"The captured 'captive' her vicious conqueror and brought art into the Roman countryside. The chapters are updated the fastest" - Horace's evaluation of the "Hellenization" of the Roman Republic

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Sure enough, two centurions on horseback followed Otachilius with a nervous look, because they were afraid that if Josarona really made a fraud, they would be the first to be victims. As a result, when passing through the Latin Mountain, Otachilius pointed at many casual people on the mountain and said that those were people preparing for the festival. "After the city surrenders soon, you can also participate and have fun with the citizens." His words were disguised as if they were so bold that they had no flaws.

Then on the ridge between the mountains and the city, the two centurions only saw some miscellaneous trees, and the road seemed to be a ditch washed by rain, and no other noticed anything unusual.

Then they entered the city, except for the normal city garrisons, no strange phenomenon occurred. Then the two centurions expressed their belief in the peace and sincerity of Sarona and the Presbyterian Church, and were willing to report to General Rilias truthfully.

When the two returned to the camp, many fully armed soldiers walked out of the cliff caves behind the city, and quickly occupied the tower and the city gate. The soldiers on the Latin Mountains, wearing civilian clothes, continued to quickly build fortifications with bricks and wood and dig trenches. The best hidden ones were the soldiers and citizens behind the ridges. They first placed the materials in the forest on the back and dug the foundations in advance according to the plan. They looked like natural trenches rushing out by rain - waiting for the enemy

After the inspectors left, they held a shovel and a pickaxe. They quickly dug the foundation deep, and according to Pope's plan, they inserted the sharpened wooden stakes horizontally and vertically, tied the connected mane ropes in the middle, and then tied the bricks and stones together according to the "modules" of the wooden stakes. Then, referring to the previous plan to defend the Acropolis of Pontikabien, behind the half wall, iron plates, giant nails and sail ropes were reinforced at any distance. Such a half-wall with one and a half-stardia was completed around the middle of the night.

But there, Rilias was still hesitating because he did not understand where the vague army that had been in the fog had been going. In case, on the next day, he asked a thousand Tribali warriors to stand at the front line of the queue, with light infantry and cavalry installed on both sides as cover, and his main army was behind him. On the other side of Sarona, there were all Librna's light boat fleets, responsible for siege and surveillance.

The city seemed to have done what it had promised before, even the half-naked Tribali, holding a counterblade sickle, stood within the killing distance of the city tower, but the other party did not make any shooting. Even after Rileyas ordered his shooter and crossbow to shoot in the city, they remained silent, so the general relaxed his vigilance and asked the entire army to cancel the queue and return to the camp to rest when the sunset approached.

At night, Li Bida began to rush along the half wall to transfer troops to Latin Mountain. After a third day, Rileyas sent the chief brigade of Panshen Legion to walk towards the city gate of Sarona.

At this time, stone bullets and javelins suddenly shot out from the tower on the city. Without warning in advance, the chief brigade of Panshen Legion thought that he would not encounter any resistance and easily accepted the city. Many people were killed and injured in anger. Other troops also retreated like a tide in anger. On the highest city, golden flags of various legions were suddenly erected, and Li Bida was above them. The citizens of Sarona, regardless of men, women, young and old, were cheering behind them.

"Damn it, I was indeed deceived! I decided not to forgive this treacherous city. After the city was destroyed, all men and women were sold as slaves. As for the original slaves, they would also be sold, and each person would be one more Seth's price than the citizens, which would make the city sink and humiliate forever!" Rileyas was almost speechless in anger. He hurriedly used his skills to adjust the queues of infantry and shooters, and then he shouted loudly, "Machius, Machius."

Machius was Pompei's confidant engineering director, and his role was similar to Poppe and Gable under Libida's subordinates. He was originally captured by Libida's cavalry after the Battle of Kofinium, but he was immediately released and brought Caesar's handwritten letter to Pompei. Although it was useless, he went to Spain to assist Avranius and was captured for the second time, but Caesar only identified his identity and immediately released him and the other generals again.

When the engineering director ran up, Rilias pointed at the city of Sarona and asked loudly how to quickly take down the target. After Machius carefully observed the situation, he suggested that all soldiers form shield walls, and then build five wooden towers in the east of the city, arranged in an arc shape. "It just happened to be the connection between the city wall and the hill. Each tower was stationed in a gang, and fifty archers and stone throwers were arranged. Then after the mission was completed, we concentrated our forces to capture the hill, and we could directly build a mountain of earth, build a shed, pour the firepower of the stone thrower into the city, and break the city wall. In this way, we could seize Sarona in three to five days."

"Oh. Then listen to you, the First Legion of Olicomb also came as my reserve for siege." Rileyas agreed to this plan, but on that day, when he sent three brigades to carry out the surveillance and restraint mission of Latin Mountain, the soldiers were surprised to find that just overnight, a half wall was erected between the hill and the city, and there was an enemy garrison.

"Machius, Machius!" Rilias called out the man from the equipment factory impatiently and told him about the emergencies.

"Tell me how many shots the stone thrower is directed at me." Machius suggested, so the shooters and infantry of Panshen Legion covered two wild donkey stone throwers, and braved the firepower of the Libida cavalry cannon on the hill, approaching half of the wall. After several rounds of shooting, Machius discovered that although the stone bullet could easily sank the wall, the wall could stand firm, so the citizens of Sarona were repaired quickly. In this way, he judged that there must be a solid support behind the wall.

"Up Salmontoga." This is the first time that Li Bida's soldiers have seen this thing, but Pompei's own invention, "Salmontoga" means "thunderstorm". In fact, Machius absorbed the experience of Greek engineers and invented a multi-slot shooting device similar to a pipe organ, which is also controlled by wheels. There are eight chutes on it, four up and down, and they are all ejected with the torsion of the mane hamstring tendons. However, Machius launched not a heavy javelin this time, but an Illyria specialty
Chapter completed!