Chapter 31: Seizing the City (Part 2)
When Apis heard the trumpet, he waved his hand at the foot of Mount Vera, and the trumpeter beside him also blew the trumpet of attack and contact. Not long after, the tenth legion of Secres, the front position under the city of Orcresi, also shouted loudly and launched the most fierce attack on the front of the castle.
Now, at night, there was an enemy attack on three sides of Orcresi City, which immediately made these barbarian guards at a loss. Li Bida guarded that section of the city and shouted to the soldiers, "Don't stand there, run, and seize more towers and temples. If we stay in these places, we have a chance to survive!" Then he lit a haystack at the city and shouted, "By through this open space under the city and go to the temple opposite!" When he saw the soldiers hesitantly hiding behind the city and avoiding the javelins thrown by the barbarians below, Li Bida understood that he could not hesitate at this time, because if he stayed in this area, once the barbarians counterattacked, everyone would either be killed or jumped into the lake and drowned. Only by continuing to rush into the city can they win the vitality and create opportunities for the other two legions to seize the city.
There is no way, it will not work at this time. As long as the army leader sets an example, Li Bida jumped from the city wall, jumped off the burning haystack, rolled twice, and his cloak was still with flames, and struggled to get up and run towards the direction of the temple, and turned back and shouted: "Soldiers of the Thyme Legion, if you want to kill your commander alone in this place tonight, then don't follow my steps!" In fact, while he was running with pain, he was afraid of death. If the soldiers really didn't dare to rush with him, the barbarian warriors rushed over again. Then - that would be a god-made work. It was also a stinky work and a lasting work.
"Your Excellency the Finance Officer is in danger. Are you willing to suffer the shame of abandoning him?" Then Sabo jumped down.
Little Hottenhus was the third one. Before jumping, he threw the flags of the Katilin iron hand and the Balantiya falcon one by one, and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Look, the flags symbolizing the glory of our army have been thrown down. I am willing to jump down and protect them until death." At this moment, the soldiers followed the financial officer and the flag one after another, and jumped down from the walls. At this time, Lusitans counterattacked at both ends of the city wall.
Some of the soldiers of the Thyme Legion were injured and supported each other, while others fell to the ground, and they were on fire and didn't bother to put out the extinguishing. Many people howled, with the sound of fire on their bodies, followed Li Bida's pace. They lined up the scattered teams and struggled to cross the open space in front of the temple. This was a temple dedicated to the God of Mercury. The style was a sacred Tasken style, and Li Bida jumped up the steps and ordered everyone to stay in the left middle of the front hall.
Shield walls were stacked in front of three bronze doors, and other soldiers rushed in, piled all the furniture and debris in the narrow side window, and applied water-soaked leather and animal skins to prevent rocket attacks from the barbarian enemy. Some soldiers even climbed up to the top of the temple along the court pillars. They clamored loudly on it to boost the morale of their comrades, and threw hunting spears and heavy bricks and tiles to attack the barbarian warriors who rushed from the streets.
In front of the temple gate, the rockets and throwing stones of barbarian soldiers flew over like rain, hitting the Roman shield wall, making a dense sound like horse hooves trampling on the land, "Low, all low, hold on to their posts, and you will die when you move around!" Little Hotenhus was holding a flag shining under the flames, and shouting loudly at his subordinates in front of the doors. Some barbarian warriors were wearing cow horns and copper helmets, some were wearing whole animal skins, and all kinds of hideous and terrifying totems tattooed on their bodies and faces. They howled and rushed up the steps of the temple like waves, colliding with the shield wall of Li Bida's tribes. Everyone in the Thyme Legion followed.
The centurion's teaching was that he bent down under the shield, and the tall barbarians were still slashing and slashing on it. Once the opponent exposed his weak parts such as the abdomen, armpits, or calves, he would seize the opportunity to stab him hard with the sword or dagger in his hand. After a while, the barbarians left a layer of corpse and retreated. At this time, there were various killing sounds on several sides of the city of Orcresi: the roar of elephants, the roar of stone bullets, the screams of bows and arrows, and the impact of shields made many barbarians in Lusitania in the city at a loss. Many people didn't know where to go, and ran around with weapons or ladders, and there were sounds of urgent horns everywhere.
After the first wave of attack on the temple failed, the Lusitanians could no longer care about Li Bida's small army that broke into the temple. Only some scattered barbarians threw fire-like javelins into the temple, but were picked up by clever soldiers and threw them back. They fought randomly for half a night. At dawn, the tide of Twin Lake receded, and when the water level was the lowest, the land under the city wall was exposed, the harsh sound of war horns sounded again - this was the reserve team that Apis had ambushed in the grass on the lakeside in advance. They pushed a siege weapon called "harp", wade through the shallow concrete ground after the ebb, and quickly approached the wall near the lake again.
Then the reserve team stood in groups of five people at one end of the harp, and the manned device similar to a ladder. Then the craftsmen quickly filled a large number of stones in the leather bag hanging on the other end. Then, according to the "lever principle", the manned ladder at the other end rose rapidly. The soldiers on it quickly reached the height of the city wall and jumped on it without climbing. They didn't know that there was no one who survived Li Bida's army who broke in in the middle of the night, but it was obvious that these brave people occupied this section of the city wall (in fact, the barbarians were busy with other aspects and ignored the re-arrangement of defense here), so they blew the military call for contact.
Soon, the warlock was responded - in the temple of Mercury under the city wall, there were scattered arrows and fireworks everywhere under the bronze gates, and several teams of Roman soldiers who kept the shield walls tightly. Most of these people were still alive and blew the warlock to echo. Everyone on the city wall shouted the slogan of long live and walked down one after another.
About the afternoon, the city of Orcresi was basically in its fall, and most of the barbarian warriors who resisted were killed, and those who were unwilling to surrender had climbed onto a steep wall and jumped down to escape, and the bodies that had fallen to death were piled up at the foot of the city wall. Many chiefs, nobles and druid priests set fire to death on the highest altar in the city, and cursed the greedy and cruel Romans loudly in the flames.
In front of the temple, Li Bida asked his subordinates to raise their flags and lined up. Apis and Secretreus rode together on horseback. Surrounded by a group of entourages, they came to the Temple of Mercury. "I heard that the Temple of Mercury on the Stone Pillar of Hercules is much more magnificent than this one." Secretreus shouted.
Chapter completed!