I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 110
The Tautas tribe was swept into the dust of history overnight, which shocked those barbarian tribes who belonged to the Macedonian Kingdom. While fearing the powerful fighting power of the Macedonian army, they also secretly warned themselves not to do any stupid things against the Macedonians , so as not to lead to disaster.And the informant Farom tribe was also terrified after learning about it, thankfully they made a correct decision, otherwise they might be wiped out together with the Taotas tribe now.

In order to appease the whistleblower tribe, Antigon distributed part of the loot from the Tautas tribe as a reward, and even granted the chief of the tribe the status of a Macedonian citizen, and publicized it in a big way, preparing to let Those tribes who surrendered supervised each other, and made them weigh up whether they dare to follow and die.

At the same time, the Brits knew that the Macedonians' targets would be transferred to themselves after the Koritas fled, so they mobilized all available soldiers in their tribe, and issued a general mobilization order to the affiliated tribes, and at the same time dispatched The envoy asked for help from the tribes further north, and was going to wait for reinforcements in its capital, Greatrum. The Chiefs Council of the Brits knew that the Macedonians were very powerful in field battles and had almost no defeats, so they gave up the decisive battle with them in the field. The idea is to defend with strong walls.

The walls of Greatroom are indeed strong, for they are built of stone hewn from the Great Hill on which the city rests, and the word Greatroom means "steel" in the Britt dialect, Britt The iron ore used by people to forge armor and weapons was produced from this mountain.And it was with such a hill that produced iron ore that the Britts built an army equipped with iron weapons and built a tall and strong city wall, which looked down upon the barbarian tribes on the entire Ograle Peninsula.

This city has never been captured by the army of other tribes in the past hundred years, so it also has the title of "the city that will never fall" among the barbarian tribes.

It was such a title that gave Britt's Council of Chiefs the confidence to defend the city. In addition, the large number of troops they assembled also gave them enough confidence.After mobilizing the entire tribe, they quickly raised an army of just over 4000, including more than [-] armored soldiers with the highest combat effectiveness. They may not be able to defeat the enemy in a field battle, but so many people guard the city wall, Macedonian People will definitely not be able to get in.

I forgot to mention that these barbarians’ understanding of siege warfare is still at the level of ladder ants and carrying a big tree trunk into the door. They have never seen tall siege towers and catapults that can throw heavy boulders into the sky. Chariot—Although the Macedonians used this weapon in the Battle of Arcelos, they had not seen the specific appearance of the catapult, and they did not associate this with the siege battle.

Antigonus knew that the Britts would not let it go, and he was always wary of this barbarian who possessed smelting technology and could manufacture weapons and armor by himself, so after waiting for the auxiliary army provided by the subjugated tribe, Antigonus led the army After leaving the stronghold renamed Lamia in a mighty way, they drove towards the territory of the Brits.

In addition to the initial troops of the headquarters, the army under his command added more than 5000 barbarian auxiliary troops. Among the more than 5000 barbarian auxiliary troops, there were 200 cavalry from various tribes, more than 4000 barbarian chariots, and more than [-] ordinary infantry.In order to facilitate command, Antigonus organized them into dozens of brigades based on tribes, and the commander was personally held by the noble chief who led the team. He originally wanted to organize a new army simply and rudely, but considering The relationship between these tribes is not as harmonious as imagined, and internal fighting may occur, so this idea was dismissed.

Facts have proved that Antigon's approach is correct. These tribal auxiliaries are particularly fond of infighting. Even if they are not arranged together, they can still find various reasons to fight. In just two days after leaving Lamia Within a short period of time, seven reports of fights were sent to him. Either people from this tribe and people from that tribe accidentally bumped into each other and started fighting, or people from this tribe refused to accept the people from that tribe to provoke them. There are all kinds of weird reasons.

In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, Antigonus became ruthless, and directly whipped several parties in front of the whole army, warning them that if there is another time, they will be executed immediately. Although they did not directly beheaded, but this time Killing chickens as an example still shocked those rebellious barbarians. In the next few days, they obediently did not make any more troubles, and just entered the Britt's territory without incident.

The tribal distribution of the Britt tribe is not scattered like other tribes, but they live together around Greatrum. Therefore, when the army led by Antigonus approached Greatrum, what they saw was a three-story mountain with its back on the mountain. A larger city facing outwards and layers of villages and farmland spreading out around her.

This is the first time Antigonus has seen a non-Macedonian large city since he crossed over. Previously, what the Coritas abandoned could only be said to be towns, and they were still deserted. Now Greatrum is different. , the city is home to more than 1 tribal people and is full of vitality.If the two sides were not in a state of war, Antigonus really wanted to enter this city to see what the city life of the so-called barbarians in the eyes of civilized countries would be like.

However, the positions of the two sides cannot be changed. After Antigonus inherited the throne of the Macedonian Kingdom, his relationship with the Ogrel barbarian tribes was doomed to be incompatible, and they could only resort to war!
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On October 10, the Macedonian army approached the city of Greatrum, surrounded the city from three sides, and then destroyed all the villages outside the city. The wood obtained was used to build the siege camp, but the wood was obviously not enough , Antigonus could only ask people to go far away to cut down the trees, and then carry them over with a lot of trouble.Looking at the bare plains around Greatrum, Antigonus understood why the city's walls were made of stone, because their timber was harder to obtain than stone.

Due to the lack of wood, it took the Macedonian army half a month to build a siege camp around Gretrum. However, during this period, he also received an important piece of information. There was actually a small Britt stronghold on the other side. Through the torture of the captured Britt scouts, the Macedonians learned that the small stronghold was the iron ore mine of Mount Grete. And there is a trail from the mine that leads directly to the city from the mountain!

Antico had an idea in an instant.

(End of this chapter)