Chapter 51: Out of reach reinforcements
In the afternoon, Alexander, who led the main Latin force, arrived at the city of Argos, and what he saw was the loss of troops at the Athenian Grand Duke Maximilian. Although he was furious, Alexander did not punish the Maximilian who was responsible for the defeat, but re-directed the army to camp. This time, the Latin cavalry did not attack without authorization, but strictly guarded Alexander's mission of guarding the two wings of the central army. With such a strict countermeasure, the Roman defenders in the city had no choice but to watch the enemy camp and completely encircle Argos.
Before the final attack, Alexander sent an envoy to the city of Argos to try to persuade the defenders in the city to surrender Alexander offered generous conditions, and to allow the defenders in the city to agree to put down their weapons, so that he would ensure the safety of everyone's lives and property. At the same time, each soldier could receive a reward of twenty Su silver coins. The result was obvious that every Roman soldiers of Argos hated the Latin invaders to the core. They not only refused the other party's request, but also killed the envoys who persuaded surrender and sent the heads back to show their determination to fight to the death.
This completely angered Alexander and tore off the last warm veil. The Latin army finally revealed its hideous face and launched a general attack on Argos from three directions under Alexander's command.
Although the forward led by Maximilian did not complete the mission to create enough siege equipment, it is okay to deal with Argos City without those. Alexander lifted his killer weapon, and the human trencher controlled by thirty-six people was pushed to the city, causing the entire Argos City wall to enter the range. The Latins did not aim at it at all. The controller pulled the heavy rock with his hand and flew out at an astonishing speed, and smashed it hard directly.
On the wall of Argos City, it was as if the sky was dark and the gravel was splattered with huge power, so that the defenders on the city wall were killed on the spot. The city was in a mess, and besides the collapsed ruins, there were fragmented flesh and blood. The disgusting bloody scene greatly affected the morale of the defenders on the city tower. At this time, the Latin people also moved. They rushed up fiercely without waiting for the catapult to defeat the city wall.
All of this naturally did not escape the eyes of the defenders in the city. Carlodsey immediately ordered his archers to ambush beside the female wall, waiting for the Latins to shoot at the same time as soon as the Latins approached. All the Latins who attempted to attack the city gate shot and killed them.
At this time, the gate of the city was opened, and the defenders of Argos City attacked again. This time, the Latins were prepared. The infantry of the two armies were fighting each other with spears and swords, and turned against each other directly.
This time, Maximilian, the Grand Duke of Athens, personally supervised the battle and decided to lead the army to attack. He drew out his sword and pointed it forward and shouted: "Come on, let us completely destroy the cowards of the Greeks, let them see the sword light of the real warriors! Pay the price for all the actions you have done before!"
The Roman soldiers formed a formation to fight tenaciously against the rushing enemies and repelled their rounds of fierce attacks.
Seeing this scene, Alexander was so angry that he never expected that he would be in trouble at the beginning and would be stumped by such a small castle. If he were to be normal, he would never waste so much effort in such a small place, but considering that the starting position was leading to the main throat of Nafplion, he would never give up easily.
So, under Alexander's order, the Latin army that reorganized the attack, no one else did not follow the order. This time, Alexander, who sent engineers to detour, finally succeeded. With the shooting of bows and arrows on the top of the city, the engineers successfully completed the civil engineering work and pushed the trench tunnel towards Argos. The engineers who formed the shield wall did not cover the engineers and continued to advance slowly.
Finally this time, the distance between the catapult and the city wall was approaching, which also allowed the Latins to attack the city wall more easily and accurately.
Unable to fight and repair the walls, the defenders in Argos could only do their best to prevent the Latins from climbing the city wall. Finally, with a loud bang, a huge gap appeared on one of Argos' walls. The extremely fragile walls that had suffered countless destruction could not be supported. Then two huge rocks were shot by the Latins' catapult and smashed hard on the last half of the city wall. Finally, a wall collapsed under a fierce attack.
Seeing this scene, General Alexander, who had finally waited for this moment, raised his hand and gave an order. The Latin army, who had been waiting for a long time, sent out a beast-like horn and rushed over like a madman. "Let the Greeks feel the horror you bring, kill them and throw them into hell!"
An army of tens of thousands of people rushed to Argos like a tide. Carlodesai had only more than 300 soldiers left in Argos, and they fought and retreated. After a fierce battle, most of the refugees retreated to the inner city in an orderly manner under Carlodesai's arrangement.
On the other hand, Carlodesai himself led his soldiers to choose to fight the Latins on the city wall, which made Alexander very angry. It was obvious that the other wall was not as fierce as it was resisting in violation of harmony!
It was dark in the night, and continuing to attack the city would not only not achieve results and soldiers' support, but would instead be insidiously plotted against the evildoer. So Alexander chose to give up the attack and prepare to fight again the next day.
At night, when the Latins, who were as numerous as sea sand, exited the battlefield, and the Argos defenders, who were already at the end of their strength, finally had a chance to take a breath. Carlodsey ordered the soldiers to clean their bodies, clean the battlefield, recover some weapons, and take back the bodies of their own people for a good burial. Surveying the miserable appearance of the whole city, Carlodsey finally understood how much pressure he was facing. On the first day alone, his people lost nearly half, and the Latins' offense would inevitably be more fierce than it is now. Even Carlodsey himself could not be sure of it.
Chapter completed!