Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 227: It is advisable for the remaining brave to chase the poor.

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Mathias didn't care about so much, and led the soldiers into the village forcibly, and ordered the villagers to prepare food.

The exhausted soldiers barely filled their stomachs and fell into a deep sleep. Only Macias tossed and turned, unable to sleep: the news of the riot in Syracuse made him very worried about Syracuse. The conditions of the original mercenary villages outside the city, after all, the tragic situation of the Katane mercenary village made him secretly alert, I hope the hundreds of mercenaries who stay in the village can defend their homes! By the time he led his army back to Syracuse tomorrow, the riots had passed for more than a day, and a lot of things could happen in this day. The mercenaries with whom Onisius has a close relationship will probably be expelled and become homeless. I hope Lord Felistos can quell the riot, even if it can’t quell, he must control and hold a part of the city and wait for his reinforcements to arrive!

After worrying about Syracuse, he worried about how to lead this force back to Syracuse safely. When heading to Meyaro, he led the army north along the flat coast, passing by Taunis, then detouring to Leottini to recruit troops, then passing by Katane, and finally reaching Sikuli. It can be said that it was him. It took the defensive power of these city-states all the way to give the insurgents a chance, leading to large-scale riots.

But now is not the time to regret this. Judging from the situation today, I am afraid that Katane has been completely occupied by the rioters. Otherwise, how can there be spare forces to send troops out of the city to attack them. Even if Sikuli was not fully occupied, but the Dionians were so close to it, it would be a matter of time before they fell. The Leonidians were forcibly removed by Dionysius by half of the population. Those who remain may have long harbored resentment towards Syracuse. Under this trend, there is no need for freedmen and slaves to rebel. Will automatically rise up to overthrow the tyrant supported by Lord Dionysius, so Mathias is not optimistic that the pro-Syracuse Leonidians can resist this riot.

I have some confidence in Taunis and Marcias, because Taunis has always been a subsidiary ally of Syracuse, and has never betrayed. He was dissatisfied with the tyrants he fostered in time, and he should not attack rashly. The army of Syracuse. What's more, the Syracuse fleet, which had been defeated from the Gulf of Naxos, was anchored in the port of Taunis. With their help, Taunis would not be very likely to succeed even if there was a riot.

Therefore, Marcias finally made a decision: After starting tomorrow, the team will bypass Katane and avoid possible attacks by the Leonidians, then walk to the beach, pass Taonis, and finally arrive at Syracuse... …This is a long journey of hundreds of miles, full of many unknown risks, but in order to get back to Syracuse as soon as possible, he can only take this risk. Otherwise, for safety, he can skip the coast and take a detour to the barely populated mountains on the west side of Leonid. Although the mountains are not too high, the roads are rugged and difficult, which will undoubtedly slow down the journey, and the food is also A big question...

Mathias thought a lot, and finally fell asleep without being able to resist the trap...

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The next day, three rods in the sun, but still asleep, he was awakened by the guards, only to realize that something happened during his snooze time: when he woke up in the morning, the soldiers found that they had lost dozens of horses. Moreover, the residents of the village were also less than half. The soldiers certainly suspected that the residents of the village did a good thing. They were angry and immediately arrested all the villagers who had not escaped for interrogation. In the process, the former mercenaries who had regained their energy returned to their old habits. , Robbery, rape, killing... In the process of following Dionysius to conquer Sicily, some of the most common evils reappeared in this village.

This aroused the dissatisfaction and anger of a small number of Katana mercenaries in the team, because this is a village under their jurisdiction. Conflicts broke out between the two sides, and finally the angry Kartana mercenaries left the team, and the number of the entire army plummeted to 3,000.

Faced with such a tricky situation, Macias was unable to do anything. He even thought: Without the Katanas, their marching speed would be faster and their food consumption would be reduced, not to mention other annoying issues. NS. Although they were all compatriots from Campania, they had been comrades in arms fighting side by side until today, and they have a deep friendship. Now that the disaster is approaching, they can only take care of their own things.

Mathias ordered the soldiers to ransack all the food in the village and set off immediately.

Under the supervision of Masias, this team of more than 3,000 people, almost all of Syracuse’s former mercenary citizens, set off in a hurry with the expectation of returning to Syracuse and defending their homes as soon as possible. .

As they marched to the southeast, they encountered broken soldiers in twos and threes from time to time, and Massias took the opportunity to put them all into the team.

At the same time, this team was also spied by many scout teams. While sending out cavalry to drive away, Mathias urged the soldiers to speed up the march.

His anticipation has been tested. Soon a team of seven or eight hundred people came from the northeast. They did not wear armor, held bows and javelins, and moved quickly to launch a long-range attack on Mathias's team.

Mathias was almost certain that the enemy came from Katane, and he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to attack.

But when the Syracuse soldiers formed a formation and began to attack, these light infantry from Katane retreated. But when the Syracuse soldiers resumed their column formation and continued marching, they reappeared.

Several times like this, Marcias understood: The Katane rebels just wanted to attack him, not really want to carry out a frontal fight.

But it’s impossible for Mathias to leave it alone, otherwise the javelins and arrows will continue to take the soldiers’ lives and destroy their low fighting spirit, so he will only have more than 50 cavalry and Nearly 500 light infantry troops were arranged at the end of the team so as to be able to resist enemy attacks. But he did not allow the soldiers to chase excessively, because this would not only consume physical strength, but also break away from the large army and easily lie in ambush. Now the whole army has only one goal-to go home.

The Syracuse army stopped and stopped. In the afternoon, they walked out of the Catania Plain. The terrain in front began to narrow, with the sea to the east, mountains to the west, and a flat seaside corridor less than five miles wide in the middle. .

Mathias was originally worried about the emergence of the Leottini rebels, but fortunately they did not, and it may be that the narrow terrain restricted the mobility of the Katana rebels, so they did not continue to be behind the team. Harassment, which allowed the Syracuse soldiers to finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The Syracuse army hastened its march because the city of Taonis is ten miles away.

After the city of Taunis was brought into view, the Syracuse soldiers who thought they had escaped the catastrophe suddenly saw: Not far to the north of the city of Taunis, there was an army of four to five thousand people lined up in a neat square in front of them. Array, blocked this seaside corridor, most of the soldiers' black armor made their excited mood suddenly fall to the bottom of the valley: It is the Dionians! It's the Legion of Dioria! ! How could they rush to us? ! ! ...

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Yesterday’s bitter battle ended because of the defeat of Syracuse’s army.

While pursuing by the First Army of Dionian, Anton Rios finally saw a messenger sent by Antrapolis. After learning that "Katana has been captured, the Syracuse riots After the news of "success", Antonios finally breathed a sigh of relief: The First Army paid the price and finally gained a foothold in Sicily.

But while he was happy, he couldn’t relax, because Antrapolis hoped that the First Army could intercept this army in Syracuse to prevent them from returning to Syracuse and give it to Syracuse. Zha's riot action brought great variables.

To be honest, Antonios really didn’t want to follow the advice of the secret probe. Although the First Army won in this battle, nearly a thousand people were killed and injured, several senior team officials died, even his closeness. The comrade-in-arms Zpitt was also unconscious. From the 8,000 (excluding auxiliary troops) of the First Army before the outbreak of the war, there are only nearly 4,000 remaining. The number has been sharply reduced by more than half, and huge sacrifices have been made. It is reasonable. It's time to take a break, but the current environment doesn't allow it, and the danger has not completely passed away. It's the last step that I have tried hard to now.

Antonius certainly didn’t want the First Army’s expedition to fall short because of the defeat and escape back to Syracuse. The habit of “Dionian Army always has to take advantage of the victory to chase to the end” makes him have no choice but to Reluctantly agreed to Antrapolis’s suggestion: Joint action with Katane, completely wiped out Siracusa’s army on the way back!

Sending off the messenger, Antonios rushed to the port after meditation, and the sailors of the Dionian fleet were sending the families of the exiles off the ship.

Antonius quickly saw Flarios, who was in charge of the fleet in place of Sekrian. After discussion, Flarios agreed: the fleet will not return to Lijim, but will spend the night in Meyaro for the next day Participate in military operations earlier.

There is no military port in the port of Mayaro, and there is no dry dock to berth warships. This means that the warships of the Dionian fleet can only be pushed to the beach, which requires a great risk. One of the main reasons why the Athens fleet was completely wiped out by Lysander in the Battle of the Yang River was that the warships in Athens were parked on the beach, and there was no time to go to sea when they were attacked...

For this reason, with the help of the exiles, Flarios led the sailors to drag the warships to the beach one by one, then set up a tight guard post, and asked the lighthouse’s sentry to closely monitor the sea and arrange all The Clippers, taking turns patrolling the bay all night...