Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Freemen have run out of food?!" Kunogolata asked.

"The war broke out too suddenly. Many free people did not reserve grain in advance. When they wanted to buy grain, the market was already sold out." Felixius looked at the two of them. Wasn't it the alliance itself.

"Then use food as compensation and continue to let the free people fight for the alliance. Instead of always shortening the period of citizenship as a reward, the alliance's citizenship becomes less valuable! Felicius, free people can be Under leadership, you can make great achievements and defeat Crotone’s regular army, so even if there is no leader of the consul, it should be okay to deal with the intrusion of the ordinary sailors of the Crotone fleet?" Kunogolata tone. Ask Philius bluntly.

Felicius did not care, and said seriously: "Of course there is no problem! My plan is to make every 100 people as a team of free people, patrolling the coast where they can land all day long. At the same time, send a large team to Turriy-by the side of Castellon Avenue, a company is stationed every five miles, and between the patrol and the heavy infantry company, the scout is used as the liaison. In the event of a small enemy, the patrol should be able to strike it Retreat; when encountering a large number of enemies, the patrol team first blocks the enemy's surprise attack, the scout informs the nearest heavy infantry company, and then rushes to attack the enemy..."

Kunogolata looked slightly: "This is a good idea."

"That's why our grain supply should be tense again. If we want to use the treasury money again to buy food in Heraclea, Mercis will complain to us again." Cornerus said helplessly.

"There is no money to fight wars, as long as the ruling lord can win the final victory, there will be money." Since the victory of the Triminto River, Kunogolata, who is afraid of the war, has had against Davos. More confidence.

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Milon thought that the Dionysian Army would take the opportunity to launch a siege with the help of the high platform, but the Dionyan army and the Crotone soldiers on the city faced off for an morning, except for the light infantry on the high platform to the wall There was no movement outside the projected arrows and flying stones.In the end, even the light infantry stopped attacking because of soft hands.

Such a weird calm puzzled Milon.Of course he would not know that 5000 soldiers and 3,000 Laos soldiers of Dionysia’s Third Army had entered the northern plains of Croton, and began to destroy farmland and destroy villages, doing the same thing as Croton’s landing sailors It’s just that Daveus had a military order in advance: they were not allowed to kill the Crotonians.So the soldiers just intimidated and drove away.

As early as after the defeat of the battle, the Crotone Council had advised the people in the villages on the northern plains to temporarily flee to the city to avoid the fighting.Because of the spring broadcast and the absence of the enemy in two or three days, the people of Crotone thought that Milon blocked the Dionysians in Crimea, so most of the people did not evacuate.Now, the hordes of Dionysian soldiers suddenly appeared in front of them, and the people of Crotone fled south in panic.

In southern Italy, the Croton Plain is comparable to the Sybari Plain because of two rivers: one is the Neto River, which originates from the mountains in the southern Apennines and flows from the west to the east into the Gulf of Taranto. Because of the confluence of many tributaries, the width, depth and flow of this river are finally greater than the Krati River on the Xubari Plain; the other river is the Tachinadi River, which also originates from the mountains of southern Apennine. It flows into the sea from north to south.The two rivers in the east and south irrigate the Croton Plain. At the same time, the Croton Plain is cut into an area similar to a square. On the side of this core area near the sea is the famous powerful state of Great Greece- Crotone.Since Crotone is close to the Gulf of Taranto, it has one of the few deep-water ports in the Greek city-state of the Apennine Peninsula.Crotone has fertile plains and excellent ports. The root cause of the war between Subaris and Crotone 100 years ago was that Subaris wanted to destroy potential opponents, and Crotone He wanted to seize the dominance of trade in southern Italy, so a small part of the people of Subaris fled to Crotone because of the dispute, which was only the fuse of the war.

Strangely, the two rivers flowed very close to each other after flowing out of the mountains. Between them, between the mountains and the plains, there was a city called Asprostum, whose founder was the Bruti.To the west of the Croton North Plains is the continuous Apennine Mountains, which is difficult to pass, but treks northwest through the naturally formed valley of the Alve River, a tributary of the Neto River, but can reach the only plateau in southern Italy-Cosenza Plateau At that time, the Bruti people who lived there started from the upper reaches of the Alvor River and descended all the way down the valley to Asprostum.

However, when Crotone becomes stronger, it will not allow an interracial city to control the upper reaches of two rivers in the northwest of only 20 miles away. The Neto River, which can walk into the southern passage, and the predominance threatens the safety of Crotone.Therefore, a hundred years ago, Crotone launched an army and attacked the city of Asprostum. After several battles, he finally occupied the city and drove the Brutiti back to the Cosenza plateau.Up to now, Asprostum has completely become a Greek city. As a colonial city of Crotone, it is completely under the control of Crotone and is a horn with Crotone. Guard the security of Crotone City.

The horrible news of the Dionysian invasion of the Croton Plain reached the inner city of Crotone, and the people were very scared.Especially the 3,000 soldiers of Laos, rushing along the way, seeing that they are approaching the north bank of the Neto River.

The guards on the south bank of the Neto River panicked their hands, so as not to let the enemy cross the pontoon and kill them directly under the city of Crotone. They ignited and burned several pontoons on the river. shore.

While Crotone was ferrying them by boat, the Laotian army had arrived by the river of Neto, and the people of Crotone cried, panicked and forced to flee northwest along the banks of the Neto river.

When the Greeks first came to this plain, due to the richness of the Neto River and its many tributaries and rainfall, there were also swamps here, but the Greeks have mature drainage technology. After hundreds of years of governance, there is basically no The swamp exists.But the people of Crotone were still full of risks on the way to escape, because the Laos sent several teams of soldiers to pursue them.

The people of Crotone were startled and tired.Fortunately, unconsciously, there were more young people in the team. They enthusiastically helped the women to carry heavy objects, hugged the children, and helped the elderly, so that the fugitive team did not lie down with an old child.Eventually, the Laos soldiers stopped chasing, and the city of Asprostum had already appeared in front of the fugitives.

General Asprostoum, a citizen of Crotone, Fagris opened the city gate with little hesitation, and nearly nine hundred dust and panic-stricken fugitives were put into the city.

At this moment, the spy urgent report: 5000 Dionysian soldiers attacked the city of Asprostum!

Fagris panicked as soon as he heard it.In the two wars with Dionysia, the Asprostum was transferred to more than 6,000 people to join the battle, almost buns and dogs, and they are gone forever.There are only more than 700 citizens who can fight in the city. How can it be able to withstand the 5,000 Dionysian soldiers who defeated the Crotone army in the battle?!

Fagris, who lacked actual combat experience, had no confidence. When his eyes fell on the panicked fleeing people in the city, he instantly changed the original idea of ​​escorting them out of the city back to Crotone in order to win the happy meeting of Crotone. .

"The people of Crotone! The people of Crotone!" he shouted loudly on the stone staircase of the city wall, but it was a mess underneath, only a few people ignored it.As a result, the soldiers began to shout, and finally the civilians who had fled were quiet, and they all looked up at General Asprostum.

"People in Crotone, 5000 people in Dionysia have come to this city!" Fagris just said, and then he became restless: "What! Dionysians are chasing!"

"Don't open the south gate yet, let's leave here!!"

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The people clamored loudly, and Fagris and the soldiers finally calmed them down.

"Of course you can go. But you must know that because Crotone waged two wars against Turui, most citizens of Asprostoum followed the army of Crotone and failed. When I came back, I didn’t have many civic soldiers in the city. I’m afraid I couldn’t stop the crowd of Dionysians! The city of Asprostum was the northern barrier of Crotone. Once the Dionysians were occupied , Then they can go south smoothly, easily cross the Tachnadi River where they can walk, and enter the central plains of Crotone, it will be a disaster!...... I urge all of you to pick up the shield spear The men joined us, defending Asprostum! Just defending Crotone!"

Fagris said these words sincerely, because his home was originally outside Crotone, and Asprostum said that it was a city, in fact, it was more like a special De Mo (from Athens Administrative divisions, several villages combined, equivalent to a town), although there is its own council, but there is only one general responsible for managing the city-state, selected by the "ten generals" elected by Crotone every year, so in an emergency Next, Facrois, who is also General Crotone, has the right to order the people of Crotone.

The fleeing people fell into silence, and everyone was thinking about and weighing the benefits.