Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 178: The disaster in Campania

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This made the soldiers speed up again and again, and Zanteparis, who was almost 60 years old, felt a little overwhelmed even riding a horse.

After entering the mountain road, even if it was urgent, Zanteparis had to let the troops slow down to prevent the enemy from being ambushed.

At this moment, the soldiers saw the flames blazing into the sky in the distance.

The scout sent out hurried back to report: The Kautini had retreated and burned the entire town of Bapania.

When Zanteparis led his army to arrive, this prosperous town built in the valley was already shrouded in flames, and three headless corpses were placed on the open space to the south of the town. A wooden sign was inserted with a line of Greek written in human blood: I have 134 Dionians in my hand. I will exchange them for the captured Samonei warriors, otherwise these corpses will be their fate!

Seeing this tragedy, the soldiers were all angry and demanded to pursue the enemy and rescue the captured people.

The elderly Zantiparis certainly wouldn't be as impulsive as the soldiers. He just asked the soldiers to converge the three corpses and line up in place, waiting for the scout's return.

Soon, the returned news confirmed his guess: There seemed to be ambushes on the mountains on both sides of the mountain road ahead, and Cavutini soldiers lined up at the exit of the road.

Zantiparis led the army back without hesitation. He knew: The long-term peace between Naconia and Dionia had been broken, and the war had struck the kingdom’s northwest border. Assemble the reserve army to guard Enona, and notify the Ministry of Military Affairs as soon as possible to send more troops or give it more leadership power. Otherwise, relying on these more than 4,000 recruits, if they want to deal with the next war, I am afraid it is difficult.

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Pompeii was originally a small Greek city with a small population. Now most of the residents have become prisoners. Even the old people and women of Pompeii took up arms and went to the city’s head. They couldn’t resist Segovani’s premeditated plans. The onslaught.

In the afternoon of the battle, the city was broken.

The cheers of the fighters made Segowanidun feel comfortable, but he was still not satisfied and needed more victories to wash away the shame he had suffered before.

So he left some soldiers to garrison, and continued to lead his army north along the coast. At dusk, he arrived at Herculaneum, only 15 miles from Pompeii.

Herculaneum is located at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. It is also a small seaside town in Greece, but it is richer than Pompeii because it is close to the Gulf of Naples, thus becoming a subsidiary trading port of Naples’ prosperous maritime trade. .

But the Herculaneum people have their own pride. They think that their town has a longer history than Naples, because this is a town built by the Hercules Hercules (as can be seen from his name).

Because the fleeing Pompeians had informed them of the enemy's attack in advance, the Herculaneums were prepared to defend themselves.

When Segowani saw this, he did not order the siege, but camped on the spot.

Herculaneum’s messenger has rushed to Naples for help, but Naples is now facing the threat of Samona’s coalition forces coming from the northeast, and originally planned to send Campania’s coalition forces to repel the enemy. Now that I heard that a large number of enemies were coming from the south, the Neapolitans, who were likely to be attacked on both sides, suddenly stopped wanting to go to war. At the same time, they sent messengers to Dionia for help.

(Note: After the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, not only Pompeii but also Herculaneum were buried in the ash. Unlike Pompeii, which has been excavated, it still has 75% of the towns Still buried, most of them are intact.)

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After Dionia won the victory of Ascurom and Venosa in succession, the Samonais were forced to retreat to the mountains, and even the mountain scout team reported: in the hilly area at the border of the Dawney area There was no trace of the Samonais.

Samonet's coalition forces, which were apparently hit hard, cancelled their plans to continue to harass the Downey area. Alexis, the commander of the Daonia region of the Kingdom of Dionia, did not take advantage of the situation and led the army to attack the Samona region.

On the one hand, it was because of Daves’ previous solemn reminder, “There is no absolute certainty, don’t enter the Samona Mountains to fight against the Samonais.” More than a decade ago, Alexis led the Third Army. In the mountains of Lucania, he fought against the Samoneites. Although he won a small victory, it also made him feel the power of the Samoneite fighters in the mountain warfare. What's more, it was in Potentia at the time. The mountainous area of ​​Samona, with unfamiliar terrain, difficult transportation, and being in an enemy situation, will undoubtedly encounter more troubles.

The second aspect is the problem of food supply. Alexis gathered three legions and one cavalry legion with a total of nearly 30,000 people. The soldiers themselves had eaten up their rations, and the kingdom provided no small amount of food every day. Now that King Davers led an expedition to the Latham area, the small amount of rations would naturally be more inclined to the expeditionary force.

The Ministry of Military Affairs has already made a recommendation to Alexis: In view of the severe damage suffered by the Samonais, the invasion of the Dawney area has been stopped, and it is hoped that he can disband part of the army to reduce the supply of rations.

In addition, a few days ago, the chief executive of Ogentum sent a messenger to Downey and told Alexis a piece of news: According to the pirates who came to the port to trade stolen goods, they fled to Adriatic. Across the sea, the former King of Puchetti, Vadarka, is recruiting the Puchetti, Mesapi and Dauni people who fled to the mainland of Greece in the Epirus region.

Therefore, Alexis finally decided to return the 9th, 10th Army and the 2nd Cavalry Army to their respective areas to disband, but each barracks remained as usual while keeping a battalion stationed at the same time, they must also send another battalion. The soldiers brought their own rations for four days, and the cavalry regiment sent 200 horses to take turns to the city of Askurom in the Dawney area, where Alexis would lead them on duty.

In the barracks in the Downey area, every two battalions of the 11th Army brought their own rations, which took turns every four days, under the command of Capus.

Dawney Barracks is in the north and Askurum is in the south. At the same time, a total of 4,000 soldiers and 200 cavalry guard the border between the entire Dawney area and Samona in the same time. Citizens in neighboring towns are enough to cope with the small and medium-sized invasions of the Samoneites.

Once the remaining enemies that escaped from Apulia landed in other locations in the Apulia region, the defenders of other barracks could first resist, and then the citizens waiting to be squatted quickly from the messenger. The cities and towns gathered in military camps to form a complete army, and then completely annihilated the enemy. In this way, the kingdom's rations were consumed very little, and the security of this area was basically guaranteed.

The reason why Alexis dared to do this is that the Apulia region is plain, and the terrain is basically flat. In addition to being connected by highways, there are also relatively smooth roads between the cities and towns, from the north of Luce. From the city of Niah to Ogentum at the southern end, marching fast, it only takes more than a day to reach. Only in this way, the Legionnaires are relatively busy and are always on the go, but for the militant Mesapi and Puchetti, there are wars to fight, merits to gain, and land to divide. Exciting things.

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In the many exchanges with King Daves, the Ministry of Military Affairs has established that the kingdom’s current strategy in this war is to attack from the north and defend to the south.

The army led by Daves is attacking and fighting in the Latham area. The army led by Alexis has died down in the Dawney area, while the army led by Leotichides is not in the Sicily area further south. Instead of retreating from the defense, at the western end of Sicily, using Serinus as a base, attacked everywhere, looting all villages and small towns outside the city-states such as Mazara, Lilibal, and Segesta, and scraping supplies to ensure sufficient troops. The food supply in Sicily reached the goal of disrupting the order of Carthage’s rule in Sicily and creating favorable conditions for future operations.

Leotichides adopted an offensive and defensive combat approach.

And when Daves led his army to land on the coast of Latium, the drowned body of Franios, the commander of the Third Fleet of Dionia, was already on the reef on the coast between Minoa and Agrigento. It was discovered that because the body had been corrupted, Leotichides led all soldiers and fleet sailors to hold a solemn cremation funeral for him in the city of Serinus.

The whole audience was crying.

However, the trace of Sekrian, the commander-in-chief of the Sicilian fleet, has not yet been discovered. When the Taiji people exchanged prisoners, he once proposed to exchange more prisoners for Sekrian.

The Carthaginians did not reply to this.

Because the order signed by Daves to "agree to transfer the Fourth Fleet to Sicily" has not yet reached the Ministry of Military Affairs, the former squadron commander Stefakas temporarily assumed the responsibility of commanding the entire Sicilian fleet (in fact, the current Sicilian Fleet There are only dozens of warships left).

The Dionian army raged on the land of western Sicily, causing the allies and colonial cities of Carthage to complain, and they turned to Lili for help.

The morale of the army in the city of Lilibe is low, and the military system is chaotic. Pomirka only wants to protect himself, where he dares to go out of the city to fight against the Dionian army.

The Iberian army led by Hasdruba stationed in Palermos was able to drive out the looting Dionians, but Hasdruba was reminded by Kisgo , Chose to watch from the sidelines, because in this way the difficult allies and colonial cities had to send envoys to the basic city of Carta for help, so that the veterans who were still arguing realized that the military situation in Sicily was urgent and made a decision quickly.