Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 254

[Chapter 52 Occupy Grummentum and Elia’s Concerns]

A part of the mercenaries at the east gate city head held shields and spears, rushed down the wooden wall, attacked the Potentia warriors in the city, and supported the Grumentum people who were almost unable to hold on. The rest of the mercenaries ran to the gate tower. Turning the locked winch, the east gate was opened, and the following soldiers rushed in.

The Poseitia soldiers defending the east gate were attacked from the front and back and struggled to support.

Lusau was shocked when he received Polet’s order. He did not expect that these tribes in Grummentum City would rebel again. His first reaction was not to worry about the situation at the East Gate, but to worry about the situation at the East Gate. He was afraid that these warriors would also have problems, because most of the more than a thousand warriors were tribal warriors who had surrendered to him after entering the city. In addition, the enemy at the south gate was attacking violently, he did not dare to disperse his forces, so he refused to send out reinforcements.

However, as soon as the Potentia warriors stationed on the mountainside received the order, they immediately went down the mountain to rescue them. When they arrived, their companions in Dongmen City were in a difficult situation.

The reinforcements of Potentia complicated the battle in the east: mercenaries and Grummentum tribal warriors attacked the East Gate garrison, while the Grummentum warriors were attacked by the Potentians, four forces. In the city and the narrow area in front of the entrance of the mountain road, they fought each other into a ball…

Zantiparis was the first to react. Thanks to the “Dionysian Military Law”, during this period of training, Zantiparis was asked many times: Unless there are special circumstances, the army commander must not fight on the front line. .

So this time, he followed in the back team in the siege of the city. When faced with such a chaotic situation, he made a quick decision with rich battlefield experience, ordered the mercenaries to slowly retreat to the city wall, and at the same time informed Kesima to lead his troops. Soldiers circled the houses from both sides and surrounded the enemy.

The retreat of the mercenaries gave hope to the Potentian warriors who were fighting hard. They believed that the enemy was about to be overwhelmed, so their morale greatly increased, while the Grummentum felt despair. They collapsed, but as the Potentian warriors advanced, they gradually surrounded them, and they had no choice but to fight for survival as they could not escape.

However, Polot on the top of the mountain looked terrified. What he saw was that the enemy was retreating in an orderly and basically stable formation, while the enemy who had entered the city gate behind was rushing from the houses on both sides. They went around and gradually formed a large encirclement, which surrounded the Potentia garrison and reinforcements in the East City, as well as the Grummentum people, while some enemies stood on the top of the city and raised their hands. It’s the javelin, it’s condescending, and it’s such a close distance that it can almost be said to be a hit in every throw…

Polert closed his eyes in pain, and now he can be sure: the enemy is from the terrifying Dionysian alliance. The soldiers of Lucania are full of fighting passion, but their formation has always been loose, but they are not so strong and rigorous. formation.

While scolding Lusau for disobeying the order, Polert hesitated whether to send the last of his troops to this eastern battlefield where there was no hope…

The deadly rain of javelins and the fierce attack of the mercenaries finally led to the defeat of the East Gate garrison. The shrinking of the encirclement was like a noose around the necks of the reinforcements of Potentia, and they finally chose to surrender.

In the end, Polert, who was worried about gain and loss, did not send his remaining 500 fighters, but stuck to the top of the mountain.

Next, Zantiparis and Kesima led their army to attack south, and Lusau, who was already unsupportable, was defeated. On the way to the west, he was killed by Grummentum soldiers who lost control.

When it was dark, the Dionysian army defeated the defenders on the east, west and south sides, and the whole army entered the city of Grummentum. Only the 500 soldiers led by Polet on the top of the mountain were panicked when the army approached.

At this time, Hermon held the torch high and went up the mountain alone, ready to persuade Polet to surrender.

In order to save the lives of his tribe, Polet finally agreed to surrender, and the soldiers had to lay down their weapons, open the mountain gate, and follow Hermon down the mountain empty-handed.

Polet said resentfully to Hermon: “You help the Greeks to kill their own people and seize the land of their own people, aren’t you afraid of the wrath of the gods of Mount Asinus?!”

Hmon turned back and said meaningfully: “You are wrong, I am not helping the Greeks, but the Lucanians, and God Asinu will only be happy about this!”

Dionia captured Grummentum with 600 casualties, and Lusau and his henchmen were slaughtered.

A few days later, Potentia and Dionia signed an armistice agreement, and more than a thousand Potentian warriors who were captured were safely returned to Potentia.

Different from the fall of Niutum at the beginning, the news of Grummentum’s change of ownership quickly spread throughout the Lucaria region, causing huge waves among many small tribes and even multiple forces.

Dioria, however, did not take further military action, but carried it out step by step according to a pre-planned plan: Bagul served as the city administrator of Grummentum, Hermon served as the middle judge of the city, and Asia Sisters was transferred to Grummentum as a mid-level prosecutor, and Kesima was appointed to a series of positions including patrol captain.

The first thing Bagul did when he took office was to take over the pass camp between Niutum and Grummentum.

Secondly, only 2,000 fighters were left in Grummentum, and the remaining 3,000 fighters and mercenaries commanded by Zantiparis returned to their home cities, Niutum, Turii, Aspurustum, etc. , in order to reduce the pressure on the supply of military rations, and they went south with several tribes in the city of Grummentum.

The next thing to do is to fulfill the promises that Vespa and Hermon made to the small tribes around Grummentum, accept them into the Dionysian Alliance, divide settlements and pastures for them, and abolish the previous Grumen Mentum and Potentia’s multiple exploits against them…

After Cincinnag learned that the Dionian League had occupied Grummentum, he scolded him for his insidiousness and cunning.

But on the face of it, the severely injured Picocis had to send messengers to Turii to express peace and goodwill.

Even Garraguso, who was seldom involved in the tribal strife in Lucania, sent messengers to find out what the powerful new neighbor was trying to do.

Potentia was forced to sign a truce with Dionia because of the issue of captives, but as the dominant Lucanian tribal confederation in northern Lucania, Dionia’s raid hurt its dignity and angered The tribal leaders of Potentia were only suppressed by the stable leader Puamot, and he chose to forbear.

The strong Greek flavor of the Dionian League, so unique in the Lucania region, immediately attracted the attention of another Greek city-state in the region, Elea.

Elia is also one of the many Greek colonial cities established on the Italian peninsula during the Greek colonial era. Adjacent coastal cities have been established one after another.

Compared with the other two cities, Elia, which is sandwiched in the middle, seems a little unknown, and in the process of the mighty southward migration of the Lucanians a hundred years ago, Poseidonia and Picocis fell one after another. , and the weaker Elijah survived tenaciously, but Elijah, who was surrounded by Lucalia, was in danger of being destroyed at any time, if not for the alliance between several tribes of Lucalia later The contradictions, such as Portentia and Picocis, Portentia and Grummentum… make Elia a buffer zone, and the Lucanians’ full-scale attack on it no longer occurs.

But for decades, Elia’s life has not been easy. Part of the land outside the city has been occupied by aliens, and it will be harassed from time to time. It has become a very dangerous thing for people to leave the city. It is easy to be raided by Lucania. People were captured and made slaves.

Therefore, the Elias relied on the production and processing of handicrafts, as well as the development of maritime trade, cargo transshipment, port services, etc. to barely maintain the operation of the city-state and the lives of the people.

Now the appearance of Dionia, let the Elias see the light of day.

Therefore, after all the citizens discussed, UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com decided to send envoys to Dionia, the emerging Greek city-state alliance, to express their willingness to form an alliance.

Council member Kanios gladly took over this glorious mission.

But it is obviously impossible to get to Dionia by land. Portentia and Picocis will not allow him to pass through their land, so they can only go by sea. Passenger ships do not need to go around the Strait of Messina, because Elie The demi-humans knew that Laos was an ally of Dionia.

The passenger ship carrying Kanios, with the strong south wind, galloped southward like an arrow.

Canios stood on the bow, thinking about the mission, his Etruscan slave Ino pointed to the east, and suddenly shouted: “Picoses!”

Kanios looked up, and in his field of vision: the distant land to the east was nothing but a thin strip of green cloth with a white dot on it, and that was Pykosis – once Elia The sister city of , has now become a lair of aliens, Elijah’s nightmare.

While mourning for the former Picosses, Kanios also made up his mind: never to let Elijah repeat the same mistakes!

Because it was a tailwind, the ship sailed for two hours before reaching Laos.

Kanios has been to Laos before, and he has a better understanding of the port situation. Although Laos was occupied by the Lucagians at that time, it was not forbidden to trade with the Greeks. It was just the habits of the Lucanians— -Like looting, and discrimination between races, so its reputation is not very good, so there is not much direct trade between the Greeks and Laos.

But what Canios sees in the port of Laos today is: there is an endless stream of merchant ships going in and out, the densely packed laborers at each dock are loading and unloading goods without stopping, and the sea of the harbor, floating in the foamy water, In addition to the ships, there are still a lot of food and garbage remnants, so it attracts countless seabirds circling and pecking in the sky.