Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 286: Offensive strategy against Syracuse

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Davos has no doubt about Cypros’s ability, so he just raised a word, then averted his eyes, looked forward, and said with a heavy tone: "Everyone, before we march on the Carthaginian army Before, we and all the soldiers who were about to fight the enemy had an important thing to do-to go to Paragonia, to pay tribute to the Seventh Army that stubbornly defended the city of Paragonia, and eventually all died bravely. All the soldiers of the first brigade and the two reserve brigades of Katana!"

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After the military meeting, Daves left Cipros and Leonidzides alone, and expressed his sincere gratitude to the two of them, thanking them for the fact that the main forces of Dionia were unable to reinforce Sicily. Taking up the heavy responsibility of defense alone, not only successfully resisted the invasion of the Carthage army and ensured the integrity of the Sicilian territory, but also inflicted a lot of damage on the Carthaginians, which greatly exceeded Davers' expectations.

In the face of Daves’ unhesitating praise, Cipros was very humble: “We Sicily can finally hold on until your majesty comes with your troops. Master Proseus has done the most. If it were not for his decisive attack, Defeated the Carthaginians in Minoa, and captured Serinus, disrupting the entire west—"

Leotizides interjected: "Without the full support and protection of Master Cypros, I would not dare to lead an attack, especially after the Carthaginian army invaded the Catania Plain. , Thanks to Master Cypros’ understanding and comforting the people in the city, I can stick to Katana to this day..."

Davos looked at them with a smile, and said: "They all say that Plossous is difficult to approach and difficult to deal with. I think you guys cooperate very well!"

Cipoulos looked at Leotizides and defended him: "Your Majesty, everyone may have misunderstood this. Master Prosou is not sociable, just because he puts all his energy into it. It’s time for military research."

"Of course I know this." Daves smiled, and then led the topic to the next battle: "What do you think of the attack on Syracuse?"

After spending so many years in Katane, Leontizides certainly wondered how to attack this neighbor who had had many disputes with Katane in his free time, and even went south with makeup several times to conduct secret investigations of the tin. Rakuza’s city defense, after being appointed by Daves just now, he had initially conceived an offensive plan in his mind, so he immediately said: "Your Majesty, based on past intelligence, Syracuse can organize at least 20,000 An army of people, and if it is to defend the city, the number of soldiers will only be more. However, the citizens of Syracuse lack sufficient military training, and they have basically not experienced major wars for more than ten years, and they lack sufficient combat experience. , They categorically did not dare to go out of the city to fight with us, but only defend the city. Although the walls of Syracuse are tall and strong, I have the confidence to take it down—"

Speaking of this, Leotizides turned around and shouted to the adjutant Taglu who was waiting outside the door: "Go and get the Siracusa city defense map in my room!"

Leotizides suddenly yelled in front of Daves. This behavior was extremely rude, but Daves didn’t care. He even stopped Hernipolis’s reprimand and listened carefully. The story of the young commander who has been indulged in thinking.

"Since your majesty will lead your army to fight against the Carthaginians in the west, there is no threat from the Carthaginians on the east side for the time being. In addition, it is the slack season now. We can start from Naxos and West Curry, Katane, Leonti, Taunis, Cikeres, even Agrigento, Gela and other fleeing people gathered more people to participate in the siege of Syracuse... "

While Leotizides was talking about his thoughts endlessly, Taglu had already brought the plank map, he immediately put it on the table, pointed to it, and said, "Your Majesty, please see Siracusa is a big city, with a large urban area, and its walls are not small, but most of them are built on the coast and hills. There are two main sections that are really suitable for the army to attack the city. One is the east wall. , Mainly the Hexa Gate and its nearby wall section not far from Taonis, this length is about one mile; the other section is in the west wall, from Puscarmen to the main port of Siracusa, this It's about four miles long...

The siege plan I envisioned is...the main force of the 7th and 8th legions will be camped here--" Between the flat areas.

"There is Lysimée Marsh nearby! It's easy to get the soldiers infected!" Cipros, who also looked at the map closer, changed his face and reminded loudly: "You must know that the Carthage's army attacked twice before. When I went to Syracuse, I was tortured by the plague and eventually led to a disastrous defeat."

"Of course I know the dangers of the Lysimée Marsh." Leontizides explained confidently: "It is almost November now, the weather is getting colder, and the mosquitoes have decreased. And Syracuse in recent years Civilians continue to develop the swamp, and its area is much smaller than 10 years ago. What's more, our soldiers in the regiment specialize in camping training on how to deal with this harsh terrain in their daily military training. I think it It won’t cause any problems to the army’s stationing!..."

When Daves heard this, he remembered the Samona battle report he had received when he was in Rome: Alexis led the army into the mountains, also stationed near the swamp, and there was no major problem.

So, he agreed and said: "As long as you are fully prepared, I think it should not be a problem for the army to be stationed here, you continue to talk about it."

"Another army composed of some reserve soldiers, allied and friendly soldiers from our Sicilian Territory is stationed near Taunis. According to the covenant, the commander of such a mixed army must have General Dionian In order to ensure that Siracusa’s attack on the east side can be carried out well, I think..." Leontizides hesitated for a while: "Can you? Let Breru temporarily hold this position?"

Daves and Cipros were surprised at what he said.

Davos looked at him quite meaningfully, and thought: All said that Plossous was indifferent, but he did not expect that he was kind of human, and wanted to use this opportunity to make Breru meritorious and reduce the people's accusations against him. , So that the punishment can be mitigated after the war is over.

Being watched by Daves in this way, Leotizides was slightly unnatural. The reason why he made this suggestion was to make up for the need for the next battle on the one hand, and more importantly to make up for the guilt in his heart, because In this military meeting, he suddenly realized: Under the situation of the Carthage army's pressure, no matter who is in the position of Breru, he will face the same predicament. Breru led the Seventh Army to help him, and happened to support this for him. It's just a cylinder.

Davers coughed dryly: "I can understand how you want to help Brem. But if you let him lead, it will confuse everyone, then the previous punishment will be meaningless, so I can't agree. The commander of the eastern army can be served by Zanteparis. He led a mixed army to attack the town of Samona in Campania several times. He should have considerable experience in this. During the attack on Syracuse, you temporarily replaced He performed the duties of commander of the 7th Legion."

"Yes." Leontizides replied with a constant expression, and continued: "I heard that when His Majesty led the army to land in Katane, there was also a team of engineers and skilled craftsmen in the team. An engineering team of hundreds of people. I hope that your Majesty can let this team assist us in manufacturing all kinds of siege equipment to ease the difficulty of the soldiers’ siege and put more pressure on the Syracuse."

"Of course it's okay." Daves nodded and agreed, and then asked: "The focus of your attack is on these two wall sections, but I am afraid that you will not ignore the other areas of Syracuse. Wall section, right?"

Deserving to be a famous player with victorious battles, I feel very keen! Leotizides changed his mind and said: "Except for the city wall on the coast, other sections of the wall are built on high ground. The attack is relatively difficult, but I will also send soldiers to attack and disperse the Syracuse. Confuses them at the same time..."

On the map, the east and west sections of Syracuse’s city walls stretch along the edge of the Epipole Highlands, meandering diagonally to the north, and finally merge together, looking like a top hat , And Leotizides’s hand was pointing to the place where the two walls meet. He said in a deep voice: “It is said that it was the siege of Syracuse by Athens that year. The Syracuse realized that the enemy must not be occupied. The commanding heights of the city-the Epipole Heights, so after Dionysius became the tyrant, he mobilized the people of Syracuse to surround the entire Epipole Heights with a wall and became a part of the city. The highest place in the city is here-on the west side of Yuliarus Mountain.

Dionysius called this the "key" to Epipole and the entire city of Syracuse, so he built a fortress here at the beginning. However, the Epipole area is sparsely populated, and it is even more uninhabited, because it is 5 or 6 miles from the main city of Syracuse, and the traffic is very inconvenient, although Dionysius thinks its location is very important. , But no enemy has attacked here in these years, and the Syracuse people seem to pay little attention to it.

I have carefully inspected this place several times. The city wall on the west side of Yuliarus Mountain has been in disrepair for many years. The number of sentries on the city has never exceeded 10, and most of these sentries stay in the fort and rarely patrol regularly. Throughout the wall section, it seems that they are very confident in the defense of the wall in this section. But in fact, the height of the hill on the west side of Yuliarus is not more than 200 meters, and it is not difficult to climb—"