Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 216

[Chapter 14 Kuno Gorata’s Advice]

“We’ll just wait and see.” Davos said with a relaxed smile, completely ignoring the threat of Lysias: “But I also remind you that the next time you come again, the conditions I mentioned will not be It’s such a good condition now! In addition, I want to remind you that the enemy of Crotone is not only our Dionysian… The war continues, who knows what will happen?”

Lycias Wen Shocked.

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From noon, the first batch of ration packs arrived at the barracks.

Davos breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time brought a letter written by Kunogolata, which mentioned that the messenger of Locri arrived in Turii and proposed to the Senate that “Locle and Dai Onia’s alliance against Crotone” was proposed, but the Senate did not reply for the time being, citing the absence of the consul.

The messenger fell ill with a high fever due to the fatigue of the journey. He was in the hospital for treatment and could not go directly south to find Davos in a short time.

Kunogolata put forward his opinion at the end of the letter: “Regardless of whether the consul has the confidence to solve Crotone independently, please take into account that the city-state strength of Locle is second only to Crotone, and its With the strong support of Syracuse behind it, destroying or severely weakening Crotone and causing Locle to take the opportunity to annex Crotone’s allies will all establish a more powerful enemy for Dionia…”

Dai Firth read it several times, and then picked up another letter, which was a secret letter from Aristillas and handed over to Davos through a special channel. The letter mainly mentioned these few words. Some of the things that happened in the city of Tiantuli, of course, also included the arrival of the messenger of Locklee.

In addition, it also mentioned what happened around Dionia, such as: after the consul Diomilas of Tarantum led his army to capture Manduria, he let Achita lead his army to attack the city of Brindsey. , while the fierce battle with the Mesapis continued; Potentia was gathering the surrounding tribes and seemed to be preparing to attack Grummentum in the south…

The last piece of news caught the attention of Davos: Dionysius, the plenipotentiary general of Syracuse, led 80,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry, and 400 warships to fight against Carthage… Count Dio The war between Nia and Crotone, at the beginning of this year, the entire Greek world of the Western Mediterranean was in full swing.

80,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry, 400 warships?

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Davers widened his eyes and carefully confirmed the numbers on the letter.

Although he knew before that Syracuse was the leading Greek state in the Western Mediterranean, the power it displayed at the moment still made Davos tremble. But it’s not far, just two or three days by boat.

When the brother of Dillon, the dictator who created Syracuse a few decades ago, succeeded the tyrant, there was a precedent for interfering in the internal affairs of other city-states in Greater Greece, and Davos could not help but be vigilant.

He picked up Kunogolata’s letter again, read it again, and then thought for a long time…

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After returning to Crimea, Lycias

naturally talked to Miron about him After the meeting with the Dionian consul Davos.

Miron was angry at the Dionysians for daring to impose such harsh conditions on Crotone, and at the same time felt extremely guilty.

All morning, Miron watched the Dionysian barracks on the city wall, thinking about ways to defeat the enemy.

Whether it was on the south or north shore, Dionia’s soldiers continued to build camps and moved the defensive line forward, with trenches, deer villages, traps…etc. Attack Crimesa, as if the Crotones were going to attack them.

Miron sometimes sighs: what means did the commander of the Dionian army use to make such brave and opinionated citizen soldiers willingly continue to do such hard work and dirty work, if Croto The inner soldiers have long since quit, causing trouble.

At noon, Crotone’s fleet commander Askamas rushed to the port of Crimea. Miron was finally excited, because Askamas, one of Crotone’s ten generals, was also Miron’s friend. , the representative of the radicals, Miron believes he can agree to his plan and help him.

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After sending Askamas away and getting his affirmative answer, Miron can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Just as he was about to lie down and rest for a while, the guards came in and reported that the enemy outside the north gate had changed.

Before, the Dionian soldiers had been working a few hundred meters away from the north gate, but at this time they suddenly advanced to within a hundred meters, and they started to level the ground just outside the range of the Crotone light infantry on the city wall, tamping it down. Land, sort out a large piece of flat land.

At the same time, they were guarded by heavily armed light and heavy infantry on both sides to prevent the defenders from raiding the city.

No slings have appeared in this era, and there are moats and city walls at such a long distance, and it is impossible to do any harm to the city of Crimea. Therefore, the Crotone soldiers watched curiously on the city walls and were not nervous. .

Milong is also watching all this, and he is already a little tired, and he also wants to understand clearly: what exactly do the Dionysians want to do?

The Dionian soldiers began to pick up four or five-meter long tree trunks, placed them on the edge of the flat ground, drove the trunks into the soil one by one at intervals, and connected and fixed them with ropes. A wooden frame about 30 meters long and 5 meters wide.

“Don’t the Dionians want to build houses here, and they are not afraid that we will burn them!” A Crotone soldier said jokingly, which immediately caused a burst of laughter.

But I saw Dionian soldiers carrying heavy sacks one by one, putting them into the edge of the wooden frame one by one, and stacking the bags neatly…

“Hahaha… I think the Dionysians are not only the They want to build houses, and they want to make bread (because that’s sacks for grain flour)!” Another Crotone soldier’s quip elicited another round of laughter.

Since there were several thousand Dionian soldiers participating in the labor, a wall was built with sacks in a blink of an eye, and the height of the wall quickly reached the same level as the city wall of Crimea, and it continued to rise…

See Here, Miron’s face changed greatly, and the adjutant beside him shouted: “No, the enemy is going to build a high wall to attack us!”

Seeing the scene in front of him, the Crotone soldiers who were watching the lively before already understood When they came over, they began to panic: there were many powerful slingers among the Dionysian light infantry. The original range was relatively long. Now the Dionysians have used clever methods to quickly build a wall of Crimea that is four meters high. There is also a platform nearly two meters higher, which means that their light infantry mounts this high wall and can use their height to let their arrows and stones attack the soldiers on the city wall of Crimea.

Once the enemy attacks the city, their slingers and archers can stand on a high platform and attack the soldiers defending the city wall, which will make the defenders at the front of the city too busy to avoid the attack and have no intention of defending the city wall… Miron has now It was a cold sweat: this platform must be destroyed!

But he also knew that the enemy would be on guard, so he decided to set the raid time in the evening.

Soon, he saw the Dionians dig trenches around the high platform, and filled the gap between the high platform with the excavated soil…

Miron was a little crazy: the Dionians are simply mice , all the time thinking about punching holes to save lives!

By dusk, the Dionians had set up another small camp around the high wall.

Miron finally gave up the decision to attack. He didn’t want to waste the lives of soldiers on this less hopeful action, and he already had a trace in his heart.

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Davos stepped on the slope built with mud, stood on the high platform for the first time, and subconsciously stomped his foot twice, feeling relatively stable.

The first time he saw the city of Crimea, he had the idea of building a high platform.

The city wall more than three meters high is indeed too short.

However, it is not easy to build a soil base higher than the city wall with soil, because it is easy to collapse. Fortunately, the engineers came up with a good way to use tree trunks and ropes as frames, sacks of soil as support, and then fill with soil… Both fast and firm.

Davos was condescending, and the situation on the northern city wall of Crimea was unobstructed.

Seeing that the opposite city was full of soldiers, Daves said to Epithenis beside him, “Can our archers hit the enemy?”

“Lord Commander, there is no problem at all!” Epitheus Nice said confidently.

Davos nodded: “Then attack. UU reading www.sonicmtl.com”

“Fire arrows!” Epithenis gave an order, and the archers on the high platform began to shoot the first round of arrows.

The slingers in the back, next to the archers, also started waving their slings.

The siege has finally begun!

Miron, who was standing on the head of the North Gate City, was full of fighting spirit at this moment. Facing the arrows and flying stones flying in the sky, he shouted: “Defense!”

On this section of the city wall facing the high platform, he specially arranged Heavy infantry guarded the city, and they raised their round shields to protect their heads…

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There is a new village on the south bank of the Krati River in the Subari Plain, and Aguilas is this The village chief, the lowest-ranking official in the current Dionysian administrative system, according to the newly promulgated law: the village chief is elected by the citizens of the village for a one-year term.

However, it is not an easy task to be the village head. Candidates must meet several necessary conditions: first, they must be an official Dionysian citizen; Records; in addition, those who have served in the military, have made military exploits, and have made special contributions to the Dionysian Alliance are preferred.

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