"The one on the mesa with his sword on Adiana's neck seems to be the murderer of my father, and I heard that he is now the commander of the Roman army on the Acropolis." Stratonis, under the umbrella, stood up, her tone full of excitement, "Minander, be careful not to be deceived by his tricks, when he was in Xiaoya, he and that little wild cat were masters and servants, and servants will not draw swords against their masters!" ”

Menander thought to himself, are you and I not servants of Mithridates? He said a few words to the flag bearer and the trumpeter next to him, and in the sound of the trumpet, the bronze shield army fell silent, and in the whole field, only the sound of the Acaya people digging quickly was left.

This drum-like sound made the abducted Adiana feel the rapid passage of time and life, and she continued to cry and whispered to Calabis behind her, "You are going to execute me before the Acayans, in exchange for their attack on the Bronze Shield." ”

"You've always been smart, my princess, except for the occasional mortal foolishness. Believe me as one, killing the king of Ajaya is the other. Before Calabis could finish speaking, Adiana gnawed at his wrist with her snow-white hard teeth, causing him to cry out in anger, and then Adiana broke free from Calabis's hand, closed her eyes, and let her body lean freely outward, and the wide legionary undershirt was blown by the wind, beautiful like a butterfly.

"Shoot!" Pasius, who was in the field under the main gate, saw the moment the princess fell down, his eyes bulged out of anger, and he gritted his teeth and issued the order to siege the city, and the swarm of stones flew up like a flock of black crows, rushing towards the acropolis.

A chain with an unbladed axe flew like a sea serpent. In an instant, it circled the princess's neck a few times. Lightweight belt. Helenputina grabbed the end with both hands, the cloak on her body spread out like flying clippers, and quickly ran towards the inner wall of the acropolis, the top of the chain was wrapped around Adiana who had fainted, and the moment she fell, she dragged it backwards, and then Helenputina used her hands and feet together, and climbed vertically to the battlements of the upper layer of the wall. Tethered to a bronze barrel of ballista, she looked up, and the stones fired by Pasius fell in all directions like meteors, and the whole Acropolis was shaking and trembling, and in the huge smoke, Calabis and the centurions ran out with their hands, and when they saw Adiana, who was dragged half-dead by the chain, they untied the chain and carried her up. Whizzing stone by stone and falling timber, run all the way to the sturdiest of small temples.

After storming the temple. Calabis threw Adiana at little Niko, "Good girl, save her life, but if she wakes up and wants to resist, kill her!" Little Niko nodded, and deftly drew her dagger. Then, braving a hail of bullets, he rushed out and shouted: "Everything is fine, prepare for a sortie, prepare for a counterattack." ”

"That bastard of Patheus, he actually sent stone cannons to attack the Acropolis without authorization, it was he who gave the bastard order." At the side of the bronze shield army that was marching forward in unison, Minander angrily grabbed a few heralds, "Is today the day when the gods gamble on 'pairs or not'?" Then I'll just fight and see if God is on my side, just attack it, anyway, the walls of the Romans are going to collapse, and they are half starved to death! ”

At the end of the wooden shed pipes, one by one the Acayans climbed out, their task had been accomplished, and it was time to obey the arrangement and give up their merits to the noble bronze shield army: the bronze shield army threw out ropes with hooks, set up the crumbling wall, and then pulled violently, zuihou In the thunderous roar, the Roman wall of thirty Roman feet high collapsed several gaps.

But to the surprise of the Brass Shields, since the Acayans had laid so many pipes on the slopes, they should have pulled down the entire wall with hooks, but the walls of the Roman Acropolis were like a pre-calculated haode, with gaps opening up exactly one at regular intervals, like human front teeth.

The Bronze Shield Army didn't know that Calabis and Pop had already calculated the excavation points of the Acayans, so they fixed it on the city wall between every two points with rivets directly nailed to the iron plate, and also embedded the rope diagonally in the open space between the outer wall and the inner wall, and smashed the rope into the ground with huge iron nails.

There was no way, since the whole wall did not fall, the power of the bronze shield military array could not be exerted, and they did not understand the mystery of this wall, so they could only divide into several strands, abandon their spears, hold shields and Greek scimitars, and enter through the various collapsed entrances, but as soon as they entered, they were cross-shot by the belly bows and scorpion cannons of the inner walls and the left and right towers, and many people's corpses fell at the entrance, piled up, and were pulled away, and the successors continued to move forward bravely—Roman soldiers, military slaves, and Thracian mercenaries swarmed out from the exit of the inner wall, Blocking in the middle and on both sides of the gap, he used a back-bladed machete, a fighting sword, and even a pickaxe and shovel to kill the Bronze Shield Army.

"Kill, kill all these Greeks, they naturally like to eat those words, today I will use my brother's spear tip and blade to replace those words, let them swallow enough!" In the battle array, Highbrida held a blood-dripping sword and shouted, "This is our counterattack, and soon the Pontus Greek camp will collapse, and the big killing and robbery are coming, follow my brother, go together!" ”

Over there, Pasius's catapults and ballistas continued to fire, smashing the acropolis with smoke and dust, but the Roman soldiers were very orderly, all holding shields, guarding the corridors and under the gates, and did not panic, so there were no casualties.

At the bottom of the slope, the officers of the Bronze Shield Army were still shouting and scolding, pulling the soldiers one by one to the top, Minand's sweat was dripping, and after two quarters of an hour of tug-of-war, he realized that things were far from simple, and the Romans still had the physical strength and will to fight? Shouldn't they be starving to the point of prostration, lying on the ground waiting for the harvest of the brass shield saber and sword?

With this question in mind, the picture of the behavior of the princess and Calabis quickly flashed in his and Stratonis's minds, and a terrible prospect quickly came to their minds: that fellow of Calabis, Weishenme, would insult the noble princess in such a way, instead of treating the noble nobles with courtesy like Luculas and Pompey, and the rudeness alone could not be explained by the performance of this battle.

"Did Menander, the king of the Ajayas, be killed by Adina?" Suddenly, Stratonis thought of something and asked.

The Governor of the Bronze Shield Army who was questioned looked back at Stratonis with frightened eyes, and then he saw the camp behind him, a raging flame burning - the Achaya with weapons and armor in their arms, rushed out of the camp and killed in the direction of the Bronze Shield. (To be continued......)