Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 314: The fall of Syracuse

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Kuzias did not personally lead the soldiers into the fort because of his injuries. He waited outside to hear the voices of cheering and victory, but what was waiting were countless soldiers who looked frightened and fleeed desperately. His desperately yelling to dissuade him would not help. On the contrary, under the influence of these broken soldiers, other soldiers who were still outside the fortress also fleeed together, and the loud sound of Dionia's bugle made the broken soldiers escape faster.

Kuchias also had to follow back and flee. He was very anxious, and suddenly he thought that Falekus was not far ahead, leading many people to build defensive facilities. Maybe they could stop these defeated soldiers and reorganize the army. .

Who knows that when he arrived there, he didn't see any figure at all, only a half-dug trench and an unfinished earth barrier behind the trench were left, which hindered the soldiers' retreat.

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The Syracuse Council not only sent a messenger to inform Taegnis, but also sent people to inform Falay in the heights of Epipole after learning the news of the "Hiktas Rebellion" Kus, because there are many old citizens among the people led by Falekus, they need to be called up immediately to form an army to put down the rebellion of Hiktas.

Falekus was equally shocked when he heard the news. There was no intention to build a defensive facility here. When he led the team back to the city, he also prevented the messenger from informing them, because In his opinion: the attack on Yulia Rus Fortress is heating up. At this time, the offensive troops receive this bad news, which will disturb the military's mind and make all the previous efforts in vain.

When Falekus arrived in the main city, he learned that Hiktas had not attacked the council, but had retreated to Dagang.

Falekus is in a hurry. He knows that the Great Port is very close to the Dionian Barracks. Once Hiktas takes over the port and the Dionian army is brought in by sea, Syracuse is over!

Time is running out. He has no time to wait for these old citizens to go home, put on their weapons and equipment, and then assemble and set off. Instead, he first led the 1,000 soldiers who had arrived from the West City and the 500 old citizens who had just gathered to the southwest. Head towards the port.

When they arrived at the inner wall, they saw the corpses lying on the ground. While feeling the urgency of the situation, the soldiers were also angry.

Entering the port, they soon discovered that the traitor Hitax was leading an army in front of the military port.

Sitax saw Falekus and was ready to talk to him before the battle, and delay a little time.

Who knew that Falekus had seen his intentions long ago and directly ordered an attack.

1500 soldiers (mostly heavy infantry) roared and charged at each other, and the port soldiers also threw dense javelins at each other. Since both sides are related to life and death, the battle was carried out very well from the beginning. fierce.

But after a fierce battle, the port army, which was mostly light infantry, gradually ceased to support. If it weren’t for some people from the port area, they would attack the flank of the Syracuse’s army with wooden sticks and paddles in their hands, temporarily relieving them. Under the pressure of some Hitax's army, perhaps the Hitax's army has been defeated.

But now the situation is still not optimistic. The port people continue to fall in the battle, and the entire army has been forced to retreat to the coast.

At this moment of emergency, 50 warships returned to the military port one after another. As soon as the warship reached the pier, the full-loaded Dionian soldiers on the deck quickly jumped off the ship. There was no time to gather the whole team, and it was under the leadership of the team officers. Next, in the form of squads, successively launched attacks on the flanks of the Siracusa army.

As a commander, Falekus took the lead and fought at the forefront, so he had no idea that the battle situation had changed. It was not until he discovered that the soldiers around him had begun to retreat, and he was shocked: The Dionian army had landed. !

He threw away his helmet and breastplate, and retreated desperately with the defeated soldiers.

The Dionian soldiers chased after him, while the soldiers in the port area hurriedly took care of the wounded comrades and people.

When the Dionian soldiers were chasing the inner wall, they noticed that Syracuse’s reinforcements arrived in front of them. Although it is a good choice to force the ruined troops to confuse the opponent’s formation, the problem is the soldiers participating in the pursuit. Not many, I am afraid it will be difficult to completely disrupt the enemy, but may be defeated by the opponent because of the chaos of their own organization, so the officers of the Dionian pursuit unit carefully chose to retreat temporarily and return to the military port, and they are still landing. The large forces rendezvous.

Falekus, fleeing the danger, did not allow the more than 2,000 troops formed by the old citizens who had just been enlisted to rejoin the defeated soldiers to retake the naval port and prevent the Dionians from continuing to land.

After the battle just now, he felt that the entire port area might have departed from Syracuse, and continued to fight in the port area. It is very likely that this difficult-to-assemble force will be encircled again.

Hesitated again and again, Falekus did not dare to take the risk, so he had to let the army defend the inner wall, and at the same time sent someone to inform the council.

It didn't take long for the 3000 Dionian soldiers and Hitax's forces to approach the inner wall.

The inner wall only serves to isolate the port area and to interrogate the Gentiles. Therefore, it is not built as tall and strong as the outer wall. Its height is only three meters. The walkways on the city are relatively narrow, and there is no reserve of stone or wood. As a result, after the Dionian coalition forces approached the city, Falekus was surprised to find that the Syracuse soldiers who were standing on the ground for defense were at a disadvantage.

Because the heavy javelins thrown by the Dionian heavy infantry and the light javelins thrown by the port soldiers covered the sky, causing considerable casualties to the Syracuse soldiers in the city at close range. At this time, there were not many light infantry in the army led by Falekus. The suffocated state of the army that could only be beaten but could not make an effective counterattack made Falekus' heart cold half.

It didn't take long for the people in the port area to send in some wooden ladders used to repair houses and logs used to build ships for coalition soldiers to siege the city.

Falekus saw this scene in the city, and only felt depressed and uncomfortable. While the soldiers used shields to defend against the long-range attacks under the city, they yelled at the porter for their betrayal.

The soldiers of the Dionian coalition army quickly put these wooden ladders on the three-meter-high stone wall, and took advantage of the favorable opportunity when the enemy army was suppressed by the javelin, and moved quickly to the top of the city. At the same time, the coalition soldiers smashed open the city gate with a log, rushed through the inner wall doorway, and the frontal battle began gradually on and below the city.

At the head of the fierce battle, Falekus saw that a large number of black troops appeared in the port area (the second wave of landing troops-The Eighth Army of Dionia), sternly The inner wall was pressed, and his heart suddenly fell to the bottom.

At this moment, another soldier pointed to the rear and shouted in panic: "The city is on fire!"

Falekus hurriedly turned his head and saw thick smoke billowing to the northwest and the flames blazing into the sky. He couldn't help being shocked: A fire with such a wide range could not be an accidental fire. Did the Dionians have already entered the city? !

He thought so. The soldiers were even more panicked and their morale dropped sharply. Fortunately, these old citizens who had experienced many wars were still sensible, and they knew very well: If you choose to retreat at this time, Syracuse might It's all over!

Therefore, under the encouragement of Falekus's continuous running, they can barely support the line of defense.

However, the leaking of the house happened to rain in the night. The part of the western wall near the sea was very close to the port area. The Syracuse soldiers stood on the more than 10 meters high wall, not only seeing what happened in the port area. Clearly, I saw thousands of Dionian soldiers landed on the naval port one after another, attacking the precarious inner wall, and saw that the perpetrators of the urban fire were also the black-helmeted and black-armored Dionian troops. They It is rapidly advancing to the core area of ​​the city.

These Syracuse defenders saw this scene of the Mukh people. They were extremely frightened and extremely worried about the safety of their families. Wherever there was morale to continue fighting, they began to flee into the city. In order to avoid the guilt, they Running and shouting: "The city is on fire!! The Dionians are in town! The Dionians are in town!!..."

Their retreat left a defensive emptiness in the southern section of the Western Wall. The Dionian soldiers quickly occupied the city head and followed the walkway, attacking and advancing northward.

The defense of the entire West City collapsed quickly.

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It was the army led by Diocasis that ignited the fire in the city. They chased Syracuse all the way, and did not give the enemy a chance to breathe and regroup. They pursued from the Yuliarus Fortress to the main city. On the edge, although they ran for several miles, the soldiers were relatively relaxed because the terrain was from top to bottom.

During the process of pursuing, Diocasis has been thinking: How can the army he led enter the city better to help the entire siege army to capture the city more quickly?

Because he knew that Commander Proseus, in order to make his assault force a firm foothold in the fortress of Yuriarus, once again ordered the whole army to launch a storm of Syracuse. This is using The lives of his comrades create opportunities for himself, so he must disintegrate the enemy's fighting spirit as soon as possible and reduce the casualties of the soldiers.

Finally, the best way he thought of was to use fire.

So, he sent a company to break into the houses, collect olive oil and tar, pour them on a series of houses on the edge of the main city, then lit a fire, and he led his troops to pursue the ruined soldiers.

Kuchias, Stacykos and others fled in the direction of the council. He also hoped that the council could send a force to stop this chase like a bone maggot. Who knows that the council is already There were no soldiers to send, and the members of Parliament were terrified when they heard the news that the "enemies were killed." Where they dared to stay in the meeting room, they fled to the west one after another, pinning their hopes on Taygennis and Falekus. The troops can protect their safety.