Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 411

[Chapter 78 Critical: The Lamato River Line]

“Second brother is back?!” Puamote accidentally knocked his helmet to the ground. He didn’t care, and asked excitedly, “Where is he?!”

“Brother, I’m back!” With a shout, Polert’s stout figure appeared in the hall.

Puamot hurried forward to meet him, holding him tightly with both hands: “Second brother, you’re back! Great, you’re back!” Puamot’s excited voice was a little choked, he had never been like this today , I have strongly missed my belligerent younger brother: Yes, balancing the interests of various tribes and governing towns is what Puamote is good at, but when it comes to marching to fight and boosting morale, it is not my own since childhood. The younger brother who loves to cause trouble is none other than that.

And more importantly…

“Did Turui send reinforcements?” he asked anxiously.

“Come on! Led by Lord Davos himself, they are the two strongest legions of Dionia, with a total of 20,000 people!” Polet said excitedly.

“It’s great! It’s finally here! God Blessed by Asinu!” Puamot covered his chest with his hands in relief, and his pale face became bright: “Where have they been?”

“They didn’t come directly to Potenti.

Ya, but went to Picocis, ready to attack Poseidonia…” Seeing that his brother was so happy, Paulett lowered his voice unconsciously.

“Attack on Poseidonia?” The smile on Puamote’s face froze, followed by anger: “Our city of Potentia is about to be overrun by the Samonais, the one who wears Firth actually took the reinforcements to that small seaside town a hundred miles away from here that we don’t even care about! What sinister intentions does he have?! He wants to see us being wiped out, and he will come back to pick up bargains ?!…”

It was rare for Polert to see his eldest brother, who had a calm personality and always been gentle, made such a big fire, but at this moment he didn’t have the heart to watch jokes: “Brother, listen to me! Listen to me. Say! Lord Davos attacked Poseidonia in order to end the siege of Potentia by the Samonites, and even defeat them!”

Puamette, who was preparing to drop the wooden chair in the hall, listened to his brother’s shouting and dropped the chair with a bang, and still asked suspiciously, “Really?”

“Yes.” Poirot did not evade With his eyes, he said solemnly: “After I received your urgent letter, I wanted to return to Potentia from Turii immediately, but was stopped by someone sent by Lord Davos, because he wanted to personally lead troops to come to the rescue. , needed a guide who knew Potentia and Samonay and gave him useful advice, so I set out with the Dionysian reinforcements… Lord Davos finalized Dio in Picocis After the Nia army’s plan of action to repel the Samonais, I was asked to rush back to Potentia as soon as possible to cooperate with him in future military operations. He originally wanted to send a team to escort me back, but I refused.

Here It’s where I grew up playing.

Every hillside, every trail, every cave, every big rock is very familiar to me. The Samonais are so tight that I can sneak in. It’s dangerous if you take them with you. …”

Listening to Polet’s remarks, especially after knowing Davos’ plan, Puamot gradually calmed down: “So the Dionysians have now begun to march towards Poseidonia. Now, all we have to do is pay close attention to the movements of the Samonites at the foot of the mountain…”

“Yes.” Polert nodded again.

Puamote let out a long sigh, and his whole body relaxed: “Second brother, since you have come back, I will give you the responsibility of leading the Potentian warriors to fight against the

Samonaites !” Poulet

But he shook his head: “Not yet, big brother.”

“Why?” Puamote was a little puzzled.

“Because there was too much movement, in case the Samonais knew that I, who was supposed to be in Turii, had come back, they might guess that Dionia’s reinforcements might have arrived, then Lord Davos’ plan You may fail! I even suggest that you hide the news of my return for a while!”

Puamote thought for a while, and couldn’t help but say: “Second brother, you are right! I didn’t expect to go to Turii, you are now Thinking about things has become more careful!”

Polert was a little embarrassed: “These are all reminders from Lord Davos.”

“Lord Davos?” Only then did Porrett feel the strangeness of Polert’s words: “I remember that you were not like this before. Call him.” Puamote said slowly.

Polert recalled the scenes of acting with the Dionian Legion and talking to Davos many times these days, and answered seriously: “He is indeed an amazing person!”

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Cypros also looked forward to the Syracuses having a rest day after a day’s rush of marching, so as to give Trina, Crotone, and Sirius some buffer time so that they could do well Defense of the north bank of the Ramato River.

But the great Greeks underestimated Dionysius’ determination, and when he went all out, his action and wisdom were terrifying.

Back then, the commander of Carthage, Himilco, led the army to defeat the Syracuse army in a row and approached the city. If it wasn’t for the support of the Spartans, Dionysius would have been expelled from the throne of the tyrant by the angry people. , and it was at this critical time that Dionysius developed his strategy to the extreme: he took advantage of the time when the Carthaginians were plagued by plague, and led an army out of the city in the dark, advancing by sea and land, attacking the east and west, hiding the main force, Caused the experienced Shimilko to make a mistake of judgment and eventually suffered a fiasco.

This time, in order to conquer Great Greece, Dionysius built an extremely large army and a huge amount of materials. In order to win over some forces to cause trouble to Dionysus, Syracuse paid a great price.

Therefore, if this expedition fails, Dionysius’ rule in Syracuse will also be shaken.

So he set out from Sicily until now, and his spirit has been tense these days. Don’t look at his disdain for Dionia on the surface, that is to give confidence to the soldiers, but he has always had deep fear in his heart.

To that end, he certainly understood the importance of time to Syracuse’s army.

Before the march yesterday, he asked Lokrie to urgently inform the Hibernians that the camp had been roughly constructed in advance. After the army arrived, although it was also very chaotic, the order was much better than when they landed in Lokrie, at least most of the time. The sleep of soldiers is basically guaranteed.

Thus, early in the morning the next day, Dionysius began to gather his troops. Although the soldiers complained, but under his authority, they had to obediently pull out of the camp and head north.

At the same time he ordered Syracuse’s fleet to sail north from the Hibernian port and into the Lamato River.

By noon, the large, ill-formed army reached the confluence of the middle section of the Lamato River with its tributary, the Corta River.

Trina had spies watching Hibernian day and night, and Hibernian also had spies watching the north bank of the Lamatoe, so Dionysius knew that the Corta had a large section to walk on, and the river There were not many defenders on the opposite bank, so the army turned south and headed straight for the middle of the Corta River.

The reconnaissance cavalry on the other side of the river quickly returned, and Cypros, the chief general of Trina, complained secretly when he learned of the actions of the Syracuses.

In control of nearly 7,000 Trina soldiers who had exhausted the city, he was anxious about this, but he did not dare to act rashly, because the port lighthouse sentinel also came with an urgent report: countless Syracuses appeared in the bay where Trina was located. There are many soldiers on the ship.

Cypros feared that they would land on the northern coast of Trina, so he had to be on guard at all times, and did not dare to rashly divide his troops to assist Sirius.

And Siriting hastily increased the number of troops on the north bank of the Corta River to 12,000 this morning after receiving an urgent notification from Trina and the shore defenders last night.

But they did not expect that the army of Syracuse would arrive as soon as they were stationed.

The commander-in-chief of Celestia, Assias, saw Syracuse soldiers appearing on the other side, and the number of soldiers was increasing. Why haven’t the reinforcements arrived yet?

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The troops in his hands are too weak to spread on this long river bank that can be walked on!

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And Crotone, who he cursed, received a request from Trina’s messenger, Starry Night, for help last night. He also realized the seriousness of the situation and sent soldiers to inform all citizens of the appropriate age in the city and outside the city late at night.

Early this morning, citizens came to report one after another in the square.

In the morning, 14,000 people had gathered in the square, and more citizens arrived one after another…

But Lysias and the generals couldn’t wait any longer, so Astamas led this part of the army first. First, the rest of the civic soldiers and baggage will arrive later.

Just as Acethias cursed the Crotones, Crotone’s troops were anxiously rushing to the Sirius.

But Dionysius was obviously not prepared to give the southern Italian coalition any respite. Under his urging, the Syracuse army quickly rushed to the south bank of the Corta River and began to form an array.

During this period of the Army’s formation, some of the Syracuse ships sailed into the Lamato River.

The city of Trina is not like Turii, which straddles both sides of the river. The city of Trina is located on the north bank of the river, and the land on the south bank belongs to Hibernian, so the Ramato River is the boundary river between the two city-states. They belonged to different alliances, and the Crotone Alliance and the Lochrie Alliance were mortal enemies, so there was little communication between the two cities, and it was even more impossible to build a pontoon bridge on the river.

And most of Trina’s original warships were handed over to Dionia. Of course, even if they all existed, they could not be the opponents of the powerful Syracuse navy, so the Trina people watched the enemy helplessly. The warships sailed up the Lamato River one by one, but the gods were also helping the Syracuse people. The wind was blowing from the southwest at the moment, and the sailors of Syracuse rowed against the current, saving a lot of money. force.