Augustus Road

"The man on the platform holding Adiana's neck with a sword seems to be the murderer of my father. I heard that he is now the commander of the Roman army on the Acropolis." Stratonis stood under the umbrella. He stood up, his tone full of excitement, "Menander, be careful not to be deceived by his tricks. When he was in Xiaoya, he and that little wild cat had a master-servant relationship. A servant will not draw a sword against his master!"

Menander thought to himself, are you and I not servants of Mithridates? He said a few words to the flag bearer and trumpeter next to him. Amidst the sound of trumpets, the Bronze Shield Army fell silent. The only sound left in the entire field was the rapid digging of the Achayas.

This drum-like sound made the kidnapped Adiana feel the rapid passage of time and life. She continued to shed tears and softly said to Calabis behind her: "You are going to execute me in front of the Agayan people in exchange for Their attack on the Bronze Shield Army."

"You have always been smart, my princess, except for occasionally making fatal fools. Believe me, I am one of them, and killing King Agaia is the second." Before Calabis finished speaking, Adiana used **The hard teeth bit into his wrist, causing him to cry out angrily in pain. Then Adiana broke away from Calabis's hand, closed her eyes, and let her body tilt outwards, wide and wide The regimental sweatshirt was blown by the wind, beautiful like a butterfly.

"Shoot!" Perseus, who was in the field under the main entrance, saw the princess falling downwards. His eyes almost bulged out with anger. He gritted his teeth and issued the order to attack the city. The swarms of stones were like black crows. Like, it flew up quickly and rushed towards the Acropolis.

A chain with an unedged ax flew like a sea snake, and instantly wrapped around the princess's neck several times. With a light touch, Helenputina held the end with both hands, and the cloak on her body spread out like flying scissors, and she quickly rushed to the guard. Running towards the inner city wall, the top of the chain caught the unconscious Adiana and dragged her backwards from the moment she fell. Then Helenputina used her hands and feet to climb vertically to the crenellations of the wall on the upper floor. , tying the chain to a bronze barrel of the ballista, she looked up and saw the stones fired by Perseus falling everywhere like meteors, with dust everywhere, and the entire acropolis was shaking and shaking, In the huge smoke and dust, Calabis and the centurions ran out waving their hands. When they saw Adiana being dragged half to death by the chain, they untied the chain, lifted her up on his back, and hit her one by one while roaring. Among the stones and fallen wood, he ran all the way towards the strongest small temple.

After rushing into the temple, Calabis threw Adiana to Little Nicole, "Good girl, save her life, but if she wakes up and resists, kill her!" Little Nicole nodded, He skillfully pulled out the dagger. Then, he rushed out in the rain of bullets, shouting: "Everything is fine, get ready to attack, get ready to **."

"That bastard Perseus actually shot stones and bombarded the Acropolis without authorization. It was his bastard order." At the edge of the bronze shield army's line that was marching forward, Menander grabbed a few messengers angrily, " Is today the day when the gods are gambling on whether they are in pairs or not? Then I will just give it a try and see if the gods are on my side. Let’s just attack it like this. Anyway, the Roman city wall will collapse. Yes, they are half starving!"

At the end of the pipe in the wooden shed, the Achayans climbed out one by one. Their mission had been completed. It was time to abide by the arrangement and give the credit to the noble Bronze Shield Army: the Bronze Shield Army threw out ropes with hooks. , set up the crumbling city wall, and then pulled violently. Finally, with a thunderous rumble, the Roman city wall, which was as high as thirty Roman feet, collapsed with several gaps.

But what makes the Bronze Shield Army feel strange is that since the Achaeans have laid so many working pipes on the slope, they should use hooks to pull down the entire city wall now, but the walls of the Roman Acropolis are like they were in advance. It was calculated that there would be exactly one gap at every other section, just like a human's front teeth.

The Bronze Shield Army didn't know that Calabis and Pope had already calculated the excavation points of the Achayans. They used rivets to directly fix the iron plates on the city wall between every two points, and also used ropes to embed them diagonally. In the open space between the outer wall and the inner wall, huge iron nails were used to twist the ropes and smash them into the ground. This design, not to mention using hooks and ropes to pull, was to have ten trebuchets focus on the wall and smash the wall. Will not fall.

There was no way, since the entire wall did not fall down, the power of the Bronze Shield Army formation could not be exerted, and they did not understand the secret of this wall. They could only divide into several strands, abandon the spears, and hold shields and Greek scimitars. , entered through various collapsed entrances, but as soon as they entered, they were fired cross-fire from the inner wall and the belly bows and scorpion cannons of the left and right towers. Many corpses fell at the entrance, piled up, and were pulled away again. The successors continued to be brave. Moving forward - Roman soldiers, military slaves, and Thracian mercenaries swarmed out from the exit of the inner wall, blocking the middle and both sides of the gap. They used reverse-edged machetes, fighting swords, and even brandished pickaxes and shovels to cut through the copper. The shield troops killed with blood and flesh flying everywhere.

"Kill, kill all these Greek guys. They naturally like to eat those words. Today, I will use my spear point and sword blade to replace those words and let them swallow them all!" In the battle formation, Hebrida Holding up the bloody fighting sword, he shouted loudly, "This is our ***. The Pontic Greek camp will collapse soon, and mass killing and robbery are coming. Follow me, brother!"

Over there, Perseus's trebuchets and ballistae were still firing non-stop, causing the Acropolis to be filled with smoke and dust. However, the Roman soldiers were very orderly. They all held up their shields and guarded the corridors and city gates without panicking. He ran around in confusion, so there were not many casualties.

Below the slope, the officers of the Bronze Shield Army were still shouting and cursing, pulling soldiers up one by one. Menander was sweating profusely. After two quarters of an hour of tug-of-war, he realized that things were far from simple. Why did the Romans still have so much strength and will to fight? Shouldn't they be starving to death and lying on the ground waiting for the Bronze Shield Army's swords to harvest them?

With such questions, he and Stratonice quickly flashed the picture of the princess and Carapis' behavior in their minds, and a terrible prospect quickly emerged in their minds: Why did that Carapis guy insult the noble princess so much, instead of treating the high nobles with courtesy like Luculus and Pompey? Judging from the performance of this battle, it is simply impossible to explain it with rudeness.

"Was Menander, the king of the Achaeans, killed by Adiana?" Suddenly, Stratonice thought of something and asked.

The commander of the Bronze Shield Army who was being questioned stared with horrified eyes and looked back at Stratonice. Then he saw a blazing fire in the camp behind him. The Achaeans, armed with weapons and wearing armor, rushed out of the camp and rushed towards the Bronze Shield Army. (To be continued.)