"I think I have already explained the conditions just now. Tell Hitius to surrender as soon as possible, and to enter the camp to swear allegiance to me, fight Li Bida to the end, otherwise I will capture the city of Vaga within three days." Rabinus was unwilling to say a little longer, and then he slashed his hand, densely packed with tortoise shell formations, and began to approach the city wall.

"We only need to see the body of the envoy and give an explanation to everyone in the city." Hitius on the tower hurriedly called someone to shout.

Soon, Celester's body was carried on a corpse rack and tied up with ropes so that all the guards on a wall could be easily seen.

Sure enough, the more Hetius parties gathered next to the tower, and this scene satisfied Rabinus. He believed that the more he saw, the more he would hit the morale of the defending city.

"Look, that is the noble envoy who was brutally killed by the enemy. For now, we can only sacrifice his heroic spirit with the most courageous and unyielding battle. The Hitius Party will never surrender." As a result, Hitius, who stood beside the crossbow on the tower, shouted to the soldiers, "Let the enemy see our determination!"

As soon as the words fell, countless heads threw down from the barriers like raindrops, Rabinus was shocked to say repeatedly, "They executed all the Numidia and the Moors in the city? They were completely crazy, madman!"

Then, the order to siege spread throughout the camps on all sides. The wood in Afilica was scarce. Take the area where Waga and the Tumur River stretched across dozens of Romania. This place is still the only place with streams and woods around it, but the streams can only supply a small number of people. The so-called woods are just olives and myrtle. Therefore, most of the woods in Rabinus were transported from Mauritania and Spain. It was precious. The soldiers covered the siege tower and the movable shield chariot with just peeled animal skins to prevent the enemy's fire attack. However, Hitius did not seem to intend to use rockets - he used the "trump card" that was dismantled from the Port of Hippo and then transported all the way with a pack horse, namely the "Mascellaneous Lady Cannon", which roared towards Rabinus' siege tower every half of the day. The iron bar on his head could directly penetrate all the siege fortifications with a wooden board of ten inches thick.

Rabinus could stand directly under the siege tower and see the people, corpses and debris flying in the air. If he knew the word "fireworks", he would definitely use this rhetorical pattern to describe the scene he saw in front of him.

What is even more tricky and cruel is that the tail end of the wooden bar shell fired by the Hitius Party was also tied with a barb. Once shot out, it could be pulled back with a pulley hidden in the city gate. During the struggle, it caused "second damage" to Rabinus's siege fortifications.

At this time, Rabinus's subordinates suggested that the siege moats could be dug, then used excavated soil to build a slope for the siege, and then used wooden wheels or rolling wood to send the moving towers up, push the soldiers to the city wall, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the defenders.

However, after this incident was carried out, Rabinus discovered that the city of Vaga was surrounded by flat ground. Not only did there be no terrain for utilization, but the ground was mostly soft sand and could not be piled into shape. In the end, the soldiers could only use the arrows and stones at the top of the city, stuffed them with sand and soil, and piled up to form a slope. As a result, Hitius mobilized immigrants throughout the city to demolish all the houses where the Numidians had lived before, and used the stones they obtained to "high" the wall against the enemy overnight, forcing Rabinus to have to continue to pile up the slope.

Rabinus, also known as the soldier who chose the front, pushed the "V"-shaped shield chariot and approached the city wall in a dense manner. After reaching the wall, he then supported the shield chariot upright, asking the soldiers to hide below and use shovels and pickaxes to pry the base of the city wall, preparing to stuff them into wooden stakes and ignite them to burn the barriers. As a result, Hetius was prepared for a long time. He asked the craftsmen in the city to build huge triangular iron nails, tied stones on all sides, tied them with grease, rolled them up, and smashed them down after ignition. Soon, it penetrated the shield chariots, turning them into piles of burning torches. The soldiers inside could not accommodate them, and they ran out one after another and became living targets for the soldiers on the top of the city.

Thus, the four legions of Rabinus persisted in besieging a market day, but there was no progress.

"Imitate Caesar's previous experience and dig all the streams leading to the city and leak out!" The angry Rabinus drew a brigade from each of the four legions and acted as engineers, preparing to do the same. It took two full days to be considered completed.

But then there was still no sign of surrender in the city - because the Hitius party had already occupied the core temple, with several precious wells inside, and the groundwater gushing out was completely for people to drink.

The two sides were in a stalemate. Rabinus, who was unwilling to give up, saw the hot weather, came up with a solution - he threw the rotten corpses of the people who had been killed in the city of Suato onto the wild donkey stone thrower, and threw them one by one into the city. The Hitius Party connected all the curtains in the houses in the city together, and arranged them densely on the top of the city with wooden poles to block the "corpse bullets" that flew over from time to time.

So, the strange and miserable scene was that the corpses were flying around the city wall, and people in the siege kept dragging the smashed corpses back from the base of the wall to "reuse". The defenders at the top of the city kept forking the thrown corpses with forks. Those who fell into the city were all piled up in a corner of the city wall by the threat of Xitius. After being burned in a concentrated manner, they were dug deep into landfill.

Even so, the plague still became popular. I don’t know if it started in the city or from the siege position. The livestock on both sides were first infected and died in large numbers, followed by people...

Soon, Hitius ordered that all the sick be locked up and burned all the people and houses. In the Rabinus camp outside the city, the burning piles piled up high every day were filled with smoke. I don’t know if it was the burning of people or the corpses of cows and horses. The entire city of Vaga is surrounded by pictures of Purgatory.

After half a month, the only thought that existed in the minds of both generals was "persist on."

At this moment, all four LeBida's legions had arrived at Utica City and the old camp of Gonnalius. Among them, the high priest specially built a command center in the old camp of Gonnalius, and asked the legion soldiers to build a permanent winter camp along this site, which could be used as a fleet and supplies.

Then, with the news of the death of the Numidian envoy Selest brought by the messenger, several Utika's booksellers also lowered their hands and stood in front of the high priest, with several thick rolls of parchment on the table.
Chapter completed!