From your ranks, you bring forth a siege tower, exceeding in height the fortifications of the city. To lift the men’s spirits, you yourself are present at battle. Once the tower docks with the wall, your men clear the top ramparts of the Saguntine’s ballistae and catapults.  After clearing the outer walls of Saguntum, it’s the perfect opportunity to send in five hundred Africans with pickaxes to dismantle the wall. Fortunately, as it is an ancient city, the bricks were not cemented with lime, but rather with clay and the bricks came loose easily. Through the open spaces of the ruins, your troops rushed into the city. They retake the catapultae and ballistae, so that you now have a fort within the city itself, commanding it like a citadel, they surround it with a wall. The Saguntines fall back to an inner wall they have raised, diminishing daily the size of their city. Both sides exert the utmost vigor in fortifying and fighting.

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