Chapter 532: Re-attack
Three days later, before the morning mist had dissipated, Luca's army had already called on the entire army to assemble using the most primitive form of running communication.
"The Romans are coming again! The Romans are coming again!"
The sharp-eyed guard guarding the city noticed the unusual movement from a distance, and he hurriedly informed the others who were still asleep that the Roman army had regrouped outside the city.
At this time, the Romans were already very close. They stood at the battle positions they had held three days ago, waiting for Luca's further command.
This time, just like before, the 21st Luga-Victorious Legion served as the vanguard, but this time, their commander was directly under the command of Luga.
They were still organized into field regiments, but this time there were three field regiments. Under orders, they formed a huge array and became the first array of the attacking army.
Behind them were three field regiments, all of which were troops brought by Mateolius at that time, but now there were only about two thousand people.
The third array still consists of three field regiments. Although their number is obviously much smaller than that of the first two rows, they still have to follow them and advance forward.
Everyone's face was pale, and looking at them gave them a feeling of surviving a calamity. Yes, a ten-kill kill wiped out an entire field regiment in one go, which filled the hearts of those who were present and personally involved in it with fear.
The generals rode their horses and came to the back of each phalanx with long whips in their hands. They waved the whips in their hands arrogantly, swinging them in the air continuously to deliberately make "snapping" sounds.
"Remember, this will be your fate, no one can escape it! This is your battle to atone for your sins, lazy, uneducated bastards!"
Their siege equipment at this time was even more crude, with no battering ram but a whole piece of wood with a handle fixed with ropes. There were also simple siege ladders made of wood. Rather than saying that they had no conditions, it was more like a punishment, another punishment for their lax military discipline.
"Order them to move forward." Luga said to the messenger officer, "Remember, no running is allowed. Walk forward with your chest held high!"
"So, is it the first array attacking?"
"No, all of them!"
“Woo——”
A long horn sounded, signaling the start of the attack. The messenger cavalry holding the dragon head flag rode his horse and flexibly shuttled through the army formation like a fish. While he was galloping, he loudly notified every officer present and shouted, "Advance on all fronts! Advance on all fronts!"
The officers did not dare to delay and turned around hurriedly to call on the soldiers behind them to move forward.
“Tap, tap, tap…”
The soldiers holding the French horn played rhythmic music, constantly correcting the soldiers' pace.
The three arrays moved at the same time, like three movable city walls, pressing towards Salamantila where the Suebi were stationed.
The Suebi were still stationed in the same manner as last time, but seeing the Romans approaching aggressively, they did not dare to be negligent for a moment, and greeted each other and crowded into the city wall again.
The Romans were getting closer and closer, and the Suebi called on their archers to draw their bows and shoot arrows towards the Roman formation.
In an instant an endless stream of arrows fell from the sky straight towards the oncoming Romans, knocking down the advancing soldiers who had no time to block with their shields.
When arrows are coming, people instinctively hide behind shields, and this group of guys does the same.
It should be a normal human instinct, but in the eyes of the commander behind him, it is intolerable.
"Who told you to hide?"
After a roar, a whip was lashed down and hit the soldier who tried to use his shield to block and slow down.
"Raise your heads! Face the arrows, and believe that God will protect you, bastard! Coward!" The generals were a bunch of hot-tempered guys, and they naturally used all their strength to whip the soldiers, but this time it was like the burning pain of a knife cutting into the flesh at the moment when the silver light flashed.
This can indeed cheer people up a little. Just imagine the crisp sound of a whip followed by a pain that can make people's ears go numb. It is like a pair of invisible hands that push all the inner fear and other unnecessary thoughts out of the head.
"Forward! Keep moving forward!"
The centurion walking at the front braved the rain of arrows and kept loudly reminding his soldiers, encouraging and ordering them to keep moving forward, even though they didn't know when the commander-in-chief's whip would fall on his head.
Another wave of arrows came, densely packed like raindrops, passing by, and piercing the chests of the advancing soldiers like sharp daggers. Perhaps because they were lucky, the arrows bounced off the helmets with a "clang".
The soldiers at the end howled in agony, dragging their bleeding bodies forward like giant reptiles. Everyone knew that there was no way back, either they had to flatten Salamantira or die under the city wall.
Although the Romans continued to suffer casualties, they slowly pressed forward to the walls of Salamantila. The Roman soldiers, as mighty as the city walls, pressed forward step by step to their walls. It goes without saying that such a deterrent momentum brought shock to the weak Suebi.
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They wished they could fire all their javelins and arrows at once to stop the Romans, but instead of stopping, the Romans got closer and closer.
More than four thousand people pressed down under the city wall, and they rammed the city gate with siege rams.
“Boom!”
There was a loud bang and the city gate shook violently, which put a heavy psychological pressure on the Suebi. The Romans attacked the city gate.
In order to disperse them, the Suebi had to pick up stones and throw them downwards, but these seemingly heavy stones only had a falling space of one or two meters, and they hit the shields and were quickly bounced off.
The Suebi's counterattack only made the Romans speed up their attack on the city gate, and the crude ladders on the city walls made it even more difficult for the Suebi to cope.
They tried to use wood to prop up the ladders and push them away, but the Roman archers below were waiting for them to do so, so the Suebi could not stop the Romans from attacking the wall.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The Suebi warriors behind the city gate, who were fully armed and holding axes and shields, were shaking and trembling under the impact. They didn't know how many Romans were outside, but they knew that rushing out at this time might lead to a wolf entering the house.
“Haha!”
The city gate was wide open, and they lined up in a row, held their shields forward, and roared loudly at the crowd of people coming through the gate. However, the Romans coming towards them were even crazier than them. The soldiers holding spears threw away their shields and rushed in with spears in both hands.
The soldiers holding the battering rams rammed the Suebi's shield wall. With a loud bang, the indestructible "giant spear" tore open the Suebi's line of defense.
The Suebi never expected that their line would be so vulnerable. The Romans with spears stabbed the Suebi who came to support them and forced them to move forward. The Suebi fought hard, but the open city gates could not withstand the Romans who were like a tide.
(End of this chapter)