Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 116

[Chapter 15 The Tyrant Dionysius]

Davos watched Syracuse’s messenger Heroris go away, and when he turned to return to the living room, his expression became a little more dignified and worried: The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn’t stop, it seems that Syracuse is preparing to fight with Carthage. The base went to war, no matter what the result was, Amendolara had to develop as soon as possible and strengthen herself in order to gain a firm foothold in this chaotic world.

Two days later, Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, listened to the report of Haroris in his palace, his face was gloomy, and then he laughed: “How could a small mercenary leader become something? Life-time consul! Marcias, what do you think?” Marcias,

who used to be the leader of the Campania mercenaries, wore a uniform, stood straight at the bottom, and said without hesitation: “My lord, I think as a mercenary leader. The leader of a mercenary should focus on how to win a battle and earn money and honor for himself, rather than doing something he would never do. Although that looks good, it is easy It will lead to failure, and it will also drag down innocent people.”

“You are right!” Dionysius praised, he patted the back of his chair: “I sit in this position, trembling every day, not afraid to have the slightest Slacker! A mercenary who can only be brave and ruthless dares to be the tyrant of the city state!”

Haroris couldn’t help but said: “Sir, this Davos is not a tyrant, but a lifelong ruler elected by the people of Amendolara. Officer!”

“Herolis, what do you mean by that?!” Dionysius stared straight at Harolis with sharp eyes like knives.

It was only when Hololis realized that he had accidentally touched Dionysius’ inverse scale, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat, lowered his head, and did not dare to speak.

Dionysius looked at him carefully for a while, then withdrew his gaze and said disdainfully: “He just played a little trick, I can only say that this young man is a little smart, no wonder he can win a few battles. It’s a pity. No foresight. Philistos, do you know how many citizens Amendorara has?”

A graceful middle-aged man sitting on the left closest to Dionysius said: “As far as I know It should be less than 4,000 citizens, and of course it is far below that number now.”

“Listen, even when Amendolara was not at war, there were only 4,000 citizens at most, which is not as many as the citizens of one block in our Greek city of Kuza.” Dionysius shrugged and said slightly disdainfully.

There was sparse laughter in the palace.

“If the mercenary leader, what is Davos, comes to me, after he has defeated Carthage, Marsala, Palermo, Erice, Egadi Island, Segesta and other cities as he chooses It’s better to be a tyrant than to live in that small town of Amendolara, but unfortunately he won’t have the chance again!” Dionysius finished speaking with pride, then looked at Mathias: “We’re going to attack How is the preparation of the Carthaginian army?”

“Now more than 10,000 mercenaries have come to camp outside Syracuse, and

we in Syracuse can mobilize at least 40,000 citizens, including Catane, The army of the city-states such as Leotine, Taunis, Pachinus, etc. is about 20,000… In addition, there are 2,000 cavalry. Your lord, the army you have is a powerful army that has never been seen in the history of the Greek city-states. Even the most powerful Athens of the year did not have such a huge army!” Mathias said excitedly.

Dionysius’ expression was calm, and he turned his eyes to his brother Leptinius: “How is the navy preparing?”

Although Leptinius and Dionysius are brothers, look at It seems a little honest and honest, but in fact it is.

Because of this, Dionysius trusted this younger brother so much, and promoted him to be the commander of the Syracuse navy.

At this time, he replied: “There are now one hundred and fifty three-layered warships, plus other warships, there are three hundred and twenty large and small warships.”

“Not enough…” Dionysius sighed After a sigh of relief, his fingers tapped the back of the chair hurriedly: “You must understand that in fighting Carthage, two are essential – warships and cavalry, and we are not enough. Lepti Nees, it seems that you have to urge other city-states to speed up the construction of warships. As for the cavalry, Marcias, you send someone to the Apennine Peninsula to recruit Celtic cavalry. Philistos, you go to Sparta and ask, Recruit some Thessaly cavalry. Guys, we must speed up! Next spring, we’ll be attacking Gera!”

The three responded immediately: they will do their best to complete the task given by Dionysius!

“Marcias, work hard! A small mercenary leader can annihilate those savage natives with 2,000 men. We have the largest army in the Greek city-state but can’t create greater glory, then What a shame!” Dionysius, still caring about Davos’ rejection of him, encouraged Mathias.

“Sir, don’t worry, I won’t let you down!” Macias said immediately.

“Very good, Marcias!” Dionysius praised again, and then he waved: “Philistos stay, you all go down.”

Herolis, Marcias, Leptines and the other two courtiers withdrew in response, but Dionysius kept his eyes on Herolis’s back until Philistos called his name.

“Do you think that Hololis has changed a bit?” His fingers tapped the back of the chair, and Dionysius had a haze on his face.

Philistos was startled, and carefully defended Herolis: “My lord, I didn’t find anything, and Hololis is still the same as before.”

Dionysius glanced at him: “You have a good relationship with him, I know. I also miss the help he gave me when I was the most difficult, so I don’t want anything to ruin our friendship!” Dionysius said emotionally : “…I heard that he is studying the history of Egypt recently. I think I can give him a period of vacation so that he can concentrate on his research…” Dionysius muttered to himself, Feili Stos sighed inwardly: “My lord, I understand…”

“This is only a temporary arrangement…” Dionysius comforted.

“Philip, Philothanus is your friend, can you invite him to come here.” Dionysius changed the subject and said, “I just wrote a poem, and I want to invite him to come here with him. Come and do the evaluation together. You know, when I discussed poetry with him last time, I offended him without saying a word, and I haven’t come to me for three months.”

“Ferosanus is a good person, but he likes to put on airs. I will try my best to help you persuade him to come.” Philistos laughed and teased: “Sir, there are times when you, an all-powerful general, can’t do anything about ordinary citizens!”

Di Onysius also laughed and spread his hands: “So who said I was Dionysius dictatorship!”

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During this time, Davos and military officer Felixius Si was busy reorganizing the city-state army.

After the mercenaries became citizens of Amendolara, it turned out that Drax, Sesta, and Adrianx had more than 1,000 soldiers, and Davos had more than 1,800 soldiers. After the slaves became free people, There are nearly 300 people, plus the original city-state citizens who belonged to the service age range of about 250 people, the total number of people who can fight in the city of Amendolara is about 3,500.

Originally, the highest position of the mercenary was the brigade captain (actually Davos himself held it), and the highest organization was brigade, but with the increase in the number of combatants, the original organization could no longer adapt to the actual situation of the current city-state.

After Davos and Felixius discussed, they decided to add a higher-level army establishment, which Davos named “Legion”, the highest position of the legion commander, and Davos himself still holds the position. The tentative number is The main force of 7,000 people has seven brigades (six heavy infantry battalions and one light infantry battalion), each with 1,000 people, and the highest-ranking battalion commander (later also commonly known as the “Thousand Commander”); Jurisdiction over five companies, each company has 200 people, the highest position company captain (also commonly known as the centurion); a company has four divisions, each with 50 people, the highest position division captain.

Because Davos was influenced by Rome in his previous life, he was going to cancel the team and change it to a centenary, but Felixius raised an objection. He believed that the team had an advantage in the melee and the mountain station because it was more mobile and flexible. With the support of the four teams, the independent combat capability of the UU Kanshu www.sonicmtl.com company has also been greatly enhanced.

After much deliberation, Davos finally agreed with Felixius.

Since then, the detachment has been established as a unique military system in the city-state under the control of Davos, and the detachment, as the lowest level of officers, plays a key role in linking the previous and the next in the legion, and was later honored by the soldiers as “soldier head” .

Later, many of Davos’s generals were so proud to have served as sub-captains, so much so that Davos issued a military order stating that only after serving as sub-captain for two years can they be eligible to be promoted to a higher-level legion position. The position of captain is more dazzling, of course, this is another story.

A detachment has five squads, each with 10 people, and the highest-ranking squad leader (later renamed the “sergeant major, held by veterans). In addition, the corps also has cavalry, engineering battalion, medical battalion, and baggage battalion… …etc. The actual number of its legions may be as high as 8,000, of course, these are just assumptions.

Since the number of people fighting in the city-state of Amendolara is only about 3,500, Davos organized it into four brigades.

The soldiers of the first battalion are all from The selection of the captain of the mercenaries led by Davos gave Davos and Felixius a headache. In terms of ability and prestige, Antonios was on a par with Capps. Later, considering that Antonios was serving as a city-state The Ombudsman, this is the third-ranked person in the city-state public office after the consul and the city administrator. For the sake of balance, after talking with the two, Davos decided that Capps should be the first captain.