Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Before the messenger of Crotone arrived, Milon had received news from the warships cruising on the coast of Crimea: The Dionysians invaded the Croton Plain!

Miron was taken aback and screamed: He was taken on by the Dionysians. No wonder they never attacked the city. It turned out that it just attracted my attention. The Dionysians in the south camp had already gone south!

However, he was hesitant to attack Dionyssia’s south battalion: after all, Dionysian’s army watched under the city. Once they mobilized the army, they saw clearly on the high platform. Rimesa, the trouble is even greater!

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The siege of Asprostum is fiercely in progress, and Fagris did not expect the Dionysians to attack as soon as he came up, and he was not afraid of death.

The ladder was overturned by the putter, and quickly got on again.The soldiers climbed up the ladder one by one, the first one was smashed down, the latter one accelerated upward without hesitation.The light infantry brigade approached the city, without fear of arrows, and also shot javelins and arrows at the defenders on the city...

The fierce offensive of the Dionysians soon achieved results. The defense of the city wall was broken many times, and the Dionysian soldiers climbed to the head of the city. The defenders discovered the body of these Dionysian soldiers wearing Greek armor. Tall, strong, with long hair and a roaring weirdness, obviously not a Greek.They fight fiercely and have great power. To kill or drive them out, the defenders have to pay the lives of several soldiers.

Fagris had to send a reserve team several times to help the first-line defenders drive down the enemies who had reached the city, especially the wall section on the far right, which was the most fierce attack by the Dionysians.

General Fagris, who had some experience in defending the city, knew that the Dionysians could not always maintain such a fierce offensive momentum, and as long as they passed the battle, the Dionysians would be powerless.So he sent the reserve team in full while shouting loudly at the soldiers, encouraging them to fight bravely.

However, he did not know that at the most strenuous moment of the battle, the commander of the Third Army under the city, Hironimus, ordered his guards to line up and shake the circle against the left side of the city. shield.

The left-most defender on the city was concentrating on defending the enemy's attack, and suddenly a shout came out: "Attack!!!"

The "Crotones" whom they regarded as comrades-in-arms pierced their swords and guns at them, easily resolved the defenders, and waited for the soldiers of the Third Army to come up. The dozens of reconnaissance soldiers immediately launched to the neighboring defenders attack……

When Fagris, who was still commanding the battle on the right side of the city, received news, the Dionysian soldiers had captured the left side of the city. A large number of soldiers quickly climbed the battlement, turned into the aisle, and stormed towards the middle...

The Crotonians, who were not very morale at first, looked at the situation badly and immediately dropped their shield spears and ran desperately into the city.

This run immediately induced the domino effect.Under the onslaught of the Dionysian soldiers on the front and side, the defenders finally collapsed. They scrambled to escape from the city head, but blocked the aisle of the lower city.The defensive soldiers who panicked God jumped into the city directly from the seven-meter-high wall, broke their legs and feet, broke their heads, and lay on the ground wailing.

The people in the city were also terrified, yelling in horror: "The enemy is coming into the city! The enemy is coming in!!!"

Helping the old and the young, they hurriedly tried to escape from the south gate and fled to Crotone.

Halfway through the Crotone, the reinforcements just hit the people who had fled in a hurry. When they learned that the city of Asprostum had fallen behind, they were taken aback. They dared not move forward and immediately turned around and ran back.

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Crotone messenger rushed to Crimea, bringing the Council's offensive order.

Miron, who was no longer the chief general but was wearing a sinful body, finally ended his hesitation, sending 7,000 soldiers, including more than 2,000 infantry, to attack the Dionysian camp on the southern bank of the Wembria River.

Observing the enemy's movements on the high platform, Davos immediately let Adrians, the first captain of the Second Corps, lead the 2000 heavy infantry and 500 light infantry across the river to replace the third army and the first army stationed in the South Battalion. 2000 soldiers led by Captain Tonis.With solid camps and the North Camp’s reinforcements at any time, Matonis is confident to repel these large numbers of enemies

However, Crotone's offense was loud thunder and little rain. After eating a small loss of traps such as "nail spikes" and "hanging meat hooks" in front of the camp, he immediately retreated back to the city.Of course, Milon would not use Crotone’s only combat team to confront Dionia’s heavily guarded camp, and the soldiers lacked the courage to attack. As soon as he found that the enemies in the camp were well defended, he would The retreating bugle sounded.

Crotone's envoy was angry at the troops' easy retreat and forced Milon to continue his offensive, otherwise he threatened to dismiss Milon's leading position.But the soldiers expressed their support for Milon, and the messenger was left alone, but he had no choice but to leave Crimisa and returned to the Crotone council to complain.

However, at this time, the Crotone meeting was in chaos, and the shocking news that "Dionia captured Asprostum" was like a thunderbolt in the sky, making all the members of the council stunned.The people outside the parliament gathered in the square and shouted that the council would quickly come up with a solution to the crisis.

This time, the call for peace talks was far better than before, and some people even said that the conditions of Dionysia could be accepted, as long as the northern plains of Croton returned to tranquillity.

While the council was still arguing about the peace talks, two consecutive events prompted them to finally make a decision: First, 500 soldiers of the Dionysian Third Corps crossed Tachinati while chasing the remnants. The river entered the core area of ​​the Croton Plains, and was once close to Crotone City, although it quickly retreated to Asprostum City.But this glorious glance still shocked the defenders and the people in the city.Just as the entire city was in panic, a passenger ship from Cologne entered the port of Crotone, and the coronian messenger who got off the ship brought a bigger bad news-Lockley Kaurenia declares war!The army had already marched to Kaurnia, and the messenger came to ask Crotone for help.

The most worrying thing about Crotone’s council is finally happening: the mortal enemy Lokeri attacked Crotone’s allies while Crotone was caught in the quagmire of war. Crotone, as the lord, is responsible for sending reinforcements Thing, but at this moment, just dealing with Dioria’s offense has made Crotone’s manpower unconcerned. Where there is excess force to help Corunia, without Crotone’s support, Coronia is It is impossible to block the attack of the Rockley Allied Forces, which means that Crotone will face the worst war situation with the enemy in the back and center, and Crotone will be in danger of annihilation!

All members of the council immediately stopped the quarrel and quickly reached an unanimous opinion: reach peace talks with Dionia as soon as possible!

Lucias had to go north again, in order to prevent his attitude from being too tough and lead to the failure of the negotiations, there was another messenger with him-Cis Proteas, a member of the council (that is, he said "regardless of Dior What conditions should Nia mention, as long as it can restore the tranquility of the Croton Plain, the one who should agree").

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At this moment, the Chinese military account in the Dionysian camp was filled with a joyful atmosphere.The news of "The Third Army's capture of the city of Asprostum" made every general excited.

"Master Commander, we should take advantage of the good time to capture Asprostum and Crotone inside the panic and launch an offensive against Crimea, and we will surely successfully win it!" Drax Anxiously said that as the head of the second legion, his troop's record cannot fall behind the third legion.

"The city of Asprostum has been owned by us. It is no longer meaningful for the Crotonenes to stick to Crimea. I am afraid they will soon abandon Crimea. We can get it easily. , There is no need to sacrifice the lives of soldiers to attack." Capps said cautiously.

"However, letting this 10,000 Crotone retreat will only increase the difficulty of our attack on Crotone City!" Drax retorted loudly.

Kapus was temporarily speechless.Indeed, Crotone is a large city. Not only is it a large area with a large population, but the city wall is ten meters high and the moat is six meters wide.According to the conventional style of play, it is destined to be a protracted siege battle, but the ocean is not under the control of Dionysia and cannot completely block Crotone, then there is only a strong attack, but how much does it cost to face such a strong city The life of a soldier?Can you capture it?Almost all generals are playing drums in their hearts.If the city's military strength is further strengthened, the odds of winning are even slimmer.

Dave's expression was calm, and he turned around and asked, "Sir Avinokis, what do you think we should do next?"

After entering the military account, in addition to congratulating Daveus for his victory again, Avignogis, who had been silently observing, faced the focus of Drakos and Capps, and did not refuse to say. He directly said: "Why do we Must attack Crotone City? Now that we have such a big advantage, why can't we force the Crotone people to negotiate with us?"

"The Crotones are almost gone. Wouldn't it be too cheap to negotiate with them!" Drax immediately objected.

Capps was lost in thought.

A smile appeared on the corner of Davers's mouth: the consul's consideration of the problem is still different from that of a simple general!

He was about to speak, and the captain of the guard, Martius, asked to enter and brought two letters.

A letter from Felix, after reading the letter, Daveus frowned, thoughtful.Then he looked at the second letter with special marks-this was a letter from Aristilas, and he quickly opened his brows.