Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 14: Cunogolata’s suggestion
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"We will wait and see." Daves smiled relaxedly, completely not paying attention to the threat of Lycias: "But I also remind you that next time you come again, I will make the terms It won’t be such a good condition now! In addition, I would like to remind you that Crotone’s enemy is not only our Dionia... the war continues, who knows what will happen?"
Lucias was shocked when he heard this.
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From midday to noon, the first batch of grain-carrying teams arrived at the barracks.
Daves breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time brought a letter written by Kuno Gorata. The letter mentioned that the messenger of Lockley had arrived at Turey and proposed to the Senate "Locke The Senate did not respond to the suggestion of aligning with Dionia to fight against Crotone. The messenger was tired from the road and fell ill with a high fever. He was in the hospital for treatment, and could not go south to find Daves directly in a short time.
Kunogorata put forward his views at the end of the letter: "Regardless of whether the Archon has the confidence to solve Crotone independently, please take into account that the strength of the city-state of Roccoli is second only to Crotone. , With Syracuse’s strong support behind it, the elimination or severely weakening of Crotone and Lori took the opportunity to annex Crotone’s allies, will establish a stronger enemy for Dionia... …"
Davers read it several times, and then picked up another letter. This is a secret letter from Aristilas and delivered to Daves through a special channel. The main part of the letter is Mention of some of the things that have happened in the city of Turiyi in the past few days, of course, including the arrival of the Rock Lee messenger. In addition, he also mentioned events around Dionia. For example, after the consul of Tarantum, Diomilas led his army to take down Manduria, he asked Achita to lead his army to attack the city of Brindsey. , And the fierce battle with the Mesapi people continues; Potentia is summoning the surrounding tribes, and seems to be preparing to attack Grumentum southward...
The last piece of news attracted great attention from Daves: Dionysius, the all-powerful general of Syracuse, led 80,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry and 400 warships to Carthage... The war between Upper Dionia and Crotone, at the beginning of the year, the entire Greek world in the Western Mediterranean was full of wars.
80,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry, 400 warships? ! ! ! Daves opened his eyes wide and carefully confirmed the numbers on the letter. Although he knew that Syracuse was the leading Greek power in the Western Mediterranean, Daves was still frightened by the powerful strength it showed at the moment. After all, Syracuse is located on the island of Sicily, but far from Turri. It's not far away, just two or three days by boat. When Hieron, the brother of Dillon, who created Syracuse’s glory decades ago, succeeded as the tyrant, there was a precedent for interfering in the internal affairs of other city-states in Great Greece, and Daves had to be vigilant.
He picked up Kunogolata's letter again, read it again, and then pondered for a long time...
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After Lysias returned to Crimea, he naturally talked with Miron about his talks with Dionian Archon Daves. Miron was angry that the Dionians dared to offer such harsh terms for the peace talks to Crotone, and at the same time felt extremely guilty.
All morning, Miron was observing the situation in the Dionia barracks on the city wall, thinking about ways to break the enemy. Regardless of whether it is on the south or north shore, the soldiers of Dionia continue to build camps and continue to push forward the defensive line. Trenches, deer villages, traps, etc. are laid at intervals, making it feel as if they are not what they want. Attacking Crimea, it was as if the Crotones were going to attack them.
Milon sometimes sighed: What method did the commander of the Dionian army use to make such brave and opinionated citizen soldiers willingly continue to do this kind of hard work and dirty work? Crotone's soldiers had long since quit and made trouble.
At noon, Crotone’s fleet commander Ascamas rushed to the port of Crimea, and Miron was finally excited, because Askamas, one of the ten generals of Crotone, was also Long's friend, a representative of the radicals, Miron believes that he can agree to his plan and help himself.
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Send Ascamas away, and after getting his affirmative answer, Miron can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
He just wanted to lie down and rest for a while, when the guards came in and reported that the enemy outside the north gate was moving.
Before, the Dionian soldiers had been working hundreds of meters away from the north gate, but at this time they suddenly advanced to within a hundred meters. They happened to be leveled out of the range of the Crotone light infantry on the wall. On the ground, compact the land and sort out a large flat area. At the same time, they are guarded by heavily armed light and heavy infantry on both sides to prevent the defenders from going out of the city assault.
There is no slingshot in this era. There is a moat and wall blocking the distance so far, it is impossible to harm Crimea. Therefore, Crotone soldiers watched curiously on the wall, and There is not much tension.
Milong is also watching all this. He is already a little tired, and he also wants to understand clearly: What exactly does the Dionian want to do?
The Dionian soldiers began to carry four or five-meter-long tree trunks, placing them on the edge of the flat ground, driving the trunks into the soil one by one at intervals, and then connecting and fixing them with ropes. Soon A wooden frame about 30 meters long and 5 meters wide was made.
"Do the Dionians want to build houses here, and are not afraid that we will burn them!" A Crotone soldier said jokingly, which immediately caused a burst of laughter.
But I saw Dionian soldiers carrying heavy sacks one by one, putting them into the edge of the wooden frame one by one, and stacking them neatly...
"Hahaha... I think the Dionians not only want to build houses, but they also want to make bread (because they are sacks for grains and flour)!" Another witty remark from another Crotone soldier It caused a burst of laughter.
Since there were thousands of Dionian soldiers involved in the labor, a wall was built with sacks in a blink of an eye, and the height of the wall quickly became level with the wall of Crimea, and it continued to increase... …
Seeing this, Miron's face changed drastically, and the adjutant beside him shouted: "No, the enemy will build a high wall to attack us!"
Seeing the scene in front of me, Crotone soldiers who were still watching the excitement have already understood that they began to panic: There are many powerful slingers in the Dionian light infantry, which originally had a relatively long range. Now the Dionians have used clever methods to quickly build a platform nearly two meters higher than the four-meter-high wall of Crimea. This means that their light infantry can climb this high wall by virtue of the height. Let their arrows and stones attack the soldiers on the wall of Crimea.
Once the enemy attacks the city, their slingers and archers can stand on a high platform and attack the soldiers defending on the city wall. This will make the defenders at the head of the city busy avoiding the attack and involuntarily defending the city wall...m Long was already in a cold sweat at this moment: this platform must be destroyed!
But he also knew that the enemy would be guarded strictly, so he decided to set the time of the raid in the evening.
Soon, he saw the Dionians digging trenches around the high platform and filling the gap between the high platform with the excavated soil...
Milon is a little crazy: Dionians are simply rats, thinking about digging holes to save their lives all the time!
At dusk, the Dionians built another small camp around the high wall.
Milon finally gave up the decision to attack. He didn't want to waste the soldier's life on this little-hope operation. There was already a hint of care in his heart.
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In the early morning of the second day, the horns of the North Battalion of Dionia sounded a long time, and the soldiers of the companies of the 2nd Legion picked up the ladder to form small square formations, forming a fish-scale formation 100 meters away from the city wall.
Davos stepped on a **** built of mud, standing on a high platform for the first time, and subconsciously stamped his foot twice, feeling relatively stable.
When he first saw the city of Crimea, he had the idea of building a high platform. The wall of more than three meters high is indeed too short. However, it is actually not easy to use soil to build a soil barrier higher than the city wall, because it is easy to collapse. Fortunately, engineers have come up with a good way to use tree trunks and ropes as a frame, use sack soil as a support, and then fill with soil... It's fast and firm.
Daves is condescending, and the situation on the northern wall of Crimea is unobstructed. Seeing the soldiers standing on the opposite city, Daves said to Epithenis next to him: "Can our archers shoot the enemy?"
"Your Excellency Commander, there is no problem at all!" Epithenis said confidently.
Davers nodded: "Then attack."
"Let the arrows!" Epithenis gave an order, and the archers on the high platform began to shoot the first round of arrows. The slinger, who was located behind, next to the archer, also began to wave the sling in his hand.
The siege has finally begun! Standing on the head of the North Gate City, Miron was full of fighting spirit at this moment. Facing the arrows and flying stones flying in the volley, he shouted: "Defense!"
On this section of the wall facing the high platform, he specially arranged for heavy infantry to defend the city. They raised their round shields to cover the top of their heads...
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There is a newly built village on the southern bank of the Krati River on the Subari Plain. Aguilas is the village chief. This is the lowest level official in the Dionian administrative system. According to the new The promulgated law stipulates that the village chief is elected by the citizens of the village, and the term of office is one year.
However, becoming a village chief is not an easy task, and candidates must meet several necessary conditions: First, they must be a formal Dionian citizen; second, they must pay taxes on time without major violations of the law. Criminal records; in addition, those who have served in the military, have made military exploits, and have made special contributions to the Dionian League are preferred.