ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 533 Victory in the First Battle
"Black soldiers! So the Dionian Legion is coming, I don't know which legion it is!" Xenophanes thought in his heart, his eyes flashed with excitement, he turned and ran to the south of the town, where the free people were A gathering area for public servants and slaves.

The fleeing people of Meillaro rushed into the town in panic, causing a blockage in the already narrow passage into the town, making it impossible to pull up the suspension bridge and unable to close the town gate.

While the Sikuli people were anxiously driving away the people who entered the city, the company led by Leotizides had already rushed outside the town. Seeing this situation, they immediately ordered the attack without waiting for the team to form: Attack!

The soldiers rushed to the north gate and thrust their spears at the people blocking the town.

The screams continued, frightening the people who were about to enter the town even more. Some simply jumped into the moat, while others squeezed desperately into the town. The citizen soldiers at the town gate could not stop them at all.

When Melisander's detachment arrived, they saw the pursuit of Leotizides' company on the suspension bridge at the north gate of Mearo Town, making the gate of the town extremely bloody and chaotic. Melisander thought: If his detachment went up, they could only follow behind the "Crazy" company, and they might not even be able to touch the enemy before rushing into the city.

Melisander was unwilling.At this time, he saw some Mayaro people fleeing around the moat to the other side. He immediately shouted: "Follow me and attack the other gate!"

The soldiers chased the fleeing people to the east gate of Mayaro, only to find that the drawbridge had been pulled up.

Melisander felt a chill in her heart.

"Captain, what should I do?!" the soldiers asked anxiously.

Melisander was also very anxious. Looking back, he saw that other teams were running towards this side, but he did not find the engineering battalion carrying ladders and wooden planks. Obviously, they must have fallen behind.

Do we have to wait here? !Melisander looked at the wooden wall in front of him, where there were only twenty or thirty sparse enemies, and only a few people shot arrows at them who had entered the shooting range. There was no threat to them in armor, but they were You can't predict whether you will be thrown by a javelin when you get close to the wooden wall.

"Make a tortoise shell formation!" He made a decisive decision: "Approach the moat and swim across!"

He saw that there weren't many enemies on the wooden wall, and it was only about three meters high, so he could easily use the human wall to climb up.

After receiving the order, 50 soldiers immediately surrounded Melisander in the middle, forming a tight small phalanx. Their heads were covered with long shields, like a huge box covered with iron, and they marched slowly towards the moat.

Other detachments followed the same procedure. Some detachments that were far away from the town gate did not even form a turtle formation and ran quickly towards the moat.

The Sikuli people who couldn't enter the town fled in panic, and the soldiers didn't understand at all.

At this time, the sound of fighting and screams suddenly came from behind the city gate, mixed with horrified shouts: "The free people and slaves are rebelling!!..."

Soon, the Sikuli people on the wooden wall no longer stared at the Dionian soldiers in front of the moat, but turned around to resist the thugs who rushed up on the wooden ladder.

Bows and arrows continued to hit the wooden wall, causing the Sikuli people who lacked protection to fall down.

Although Melisander at the bottom of the city didn't know what was happening in the town, how could he not take advantage of such a good opportunity? He immediately asked the soldiers to disperse the turtle formation, rushed to the moat, threw down their long shields and spears, and Wearing only daggers, they jumped into the moat one after another.

Although wearing armor makes the body heavy, there are occasional special trainings in this area during daily military training.The moat is three to four meters wide, and you can reach the other side by kicking your legs and rowing your arms twice.

Melisande and the soldiers climbed ashore hard and were about to lean against the wooden wall. The suspension bridge was lowered, and then the wooden door was opened. Someone shouted loudly on the top of the city: "I am Xie, a reserve citizen of Dionia." Nophanis, the Sikuli people have been driven away by us! Soldiers of the legion, hurry up and enter the city!"

Melisander was stunned when he heard this, and the laughter of soldiers from other units rang in his ears: "Captain Melisander is diving again!"

The men beside him were also complaining about the captain: "Are you cursed by the goddess of misfortune? Even we are also unlucky with you!"

Melisander watched the other detachments walk easily across the suspension bridge and into the town of Mayaro, and was very angry: "Come into the water and swim back with me!"

"Ah, going into the water again?!"

"The shields and spears are on the other side, don't you take them back!"

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In the afternoon, the First Dionysian Army completely occupied the town of Mayaro at the cost of minor casualties.

The town of Mayaro is a town, but its area is larger than that of Sikuli City. It is worthy of its name. However, there are no power institutions such as council, senate and city hall in the town. It only has A consul's residence, where daily administrative management and decree-making are decided.

The city of Siculi was originally a democratic city-state. After it surrendered to Syracuse, Dionysius supported Hybagris, a Siculi noble who was the first to surrender to him, as the plenipotentiary general of Siculi. The people of Sikuli were frightened by Dionysius's power and had to submit. In this way, Sikuli also became a tyrant city-state.Hipbagris appointed his confidant as the consul of Mearo, and directly governed Mearo on his behalf, thereby completely controlling the former Naxos territory under the rule of the Siculian tyrant.

But now the person sitting at the head of the administrative hall of the Mayaro Consul's Mansion is no longer Xibagris's men, but Antonios, the commander of the first army of Dionysia.

"Legion Commander, we have arrested all the Sikuli people in the town. There are 3653 people in total. Most of them are old people, women and children. What do you think we should do?" said the first captain Georgris. He said somewhat reluctantly.This attack was supposed to be the fourth battalion's first success in breaking the city, because Leotizides's company belonged to the fourth battalion and rushed to the front. It was about to break through the north gate. Unexpectedly, a riot broke out in the city. , but instead allowed several detachments under the First Brigade headed by Melisander to enter the town from the east gate first and win the first victory, which also gave Georgris the right to deal with the prisoners in the town.

"Lord Antonios, don't be too kind to the Siculians! They were once allies of Naxos. Instead of fighting alongside us, they betrayed the alliance, defected to Syracuse, and assisted the evil Dionysius. Naxos conquered our city and occupied our land. Every year, he sent troops to the western mountains of Etna to hunt down our fleeing tribesmen and captured them as slaves, regardless of gender...Now the goddess of revenge finally responds to us Naxos People pray devoutly and send you Dionysian warriors to bring their wrath to the Sikuli people. They must turn them into slaves and torture them to death!..." Standing next to Laodicean, as this time Torilaus from Naxos, one of the organizers of the riots in the town in response to Dionia's attack, gritted his teeth and shouted.

Geogris frowned, looked at Antonios, opened his mouth to speak, Antonios winked at him, and then said with deep sympathy: "Naxos is our ally of Dionia, what do you think? The suffering suffered is just like the suffering suffered by the people of Dionia...Trotilas!"

"Here!" Trotilas, the third captain, responded loudly.

"Now go and escort the Sikuli people to the square, let the people of Naxos identify the crimes they have committed, and punish them according to their requirements!" Antonios' method was obviously borrowed from the original Dai What Firth did to the Crotone prisoners at Thurii.

"Yes!" Trotilas turned and left.

"Lord Antonios, I will organize the people to go to the square!" Tolilaus said happily.

Antonios nodded, and Georgris wanted to say more. Next to him, the second captain Zantiparis patted his leg with his hand to signal him to calm down.

Antonios paid attention and said seriously: "The adequacy of food is an important foundation for our army and the people of Naxos to gain a foothold here! So, Geogris, I sent you to check This town’s food reserves, and we will collect the food from the homes of these Sikuli people, will be distributed centrally by us, do you understand?!”

"Yes, legion commander." Georgris understood that Antonios was a little dissatisfied with his performance just now, so he removed him from the task of guarding prisoners and assigned him a new task. He always abides by military law. He obeyed.

Antonios watched Geogris leave, and felt a little relieved. If Amyntas had seen his subordinates resisting the orders several times, he would have yelled at him, but he would not.What's more, as a member of the original "Heros Squad", although he is not as close as Heros, Matonis, Olivers, Martius and Davos, the relationship is not bad. Scolding Geogris for trivial matters will affect his perception in Davos' heart. Although Geogris is not a talkative person, there is a dangerous person here...

Antonios' eyes quickly glanced at Xenophanes, who was standing quietly in an inconspicuous corner, and then quickly withdrew his mind and continued to ask: "General Saratus has already led his troops to take over the port, right? (Sara Tusi is the leading general of the Lijim troops sent by Lijim to cooperate with the First Army)?"

"Yes, sir." Naxosian Laodicean replied: "General Saratus also brought more than 300 mature slaves there to facilitate Jim's ship to smoothly deliver the food after it docked at the port. and supplies were unloaded smoothly.”

"I feel more relieved that the port can operate normally." Antonios said and sighed: "Unfortunately, there are no military facilities in the port and we cannot park warships. Our fleet has to go back to Lijim to rest."

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