Rome Must Fall

The Knicks are finally going to attack! ... Elix was in high spirits and loudly ordered: "Blow the horn and prepare to defend!"

The sound of trumpets resounded throughout the village, and the well-dressed Broch warriors climbed onto the wall of the village one after another. A tight shield wall composed of light infantry was arranged on the entire southeast wooden wall walkway. Behind the shield wall was A large number of javeliners (there are not many hunters in the Broch tribe, and there are few people who are good at using javelins. However, in order to enhance the medium and long-range lethality in defense, Brix has not only allowed each tribe to prepare a large number of javelins in recent years. , and also mobilized the soldiers to learn to use javelins. Of course, the Broch people did not yet have the technical ability to create the crossbows that once frightened them).

Behind the harpooneers, there are two or three heavily armored warriors wearing iron helmets and armor and holding big swords at intervals. They are the elite force of the city defenders. When the enemy attacks the city, they must rush up in time. , fought with it, and drove it off the city with the cooperation of light infantry...

The side of the wooden wall walkway facing the village was filled with stones and wood. The people in the village were also organized and waited quietly under the wall. Once the stones and wood on the wooden wall were consumed in large quantities, they would immediately of giving supplements.

At the same time, they will also carry injured soldiers down, and in times of crisis, they will rush to the wall with spears in hand to fight the enemy...

Just as the Blochs were getting ready, there was a sudden strong wind, and thick clouds floated in the sky, blocking the sun, and the sky became a little dark, as if foreshadowing the coming storm.

"They are coming..." the soldier beside him whispered.

In Elix's field of vision, Nyx soldiers wearing iron helmets and armor and holding large shields and short swords lined up in iron walls, blocking the fields between the mountains and the river banks, like layers of waves. Containing terrifying power, it slowly pressed towards the village from a distance...

The high-pitched brass horn sounded, and the advancing Knicks army quickly stopped a hundred meters away from the camp. The soldiers stood silently with their shields in hand, and only the flags in the military formations rustled in the wind...

There was a tense atmosphere in the air. The Broch warriors held the wooden shields and spears in their hands tightly, staring closely at the powerful enemy under the wall, with a look of fear on their faces involuntarily.

Elix was equally nervous, but he was even more curious, because he saw dozens of huge wooden structures behind Nyx's huge military formation, most of which were like trees, with long wooden poles straight up. Pointing to the sky, a few are like towers in a stockade, except that the top is open...

Do the Knicks want to rely on these strange things to attack my camp? ...Elix couldn't think of what role they could play, and he didn't bother to think any more. He clenched his right fist, raised his arms and shouted: "Broch's warriors! We have strong and tall wooden walls (six meters long). High), there are wide and deep trenches (four meters wide and four meters deep), and there are dense traps (all over the area fifty meters in front of the stronghold)... No matter how many soldiers and well-equipped the Knicks are, they will never be able to defeat them! It is impossible to capture our homeland! Simbei Isbad is indestructible!”

"Simbei Isbad, indestructible!!..." The men around Elix shouted, and soon the sound spread throughout the camp.

All the Broch warriors waved their weapons and let out deafening shouts. Fear was dispelled in their hearts and their blood began to boil.

Just when the morale of the Broch soldiers was high, Elix received a report from the spies: a fleet of Nyx ships, full of soldiers, landed on the south bank of the Kupa River. About five or six thousand Nyx soldiers were on the southwest side. Formation in front of the village wall...

Do the Knicks want to contain my main force here and then launch a surprise attack on the southwest side? ...Elix felt nervous at first, but then relaxed, because the defense facilities on the southwest side of the village were the same as here, and there were more than a thousand soldiers stationed on the wall, so there was no need to worry.

However, the Knicks do have sufficient troops! So many troops have been allocated, but it is still densely packed here with no end in sight... Erlix looked at the front with some envy, and suddenly his mood became a little anxious: Knicks, why are you standing there stupidly! Hurry up and attack, this time I will let you taste failure!

As if hearing Elix's voice, the brass horn sounded again in the Nyx military formation. The Nyx soldiers began to move back and forth, left and right, and the military formation became loose and broken. Multiple wide passages appeared, and those huge wooden The manufacturing framework slowly moved from the rear to the front of the formation, and then lined up less than a hundred meters away from the village wall...

This time Erlix saw it more clearly: the main body of those towering wooden structures like trees was indeed a thick log three or four meters long, but the lower end of this log was connected to a large wooden box. The other end pointing straight to the sky is wrapped with several long ropes, hanging down to the ground. There seems to be something like a net bag on the top. This long log is firmly connected to a thick and wide base. It is equipped with four large wooden wheels, so it can move more flexibly...

There are as many as thirty of these strange wooden structures, and behind each one are followed by twenty or thirty people. Not only do they push the equipment, but they also stack large wooden baskets next to the equipment. …

Elix, like other Broch warriors, had never seen such strange wooden instruments, but he began to feel uneasy: the Nyx people pushed them in front of the formation, must be to attack the stronghold! But what role do these things play? !

Just as Elyx was lost in thought, he saw the Nix people carrying a wooden basket and pouring it into the big wooden box. The wooden frame seemed to be filled with stones. Then they pulled out a wooden wedge on the wooden frame and began to pull the rope on the wooden frame together. The thick wooden pole slowly turned until the big wooden box was facing up and the top was facing down.

At this time, the Nix people picked up a stone from another wooden basket and put it into the net bag on the top of the wooden pole, then pulled it forward and downward to make the net bag straight and almost touching the ground...

The Nix people who were operating the equipment shouted something in unison, and they all let go of the hands pulling the rope and the net bag. Because the weight difference at both ends was too large, the wooden pole turned quickly, making a dull and terrifying sound, which made Elyx feel an inexplicable fear.

The wooden frame waved its arms like a giant in anger, and the stones in the net bag were thrown out. They drew arcs in the air, streaking across the sky like meteors, and hit the wooden wall heavily...

Eryx, who was lying on the parapet and concentrating on looking into the distance, suddenly felt a violent shaking under his feet. He lost his balance without any preparation and fell forward. Fortunately, he was pulled by his men in time.

Eryx didn't have time to express his gratitude, and heard screams from the side. It was the stone thrown hitting the parapet, the wood was broken, the wood chips were scattered, and the surrounding soldiers were injured.

Eryx was about to issue a warning, and then he heard someone shouting: "Everyone, get out of the way! Two pieces of wood here are broken! Be careful that this piece will collapse!..."

Eryx had calculated everything, but he never expected that the Nix people would launch an attack in such a way. The stones that fell from the sky kept and violently hit the wooden wall. The soldiers were caught off guard, screaming in fear and running away...

Some soldiers were hit by flying wood chips and gravel, and fell to the ground wailing in pain; some were panicked and fell off the wooden wall in the chaos, their lives uncertain... The wooden wall soon fell into chaos, and the originally orderly defense formation had collapsed.

Elyx clenched his fists in pain, his heart was cold, he knew that he had spent several years carefully building the city of Simbey Isbad to defend against powerful enemies, and he didn't even kill a single enemy, and he was afraid that it would be over...

"Chief, look, another section of the wooden wall collapsed!" The attendant pointed to the front and shouted excitedly.

"Don't worry, wait until the wooden wall here collapses, then you can shout." Maximus was in a good mood now, half-jokingly and half-seriously said.

"Chief, I didn't expect that this simple siege weapon would be so powerful!" The attendant continued to say excitedly.

"The Wrath of the Giants is not simple. If the goddess Danu had not given the leader inspiration in a dream, the craftsmen of the engineering camp would never have been able to make it, no matter how skilled they were!" another attendant retorted.

"The goddess Danu is so great! I think the Wrath of the Giants is much more powerful than the Romans' crossbow!" Another attendant praised sincerely.

"The Wrath of the Giants is indeed more powerful than the crossbow, but the crossbow is light and can be shot more accurately."

"The crossbow is indeed light, but if you say it is more accurate than the Wrath of the Giants, I don't agree! I heard from the leader that the Wrath of the Giants can also be aimed and fired. As long as the angle of the wooden pole and the rope is adjusted, the direction and distance of the stone can be accurately controlled."

...

Maximus listened to the attendants' discussion and looked at the siege equipment in front of him that was constantly firing stones, and his mind was full of thoughts.

The Wrath of the Giants is the name given to this device by the craftsmen of the engineering camp. The huge wooden structure was like a giant swinging his arms and throwing stones. The rocks hit the ground and made a loud sound as if the giant was roaring. The nickname of Giant's Wrath was very vivid and appropriate.

However, in the previous life, this siege weapon had a scientific name called "counterweight catapult".

The Military Intelligence Department of the Nix Tribe sent some men to lurk in the Brochi territory for many years. Therefore, Maximus had long known the Brochi people's practice of building castles and defending against invasions. He had long established the tactics of using catapults to break through the Brochi people's self-proclaimed strong camps.