Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

After listening to Daveus, Agacia looked at the distant fleet, remembering the complaints of these people in Kriano during this time, and nodded and said, "You are right!"

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Half an hour later, the troop convoy had moved away from Turri and headed south on the channel leading to Syracuse.

At the order of Tima Song, who was sitting in the first ship, the soldiers on the ship immediately moved to control the captain and the sailors, and said aloud: "We will not hurt you, we just want you to take a course!"

While appeasing the frightened captain and the sailors, they raised a red flag on the main mast, scattered on each ship, and the team officers who were secretly notified by Timmasong one day before leaving saw the signal flag flying on the first ship and began to act immediately. , Quickly controlled the forty ships.

"Go to the beach between Crimea and Castellon!" Timmasong ordered the captain.

"What do you want to do?" the captain shouted with courage despite panic.

The soldier who escorted him immediately gave him a foot: "Hurry and follow the leader's instructions!"

Seeing the humiliation of the captain, the sailors began to be restless. After being stabbed by the mercenaries, they finally flinched.

"We are all registered freemen of the Dionysian Union, aren't you afraid of attracting the anger of the Union?!" the captain looked at the wounded sailor struggling on the deck and shouted angrily.

This is indeed a problem!Timmasong spent more than two months in the Union and had some knowledge of Dionysia’s laws: even if these sailors who were just registered and not yet ready citizens, if they were treated unfairly in a foreign country, according to the bill It is stipulated that the Dionysian Union is obliged to negotiate with the city-state concerned, not to mention the protection of formal citizens.If it really killed them, the veterans of the Dionysian veteran’s former comrades were okay to say, I’m afraid they would irritate the guy who only speaks about the law and not his personal feelings. If he wants to use Dionys’ power to keep Crimisa's wishes are probably about to fail.

He asked people to help the wounded sailors to bandage their wounds and said to the captain as kindly as possible: "In the name of Zeus, I swear that I have no attempt to infringe on the alliance. As long as we send us ashore, you can drive The boat leaves!"

The captain convinced the helmsman to turn the rudder.

Tima Song whispered and hurriedly said: "Try to inform the companions of the rest of the ship to try not to hurt anyone!"

Why do you say as much as possible?Because this is a temporary patchwork team, and it is also a mercenary, only because they do not want to be bound by the alliance, and because the two leaders, Timmasong and Kriano, have high prestige, they are willing to obey their commands. To say that he could control them, Tima Song asked himself if he didn't have the ability.

It was another half an hour later, under the guidance of two guides who were bought by heavy money, in order to prevent the Crimea from discovering and being obstructed, they chose to lean on the sparsely populated beach closer to the side of Castellon. shore.

While the captain was still worried about the damage to the bottom of the ship, the soldiers pushed them out of the ship.

"You said you want to let us go!" the captain shouted in panic towards Timmasong.

"I said that. But not now, to prevent you from coming back to report, still stay here for me a little longer!" Tima Song said coldly.He ordered the soldiers to drag the ship to the beach, then tied the captain and the sailors and threw them in the grass on the shore. Of course, there will be sailors resisting during the implementation process, and naturally there will be casualties, but he still has thoughts Worrying about this, he and Kriano and other team officers quickly assembled the mercenaries, and then took out some of the wood hidden under the tent given by Davis and former comrades. Let's work together to quickly make a growth ladder .

Timmasong knew that Daphes was very careful. He asked for tents and food not only to hide some siege equipment, but also to paralyze Daphes. At this moment, when each soldier carried two days of rations, he was right again. The captain lying in the grass said, "The materials on your ship belong to your Archon Daveus. Don't forget to return him when you return."

Then ignored the crew's loud cry and led the mercenaries to the south.

With a team of 1,700 on the plains during the day, it is difficult to hide any traces, especially in the sunny season of sowing in spring.Tima Song originally envisioned landing at night, but that meant that the fleet of more than forty ships could only travel on the sea during the day.Too close to the coast is easy to cause vigilance and suspicion of patrol ships and commercial vessels passing by in Crotone and Crimea; too far from the coast, it is difficult to distinguish the direction in the night, make accurate landings, and easy to occur accident.

As a result, Timmasong prepared to attack and beat Crimea by surprise. The key is to move fast!Even if Crimisa got the news, he could not react quickly.

There is a relatively large swamp area between Castellon and Crimea, which is caused by the flooding of the Lacoeli River and its tributaries for many years.At the beginning of December last year, Timmasong quietly came over and looked at the terrain. It is completely easy to pass on the coast. In addition, in order to facilitate the land exchange and trade between Crimea and Castellon, it was also built. There are ferries and pontoons.

However, what Tima Song did not expect was that by the end of December, when spring came, the snow melted, plus the continuous rainstorm in January this year, the river water surged far better than in previous years, and the swamp area of ​​course also expanded significantly than in previous years. This brought greater difficulties to the mercenaries' urgent march.

When Tima Song took a deep and shallow walk in the swamp area, at the beginning of the south, there were occasionally farmers or slaves driving livestock, chickens and ducks to eat grass and feed on the edge of the swamp area. They found The mercenaries in the distance ran away in panic.Later, scattered cavalry began to appear in Timazon's field of vision, letting them know that the raid operation was afraid that it had already collapsed.

Tima Song immediately summoned some other team officials, such as Kriano and Toricos, to conduct an emergency consultation in the swamp area: Do you want to cancel the plan to attack Crimea?

Most people such as Kriano and Toricos insisted on moving forward. They all believed that it took so long to wait and careful preparation to get such a good opportunity. If they give up easily, return to Dionia It’s only second to be ridiculed, and more importantly, their attempts to be exposed to others, Davis will certainly be alert to them, and the Turui people will not give them a good face, and they will have to be forced to leave Great Greece by then, You will never encounter such a good opportunity again in the future!

When Tima Song saw that everyone had the same idea, he immediately stated his plan after revision: to speed up the march, to rush to the city to carry out a strong attack before the Crimea people defended, and to capture Crimee in the shortest time. Sa, defend the Crimea reinforcements that may come, and obtain the recognition of the Dionysian Union to join the Dionysian League after they have the Crimea as soon as possible.With the protection of Dionysia, their safety is guaranteed!

The team officials had no objection to his new plan, so everyone took active action.

"Brothers, speed up! Speed ​​up! As long as you walk out here, Crimea is like a delicious olive waiting for us to pick it up!" Tima Song loudly inspired a bit of frustrated mercenaries.

Kriano, Toricos and other team officials are also urging.

The battle-hardened soldiers also knew that the situation was urgent, and they could not tolerate any hesitation. They cursed at the bad environment while struggling to move forward... Finally, the big troops came out of the swamp.

At this time, the cavalry who had been watching came forward and shouted: "I am the chief of the patrol of Crimea Timayatis! Stranger, you have invaded the territory of Crimea, please immediately -" he The voice stopped suddenly, a javelin pierced his chest and fell down, and the frightened cavalrymen pulled the horse and ran away.

"Damn, who throws the javelin?!!!" Tima Song, who was rushing forward, scolded at the scene.He originally wanted to trick the Crimea people to buy some time for their attack, but he did not expect to be preempted and destroyed by these murderous mercenaries who like to do their own thing.

"Since it has already happened, stop blaming them, so as not to affect the morale of the brothers!" Kriano whispered.

After landing, the successive encounters made Tima Song very depressed, but he had to hold back: Kriano was right, he must hurry!

He spit hard, turned around and asked the guide: "How far is Crimea?"

The guide saw that his expression was distorted, and he was so scared that he swallowed quietly and said with a trembling voice: "...about...about ten miles..."

Tima Song looked at the sky and said to the herald: "Let the brothers work harder and continue to hurry up until we get to Crimea to rest!"

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No one could see anyone along the way. The farmers and slaves who had been working in the fields obviously got the news and fled into the city.

After half an hour, Tima Song faintly saw the city of Crimea in the distance, and he immediately ordered the troops to stop their rush and move forward slowly.

Crimea City is located on the south bank of Alice Headland, on the north bank of the Umbria River.More than two hundred years ago, it was originally a settlement of indigenous people, and was later occupied by the Subaris and built the city of Crimea. It was attached to Subaris as a sub-state until Subaris was defeated a hundred years ago and was weak. Crimea had to turn to his strong neighbor Crotone.Decades later, because of the establishment of Turri, Athens and Crotone reached an agreement, and Crimea and Castron, a pair of brothers and brothers, gained independence.However, last year’s war between Turui and Crotone broke Crimea’s neutrality, and it originally wanted to join the powerful Crotone, at least to share a bit of victory, but did not think Crotone actually Beaten by the weak Amendola, Crimea also paid a heavy price for nearly two thousand casualties.