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Chapter 836 In Ostia

"Not just the troops, I want to evacuate all the people and materials in Ostia, leaving an empty city for the Romans." Davos said with a sinister look: "Now the Roman army is constantly having civilian soldiers fleeing back to Rome. , the number has reached 4000, but Camillus still led the army to attack Ostia endlessly because he thought Ostia was very important to us. We must tell these Romans with facts that this is just Their illusion! After their illusion is shattered, I really want to know if they can continue to fight after losing their home, suffering many casualties, and not having much military rations?!"

Davos's words made everyone present thoughtful.

"Tapirus." Davos looked at the diplomat and continued: "We can't just let us bear the Roman attack alone, we must also let our allies take action! You go to Wolsey as envoy and Hernici, tell them that the city of Rome has been captured by us, and we are attracting the main force of Rome, and they can take the opportunity to attack where Rome’s defenses are empty and take back their territory!”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"And...the Latin city-states...were enemies with Rome a few decades ago. I don't believe that they are as good as brothers with Rome now. I heard that a few years ago, the Latin city-state Tustron was still There are rumors of rebelling against Rome and almost being annihilated by Rome... You go back and do some research to see if you can win over a few Latin city-states. I can make a promise that as long as they are willing to become allies of Dionia, our army will fight against them Qiu has done nothing wrong, and will also protect their safety, just like he did with Campania and Wolsey..."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will do my best to complete the tasks assigned by you!" Tapirus replied excitedly. He thought that this time he had a place to be useful.

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After the meeting ended, everyone dispersed.

Davos called several Roman reserve officers headed by Sextus and announced to them the order to "raid on Viai."

Compared to his more excited colleagues, Sextus, who was appointed commander, was also a little excited, but he still mustered up the courage to ask: "Your Majesty, after occupying the city of Viai, how will you deal with the people in the city?"

"Same as Rome."

Davos's answer made Sextus sigh in relief.

Since the civilians in the city of Viai had all migrated from Rome, Sextus knew many people in Viai, so he was actually very confident in the surprise attack plan proposed by Davos. Of course, he had not forgotten Davos. Si’s reminder.

After walking out of the Senate and gathering Roman civilian soldiers, Sextus had already roughly conceived an attack plan: He would select 120 Roman civilian soldiers who were most trustworthy to him and familiar with the Viais to form a squadron. , as a vanguard, first go and deceive the city gate.And he personally led 2000 soldiers behind, resolutely preventing anyone from leaving the team without permission. Once he saw the vanguard in front occupying the city gate, he immediately led a large army to raid. This would best avoid anyone reporting on him and causing the operation to fail. danger.

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Printors, on the contrary to Sextus, did not have to worry about soldiers, because he initially served in the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade. Izam thought highly of him and once said that he was the pride of the brigade, so after learning that he After being assigned an important combat mission for the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade, I was very happy and actively cooperated with his command to complete the plan for the night attack on Keslera.

Printors was worried about two things: First, the attack could only be at night, but Keslera was more than 60 miles away from the city of Rome. If you took the overland route, you had to start from now to get there in the evening. , but it became a problem whether the mountain reconnaissance team members who had consumed a lot of physical strength still had the strength to climb the steep mountains.Fortunately, they can also take the water route, which is fast and effortless.Therefore, Printors decided to let the soldiers of the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade board the cargo ships anchored in the new port of Rome in batches. They would first arrive at the Port of Ostia. In the evening, they would be transported by ship to land on the coast near the city of Keslera. .

Second, how to climb over the mountains and the walls of Keslera in the dark.This may be a big problem for the soldiers of the Dionian Legion, but it is not a big problem for the soldiers of the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade.When Davos established this brigade, he hoped that their role in the war would not only be reconnaissance, but also special operations. Therefore, Yizam also developed training programs based on this need in peacetime and strictly trained the soldiers. .In addition, the first word in the name of their team is "mountain", so climbing over mountains and ridges is their key training event, and of course climbing in the dark is also included.Moreover, the careful Printors also drew the topographic map around Keslera City during the previous reconnaissance. Yizam recruited the scout soldiers with the strongest climbing ability. They all compared the maps and discussed how to climb Kesrela. Leila City.

After the plan was established, Yizham immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare supplies and tools.

After noon, the mountain reconnaissance team lined up with high spirits to the new port of Rome, preparing to board the ship and set off.

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In the early morning, Amyntas was woken up by the guards. His first words were: "The Romans are attacking again?!"

"Legion Commander, there is no messenger to report the enemy's attack. It is already broad daylight and breakfast is ready."

"No attack?!" Amyntas was surprised: You must know that in the past few days, the Romans began to attack the city from dawn and fought until dusk. Their fierce attack made Amyntas feel a little palpitated.

He rubbed his shabby face with his hands. He had been worrying about the war in the past few days and lacked sleep. He always felt a little sleepy, but the guard's words made him feel a little relaxed.

While eating breakfast, he was still thinking: The Romans did not launch an attack at this time as usual. Could it be that they were no longer able to support an attack of this intensity?

Not long after breakfast, taking advantage of the rare free time, Amyntas decided to hold a military meeting.

Olivers, commander of the Fourth Army, Geogris, commander of the Fifth Army, and Tellis, the administrator of Ostia, arrived one after another (Tellis also served as the military governor of Ostia before, so he also had the right to participate in military meetings) , the meeting was also attended by Aristolos, Amyntas' lieutenant, and his personal adviser Crotocathax.

The meeting began with a report on the casualties of each unit yesterday.Because it was already evening when the battle ended yesterday, the soldiers were tired and the sky was dark, making it impossible to accurately count casualties, so it was postponed to today.

Aristolos, the adjutant of the First Army, held the data just compiled from each army and stood up and said: "The First Army killed 293 people and injured 537 people yesterday, and the Fourth Army killed 558 people and injured 722 people. The Fifth Army had 536 killed and 891 wounded, and the Ostia Reserve had 1021 killed and 537 wounded (the three reserve brigades of the Thurii Army were converted into regular legionnaires and added to these three legions) )..."

In the hall, the expressions of the several military commanders and Crotoka Tax all looked very heavy, because these cold numbers represented each living life.

"Yesterday... our casualties reached 5000, which has exceeded the total number of casualties in the previous two days!" After hearing this, Amintas punched the back of the chair with a painful expression.

Clotokatax looked at the angry Amintas, thinking about the tragic battlefields he had seen at the top of the city in the past few days, and couldn't help but feel sad. He even felt that the task given to him by his father was a bit redundant, because Under the fierce attack of the Romans, even the defense in the city is a bit difficult, and there is no way to go out of the city to fight in the field.

He saw the usually humorous Olivers saying with lingering fear: "The reason why there were so many casualties yesterday is because the Romans had built an earth fortress one meter higher than our city wall in front of the trench. A large number of light infantry were deployed on the base, using javelins and arrows to attack the ballistae at the top of our city. This forced our ballistae to move down the city... After that, the Romans pushed their ballistae to the front of the city. The bombardment caused the collapse of several sections of the city wall, further weakening our advantage in relying on city wall defense. Moreover, they had the advantage of large numbers and continued to attack in waves...

Hades is on top!This time, I really saw the Romans' small square formation tactics similar to ours. Therefore, when fighting our soldiers head-on in the gap, their formation was hardly affected by terrain obstacles, and the bravery of the Roman soldiers was unparalleled. The soldiers who lost to us even had a stronger desire to fight. I saw with my own eyes that after several Roman soldiers were stabbed down, they still hugged the legs of our soldiers to give the soldiers next to them a chance... So they were able to break in through several gaps in the city wall, and I felt a bit lucky that I was able to repel them in the end..."

"What a fluke! That's because in the melee, our soldiers are more capable, and the short sword also plays a very lethal role! Olivers, as a legion commander, you are an example for the legionnaires and must always remain brave. Be confident, and your soldiers will be confident of victory!" Amyntas immediately yelled loudly, in the same tone as the mercenary squadron leader criticizing Olivers, a small mercenary 20 years ago.

After Olivers was stunned for a moment, he immediately woke up and apologized immediately: "I'm sorry, everyone, I was a little out of control just now! Over the years, the legion has been used to fighting with favorable winds, and this is the first time that we have encountered such a brave, well-organized, and powerful force. We have lost many brothers to this enemy who is very particular about combat skills! It seems that His Majesty is right, the Romans are indeed a powerful enemy, we should abandon the illusion of easy victory and go all out to defeat this enemy!"

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