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The final battle of Germanic Total War 053 Siege of Nice

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    Vanius spoke so clearly that the fool also understood what he was planning - the gate was about to be breached, and any defender would send infantry to guard near the city gate in advance to prepare to meet the incoming enemy; at the same time, they would also  A large number of men were sent out to carry bricks and stones to block the city gate - in this way, the number of guards on the city wall would be greatly reduced, and the resistance to the siege would naturally be much smaller.  So the leaders looked at each other and almost simultaneously issued the order for a general attack.  A loud horn sounded, and more than 20,000 Gallo-Belgian warriors roared and launched a charge, led by forty shield cars.  Behind the shield car are long boards that dozens of warriors hold above their heads. These long boards are not thick enough to withstand the penetration of crossbow arrows, but many beams are added to them to allow the warriors to easily step on them.  city ??wall.  Further behind, there are a large number of archers and harpooneers - they will provide fire cover when the warriors of the tribe ascend the city to attack.  Finally, there were a total of eighty ballistae controlled by the Germans.  In the blink of an eye, with the panicked cries of countless Nice defenders, the open space outside Nice was filled with attackers.  At the same time, the Germans quickly lifted the strung-up crossbows forward in groups of ten without hesitation, and quickly put them down after entering the firing range.  The Nice people's ballistas were placed and fired.  Thanks to his tactical thinking that transcended the times, Vanius's request for the Germans was simple - suppress, suppress again.  Although in theory the accuracy of ballistae and giant ballistae is guaranteed.  But because the attacker's location is relatively low.  Without the protection of the city wall, if we carried out accurate shooting according to the ideas of people of this era, the Germans would obviously suffer a big loss.  Therefore, Vanius chose a simple and crude method - gathering the ballistae into groups, firing in turns, and only roughly aiming at the area where the enemy's ballistae was placed. It was not required to cause accurate damage to the enemy, as long as it continued continuously  Attack and harass, making it impossible for the enemy to counterattack smoothly.  Ten ballistas fired continuously, shooting one arrow after another towards the area where the ballistas were placed on the city wall - although the strikes were not accurate.  But he succeeded in creating chaos in the crossbow area - after all, not every soldier is brave enough to stand calmly and operate the crossbow when the crossbow arrows are fired.  Immediately afterwards, the Gallic-Belgian archers and harpooneers also arrived - and then fierce shooting began on and under the city walls.

    It stands to reason.  Although the city wall is only six meters high, with the advantage of height and the protection of the female wall, the defenders should also have an obvious advantage.

    But the actual situation was completely different - it was not the Romans on the city walls who had the upper hand, but the Gallo-Belgians under the city walls - and the reason for this "irrational" situation was the huge gap in numbers.

    After yesterday's battle, the five Roman recruit legions were completely destroyed, and only a few cavalry were able to escape. Although the main infantry of the Sixth Legion evacuated in time, the cavalry troops were completely destroyed.

    As a result, even though the residents of the city were mobilized overnight last night.  There are many young men and women armed, but in fact there are only more than 10,000 people who can climb to the top of the city to fight.

    Immediately afterwards, because the shield chariot invented by Vannius successfully rushed to the city gate and successfully set the city gate on fire, the Romans discovered the possibility of the city gate falling.

    In order to prevent the Gauls from entering through the city gate, Labienus did not hesitate to move the first battalion of the Sixth Army down the city wall and set up defenses at the city gate.

    However, considering the Gauls' numerical superiority, Labienus believed that blocking the city gates with infantry was unreliable.

    So, just as Vanius predicted.  Labienus sent more than two thousand temporarily mobilized young men to go down from the city wall and carry wood and stones from near the city wall to seal the city gate. Last night, Labienus had ignored the opposition of the residents and sealed the city gate.  The houses in the area closest to the city wall were demolished and these building materials were used to build a second line of defense.  Therefore, it is very convenient to obtain local materials.

    Because of the large number of people, the operation of moving stones to seal the gate went very smoothly.  Almost instantly.  There were already many stones and wood piled into the doorway.

    However, at this moment, more than 20,000 Gauls and Bilgees rushed forward.

    At this time, there were only 7,000 people on the city wall, and they were evenly distributed on the entire city wall of Nice. Only 4,000 of them were veterans, and the rest were civilians who appeared on the battlefield as soldiers for the first time.  .

    The Gallic-Belgians did indeed densely arrange more than 20,000 people in the area closest to the city gate to concentrate the assault. At this distance, each Roman had to face more than ten enemies.  .

    Although nearly a third of the Gallo-Belgians were melee infantry fighting with swords and shields, each Roman warrior who tried to throw a javelin at the enemy still had to face five or six high-ranking soldiers.The arrows and javelins fired by the Lu-Bilgiers.

    Faced with such a dense and fierce attack, Labienus roared and ran with his shield in the heavy rain of javelins and arrows. He transferred soldiers from other areas to strengthen the defense, and at the same time let the first battalion soldiers under the city wall board.  Go up to the city wall and participate in the defense.

    However, compared with the crazy assault of the Gallo-Belgians, these mobilizations seemed too late - with the roar of victory, forty shield carts slammed into the city wall, while more pedals slammed heavily  built on the city wall.

    Immediately afterwards, the Gallo-Belgian warriors, whose faces were flushed with excitement and fury, stepped on the pedals and rushed up the city wall.

    It was not until this moment that the bloody and tragic battle really began.

    Relying on the speed of running, the Gallic-Belgian warriors leaned on their shields with their shoulders and slammed into the Romans on the city wall, pushing them away, and then stabbed and hacked them mercilessly.

    At the same time, the Romans also knew that the final moment had come - if they could not drive the Gauls off the city wall, if they could not hold the city wall, then when the Gauls rushed into the city wall continuously, they would  They will be defeated, killed, and die one after another.

    Although there are still ships in the port at the moment, after most of the ships were converted into battleships in order to destroy the ships in Massilia City and sent out to join the main fleet, the remaining ships could not even bring down one hundred people.  Save one.

    Therefore, they can only fight to the death.  Even just fighting to the death was not enough - they had to kill or drive off all those who climbed onto the city wall before more enemies climbed onto the city wall.

    One side attacked desperately, and the other side tried its best to counterattack. The first moment the Gauls set foot on the city wall, the crossfire line became dripping with blood.

    The soldiers roared, roared, and stabbed the weapons in their hands deeply into the enemy's body. They didn't even have time to pull out the weapons before they were killed by the subsequent enemies.

    Those who were seriously injured but lucky enough to survive desperately hugged the enemy who hurt them, mustered up their last courage and pushed forward desperately, destroying the enemy's formation and opening up a passage for their companions.

    With screams one after another, warriors fell off the city wall from both sides of the city wall one after another and fell to the ground.

    Vannius watched the battle from a distance with his army from beginning to end - the Gauls and Bilgees firmly occupied the city head and were expanding their positions firmly but slowly, but Rome  The people still persisted in launching counterattacks against those city head positions, trying to regain their defense lines - for this reason, more and more Roman soldiers were mobilized from other places on the city wall to this section.

    "Let the auxiliary legions attack," said Vannius to the messenger, pointing to a place far away from the city gate, "from there."

    After that, Vanius pointed to another place: "Let the Macmanian Field Corps attack from there."

    Immediately afterwards, there is the third direction: "Let the Britons attack from there."

    "Let them seize the city wall and immediately outflank the city gate to prevent the enemy from retreating into the city."

    At present, Vannius has more than 100,000 troops under his command, and it is obvious that there are not many defenders in the city of Nice, and most of them are attracted near the city gate-it would be foolish not to use this opportunity to launch an attack.  .

    With the sound of horns one after another, the three quickly ordered armies showed their claws like predatory beasts and rushed towards the attack point pointed out by Vannius for them.

    None of these three armies had shield chariots, only long ladders.

    But at this time, the Nice people no longer had enough troops to stop the attackers.

    If Vannius lets all the troops attack at the beginning, then all the troops will have to face a certain number of defenders - in this way, there will be a fierce battle for each section of the wall.

    Now, the Gallic-Belgians bear most of the pressure, and the result is that the Britons, Macmanians, and Gallic auxiliary legions climbed onto the city wall almost effortlessly.

    Immediately afterwards, according to Vanius's order, these warriors neither stayed nor went to fight for the city wall with the enemy. Instead, they quickly captured the nearest bastion, climbed down the city wall, and quickly moved towards the city gate to outflank them.  past.

    This sudden attack immediately destroyed the courage of the Romans - only half of these courageous warriors were real veterans, and the rest were civilians who had just picked up weapons - seeing countless barbarians coming from  They surrounded them from behind. Thinking that their retreat was about to be cut off, some Roman recruits who were not determined enough screamed in panic and tried to escape from the city wall. They were completely surrounded by the barbarians.Retreat behind the second line of defense before surrounding them.

    However, what this behavior brought about was the complete collapse of the entire defense line

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