Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

After a while, a young man holding the child handed the child to a woman beside him and stood up.

The woman grabbed him and whispered in concern: "Be careful!"

There was some guilt in the young man's eyes, avoiding the woman's gaze, and he whispered back: "You too!" After he finished, he strode out of the crowd.

Under his leadership, many people also said goodbye to those around them and walked out.

Fagris patted the young man's shoulder and asked with relief: "Young man, what's your name?"

"Princeles."

Fagris glanced at the woman who held the child and comforted him: "Relax, wait for the enemy to be repulsed, and you will soon be able to meet your wife."

He thought the two were husband and wife, and the young man nodded solemnly.

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The 5000 soldiers of the Third Army led by Shironimus were killed in the city of Asprostum. It was not because they wanted to carry the siege equipment made last night, so they traveled faster than attacking Neto. The Laos troops on the Hebei coast are much slower, but this time difference is intentionally set so that the plan can proceed smoothly.

At this time, Hironimos followed the team while talking to Izam: "Are you sure that your soldiers have entered Asprostoum?"

"Of course! I watched them go in first-hand. If it wasn't because my appearance was different from that of the Greeks, I would also accompany the brothers! The head of the army, I hope you can rush to the city as soon as possible. I'm afraid it will take a long time. They will be found!" Ezham pleaded.

"I understand." Hironimos promised immediately, and asked, "How many people went in?"

"56 soldiers." Izam blurted out, knowing his players well.The alliance expanded, the army expanded, and his mountain reconnaissance team also expanded. There is now a company formation.

Hironimos was a little surprised. He didn't expect so many soldiers to sneak into the city, which made him more confident in capturing Asprostum. He told the commander to urge the troops to accelerate.

In fact, without the urging of Hironimos, the soldiers' marching speed is constantly accelerating, because these 5,000 soldiers are all from Nyutum, they missed the previous battle, eager for battle and merit.

The water in the upper reaches of the Neto River is neither deep nor wide, but the banks are higher.Hironimos rushed to the North Shore first, and saw many enemies on the other side in Zhang Gong taking arrows, and immediately issued the order: "The seventh brigade attacked!"

The light infantry of the Third Army quickly formed a long stretch of single-line scattered lines, scrambling down the river bank, brave the arrows shot at them without fear, striding across the river.After paying little casualties, they climbed to the other side, and the enemy had already ran away.

The heavy infantry who followed followed carrying the ladders and wooden rows made of trees and easily walked across the Neto River.

Asprostoum City is not far in front, it is located on a higher terrain, and it is actually climbing hills all the way, which is not easy for the Lucanian soldiers living in the mountains.In the end, they stopped in front of the city of Asprostum and began to form formations under the orders of the team officers.

Asprostum soldiers looked nervously at the dark enemies under the city walls.Behind them are the newly joined people, who are even more nervous.

General Fagris saw a somewhat old man who was shaking all the time, and his round shield fell to the ground several times. He stepped forward and comforted: "Don't be afraid, the enemy can't attack! Since this city has been returned to us by Croto After the insider, never been defeated by the enemy! We ate a defeat in the south decades ago (referring to the war between Lockley and Li Jim against Crotone), and the Brutus wanted to take the opportunity to retake the city , There are more people than there are Dionysians in the city now, and they are defeated!"

His words reassured the soldiers.

When Fagris patrolled the aisle of the castle head from west to east and saw the entire defense situation, and saw that there were enough soldiers at each of the fortresses, he also had his own confidence.

Although Asprostum is a small town like Castellon and Crimea, due to the importance of its geographical location, the Crotonenes have expanded and strengthened the city defense many times, so it has seven meters. The high city walls, the four-meter-wide city wall trenches, and the diversion of water from a tributary of the Neto River to form a wider moat, and it is bordered by steep mountains in the west and another large tributary of the Neto River in the east, which is also a cliff The cliff is wide and the river is deep.Therefore, it has only two gates in the north and south, with concentrated troops for easy defense.

Izam carefully observed the enemies on the city wall. Suddenly, he turned to Hironimus and shouted in excitement, "My elders, my brethren are on the wall!" In the city!"

Hironimos, who had always been serious, couldn't help but move, and asked anxiously, "Where?"

Although Ezam was excited, he remained cautious, not using his fingers, but whispered, "On the far left side of the city wall!"

Shironimus immediately looked to the leftmost city.At noon, the sun hung in the middle of the sky, shining on the armed soldiers at the head of the city, radiating dazzling light everywhere, but the light in one place was special, the dazzling round shields were neatly arranged in a row, and The reflected light is bright and dark, very regular, and it is apparent that these people are turning their shields in their hands at the same time.Who would do this boring, physically exhausting thing before the war?Hironimos smiled a little: "Izam, if you capture Asprostum, your team will be the first!"

"Thank you, Lord Captain!" Ezam exulted.

With the mountain investigation team as an internal response, Hironimos quickly set a plan to "open the attack on the far right of the city, attract the attention of the defenders, and attack the left on the dark".

The sound of the attack sounded, the soldiers were like hungry wild wolves in the mountains, and they made howling howls, and the tide generally rushed to the city of Asprostoum, Bagul, Yasist The captains of Sri Lanka, Lizam, Maxima, Ullaza, etc. also took the lead and led the troops to charge themselves...

Crotone soldiers began to shoot arrows at enemies in range. For the heavy infantry of Dionia wearing heavy armour and heavy helmets, there were very few casualties.The horn of the battle inspired the wild third army Tulucanian soldiers even broke the arrows that hit their arms and thighs, and continued to advance with injuries...

They quickly reached the moat. According to the previous exercises, the soldiers running at the forefront quickly placed the five-meter long and three-meter wide wooden rows on the moat; then the soldiers carrying the ladders stepped on Wooden platoons, across the moat, and straight to the wall; followed by soldiers with round shield sabers...

At this time, the attack on the city wall also began to violently, the arrows, javelins, and stones rained down, and the casualties of the Dionysian soldiers suddenly increased...

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Lucias did not expect that the situation would become so bad as soon as he returned to Crotone.

The people who fled into the city spread the news of the killing of the Dionysian army, and panic spread throughout the city...

Many people in the parliament were also very flustered. They thought that Crotone’s army was defeated again, and the Crimea city was captured, so that the Dionysian army could go down smoothly, so they threatened with anxiety: " As long as Miron dares to escape, he must be punished!"

Lucias retorted: "I just returned from Crimea. When I left, the city of Crimea was still in the hands of Miron. It was impossible for a few hours to pass. The city of Crimea was attacked by the enemy. Captured, and also attacked the north bank of the Neto River, which is impossible in terms of time, so the Dionysians must have bypassed Crimea! I have to admit that the Dionysians are too brave, they Without a boat, it is impossible to cross the wide Neto River. As long as Milon is still holding on to Crimea, the Dionys who invaded the Croton Plain are like rootless duckweed, and eventually have to retreat. "

"The Dionysians can't cross the Neto River, but they can attack Asprostum!" someone said worriedly.

"Is it as easy for Asprostum to capture? How many times have the Brutus failed in the past! I hope the Dionysians will attack it, which can be used to hit the Dionysians hard. !" Some people refuted.

"It's good for us to fight like this! We have already suffered huge losses in Crotone. Farmland has been destroyed, houses have been burned, prices are rising, and the state treasury is being consumed. Due to lack of labor, trade has also suffered a lot. Big influence, we still have a large number of citizens captured! The people are already dissatisfied with us, it is better to have peace talks with the Dionysians!" Someone said pessimistically.

"Peace talk?! Didn't you hear Lycias say the conditions of Dionia's peace talks?! The damn Dionyan consul wants us to dissolve the alliance, can we agree! Once Aspro Sturm is independent, and Kaurnia, Siliting, and Trina are no longer our allies, so maybe Lockley and Bruti will destroy them tomorrow and kill them under Crotone!" Road.

"Peace talks are like buying and selling things. Dionysia put forward conditions. We can continue to negotiate with them and reduce their demands..."

"Peace talks are okay, but only after repelling the Dionysian attack! So that we can straighten our chest and speak to the Dionysians loudly!"

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I don’t know when the meeting started, and I have been arguing over the question of "whether to conduct peace talks with Dionia".Fortunately, they were able to distinguish priorities, and some emergency measures were quickly implemented: the warship sailed into the Neto River and patrolled the banks to prevent the Dionysians from smuggling and building bridges.At the same time, the freemen were employed in large numbers, partly guarding the city of Crotone, partly stationed on the south bank of the Neto River, monitoring the Dionysians on the other side, and a small number of people were sent to Asprostoum, To strengthen its defense.In addition, people were sent to Crimea to ask Milon to attack the Dionysians who besieged the Crimean city in order to force the invading enemy to withdraw.