Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Daphus had no doubt about the ability of Cypros, so he just made a point, then looked away and looked forward, and said heavily: "You, before we march into the Carthage army, we There is an important thing to do with all the soldiers who are about to fight the enemy-go to Paragonia, to pay homage to and pay tribute to the tenth brigade of the 7th Legion, who persevered in the city of Paragonia and finally died heroically. And all the soldiers of the two reserve brigades!

………………………………………

After the military meeting was over, Daphes stayed alone with Cipros and Leotizides, and sincerely thanked them for carrying them alone when the main force of Dionysia was unable to reinforce Sicily. In addition to the heavy responsibility of defense, it not only succeeded in resisting the invasion of the Carthage army, ensuring the integrity of the Sicilian territory, but also inflicted considerable damage on the Carthage, which greatly exceeded Davies' expectations.

In the face of Davos’s relentless praise, Cipros was very humble: "We Sicily can finally hold on to your majesty and you will lead the soldiers. The prosperous Lord Prossius has the greatest credit. Adam defeated the Carthaginians and captured Serinus again, disturbing the entire west—"

Leotizides interjected: "Without the full support and protection of Lord Cypros, I would not dare to take the lead in attacking, especially since the army of Carthage invaded the Catania plains. Lord Cypress's understanding and appeasing the people in the city, I can stick to Katana until today..."

Daveus looked at them with a smile and said, "It is said that Prosius is difficult to reach and difficult to deal with. I think you cooperate well!"

Cipros looked at Leotizides and defended him: "Your Majesty, you may have a misunderstanding about this. Lord Prosius does not like to communicate, just because he devoted all his energy to military research. Go up."

"Of course I know." Daveus smiled, and then took the lead to the next battle: "What do you think of attacking Syracuse?"

After spending so many years in Katane, Leotizides certainly spent his free time thinking about how to attack this neighbor who had many disputes with Katane, and even went south several times to make a secret investigation of Syracuse. After being appointed by Davis, he had initially conceived an attack plan in his mind, so he immediately said: "Your Majesty, according to past information, Syracuse can organize an army of at least 20,000 people. , And if it is a fortification, the number of soldiers will only be more. However, the citizens of Syracuse lack adequate military training, and they have basically not experienced a major war for more than a decade, and lacked enough combat experience, they flatly I dare not go out of the city to fight against us, but only defend the city. Although the walls of Syracuse are tall and strong, I have the confidence to take it down—"

Speaking of which, Leotizides shouted back to the adjutant waiting at the door, Tagrou, "Go and get the Syracuse city defense map in my room!"

Leotizides shouted suddenly in front of Davers, this behavior was extremely rude, but Daves did not care, he even stopped the export rebuke of Henripolis, and serious listening has indulged in Narration of the young commander in thought.

"Because Your Majesty you will lead the army to the west to fight the Carthage, there is no threat from the Carthage at the east side, and now that it is the farming season, we can go from Naxos, Sikul, Katane, Leotini, Taunis, Sikel, and even Agrigento, Gerald and other refugees gathered more people to participate in the siege of Syracuse..."

While Leotizides was talking about his thoughts, Tagrou had brought the board map, he immediately placed it on the table, pointed it at the top, and said, "Your Majesty, please see! Thira Kuza is a large city with a large urban area. Its wall is not small, but most of it is built in the coast and hills. There are mainly two sections that are really suitable for the army to siege. One section is the east wall, mainly The length of the wall of Hexamen and its vicinity not far from Taunis, this length is about one mile; the other is on the west wall, from Puskamen to the south to the main port of Syracuse, this length is about four Rido...

The siege plan that I envisaged was... The main force composed of the 7th and 8th legions camped here—"Leotizides’s finger points on the map between the west of Syracuse and the Alappus River Flat area.

"There is a swamp of Lucimeri near that! It's easy to get soldiers infected with epidemic disease!" Cipros, who was also close to the map, changed his face and reminded loudly: "Be aware that Carthage's army attacked Thira twice before. Under the city of Kuzha, they were all tortured by the plague and eventually led to a fiasco.

"Of course I know the dangers of the Lucimelai swamp." Leotizides explained with confidence: "Now it's almost November, the weather is starting to cool down, and the number of mosquitoes has been reduced. And the civilian population in Syracuse has continued The development of the swamp has been much smaller than it was 10 years ago. Moreover, our army soldiers have special camp training in daily military training on how to deal with this harsh terrain, I think it will not be right What's the problem with the army's stationing..."

Daveus heard this and remembered the Samone report he had received while in Rome: Alexis led the army into the mountains, also stationed near the swamp, and there were no major problems.

Therefore, he agreed: "As long as you are fully prepared, I think the army stationing here should not be a problem, you continue to say."

"Another army consisting of part of our reserve soldiers, allied and allied soldiers in our Sicilian territory is stationed near Taunis. According to the covenant, the commander of such a mixed force must be General Dionysia, and The current senior generals are basically appointed. In order to ensure that the attack on the east side of Syracuse can be carried out well, I think..." Leotizides hesitated for a rare time: "Can I let Breru Temporarily hold this position?"

As he spoke out, Daphes and Cipros were surprised.

Daveus looked at him meaningfully and thought: He said that Prosius was indifferent, but he did not expect him to be human. He wanted to use this opportunity to make Breru meritorious and reduce the accusations against him by the public. The punishment can be reduced after the war.

Being watched by Daveus in this way, Leotizides was slightly unnatural. The reason why he made this suggestion is on the one hand for the needs of the next battle, and more importantly to make up for the guilt in his heart, because in this During the military meeting, he suddenly realized that under the pressure of the Carthage army, no matter who was in the position of Breru, they would face the same dilemma. Breru led the Seventh Army to help him, which just happened to push the tank for him.

Daveus coughed: "You can help Brem's mood, I can understand. But if you let him lead, it will confuse everyone, then the previous punishment is meaningless, so I can't agree. The eastern army The commander can be Zanteiparis, who led the mixed army in Campania to attack the town of Samone several times, and should have considerable experience in this. During the attack on Syracuse, you temporarily fulfilled the role for him The position of the head of the Seventh Legion."

"Yes." Leotizides responded unchanged, and continued: "I heard that when His Majesty led his army to land in Katana, there was a team of engineers and skilled craftsmen in the team. The engineering team of 100 people, I hope your majesty, you can let this team assist us in making all kinds of siege equipment, reducing the difficulty of the soldiers to siege, thus putting more pressure on the Syracuse people."

"Of course it's okay." Daveus nodded sternly, and then asked: "Your offensive focus is on these two wall segments, but I'm afraid you will not ignore the other wall segments against Syracuse. ?"

Worthy of being a famous player in battle, I feel quite sharp!Leotizides thought, and then said: "In addition to the city walls on the coast, other wall sections are built on the high ground, and it is relatively difficult to attack, but I will also send soldiers to attack and disperse the Syracuses. Strength, and at the same time confuse them..."

On the map, the east and west walls of Syracuse stretched along the edge of the Epipole Heights, winding diagonally to the north, and finally merged together. It looked like a top hat. Ortizides's hand was pointing at the intersection of the walls at both ends, he said in a deep voice: "It is said that it was the siege of Syracuse in Athens that year, the Syracuse people realized that the enemy should not be allowed to occupy the commanding heights of the city. ——Epipole Heights, so after Dionysius became an arrogant, he mobilized the people of Syracuse to surround the entire Epipole Heights with the city walls and became part of the urban area. The place is here-the western side of the Yulia Rus peak.

Dionysius called it the'key' of Epipol and the entire city of Syracuse, so he built a fortress here.However, the Epipole area is sparsely populated, and it is uninhabited because it is 5 or 6 miles from the main city of Syracuse, and the transportation is very inconvenient, although Dionysius thinks its location is important However, no enemies have attacked here in the past few years, and the Syracuse people seem to pay little attention to it.

I have explored this area a few times. The wall on the west side of the Ulyarus Mountain has been in disrepair for many years. The number of sentries in the city has never exceeded 10, and most of these sentries are staying in the fortress. They rarely patrol the entire wall section regularly. It seems that they are very confident in the defense of the wall in this lot.But in fact, the height of the west side of Uriarus does not exceed 200 meters, and it is not difficult to climb—"