Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 154: The fall of Crotone

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"Well, you are the commander, you have the final say." Epithenis shrugged again at Felicius, turned and complained to Agarcia: "I said the Chief Executive, can you give it to the brother? Let’s get some wheat flour. There is no oats. At least you can make porridge. My brothers have eaten dried beef for two days, and now it’s a little difficult to even shit."

"As the commander of the Fourth Army, you don’t know that half of the soldiers of the Fourth Army come from here. How can the people here treat their relatives badly. But Asprostum is a small city with a population Not much, and not rich in wheat, and the people’s surplus grain has been eaten up by you in the past few days. Where can there be grain!” Agarcia said helplessly.

"Let’s bear with me, Siracusa’s cavalry has cut off our food passage. I have asked the investigating team to bring the news of'our food supply is difficult' to your majesty. I believe it will not be long, your majesty rate When the army comes, the food problem will be solved." Felicius also comforted him.

"Wait! Wait! Or wait!..." Since Dracos died, Epithenis has become more and more anxious. He didn't want to stay in the mansion and said loudly, "I'll go to the city to see It depends on the situation."

Speaking, he strode out.

Agarcia looked at Felicius who was sitting in a daze. He deeply felt that Dracos' death had a great impact on both of them, so why not he himself. At the beginning, he invited Timathon, Criande and other former comrades-in-arms to come to Dionia, but these people attacked Crimea without authorization, triggering the second Crotone War, although in the end, Crotone was defeated. Dionia's power was expanded, and Daves never blamed him, but he himself blamed himself extremely. Since then, Agarcia has devoted a lot of energy to political affairs in order to forget the guilt in his heart. After several years of hard work, he became the second person in this group of former mercenary veterans to be appointed chief executive (the first was Hilos) because of his good administrative ability.

With the accumulation of political experience and being in Asprostum, he has been dealing with Crotone for a long time. He knows how much Crotone people are unwilling to lose the southern Italian overlord, especially After recovering their strength in the past few years, they did not miss Dionia in the Southern Italy League. Therefore, he had another speculation in his mind regarding the order issued by King Davos to "do not attack rashly": Your Majesty seems It means allowing Syracuse to weaken Crotone. But in this way, does Dionia have the ability to defeat Syracuse independently? !

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The Siege of Crotone has been going on fiercely.

The Syracuses used the archers at the top of the towering siege tower and the belly bow in the tower to sweep away the defenders at the head of the city while slowly approaching the wall.

The Crotones also discussed some ways to defend the siege tower in the past two or three days, such as using a ballista to attack the siege tower and using rockets; when the siege tower approaches, they will throw The oil tank was burned with fire; at the same time, they made a long square wood covered with iron sheet to push up the siege tower and prevent it from getting close to the city wall...

Even with such an effort, several siege towers approached the city wall, and the wooden bridges were lowered. The Syracuse soldiers rushed to the top of the city through the siege towers, and fought fiercely with the defenders.

Lysias urgently sent troops to reinforce, and after fierce fighting, he drove the enemy down one by one.

Just when the Crotone people put their main forces on the defensive siege tower, the Syracuse soldiers climbed to the top of the city through the ladder many times, and fought fiercely with the defenders.

The allied forces of Crotone, Trina, and Siritian have been stubbornly defending.

In the afternoon of the war, Syracuse’s siege smashed the northern gate of Crotone, but the Crotone people had already sealed the door with stones and wood.

However, the combined use of several other siege vehicles and Zhoushi vehicles eventually led to the collapse of a section of the city wall and heavy casualties for the defenders on the city.

The Syracuse soldiers took the opportunity to quickly climb up the collapsed slope, trying to rush into the city.

Fortunately, the reserve team organized by Lycias arrived in time. This team of freedmen, old people, and young people relied on a large number of people and the fighting spirit to defend their homeland, barely resisting the experienced Syracuse soldiers Fierce attack.

It was dusk, and the sky was getting dark. The heads of coalition forces such as Lycias and Cypros all showed joy, thinking that the battle of this day was finally over.

However, Dionysius did not intend to retreat to the camp. He asked the slaves to push the wooden carts, filled with wood, asphalt, resin, and piled with oiled hemp. Xu, push them to the side of the moat and ignite them with fire. Suddenly, a bunch of fires ignited, illuminating the entire city wall.

Dionysius immediately ordered: sound the offensive bugle, beat the drums, and continue to attack the city!

The defenders who had been struggling and thought that the battle should end, saw the Syracuse retreat and another wave of offensives, endlessly, and the morale of the defenders was frustrated.

The unremitting efforts of the Syracuse people finally paid off. Under the urging of the soldiers, after the sacrifice of countless lives, the upper city ramp built by the captives finally put the sandbags on the city wall due to the weakening of the defense force.

The long-awaited Syracuse soldiers rushed to the head of the city and started fighting with the defenders who came to stop them. And Dionysius, who was anxious in his heart, even let the guards around him plunge into the battle at the head of the city.

The defenders could no longer support it and began to retreat, allowing the Syracuse to gain a firm foothold at the head of the city and quickly expand in other directions.

"Quick! Go find Lysias! Tell him, send reinforcements quickly, or the North City won't be able to defend!" Askamas yelled at the messenger angrily.

However, at this moment, the north, west, and south sides of Crotone City are being attacked. The east port must guard against the landing of a large number of enemy ships cruising in the offshore waters. The only reserve team is struggling to resist the enemy attacking through the gap in the city wall. Army, where there are redundant reinforcements.

Just as the generals of Crotone were stretched out because of their strength, they watched the enemy raging up to the top of the city, "Boom!...Boom!..." There were a few loud noises, and a section of the city wall was hit again. The siege engine broke down. In the dust, accompanied by the roar of the Syracuse, the Crotones who were fighting for their homeland finally showed fear on their faces. Under the cover of the night, they began to cry in panic: "Run away! The enemy is coming in." The city is broken!..."

The reserve team with low morale collapsed, and soon the defenders on the city began to collapse...

The Syracuse people broke through the barrier of the city wall one after another, rushing into the city, and the entire northern city defense was completely breached.

Lysias, Cissprotis and other high-level leaders saw with pain: the panicked soldiers ignored their dissuasion, ran past them like a tide, and fled to the depths of the city; the people on both sides of the street I also helped the old and the young to flee together; crying, screaming, and screaming resounded throughout the city...

Seeing that the enemy was clearing the defenders of the city wall and advancing towards the center of the city, although Lycias was anxious, he was completely confused and didn't know what to do.

At this time, long dragons composed of torches appeared from the depths of the city: "Go to the Temple of Apollo!!! Go to the Temple of Apollo!!!..."

This neat shout reminded the people of Crotone in panic. Under the lighting of torches, they staggered to the Apollo Temple near the center of the city, where the acropolis is located.

Lysias and his party also rushed over.

"Who made you do this?!" Lycias asked the soldier holding the torch anxiously.

"It's General Millon!" the soldier replied.

At this time, Miron was not a general at all. His task of defending the harbor was asked by Ascamas, but this did not prevent the soldiers from respecting him.

And Lucias didn't care about these at this time. On the contrary, he was grateful to Miron in his heart. If he hadn't taken timely measures to guide the people to the Acropolis, the consequences would be disastrous.

He looked back at the flaming city wall, watching the heavily figured soldiers still desperately blocking the enemy's attack, screaming one after another, and suddenly his heart was twisted.

He reminded the soldiers beside him with concern: "The enemy will be killed soon, and you have to rush back to the Acropolis as soon as possible!" After speaking, he and the others merged into the chaotic flow of people, and they must rush to the Acropolis. , In order to appease the panicked people, maintain the order of the Acropolis, and at the same time organize the people to guard Crotone's last fortress-the Acropolis.

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"My lord, we won! We broke through the inner city of Crotone!!" Damocles was extremely excited.

Dionysius couldn't hide his joy. After receiving the blessings of his attendants, he immediately prayed to Apollo to express his gratitude.

Amidst the cheers, Phoebe Das, who was lost in thought, looked a little different. Today’s siege war gave him a great shock. Not only the ingenious and powerful siege equipment, but the entire organization of the huge siege team was also quite orderly, but it was Dionysius that surprised him. Sri Lanka's spicy.

Dionysius failed the siege and attacked the soldiers and teams who fled the battlefield. It was incredible! In the traditional Greek war, there was never a way to deal with deserters, and even Sparta did not have such a tradition. After all, the atmosphere of the whole Spartan society advocating battle honor would make deserters have nowhere to go. However, Dionysius not only did it, but also more than once, forcing the Syracuse soldiers to attack desperately regardless of life and death, and created the miracle of breaking the strong Greek city of Crotone within a day.

This made Phoebe das admire Dionysius, who used to be bad at field battles, but such a victory might be based on the fact that Dionysius didn't care about the number of soldiers killed.