Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 488

[Chapter 155 The army is dispatched]

As a battle-hardened Spartan warrior, Phoebe Das has been observing the progress of the entire siege battle, and he can roughly calculate that the casualties of the Syracuses are probably close to ten thousand!

Such a huge number of casualties is far from what Sparta can bear. Even if Sparta organizes all the allies to form a huge army, they cannot use such bloody means to attack the city, because it will inevitably It caused the allies to resist centrifugally, so this is where Phoebe Das is helpless and frightened: Dionysius, the tyrannical and cruel Sicilian tyrant, has too much control over his troops!

“There is no obstacle in front of us, and it’s time to attack Dionysius!” Dionysius, who took down Crotone and fell to the ground with a stone in his heart, turned his head to look at the north in the dark night, and his confident words were full of expect.

By the way, and Davers!

Dionysius’ words reminded Phoebedas, who was also full of anticipation: but without Crotone’s help, would Dionysus, the underdog, survive a battle?

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It was four o’clock in the morning. Except for the patrolling sentries, the soldiers of the Tulii Barracks had already fallen asleep, but the hurried knock on the door broke the silence of the barracks.

“Your Majesty, the military situation is urgent! The Syracuses have broken through the inner city of Crotone!” Guard Captain Martius said anxiously.

“The inner city of Crotone has been breached?!” Davos’ drowsiness was completely driven away by this astonishing news, and he felt a little unbelievable: “Who sent the news back, is it true?!”

“Mountain reconnaissance The news from the team. In addition, Aristiras also brought the same news.”

Syracuse conquered Crotone, which had a ten-meter-high wall and still had enough soldiers in one day. , Syracuse’s siege ability was so strong that Davos was shocked. During the day, his joy was swept away when he received the news that “Bergam was killed by his tribe and his tribe surrendered”. He immediately made a decision: “Martius, you immediately go and call Antonios, Amyntas, Matonis, and Capus to discuss the matter! Also send someone to call the senators!”

“Yes!” Martius took the order and hurried away.

Davos does have the idea of “let Crotone and Syracuse consume each other and buy more time for Dionia”, so that he has more time to train the newly formed troops better, The logistics supply is more fully prepared, and waiting for the stability of the situation in the Bruti region and the resolution of the problem of Laos’ betrayal, then Dionia will have more civic soldiers to join the expedition team, and the territory of Dionia will be It will be more stable, and he will have more confidence to beat Syracuse.

However, the plans always fail to keep up with the changes, Dionysius… Davos stood outside the house, looking at the endless night in the south, clenching his fists…

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Second Early in the

morning,

the large training ground that was always empty in the Turii military camp was now occupied by the 1st Corps, the 2nd Corps, the 7th Corps, the spear brigade, and the logistics transport team. They all stood upright and silently looked at the training platform in front of them.

Davos, dressed in military uniform, stood on the stage and looked around at the tens of thousands of soldiers and soldiers in the audience. He said loudly: “Dionian warriors, since the outbreak of this war, you have followed me around and are not afraid of hard work. And sacrifice, fought bravely, repelled the fierce Samonais, annihilated the cunning Tarantum, and ensured the security of the northern border of the alliance, you are the heroes of the alliance!

This should have held a grand triumph for you, But the war is not over yet. The main culprit who provoked this war – the Syracuses have broken through the city of Crotone yesterday, and they are about to set foot on our land, burn the fire to our homeland, and destroy us. Become their slaves! As Dionysians, what should we do?!” As soon as Davos finished speaking, there was

an earth-shattering roar on the field: “Defeat the Syracuses!!!”

” Defeat the Syracuses!”

THEM!!! KILL them all!!!…”

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Davos waited for the excited soldiers to calm down a little. He took a sharp breath and shouted loudly: “Warriors, we are about to go south to face the evil Syracuses. Dionia would like to thank you for your service. The great contributions and sacrifices made by the alliance, I discussed with the Senate and decided–”

Davers paused for a moment, took another breath, and shouted loudly: “After the victory of this arduous war, the free people who participated in the war have Will become reserve citizens, all reserve citizens will become full citizens, and city-state citizens will receive double rewards according to your merits!!” The

playground was boiling again, and this time it was overwhelming cheers: “Dionia Wan Victory!!! King Davos Wan Victory!!!…”

After all, the reason why both freedmen and reserve citizens are willing to fight for the Dionysian Alliance in the face of powerful enemies is because they feel that this alliance The existence of this can guarantee their rights and bring benefits to their future.

And Davos fulfilled what they wanted in advance, which is bound to make them fight more bravely in order to achieve this goal as soon as possible, especially the spear brigade mainly composed of free people.

In the face of the powerful offensive of the Syracuses, Davos did not hesitate to use any means to improve the fighting spirit of the soldiers and increase Dionia’s chances of winning.

As for where the “land” for so many new citizens and old citizens and soldiers came from, Davos didn’t have to worry at all: after defeating Syracuse, are you afraid that there will be no land?

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After Davos finished his lecture, he immediately announced his expedition.

The camp door opened, and the soldiers of the First Army, Second Army, Seventh Army, and Spear Brigade lined up in a neat line, walking out of the barracks one by one and heading east.

The freemen of the transport team will rush to the Turii granary, where there are mountains of military rations donated by the Dionysian people and allies in the past two days, they will transport it to the port with a pack truck, and then use a large The cargo ship will transport it to the port of Crimea for unloading.

Due to the victory at the Battle of Taranto, Dionia had won the dominance of the sea in the territory, so with the sea, the logistics transportation was much more convenient.

Before the long marching column reached the city of Turii, they welcomed countless people. They stood on both sides of the avenue and asked curiously: “Where are you going? Yes… to attack the Syracuse people. Is it?!…”

After getting the affirmative answer from the soldiers, the people became excited. After successive victories, they no longer felt the horror of the Syracuse army in the south, but hoped that the Dionysian army would be able to do so as soon as possible. Drive them away and restore peace to the alliance as soon as possible.

When the people heard the news, they kept coming, and the number of people was increasing, but they consciously did not block the avenue and affect the progress of the team. Instead, they formed a long parallel stream of people on both sides of the avenue, extending to the wooden bridge over the Krati River. .

While they cheered for the soldiers who went on the expedition, they searched for their relatives, prayed to Hades for him, and offered their best wishes.

Amid the public’s attention and wishes, the soldiers became more energetic, especially the freemen of the spear brigade, who had enjoyed this honor for the first time, with their backs straight and their heads held high.

“Oh, is this a newly formed legion?! How come I haven’t seen them before?!” “Why

do

n’t they carry weapons?!”

Of course, the curious people will not know that Davos will leak for fear of the long march The secret of the spear brigade could not achieve the effect of a surprise attack, so the spears were wrapped and the rations were transported by the baggage team to Crimea by sea, and then Olivers was designated to receive it.

The people’s doubtful inquiries were mixed with the greetings of their relatives.

“Tapirus! Tapirus!…” A voice of excitement came clearly into the ears of the spear brigade sub-commander Tapirus (he was rewarded for his outstanding performance in later training). was promoted), he quickly turned his head to look, and in the crowd of people, he saw the person he was looking for at a glance – Messiah, his wife.

She was waving her arms excitedly and shouting affectionately: “Tapirus, I will go to the Temple of Hades day and night to pray for you, so that you can come back safely as soon as possible!”

Tapirus did not speak, but waved his arms in response, but his heart was full of passion.

Both he and Messia were slaves and met at Cristoia’s restaurant. The same encounter made them quickly approach and support each other.

In the second year of Tapirus’s freedom, Messia also got out of slavery because of her outstanding performance and was praised by Cristoia. Soon the two of them were witnessed by the goddess Hera. Married next.

At this moment, Tapirus looked affectionately at the figure of his wife who was still chasing the team by the avenue, and a voice echoed in his heart: Wait for me, Messiah!

When I return, we will be citizens of this great alliance!

We will have our own land!

We’re going to build a nice house!

Four or five children to be born!

…” When the

team moved quickly to the city of Turii, the First Corps broke away from the main force and went straight to the east. They were going to the naval base by the Krati River, boarded the “raven” warship, and followed the fleet south to find Syracuse. The navy will fight again at sea.

The main force will turn to the wooden bridge of the Krati River.

In front of the wooden bridge, the elders also came to see the troops off. They are not as optimistic as the people, because the people do not know the city of Crotone. The news of the fall, and this news weighed on the hearts of every elder like a big stone, causing them to toss and turn last night, and they didn’t sleep well all night, and their hearts were full of worries about this war.

” Your Majesty!

“Kunogolata, Cornerus and other elders bowed deeply to Davos again as they did before the naval battle: “The battle with the Syracuses is up to you!”

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