Chapter 8 Meeting without Meeting (Part 1)
"People who travel around the world spend the most precious time in their lives on hotels and ships." - Plutak
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The so-called new tactic is that Brutu forms the first horizontal line of Ettoria's cavalry to protect it at the front of the siege team, while on both sides are heavy infantry, light infantry mixed between the siege equipment and undertakes support tasks.
This tactic is very effective. Agripa cannot use cavalry to raid the enemy's shield chariots and towers, because his auxiliary cavalry is not an opponent of the Ettorians, so the Eye Fort on the front line was mostly captured and broken after a period of time.
"All legion soldiers, don't fight against the enemy." Agripa did not ask his subordinates to make unnecessary resistance and suffered heavy sacrifices. He quickly retracted everyone back to the winter camp, and after the walls and wooden fences, he was once again filled with long-range ballista and projectors. Li Bida issued a quick order to Illyria and Epirus and other cities, such as Sarona and Lisa, mobilized citizens and slaves, transported various equipment day and night, and sent ships or mule carts to Bugarotum City.
"I heard that Li Bida used a siege tower like a beast named Emilius when attacking the city of Marcellia. This time I will call Agripa to see what a truly terrifying siege tower is!" After saying that, Brutu asked the entire army to assemble the wooden poles and parts of each with several wrist ruler lengths into a fixed tower, and then continuously transported soil to the top, making it taller and higher. Then Brutu did not build a siege tower. Because the abutment of this "big beast" was dead. There were no rollers and logs, he just asked the soldiers to push the large stone thrower and rocket launcher up so that they could look down at the entire Agripa winter camp on it.
In this way, sixteen giant stone throwers pulled by oxen, more than twenty wild donkey stone throwers, countless crossbows and scorpion crossbows, poured stone bullets, lead balls and javelins into the winter camp. In less than half a day, Agripa's barriers and chest walls were destroyed, and four towers were not stored, and three trenches were almost flattened!
Lucius attacked several times with the cavalry, but they were easily blocked by the Etolia cavalry. The cavalry of this alliance played a decisive contribution when the Romans and the Macedonian phalanx fought bravely, so that they both laughed at the failed Macedonians and despised the victory of the Roman legion. "Aren't we the alliance cavalry who finally defeated the phalanx? The Romans just sat and picked up our credit after the defeat."
By the next day, Brutu ordered all projectors to be replaced with flammable materials such as marijuana, asphalt, and so on, and they all fell into the winter camp defended by Agripa like a rain of fire. The entire camp spread and burned. In the flames, Brutu's army's infantry and cavalry began to line up their attack formations and prepared to attack this crumbling camp at any time.
In the evening, the messenger happily told Brutu's good news on the front line: the enemy's camp could no longer be guarded, and there were flying fireworks everywhere, and soldiers fleeing behind.
"Very good, order the Etolia cavalry to be the vanguard, fill the trench and rush into the camp!"
As the evening approached, the brigade of Etolia cavalry shouted, either riding horses or walking into the captured camp.
But to everyone's surprise and disappointment, they did not find any corpses of the Agripa people in the broken walls, and even saw the grass man who was buried there and burned only ashes and entered the warehouse, and there was no material to resist. "It seems that we were tricked by the enemy. They retreated completely in an orderly manner and took away all the dead bodies, which also means that their losses would never be great." Sibalas said dejectedly after learning about it.
As expected, just like Sibalas' prophecy, in front of the city of Bugarotum, on a battlefield surrounded by rocks, the brothers Agripa and Lucius once again arranged the infantry and cavalry in a strict formation, and wanted to fight with Brutu to the end.
But this time, Agripa still did not resist for too long. After two days of melee, after setting up guard cavalry, the young general retreated again, and this time they retreated to the city of Bugalotum.
At this point, the battle outside the city with camps and rivers as their targets has taken about a month and a half for Brutu.
However, the stubborn Brutu continued to issue an order to attack Bugalotum City, so all the soldiers worked tirelessly to erect a high platform in the snow and ice, and carried out all the projection equipment as usual and pushed it up.
After all this was completed, the soldiers and centurions on the front line felt something was wrong - their stone throwers and projectors, after consuming a lot of ammunition, found that they had almost no effect on this special city.
In the Peloponnese and Greece, there are many stones used to build walls, so the walls of the cities here are tall and strict, and towering towers protect and support each other. With the progress of engineering technology over the past few hundred years, the Romans' "sprays" gradually gained the upper hand. They absorbed the advanced mechanical concepts and technologies of ancient Greece and built siege towers with shields, harp ladders, large and small stone throwers and crossbows, which made the Hellenic city walls lose their meaning before the fierce attack.
But this time, the excellent architect Agripa did the opposite. For the past two or three months, he has been guiding three recruits to renovate the city of Bugalotum without stopping, but not to make it taller and stronger, but to "press down and shorter". All the city walls are between eighteen and twenty-four, which is simply a rebellious move in the eyes of other Greek founders.
Then, the walls of Bugarotum were generally extended in an tilt manner, and all the stakes and thorns were inserted into it, leaving the attacking enemies nowhere to intervene. Behind the short wall, Agripa arranged many scorpion crossbows and crossbow cannons, staring at the positions of the Brutu army.
After one day, Brutufang knew the trickyness of this city - the warehouses and towers reinforced by the demise of bricks and stones. When ordinary stone bullets hit, they could only collapse in a corner. In addition, the stone throwing machine of the condescending Brutu army, after firing out the lead ball bullets, a parabola flew far behind the city wall, which was equivalent to a blank. However, the stone throwing machine and crossbow can intensively shoot the base below the Brutu army, making them shaky.
Chapter completed!