ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 220
Before the messenger from Crotone arrived, Milon had already received news from the warships patrolling the coast of Crimesa: The Dionians had invaded the Crotone Plain!

Milon was shocked and secretly shouted: I was fooled by the Dionians. No wonder they never attacked the city. It turned out that they just attracted my attention. The Dionians in the southern camp had already gone south!
But he hesitated to attack Dionia's south camp: after all, Dionia's army was watching eagerly under the city. Once he mobilized the army, they would see it clearly from the high platform. If they took the opportunity to attack, they would lose the victory. Remisa, the trouble is even bigger!

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The siege of Asprustum was going on fiercely. Fagris did not expect that the Dionians would attack as soon as they came up, and they were not afraid of death.

The ladder was overturned by the push rod and quickly put up again.The soldiers climbed up the ladder one by one. The first one was knocked down, and the next one accelerated upward without hesitation.The light infantry brigade approached the city, not afraid of arrows, and also threw javelins and arrows at the defenders on the city...

The ferocious offensive of the Dionians soon achieved results. The defense of the city wall was broken through many times. The Dionian soldiers went to the top of the city. Only then did the defenders discover the figure of these Dionian soldiers wearing Greek armor Tall, strong, with long hair draped over his shoulders, and a strange roar, he was obviously not a Greek.They fought fiercely and were extremely powerful. To kill or drive away one of them, the defenders would have to sacrifice the lives of several soldiers.

Faglis had to send in reserves many times to help the front-line defenders drive down the enemies who had climbed to the top of the city, especially the section of the city wall on the far right, where the Dionians attacked the most violently.

General Faglis, who has some experience in defending the city, knows that the Dionysians cannot always maintain such a fierce offensive momentum. As long as they can withstand this wave, the Dionysians will be powerless.Therefore, while sending all the reserves on board, he shouted loudly to the soldiers, encouraging them to fight bravely.

But he didn't know that at the most tense moment of the battle, Hieronymus, the commander of the Third Army under the city, gave an order, and his personal guards lined up in a row and collectively shook the circle towards the left city head. shield.

The defenders at the far left end of the city were concentrating on defending against the enemy's attack, when suddenly a shout came from behind: "Attack!!!"

The "Crotone men" whom they regarded as comrades-in-arms stabbed them with swords and guns, and easily eliminated these defenders. Without waiting for the soldiers of the Third Army to come up, these dozens of reconnaissance team soldiers immediately launched an attack on the nearby defenders. attack……

When Faglis, who was still directing the battle at the right city head, received the news, the Dionysian soldiers had already captured the left city head. A large number of soldiers quickly climbed up the battlements, climbed into the walkways, and charged towards the middle section with great momentum...

Seeing that the situation was not good, those Crotonese who were already low in morale immediately dropped their shields and spears and ran desperately into the city.

The run immediately triggered a domino effect.Under the fierce attack of the Dionian soldiers in front and side, the defenders finally collapsed. They scrambled to escape from the city, but instead blocked the corridors of the lower city.The panicked defenders actually jumped directly from the seven-meter-high city wall into the city, broke their legs and feet, broke their heads, and lay on the ground wailing.

The people in the city were also terrified, shouting in horror: "The enemy has entered the city! The enemy has entered!!..."

They helped the old and the young and hurriedly tried to escape from the south gate and fled to Crotone.

The Crotone reinforcements, which were halfway through, happened to run into the people who were fleeing in a hurry. They were shocked to learn that the city of Asprostum had been lost. They did not dare to move forward anymore and immediately turned around and ran back.

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Messengers from Crotone rushed to Crimesa with orders from the council to attack.

Milon, who was no longer the chief general but a criminal, finally ended his hesitation and sent 7000 soldiers, including more than 2000 infantry, to attack the Dionia camp on the south bank of the Umbria River.

Davos, who observed the enemy's movements on the high platform, immediately asked Adriankos, captain of the First Battalion of the Second Army, to lead 2000 heavy infantry and 500 light infantry across the river as reinforcements to replace the Third Army's map and the First Army's horses stationed in the south camp. 2000 soldiers led by Captain Tonys.With a strong camp and ready reinforcements from the northern camp, Matonis was confident of repelling these numerous invading enemies.

However, Crotone's attack was loud with loud thunder and light rain. After suffering some small losses from traps such as "nail spikes" and "meat hooks" in front of the camp, they immediately retreated back to the city.Of course, Milon would not use the only combat-effective team in Crotone to confront Dionia's heavily defended camp, and the soldiers also lacked the courage to attack. As soon as he discovered that the enemy in the camp was heavily defended, he The retreat bugle was sounded.

The Crotone envoy was angry at the easy retreat of the troops and forcibly ordered Milon to continue the attack, otherwise he threatened to remove Milon from his leadership position.However, the soldiers expressed their support for Milon, and the envoy was left alone and had no choice but to leave Crimesa and return to the Crotone Council to complain.

However, the Crotone Council was in chaos at this time, and the shocking news that "Dionia captured Asprostum" was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, leaving all council members stunned.Outside the council hall, people gathered in the square and shouted for the council to quickly come up with a solution to the crisis.

This time, the call for peace talks was far stronger than before, and some even said that Dionia's conditions could be accepted as long as peace was restored to the plains north of Croton.

While the council was still debating the peace talks, two things happened in succession that prompted them to finally make a decision: first, when 500 soldiers of the Dionysian Third Army were chasing the remnants of the enemy, they crossed Takinati The river entered the core area of ​​the Croton Plain, and once approached the city of Crotone, although it quickly retreated to the city of Asprustum.But this shocking sight still shocked the defenders and people in the city.Just when the whole city was in panic, a passenger ship from Coronia entered the port of Crotone. The Coronia messenger who got off the ship brought even bigger bad news-Lockry sent a message to Crotone. Corunnia declares war!Its army has marched to Columnia, and the messenger has come to ask Crotone for help.

The thing that the Crotone council was most worried about finally happened: the sworn enemy Lokri took advantage of Crotone's mire of war and brazenly attacked Crotone's allies. As the leader of the alliance, Crotone was duty-bound to send reinforcements. However, at this moment just to deal with Diolia's attack has already made Crotone overwhelmed. There is no spare force to assist Columnia. Without Crotone's support, Columnia is It is impossible to block the attack of Lokri's coalition forces, which means that Crotone will face the worst war situation of being attacked from both sides, and Crotone will be in danger of being destroyed!
All members of the council immediately stopped quarreling and quickly reached a consensus: to reach peace talks with Dionia as soon as possible!

Lysias had to set off north again. In order to prevent his attitude from being too tough and causing the negotiation to fail, he was accompanied by another envoy, Sisprotus, a member of the Council (the one who had previously said "No matter Dio"). "The one who should agree to whatever conditions Nia offers, as long as they can restore peace to the Croton Plains").

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At this moment, there was a joyful atmosphere in the Chinese army's tent in the Dionia camp. The news that "the Third Army captured the city of Asprostum" made every general feel excited.

"Commander, we should take advantage of the opportunity to capture Asprostum and the Crotones are in panic to launch an attack on Crimesa. We will definitely capture it successfully!" Drax He said eagerly that as the commander of the Second Army, his unit's performance cannot fall behind the Third Army.

"The city of Asprostum is already ours. It doesn't make much sense for the Crotones to hold on to Crimea. I'm afraid they will give up the city of Crimea soon. We can easily get it. , there is no need to sacrifice the lives of soldiers to attack by force." Capps said cautiously.

"However, allowing these more than 1 Crotone people to retreat will only make it more difficult for us to attack the city of Crotone!" Drax retorted loudly.

Capps was speechless for a moment.Indeed, Crotone is a big city. Not only does it have a vast area and a large population, but its walls are ten meters high and its moat is six meters wide.According to the conventional fighting method, it is destined to be a protracted siege. However, the ocean is not under the control of Dionia and Crotone cannot be completely blocked. Then the only option is to attack by force. But how much does it cost to face such a strong city? A soldier's life?Can it be captured?Almost all the generals were beating drums in their hearts.If the troops defending the city are strengthened, the chances of victory will become even slimmer.

Daves looked calm, turned his head and asked, "Master Avinogis, what do you think we should do next?"

After entering the military tent, in addition to congratulating Davos for his victory again, Avinogis, who had been silently observing, did not refuse when facing the focused gazes of Dracos and Capps, and said directly: "Why are we Must we attack the city of Crotone? Since we now have such a huge advantage, why can’t we force the Crotones to negotiate peace with us?”

"The Crotone people are dying. Wouldn't it be too cheap to negotiate with them?" Drax immediately objected.

Capps was lost in thought.

A smile appeared on the corner of Davos's mouth: The consul's perspective on thinking about problems is still different from that of a simple general!

Just as he was about to speak, Martius, the captain of the personal guard, asked for permission to enter and brought two letters.

One came from Felicius. After reading the letter, Davos frowned and thoughtfully.Then he looked at the second letter with a special mark - this was a letter from Aristiras, and his eyebrows stretched again soon.

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