"I think I have already made the conditions very clear, tell Sù Hitius, surrender with his men, and enter the camp to swear allegiance to me, and fight to the death with Li Bida to the end, otherwise I will take the city of Waga in three days." Rabinus didn't want to be verbose, and then he split his hand, and began to approach the city wall in a dense formation of tortoiseshell formations.

"We just need to see the body of the envoy to give an account to everyone in the city." Hitius on the tower hurriedly called for a shout.

Soon Salest's body was carried on a skeleton and tied with ropes and erected so that all the guards on one of the walls could be seen lightly.

Sure enough, more and more Hitius gathered at the edge of the tower, a sight that satisfied Rabinus, who thought that the more he saw, the greater the demoralization of the defenders.

"Behold, it is the noble envoy who was brutally murdered by the enemy, and for now we can only sacrifice his heroic spirit with the bravest and most unyielding battle, and the Hitius will never surrender." As a result, Hittius, who was standing by the ballista in the tower, shouted to the soldiers, "Let the enemy see our determination!" ”

As soon as the words fell, countless heads were thrown from the ramparts like drops, and Rabinus was startled and said, "Have they executed all the Numidians and Moors in the city?" Totally a lunatic, lunatic! ”

The order to siege the city was then spread throughout the camp on all sides, and the timber of Africa was scarce, and the area between the city of Ouga and the Tumr River was the only place with streams and woods in the vicinity, but the streams could only supply a small number of men. And the so-called woods. It's just olives and myrtles that grow all over the mountains. So. Most of the timber from Mauritania and Spain was so precious that the soldiers covered the siege towers and wagons with freshly skinned animals to protect them from enemy fire. However, it seems that Hitius did not intend to use rockets - he used the "killer weapon" that was dismantled from Hippo Porto and transported all the way by pack horses, namely the door "Masserian Lady Cannon", every half day. He roared towards the siege tower of Rabinus, and the iron bars on the head could penetrate all the siege fortifications with planks ten inches thick.

Rabinus could stand directly under the siege tower and see the people and corpses and debris flying in the air above, and if he knew the word "fireworks", he would definitely use this figure of speech to describe the scene before him.

What's even more vicious is that the end of the wooden cannonball fired by the Hitius Party is also tied with a chain with a barb, and once it is fired, it can be pulled back with the pulley hidden in the city gate. In the process of wrestling, it caused "secondary destruction" to the siege fortifications of Rabinus.

Then. Rabinus's men could dig siege trenches, build siege rambles with excavated earth, and then use wooden wheels or rolling logs to carry the moving towers up, push the soldiers onto the walls, and engage the defenders in hand-to-hand combat.

However, when this was done, Rabinus found that the city of Varga was surrounded by flat land, and that there was no terrain to use, and that the ground was mostly soft and sandy and could not be piled up at all, so that the soldiers could only brave the arrows at the head of the city and use wicker baskets filled with sand and earth to form a slope. As a result, Hitius mobilized the entire city of immigrants, demolished all the houses where the Numidians had previously lived, and used the stones he had obtained to "raise" the enemy's wall by six Roman feet in one night, forcing Rabinus to continue to pile up the slopes.

Rabinus, also known as the soldier of the Chosen Front, pushed the "V" shaped shield cart, densely approached the city wall, and then put the shield cart up vertically under the wall, and told the soldiers to hide underneath and use shovels and pickaxes to pry the base of the wall, ready to stuff it into the stake and ignite it to burn down the wall. As a result, Hitius had already taken precautions, and he asked the craftsmen of the city to build huge triangular iron nails, tied stones on all sides, and tied them with grease, rolls of cloth, and hay, and when they were lit, they were smashed down, and soon penetrated the shield carts, turning them into piles of burning torches, and the soldiers inside could not be contained, and they ran out one after another, and became live targets for the soldiers at the head of the city.

As such, the four legions of Rabinus persevered in besieging a market day, but still made no progress.

"Imitate Caesar's previous experience and dig up all the streams leading to the city and drain them!" Enraged, Rabinus drew a brigade from each of the four legions to act as an engineer, and prepared to do the same, and it took two full days to complete it.

But then there was no sign of surrender in the city, for the Hitius had already taken possession of the core temple, which contained several precious wells and gushing out groundwater that was fully drinkable to the people.

The two sides were at a stalemate, and Rabinus, who did not give up, saw that the weather was hot, and came up with a way - he threw the rotting corpses of the men and horses he had killed under the city of Suyato onto the wild donkey stone thrower, and threw them into the city one by one - the Hitius party connected all the curtains in the houses in the city and lined them up densely with wooden poles to block the "corpse shells" that flew from time to time.

As a result, the strange and miserable scene is that the corpses are flying over the city wall, and the besieging side is constantly dragging the smashed corpses back from under the wall to "reuse", and the defenders at the head of the city continue to fork the thrown corpses with forks, and those that fall into the city are piled up in a corner of the city wall by the residents coerced by Hitius, and after centralized incineration, they are deeply dug and landfilled.

Even so, the plague began to spread, and it is not known whether it began first in the city or from the siege positions, and the livestock on both sides were the first to be infected and died in large numbers, followed by people

Soon after, Hittius ordered all those who were sick to be locked up and burned down. And in the camp of Rabinus outside the city, the incineration piles piled up high every day are also full of smoke, and it is not known whether it is the corpses of people or cattle and horses that are burned. The entire surrounding area of Waga City is a picture of purgatory.

When the half month was over, the only thought in the hearts of the two generals was to "hold on any longer".

At this moment, the four legions of Li Bida had all arrived at the city of Utica and the old camp of Cornelius, among which the high priest specially built a headquarters in the old camp of Cornelius, and asked the soldiers of the legion to build a permanent winter camp along this old site, which could be used for the fleet and provisions.

Then, when the herald brought the news of the death of the Numidian envoy Celeste, several booksellers from Utica also stood in front of the high priest with their hands down, and on the table were thick rolls of parchment.

"It's a pity." "It would be nice if these two books could have been completed by Celeste himself, now that they are fragments." (To be continued......)