield army immediately used the "Mithridates Monster", this kind of thing in the triumphal ceremony of Lucuras, Calabis has seen a replica, and also made a cameo role in the commentary, but it is the first time he has actually seen it.

The soldiers of the Bronze Shield Army of Pontic first rode in wheeled carts made of twigs and animal skins, the roof of which was covered with leather and sandbags, and hollowed out underneath so that the soldiers could use levers to pull the cart forward, and when they reached the moat under the acropolis, they turned the door: a movable lid on top of it, which served as a shield against the stones of the defenders. Then the soldiers began to dig the earth under their feet in the cart, and then carried it out in baskets, and fell into the trenches, and in about a day, the trenches of the Acropolis were all filled, but the Bronze Shield Army did not stop, they knew that Calabis's troops were limited and would not go out of the city to counterattack, so under the cover of the shield carts and their own shields, they built a slope of wood along the hillside under the Acropolis, and then desperately stuffed mud, bricks and stakes into it, and soon built a slope that could directly rush up the city wall.

"Under the cover of the monsters, the whole army rushed up this slope and captured the walls of the Romans!" Menander commanded.

Two 100-centimeter-high monster siege towers, each with a 25-kilogram "firepower tower" on top of it, in between, Pontus' archers and ballistae shoots rockets all over the sky. Whizzing over the Acropolis, flying and falling. Then the two monsters parted left and right. A thousand elite brass shields laid rocks and logs on the sloping road so that it could rush up smoothly, because there were no wheels that could carry the weight of the monster, so it could only be used this way.

Accompanying the monster siege towers were a dense mass of bronze shield soldiers, who threw down their spears and rushed up the slope with short swords in their short swords. "Calabis, are you ready?" On the tower, where the ballista guns were constantly fired, Pop walked over to the arrow window and waved the pennant in his hand.

Calabis, who was bowing down at the edge of the battlements, saw Pop's signal and immediately let out an elephant-like cry, "Stand up, blow the trumpet, bid for the gun, and release the charcoal cart!" The Roman soldiers behind the battlements rose en masse and quickly threw a wave of javelins. The Bronze Shield Army had already prepared, and stacked their shiny shields with hula. Refracted by the brilliant sun, it blocked most of the javelins majestically. Then the Roman soldiers, holding several large planks of greased wood, which were hinged to the battlements, were now turned over and set up between the battlements and the slope, like a makeshift passage, and then in a shout of cheers and shouts, several charcoal carts were pushed out and rushed down the slope from the head of the city along the plank passage.

The Bronze Shield Army is not a loss of well-trained, although the tactics are a little dull, they did not panic in the face of this terrible vehicle full of fireworks, but directly on the slope one by one, covering the shield on their bodies, one after another lying down like dominoes, as a result, the charcoal cart rolled directly on the shield, but the Bronze Shield Army soldiers were fine, but the Mithridates monster behind suffered - this charcoal car, which was designed many years ago, was designed to fight against the elephants of Hannibal's army, Not only is it loaded with a lot of charcoal and tar that can burn quickly, but also a lot of sharp javelins, and now these charcoal carts, swaying and shaking, directly pierced into the lower part of the monster siege tower with javelins, and slammed the siege tower slightly shaking, and then the flames rose into the air, and the archers above were frightened by the black smoke rising, with a mournful cry, they jumped off the tower.

"Highbrida, you stay behind to guard the city walls - the tenth brigade, follow me! The monsters of Mithridates are finished, and this is where they are buried! Among the arrows and flying stones, Calabis was the first to jump at the mouth of the battlement, and in the clouds and smoke, his white feathers and red cloak, swaying in the wind, stood on it like Rex, the god of war. Leus, the flag bearer with the eagle banner behind him, followed him to his feet, and then more and more of the ten soldiers drew their swords, leaped out of the battlements, rushed down the slope, and slashed each other with the bronze shield army, the fierce Romans in front, and the monster siege towers that were constantly burning and collapsing, and they quickly broke down in morale, and despite the shouts and curses of the commander, they retreated from the slope.

"Calabis, amphora, it's really him, it's really him." On the tower of the camp, Adiana, who had been calmly watching the battle, couldn't calm down anymore when she saw the scene just now, she stroked the enamel gold pendant, and her heart was mixed, "Damn clay pot, he weishenme wants to return this thing?" Didn't he understand that I had given it away, and that he must have been with that Poti in Rome? Thinking of this, her hand grasped the railing tightly, very hard

Between the huge wreckage of the burning monster siege tower, the Bronze Shield Army quickly used the second wave of siege teams, many people pushed a chariot covered with bronze ramming horns, shouted and pushed up, ready to knock the wall of the acropolis open with a bang, Calabis picked up the whistle hanging on his chest, blew it a few times, and made two gestures back and forth, and all the ten teams of soldiers retreated very tacitly and returned to the battlements.

The bronze shield army that seized the opportunity brought the angle crashing car to the city wall, and then many people tried their best to adjust the impact angle, and then pulled it back to prepare for it - because the crash was made temporarily, and the craftsman had limited time, so he could only fix the impact angle, instead of installing a lever and sling, and he could move to reciprocate the impact.

At this moment, the pop on the tower shook the small pennant again, and the Roman soldiers fell from the battlements one after another, which happened to block the corner car of the Bronze Shield Army, and with a few snorts, the corner car hit the basket, like a punch to the cotton, oh no, there was no cotton in those days, in fact, it was filled with wool and horsehair, and the soldiers of the Copper Shield Army were tired and sweaty, but they couldn't use their strength at all.

Just when the soldiers of the Bronze Shield Army pushed the collision car around and were about to adjust the angle again, they hung down two chain links from the recess of the city wall, hung down directly and dexterously, and lassoed the bronze collision corners, "pulling back" - the two teams of strong recruits pulling the chain links on the battlements collectively moved their steps in the sound of the centurion's order! (To be continued......)