Chapter 286 - 178: Capturing the Outer Camp_2
The last time the Nix people didn’t use these two defensive weapons was because the autumn season was dry, and using fire could easily set the wooden walls ablaze. But now they couldn’t afford to worry about that because the Panloni people had employed the ’battering ram’.
This was a large tree, big enough for one person to embrace, specially selected by the Pannonians from the mountains. After cutting it down, they smoothed the trunk and sharpened the front end. A dozen warriors lifted it and crossed the filled moat, arriving at the wooden wall and began striking the mud wall below.
Although the mud wall had been packed and reinforced by the Nix soldiers, it was not stone, and under continuous battering, it began to loosen, exposing the wooden wall base embedded deep within.
During the process of the ramming wood thrusting, soldiers on the wall would focus on pouring boiling water and fiery oil on the warriors carrying the ram. As warriors fell with screams, new ones continuously took their place.
Finally, under the relentless pounding of the ramming wood, the wooden wall base gradually loosened and ultimately broke and collapsed.
The Pannonian warriors cheered as they flooded in through the breach in the wooden wall, only to be met by the dense shield formation of the Nix soldiers.
The Pannonian warriors were tightly surrounded in the confined space, unable to wield their long spears and longswords. They fell one after another under the stabbing of Roman Short Swords...
Despite this, the strategy efficiently killed opponents and effectively prevented the Pannonian warriors from breaking through the breach.
However, the wooden wall struck by the ramming wood was not the only one.
Andres organized a dozen such ramming wood attack teams. They were spread under the wooden walls on the east and north sides of the Nix Camp. As more and more walls were knocked down, the Nix had no more troops to form shield formations to block them, and the defense force became stretched. Seeing this from the inner camp tower, Maximus decisively issued the order to retreat.