Nova Roma Chapter 301 - Danger at the north gate

Tito sighed after killing one of those humanoid beasts that seemed to be communicating with his companions.
He didn't know if that beast could communicate, but it was better to kill him than to allow him to continue doing whatever he was doing besides the smile he had on her face was extremely disturbing.
The battle began to worsen as many of the soldiers suffered wounds that disabled them.
This began causing the citizens and the city guard reserves to replace them.
They also began to occupy the paves shields to defend themselves in the walls; this makes it difficult for the soldiers to shoot correctly, but it benefits them because they were completely protected from the constant attacks.
Gradually the army was running out of supplies, mainly those related to the musket firing, a little gunpowder that remained was decided to occupy to give some gunshots.
So the musketeers had to sacrifice the use of their muskets to exchange them for crossbows or bows, this will reduce the quality of the shot because the soldiers who had trained the musket usually had training for hot weapons not for the use crossbows or arc.
Citizens also began to manufacture some disposable spears made with some pieces of steel that only sharpened some sticks created with remains of wood.
These disposable weapons were proposed by General Alair to be used as disposable spears that would be thrown from the wall to kill or damage a few beasts without sacrificing good war material.
Because conventional spears can be used to be thrown, but that implies that they would be lost, and in the heat of battle, creating or recovering them would be too late and dangerous, so it would be a loss of good war material.
Tito began to occupy all his Bolts and began to realize that the auxiliaries who gave him fewer and fewer Bolts until some handed him some wooden sticks that had a small piece of sharp steel as a point.
One of the auxiliary boys who was wearing the Bolts was stopped by Tito. "Boy, you know why they are delivering these poor quality Bolts, these things may serve some nearby targets, but in the long term, they will lose speed.
They are garbage that can kill, but it is not what we need. "
The young man just sighed and looked at the soldier in front of him. "Legionnaire, these are General Alair's orders, since we no longer have Bolts of quality.
All this material that I brought him is what the citizens were doing down there, I know it is of low quality, but it is all we can do.
I hope you can continue fighting for our safety. We will continue to support you in all that we can, I hope you understand that resources are limited.
This is why not only you but also need supplies in other parts of the walls, it is my duty to inform you legionnaire, but it seems that in the south wall they are having problems.
If I apologize, I will have to follow my path because I have to take even more resources to other parts of the wall, thanks for your legionary effort. "
Tito could only be surprised for a moment but quickly woke up from his thoughts and took the Bolts to shoot the nearby beasts.
He noticed that the distance traveled by the Bolt was quite short, but it seemed to do more damage to the beast as the sharp edges of the Bolt did more damage to the skin and muscles of the creatures.
He decided to check his theory by firing some more Bolt accounts, and then he could say that the irregular shape of the Bolts was perfect to be shot at the feet of the beasts with this they could not move.
As the muscles of his feet suffered damage that causes them pain, without wasting time, he informed the centurion of the north gate of his discoveries.
The centurion informed the soldiers to start shooting at the legs of the beasts using the Bolts that the auxiliaries brought from the city.
The soldiers obeyed the orders of the centurion and fired their crossbows towards the feet of the beasts, they stopped moving and were easy prey for the ballista guys who shot at them and killed them with the stones they threw with great force.
Beasts could only see a large stone approaching them before everything went dark at best.
For at worst, the stones hit him on the sides or on the legs, wrecking them and leaving them lying on the ground where their companions crush them just killing them.
This tactic also worked perfectly because where the bodies fell usually began to make some bottlenecks that were taken advantage of by the ballista guys.
The battle was progressing relatively well until they could see how the north gate is, the humanoid beasts began to use a few improvised torches.
Because of the distance and that they could only occupy a spyglass to see, they realized that they were using skins and grease to make the torches, and these were supported by bones.
The problem was not the torches. The real problem was when these beings began to approach the doors very dangerously and began to place the torches in them to be able to light a fire on the wooden door.
The soldiers at the door used stones, and some improvised spears that they had brought from the town to throw over the head of these are, but although they managed to kill one or the other arrived and took their place to place the torch.
General Alair path of what the humanoid beasts were doing and quickly began to reinforce the door ordered that the citizens put somehow many bags of earth on the doors.
The city was prepared to stop any kind of non-intelligent threat, but when it came to attacks involving fire, it was too dangerous.
Alair could only lament that he had not asked for metal doors like the other cities or some metal bars. He hoped that the wooden gate could resist.
It was only a matter of time before the door began to lose durability due to fire. Although the soldiers used boiling water to stop the attacks on the door, humanoid beings proved wholly obsessed.