Battlefield of All Sides

Chapter 152 The Tireese's Counterattack
Alexander said that he would build a road leading to the island city, and the Macedonian soldiers really took action. At this port, they began to dump rocks and soil into the sea and build dams.

The original [-] soldiers were now completely transformed into construction workers, who transported large stones and earthworks from inside and outside the city to the port.

A car was dumped into the sea, and a little road gradually grew out of the calm sea.

It is less than one kilometer away from Nadao City, but the ten-meter-wide road built by the army is advancing rapidly.

Alexander wasn't worried about any unsightly city-state threatening him at this time, and breaking through the city in one fell swoop yesterday was the best proof that everyone was fighting against each other.

So Alexander generously ordered the soldiers to demolish the outer city of Tyre, use local materials, and pave the road faster.

This is a small harbor, and the water depth is only a few meters. It is not very difficult to pave a road.

The really difficult things are those Tyrian warships cruising around the periphery.

In the previous week, Alexander personally came to oversee the work, commanded the soldiers to pave the road faster, and rewarded those who worked hard. At the same time, he promised to distribute the treasures in Tire City at that time. Everyone was full of confidence and motivation.

But when gradually entering the depths from the shallows of the port, the progress of the construction slowed down suddenly, and this place was not far from the city of Tire, and the Tyreans also started to fight back.

The dikes were built from east to west, and the warships of the Tyrians raised prices on both sides. They divided labor and cooperated, and attacked different places at the same time, forcing the builders to leave the dikes for defense. Some places that were not fully built, these people He dared to rush directly to the front, and then used the rope and wooden paddle in his hand to pull the materials apart.

Not only that, when the troops advanced to a distance of a hundred meters from the city of Tire, the heavy crossbow on the top of the city also began to exert force, shooting arrows at the unsuspecting Macedonian soldiers, causing many people to panic. casualties.

The Macedonian soldiers also began to fight back, but their ships were not reliable and their numbers were small. They were not enough to look at the Tyrean warships with powerful rams. Some soldiers were even captured because the ships were sunk.

Tire took advantage of the right time and place, but it made the Macedonians furious.

Alexander was also very annoyed when he saw this situation, and then he thought of a way. He ordered the soldiers to build two tall wooden towers, wrapped them with leather, filled them with stone breakers, and pushed them to the forefront of the embankment casting.

The rawhide wrapped around it protected it from fire, and the slingers and archers above were able to counterattack the Tyreans who attacked the soldiers building the road.

For a while things paved the way again.

"Yake, don't look at it anymore, be careful that the Tire archers are staring at you."

Li Mu was standing by a wooden tower looking at the city of Tire not far away. At this moment, the embankment was only a few tens of meters away from the island. Although the existence of the wooden tower protected the smooth paving, Li Mu always felt that something was wrong today. .

First of all, the Tire fleet, which had been harassing the surrounding area, has not appeared since the morning. Although the city is still throwing arrows here, the density has dropped a lot.

Li Mu would not think that it was because the Tireese had run out of ammunition and food, they were well prepared and did not see any changes in the city.

What worried Li Mu even more was the dark cloud in the west.

At this time, dark clouds appeared, and once it turned into a squall, if a big wave was rolled up, it would be a huge threat to this unfinished dam.

At the same time, Li Mu also felt that the people from Tire were probably planning something.

"Hey, Yake, what are you doing?" Seeing that Li Mu hadn't moved, Philip, the supervisor, came forward and asked a few words. He followed Li Mu's gaze and looked into the distance, but he didn't see anything. The situation comes.

Philip was also used to Li Mu being so dazed, so he shook his head and was about to walk away, but was pulled back by Li Mu.

"Philip, what kind of wind is blowing with us these days?"

"Wind? South wind." Philip replied with question marks all over his head, but Li Mu put his hand on the wooden tower next to him thoughtfully, and then his eyes widened.

"Wind, that's right, wind!" Li Mu murmured, and slapped the wooden tower hard, but Philip was still surprised, but Li Mu said to him.

"Philip, how long has it been since you changed the rawhide?"

"Five days, you are not worried about burning this thing, are you? Don't worry, this thing won't burn after ten days and half a month. Those rockets will burn a few holes at most."

"But what if there is a strong wind now? And then a fire ignites directly?" Li Mu asked.

"Where is there going to be any fire, we are now..." Philip mocked and argued, but suddenly stopped talking, turned his head and looked in the direction of Tire City.

The wind is coming.

The south wind disappeared, the west wind suddenly picked up, and the sea breeze blew on the face with a force.

Li Mu yelled in his heart that it was terrible, and immediately climbed up the wooden tower, shouting at the surrounding soldiers and slaves to push the wooden tower back.

Those people haven't realized what's going on.

But suddenly ships appeared on both sides of the small island of Tire.

The Tire warships set sail at this time, and the soldiers on the wooden tower quickly sounded the alarm, but Li Mu was the first to see a few small ships in front of the fleet.

There was no one on the boat, and there were some white things on it, like sawdust.

A flash of lightning flashed through Li Mu's heart, and he turned his head and shouted loudly to Philip: "Philip! Go, let the soldiers go immediately!"

Philip also came to his senses at this time, and immediately turned his head and shouted loudly, while Li Mu climbed up the wooden tower and ordered the soldiers above to come down immediately.

At this time, the Tyrean fleet had already charged with small boats, and at the same time, the big boat next to it was throwing torches up.

As the west wind blew, the flames shot up instantly, and the white smoke rose, but the boat flooded with flames was heading towards the wooden tower at this moment.

There was no time to push the wooden tower close to the water, so Li Mu could only run back with a few soldiers, and at the same time told the surrounding soldiers to leave, watching the burning small wooden boats rush up the embankment.

A small boat rushed under a wooden tower, and the tongue of flames rolled up immediately. The wind helped the fire, and another wooden tower next to it also suffered. The surrounding area suddenly burst into flames and smoke billowed.

The people on the embankment were all running backwards, but the other side of Tire City was getting more and more lively.

I saw that the gate of Tire Island City was lowered suddenly, and many people poured out of it. Those people who were obviously just dressed as citizens quickly went to the embankment under the support of the Tire City warship that was docked.

Li Mu could only see the sails fluttering in the distance, and the surrounding soldiers fled in panic one by one. He saw those Tyrians destroying the dam that was about to be completed, but they couldn't do anything.

The entire inner and outer city of Tire fell into a commotion, and the fire rolled into the sky, which could be clearly seen from a distance.

And those Tyrians also took advantage of this natural barrier to destroy the dam to their heart's content. They threw all the wooden stakes and fences that had been driven into the sea into the fire.

Cheers and scolding came one after another, and many Macedonian soldiers roared furiously, wanting to do something with their weapons. In the end, under the scorching fire, they could only watch these Tireese build the things they had built. All destroyed.

It wasn't until the fire gradually extinguished, and finally extinguished in a rainstorm, that Li Mu and others had a chance to go to check the situation.

The wooden pagoda had been completely burned down, and the wooden piles and wooden fences that had been laid down were also completely destroyed. Those Tyrians even pushed the larger stones into the sea and disappeared.

As the attacker, Li Mu didn't know whether to get angry at this moment, or to praise these scheming Tyrians.

"These damned Phoenicians! Damn it!" Philip cursed loudly at the side, and at this moment the island city with its gates closed cheered again, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

But this time, Li Mu and others' eyes widened suddenly, and their faces became angry the next moment.

The Tyrians actually hung many corpses on the city wall with ropes, and all of the hundreds of corpses were dressed as Macedonian soldiers.

These soldiers were covered in white, but they were already dead.

But these Tyrians celebrated their victories in this way and taunted the Macedonians for their failures.

They have completely pushed themselves into the abyss of hatred, and they are forcing Alexander to die.

"Bastard! I will kill all the men in Tyre, and I will sell all their women as slaves, all of them!" Philip shouted loudly at this moment, and the soldiers around him also roared.

And at this moment, there was a thick horn sound from behind, which was the horn sound of assembly.

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(End of this chapter)