ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 216 Kunogorata’s Suggestions
"We'll just wait and see." Davos said with a relaxed smile, completely ignoring Lysias' threat: "But I also remind you that the next time you come again, the conditions I put forward will not be the same. The conditions are now so good! In addition, I also want to remind you that we are not the only enemies in Crotone. Dionia... If the war continues, who knows what will happen? "

Lysias was shocked when he heard this.

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By noon, the first batch of grain transport teams arrived at the military camp.

Davos breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time brought a letter written by Kunogorata. The letter mentioned that Locri's envoy arrived at Thurii and proposed to the Senate that "Locri and Dai The Senate made no reply for the time being due to the absence of the consul.The envoy fell ill with a high fever due to fatigue on the road and was being treated in the hospital. He was unable to go south directly to find Daves in a short time.

Cunogorata expressed his opinion at the end of the letter: "No matter whether the consul has the confidence to solve Crotone independently, please be sure to consider that the strength of the city-state of Locri is second only to Crotone, and its With the strong support of Syracuse behind him, the elimination or serious weakening of Crotone, causing Locri to take the opportunity to annex Crotone's allies, will create a more powerful enemy for Dionia..."

Davos read it several times, and then picked up another letter. This was a secret letter from Aristelas and delivered to Davos through special channels. The letter mainly mentioned this Some of the things that happened in the city of Turui in the past few days, of course, also included the arrival of the Locke Lee envoy.In addition, it also mentioned what happened around Dionia, such as: after Tarantum's consul Diomelas led his army to capture Manduria, he let Achita lead his army to attack the city of Brindsi , and the fierce battle with the Mesapi continued; Potentia is gathering surrounding tribes, and seems to be preparing to go south to attack Grumentum...

The last piece of news attracted great attention from Davos: Dionysius, the plenipotentiary general of Syracuse, led 80000 infantry, 4000 cavalry and 400 warships to fight against Carthage...counting Dio At the beginning of this year, the entire Greek world in the Western Mediterranean was in flames of war.

8 infantry, 4000 cavalry, and 400 warships? ! ! !Davos widened his eyes and carefully confirmed the numbers on the letter.Although he knew before that Syracuse was the leading Greek power in the Western Mediterranean, the powerful strength it displayed at this moment still made Daves scared. After all, Syracuse is located on the island of Sicily, but is far away from Turi. But it's not that far, just two or three days by boat.And when Hieron, the brother of Dilon, the dictator who created Syracuse's glory decades ago, succeeded as tyrant, there was a precedent of interfering in the internal affairs of other city-states in Magna Greece, and Davos had to be wary.

He picked up Kunogorata's letter again, read it carefully, and then thought about it for a long time...

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After Lysias returned to Crimesa, he naturally talked to Milon about his talks with Daionian Consul Davos.Myron was angry that the Dionians dared to propose such harsh peace talks to Crotone, and at the same time felt extremely guilty.

Throughout the morning, Milon observed the situation of the Dionia military camp on the city wall, thinking about ways to defeat the enemy.Regardless of whether it is the south bank or the north bank, Dionia's soldiers are still continuing to build camps and continue to move the defense line forward. Trenches, deer villages, traps, etc. are laid at intervals, making people feel as if they are not going to Attack Crimesa, but it is as if the Crotones want to attack them.

Milon sometimes lamented: What methods did the commander of the Dionian army use to make such brave and opinionated citizen soldiers willing to continue doing such hard and dirty work? If Croto The soldiers inside had already given up and started causing trouble.

At noon, Ascamas, the fleet commander of Crotone, rushed to the port of Crimesa. Milon finally became excited, because Ascamas, one of the ten generals of Crotone, was also a friend of Miron. , a representative figure of the radicals, Milon believed that he could agree with his plan and help him.

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After sending Askamas away and getting his affirmative answer, Myron could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Just as he was about to lie down and rest for a while, the guards came in and reported that the enemies outside the north gate had made strange movements.

Before, the Dionian soldiers had been working a few hundred meters away from the north gate, but now they suddenly advanced to within a hundred meters. They just started to level the ground and consolidate it just outside the range of the Crotone light infantry on the city wall. Land, a large piece of flat land was sorted out.At the same time, they were guarded by fully armed light and heavy infantry on both sides to prevent the defenders from leaving the city for a surprise attack.

In this era, catapults had not yet appeared, and such a long distance was blocked by moats and city walls. It was impossible to cause any harm to the Crimean city. Therefore, the Crotone soldiers watched curiously on the city walls without much nervousness. .

Milong is also watching all this, and he is already a little tired. He also wants to understand clearly: What do the Dionians want to do?
The Dionysian soldiers began to carry four or five-meter-long tree trunks, placed them on the edge of the flat land, drove the trunks into the soil one by one at intervals, and connected and fixed them with ropes, and it was quickly completed. A wooden frame approximately 30 meters long and 5 meters wide.

"If the Dionians want to build houses here, they are not afraid that we will burn them down!" A Crotone soldier said jokingly, which immediately caused a burst of laughter.

But I saw the Dionian soldiers carrying heavy sacks one by one, placing them one by one on the edge of the wooden frame, and stacking the bags neatly...

"Hahaha... I think the Dionians not only want to build houses, they also want to make bread (because they are sacks used to hold grain flour)!" Another Crotone soldier's wise words caused another stir. Laughter.

Since there were thousands of Dionian soldiers participating in the work, a wall was built with sacks in a blink of an eye, and the height of the wall quickly became as high as the city wall of Crimea, and it continued to grow...

Seeing this, Milon's expression changed drastically, and the adjutant beside him shouted: "No, the enemy is going to build a high wall to attack us!"

Seeing the scene in front of them, the Crotone soldiers who had been watching the excitement before realized it, and they began to panic: there were many powerful slingers in the Dionian light infantry. The range was originally relatively long, but now Dionian light infantry The Nians used clever methods to quickly build a platform that was nearly two meters higher than the four-meter-high Krimisa city wall. This meant that their light infantry climbed onto this high wall and could rely on the height to make their Arrows and stones attacked the soldiers on the walls of Crimesa.

Once the enemy attacks the city, their slingers and archers can stand on high platforms and attack the soldiers defending the city wall. This will make the defenders at the top of the city busy avoiding attacks instead of defending the city wall... Milon has already I broke out in a cold sweat: This platform must be destroyed!

But he also knew that the enemy would definitely defend to the death, so he decided to set the time for the raid in the evening.

Soon, he saw the Dionysians starting to dig trenches around the high platform, and filling the gap in the middle of the high platform with the excavated soil...

Milon was a little crazy: Dionians are simply mice, thinking about digging holes to save their lives all the time!

By dusk, the Dionians built another small camp around the high wall.

Milon finally gave up the decision to launch a sneak attack. He did not want to waste the lives of soldiers on this hopeless action, and he already had a hint of intention in his heart.

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In the early morning of the next day, the military horn of the North Camp of Dionia sounded long. Soldiers from each company of the Second Legion carried ladders and formed small square formations, forming a fish scale formation a hundred meters away from the city wall.

Davos stepped on the slope made of dirt and stood on the high platform for the first time. He subconsciously stamped his feet twice and it felt relatively stable.

When he first saw the city of Crimesa, he had the idea of ​​building a high tower.The city wall more than three meters high is indeed too short.However, it is not easy to build an earth fort higher than the city wall with earth, because it is easy to collapse. Fortunately, engineers have come up with a good way, using tree trunks and ropes as frames, using sacks of earth as supports, and then filling them with earth... It's fast and strong.

Davos was condescending and had an unobstructed view of the northern city walls of Crimea.Seeing the soldiers standing on the opposite city wall, Daves said to Epithenes beside him: "Can our archers hit the enemy?"

"Commander, there is no problem at all!" Epithenis said confidently.

Davos nodded: "Then attack."

"Fire arrows!" Epithenes ordered, and the archers on the high platform began to shoot the first round of arrows.The slingers located in the rear, next to the archers, also began to swing their slings.

The siege finally begins!Myron standing on the top of the north gate was full of fighting spirit at the moment. Facing the arrows and flying stones flying in the air, he shouted: "Defense!"

On the part of the city wall facing the high platform, he specially arranged for heavy infantry to defend the city, and they raised their round shields one after another to protect the top of their heads...

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There is a newly built village near the sea on the south bank of the Krati River in the Subali Plain. Aguilas is the village chief. This is the lowest level official in the current Dionian administrative system. According to the newly promulgated law Regulations: The village chief is elected by the citizens of the village for a one-year term.

However, becoming a village chief is not an easy task. Candidates must meet several necessary conditions: first, they must be official citizens of Dionia; second, they must pay taxes on time and have no major violations of laws and disciplines. Records; in addition, priority will be given to those who have served in the military, have achieved military exploits, and made special contributions to the Dionysian Alliance.

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