Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 16: Invaded the northern plains of Croton

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"The freemen are out of food?!" Kunogolata asked in surprise.

"The war broke out too suddenly. Many free people did not reserve food in advance. When they wanted to buy grain, the market was already sold out." Felicius looked at the two, isn't the instigator the Alliance itself? .

"Then use food as a salary and continue to let the freedmen fight for the alliance. Instead of shortening the citizenship period as a reward, making the alliance's citizenship less valuable! Felicius, the freedmen can be in power Under the leadership of the officer can make great achievements and defeat the regular army of Crotone, then even without the leadership of the archon, it should be no problem to deal with the intrusion of the ordinary sailors of the Crotone fleet?" Kunogo Rata asked Felicius stiffly.

Feirisius didn’t care, and said seriously: “Of course there’s no problem! My plan is to make the freedmen a team of one hundred people, patrolling all the coasts that can be landed all day long. At the same time, send A brigade came to Turriy-Kastelun Avenue and stationed a company every five miles. Between the patrol and the heavy infantry company, the patrol should be able to communicate with a small group of enemies. Repel it; when encountering a large number of enemies, the patrol team will block the enemy's surprise attack first, the scout will notify the nearest heavy infantry company, and then rush to fight the enemy together..."

Kunogolata looked slightly awkward: "That's a good idea."

"It's just that our grain supply should be tense again. If we need to use the money from the treasury to buy grain in Heraclea, Merses will blame us again." Cornelus said helplessly.

"There is no money in wars. As long as the consul can get the final victory, there will be money." Since the victory of the Tribute battle, Kuno Gorata, who fears the war, confronts Dave Si had more confidence.

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Milon originally thought that the Dionian army would take the opportunity to attack the city with the help of the high platform. There was no movement outside the infantry throwing arrows and flying stones on the city wall. In the end, even the light infantry stopped attacking because of their weak hands.

Such a weird calm made Milon very puzzled. He certainly didn’t know that the 5000 men of Dionian’s Third Army and 3000 Raos soldiers had entered the northern plains of Croton, began to destroy farmland, destroy villages, and did the same thing as the sailors on Crotone’s landing. , It’s just that Daves had a military order in advance: They were not allowed to kill the people of Crotone. So the soldiers just threatened and drove them away.

As early as after the defeat of the battle, the Crotone Council advised the people in the villages on the northern plains to temporarily flee to the city to escape the fighting. Because of the spring broadcast and two or three days of not seeing the enemy, the people of Crotone thought that Milon blocked the Dionians in Crimea, so most of the people did not evacuate. Now, the Dionian soldiers of the brigade suddenly appeared in front of them viciously, and the people of Crotone fled south in panic.

In southern Italy, the Croton Plain is comparable to the Subari Plain because of two rivers: one is the Neto River, which originates in the mountains of the southern Apennines and flows into the tower from west to east. Lanto Bay, due to the confluence of many tributaries, the width, depth and flow of this river are in the end larger than the Krati River on the Subari Plain; the other river is the Tacinadi River, which also originates in the southern Apennines In the mountains, it flows into the sea from north to south. These two rivers from the east to the south irrigate the Croton Plain, and at the same time cut the Croton Plain into an area that is approximately square. On the side of the core area near the sea is the famous strong state of Great Greece—— Crotone. Due to the frequent proximity of the Taranto Gulf, Crotone has one of the few deep-water ports in the Greek city-states on the Apennines. Crotone has fertile plains and excellent ports. The root cause of the war between Subaris and Crotone a hundred years ago was because Subaris wanted to destroy potential opponents, and Crotone They wanted to win the dominance of the trade in southern Italy, so a small part of the Subaris people fled to Crotone because of the dispute, which was just the fuse of the war.

The strange thing is that the two rivers are very close after they flow out of the mountains. Between them, between the mountains and the plains, there is a city called Asprostum, and its founder is Bruti people. To the west of the North Croton Plain is the continuous Apennines, which is difficult to pass, but following the natural valley formed by the Arvo River, a tributary of the Neto River, trekking to the northwest, you can reach the only plateau in southern Italy-the Cosenza Plateau. , The Bruti people who lived there originally started from the upper reaches of the Arvo River, followed the valley all the way down, and arrived at Asprostum.

However, when Crotone becomes stronger, it will not allow an alien city to control the upper reaches of the two rivers and from the northern plains of Croton, only 20 miles northwest of it. , You can walk into the southern passage without passing the Neto River, and threaten the safety of the Crotone people from a condescending position. Therefore, a hundred years ago, Crotone launched a large army to attack the city of Asprostum. After several battles, it finally occupied the city and drove the Brutitis back to the Cosenza Plateau. Up to now, Asprostum has completely become a Greek city. As a colonial city of Crotone, it is completely under the control of Crotone, and it is a horn of Crotone. Guarding the safety of the inner city of Crotone.

The terrible news of the Dionian invasion of Croton Plains spread to the inner city of Crotone, and the people panicked. Especially the 3,000 soldiers in Laos, hurriedly advancing all the way, just approaching the north bank of the Neto River.

The guards on the southern bank of the Neto River panicked. In order to prevent the enemy from crossing the pontoon bridge and directly under the city of Crotone, they set fire to several pontoon bridges on the river and burned several pontoon bridges on the river, which caused many people who fled south to stay behind. The north bank of the Neto River.

Just when Crotone ferryed them with a boat, the Laos army had reached the bank of the Neto River. The people of Crotone cried and were forced to flee to the northwest along the bank of the Neto River in panic. .

When the Greeks first came to this plain, due to the Neto River and its many tributaries and abundant rainfall, there were also swamps here, but the Greeks had mature drainage technology and after hundreds of years of governance, There is basically no swamp. However, the people of Crotone are still full of risks while fleeing, because the Laos sent several teams of soldiers to pursue them.

The people in Crotone were shocked and tired. Fortunately, before they knew it, there were more young people in the team. They enthusiastically helped women carry heavy loads, lifted children, and supported the elderly, so that the fleeing team did not lie down with an old, young, and child. In the end, the Raos soldiers stopped chasing, and the city of Asprostum appeared in front of the fugitives.

Asprostum, a citizen of Crotone, General Fagris opened the city gate almost without hesitation, and put nearly 900 fugitives covered in dust and panic into the city.

At this moment, the spies urgently reported: 5000 Dionian soldiers attacked the city of Asprostum!

When Fargolis heard this, he panicked immediately. In the two wars with Dionia, the Asprostums were recruited by more than 6,000 people to join the battle. They were almost always fighting dogs with meat buns and gone forever. There are only 700 citizens who can fight in the city. How can it be possible to stop the 5,000 Dionian soldiers who defeated Crotone's army in the battle? !

Fagres, who lacks actual combat experience, has no confidence. When his eyes fell on the panicked fleeing people in the city, he instantly changed his original intention to **** them out of the city and return to the burden of rewarding, in order to win the favor of the Crotone Council. idea.

"The people of Crotone! The people of Crotone!!" He stood on the stone ladder of the city wall and shouted loudly. As a result, the soldiers also began to shout, and finally the fleeing people calmed down, all looking up at the general of Asprostum.

"People of Crotone, 5,000 people from Dionia came to this city!" As soon as Fagris said, the following became agitated: "What! Dionia is chasing Up!"

"We haven't opened the south gate yet, let's get out of here!!"

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The people clamored loudly, and Farges and the soldiers managed to calm them down.

"Of course you can go. But you have to know that, because Crotone launched two wars against Turei, most of the citizens of Asprostum followed Crotone’s army. The result was not able to return. As a result, there are not many citizen soldiers in the city. I am afraid that they cannot stop the large number of Dionians! Asprostum is the northern barrier of Crotone. Once Dionians are allowed If people occupy, then they can go south smoothly, easily cross the Tacinadi River, into the central plain of Crotone, and it will be a disaster!... I implore all of you to pick up Men with shields and spears join us to defend Asprostum! It is to defend Crotone!"

Fagres said this with sincerity, because his homeland was originally outside the inner city of Crotone. Asprostum said it was a city, but in fact it was more like a special Dermo ( From the administrative division of Athens, several villages are combined together, equivalent to a town). Although there is its own council, there is only one general responsible for managing the city state. It is selected from the "ten generals" elected by Crotone every year. Therefore, In an emergency, Fargo, who is also General Crotone, has the right to give orders to the people of Crotone.

The fleeing people are in silence, and everyone is considering and weighing the pros and cons.