Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

The Hibernian defenders looked at his compatriots at the head of the city in horror, and they were easily defeated by the Lijim army outside the city.

An hour later, more than 5,000 Ligim soldiers surrounded the Hebrian city.

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At this time, Daphes had led the army into the Silei territory.In the process of marching, he has been thinking about what military action he should take next in order to completely defeat Syracuse and end this war, so he has been very quiet along the way.

And Henripolis beside him appeared sullen.In the big account last night, Davos finally affirmed his ideas, and carefully conceived several proposals for him to protect his interests, so today he wakes up early in the morning and no longer has to think about how Laos City , I felt extremely relaxed all over.

He was excited to speak with Tolmed, and later he took Maltius to chat, trying to understand the process of yesterday's battle in detail, and he was very active.

The army of Dionysia arrived in a mighty way outside the city of Silitin without any hindrance.

This was originally expected by Daveus. He led an escort around the city and scouted: The wall of the Siletine is about seven meters high, and the circumference of the wall is more than a mile. It does not have a moat, but there is a moat in front of the city. , The south, the north and the three gates, the port is surrounded by the city walls, integrated with the city.Compared with Turriy and Crotone, it is not a big city, but it is much larger than the towns of Bitrina and Hebrian.

Based on the results of the interrogation of the prisoners last night, Daphes had a general understanding of Siracusa’s military strength in the city of Siriting: there were 4,000 troops stationed in the city of Siriting, and 20,000 civilians and slaves from Syracuse and the Allies Many people, they are mainly responsible for the transportation of food.

There is also a special group of people, Dionysius’s well-studied mathematicians in Sicily, highly skilled construction engineers, equipment builders, carpenters, boatmen... There are nearly a thousand people, Dionysius The reason why Si is able to break through the city of Crotone is precisely because of the ballistas, siege towers, belly bows, etc. made by them... a variety of siege equipment and facilities, which is also the group of people Coves most coveted.

In addition, there are Crotone and Silitian soldiers captured in the Battle of the Ramato River. Dionysius has sold some of the captives to slave merchants, and there are three or four thousand people.

In addition, the defeated soldiers in Syracuse have now returned to the Siliting, and the number of people in the city may be as high as 60,000.If it had not been for Dionysius to have killed, sold, and looted the people of Sirith, the city of Sirith could not accommodate so many people.

Daveus looked at the Syracuse soldiers over the city, imagining that when he ordered the siege, these newly defeated Syracuse soldiers would remain calm.

Of course, Davis will not rush to attack a town with more than 30,000 soldiers, and possibly 20,000 reserve soldiers, and he has plans to implement it.

At the head of the city, Dionysius looked over the team of fast-moving horses hundreds of meters down the city with a complex expression, and a sullen voice squeezed through the teeth: "I heard that Dave of Dionysius Before the First World War, I liked to visit the front to observe the enemy, I must have him in it!"

"Do you want to shoot ballistas at them, hoping that Apollo bless you and let the stone bomb just hit him on the head." Piddas said sarcastically, with bandages on his arms and waist, He resembled a mummy. He was injured in the battle yesterday. He escaped by luck. After treatment, he slept until noon today. Hearing that the Dionysian army was coming, he was still holding on to the city.

Dionysius didn't speak, and Fibidas was right. He really had such a thought in his heart.

"I really didn't expect that our powerful army was defeated by this young man in our mouth?!" Piddas' sigh was full of doubts. He fled back to the city yesterday. He had no time to explore the detailed process of the battle. So until now he has not yet figured out how the Siracusa army failed.

"It is because your battle deployment is completely seen through by the Dionysians, and they have been targeted, we will fail..." Dionysius closed his eyes in a painful expression: Dionysian left Temporary change, the phalanx of hidden spears behind the cavalry, the rear attack of the right wing of the Dionysia reserve...

He did not want to recall the nightmare battle scenes of yesterday. He resented the main responsibility for failure on the Spartans, but he did not want to admit the fact that the soldiers of Syracuse are not as good as Dionysia. Even though the left, center, and right teams have more troops than the other party, they failed to put enough pressure on the other party to allow the other party to dare to boldly deploy their forces and make their own plans.

This time it was Fibidas who had nothing to say. Although he had not yet figured out the reason for the failure, it was a fact that his tactics did not work.

"It was just a battle that failed. A few years ago, we were defeated by the Carthaginians and also surrounded by the army. Even the people rioted. The situation is more critical than today. But under my command, in Spa With the help of the ally, he finally defeated Carthage. He heard that Carthage’s general Shimirko also committed suicide!" At this time, Dionysius looked around his morale, and he realized that he could no longer indulge. In the defeat, we must be excited, otherwise the next battle will be more difficult to fight.At the same time, he can no longer be harsh on Fibidas, because in this extremely unfavorable situation for Syracuse, Syracuse will rely more on Sparta: "Don’t look at Dionysians today I am proud of the victory, but with the protection of Apollo, we Syracuses will let the Dionysians who were just free people a few years ago know that the final victory will only belong to Syracuse!"

"Master Dionysius is right. In the past few years, facing Carthage, which one of us did not lose first and then win, and eventually became the master of Sicily, is Dionia stronger than Carthage!" Damocles responded immediately with a loud voice.

"The Dionysians are nothing terrible. We will re-encourage the morale of the soldiers and wait for the opportunity to give the enemy a counterattack!" Fasi Pesas also said loudly.

The generals and ministers were encouraged, and their faces began to look brilliant, and even the frustration in Fibidas’ heart dissipated a lot. Only the intelligence chief Androstini outside the crowd wondered: Since Dionysius Not afraid of Dionysia, why send a messenger quietly?...

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After a week of going around the city, Daphes returned to the army and issued an order: build a camp one mile away from the city.

His plan was to take advantage of the new defeat of the enemy and the lack of morale, and now set up the camp so close to the city, and then quickly moved forward to the two wings and the city, in order to achieve the purpose of siege of the Siliting City.

When ordered, 50,000 troops divided half of the men and women and began to dig trenches and build earth walls.The other half were fully armed, alerting the Syracuse people to sneak out of the city. Only Cypros led more than a thousand Trina soldiers to march westwards. They could not wait to take back their hometown, Trina.

Just when Daveus urged the whole army to speed up the construction of the camp, Tolmed came to report: The envoy of Syracuse asks!

"Oh, it's you again!" Daveus smiled meaningfully when he saw the envoy of Syracuse: "Is Dionysius sending you this time, are you ready to surrender to me?"

"Master Daveus, we are the overlord of Sicily. Not only do we have 70,000 civic soldiers, a population of 500,000, and more than a dozen big states are our allies, and we always listen to our call." Damocles Proudly said: "Even if we failed in the naval battle, lost in the battle, and lost a lot of warships and soldiers, but this failure is nothing, we can organize another team in Syracuse at any time as much as the current one. A large army of troops came to Great Greece, can Dionysia do it?!"

"Since Syracuse is so powerful, you should meet your new army at the Siliting Port and come here to do what we do!" The clerk Henripolis made a mockery.

Damocles ignored him, but looked at Daphes and said solemnly: "Because if the war between Syracuse and Dionia continues, no matter who wins or loses, he will weaken us. The power of the Greeks in the Western Mediterranean will benefit the indigenous powers like Carthage, Mesapi, and Samona... these natives who hate us Greeks, I think whether it is Lord Dionysius, Or did Davies not want to see this happen. So, Dionysius sent me to ask Davis to speak on his behalf, and he proposed,'Both armistice, ask Davies. do you agree?'"

"It's a ridiculous joke! Who led the army to invade Great Greece, burn and loot, and do nothing! At that time, your tyrant did not consider that such brutal aggression and killing would greatly weaken the power of the Greeks on the Italian peninsula. , And benefit the indigenous people nearby! Oh, now I have lost the battle, and I think of peace and the protection of the interests of the Greeks-ho!" Horpolis sneered loudly: "I just want to know Dior Do you know what the word'shameless' means!"

Damocles avoided answering, but instead said straightforwardly: "The first to provoke war is not Syracuse, but the Confederacy of South Italy. If it were not for you to attack Lokri, we would not accept the invitation of allies. Come to Great Greece—"

Hernipolis laughed angrily and said angrily: "I now know what it is--"

At this moment, Daphes raised his hand and waved. Henipolis did not speak, but just stared at the Carthage messenger bitterly.