Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Tethyss looked at him innocently and said solemnly: "It's not that I want to escape, but the sailors don't want to fight. Even if I turn the rudder, the sailors don't want to paddle. This warship is more likely to become Dior. The spoils of Niah!"

"Don't quibble, turn the rudder quickly! We must defeat the Dionysians with all our strength, otherwise the navy of Syracuse will be over!" the captain shouted bitterly.

"It's better to be finished! Syracuse is defeated, we will no longer be transferred to fight in Great Greece, and we will not be levied war tax anymore!" A voice came from behind the captain.

Looking back, the captain turned out to be the captain of the sailor. He immediately pointed at him angrily and threatened: "You... how dare you do this, are you not afraid of the punishment of Lord Dionysius?"

The sailor smiled: "Of course we are afraid, but the navy is defeated, can Dionysius still come back!"

The captain was speechless for a moment.

Tethys sighed.

The escape of this warship triggered a chain reaction, and successively, the ships fled off the battlefield under the crazy attack of the Dionysians, and eventually led to the retreat of the entire Syracuse United Fleet...

"Admiral Sectrian!!"

"General Sectrian!!"

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Several Dionysian warships rushed to the sinking area of ​​the flagship, where many floating sailors floated on the sea.

"Master Seckrian is here!" someone shouted beckoning at the sea.

Seckrian was lying motionless on a broken wooden board, and his shoulders were hit by arrows from the archers of the enemy ship's deck.

Soon, he was carefully carried onto the warship.

After giving him a simple wound dressing, he was awakened in pain. The first sentence was to ask: "...we won or lost?"

"We won, sir!"

"...That's good." Seckrian lowered his worries and said weakly: "... fleet command temporarily... temporarily handed over to Flanos... after cleaning the battlefield... after saving our people ...Return to Lijim at once..." After he finished, he went to sleep.

Naxos naval battle (although the city of Naxos has been destroyed, but this curved bay is still referred to by locals as the bay of Naxos), the result was that the Dionysian side sank 15 three-tier paddle warships The Siracusa side sank 18 three-layer paddle warships and four other warships. The war losses between the two sides were not much different, but the Siracusa navy attempted to defeat the Dionysian fleet and control the dominance of the Sicilian waters. The strategic intentions of the Dionysian army completely surrounded in the town of Meyaro were defeated.

Even worse, without the help of the Raven Suspension Bridge, the Dionyan Fleet actually defeated the Syracuse Navy with a small number of wins and more, which greatly inspired the confidence of the Dionysian sailors Morale of the Syracuse Navy.

Marcias did not expect that he would witness on the land for the second time in five years the first advantage of the Siracusa navy defeated by the enemy. The incompetence of the Siracusa navy really made him speechless, and even more Let him raise his vigilance against the Dionysian army and strengthen his determination to continue to attack Meyaro, wait for the reinforcements to come tomorrow, and then concentrate on attacking Meyaro.

The ballista units of Syracuse have been advancing forward, during which the counterattacks of the six ballistas of the First Army were only a small episode. Without the protection of the tall stone walls, there were nearly one hundred ballistas in Syracuse Under the concentrated bombardment, they were like stones thrown into the torrent, just splashed some water, and disappeared in a flash.

The ballistas in Syracuse advanced all the way to the Alcantara River.Although the town of Meyaro was established only a few years ago, its area is not small, even more than the city of West Kuli, and it is blocked by the Alcantara River and the banks on both sides. The Siracusa Ballista uses five The kilogram stone projectile has a maximum range and can only cover the area of ​​12 in the town of Mello, so Antonios ordered the first legion and the exiles to retreat to the north of the town of Mello, to avoid being hit by the ballista to save strength.At the same time, he also ordered all the people under the command of the engineering battalion to use the bricks and mud of the destroyed house to build an earth wall against the south in the town.

Seeing the limitation of the ballista's range and unable to completely destroy the town of Meyaro, Masias stubbornly tried to replace the ballista unit with a canister, attempting to project into the town, igniting the fire, and burning the town of Meyaro, consuming the enemy The physical strength, combating the morale of the enemy, and even driving the enemy out of Meyaro completely, it is more convenient for the Siracusa army to attack.

Fortunately, while building the earth walls, soldiers and exiles of the First Legion excavated a trench from east to west to facilitate the fetching of earth, which prevented the spread of the fire and preserved the integrity of the residential area in the north of Mello.

The ballista units in Syracuse bombarded with stone bullets, short spears and cups for a day, almost half of the lightly broken ballistas, almost half of the town of Mello turned into ruins, and the fire until the evening came The time is still burning, but it is convenient for the Sentinels of the First Army to observe the enemy's movements and prevent sneak attacks.

However, more than 10,000 people of exiles and their families in the town gathered in a small area of ​​the town, and the whole day of roar and fire had exhausted them.The same is true of the soldiers of the First Army. Although the loss of personnel is not large, such long-range attacks make the brave First Army soldiers feel very weak, and at the same time increase the fear of tomorrow's war.

In the bombardment on this day, the worst were the hundreds of young and strong citizens of Siculi who had been captured but not yet released. Because everyone was busy dealing with the ballista attacks in Syracuse, no one took care of them. The captives in captivity were all burned to death by fire...

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At dawn the next day, at the Dionysian Army Battalion outside Siri, a team of the Fourth Army was patrolling the wooden wall.

In the early spring, it was warm and cold at first glance, and rain began to increase. Therefore, there is often fog in the early morning in the southern Italian area. It often does not dissipate until the morning. The Xiliting is no exception. Especially today, the fog is diffused. There was a vast expanse of people walking in the middle, as if the fog was thick enough to reach out and grab a ball. Five meters away, the person could not be clearly seen, and even breathing was a little difficult.

In such difficult weather, the soldiers not only did not slacken, but also increased their vigilance.

Captain Effie Alter repeatedly reminded the soldiers to get up and listen to the movement outside the camp.Before the Syracuse invaded Great Greece, he was only a legionnaire. After the battle of Crotone, the original squad leader was injured. He was selected by his teammates to take over this position. An example of this is in Dionia It is common in the army of China. War will kill the lives of countless soldiers, and it will also make the real warriors stand out and be in danger.

Suddenly, a soldier shouted: "Captain, it seems that there is a voice outside!"

Effie Alter was shocked, and he begged the soldiers not to speak. He grabbed the battlement, leaned out, and listened carefully.

Other soldiers did the same.

There seemed to be a murmur of subtle noise in front, but the thick fog made everyone unrealistic and unsure.

Do you issue a warning?Effie Alter was a little nervous under the watch of the soldiers, because once the warning was issued "an enemy attack", then the entire Dionysian battalion and tens of thousands of soldiers had to crawl out of the warm blankets in the cold early morning and wear them well Armor, take out the shield spear, and gather it in a very short time, immediately rush to the designated defensive positions of the legions, brigades, companies, and detachments.This is still in peacetime, such as the unprecedented thick fog weather, such a large-scale emergency preparations will inevitably have some confusion, if finally determined that there is no enemy attack, the responsibility faced by Effiart’s team can be imagined.

Effiart swallowed and said: "Go and notify the archers on the outposts immediately and ask them to shoot an arrow in front. You are in front of the outposts and listen carefully to the movement outside the camp! "

The command was executed quickly.

Effiart looked back and looked at the archer in the sentry building, which was three meters high behind him, bent his bow and made an arrow. Soon after the arrow was shot, it was swallowed by the dense fog...

Effiart listened intently. A few minutes later, there was no unusual movement outside the camp. He was temporarily relieved, and his heart was a little lost.

Just then, a sharp scream in front of the diagonal just cut through the thick fog, and then came suddenly.

"Captain, there are enemies!" the soldiers not far away shouted.

Effiart immediately became both nervous and excited: "Notify Daying immediately!"

"Woo! Woo! Woo!..." The high-pitched trumpet sounded from Camp Dionia, and the otherwise quiet camp suddenly boiled...

Daveus was also awakened by the roar, just turned over and sat up, the clerk Hernipolis entered in a hurry: "Your Majesty, the Syracuse came to the camp!"

Upon hearing the news, Daphes unhurriedly opened the leather robe covering him, and the servant brought him clothing and armor. He said while wearing it: "Dionysius is finally out of the city, they are here. how many people?"

"Now there is heavy fog outside. I don't know how many enemies are out of the city."

"Oh, fog! Dionysius would choose the time very much." With the help of a servant, Daphes put the thick breastplate on his body and patted it with his hand, feeling the tightness was just right: "Left What about the two right camps?"

"Until now there is no news, will it be--" Hernipolis boldly guessed: "Dionysius concentrates his forces and specializes in your Chinese military camp?"

Davers smiled: "Good idea, but don't rush to a conclusion. We just need to follow the previous deployment, guard the camp, and then slowly observe the enemy's movements."

"Do I need to call the commanders of various legions such as Amintas and Matonis? Let your majesty give you deployment missions and give orders?!" Henripolis asked again.