Like most bustling cities, Boshi City is located close to the lakeshore and has an abundant source of water.

The city is located at the lowest reaches of the Sava River, where the gentle waters of the river converge to form the wide Sava Lake.

The northern walls of Boshi City are just outside the lake, and it has the largest inland port in the entire Bacchus Empire.

The port is connected to the city by several water gates, which are actually artificial rivers from which smaller boats can pass through the north wall and directly into the interior of the city.

But now that it is the dry season of winter, the water level is relatively shallow, and the water gate passage can even directly see the silt at the bottom, and the water level of less than two meters can only be passed by small flat-bottomed barges.

And the Watergate has now been completely blocked by the tattered shipwreck—not by Governor Justes, but by the rebels.

Originally, Justes had simply dropped all the floodgates and closed off the city's man-made river, just to block the Red Death.

But now, there is a large number of corpses in the river, and it is impossible to tell whether they are infected or not.

Today's Boshi City is on the verge of collapse.

Previously, Justes only sent troops to defend the port and did not destroy the water gate, after all, there must be a way out when things can't be done.

Although it was a dry season, the lake outside the harbor was still navigable, at least directly to the vicinity of Valendeer Castle.

But after he sent troops to fight the rebels, the situation changed......

Since the city of Bozhi had walls more than eight meters high, it was difficult for the rebels to storm the city without siege equipment, so they took another route.

That is, the waterways.

Although the winter around Boshi Castle is not too cold, the water is still bitterly cold, and you can occasionally see ice rushing down from the upper reaches of the lake. Justes really didn't expect that these gladiators would be able to sneak and fight in winter.

The new leader of the rebel army was indeed fierce in his way of fighting, and he sneaked into the city by water in the middle of winter with hundreds of gladiators.

When the gladiators, all shirtless and armless, appeared in the city, there was a great panic in the city.

The nobles and its inhabitants had been confined to the city for three months, and their anxiety had turned into mania when they saw the enemy enter the city.

Justes had to lead his troops to resist the gladiators' attacks, but he was unable to suppress the emotions of the inhabitants, and as a result, the city of the Doctor turned into an uncontrollable riot.

Some people are crying wolves, some people are killing people and setting fires, and some people are robbing and committing crimes......

This bustling city is gradually becoming full of holes.

Justes knew that if nothing else, there must be Serpent worshippers fanning the flames.

But now I can't spare my hands to check ......

Sometimes, however, riots in the city are not necessarily a bad thing......

After thinking about it for a long time, Justes withdrew the guards of the Water Gate.

As a result, many nobles ran to the north of the Water Gate when they were in the city, intending to escape from Bozhi City.

As a result, they just ran into the attacking rebels......

After a scuffle in which no one was commanding on either side, countless corpses were left in the Watergate River.

Most of the nobles who had planned to flee the city died in the river.

The gladiators retreated with the rebels, but before leaving, they robbed most of the ships in the outer harbor, and by the way, scuttled the remaining ships to seal the harbor.

There is no way back for Bozhi City.

Justes had to close the waterways and forcibly put down the riots in the city.

But in this way, the northern city wall also needs to be guarded, and the chaos in the city must also be controlled, and more than half of the army defending the city has been transferred.

And when the soldiers on the city walls were greatly reduced, the rebels outside the city launched a full-scale attack.

Perhaps because of the change of leader, the intensity of the rebel army's siege greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.

It is true that this huge army did not have any siege equipment, and the troops of tens of thousands of people were short of clothing

Food and weapons are not very neat.

Justus originally thought that the rebels without siege equipment were unlikely to capture the city.

As the cultural center of the Bacchus Empire, the city of Broad Knowledge was well defended.

Not only does it have tall and wide walls, but it also has all kinds of defensive reserves.

A large number of crossbows and spears were placed on the city walls, and a lot of logs and cobblestones were prepared.

At the head of the castle were chains were several huge thorny logs, and there were pots burning tung oil in the castle.

Not even feces.

It's just that now there are not many soldiers, and there is chaos everywhere in the city, so it is impossible to get support from the people.

But Justers still felt he could hold on.

After all, the way these rabble roared and rushed towards the city walls seemed completely out of order.

However, slaves have the wisdom of slaves.

When this army, which did not have any baggage, rushed under the city wall, it was like a trick, and quickly built many long ladders with bamboo poles and thick wooden poles, and then connected them side by side!

Of course, this is not a ladder, but each slave carries a piece of bamboo and wood, which is tenoned together and connected to form a wall ladder like a fishing net!

Probably only these slaves could do this kind of siege......

This improvised method of piecing together a ladder to climb the wall would of course cost a lot, and the crossbows in the city easily shot hundreds of unarmored slaves in the short time they had been piecing together the ladder.

If Brutus had led this rebel army, he would not have done so—after all, Brutus had been an officer of the Immortal Legion, and he would not waste the lives of his soldiers in this way.

But today, the rebel army is all like outlaws.

At this moment, a group of gladiators under the castle held their shields above their heads, and set up the strange-looking ladders assembled on the city wall.

The soldiers guarding the city walls had never seen such a novel tactic, and they were all firing crossbow bolts to inflict damage, and they did not immediately drop rolling stones or sandalwood.

As a result, after the bamboo-and-wood mesh ladder was built on the city wall, the soldiers used a push rod to push it, but found that they couldn't push it at all!

Because, after the gladiators put the ladder on the top of the city, some of the people desperately tapped the root of the ladder on the inside of the ladder to make it firmly rooted in the ground.

Others pulled the ladder inward so that it was close to the wall and began to connect with several other wall ladders.

Gradually, the slaves connected the sections of wood like ants into an unshakable net, like a scaffolding for the city wall.

Moreover, they climb upwards from the inside of the ladder.

This was clearly invented by slaves who had long been engaged in high-risk jobs such as mining or construction......

Seeing that they could not push the huge ladder to climb the wall, Justes's soldiers began to throw the logs and stones with all their might, but the wood and stones that rolled down the ladder could no longer hit the slaves on the inside of the ladder.

The ladder was originally made of tenons and tenons, and the stones and sassals smashed into the ladder, but it seemed to reinforce the ladder.

In a short time, the ladders were finally connected to each other and formed a net, forming a whole, about ten meters wide!

The bottom is rooted in the earth, and the top is placed at the head of the city, and with the continuous replenishment of the slaves, it has now formed a lattice, which looks like a rectangular chessboard on the city wall.

This is indeed the common splicing scaffolding in mines of this era.

Then, a large group of shirtless shirtless naked men shouted "huha" in unison, and then rushed forward and began to climb against the arrows in the city.

It was a team of gladiators, and obviously very brave gladiators.

Justes shouted in shock at the top of the city, "Roll the wood!"

Then he commanded the guards to fire arrows one after another.

While it is true that gladiators without armor can be easily shot, there is still a steady stream of slaves climbing up ladders.

The rolling wood is quite effective, and the giant wood with thorns is smooth

Rolling down the ladder, sweeping down a dozen slaves who were about to climb to the top of the city.

But in the middle of the ladder were several brave gladiators, shielding their heads and working together to form a sloping wall.

The log was pressed over the shield surface, then bounced off and flew away, falling into the distance.

Most of the gladiators suffered minor injuries from the impact, but they were able to protect their comrades and begin to climb again.

It was not easy to make and throw the logs, and it was impossible to throw them continuously, and some of the soldiers on the city wall were probably a little frightened, and they were not able to move another log for a while.

And the gladiators climbed very fast, and in a few breaths they climbed to the top of the city!

Seeing that the enemy was so fierce and fearless of death, Justus took up a torch and shouted, "Spear to stop! Bring the hot oil!"

This governor, who is known for his wisdom, can only solve the problem by force after all.

A long spearman stood up on the city wall, and the division of labor of the First Legion of the Empire was quite detailed, and there were almost all types of soldiers.

The spearmen were still calm, and they stabbed down the ladder in small groups, and although they were in close contact with the skilled gladiators, they had a great advantage in the top, and the length of the spears allowed them to quickly control the situation.

However, after standing on the top of the city, without the cover of the battlements, the spears under the city attacked like flying locusts.

The Slave Rebels didn't have any bows and crossbows, but they did have throwing guns, and although most of them were shoddy homemade throwing guns, they still worked.

Moreover, the Bacchus were more adept at throwing guns.

Just as the Fieldswie people like to use throwing axes, the Lion Kingdom is accustomed to using riding spears, and the people of the Raven Realm are good at archery......

Every country has some special sports.

Spear throwing is a traditional sport in Bacchus, and spear throwing battles can often be seen in the gladiatorial arenas in Bacchus.

Although the spearmen of the First Legion of the Empire were fully armoured, their spears were no better than bows and arrows, and heavy spears could often directly pierce armor.

The defenders of the city began to show damage, and several spearmen were taken down by javelins and planted on their backs inside the city.

Fortunately, the hot oil was finally ready, and a barrel of oil was poured down, and the fierce smell of burnt paste came, and most of the gladiators on the ladder were peeled open and fell down with a ghost crying wolf howl.

Justes dropped the torch and lit it with hot oil, which was a sigh of relief.

But the ladder was apparently connected by moist new wood, and was not very easy to ignite, and the occasional flame attached to it did not prevent the slaves from continuing to climb upward.

However, the offensive has indeed slowed down.

If there is only this side of the ladder, the rebel army should not be able to attack.

But the rebels under the city were outnumbered, probably thinking that this method was effective, and they began to assemble a large number of them with shields on their heads!

It seems that each of these tens of thousands of enemies has a piece of wood specially used to assemble the ladder......

Just between the two rounds of attacking and defending this ladder, two more identical scaffolds were spliced and built!

Justes finally got a little flustered, and kept sending men to block the attack, and the reserves were all used.

It didn't take long for dozens of Imperial soldiers to be killed or wounded.

Although the losses of the rebel army were ten times that of the Imperial soldiers, the defenders of the city were small in number, and if this continued, when the experienced veterans were exhausted, the recruits might not be able to do the job of blocking the frontal attack.

If this continues, as the proportion of casualties increases, perhaps the First Legion of the Empire will soon collapse.

There were only a few hundred veterans in Justes' hands......

This city may really be breached by the slaves!

No one expected that these slaves would be able to conjure scaffolding with their bare hands that was not inferior to a ladder.

Justes was on the inside of the wall, watching the defenders on the wall exhausted, but he didn't know what to do for a while.

All the arrangements he could make were done, and the reserves were all sent up, and there was no one around him to use.

If he's Kyros or Agathon

Such a macho man, then it is time to lead the team to stand in front of those scaffolds and take the lead in intercepting the enemy's attack.

But he is not, he is an archon who eats by his brain, even when he was young, his martial arts were not outstanding, and now that he is over fifty years old, of course, he wisely did not go to the front line.

The rebel army is exchanging human lives for space, fighting quite fiercely, and it is completely relying on numbers. In this case, it is not very useful for Justes to go into battle in person, but it is easy for the soldiers to have loopholes in order to protect him.

After sending out all the reserves, he actually couldn't do anything, and hiding behind and not causing chaos was the biggest contribution.

He could only watch the chaotic battlefield and watch the situation deteriorate little by little......

The veterans of the First Legion of the Empire are getting fewer and fewer, and the ratio of battle losses is gradually shrinking from ten to one to five, and the casualties of the soldiers are increasing rapidly.

For gradually gladiators have come to the top of the city.

These brave warriors honed from the arena were extremely powerful in the small space of the city walls, and when they stood on the walls, it often took five or more soldiers to take them down.

As more gladiators climbed the walls, Justus sat down on the steps of the walls, and he was now a little desperate.

The city was still in a commotion, the shameless thugs were setting fires everywhere, there was smoke and dust everywhere, and it was a mess.

The prison and the warehouses in the eastern part of the city were filled with people infected with the Red Death, and since most of the guards had been transferred to meet the enemy, it was likely to be out of control.

Most of the nobles died in the city, or died on the way to escape the city......

Justes is still unsure, even if he holds the city of Knowledge, what will he face for himself?

Several fierce gladiators had already climbed the city wall and easily slashed the soldiers who stood in front of Justus.

The gladiators were approaching him, but Justus did not flee.

He just looked at the gladiators coldly, and didn't move.

He knew that he couldn't fight or escape, so he maintained the dignity of an imperial consul.

But perhaps, some people are destined to die.

Just as Justes was about to close his eyes, a clear and urgent trumpet was heard outside the city.

"Uh...... Whining...... Woo woo woo ...... "

It wasn't the horn of the Bacchus Empire, which was a metal horn, and it usually made a long, low sound.

This short trumpet is the charge of the Lion Realm cavalry troops!