At this moment, the battle for the city of Koennais has reached its most difficult moment.
It was delayed for five full days.
With the arrival of Tarquès's million cavalry and his growing disappointment with Spartacus.
On the sixth day, the Adlician army launched a formal attack on Koennais.
On the first day of the attack, Adlicia suffered a crushing defeat.
Spartacus took advantage of Tarquès's fluke mentality and deliberately released false information, saying that the north gate was poorly guarded. He also said that there were many insiders there who could open the city gate when the army attacked the city.
Tarkace believed it and set the main attack direction of the day at the north gate.
The result is predictable.
Spartacus had deployed a large number of archers there in advance, as well as four Greek fire machines to assist him.
The Adelcisian cavalry suffered heavy losses, with 50,000 men wiped out, and they didn't even reach the city walls.
Fortunately, Tarkace saw the opportunity quickly and stopped this suicide attack.
This prevented Spartacus from gaining more advantage.
After this trick, Tarquès finally came to his senses. It turned out that the several days of delay were simply Spartacus stalling for time.
He couldn't help but swear angrily that he would tear Spartacus into pieces!
On the seventh day, the Adelisian army changed their tactics. They relied on the speed of their cavalry to test the defenses of Coenness.
Soon, the enemy found several places where the Greek fire could not defend.
Due to limited military rations, Tarques did not dare to hesitate and immediately launched a powerful attack.
Spartacus' miners were not regular soldiers after all, so they struggled mightily to hold the city wall.
By nightfall, when the Adelcia army retreated, both sides had suffered heavy losses.
In Adelisia, the number of soldiers killed or seriously wounded exceeded 150,000.
Reinforce the previous day's losses.
The number of troops available to Tarkes is less than 800,000.
Similarly, Spartacus' army suffered heavy losses, with a loss of 150,000 men.
Spartacus was worried about this.
The gap in combat effectiveness between the enemy and us is too huge.
Our side relied on the advantage of the city walls, was in a dominant position, and was well-rested, but could only achieve a one-to-one casualty ratio with the enemy.
Without external aid, Coenness will be captured within three days! By then, I'm afraid that Tarkes's army will not have eaten up all their food!
In order to stop him from continuing to invade Amphipolis, perhaps he really can only use the method that Big Metallica used before.
All the food supplies in the city were destroyed, and we all perished together!
The next day, there was another even bloodier battle.
The military rations were getting less and less, and Tarkace was anxious and gave a death order.
The attack of the Adlician army was even more fierce, and several sections of the city wall changed hands several times in succession.
When the battle reached its most dangerous moment, Spartacus led the charge.
By the afternoon, Kornais had lost nearly 200,000 men, and Adlicia had lost over 100,000 men.
Finally, we repelled another enemy attack.
Sitting on the broken city wall, gasping for breath.
Looking at the corpses and blood all over the ground, and his wounded subordinates, Spartacus felt sad.
I don't know if we can withstand the next wave of attacks. Perhaps it's time to give the order to set fire to the granary!
"Report! We received a letter from Lord Odysseus via carrier pigeon! Lord Achilles, leading the Strophilian and Trojan coalition forces of three million, has passed Amphipolis and is about to arrive at the city of Coenness! My king has also arrived in Thasos and is in command there!" A messenger came and reported loudly.
What?
Lord Achilles, the God of War, personally led his troops to rescue!
Troy, one of the five major Greek powers, also became an ally of Stoica!
The reinforcements that arrived numbered three million!
Upon hearing this exciting news, every Koennes warrior suddenly became motivated!
Hold on a little longer!
As long as we hold on a little longer, victory will be ours!
Even Spartacus jumped up with excitement.
"Bring me Lord Odysseus' letter! I want to take a closer look!" Spartacus said anxiously.
Taking the letter, he read it word by word, and couldn't help but tears welling up in his eyes.
At the same time, Tarkace also received intelligence.
To the south of the besieging army, scouts discovered that a large number of troops were approaching and would arrive at night.
"A large army? How many people do you estimate?" Tarkace asked anxiously.
"At least one and a half million, possibly more than two million! And, there are a large number of Trojan flags among them!" the scout replied.
Two million!
How is that possible?
If Stobi had an army of two million in Thrace, how could Adlicia dare to take the initiative to attack?
Pre-war intelligence showed.
Except for Amphipolis and Thassos, each was garrisoned by less than 100,000 troops.
Stobi's military presence in other Thracian cities was weak.
The city of Koernes, where he was attacking, didn't have many soldiers stationed there to begin with. It was only because someone had temporarily driven the miners up the city walls that they had been able to hold out until now.
As for Troy, that is even more nonsense.
Troy is clearly east of our country, on the lower reaches of the Danube. Even if they were interested in Thrace, they would have come from the east, not here.
"Nonsense! Find out more about this!"
Thinking of this, Tarkase shouted angrily.
"Report. We have intercepted the pigeon messages between Amphipolis and Coenness! Please have a look, my king!" A personal soldier came into the tent to report.
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