"People who travel the world spend the most precious time of their lives in hostels and boats." - Plutarch

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The so-called new tactic was that Brutus formed the cavalry of Etolia into the first column of horizontal formations, protecting the front of the siege team, and on the flanks were heavily armed infantry, and light infantry mixed with the siege equipment to take on the task of supporting.

This tactic worked well, Agrippa could not use cavalry to raid enemy shield carts and towers, as his auxiliary cavalry was no match for the Aetolians, so the Eye Fort on the front line was mostly broken after some time.

"All legionnaires, don't fight the enemy." Agrippa did not call his men to make a futile resistance, and suffered heavy sacrifices, he quickly retracted everyone to the winter camp, and behind the walls and wooden fences was again lined up with long-range ballistas and projectiles—and Lypita gave a quick order to the cities of Illyria and Epirus, such as Salona and Lisa, to mobilize the citizens and slaves, and to transport and build all kinds of equipment day and night, and to bring them to the city of Bugarotum by boat or mule cart.

"I heard that Li Bida used a beast-like siege tower named Amilius in the attack on the city of Masseria, this time I will call Agrippa to see what a real terrifying siege tower is!" After saying that, Brutus asked the whole army to assemble the wooden poles and parts that were several wrists long, and then they continued to transport earth to them, and the base was getting higher and higher. Brutus did not build a siege tower. Because the abutment of this "behemoth" is dead. There were no rollers or logs, he just told the soldiers to push the large stone throwers and rocket launchers up, so that they could look down on the entire winter camp of Agrippa.

In this way, sixteen oxen-drawn giant stone throwers, more than twenty wild ass stone throwers, countless ballistae and scorpion crossbows, frantically smashed stone bullets, lead pellets, and javelins. Pouring into the winter camp, in less than half a day Agrippa's ramparts and breastwork were smashed down, the towers were gone, and the trenches were almost completely flattened!

Lucius made several sorties with his cavalry, but was lightly held back by the Aetolian cavalry, whose cavalry had performed decisive feats in the battle between the Romans and the Macedonian phalanx, so much so that they laughed at both the defeated Macedonians and the victorious Roman legions. Isn't it our Union cavalry? The Romans simply sat back and picked up our credit after the crushing defeat. ”

Wait until the next day. Brutus ordered all the projectors, replaced with fires wrapped in flammable materials such as marijuana and asphalt, and flew like a rain of meteors into the winter camp defended by Agrippa, and the whole camp spread and burned, and in the light of the fire, Brutus's legions began to line up in attack formation, ready to storm the crumbling camp at any moment.

In the evening, the herald joyfully reported the good news of the Brutus front: the enemy's camp could no longer be held, and there were flying fireworks everywhere and soldiers fleeing backwards.

"Very well, order the Etorian cavalry to be the vanguard, fill in the trenches, and rush into the camp!"

Towards evening, the Aeturian cavalry of the brigade shouted, rode or on foot, and entered the captured camp.

But to everyone's surprise and disappointment, they did not find the corpse of Agrippa's centaur in the ruined walls, and even saw the straw man who was stuck there, burned to ashes, and entered the warehouse, which did not contain any materials to defend against. "It seems that we have been tricked by the enemy, who retreated in complete order and took with them the bodies of all the dead, which means that their losses will never be great." When Sibalas learned about it, he said in frustration.

Sure enough, as predicted by Sibalas, in front of the city of Bugalotum, on a battlefield surrounded by rocks, the brothers Agrippa and Lucius once again lined up their infantry and cavalry to fight Brutus to the end.

This time, however, Agrippa did not resist for long, and after two days of scuffle, after setting up the rearguard cavalry, the young general retreated again, this time to the city of Bugalotum.

By this point, the battle outside the city, which had taken the camp and the river as the object of contention, had taken Brutus about a month and a half.

However, the stubborn Brutus continued to give the order to attack the city of Bugalotum, so all the soldiers worked tirelessly, in the ice and snow, erected a high platform again, concocted all the projection equipment, and pushed it up.

It was only after the completion of this qiē that the soldiers and centurions on the front line felt that something was wrong—their trebuchets and projectiles, after spending a lot of ammunition, found that they had little effect on this particular city.

In the Peloponnese and Greece, there were many stones used to build walls, so the walls of the cities here were tall and strong, and there were towers to protect and support each other. With the progress of engineering technology over the past few hundred years, the "spears" of the Romans have the upper hand, and they have absorbed the advanced mechanical concepts and technologies of ancient Greece, and built siege towers with shields, harp ladders, and large and small stone throwers and ballistas, which made the walls of Hellenistic cities lose their meaning before fierce attacks.

This time, however, the excellent architect Agrippa did the opposite, and for the past two or three months he had been directing three legions of recruits to renovate the city of Bugalotum non-stop, but instead of making it taller and stronger, he had "kept it down" and all the walls were eighteen to twenty-four cubit high, which in the eyes of other Greek city builders was simply deviant.

Subsequently, the walls of the city of Bugarotum were generally very inclined and lengthened against the enemy, and all the stakes and thorns were planted on them, so that the attacking enemy had nowhere to enter, and behind the low walls, Agrippa arranged a number of scorpion crossbows and ballista cannons, and looked at the positions of Brutus' army.

At the end of the day, Brutus knew the tricky aspects of this kind of city - the warehouses and towers reinforced by the bricks and stones that were demolished, and the ordinary stone bullets smashed into it, only a corner could be broken, and the condescending Brutus army's stone thrower, after violently shooting the lead shot stone projectile, a parabola, flew far behind the city wall, which was equivalent to an empty shot, while Agrippa's stone thrower and ballista hidden behind the low fortifications could intensively shoot at the base below the Brutus army, and they were crumbling.

"There is no way to continue this battle!" This was the conclusion of Synesis, and soon the people of Aetolia began to complain, and as allies had done much for Brutus, they had now abandoned their families and fields to fight there, but they saw no hope of victory. (To be continued......)