Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 18: City depression

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Before the messenger of Crotone arrived, Miron had received news from the warship cruising along the coast of Crimea: The Dionians had invaded the Croton Plain!

Milon was taken aback, and cried out: "I have been fooled by the Dionians. No wonder they never attacked the city. They just attracted my attention. The Dionians in the south camp have already gone south!"

But to attack Dionia’s southern camp, he hesitated: After all, Dionia’s army was staring at the city. Once they mobilized the army, they would see clearly from the high platform. If they take the opportunity to attack , Losing Crimea, the trouble is even greater!

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The siege of Asprostum is going on fiercely, and Fargris didn't expect the Dionians to attack as soon as they came up, fearing death.

The ladder was overturned by the push rod, and it was quickly picked up again. The soldiers climbed up the ladder one by one. The light infantry brigade approached the city, not afraid of arrows, and also threw javelins and arrows at the defenders of the city...

The fierce offensive of the Dionians quickly achieved results. The defense of the city wall was broken many times. The Dionian soldiers went up to the city head, and the defenders discovered these Dionis wearing Greek armor. The sub-soldier is tall, strong, with long hair and shawls, and his roar is weird. He is obviously not Greek. They were fierce and powerful. To kill or drive away one of them, the defenders had to pay several soldiers' lives.

Fagres had to send a reserve team many times to help the frontline defenders drive off the enemies who had been on the front of the city, especially the wall section on the far right, which was the place where the Dionians attacked the most violently. .

General Fagris, who has some experience in defending the city, knew: The Dionians could not always maintain such a fierce offensive momentum. As long as they survived this period, the Dionians would be powerless. Therefore, while sending all the reserves, he shouted at the soldiers, encouraging them to fight bravely.

But he didn’t know that at the most tangled moment of the battle, under the command of the 3rd Army Commander Hironimos under the city, his guards lined up and collectively faced the city on the left. The head shook the buckler.

The defender at the far left of the city was focusing on defending against the enemy's attack, and suddenly a shout came out behind him: "Offense!!!"

The "Krotone" they regarded as their comrades pierced them with knives and guns, and easily dealt with these defenders. Without waiting for the soldiers of the Third Army to come up, these dozens of scout soldiers immediately attacked the neighbors. The defenders launched an attack...

When Fagris, who was still commanding the battle on the right side of the city, got the news, Dionian soldiers had already captured the left side of the city. A large number of soldiers quickly climbed up the battlements, turned into the aisle, and aggressively killed towards the middle. ...

Those Crotones who were already low morale saw that the situation was not good, and immediately threw down their shield spears and ran into the city desperately.

This run immediately induced a domino effect. Under the fierce attack of the Dionian soldiers from the front and the side, the defending army finally collapsed. They scrambled to flee the city, but blocked the walkway down the city. The panicked garrison soldiers jumped directly from the seven-meter-high city wall into the city, broke their legs, broke their heads, and lay on the ground wailing.

The people in the city were also terrified, shouting in horror: "The enemy is in the city! The enemy is in!..."

They helped the old and the young and hurriedly wanted to escape the south gate and flee to Crotone.

The Crotone reinforcements hit the people who fled in a hurry when they were halfway there. They were shocked to learn that the city of Asprostum had fallen, and did not dare to move forward, so they turned around and ran back.

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The messenger of Crotone rushed to Crimea and brought the council's offensive order.

Milon, who is no longer the chief general, but the body of sin, finally ended his hesitation and sent 7,000 soldiers, including 2,000 multiple infantrymen, to the Dionia camp on the south bank of the Umbria River. Launch an offense.

Daves, who observed the enemy's movements on the high platform, immediately asked Adrianx, the first battalion captain of the Second Corps, to lead 2,000 heavy infantry and 500 light infantry across the river to replace the third army map and stationed in the south camp. 2000 soldiers led by Captain Matonis of a regiment. With a strong camp and the North Camp’s reinforcements at any time, Martonis is confident to repel these large numbers of invading enemies

However, Crotone’s offense was thunderous and raindrops small. After a little loss of traps such as "nails" and "hooks" in front of the camp, he immediately retreated back to the city. Of course, Miron would not take Crotone’s only combat team to head-on to the heavily guarded camp of Dionia, and the soldiers also lacked the courage to attack. As soon as he found that the enemy in the camp was tightly guarded, he would The bugle of the retreat was sounded.

The emissary of Crotone was angry at the easy retreat of the troops, and forcibly ordered Miron to continue the offensive, otherwise he threatened to dismiss Miron from his leading position. However, the soldiers expressed their support to Miron one after another.

However, the Crotone council was in a mess at this time, and the shocking news of "Dionia took Asprostum" was like a thunderbolt in the sky, leaving all the council members dumbfounded. The people outside the Council Chamber gathered in the square, clamoring for the Council to quickly come up with a solution to the crisis.

This time, the calls for peace talks are far greater than before, and some people even said that Dionia's terms can be accepted as long as the North Croton Plain restores tranquility.

While the council was still arguing about the peace talks, two consecutive events prompted them to finally make a decision: First, the 500 soldiers of the Dionian Third Army crossed the tower when they were chasing the dead enemy. The Chinati River entered the core area of ​​the Croton Plain and was once close to the inner city of Crotone, although it quickly retreated back to the city of Asprostum. But this stunning sight still shocked the defenders and the people in the city. Just when the whole city was in panic, a passenger ship from Corenia entered the port of Crotone, and the Corenia messenger who got off the ship brought a bigger piece of bad news-Lorraine. Corenia declares war! Its army has already marched towards Corenia, and the messenger has come to Crotone for help.

The thing that the Crotone Council most worried about finally happened: while Crotone was in the quagmire of war, the archenemy Lokri brazenly attacked Crotone’s allies, and as the leader of Crotone, he sent Reinforcement is an indispensable business, but at this moment, just dealing with Dioria’s offensive has already made Crotone’s manpower unsatisfactory. Where can there be extra troops to assist Corenia without Crotone’s support, Corren It is impossible for Nia to block the attack of the Lorry coalition forces, which means that Crotone will face the worst war situation of being attacked by the enemy, and Crotone will be in danger of being destroyed!

All members of the council immediately stopped arguing and quickly reached a consensus: reach peace talks with Dionia as soon as possible!

Lysias had to go north again. In order to prevent him from being too tough and leading to the failure of the negotiation, he was accompanied by another messenger-the council member Thesis Protis (that is, he said before " No matter what conditions Dionyia gave, as long as the peace of the Croton Plains can be restored, the one who should agree to).

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At this moment, there is an atmosphere of joy in the Chinese army's tent at Camp Dionia. The news of the "Third Army's capture of Asprostum" made every general feel excited.

"Your Excellency Commander, we should take advantage of the good time to take advantage of the panic and panic of the Asprostum and Crotones, and launch an attack on Crimea, and we will definitely be able to take it smoothly!" Drax said eagerly that as the commander of the Second Army, his army's record cannot fall behind the Third Army.

"The city of Asprostum is ours. It doesn’t make much sense for the Crotones to stick to Crimea. I’m afraid they will abandon Crimea soon. We can easily To get it, there is no need to sacrifice the lives of soldiers to attack." Capps said cautiously.

"However, allowing these 10,000 Crotones to retreat will only increase the difficulty of our attack on Crotone!" Drax retorted loudly.

Kapus was speechless for a while. Indeed, Crotone is a big city. Not only is it vast and populous, but the city wall is ten meters high and the moat is six meters wide. According to the conventional style of play, it is destined to be a protracted siege. However, the ocean is not under the control of Dionia, and Crotone cannot be completely sealed off, so there is only a strong attack, but in the face of such a strong city, how much will it cost? The life of a soldier? Can you take it? Almost all the generals were playing drums in their hearts. If the strength of defending the city is further strengthened, then the odds of winning will be even more slim.

Daves looked calm, turned his head and asked: "Master Avinojis, what do you think we should do next?"

After entering the military tent, in addition to congratulating Daves on his victory again, Avinojis, who had been silently observing, faced Dracos and Capus’s focused gaze, and did not refuse, and said directly: "Why do we have to attack the Crotone city? Since we now have such a big advantage, why can't we force the Crotone people to negotiate peace with us?"

"The Crotones are almost dead, wouldn't it be too cheap for them to negotiate with them!" Drax immediately objected.

Caps was lost in thought.

A smile appeared at the corner of Davers's mouth: The archon's angle of consideration is still different from that of a simple general!

Just as he was about to speak, Martius, the captain of the guard, asked for instructions to enter and brought two letters.

A letter is from Felicius. After reading the letter, Daves frowned thoughtfully. Then he looked at the second specially marked letter—this was a letter from Aristotles, and his eyebrows stretched out quickly.