Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

As General Crotone, who once played with Dionia, Milon was quite familiar with the tactic of "sending warships to attack the coast of Dionysia territory". What shocked him was Dionysia People actually defeated several strong enemies in a row, walked out of the plight of being surrounded on all sides, and had the opportunity to fight Siracusa with all their strength, especially the victory in the naval battle was completely unexpected by everyone!

How did the young man do it?!After Milon was exiled, he was not idle. During his time in Greece, he collected a lot of Dionysian intelligence information and studied Dionysian military politics. He thought he already knew this fast-growing coalition. Thinking of this war with Syracuse, Dionia's performance once again subverted his perception.

"So the Dionysians are really here!" Lucias was excited, but he remembered something, and the joy on his face turned to anger: "They should have come! If Aspres Thum’s defenders were able to assist us when the Syracuse attacked the city, and Crotone’s city would not be broken as soon as possible!"

Milon didn't speak. Asprostum's inaction was a thorn buried in the hearts of the high-level Crotone inside Lucias.

"Milon, even if Dionia's reinforcements arrive, can the Syracuse army be so powerful, can Dionysia repel them? In case... then we are all done!" Lucias suffered again and again. .

No wonder he will be like this. After all, the Syracuse army is terrible. They witnessed firsthand that the city of Crotone, with its strong city defense, was broken in such a short time, and the Dionysians could resist such a large and fierce The Siracusa army?In case the Dionysians are also defeated, the Crotonians' only hope is gone!Many Crotone people have such contradictory psychology.

"Based on my understanding of Daphes, since he dare to lead the army, he must have the confidence to win." Although they were besieged in the Acropolis because the city was broken, they could not get the news outside, but Mi Long had more confidence in Davers than any Crotone. As the so-called "the one who knows himself best is always the enemy", he loudly suggested: "All we have to do now is to wait for the fire to go out and send a sentry Go out of town and find out the situation. If you find Dionysia's army, immediately ask them for help!"

"You are right." After hearing Milon's words, Lucias calmed down a little. He thought about it and added: "We have to inform Cipros to send him out to explore the city together."

Trina's army also suffered heavy losses on the day of the city's destruction, and finally Cypress led the remnant soldiers to the Acropolis along with the Crotone.Lucias reminded him that Milon found that his carefulness was what he lacked, because Trina’s relationship with Dionia was much closer than Crotone’s. Niahs will definitely pay more attention.

Lucias and Milon, two well-known Croton politicians, fought for more than ten years. When the war forced them to work together, they found each other's strengths complementary.

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Davis watched the training of the spear brigade at the camp ground, and at noon suddenly heard the news that there was a movement in the port of Crotone.

After receiving the news, Midolades immediately led more than one hundred crow warships to the mouth of the Neto River, quickly picked up the soldiers of the First Army, and rushed to the port of Crotone, which happened to meet the Syracuse Fleet. , Trying to escape.

The cunning Syracuse threatened the captained Crotone sailors to drive the remaining merchant ships and sailboats out of the port, and more than 40 of their warships were mixed in these ships, and fled south immediately after leaving the port.

Midolades’s fleet was obstructed by these ships, no one completed the blockade of the port, and once the unintentional combat Siracusa warship was fully driven, it was not able to catch up with the soldiers crow warship, so The Dionysian fleet only captured a few warships and watched most of Siracusa's warships successfully flee to the south.

Due to the few results, the soldiers of the First Army were listless after they disembarked.

"Melissa Sanda!" Melissa Sanda, who was leading the soldiers ashore, heard a shout and turned his head to look: Felixius was standing not far away beckoning to him.

Melisanda hurriedly told his men a few words and ran over: "Father, is there something wrong?"

"It's okay, come and see you." Felix said lightly, without revealing his concern: to know that this adopted child fell into the sea twice in the previous naval battle, actually let him Worried for a day: "How is today's victory?"

"Let them escape." Melisanda said unwillingly.

Philius is trying to comfort him with two words. The herald, Tolmed, came on horseback: "Head of Felixius Army, Your Majesty is going to hold a military meeting. Please rush to the account immediately."

"Got it." Felius asked casually: "Tormead, what is your Majesty's meeting for at this time?"

Tolmed glanced at Melissanda, then smiled: "I guess... is it necessary to discuss why the Syracuse fleet suddenly escaped from the port of Crotone?"

Melissa Sanda moved.

At this moment, the soldiers ashore suddenly became restless, and someone was shouting, "Look! Look over there! Fire!"

I saw the plumes of black smoke south of the Neto River and beyond the line of sight directly reaching the sky...

After a while, these black smoke formed a thick plume of smoke, and the fire reflected the sky there...

Felix and Tormid watched in that direction.

"Is it Crotone City?" Tolmed asked uncertainly.

"It's Crotone City!" Melisanda said in a deep voice. He had fought the boat near the sea near Crotone twice. He knew the direction of the city.

Felix and Tommid looked at each other solemnly.

The soldiers in the camp and the sailors at the estuary rushed to the north bank of the Neto River, looking at the burning sky with amazing...

When the news of "The City of Crotone was burned" spread among the crowds, many old Turiri citizens cheered loudly, and some even shed tears in excitement, kneeling on the beach, praying to the goddess of revenge, thank you She finally responded to their requests over the years.

The camp made such a big movement that naturally disturbed Davos and the head of the army in the big tent. When they arrived at the north bank of the Neto River, the Clippers at sea would have been observed at the port of Crotone The situation passed back to the camp.

The soldiers were just watching the excitement, and Daphes was thinking about the reason why the Syracuse did this.

"Your Majesty, the Siracusa fleet fled, and they burned the city of Crotone, which was difficult to capture, which means that after losing their naval superiority, they could not cross the river to fight us, in order to prevent our fleet from sneaking in. Behind him, cut off his food transportation, it seems that they have decided to retreat." Amintas first spoke his own judgment.

"Your Majesty, you cannot allow them to easily withdraw to Silitin! If such a large force is to defend Silitin, it is simply not something we can capture. And if you return to Silitin, Trina and Corunia will be taken by Syracuse. Full control, the Lockley League is their ally, and fighting there is very detrimental to us!" Matonis reminded anxiously.

"Then you think you should fight the Syracuse here?!" Antonios, as the old chief of Matonis, reminded with a reproachful tone: "With the Syracuse prepared, go through Crossing the river to fight against them, this is exactly what Dionysius wanted! Didn’t the news return say that Crotone was burning except for the Acropolis, and Dionysius was exactly Want to use our eagerness to rescue Crotone's ideas to achieve the purpose of decisive battle with us here!"

"But when we led the army here, we were not here to fight the Siracusa people. Could we compete with the Syracuse people to see who consumes the food fast?!" Amintas expressed his dissatisfaction without hesitation. .

"There is nothing bad about consuming food in the game." Capps said seriously: "Our fleet has cut off the connection between this Siracusa army and Sicily, and Syracuse cannot provide assistance to the army in Greater Greece. I'm afraid that Dionysius can only rely on the Rockley League to provide military food for him. But Rockley is not a grain-rich city-state. How can it meet the food needs of such a large army! And we are backed by the vast land of the alliance, there are With the full support of the people and allies, and Ansitanos has gone to Carthage to discuss the sale of food, how could the Syracuse army consume us! I think within two months the Syracuse people will We will collapse on our own due to lack of food, and then we will easily destroy them!"

"Sir Capps, don’t forget, not only our soldiers are consuming military food, but also the people of Asprostum and Crimea. Due to the burning and looting of the enemy cavalry, they also We are receiving aid from the Alliance, so we consume more military food than the Syracuse. Even with the aid of the Allies, we can still buy food, but this is the savings donated by the people, and we can just watch them Is it all exhausted!" Epitanus replied unkindly, as the commander of the army who has been fighting on the front line, he naturally understands the situation better than others.

"Don’t forget, the Crotone people in the Acropolis, they are still waiting for our rescue! Although Dionysius may be using this to get some initiative in the battle, this is a game The unprecedented great war is not only concerned by the big Greeks and Sicilians, but also by the mainland of Greece, Carthage, and other Mediterranean countries. We, Dionia, have always kept our promises and faced the allied people in need of urgent rescue. "Are we going to see death and not be saved!" Felixius was a cautious character, but this time Dracous also aroused his vengeance.

Daveus moved his heart. He knew that Phylliss said this mainly for himself.

"Your Majesty, my lords, is it possible..." Olivers saw the crowd's eyes gathered, and his heart was slightly nervous: "He.........The chief of the Silos army led the Lucania soldiers to attack Trina, so he forced Si The Rakuza have to retreat?"