The siege of Yazda was protracted and bitter.

The hill fortress has three floors, along the banks of the river is a façade with a well-equipped garrison and missile projectiles of the same power as the Romans, and a second level on the mountainside, with only two entrances, the north gate on the front and the east gate on the side, which controls the most valuable source of water, a cistern carved out of a natural giant rock. On the top level was a small but fortified acropolis fortress that sat at the pinnacle of a thousand Roman feet, from which bows and arrows and slings could kill tens of stadias in a radius.

And David. Ankit made a first move, when he raided Li Bida, who appeared at the north gate, he had a group of soldiers and horses suddenly occupy a certain high ground in the south, and extended the construction of the road wall, which was linked to the third outer wall, posing a serious threat to the thirteenth legion encamped high underground, which was originally surrounded by the outer wall, but in turn was besieged by the inner city, and it was very embarrassing.

Peternius, who was guarding the fortress of the West Hill Fleet, decisively sent large ships and transported a considerable amount of siege equipment to the Thirteenth Legion, and Hebrida made the whole legion into five camps, connected by wooden fences in the middle, and used ballistas, cavalry cannons, and wild asses to bombard the walls of the Hashhitis on the high ground day and night, and finally opened the gap after three days, and then Hebrida took more than a thousand Essioans and personally built a gentle slope, and then four hundred-men fought side by side, and then captured the high ground on the flank, Of the 400 Hashidi stationed above, only two were captured, and the rest were all killed.

At the same time, at the north gate, four connected camps were also built along the walls of Yazda, and the stone throwers were aimed at the walls. Keeps smashing.

Over time. Difficulties arose in the food supply of the Yazda fortress. David. Anjit was determined to shrink his forces to the second wall, and at the same time, Li Bida sent a herald, and rode around Yazda in a big ship, and it was not easy to inform the chief officers of all the camps, go to the fleet fortress to gather, hold a joint meeting, and before leaving, Li Bida handed over the defense of the camp to Faobinas, and then in the house of the fleet fortress. He made a new personnel arrangement: the fleet fortress was to keep a small number of infantry such as Gabriel, and a few ships to hold on. Half of the Serapius Legion went to reinforce the Thirteenth Legion, and half of them attacked the two islands with small bastions on the outer wall of Yazda in large ships, and from there they attacked the Water Gate, and at the same time the Thirteenth Legion stormed the southern outer wall, trying to get the coordination of the various divisions, and captured the third outer wall, approaching the core castle.

In the early hours of March, the Serapis Legion on the large ship launched a fierce attack on the two confronting islands, the deck of which was taller than the towers on the islands. In front of the crumbling city gates, countless ragged hashid believers rushed out. Swimming to the big ship floating on the water, Serha ordered all the soldiers to hang torches on the deck, and shot them almost all with bows and arrows, and the corpses and blood filled the entire inlet, and then the bow of the big ship spewed out hot flames, burning the water gate fence on the outer wall, and after a night, the Serapius legion was the first to break through the outer wall, but found that it was not counterattacked by the defenders of the city, and after dawn in the early morning, the thirteenth legion also climbed over the outer wall and entered the merge with the Serapis legion.

When General Petneus saw the two walls empty, he said to Hybrida and Serha: "The real siege has just begun, and the slaves and the Essioans are ordered to bring in the stone throwers, ballistas, and rams, as well as wood and nails, from outside the city!" ”

At this moment, Li Bida's northern detachment has always maintained a peaceful posture, but after learning that the Thirteenth Army and the Serapis Army had captured the outer wall, they moved the camp forward, demolished all the wall masonry and stone, and made a new siege barracks.

When the Commander-in-Chief, Antony, and Petronius observed the second wall of Yazda, they felt that tribulation was coming, and that the mountain was made entirely of sharp white or black rocks exposed to the surface, with no tall trees to be found and no shelter to be found. "Dig up the rocks, then build a wooden frame to make a siege platform." Li Bida gritted his teeth, he knew the hardship and cruelty of this project, but since Yazda refused to surrender, it had to be like this.

The infantry guarded the ballistas and catapults, and constantly fired at the defenders on the two walls, and all the remaining personnel, whether soldiers or officers, began to turn into coolies, staring at the flying stone bullets, and on the west side of the two walls, with a base length of 1,200 Roman feet, first built a wooden frame in the shape of a staircase against the city wall, and in order to prevent the Hashhitis from setting fire to the system, they nailed dense iron nails and stakes to the frame, and covered it with iron sheets, and then the soldiers began to fill the wooden frame with rubble, And a lot of volcanic ash was mixed and solidified, first one layer, then another

Almost every day, there were skirmishes around the protection and destruction of siege towers, and blood soaked the rocks, but the Hashhitis were cut off from logistics inside and out, while the Roman army was able to transport supplies from the kingdom of Garamanstheus via the Tostos River. Therefore, the hope of the Hashhitis holding on to the second wall is also becoming more and more slim.

Finally, at the end of June, the Romans' siege platform was completed, 1,200 Roman feet long and 400 Roman feet high! It was lined with ballistae and scorpion crossbows, and there was a gap in the foundation of the platform where a huge sheep's head hammer was placed, and there were wheels and improvised wooden rails underneath. The construction lasted three months, but the siege lasted less than two days - the battlements were quickly damaged by the concentrated stone projectiles, the infantry climbed the walls and towers along the treadboards of the siege platform and the makeshift earthen embankment, and the gates were destroyed by sheep's head hammers and then set on fire.

But the indomitable David. Ankit soon built a wall along the narrow passage of the Acropolis gates, continuing to resist the onslaught of the Romans.

The rain came, the yellow storm between the heavens and the earth roared, and both sides were rushing on the Yazda Mountains like the clouds and rain of wild horses, and the newly built siege towers and harp carts of the Lybida Strikers were almost all blown away, and the rain rose so hard that the soldiers were huddled under their cloaks and stood on a slightly higher ground to avoid the rain, and the temporary walls of Anjit also collapsed after being flooded.

In the midst of the tragedy, David. Ankit summoned the remnants of the defenders of the fortress in front of the Acropolis Temple and told them that this year's Yom Kippur had passed early. (To be continued......)