Vol 8 Chapter 120: Outpost

The Roman people quickly panicked in the atmosphere of their enemies, and once again eagerly signed up to defend the city. The Roman cavalry also ran on the fields outside the city and urgently informed the people in the villages to evacuate immediately. More than a dozen messengers have also rushed out of the city of Rome, heading in all directions, to seek help from the colonial city and the allies...
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Ostia is more than 50 miles from Rome. There are no other city-states in the middle. Rome is also nearly 30 miles away from the nearest allies. This is the result of the strong expansion of the Romans in the past 100 years. They constantly beat the nearby city-states. Then, the people moved to Rome constantly, and the Roman city continued to grow. The land directly under it was more and more, but it left a blank area around it for dozens of miles, making the two of Dionya The road army was in a state of no one, and it did not suffer any obstacles. It was not known whether the Romans had regretted their tyrannical practice of short-sightedness at this time.
In particular, the two cavalry corps of Dionia were all galloping and rushing to the forefront of the entire army.
At this time, they saw smoke rising in the distance.
"Damn! It must be that the Romans are burning their granaries!" Reedes remembered the death command given to him by the Dave's King sent messenger last night: early morning, after the whole army, your first and second cavalry regiments To reach the river port on the banks of the Tiber River in the west of Rome at the fastest speed, seize the granary at all costs!
Ledes couldn’t help but be anxious and shouted:
Accelerate! Prepare to fight the fire!

The anxious Ledes actually ordered the commander to blow the charge, and the horse led the soldiers to run wild.
The river port of the city of Rome was built after the Romans took over Ostia. It became another passage for the Romans to connect with the outside world. Because of the constant influx of people in the Roman city at that time, there was no plan for the river port beforehand. There is no extra open space to accommodate the port, so it was built outside the city.
In the first few decades, the river and port facilities were extremely rudimentary. Until the last decade or so, the assistance and trade of the Carthaginians to Rome promoted the development of this river port. The expansion and improvement of the river port also allowed the transportation of goods through the river. More and more merchant ships, but also led to the establishment of the granary in Rome is also close to the river port. This is because Rome has frequently waged wars for more than a decade, and it consumes a lot of food. Sometimes it cannot supply itself enough. Carthage provides assistance to it. The grain is basically transported through the river and unloaded at the port. After a fire, the Romans learned the lesson and stopped transporting food into the city where the house was crowded and chaotic, and it was convenient to park directly near the port. After that, they also store the food collected from other allies, and then collect the food here and transport it to the camp.
When Leders led the First Cavalry Corps of Dionia, he saw a large rectangular camp in front, a three-meter-high stone wall, and several towers in the wall. Smoke, but can not see a figure, can not hear the human voice, and the Roman wall is less than two hundred meters away from the soldiers, the gates are closed.
Ledes immediately jumped off the horse and pulled out the short sword, and ran to the gate of the camp.
"The head of the army is careful!" The several guards next to him immediately pulled him, and at the same time blocked the cavalry shield in front of him, only listening to "beep" two sounds, two arrows on the shield.
Ledes stunned a cold sweat, suddenly calmed down, and fixed his eyes, only to see a lot of shadows on the wall of the granary, he thought a little, then shouted: "The first brigade gave me a javelin attack inside. Enemy! The second brigade will dismount me and see if I can knock the door open! Other teams are around the camp and give me a wall!"
"Yes, the head of the army!!"
After only hearing the shouting of the horses, the cavalry of the third, fourth and fifth brigades began to run around the camp, while the soldiers of the second brigade rushed directly to the camp gate, which forced the wall. The Roman soldiers had to show their physique and attacked the Diaonian soldiers approaching the camp with javelins and arrows.
The second-team Daneo Cavalry, who was ready, immediately attacked the enemy on the wall with a javelin.
The walls are not high, and there are no trenches and deer villages. The Dionysian cavalry can be close to the attack, plus their number. Although Roman soldiers are condescending, they are at a disadvantage in long-range attacks.
At this time, the cavalry of other brigades had already circled under the other wall sections of the granary camp. They jumped off the horse and lost the cavalry shield to the back. The long guns stayed on the horse, and the short swords hung around the waist. One person kneels and the other step on the other's shoulder, and the two slowly stand upright. Three meters high stone wall, the two overlap, the soldiers above can already put their hands on the wall, the soldiers below will send the shoulders up, the soldiers above will turn up the wall... In a few moments, hundreds of Dionys soldiers stood on the wall.
They saw that dozens of side-by-side round barns in the granary had already ignited a fire, and a dozen Roman soldiers were carrying tar, holding torches and running between the barns. They immediately split more than half of the soldiers and quickly ran down the wall to go to the fire. The other soldiers followed the aisle of the wall and killed the Roman soldiers who were fighting.
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On the wall of the west wall of Rome, the soldiers were able to see the situation in the granary camp when they were carrying the height of the wall. They were anxious when they saw the danger of their compatriots.
"General Scipio, Gaius, who refused to retreat into the city in order to completely burn the granary, they are the heroes of Rome, we should go out to save them!"
"The Deonian cavalry has less than 2,000 people, and basically they all jumped out of the horse to fight. They all wear light armor. If we send troops out of the city at this time, we can definitely hit this Dionysian cavalry." !"
Compared with the pleading of the soldiers, the veteran’s suggestion made the city’s chief, Scipio, somewhat heart-warming.
Now the city is not only standing on the Roman civic, but also some veterans, in the face of the momentum of the death of the Diaonians, they are somewhat curious, after all, this is the first time facing the army of Dionia, of course their The arrival also brought some trouble to Great Scipio.
Initially, Big Scipio’s plan was to
deliver all the grain in the granary into the city and then burn the granary.
Because the Dionyrian army was still halfway on the basis of the return of the previous detective, So Scipio thought There was enough time to complete the plan, for which he organized nearly 10,000 people and a lot of brakes, and went out to the city to carry food. He thought that this task could be completed before the arrival of the Dionysian army.
But after the grain-going team went out of town, he was rewarded again by the detective: the Dionysian cavalry was rushing towards Rome, less than 30 miles from the city of Rome.
The speed of the Dionysian cavalry march was completely out of the expectation of Great Scipio. He was not only unable to complete the previous plan, but also had to withdraw the grain team to the city immediately. In order to ensure order and prevent the chaos of the people and the beasts from clogging the gates, he did not immediately burn the granary. The evacuation of the grain transport team took a lot of time. When the people had basically entered the city and wanted to light the granary, they would wear it. The Onyar cavalry is already very close to the city of Rome, and from the return of the detective ride, they are heading straight to the granary.
At this time, the squadron leader Gaius, who was originally guarding the granary, and the 120 soldiers under his command voluntarily chose to stay in order to complete this task.
The heroic and tragic strength of the Roman squadron magnified the mistakes of the Great Scipio, and was clearly seen by the elders of the city, which will have a great influence on his future political career in Rome. There is no time to think about it at this moment, so if the proposal of the peer can be successfully implemented, it will not only strike the Diaonians, but also restore his image.
Just as Da Sibo’s Asiso sent troops out of the city,
Dyonia’s cavalry! There were also Daonian cavalry killed!!...
The soldiers’ screams made him raise his head and saw In the distance, a piece of smoke and dust, numerous black helmets and black armored Danonian cavalry looming in the dust, look at this situation, the number is absolutely not infrequent.
When he saw that the number of new Dionysian cavalry approaching the city was about two thousand, Big Sippia hesitated: the number of two Dionysian cavalry made him unable to resolve the battle in a short time. After all, there are only 3,000 soldiers in his hands~EbookFREE.me~ and it is impossible to go out of the city, but the recruits formed by the old man and the children go out of the city and fight with the cavalry in the wild. He is worried that the physical strength of these soldiers cannot be supported.
But soon he didn't have to hesitate any more, and the screams of the soldiers once again made her see the dust rising in the distance again: there were hundreds of helmeted bright blue-eyed Dionian cavalry. Go to the city and join the team in the offensive granary!
The Dionysian cavalry came several times and gave the big Scipio an illusion: the Dionysian army is rushing to the side at the fastest speed and cannot send troops out! Otherwise, not only will these soldiers be in danger, but Rome will also be in danger!
Not only did he think so, I am afraid that the elders and soldiers in the city had similar ideas, so the sound of the battle and the pleading of the sounds were not there before, and the surroundings were very quiet. I just heard the screams from time to time in the granary camp under the city. Their expressions were extremely painful.
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The second rush to the river port granary was the Dionysian Second Cavalry Corps. The head of the army, Kuchus, quickly found the Ledes, who was supervising the war. He said to the former chief, "Leddes, What do we need to do?"