Vol 8 Chapter 277: Paragonia Fortress

"Adult, he seems to be doing something else this time," Tagruh whispered.

"Then let him come in." Leo Tiddides blinked and looked a little relaxed.

So Assemis just stepped into the door and he warned in advance: "I hope that you are not coming to talk to me about the cavalry attack. I have already told you that it is not yet."

"Commander adults." Asitmis explained, "I thought of a way to reduce the threat of the Carthage cavalry."

Leo Tizides finally turned his head and looked at him and asked, "What is the solution?"

Asitmis said seriously: "The commander is an adult, the Carthage cavalry is huge, but most of them are Numidian cavalry. As far as I know, these Numidians ride horses are short, but run Strong, and they also have a feature that they are more hungry, and eating grass can make them fight with the Numidians, but they must keep eating..."

In the heart of Leo Tizides, he leaned forward and asked, "What do you mean?"

Asitmis saw the ill-tempered commander come to the interest, and suddenly became more energetic and his words became more fluent: "The Carthaginians spread thousands of cavalry on our Catania plains. I am afraid not only destroying our village, obscuring our eyes and ears, but also solving the food problems of these horses. Now it is autumn, the grass on the ground has begun to succumb, since the Carthage people have burned our village, we can still Through the night, I can safely burn the weeds on the plains, so that the Carthage cavalry would not dare to move so frequently on the plains."

"Burn the grass on the entire plain..." Leo Tiddides indulged for a while, hesitatingly said: "Astemis, you are a Katane, you should be familiar with the situation here, even if The plain was burnt and polished, and as long as there was one or two rains, the land would soon grow grass."

"But Katane's September and October are rarely raining." Asitmis apparently considered this question, and he quickly responded.

Leo Tiddides also quickly made the decision: "Tagru, you will immediately come to Sipros, I need to discuss with him."

"Yes, adults." Taglu immediately ran out, because Cipros had just left, he should be able to intercept it on the road, and ran his heart and thought: Cipros is the governor of Sicily, and everyone is open-minded. The second time is to take the initiative to talk about the problem, I feel that the commander adults seem to be accustomed to this, and shouted to Xi Pu Luosi, this is not a good thing, look back and find an opportunity to remind him!

In the kitchen, Leo Tizides looked at the map and murmured: "Although I don't know if this method really works, I have to try it and know that even if the situation is not good for us, we will not You should lose your confidence and work hard to find opportunities..."

"Commander, you are right!"

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As Leotizides analyzed, Marco did target the offense to Paragonha.

The defense in the north of Paragonia is also strict, but the terrain is wider than in the south, which is conducive to the development of the army.

Ma Ge learned some of the lessons of the previous failure in the south. When the camp was built, he ordered the engineers to assemble the guns. After the command of the attack, dozens of guns began to bombard the whistle in the trap zone.

At the same time, he also ordered tens of thousands of Numisbian infantry formed by Carthage to dig the earth. Because of the hard soil at the foot of Palagonia, the soldiers had to dig the dirt farther away, and then Shipped again, all the traps in the north of Paragonia, whether it is any traps or trenches, have been paved with a wide and safe passage. In the period of cleaning up the periphery, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking the city, he also let his elite troops line up in front, ready to attack.

Moreover, he also transferred 10,000 soldiers stationed in Jela, increasing the number of soldiers in the Carthage camp to 60,000 to ensure that he has sufficient strength to attack Paragonia. At the same time, it defends against attacks from the new military camps of Leotini and Dionynia.

Although the defenders have not stopped the harassment, the casualties of the Carthage soldiers are not large, the morale has been maintained, and the speed of the siege of Paragonia is slow, but it has been steadily moving forward.

Three days later, the Carthaginian army advanced to within 100 meters of the city, forcing the Daonian defenders to return to the city and not attack.

Marco finally got close to observing the small town that created a lot of trouble for him. After he walked around it for a long time, he couldn't help but wonder: "This is the village of the population of Syracuse?!"

The adjutant next to him explained: "Adult, I remember that the Syracuse people only said that Paragonia used to be a village. Since the Denia army entered Palagnia and moved the villagers a few months ago, It is forbidden for anyone to get close to here, nor do they know what it is like in Paragonia."

Marco glanced at him and said, "You will excuse the Syracuse."

The adjutant was too scared to speak again.

Margo stares at the front of Paragonia: a white city is erected among the densely-knited deer's villages. Its area is not large, but the shape is different in the city that Ma Ge has seen. It has an approximate Surrounded by a wall of more than four meters high, there are many prominent round wall towers in the wall. It is amazing that there is a circular building within the wall that is two or three meters above the wall, as if it were a big circle. Set a small circle of concentricity.

Although Marco has never attacked such a strange city, but with his years of experience in the battle, he also felt that this small town of Paragogna is somewhat unusual, and the subconscious drive forward, want to observe more carefully.

Suddenly I heard the guards around me yelling: "Adult, be careful!"

I saw a few black spots in the air in front of me, whistling.

Margo hurriedly clamped the horse's belly, but his horse did not move. The guards beside him hurriedly pricked the spear to its buttocks. The horse screamed and smashed out, almost dropping Ma Ge down.

At this time, a few stone bullets had fallen down, and immediately a few screams of screams were heard, and there was a blur around Marge’s standing.

Marco finally managed to control the war horse, turned around and returned late, saw this scene, frowned and said? : "Reward."

In the process of retracing, he did not forget to ask the adjutant: "Where did the enemy's stone bombs come from?"

The adjutant shook his head and said that he did not see it. Marge once again gave him a look: even if this young adjutant was a member of the Magonid family, he couldn’t help but think about changing him.

"Adult, it seems... it seems to be shot from the city." A guard said.

When Ma Ge glanced, he asked, "Are you sure you are from the city, not from the city?"

"Adult, I saw it, it was indeed from the city." Another soldier answered.

Marco dragged the stables and turned to look at the blood-stained stone bombs on the ground. He looked up at the wall of Paragonha in front of him. There was no movement at the moment, but the look of Marge became serious.

At this time, on the wall tower of the city of Paragogna in Margo, a Dionya officer wearing a helmet with a purple brim is bending over, through the gap between the walls. Look.

"Played well, the placement of the stone bombs was quite accurate, but unfortunately let the big guy run!" He said with some regrets.

"The captain, do we need to continue to launch?" asked the target of the gun.

Ten years ago, the watchers of the Dionysian guns were specially held by the students of the Dionysian Academy of Sciences, who were responsible for providing emission parameters and correcting the trajectory. Ten years later, the watchers of the Dionysian guns can be served as long as the citizens of the city of Dionia graduated normally and have better mathematics. This is because of the popularity of education and the improvement of the artillery.

The captain shook his head and said: "He has been alert. It is impossible to think of a surprise attack. Don't waste stone bombs. When the enemy attacks the city, you can be busy."

"Captain, you can rest assured. A few days ago, Carthage’s guns were rampant and destroyed many of our whistles. Now it’s our turn to be!"

The eye of the sighting hand just fell ~EbookFREE.me~ next to the abdomen archer also immediately said: "Yes, as long as Carthage guns dare to enter our range, we can destroy it!"

Their words caused a positive response from the surrounding soldiers.

The captain was satisfied that the soldiers could maintain such a strong fighting spirit in the face of the encirclement of the Carthage army. Of course, he knew very well that the source of the confidence of the soldiers came mainly from the city.

Palagnia was still a village with only a few residents six months ago. When Leo Tiddides decided to use it as a frontier against the Carthage army, he did not merely reinforce the wall on the basis of this village. Digging trenches and arranging traps, but completely unplugged the village and built a fortress.

The Ministry of Military Affairs has been conducting research and improvement on the military technology of Dionia. In recent years, under the inspiration of King Davers, the engineers of the Military Department designed a new defensive city plug and applied it to In the usual training camps of the military camps - building the city pool and attacking and defending drills, Leo Tizides deeply felt the strength of its defense, so he decided to use it in actual combat.

Not only did he gather the Eighth Army soldiers, but he also asked Sipros to mobilize the people of Kataney. Tens of thousands of people took turns to use the ready-made stone bricks and wood of Paragonia to burn with the ash of Etna. Dafoss cement, plus the large amount of stone provided by Naxos (the stone mine near Naxos near Tauromeon), the large amount of wood provided by Hera and Achillion...