ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 555
Only a few "boom" sounds were heard, and Antonios felt a few pieces of gravel jump onto his leg, causing a faint pain. He shouted with concern: "Is everyone okay?!"

Just when the guards reported that they were safe, the light infantrymen who were also responsible for long-range attacks on the enemy on the roof shouted in surprise: "Captain! Captain! Wake up!..."

Captain? !Antonios was shocked.
Tsipet, who was actually directing the light infantry to evade, was hit in the head by a large stone thrown up from the wall by a stone bullet, and fell to the ground immediately.

As a comrade in the Persian Expeditionary Force and a colleague in the Senate, Antonios usually had a good relationship with Cipit. Seeing that he was unconscious at this moment, he was worried and angry. While calling the guards to call the medical camp, he gave an unequivocal order. : "Blow the attack horn, don't let the enemy escape!"

"Woo!..." At the same time as the Dionia bugle sounded, the Syracuse coalition's retreat horn also sounded.

It wasn't that Mathias didn't want to lead his troops to retreat more safely and securely, but that the situation was out of control.Seeing that the situation was not good, some Syracuse soldiers had already begun to flee with the Allied troops. The entire army's encirclement formation was in disarray. If decisive action was not taken, the enemy would probably remain in place and persist. The troops were surrounded, so he issued an order to retreat. It was better to let the soldiers escape like scattered sand than to be captured by the entire enemy team.

The sound of the retreating bugle woke up Antonios who was in grief. He said loudly and angrily to the light infantry: "Brothers, don't just ignore your sorrow. The time has come to avenge Lord Tsipit! Catch up with the fleeing enemies and kill them." !”

The light infantry roared and immediately ran downstairs to join their companions in the legion, and quickly joined in the pursuit.These light infantrymen can be regarded as the relatively physically strong people in the First Legion. In addition, they do not wear heavy helmets or heavy armor. Their pursuit speed will cause a lot of trouble to the retreating enemies. Antonios is convinced of this.

Since the Syracuse coalition surrounded the First Army with a circular array, when they retreated, the soldiers of the First Army in the inner circle attacked from all directions. As a result, they were unable to retreat in the same direction and were forced to retreat in various directions. Flee everywhere.

In order to quickly escape from Mearo and avoid encountering the traps set by the Dionysians in the town, many Syracuse soldiers chose to escape southward and were bombarded by crossbows all day yesterday. Everything went smoothly until they stepped over the almost non-existent wooden wall and jumped into the river. The pointed wooden stakes and iron spikes that had been buried in the mud at the bottom of the river by the First Army were ineffective. Piercing their feet, one by one fell into the river with screams, and drowned to death.This discouraged the people behind. Under the spears and daggers wielded by the pursuing Dionian soldiers, they were either killed or surrendered.

There were still a small number of soldiers who chose to flee north. They were mainly mercenaries from Tauromenion. They were pursued by the enemy and ran all the way. When they were about to reach the mountainous area and were not far from the city of Tauromenion, But they found nearly a thousand sailors holding wooden oars and bows and arrows in front of them blocked their way.

It turned out that the Dionian fleet did not leave the port after loading the families of the exiles, but was paying close attention to the battle situation.When it was observed that the enemy began to retreat, the eager Dionysian fleet took advantage of the fact that the Gulf of Naxos was full of beaches, and took advantage of the straight-line distance on the sea to quickly row the warships to land near the mountain pass, grabbing the enemy's In front, the net is waiting.

Most of the exhausted mercenaries disarmed and surrendered when there were enemies in front of them and pursuers behind them.

Most of the Syracuse soldiers followed the Allied troops as they fled west out of the town of Mayaro and south across the river.

Macias rode horseback to the south bank of the Alcantara River early, preparing to gradually collect the defeated troops here before leading his army to make further plans.However, they did not expect that the Dionysians would not give up after winning the victory and pursued the Syracuse coalition soldiers closely.

The defeated soldiers surged across the Alcantara River like a tide, and did not listen to Macias's cry. Instead, they scattered him and hundreds of cavalry, and fled south together.

The soldiers of the Dionysian Legion, who were good at chasing the enemy after victory and often carried out armed long-distance running in training, made the people of Syracuse suffer a lot.They were all exhausted soldiers after a fierce battle. From time to time, the Dionysians caught up with the defeated troops who fell behind. The screams kept driving the Syracuse coalition soldiers like whips, trying their best to keep fighting. run……

After continuing for five or six miles, most of the Dionian soldiers stopped chasing and began to look back to capture the enemies squatting on the roadside and raising their hands to surrender. Only the light infantry were still chasing angrily.

Hipbagris still wanted to lead his army back to Sikuli City, but as a result, his citizen soldiers had been dispersed by the rout. He rushed to the front of Sikuli City and saw that the four gates were closed and the rebels were firing arrows at the city. , where they dared to stay longer, they had no choice but to follow the Syracuse soldiers to bypass Sikuli and continue to flee south.

The Dionysia light infantry finally stopped their pursuit before reaching Sikuli City. After they identified themselves to the rebels at the head of the city, they were happily welcomed into the city by the Sikuli rebels.

Mathias gathered part of his defeated troops on the way to Catanai.

When he was thinking painfully about what to do next, the tyrants of Catanai and Sikuli both came to him and asked him to help retake the city.

Just at this moment, he encountered a messenger who rushed from Syracuse to look for him. Only then did he know that a riot had also occurred in Syracuse, and he was eagerly waiting for him to lead his army back for rescue.

Mathias was so shocked that he couldn't care about other things. He anxiously led his men to gather the defeated troops and wanted to return to the army for rescue.

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When Dionysius led his army to attack the Dionysian camp, a small speedboat sailed outside the port of Siliting. Facing the blockade of the Dionysian fleet, it was not afraid at all. Instead, it followed Dionysius. The Asian warship played a game of mouse and hide-and-seek. The flexible and compact speedboat shuttled through the gaps between many warships, and finally it broke into the port easily.

At this time, Dionysius, who broke into the empty left camp but was blocked by wooden walls and ditches from the main camp of the Dionysian army, finally made the decision to retreat.

However, this order was a bit late.

In the camp, Davers had already arranged the returning [-]st, [-]th, and [-]th legions in a circular encirclement formation behind the wooden wall. He deliberately allowed the Syracuse soldiers to break through the wooden wall, pour into the camp, and start fighting with them. Face to face fighting.

How could the Syracuse soldiers and free people who had been fighting for so long, had lost most of their physical strength, and lacked armor protection, be the opponents of the fully armed and ready-to-work Dionian legion infantry? The soldiers of the [-]th and [-]th legions fighting on the wall, and the Syracuse people who attacked the camp of the Chinese army were quickly killed and defeated, and they scrambled to flee to the Xiliting.If it were not for the threat of the army led by Dionysius, Davos did not let the army pursue it all the way to the walls of Silitium for the sake of safety.

After Dionysius learned that the troops attacking the camp from the front were defeated, he dared not stay any longer. He hurriedly led his troops back into the city. In order to vent his anger, he burned the left camp of Dionysia with a fire.

Back in the city, before Dionysius could take a breath, Leptinius came over in a panic.

After listening to the news reported in a low voice by his brother, Dionysius was extremely shocked: he never expected that while Davos was surrounding the Silitium and dividing his forces to attack the Locle allies in Syracuse, he also sent troops to land in Sicily!

Although according to Leptinis, there were only a few thousand troops landing in Sicily, Dionysius was not as calm as Philistus. After being defeated by Davos again, he The young Dionysian governor was full of vigilance. He even highly doubted that Davos was willing to have peace talks with him before, not only to cover up his division of troops to attack Hibernian and Medema, but probably also to Delaying him and completing the landing of troops in Sicily is probably Davos’ real killer move!
As the tyrant of Syracuse and the overlord of the Greek city-states of Sicily, Dionysius actually knew how the people of various city-states felt about him. Thinking of this, he felt restless, but he tried his best to pretend that nothing was wrong. , bid farewell to everyone and returned to his temporary residence.

When Fasipesus reorganized his defeated troops and came to report the losses in this battle to Dionysius, what he saw was a haggard and powerful general.

Dionysius listened absently to Fasipesus' report, and was indifferent to the huge number of more than 2000 people killed and nearly 6000 injured by the Syracuse army. Instead, he spoke very quickly: "Syracuse." Zha just sent a messenger to tell me that more than 3000 Dionian soldiers landed in the Gulf of Naxos and quietly captured Mayaro..."

In order to reduce the impact and avoid causing too much panic, Dionysius deliberately minimized the number of Dionysian troops who landed, but it still shocked Fasipesus and even forgot to show respect to Dionysius. Title: "What?! The Dionians actually attacked Sicily?! When did this happen?!"

Dionysius glanced at him and pretended to smile lightly: "It happened two days ago. The Dionysians wanted to cause some trouble for us, but their number was too small. Mathias had already led 1 Ten thousand troops are heading north, with support from city-states such as Taunis, Leotini, Catanai, etc. along the way. I believe that all the Dionians who have landed have been wiped out!"

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