Vol 6 Chapter 194: Develop a super siege tower

After listening to Damocles, his face changed greatly and he shouted loudly: "The ongoing war in Syracuse and Dionia was carried out under the testimony of Ares. Any tragic events in the war are normal. Sparta did not kill the Athenian citizens after the victory because the Athens Navy ravaged the coast of its territory. We Syracuse did not burn Carthage of Sicily after Carthage repeatedly slaughtered the Sicilian city-state. All destroyed, so Diaonia can't make such a demanding request, this is not a Greek war tradition!"

Is it the ancient tradition of Greece that allowed the Syracuse to hire aliens and slaughter unarmed Greek women, the elderly and children!
Henipolis snarled at him:
Since you say this is war, Then we, Dionia, are willing to continue fighting until we capture the Siriting, and then cut off the heads of the aliens who have covered the blood of the people of the Dionys! Otherwise, once the peace sign is signed, we can only watch the murderers swaying. The departure of Daves is unacceptable! The heroic Legionnaires are unacceptable! All the Diaonians are unacceptable!"
"... Once the contract is signed, we can only watch them leave..." This sentence touched Damocles. He said helplessly: "The conditions you mentioned are too high. Can you change it a little? For example, as long as some of them are heads or as long as the leader’s life?"
"No, this is the most basic condition!" Henipolis answered with a tough tone.
Damocles had to say: "Well, I can't be the master of this matter. I have to go back and report to General Dionysius, and let him decide."
After that, he and the next Fibidas looked at each other and then got permission from Henipolis, and the guards put on their blindfolds and sent out the camp.
Fibidas did not go, he asked Davis as the messenger of Sparta.
This made Henipolis unwilling to refuse, only to let him wait here, to inform King Davers.
Fibidas was a long time, not because Deavers deliberately teased, but he was not near the big account, he went to the engineering camp.
At the time of the occupation of the Syracuse camp, the Dionysian army harvested a lot of supplies, including some siege equipment.
Needless to say, the sniper was originally copied from Syracuse, but later he made further improvements. Due to the application of parabolic theory, Diaonia’s rifle was more refined. Precision.
The abdominal arch is another siege weapon of Syracuse. Its principle is similar to that of the squid. The engineers can roughly copy it with a glance at the structure. After all, the most difficult part of the abdominal arch is the use of the pulley, which happens to be The Deonian Engineering Camp is best at it.
Others like the siege hammer, the boat, the arrow guard, etc. are very well copied, but Davers looks very carefully. He needs to understand Syracuda from these various kinds of siege equipment. Human siege methods and ideas. You know, when Syracuse conquered the great city of Crotone, Davers was also shocked. Compared with the Syracuse in Sicily, the field of the powerful Dionyrian army. The experience in siege is still quite poor, including Davis himself, so learning from the enemy is the best way to improve.
Of course, among the siege devices, the most striking and difficult to make is the Siege Tower. Dionia can also make a siege tower, but compared to the siege tower made by Syracuse, it is simply a small witch. Although the siege tower in front of the tower only completed the construction of the pedestal and the first floor, the scale is also quite amazing: it is 20 meters long and 6.7 meters wide, not so much a tower, but rather a wall.
Davers circled around it for a few laps and turned to one of the best engineers in the engineering camp, Orops: "Can you copy it?"
The construction of the Denia’s Legion’s engineering battalion is quite special. Its team officers do not need to understand the construction of the project, as long as they will manage the troops and have some experience in the battlefield. Their duty is to serve the engineers, to ensure their safety, to provide all the materials they need, when the army orders the construction. It is also responsible for coordinating with other units and recruiting soldiers to work as laborers. Therefore, most of the team officers in the engineering camp are occupied by disabled soldiers who are injured after the battlefield.
What is really valuable in the engineering camp is the engineers. If Davers had a rough system when he first established an engineering camp, it has now formed a fixed engineer assessment system, which not only requires engineers to be able to draw literacy, has strong hands-on ability, but also requires deep mathematical theory. Knowledge, only in this way can pass the assessment and become a legion engineer. In addition to cultivating their own land on weekdays, these engineers have become the hot items that the citizens of the Union are vying to hire, building houses, workshops, making furniture, equipment, etc., and the pay is not low. If there are large-scale public works in various cities, they will be invited to participate. Although they pay less, they will engrave their names on the completed stone tablets, which is a great honor for them.
In addition to engineers, there are skilled craftsmen, carpenters, and blacksmiths in the engineering camp. They are engineers' assistants and assist engineers in making all kinds of weapons needed for war. In addition, there are some slaves in the camp, mainly for the engineers.
As the Legion's requirements for engineers are getting higher and higher, and the engineers' assessments are formalized, because of their high requirements for knowledge and hands-on ability, most of the engineers of each legion are from the laboratory of the Diavian Academy. But unlike Oropes, he was a mercenary of the Persian expedition, because some carpentry would be transferred after the construction of the engineering camp in Davers, but he worked hard and eventually became a highly skilled carpenter. He also took the initiative to participate in the adult class of the Diavian School. Through hard work, he quickly took off the illiterate hat. Then, because of Davis’s agreement with Mentotik Els, for a period of time, the artisans of the Legion entered the laboratory of several colleges and became the garrison of scholars. Orrops took the opportunity to learn advanced mathematics. And finally got the appreciation of Marty Collis, became his disciple, and passed the assessment to become an engineer. Therefore, Olops is a model of self-study, highly respected by the Dionian craftsmen, and motivated them to learn from him.
"Your Majesty, copying is ok, but it takes some time." Oropes said cautiously, kneeling down, laboriously picking up a big wooden wheel: "The biggest difficulty in making this siege tower is in these woods." On the wheel and the axle. Such a large engineering tower, such heavy weight, is ultimately supported by these wooden wheels and axles. The requirements for them are very high. How big is the diameter of the axle? How thick and wide is the wooden wheel? How many sets of axles and wooden wheels can ensure that the siege tower is successfully pushed?... These need to be tried and tested before they can be finalized.
And you look down, so many wooden wheels are basically the same size and width. It is very difficult to have a lot of skilled carpenters. Otherwise, these wooden wheels have some differences in size. The siege tower is being pushed. It may collapse due to imbalance! With the ability of our current engineering camp, it is still somewhat difficult to achieve it.

Oropes said with regret that he stood up here, obsessed with the siege tower in front of him, opened his arms and stroked his hands, and continued: "Look at you, the tower on either side of this siege tower. The wall is not upright, but it is inclined inward. Although I can't see the whole picture, I can be sure that it must be a trapezoidal body, so as to enhance the stability of the base, but how much is the most suitable angle of the tower wall? The place is to build a horizontal plate to ensure that the tower wall is evenly and stable?..."
Davers didn't care too much about the technical details that Oropus said. He understood the meaning of Oropus's words: "In short, you need to repeat the calculation experiment to make a A normal running siege tower."
"Yes, Your Majesty, we need time." Orops answered truthfully. He looked at the other people behind him and said: "For such a huge siege tower, we have fewer people, and it is still the first. Sub-production..."
Although the siege battalions of the various legions together are no less than 500 people, in fact, people are not too small, but Davers has heard the meaning of the words of Orops: excellent engineers and craftsmen are not enough.
I remembered that the Syracuse people built three large siege towers in a few days~EbookFREE.me~Davers was very scared to the thousands of engineering teams in the city of West Riding, that was Dave. The true wealth that eager to get.
"I will give you time to delve into and try to make this siege tower, but don't be too anxious, you should thoroughly study its technical research and finally master it!" Daves encouraged them.
"Thank you!"
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Sitting in the big account, Filibidas had four guards to watch. He couldn’t go around and looked at it. He could only look at the big account with his eyes. The result was that he found a secret: Daves’s big The layout of the account is very similar to the military account of Dionysius. Except for the space without the size of Dionysius, it is also very simple, except for a few armor and weapon racks. Outside the bed of the mat and fur, the most eye-catching is undoubtedly the pile of paper rolls, cloth, etc. on the first wooden table. This is obviously the same as the big account of Dionysius. While the army is fighting, it is also handling the many affairs within the alliance at any time...
These two Western Mediterranean lords! In the heart of Fibidas, the inexplicable feelings rose.