Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Because of his injuries, Cuccias did not personally lead the soldiers into the fortress. He was waiting outside to hear the sound of cheering and victory. As a result, there were countless soldiers who were frightened and desperately fleeing back. He desperately Shouting and dissuasion did not help. Instead, under the influence of these broken soldiers, the other soldiers outside the fortress also fled with them, and the loud horn of Dionysia sounded, allowing the broken soldiers to escape faster.

Cuccias also had to flee. He was very anxious in his heart. Suddenly, he thought that Farekus was not far ahead and led many people to build defensive facilities. Perhaps they could stop these broken soldiers and reorganize the army.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived there, he saw no figure at all, leaving only a trench dug in half and the unfinished earth barrier behind the trench, which hindered the soldiers' retreat.

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After hearing the news of "Hiktas Army Rebellion", the Syracuse Council not only sent a messenger to notify Te Agnes, but also sent people to rush to notify Farekus in the Epipol Heights. Because there are many old citizens among the people led by Falecus, they need to be summoned immediately to form an army to calm the rebellion of Hiktas.

Farekus was equally shocked when he heard the news. Where was he thinking of building a defensive facility here? When he led his team back to the city, he also prevented the messenger from notifying Kuchias that they were watching him. Come: The attack on the fortress of Juryarus is in full swing. At this time, the offensive troops get this bad news, which will disturb the army and make all previous efforts in vain.

When Falecus arrived in the main city, he knew that Hiktas did not attack the council, but led his army back to Dagang.

Falekus is in a hurry, he knows that the big port is very close to the Dionysian barracks. Once Hiktas takes the port, and the Dionysian army is brought in by sea, Syracuse is over!

Time is running out, he simply has no time to wait for these old citizens to go home, put on their weapons and equipment, and then set off. Instead, he first led the 1,000 soldiers coming from West City and the 500 old citizens who had just been gathered, and quickly headed southwest to the port Advance.

When they arrived at the inner wall, they saw corpses lying on the ground, and the soldiers were angry while feeling the urgency.

Entering the port, they soon discovered that the traitor Hitax was leading the line up in front of the military port.

Hitax saw Falekus and was ready to speak to him before the line, delaying for a while.

Who knew that Farekus had seen through his intentions and ordered an attack directly.

1500 soldiers (mostly heavy infantry) roared to charge each other, and the port soldiers threw intensive javelins at each other. Since both sides were concerned with life and death, the battle was fierce from the beginning.

However, after a fierce battle, most of the port troops, which were light infantry, gradually became unsupported. If some people in the port area arrived, they used wooden sticks and paddles to attack the flanks of the Siracusa army, temporarily alleviating some hopes. The pressure of the Tucks army, perhaps the Hiktas army has been defeated.

However, the situation is still not optimistic. The porters continue to fall during the battle, and the entire army has been forced to retreat to the coast.

At this emergency moment, 50 warships returned to the military port one after another. As soon as the warship approached the pier, the Dionian soldiers fully loaded on the deck quickly jumped off the ship, too late to gather the whole team, under the leadership of the team officers, to The squadron attacked the flanks of the Siracusa lineup one after another.

As a commander, Falekus is the first to take the lead, and the battle is at the forefront. Therefore, he did not know that the battle situation has changed. Until he found that the surrounding soldiers began to retreat, he was shocked: The Dionysian army has landed!

He threw away the helmet and breastplate, and with the defeated soldiers desperately retreated.

The Dionysian soldiers are hotly chased, while the soldiers in the port area rush to take care of the injured comrades and people.

When the Dionysian soldiers quickly chased the interior wall, they found that there was a reinforcement in front of Syracuse. Although it was a good choice to force the defeat to disrupt the opponent’s formation, the problem was that there were not many soldiers involved in the pursuit. I am afraid that it is difficult to completely disturb the enemy. Instead, it may be defeated by the other party because of the chaos of its own organization. So the officers of the Dionysian pursuit team carefully chose to temporarily retreat, return to the military port, and meet with the large troops that are still landing. .

Falekus, who escaped danger, did not allow the more than 2,000 troops formed by the old citizens who had just been recruited to join the defeated soldiers and recapture the military port to prevent the Dionysians from continuing to land.

After the battle just now, he felt that the entire port area had already betrayed Syracuse and continued to fight in the port area. It is likely that this unit, which was finally called up, would once again be surrounded.

Hesitating again and again, Farekus did not dare to take risks, so he had to let the army defend the inner wall, and at the same time sent someone to notify the council.

Soon, 3,000 Dionysian soldiers and the forces of Hitax approached the inner wall.

The inner wall only serves to isolate the port area and investigate the Gentiles. Therefore, it is not built as strong and strong as the outer city wall. Its height is only three meters. The walkway in the city is also narrow, and there is no reserve of stones, wood, and asphalt Waiting for the weapon to defend the city, and finally after the Dionysian forces approached the city, Farekus was surprised to find that the Syracuse soldiers who were defending from the top were in a disadvantage.

Because the heavy javelin thrown by the Dionysian heavy infantry and the light javelin thrown by the port soldiers overshadowed the sky, it caused considerable casualties to the Syracuse soldiers in the city at close range. There were not many light infantry in the army led by Lycus. The suffocated state where the army could only be beaten, but could not make an effective counterattack, made Farekus's heart cool by half.

It didn't take long for the people in the port area to promptly send some wooden ladders for repairing houses and logs for building ships for the coalition soldiers to use for the siege.

Falekus saw this scene in the city, only to feel uncomfortable, while the soldiers used shields to defend the long-range attacks under the city, while screaming at the porters' betrayal.

Dionysian coalition soldiers quickly placed these wooden ladders on the three-meter-high stone wall, taking advantage of the opportunity of the enemy's army being suppressed by the javelin, and moved agilely to the head of the city.At the same time, the soldiers of the coalition forces also opened the city gate with round logs, rushed through the inner wall doorway, and the frontal fighting began gradually in the city and under the city.

And in the fierce battle, Falekus saw a large number of black troops (the second wave of landing troops-the 8th Army of Dionysian Army) appear in the port area, and the vast force pressed against the inner wall. Here, his heart suddenly fell to the bottom.

Just then, another soldier pointed to the rear and shouted in panic: "The city is on fire!"

Falekus hurriedly turned back, and saw the smoke billowing from the northwest, the fire soaring into the sky, could not help but be overwhelmed: the fire of such a wide range could not be a sporadic fire, did the Dionysians have already entered the city?!

He thought this way, the soldiers were even more alarmed, and morale fell sharply. Fortunately, these old citizens who had experienced many wars were still sensible, and they knew clearly that if they chose to retreat at this time, Syracuse may be completely over. !

Therefore, under the continuous encouragement of Falekus, they can barely support the defense line.

However, the house leaked in the rain of the night. The section of the western city wall near the sea was very close to the port area. The Syracuse soldiers stood on the wall more than 10 meters high, not only seeing what happened in the port area, I saw tens of thousands of Dionysian soldiers landing in the military port one after another, and they were violently attacking the precarious inner wall, and they also saw the perpetrators of the fire in the city were also the Dionysian army in black helmets and black armor. Enter the core area of ​​the city.

The Siracusa defenders saw this scene of the Mukh people. They were extremely frightened, and extremely worried about the safety of their families. Where there was morale to continue fighting, they began to flee into the city. Shout: "The city is on fire!! The Dionysians are coming into the city! The Dionysians are coming into the city!!!"

Their retreat caused a defensive emptiness in the southern section of the Western Wall, and the Dionysian soldiers quickly occupied the city head and followed the aisle and attacked northward.

The entire West City defense quickly collapsed.

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The fire that ignited the city was led by the army led by Diocassis. They followed the Syracuse crush all the way, and did not give the enemy a chance to breathe and reorganize. They pursued from the Fortress of Juryalus to the edge of the main city, although I ran several miles, but because the terrain was from top to bottom, the soldiers were relatively relaxed.

In the process of chasing, Diocassis has been thinking: how can the army led by himself help the entire siege army capture the city more quickly after entering the city?

Because he knew that Commander Prosius in order to allow his raid to gain a foothold in the fortress of Juryalus, he once again ordered the whole army to launch a strong attack on the city of Syracuse, which was used by his comrades. Life creates opportunities for himself, so he must disintegrate the enemy's fighting spirit as soon as possible and reduce the casualties of the soldiers.

In the end, the best way he thought of was to use fire.

So he sent a company to break into the house, collect olive oil and tar, pour it on a series of houses on the edge of the main city, and then ignite the fire, while he led his troops to pursue the defeated soldiers.

Kuchias, Stacykos, and others ran away in the direction of the council. He also hoped that the council would send a force to stop this chasing soldier like an epiphany. Who knows that the council is no soldiers It can be sent, and the MPs were terrified when they heard the news that the "enemy was here". They dare to stay in the meeting room and fled westwards, hoping that the troops of Teaguenis and Farekus could bless them. Their safety.