Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 189: Bingwei Xiliting

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The Hibernian garrison watched in horror at the head of the city as his compatriots were easily defeated by Lijim's army outside the city.

One hour later, more than 5000 Lijim soldiers surrounded the city of Hibernian.

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At this time, Daves has led a large army into the territory of Siriting. During the march, he has been thinking about what kind of military action should be taken next to completely defeat Syracuse and end the war, so he has been quiet along the way.

Henipolis, who is beside him, looks very high-spirited. In the big tent last night, Daves finally affirmed his ideas and seriously conceived several proposals for him to protect his interests. Therefore, he got up early today and no longer has to think about how Laos City is going. , I feel very relaxed all over.

He was excited to talk to Tolmeide for a while, and then he took Martius to chat again, wanting to learn more about the process of yesterday's battle, and seemed very active.

Dionia's army arrived outside the city of Xiliting mightily without any hindrance.

This was originally expected by Davers. He took the guards to scout around the city: The Siliting wall is about seven meters high, and the circumference of the wall is more than one mile. It does not have a moat, but a trench in front of the city. There are three city gates in the west, south and north. The port is surrounded by the city wall and integrated with the city. Compared with Turriy and Crotone, it is not a big city, but it is much bigger than towns such as Rina and Hibernian.

According to the results of the prisoner’s interrogation last night, Daves has a general understanding of Siracusa’s military strength in Siritim: There were 4,000 troops stationed in Siracusa, in addition to civilians from Syracuse and allies. There were more than 20,000 slaves, and they were mainly responsible for the transportation of grain.

There is also a special group of people, Dionysius collected knowledgeable mathematics scholars, highly skilled construction engineers, equipment manufacturers, carpenters, boatmen... and nearly a thousand people in Sicily, Dionysius The reason why Onixius was able to break the inner city of Crotone was precisely relying on the ballistas, siege towers, abdominal bows they made... all kinds of siege equipment and facilities. This is also the group of people Daves coveted most. .

In addition, there are Crotone and Siritian soldiers captured in the Battle of the Ramato River in the city. Dionysius has sold a part of the captives to slave merchants, and there are three to four thousand people.

Adding to the fact that the defeated soldiers in Syracuse have also returned to Siriting, the number of people in the city may be as high as 60,000. If Dionysius had not killed, sold, and looted the people of Siriting, Siriting would not be able to accommodate so many people.

Daves looked at the Syracuse soldiers densely over the city, imagining that when he gave the siege order, these Syracuse soldiers who had just experienced the defeat would remain calm at this time.

Of course, Daves will not rush to attack a town with more than 30,000 soldiers and possibly 20,000 reserve soldiers. He has other plans to implement.

On the city’s head, Dionysius looked down at the team of men and horses galloping a hundred meters below the city with complex expressions, and a gloomy voice squeezed out of his teeth: “I heard that Dave of Diony Before every war, Si likes to go to the front to observe the enemy's situation in person, and he must be there!"

"Do you want to fire a ballista at them, hoping that Apollo's blessing can make the stone bullet hit his head." Phoebe Das said mockingly, his arms and waist wrapped around his hands. Wearing a bandage, he looked like a mummy. He was very injured in the battle yesterday. He escaped by chance. After treatment, he fell asleep until noon today. Hearing that the Dionian army had arrived, he still supported the city.

Dionysius didn't speak, Phoebe Das guessed it correctly, he really had such thoughts in his heart.

"I didn't expect our such a powerful army to be defeated by this young man in our mouth?!" Phoebe Das's sigh was full of doubts. He fled back to the city yesterday. He has not had time to explore the battle. The detailed process, so he has not yet figured out how the Syracuse army failed.

"It is precisely because your battle deployment has been completely seen through by the Dionians, who have made targeted arrangements, we will fail..." Dionysius closed his eyes with pain: Dioni The temporary transformation of the Asian left wing, the phalanx of spears hidden behind the cavalry, the back attack of the right wing of the Dionian reserve...

He doesn’t want to recall yesterday’s nightmarish battle scenes. He resentfully put the main responsibility for the failure on the Spartans, but he doesn’t want to admit the fact that the soldiers of Syracuse are not as good as Dai Oniya, even though the left, center, and right sides have more troops than the opponent, they failed to put enough pressure on the opponent to make the opponent boldly deploy troops and implement his own plan.

It's Phoebe Das' turn now that he has nothing to say. Although he hasn't figured out the reason for the failure, his tactics didn't work. It's a fact.

"It's just a defeat in a battle. A few years ago, we were defeated by the Carthaginians in the battle. We were also surrounded by a large army, and even the people rioted. The situation is more critical than today. But under my command, With the help of Spartan’s allies, he finally defeated Carthage. I heard that Carthage’s general Similco also committed suicide!” At this moment, Dionysius looked around his demoralized men, and he realized You can no longer indulge in failure, you must cheer up, otherwise the next battle will be more difficult to fight. At the same time, for Phoebe Das, he can no longer be harsh, because in such an extremely unfavorable situation for Syracuse, Syracuse will rely on Sparta more: "Don’t look at the Dionians today. We are proud of the victory, but with the blessing of Apollo, we Syracuse people will let these Dionians, who were only free people a few years ago, know that the ultimate victory will only belong to Syracuse!"

"Master Dionysius is right. In the face of Carthage in the past few years, we have not lost first and then won, and eventually become the master of Sicily. Is Dionyia stronger than Carthage? Is it!" Damocles immediately responded loudly.

"There is nothing terrifying about the Dionians. We must re-enhance the morale of the soldiers and wait for the opportunity to counterattack the enemy!" Facipesas also said loudly.

The generals and ministers were encouraged, and their faces began to look bright. Even Phoebedas's frustration disappeared a lot. Only the intelligence leader Androstini outside the crowd was puzzled: Since Dior Nisius was not afraid of Dionia, so why did he quietly send an envoy again? ...

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After Daves circled the city for a week, he returned to the army and gave the order: build a camp one mile away from the city.

His plan was to take advantage of the enemy's newly defeated and low morale, and now set up a camp so close to the city, and then quickly advance to the two wings and down the city, in order to achieve the ultimate goal of complete siege of Xiliting City.

When the order is reached, half of the 50,000 troops will start to dig trenches and build earth walls. The other half were fully armed and wary of Syracuse’s surprise attacks from the city. Only Cypros led more than a thousand Trina soldiers to march west quickly. They couldn't wait to take back their homeland-Trina City.

Just as Daves urged the whole army to speed up the construction of the camp, Tolmeid reported: The messenger of Syracuse, see you!

"Oh, it's you again!" Seeing Siracusa's messenger, Daves smiled meaningfully: "This time Dionysius sends you here, is you ready to surrender to me?"

"Master Daves, our Syracuse is the overlord of Sicily, not only has 70,000 citizens, a population of 500,000, and more than a dozen major states are our allies, and we always follow our call." Moklis proudly said: "Even if we fail in a naval battle, we lose a lot of warships and soldiers, but this failure is nothing. We in Syracuse can always organize another team no less than Now that a large army of this army is coming to Great Greece, can Dionian do it?!"

"Since Syracuse is so powerful, you should greet your new army at Silitian Port, and what are you doing here with us!" The clerk Hernipolis sneered.

Damocles ignored him. Instead, he looked at Daves and said solemnly: "Because if the war between Syracuse and Dionia continues, no matter who wins or loses in the end, he will It will weaken the strength of our Greeks in the Western Mediterranean, and will benefit the indigenous forces like the Carthaginians, Mesapis, and Samoneites who hate us Greeks. I think whether it is Dionysius Lord Davos and Lord Davos didn’t want to see such a situation happen. Therefore, Lord Dionysius sent me to ask Lord Daves on his behalf. He suggested, “The two sides truce, ask Dai Lord Firth, do you agree?'"

"What a ridiculous joke! Who led the army to invade Greece before, burn, kill, loot, and do everything! At that time, your tyrant did not consider that such a brutal invasion and killing would greatly weaken the Greeks on the Italian peninsula The power of the above-mentioned power, and benefit the nearby aboriginal people! Oh, now that I have lost the battle, I think of peace and the interests of the Greeks—Ho!" Holipolis laughed loudly: "I just want to Do you know if Dionysius knows the meaning of the word'shameless'!"

Damocles avoids answering, but confidently says: "It was not Syracuse that started the war, but the Southern Italy Alliance. If it were not for you to attack Lokri, we would not accept our allies. Invited to come to Great Greece——"

Henipolis smiled angrily, and said angrily: "I know what it is now—"

At this moment, Daves raised his hand and waved, Hernipolis stopped talking, just staring bitterly at the Carthage messenger.