Vol 6 Chapter 119: Crotone's siege war (2)

Before the slaves rushed to the Luzhai, the soldiers in the city began to fire arrows, and suddenly the screams of the city continued...
Just as they were bending and arching again and pulling out the javelin, the slaves under the city shouted loudly: "Don't put the arrow, I am Sifnos, the son of Sipacus, Sifnos!"
"I am Pararus! Askamas' neighbor!"
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The Crotone soldiers were stunned: the slaves under the city were not slaves, but their compatriots who were captured after the defeat of the previous battle!
"Damn Syracuse! Dionysius in the next prison!" Ascamas's angry boxing was on the battlements, and his blood suddenly reddened his fist. He didn't expect Dionysius. Ignore the Greek tradition and let the Greek prisoners act as the meat shields that were consumed by the siege.
At this time, Dionysius, who had followed the archer's hand, overlooked the city, and his face was sneer. It is necessary to know that after the last battle, Syracuse captured nearly 10,000 prisoners and tortured them after intimidation, beatings, fasting, etc., and forced more than 2,000 people to pull out the deer villages in Siracusa and fill them. The moat is in exchange for a promise not to be murdered or to be sold as a slave. Among the 2,000 people, there are not only Crotones, but also a few of the West Ridings and Trina, that is, there are no Dionyns. On the one hand, the soldiers of the Dionya were the least captured, and more than half have been replaced by Dionia. The rest of the Brudy captives, Dionysius has other uses, and the pure Greeks And Lucanias are mostly tempered...
Dionysius didn't think about this annoying little problem. He is now interested in the strategy he used. He wants to see how the Crotones will respond. For this reason, he orders the archers not to shoot arrows, retain physical strength and arrows. Ya, wait until the whole army attacks, and then remove the obstacles for the army.
On the head of the city, the adjutant eagerly asked: "General, what should we do?!"
Ascamas did not answer immediately. He asked the guards to bandage his left hand while he was distressed to see the Crotone captives under the city under the pressure of the Syracuse, and walked to the moat and carried the soil bag. Throw into the moat and then go back to destroy the deer village carefully arranged by the defenders.
Ascamas secretly condemned these traitors, but he did not dare to attack them because he thought: Crotone’s former enemy, Turui, their chief general, Kunogora, was ordered to close the gate. Although the city was saved, but because some of the civic soldiers died, the people did not hesitate to do so. Not only did they drive out Kuno Gorata, but they also hurt his family. Now they directly ordered the killing of Croto. Inside the prisoners, even if they repel the enemy's offensive, the families of these thousands of deceased will not hate themselves in the future, I am afraid that their end will be worse than Kuno Gorata!
Ascamas is not a general who only knows how to fight. He can be elected as a general in the great Greek powerhouse of Crotone, which has tens of thousands of citizens. His political literacy is not low. After quickly weighing the pros and cons, he said to the adjutant: "You go to the city hall immediately, tell the council about the situation here, let them make the decision."
After the adjutant left, Ascalama saw that a small section of the moat had been cut off. He couldn't help but sigh and told him: "You are going to find some ropes and hang down the city so that they can climb and climb."

He did not dare to open the city gate, fearing that the Syracuse people would take the opportunity to enter.
The soldiers hurriedly found the ropes down to the city, then shouted at their compatriots: "Come on!! Catch the rope and climb up!!"
After some of the prisoners heard it, they ran across the moat that had been filled, but the light infantry of Syracuse immediately shot arrows at them, making these captives who had never had enough to eat and weaken be easily shot.
The city’s soldiers fought back in anger, and most of them could not hit the Syracuse people hiding behind the archery, but they accidentally injured their compatriots.
The prisoners no longer dare to act rashly.
Ascamas saw this scene and reluctantly gave up the move to rescue his compatriots.
The Crotone House Council apparently had no mental preparations for the use of captives to attack the city in Syracuse. The debate was fierce, but it was impossible to make a decision. This allowed the Syracuse people to have enough time for the prisoners to fill in several lengths. The section of the moat, cleaned the Luzhai on both sides of the moat.
Ascamas looked at it all depressed, but he quickly forced himself to fight: If this is the case, let us fight face to face!
It was as if I heard the cry of the inner heart of Askamas. The prisoners were driven back and never appeared again.
Dionysius saw that everything was ready, and smugly ordered on the high platform: "Offensive!"
The voice just fell, and I felt a cold face, and I reached out and touched it. It turned out to be water.
It's raining? Dionysius looked up at the sky. Before the clear sky, I didn't know when it was a little gloomy. Although it was just a small raindrop, Dionysius was a bit worried because the weight of the siege tower would cause the land to become soft after being soaked in rain. As a result, the wheels can not be pushed into the mud.
"Accelerate the attack!" He gave the order again.
The military number rang.
The stone bombs over the city of Crotone continue to whizz through, and the black-pressed enemies under the city are flooding like tides...
The sound of the army, the drums, the shouts, the footsteps... mixed together, hitting the eardrum of the defending soldiers, so that their breathing is short.
"Begin." Ascamas whispered, picking up the javelin and walking to the edge of the city.
At this time, a black spot suddenly passed over the back of his head, followed by another...
He suddenly widened his eyes and looked up, and he heard the soldier next to him shouting excitedly: "Our guns! Our guns are finally starting to take off!!..."
That’s not Crotone’s guns... Askamas thought about it, but when the soldiers’ morale rose, they didn’t care, but they felt lucky: okay, Dionya and Croto Stand together!
The Crotone soldiers were excited, and the Syracuse people were in a hurry, especially Dionysius. He saw that the stone bombs flying from the city were almost all near the siege tower not far from the dirt. .
He listened to Faxi Pesas and said, ‘Diagna also has guns. 'Because there was no use of Crotone in the last two days, he thought that Dionynia did not lend Crotone, a weapon that was complicated in production and costly and powerful. Used to defend Asprostum, I did not expect Crotone to hide until now, when Syracuse attacked the city with full force.
"Awkward Crotones!" Dionysius yelled. He knew that the enemy's target was the siege tower, but he could only do it urgently: "Notify our gunners that they might be placed in the enemy city." Attack the area of ​​the gun!"
Although Dionysius issued the order, he also knew that the accuracy of the rifle was not high. In the case where the position of the enemy can not be seen, it would be too difficult to hit, but the siege unit has already Approaching the city, the guns can no longer bombard the city walls, so as not to accidentally hurt their own people, make some attempts to disturb the city of Crotone is also good.
In front of the huge siege-like team, the enemy has only a dozen or so guns, and they can't afford too much of a wave. The key is to capture the city! Dionysius made a quick decision. Under his instructions, hundreds of archers on the dirt barrier began to throw arrows at the front of the city to suppress the enemy's attack on the soldiers under the city.
The Crotone inner light infantry on the head of the city also began to pour arrows at the enemies approaching the moat.
The Syracuse crossed the filled moat, braved the javelin thrown by the Crotones, and took the swaying ladder to the wall. After many times of siege experience, the Crotones have two curved iron hooks at the head end to hook the battlements so that the ladder will not be easily slipped or pushed down.
The Crotone soldiers could not quickly push down the ladder, so they had to throw javelins and stones down, attack the enemies who climbed the city, dump the tung oil, and burn the ladder with fire...
The Syracuse light infantry also came out from behind the archery and rushed to the city to shoot arrows at the city to ease the attack of the defenders on the siege soldiers...
Syracuse's siege equipment is the slowest. At the forefront, the covered wooden wheelers, driven by the people inside the car, finally rushed to the flattened moat. Under the protection of the roof, the people in the car picked up the tools and began to re-compact the ground. Fill the gap with the soil and lay the planks to ensure that the heavy siege tower can pass through the moat~EbookFREE.me~Denonia's rifle is placed not far behind the west wall, and the spacing is relatively open. And there are houses around it, which is relatively safe. However, due to the wide spread of rifles, it is impossible to adjust the trajectory with the same data after the target calculation. There are not so many gunners from several colleges, so Courdorod made a suggestion: ten snipers simultaneously bombarded A region or a target can improve the accuracy of the hit. After the guns that he personally commanded to launch the first shot, other gunners can adjust the launch data according to the height and speed of the stone.
This proposal was approved by the artillery team, and now their primary goal is the siege tower that is approaching in front of it.
Courdorod has been watching the observers holding the bunting on the wall. The position he stands is the orientation of the siege tower, and the number he uses to match the flag in the air is the distance between the tower and the wall, and then observe The hand puts the bunting to the left, and after repeating this action twice, the number of the stroke is the direction and distance from which the stone bullets previously fired by Courdorod.
The first two shots failed to hit. Courdorod felt the pressure. He wiped the rain on his face and made his sight clearer. He knew he had to hit it as soon as possible, otherwise the rain would keep going, 弩After the spring group of the gun is wet, the elastic force will change, and it is even easier to judge the accurate trajectory.