"Don't be in a hurry, Heni. It is Tolmid's job to summon a general, and he will be unhappy if you rob him of his job. Davers smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and said softly, "You have just taken up the role of my clerk, and you still need to get used to it." Now the first task I give you is—"

Henipolis immediately straightened his posture and waited for Davers to give the order.

"Just have breakfast with me." Davers said narrowly.

"Ahh The enemy is about to attack, Your Majesty, do you still want to have breakfast?! Hennipolis let the servant glance at him with a somewhat repulsive exclamation: that is, Henipolis dared to speak to King Davers like this, and the other generals were not respectful in front of Davers!

Davers didn't care, he motioned for the servant to serve breakfast, then paced to the tent door, looked at the weather outside, and said, "If you don't eat breakfast, you won't have the strength to fight the enemy." Perhaps, now the soldiers outside are munching bread and drinking hot soup to keep warm...... A battle has its own rules and rhythms, we can neither be slow, nor rushed, master the rhythm of action in order to better maintain the physical strength and morale of soldiers! ”

Henipolis nodded incomprehensibly.

Compared to the calm atmosphere in the larger tents, the atmosphere in the camp was tense. Because of the thick fog, it was impossible to see where the flags of the detachments and companies belonged to, so the squad leader was very important, not only to gather his nine soldiers and check whether there were any problems with their weapons and equipment, but also to distinguish the shouts of the superior officers in the noisy camp, and then lead the soldiers to the rendezvous, and at the same time avoid being crowded in the crowded passage.

Piles of bonfires were lit in the camp, not only to bring light to the foggy and gray weather, but also to the cooks of the baggage battalion cooking bread and gravy and hot porridge for the soldiers of the various detachments.

The reason why the legionnaires of Dionya had not yet been urgently moved to the east near the camp wall to defend themselves against the enemy's attack was because the Syracuse had not yet appeared in front of the trench. In the past few days, the Dionian soldiers have worked tirelessly, laying various traps and deer barricades more than 60 meters long in front of the camp, hindering the rapid advance of the enemy.

While the Syracuse was speeding up the removal of these vicious traps under the cover of the fog, nearly 40 ballistae of all legions were concentrated in the camp of the Dionian army (these ballistae were migrated with the camp on the north bank of the Neto River the day after the siege of Siriting by the Dionian army).

Curdorod, the ballista corrector of the 4th Legion's siege battalion, who had more experience with ballistae and had performed well in the defense of Crotone, was appointed commander of the entire ballista unit by Davers.

At this moment, there is a white expanse in front of Kurdorod, and no suspicious targets can be observed, and the distance cannot be judged. But Kurdolod was so confident that the data was all in his head, how far was the ballista from the eastern wooden wall? How tall are the wooden walls? How long is the trap lot outside the camp? ……

After a moment of contemplation, he began to give the order: "50 degrees of elevation, five kilograms of stone bullets, three squares back, ready!" ”

The herald quickly conveyed the order to all ballistaemen in the area.

They immediately mobilized the pole of the ballista, lowered the chute and increased the elevation angle, and then shook the pulley, and the powerful spring arm "creaked" and was pulled apart and fixed, and five kilograms of stone projectiles were put into the smooth groove. Due to the limitations of craftsmanship and materials, the 50-degree elevation angle is the maximum elevation angle that can be achieved by the Dionian ballista, and in this state, the parabola of the stone projectile is high, but the distance is close. Triple receding means that the spring set made of several tendons twisted together is only half full. Five kilograms of stone projectiles is the minimum weight of this type of stone projectile that the Dionian ballista can fire (the maximum weight is 15 kilograms, which is different from the Syracuse ballista, which is more destructive to the city walls due to the frequent attacks of other city-states in Sicily, so the ballista is larger and heavier, and can shoot a Talient weight stone projectile (i.e. 26 kg) nearly 300 meters).

Kurdorod's idea was that the foggy, watery, and cool weather in the morning had a great impact on the structure of the ballista, especially the spring set made of cow tendons, so he first warmed up the equipment with a small weight of stone bullets, and at the same time tested the enemy's main force. He estimated that the stone projectile would land in the range of 80-120 meters outside the trench, and if the enemy attacked in a big way, then this area should be the most concentrated place for the enemy, but usually fired five kilograms of stone projectiles, and the range was often more than 500 meters, so he increased the elevation angle and reduced the tension of the spring group, hoping to achieve the range he wanted.

The soldiers of the First Legion sat cross-legged on the ground, munching on bread, and looked up as one stone bullet after another was fired into the air and disappeared into the fog......

In a moment, the dense fog outside the camp suddenly exploded like a pot, and a scream and exclamation sounded, completely confirming the fact that the army of Syracuse was coming.

"50 degrees of elevation, ten kilograms, one square back, ready!" Kurdorod, a student of the once mild-mannered Dionian Academy, had been trained by the war and had an extra murderous aura, and the news of the Ballista's first hit did not make him cheer like his subordinates, and he continued to give orders calmly.

Yesterday, the 1st Ionian Legion was bombarded by nearly 100 ballistae and bellied bows in Syracuse for a whole day in the town of Meyaro, and today the Dioonians returned the color in the same way outside the court of Siri, and the retribution came too quickly.

Dionysius did not want to return fire with ballistas, but the ballistae he had brought with him to the camp of the Tachina River because they were going to attack the city of Crotone, but the battle failed, and the army fled for their lives, and all the siege equipment was abandoned in the camp and fell into the hands of the Dionians. Originally, with his nearly 1,000 engineers, craftsmen and apprentices, it was not a problem to recreate dozens of ballistas in a short period of time, but there was one key ballista device that the Syracuse people could not make immediately, and that was a ballista spring set made of cow tendons. They were surrounded by the Dionians in the city, few people raised cattle and sheep in the city, and most of the army's pack animals were lost in the camp of the Tachina River, not to mention that even if there were cattle in the city, it would take nearly half a year to make a qualified spring group by killing cattle and taking cow tendons, so Dionysius gave up making ballistas and concentrated manpower on making other instruments.

At this moment, thousands of Syracuse slaves and freedmen were hurrying to destroy the traps and deer barricades, then rammed the ground and laid wooden planks, and suddenly stone projectiles fell into the dense crowd, skulls and bones and blood splattered.

In fact, because of the high parabola of the stone projectile, it rarely bounced again after landing, and the total number of casualties was only more than 20, but every bloody tragedy frightened the people around him, and the officers of Syracuse struggled to stabilize their emotions.

Now that the Ionians had detected it, the Syracuse were no longer hiding, and they began to push out the beyoretic equipment they had made out of the city one by one. To make them, the Syracuse people ripped off almost all the houses in the city of Silitin, collected door panels, timber, and even cut down the trees in the port......

The largest of these was undoubtedly the nearly six-meter-high movable towers, which were to be transported out of the city, and in order to transport them out of the city, Dionysius decisively ordered his men to secretly uproot a small section of the wall, and it was not until last night that it was completely turned into a passage from inside the city to the outside of the city.

The reason why Dionysius dared to do this was because after receiving an alarm from Lockery's side, he realized that the cunning Dionicians were not building a camp and besieging Siritin, not to attack the city, but to blockade the Syracuse army and attack the weak allies of Syracuse. In order to achieve this insidious goal, the young Davers even used the peace talks to paralyze himself (of course, he naturally ignored that Syracuse was also using the peace talks to stall for time)!

Syracuse, of course, could not allow Dionya to succeed in their plans. Since the Dionian army turned to attack the Lockrie League, the number of troops stationed in the large camp outside the city of Siriting was naturally reduced, and the Dioonians also built a huge military camp that stretched for ten miles to surround the Celestial Court, which even weakened the Dionian army......

Davers' "arrogance" gave Dionysius an opportunity to defeat the Dionian army. In the past few days, the soldiers of Syracuse have gradually recovered from their defeat, and he has spent a lot of energy to persuade the tens of thousands of freemen and slaves to join the ranks of the soldiers with great expectations. "Freedom, citizenship, land and ......" were not only done by Dionia, but also by Syracuse, but in the past it was mainly aimed at mercenaries, and this time Dionysius expanded the scope of application in order to defeat Dionia and get out of danger, of course, the most important reason for them to take up arms is - everyone wants to return to Sicily alive.

Therefore, when Dionia's nearly 2,000 light infantry rushed to the wooden wall and began to throw countless arrows with all their might outside the foggy camp, causing many Syracuse to be wounded and killed, although they panicked, they did not have a major confusion and could basically continue the task of clearing the defenses. The trap zone, which was less than 100 meters long, was quickly filled in with the intensified efforts of tens of thousands of people.

Then, dodging the rain of arrows and stones, the freemen and slaves retreated hastily, following the guidance of the shouters, to a few hundred meters from the Dionian camp, where a thousand Syracuse citizens stood in a column more than a mile long, with piles of rudimentary spears and wooden shields on the ground in front of them.