Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"No, don't send troops anymore!" Falekus, who had been watching from the past, said: "The terrain of the Fortress of Juliarus is narrow, and no more troops can be deployed. What's more, from the current situation, Dai There shouldn’t be a lot of people who captured the fortress by the Onia. As long as Stacecos can lead the team to arrive in time, there is a complete opportunity to recapture it. What I am worried now is whether the Dionysian army will take advantage of this opportunity, Attack us again."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

"What happened?!" The last general, Syracuse, Hiktas also arrived.

"You always come the latest!" Cuccias knew that Hiktas lived in the port, the furthest from the council, and still couldn't help complaining: "When Siracusa is in trouble, you general can What a favor!"

It stands to reason that Hiktas has long been accustomed to his colleagues talking to him in such a tone, but when he heard these unpleasant words these days, he always felt a little strange in his heart, just like his face became a little uncomfortable at the moment good looking.

The embarrassed Te Agnes said quickly: "The fortress of Juryalus was captured by the Dionysians, and we are negotiating to recapture him."

"Ah!" Hiktas was surprised, he didn't speak any more, but his heart was choppy.

At this time, the sound of a bugle came from outside the door.

Everyone was shocked again.

Cuccias shouted slightly in panic: "It's our bugle! Enemy!" He hurried out of the door.

After a while, he returned to the hall and said anxiously: "The Sentinel of West City reported that they found Dionyan soldiers gathering outside their camp on a large scale, and it seemed they were preparing to attack us!"

Everyone was nervous.

"I'm going to West City now and lead the soldiers in the barracks to organize the defense." Thera Agnes immediately responded: "Parnissus, you will organize the mobilized civic soldiers as soon as possible and seize the time to reinforce West City."

"Okay!" Parniss also followed Ty Agnes out of the hall.

"I think today's Dionysians will also attack from the east at the same time! Couchias, you hurry to gather all the citizens responsible for defending the east, and rush to the east wall to defend." Falekus Said eagerly.

Cuccias was ordered to leave.

"Hiktas, you lead the civic soldiers in the port to sit here. If something unexpected happens, rush to support immediately!" Falekus continued to give orders.

Most of the people in the port of Syracuse mainly serve as the crew of the fleet, but they have also drawn 4,000 people to participate in the defense of the city. Because most of their lives are difficult, they are more like light infantry and are not paid much attention.

Upon hearing this order, Hiktas thought more about it for a while and did not respond in time.

Falekus was somewhat dissatisfied: "Hiktas, have you heard me?"

"I know." Hiktas replied coldly.

Falekus glanced at him, and he had no time to worry about it. He asked another general to organize another 3,000 civic soldiers to go to the north to support him. At the same time, he also decided to personally organize the people in the city to go to the north to urgently build a defensive line. In order to prevent the Uryarus fortress from being recaptured, at least it can prevent the enemy from going south easily.

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The Yuryarus Fortress is a small square fortress surrounded by stone walls. The fortress has facilities such as houses, warehouses, and cisterns. It can accommodate at least 300 soldiers for a long time.Moreover, the wall of Yuryalus Peak is also a wall that constitutes the fortress. Once an enemy situation occurs, the soldiers in the fortress can quickly reach the head of the city to block the enemy.However, the calm and precipitous terrain over the past few days also made the Syracuse soldiers who had been in peace for a long time relax their vigilance. As a result, they were successfully attacked by the soldiers of the Dionysian Mountain Investigation Team.

After a surprise attack by the soldiers led by Terentus, they did not continue to attack the city of Syracuse, but kept in the fort while actively responding to the reinforcements.

Originally, the western side of Yulia Rus was somewhat gentle and wooded. At the beginning, Dionysius led the people to spend a long time to change the terrain, and burned the trees and weeds under the city, making the city The sentinel can see the movement of the enemy under the city at a glance.

Unfortunately, after Dionysius's death, Syracuse has been in turmoil. In addition, the external environment is relatively safe. No one pays attention to the problem of urban defense. The walls of the Uriarus Peak are regrown with wild grass and Trees, which helped the soldiers of the mountain detection team lurking under the city, but the narrow terrain here also determined that there could not be too many soldiers close to the city at one time, so more soldiers of the mountain detection group and the two heavy Both the Infantry Brigade and a Light Infantry Brigade were hiding in the dense forest beneath the mountain to avoid being spotted by the City Head Sentinel.

It wasn't until the assault soldiers turned over the city, captured the torch in the hands of the sentry, waved it according to the pre-regulations, and sent a signal down the mountain. The soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance brigade, the light infantry of the legion, and the heavy infantry then accelerated up the mountain.

Rushing to the front is the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade. Even though these soldiers with special training throughout the year are still climbing, their speed is still very fast, and few people fall and fall behind. They did not rest a little while reaching the city, but seized The soldiers from the previous city climbed quickly with a rope hanging from the head of the city.

After going to the city, they took off their skin shields and daggers, and rushed into the fort that was full of kills.

Subsequent reinforcements arrived one after another, and finally defeated the defending soldiers of Syracuse.

While defending the fort and the city wall and waiting for reinforcements, Terentus also carefully inspected the situation inside the fort. The result was that he had a headache: the fort opened two door holes towards the stone wall on the south side of the city, but it was not installed. Go to the wooden door or something to open and close.

It turned out that when Dionysius first built this fortress, it was designed so that the fort could only protect the outside but not the inside.It can be said that Dionysius was very thoughtful, but he did not expect that the later sentry specially made two large wooden boards for ease, covering the hole at night, which did not affect sleep (because the terrain is high, sometimes scraped The mountain wind, the wind blowing through the opening at night, not only cold, but also made a "whistling" sound, which seriously affected the rest).

Terentus found these two large wooden boards near the entrance of the cave, and then asked the soldiers to find a lot of wooden blocks and stones from the warehouse to block the wooden board at the entrance of the cave.

But he was still not at ease and came up with a solution in anxiety.

When the soldiers of the Light Infantry Brigade entered the fort one after another, Terentus was slightly relieved.

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At that time, the ambitious Dionysius included the areas such as Epipol Heights and Accradina into the city of Syracuse, which expanded the entire urban area several times. In order to make the new city have a sufficient population, He actively recruited as many mercenaries as possible to become new citizens of Syracuse, and also forcibly moved the conquered people of neighboring city-states to Syracuse, such as Leotini and Katana.

However, after the Civil War, the mercenaries were expelled, and the people of other city-states who had been forcibly relocated returned to their home state. Coupled with years of political turmoil, Syracuse’s population has now decreased from the beginning. It’s more than half. As a result, the large area of ​​Epipole has become sparsely populated, and it has almost become a wasteland for the people of Syracuse to graze cattle and sheep. Helping them, they can only run south all the way to the main city area, and inform the members of the General Executive Committee on duty of the emergency military situation, and then he will send troops to recapture the fortress.

The large area of ​​Syracuse and the shortage of manpower were exposed at this time. The fortress of Juryalus was a la la la from the main city, plus it was late at night and the incident happened suddenly. Stacecos led 2000 When the soldiers rushed to the fortress of Uryarus, it had been nearly an hour from its fall. The Dionysian raid forces with careful planning and preparation, especially the two heavy infantry brigades, had also entered Uriah one after another. Inside Rus Fortress.

Under the blaze of fire, Stacykos saw Dionysian soldiers all over the fort, and many of them were wearing dazzling armor. What surprised him was that the two doors were also blocked by wooden doors because he He hurriedly came without any siege equipment.

Stacykos felt a headache, because according to Dionysius’ design, the fortress of Uryarus was the center of the defense against the northern wall. The sentries could only get through the fortress, so the sentries in the nearby cities were all It is sent by the fortress, and the stone stairs of the upper city closest to the fortress are only available in the middle of the east and west walls.

The design of Dionysius may be based on security considerations, but now it makes Staceus feel embarrassed: if he now leads the army to turn around and go back to the city through the stone ladder, it will give the current enemy too much breath. Opportunity.

Stacykos made a decisive decision and ordered the soldiers to quickly charge towards the fortress, rushed to the stone wall as soon as possible, and hit the stone cave.At the same time, he asked the subordinate soldiers to rush back to the main city and report the situation to the military executive committee.

The location of the fortress of Juryalus was high, and the soldiers of Syracuse had to shield their heads with their shields and attack forward.

The Dionian infantry on the fortress did not need to shoot arrows at all, lifted the stones and logs from the warehouse and smashed down. The stones and wood bounced down along the terrain and rolled down, and several people could be injured at one time. , So that the attacking soldiers of Syracuse will continue to be dissatisfied, and will soon be dispersed.

Stacedas had to gather the soldiers again and charge himself in front. Finally, he led the soldiers to the wall and was immediately violently attacked by the Dionysian soldiers on the wall. Javelins, arrows, stones The wood fell like a raindrop, and there were many wounded soldiers in Syracuse. Even Stacykos was shot in the arm with a sharp arrow.