Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Unexpectedly, on the way to escape, he met the broken soldiers who had fled back from Xicheng, only to know that the Xicheng Wall had fallen behind, everyone was panicked, and for a moment they didn't know where to go, and some people even cried out in silence: "It's finished...Siracusa is finished... …"

Suddenly someone shouted, "We can go to Ortijia!"

This reminds the panicked parliamentarians: Yes, we still have Ortijia!

As the birthplace of Syracuse, it is also the acropolis of Syracuse. During the reign of Dionysius, the island of Ortigia was built into a strong fortress, and a palace was also built on the island.After Dionysius was overthrown, Herolis allowed the original inhabitants of Ortijia who had been forcibly evicted by Dionysius to return to the island to live.

It was once proposed by the Council that the walls of Ortikia should be demolished to prevent it from once again becoming an ambitious politician.

But it was opposed by many people on the grounds that Ortigia, as the acropolis of Syracuse, should have a strong defense. When Syracuse is in danger, it will be a refuge for the people .

Now this is fulfilled!

At the beginning, there was a riot in Syracuse, Dionysius retreated to Ortigia, and Gerolis had an absolute advantage, but he had no way to take him. Eventually, he relied on the Spartans to cheat him out of Austria. Tigia, so the island’s defense is absolutely trustworthy, and most of the people on the island are descendants of the city builders of Syracuse, and their loyalty to this city-state is also trustworthy, so Otgia is an ideal refuge Place.

The lawmakers calmed their minds, while gathering the collapsed soldiers and retreating to Ortijia Island (many soldiers refused to go to Ortegiya because of fear of their families), while sending people to notify Farekus and Teaguenis, hope They can hold on for another period of time, so that the people in the city can have a buffer time to retreat to the island of Ortigia.Especially the port area is very close to the isthmus. Once the enemy is allowed to break through the inner wall, the isthmus may be cut off.

The defense of the inner wall is already crumbling, but Falekus is really trying his best to support it.However, after learning that the southern section of the Western Wall was lost, Te Agnes did not continue to defend at the head of the city, but fled directly to Ortygia with a small number of civilian soldiers willing to follow him.

The defenders of the east city wall also saw the fire in the city, and their reaction was almost the same as that of the west city defenders.

The Dionysian coalition finally broke through the defense of the eastern wall, and Zantiparis, the commander, was finally relieved.It is important to know that compared with the main force of Dionysia on the Western Front, the troops attacking the eastern wall are all confederate citizens. Of course, they cannot be like the soldiers of the Dionysia Legion, obey orders, obey orders, and ignore the casualties. It was to persuade the generals of these allied armies to lead the uninterrupted attacks of their respective troops, so that Zantiparis was exhausted, so the fighting on the Eastern Front was not fierce, but it always dragged on thousands of defenders. It has created conditions for the breakthrough of the Dionysian army in other directions.

By dusk, troops from the east and west fronts successfully met at Apollo Square in Syracuse.

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The main force led by Davers always stayed at Minoa, and the troops led by Lizaru and Epitanes also stayed in Enna and reinforced the city defense every day.

In such a situation, Marco had no way to do it. Even if he wanted to attack the side, the shortage of food made him dismissed. After five or six days of confrontation with Minoa, he finally led the army to retreat west to Segues. tower.

After receiving the news of the "Victory of the Third Fleet", Davers strengthened his determination to carry out the strategy of "land defense and sea attack".

These days, new warships have been added to the Sicilian fleet. The total number of warships has reached 320, and the main force has been moved to the port of Serinus.

Every morning, Sekelian will lead the fleet to leave the port, sailing to the west, sweeping the entire west coast of Sicily, and not returning until dusk.Because he recently received information from King Daphes: Recently, a large number of ships are gathering in the ports of Carthage and the surrounding Phoenician confederations, and the city is also stepping up to raise food. Sicily transports food.

In the early morning of this day, there was light rain in the western waters of Sicily, and the sky was a bit gloomy. Although there was a breeze, the wind and waves were not heavy.

Seclian, who regained command of the Sicilian Fleet, learned the last lesson. He specially hired several veteran sailors who have lived here for decades as consultants to provide him with analysis of the sea state and climate of this sea area. They all Make an affirmative judgment at one time: today the western waters are unlikely to have big waves.

Therefore, although he was hesitant, Seckrian allowed the Sicilian Fleet to leave the port as usual, and head westward along the coast.

Due to the rain, the sea was covered with mist, resulting in poor visibility. In order to prevent accidents, the speed of all warships was slowed down. The entire fleet of 280 warships maintained a dense formation (another 40 warships were moored at Mino Sub-easy port, to meet the needs of the main force led by Davos).

Therefore, it usually took only one hour to fly, but now it took two hours before the fleet reached the sea near Mazala and began to sail northwest.

At this time, the drizzle had stopped, the sky gradually brightened, the mist gradually dispersed, the sky was blue, the sea water was blue, the sight was endless, and the breeze was blowing, which made people feel relaxed and happy.

Seckrian was relieved, and he smiled and said to the two advisor sailors: "Your judgment is very accurate! It is worthy of being called "People's favor"!"

These two old sailors from Serinus responded hurriedly and modestly. As Greek sailors, they were in a low position in Serinus, relying on fishing and shipping for a living. Why did they have a valuable status and led hundreds of warships? The Kingdom of the Kingdom has equal opportunities for dialogue.

Seeing them nodding and bowing, Seckrian frowned, but said nothing. He turned his head and ordered the captain of the ship: "Notify the fleet, return to normal speed, send the Clippers, and carefully search for targets at sea."

It didn't take long for the speed of the entire fleet to increase, and more than 10 clippers also broke away from the large forces and quickly moved forward.

After a few tens of minutes, the Clipper running at the forefront had approached the Lili Peng sea. The watchman on the mast moved his already numb hands and feet, and he bowed his head and shouted: "Captain!"

Upon hearing this, the Clipper captain asked excitedly: "Is there any enemy?!"

The watchman wanted to say: "Is it time for rotation? Should the next one replace him." But the captain's question made him subconsciously glance at the sea ahead, then he froze. , Blinked, enlarged his eyes again, and stared forward. After a while, he also shouted excitedly: "There are enemy ships! One, two, three... so many Carthage ships!"

"Master Commander, the white flag has risen in front of the battleship!" The watchman on the flagship main mast saw the semaphore passed by the flagship of the squadron in front, shouting excitedly: "It is two white flags! Yes and We have a common fleet of equal number of warships!"

Seckrian immediately understood the meaning of the rest, and he was also excited: encountering ordinary fleets in this sea area can only come from Carthage. It seems that the information given by His Majesty is correct, and the Carthage people did come to transport Army food!

He gave orders without hesitation: "Tell Stefakas, lead his squadron, and sink me all these Carthage cargo ships! If one is released, let him accept military punishment!"

After receiving this command, the squadron leader Stefacas immediately took out the spirit of twelve points and ordered the commander's squadron as a forward to expand in a word and move quickly in the direction of finding the enemy.

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The more than 200 Carthage merchant ships were lined up in two columns and were moving in the direction of Lili Ping. On the leading merchant ship, a sailor was standing on the top of the mast and looking forward nervously, suddenly he was anxiously anxious Shouted: "Old man, the Dionysian ship... The Dionysian ship is coming!"

After he finished, he quickly slid off the mast.

Merchant ships are not like warships. In general, they only have one mast, and they are located at the end of the bed. They are usually not allowed to stand on the top of the mast.On the one hand, because the merchant ship is extremely dependent on the propulsion of the sails, it is afraid of stepping on the mast; on the other hand, standing on the mast for a long time, it is easy to destroy the balance of the whole body, leading to accidents.But today the situation is special, they need to know the movement of the Dionyan fleet early.

"I think I'm crazy, and I will promise Morbal to drive a merchant ship to face the warship." The old captain, who was all white, didn't look nervous, but sighed.

Next to him was a wrinkled helmsman who comforted: "We are still good. Like Barricks, they even have to manipulate the merchant ship and break into the array of Dionysia. That is really crazy! "

The old captain sighed again: "Who told us that we used to be the old men of Morbar, following him for so many years, and getting a lot of help from him... Besides, the motherland is now in a difficult situation, and we old people who are about to enter the soil can Play a little role and provide some help for it. I believe that even if you die, it will be a glory to us!"

The old helmsman nodded sympathetically.

"Old man, don’t miss it! The Dionysian warship is coming soon, and hurry to the designated place as planned. This is too far from the coast. If the ship is sunk, we may not be able to swim Go to shore!" urged the young sailor who had just looked over the mast.

"Don't hurry, don't hurry." The old captain said unhurriedly, closing his eyes and concentrating on the wind direction: "It seems that the wind is a little bit stronger."