You send in axe pickers to undermine the walls under the cover of vineae, movable shelters made of stout wattling and leather. This effort proves to b emost unfruitful as Saguntum is built entirely upon a slab of rock and there is no earth beneath the walls to undermine. And by putting your troops near the walls in danger, you suffer heavy losses.  With the failure of this plan, you decide to concentrate your whole attack around the entire city by bringing wooden siege towers and battering rams to the Saguntine walls.

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