Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 51: Raid on Grummentum

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Thinking about Davers's possible future strategic plan, Zantiparis took a breath: "Tormid, it seems that I will not be able to escape the battlefield for the rest of my life!"

"At least you don't have to worry about not having a chance to become a legion commander, or even a senior senator!" Tolmeide said excitedly.

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Grumentum is a mountain city. Unlike the hill occupied by Amendorara which is less than 200 meters high, the hill occupied by Grumentum is about 300 meters high.

First, the wooden wall of Grummentum City was built at the foot of the mountain. Later, when Akpiru was the chief leader, it expanded greatly, annexed and incorporated the surrounding small tribes, and moved to Grummentum City. However, because it could not accommodate it, the urban area had to be expanded further, which doubled the area of ​​Grumentum City and also divided the entire urban area into three parts: Most areas of the outer city were relocated from the new The inner city is inhabited by the tribes that have been incorporated into the country; the inner city is inhabited by the tribe that originally belonged to Grumentum; and the core area is the top of the mountain, which is also built with wooden walls and is inhabited by the tribe of the chief leader. In the heyday of Grumentum, there were nearly 30,000 residents in Guangcheng.

However, after Daves’ mercenaries defeated the Allied forces of the Lukaria tribe and Akpiru was seriously injured, Lusau lacked prestige and was unable to unify the tribes of Lumentum. War broke out in Kossis, and some tribes in the territory of Grumentum began to flee. After Sinsingnag took Grumentum, in order to control the city, he used money to kill the leaders in the city and those who disobeyed him. This caused everyone to be in danger, renunciation and morality, and the people in the city continued to flee quietly. This city, so that the population in the city has been greatly reduced, and the number of people is no longer enough to defend this big city. So after the declaration of war in Potentia, Sinsinag moved all the residents into the inner city and burned the outer walls and houses.

After the Potentians became the new masters of Grumentum, they did not rebuild the outer city. At this time, the inner city has three gates in the east, west and south, and there is a cliff to the north.

The initial deployment of Porat was: 500 Potentia warriors in each of the three city gates were stationed, followed by the tribes of the original Grumentum, and the tribes of Lusau above. Not only does it serve as a reserve force in the event of a war, but it also monitors the movements of these tribes. Once there is a sign of riots, you can easily halt the war. The core area of ​​the mountain top is led by 500 Potentia elites. Soldiers, command high.

It's just that this set of deployment was destroyed soon after it was executed, and the destroyer was Lusau. After his strength increased, he didn't want to follow Pollet's orders anymore, especially since he had suffered a crushing defeat at Sinsingnag and was almost caught in the city and was captured alive, so he strongly urged to guard a city gate area.

Pollett was finally forced to be helpless, leaving Lusau to garrison the south gate. Because of Lusau’s oppression of the people in the city, the tribes in the city are not willing to live in the Nancheng District, but are more concentrated in the Dongchengmen District.

For the current situation in the city, Pollet is very clear and deeply disturbed, but his prestige and strength are not enough to deter the increasingly coquettish Lusau. At the same time, because of Lusau’s chaos, it has also caused waves. The dissatisfaction of the Tentia people, they learned everything that made him gradually unable to restrain the group of warriors from all the tribes of Potentia. The anger of the residents in Grumentum city increased day by day. Pollet felt like sitting in a volcanic crater. This sense of crisis made him finally decide to send someone back to Potentia and complain to his eldest brother Puamote. Difficulties, and requested the transfer of Lusau, and at the same time send more Potentia fighters to stabilize the situation in Grumentum.

After finally making this decision, Pollet seemed to relax a lot. He actively patrolled the city for the past two days, and also reprimanded his leader for the rough guarding of the east city gates.

On this day, Pollett returned to his residence on the top of the mountain and it was close to dusk. He felt hungry, so he asked the guards to roast a leg of lamb, brought a jug of wine, and prepared to eat and drink.

At this moment, he vaguely heard the sound of killing from below the mountain. You know, this mountain city is several hundred meters high, and the sound of the mountain can be heard from the top of the mountain, which shows that the movement is not small.

Polet's expression changed suddenly. He immediately ran out of the residence and was greeted by the sentinel who hurriedly reported: "Leader, there is an enemy attacking the city! The Grumentums in the city attacked our soldiers!"

"What?!" The sentry's words were like a bolt from the blue that made Pollett shocked.

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At dusk, it was time for the soldiers to eat. The Potentians ate their cheese and beef and mutton while venting their dissatisfaction with the leader Polet. Polett had tossed them over the past two days.

When they were full and happy, the horn suddenly sounded. When the leaders and team officers drove the soldiers out of the camp with an anxious expression, many people still didn’t believe that the war was just like this. The sign came suddenly.

They hurriedly picked up their weapons and straightened the queue.

The enemy's offensive was very rapid. When he rushed out of the dense forest and was exposed to the sight of the sentry in the city, he quickly approached the east, west, and south sides of Grumentum City at the fastest speed...

The sentry on the wooden wall of the east gate watched the enemies in the mountains and plains in front of them were forced to converge to several narrow gates leading to the various gates under the restrictions of undulating hills, dense wooden fences and deer villages. In the mountain road.

At this time, if a large number of arrows and javelins are thrown, those densely packed enemies will be severely injured. However, there are only a few dozen arrows falling in the enemy's array, and they can't make a big wave at all.

"Quick! Quick! Quick! The enemy is coming up!!" The warrior on the city head turned anxiously and urged the teammates who were still wandering down the city. Suddenly his voice came to a halt: in the Potentia camp. Above, a team of hundreds of people lined up with spears and rushed down.

Reinforcements sent by the Grumentum people! The warrior at the head of the city felt a little relieved, but what happened next left him dumbfounded.

This team slammed into the rear of the city, which was hurriedly preparing to go up to the city, and shouted: "Go to hell! Damn the Potentia pig!..." The long in his hand. The spear pierced the Potentia warrior who was at a loss...

The screams and screams rang out, and the city became chaotic...

Taking advantage of the chaos in the city, the enemies outside the city have already reached the bottom of the city. They threw the sack full of dirt into the trench, and soon filled out a road, and then rushed under the wooden wall. Take a long ladder...

Potentia's warriors resisted stubbornly, but most of the warriors were fighting fiercely with the tribal warriors of Grumentum in the city. There were not many warriors on the wall, but the enemy continued to attack regardless of life and death, and it didn't take long for the enemy to kill. Come up town...

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From the observation deck on the top of the mountain, Pollet saw the continuous influx of enemies on the east wall below the mountain, and the line of defense was precarious, and his heart was extremely anxious: "You hold my wolf teeth, and immediately tell Lusau, the East Gate crisis, let He sent some fighters to help defend the east gate, otherwise the enemy would enter the city and everyone would not be able to run away!"

"Yes, boss!" The guard took the order with a nervous expression.

Watching the guards rush down the mountain, Pollet was still worried, and sent people to order the 500 Potentia soldiers stationed on the mountainside to rush to the east gate.

After giving the order, Polett breathed a sigh of relief for a while, and had time to calm down and think: Where did the enemy come from?

A Picosis? Can they send so many fighters after the big defeat?

A Dionian? As soon as he thought of the mighty Greek city-state alliance to the south, Pollet felt his breath tighten. Even if Potentia is not adjacent to Dionia, he still felt the pressure from the south from time to time throughout the year, not only because of its strength, but more importantly, the Lucanians did not reject this Greek Human-oriented alliance, this is the most terrible! This terrible situation made it impossible for the Lucarians to work together to resist this outsider! This is also the reason why the prudent Puamote finally made up his mind to take down Grumentum. Only by strengthening himself can he contend with this force that is expanding at an astonishing speed. Therefore, when Puamote left, he repeatedly urged Pollet to focus on the movement of the Dionian League. Of course Pollet took it very seriously. He sent two hundred warriors of his tribe to guard the pass, and he also sent spies to the south to monitor Niutum’s movements, but because Niutum was heavily guarded, he set up checkpoints in many places. The spies returned without success by blocking the passage to the north.

Now, there is no unusual news coming from the camp guarding the pass, and the enemies of the siege are all Lukanian costumes, making Polot’s suspicion only stay on Dionia for a while. Immediately moved to the last suspicious object—Garaguso, a group of tribes with the most ancient traditions in the Lucania region. They like to live in the mountains instead of on the plains, far from the center of the Lucania region, in the northeast. Amidst the lofty mountains and ridges, the city of Galagosso was built. For decades, it rarely participated in the disputes between other tribes, and refused to alliance with other tribes, and floated outside the alliance with several Lucanian tribes. When Akpiru ruled southern Lucania, he didn't even think about it. Could it be that the conservative Galagosians changed their traditions this time?

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At this time, the eastern city wall was already occupied by the Dionian soldiers. They did not rest and continued to rush into the city.

In the forefront are 500 mercenaries led by Zantiparis, and another 500 mercenaries led by Tolmeide, guarding Niutum.

Following the mercenaries were 1,500 Lucanian soldiers led by Litoru, one of the captains of the Third Army Corps. The 2,000 soldiers led by Ximen were attacked by Ximen, and there was fierce fighting in front of the South Gate. It was the 2500 soldiers led by Bagul himself. Baghul almost evenly distributes his forces. The reason for this is that the city of Grumentum is built on a mountain, with crowded houses and narrow mountain roads. Excessive forces are concentrated in one place. Not only can it not exert its power, but on the contrary. It is easy to cause congestion and affect the offense.