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Chapter 52 Break the city

"We are sieging the city, do you know! siege!!" Tima Song shouted angrily: "The heavy infantry can't go up and can't take the city. They have saved their lives. It's useless! Go quickly! Go quickly!"

Timasong watched the messenger cross the moat and ran to the light infantry. He turned his eyes and swept the ground beneath the city, lying all over the body, and there were soldiers struggling and wailing, mercenaries and Crimesa people...

Timasong has seen too many such scenes. Before coming to Greece, they had just fought a siege against Larissa of Asia Minor for several months under the command of Tibron. He had a deep understanding of the difficulty of siege. However, he had no other way except this strong attack, and time was the key to success for him.

"Be careful, leader!" The shouts of his subordinates made him subconsciously hide his head quickly under the round shield. He heard a "clang" sound, and the back of his hand shook, an arrow hit the shield surface, and then jumped up again.

As soon as he breathed, he heard a scream of "Ah! Ah!", followed by a loud "boom".

Without looking, he also knew that the siege ladder must have been pushed down by the enemy, and the irritability in his heart began to arise.

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"General, the enemy's light infantry is coming!" The panic shouts of the civilians made Orikpus feel terrified.

The light infantry in front of the moat had quickly moved to the city wall. Compared with the lack of training, the Clinmisa militia had extremely poor archery skills, the bows and arrows of these enemies were accurate and fierce. Soon, most of the casualties and injuries of the militias on the city were caused by them.

"Don't worry about the enemies on the long ladder, shoot the light infantry for me!" He ran along the city disk walkway and ordered the archers.

"The enemy is coming again!" The soldiers' panic screams made him pause. Not far away, a mercenary had already stood on the battlement. Facing the stabbed spear, he used a shield to protect his upper body and jumped forward with his strength. The spear not only failed to stab him, but was pressed under him. He did not get up immediately, but quickly waved the sword with his right hand and slashed. Several nearby militiamen were cut by him and fell down screaming. He stood up, but did not attack in the chaos, but retreated to the entrance of the long ladder, squatted down with his back against the battlement, and protected his whole body with a round shield.

The soldiers' spears pierced him little. Instead, they were afraid that his saber would be extended from under the shield and chopped his feet and did not dare to approach him. During this delay, another mercenary came to the battlement.

"Push up! Block them!" Orikpus led the reserve team to arrive, and the dense spears pierced the enemy to the corner.

"Pick out their shields!" As soon as Oricpus finished speaking, the soldiers next to him let out a shrill scream, and a javelin pierced into his ribs.

The light infantry under the city tried their best to provide support to the siege comrades. The bows and arrows and javelins were concentrated to project towards this section of the city, and the heavy infantry also accelerated the speed of climbing the city.

Orikpus urgently mobilized all the remaining troops to block here. After a fierce battle and fighting between the two sides, the mercenaries were driven down, but this aisle was covered with injured and dead Crimesa militias.

Faced with such a group of enemies with obvious combat experience and bloodthirsty and fierce bloodthirsty, every breakthrough would cause considerable damage to the soldiers guarding the city. Orikpus felt a little weak and his men began to tighten: "Go and notify General Anta Oris, the enemy has invested all their strength in the North City! It's almost impossible to hold on here, let him send troops to reinforce!"

Anta Oris has no troops to send. However, since the enemy has always attacked the north and west, the troops responsible for the defense of the east have been idle at this time of crisis.

Anta Oris immediately made a decision: send someone to inform General Pleades to immediately lead the troops stationed in the East City to reinforce Orikpus.

"Chief Timasong! Leader Timasong!..." The messenger hurriedly ran towards Timasong while dodging arrows: "The enemy of the east wall has left!"

"I've seen it!" Timasong's tone showed a little excitement: "Go tell Tolikos and let him act immediately!"

"yes!"

Seeing the messenger leaving, Timasong immediately raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, work harder! Attack with me! The enemy can't hold it anymore!" After saying that, he held the round shield and stepped a few steps to the front of the long ladder. He grabbed the wooden ladder with his right hand. The soldiers on the escort held his buttocks and pushed them up with force. He rushed up several blocks. The soldiers in front had entered the city wall. He used his hands and feet, and soon came to the top of the long ladder, quickly pulled out his saber, stepped on the battlements, and shielded his chest. He ignored the spear sword that was stabbed forward with force, and rushed away the enemy with force. The saber in his hand also slashed forward.

"Back to back! Back to back!" he shouted while chopping.

The mercenaries who had previously shrank in the corner immediately approached.

Inspired by Timasong, the mercenaries launched another fierce attack, and they broke into many parts of the northern city wall. If it weren't for Pleaders leading his troops to support him, Orikpus's defending troops would have been unable to support him.

The two sides fought fiercely on the aisle, and the Crimesa people were so angry that they were ready to drive the mercenaries down the city again due to the influx of reinforcements.

At this time, a huge commotion came from the east.

"The enemy is coming! The enemy is coming!..." The civilians shouted in panic.

Orikpus hurriedly turned his head and looked east, and saw many light shield soldiers from the enemy rushing towards him along the walkway of the east wall with leather shields and reverse blades.

Orikpus had no time to think about how these people climbed the city wall. He hurriedly asked Pleaders to lead reinforcements back to intercept them, but the two sides fought in the aisle and it was difficult to mobilize their troops.

However, the Thracian light shield soldiers of the mercenaries attacked quite rapidly. They broke into the crowd and exerted a terrifying killing power in the narrow space. When the sharp blade was hooked, their muscles and bones would be cut off; if the blade was hooked on their necks, their blood vessels would be cut off... The Crimean militia fell in an instant, scaring them to retreat in a hurry, while the light shield soldiers chased them like maggots with bones. The nearby mercenaries also took advantage of the chaos to climb to the top of the city...

The easternmost end of the entire Crimesa North City defense line has been broken, and experienced mercenary soldiers drove westward to drive away the retreating Crimean militia...

On the crowded aisle, the panicked Crimesa people pushed each other to escape, and some people fell directly from the inside of the city wall...

When Orikpus and Pulladers saw this tragic phenomenon, they were also panicked. They were afraid of this misfortune and retreated from the city tower in a hurry, causing the mercenaries to easily go up to the city, occupying the aisle near the city gate, blocking countless Crimesa people in the aisle...

The mercenaries ruthlessly launched the killing, forcing more Crimesa people to jump off the city wall...

Anta Oris, who was originally organizing and coordinating defense under the city, saw this tragic scene and listened to the continuous screams of the citizens, heartbroken. But in this critical moment, he had to endure the grief and arrange for the withdrawn civilians and the people to retreat to the acropolis south of the city to make their final defense.

Mercenaries occupied the North City, opened the city gate, and soldiers outside the city rushed in...

"Chief, we have won! We have occupied this city!" His subordinates supported Tima Song and shouted happily.

Timasong was stabbed in his thigh and had a knife wound on his right arm. If the enemy had not collapsed on his own, he would have died under the spear. At this moment, he was also very excited: "It should be said that we also own a city!" He said proudly. The mercenary was able to capture the city wall thanks to the success of his strategy: In the League of Dionia, under his careful inquiries, his former comrades told him in detail the detailed process of seizing Amendorala, let him know the special siege equipment of rope hook and obtained it

He sent people to secretly go to the blacksmith shop in Heraclia and made dozens of payments. When siege, he deliberately attacked the west and north sides. Once he forced the Crimesa people to come to support the east (the Wimblea River is the south), he asked Tolikos to lead dozens of trained light shield soldiers to sneak under the east wall with rope hooks. Even if they were discovered, they did not carry the siege ladder, and would not attract the attention of the enemy. In this way, the light shield soldiers climbed up the city wall with rope hooks and gave the Crimesa people a fatal blow.

After Timasong came down to the city, he happened to meet with Krianno, who captured the West Gate, and commanded the mercenaries to continue pursuing the defeated soldiers.

At first everything went smoothly, but gradually the mercenaries broke free from the control. They began to break into houses, rob property, and even capture women...

Timasong was furious. It was not that he opposed looting, but that the battle was not over yet. It is reported that the remaining forces of Crimesa were hiding in the acropolis and must be taken down in one go and completely occupied the entire city in order to celebrate the victory.

But the mercenaries who were in an excited state did things with instinct and refused to obey his orders. Timasong had the feeling of Davers at this moment. He knew it was useless, but he still cursed and vented his resentment.

"Chief, they are all in the Acropolis and can't escape. We block the Acropolis. When the soldiers are done with trouble, we will gather them again and capture the Acropolis." Tolikos comforted.

"I'm not worried about the Crimesa people, I'm worried about Crotone!" Timasong said anxiously.

"Even when we were sieging the city, Crimesa asked Crotone for reinforcements, but the messenger arrived in Crotone, and then after discussion by the council, he made a decision, mobilized the army, and came here... After so many processes, when they came here, it would be at night at the earliest. I don't believe that Crotone had the courage of Davers and the others to attack the city at night! And we had already taken down the entire city of Crimesa, and the messengers sent might have arrived at the Senate of Dionia. By the time Crotone attacks tomorrow, Davers and the others should have made a decision." Crienor analyzed to him seriously.

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