Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Before the messengers of Crotone arrived, Miron had received news from the warships cruising the coast of Crimea: The Dionians had invaded the Croton Plains!

Miron was taken aback, and secretly shouted: I fell into the trap of the Dionians, no wonder they never attacked the city, it turned out to be just to attract my attention, the Dionians in the south camp have already gone south!

But he was a little hesitant to attack Dionia's southern camp: after all, Dionia's army was eyeing the city, and once he mobilized his army, they would see it clearly on the high platform. Rimisa, the trouble is even greater!

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The siege of Asporustum was in full swing, and Fagris did not expect the Dionysians to attack as soon as they came up, not afraid of death. Ω Δ Reading Pavilion WWW. ΩkanΩshuge. la

The ladder was overturned by the push rod, and was quickly reattached. The soldiers climbed up the ladder one by one, the former one was smashed down, and the latter one accelerated upwards without hesitation. The light infantry brigade approached the city, not afraid of arrows, and also fired javelins and arrows at the defenders on the city...

The fierce offensive of the Dionian people quickly achieved results. The defense of the city wall was broken through many times. Tall, strong, with long hair in a shawl, with a strange roar, clearly not Greek. They fought fiercely and powerfully, and to kill or drive out one of them, the defenders had to pay the lives of several soldiers.

Fagris had to send a reserve team many times to help the front-line defenders drive down the enemy who had reached the front of the city, especially the rightmost section of the city wall, where the Dionysians attacked the most violently.

The general Fagris, who had some experience in defending the city, knew that the Dionians could not always maintain such a fierce offensive momentum. Therefore, while dispatching all the reserves, he shouted loudly to the soldiers, encouraging them to fight bravely.

But he didn't know that at the most twisted moment of the battle, under the order of Hieronymus, the commander of the third army under the city, his personal guards lined up in a row and collectively swayed round the city head on the left. shield.

The defender at the far left of the city was concentrating on defending against the enemy's attack, and suddenly a loud shout came from behind: Attack!!!

Those Crotones they regarded as comrades stabbed them with knives and guns, and easily eliminated these defenders. Without waiting for the soldiers of the Third Army to come up, these dozens of reconnaissance soldiers immediately launched to the neighboring defenders. attack……

When Fagris, who was still commanding the battle on the right side of the city, got the news, the Dionian soldiers had captured the left side of the city, and a large number of soldiers quickly climbed the battlements.

Turning into the aisle, aggressively attacking the middle section...

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Crotone people, who were already low in morale, immediately threw down their shields and spears and ran desperately into the city.

This run immediately induced a domino effect. Under the onslaught of Dionian soldiers in front and on the side, the defenders finally collapsed. They scrambled to escape the city head, but instead blocked the passage to the lower city. Panicked, the guard soldiers jumped directly from the seven-meter-high city wall into the city, breaking their legs, breaking their heads, and laying on the ground crying.

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 wanted to escape from the South Gate and flee to Crotone.

The Crotone reinforcements, who were halfway there, happened to bump into the people who were fleeing in a hurry. When they learned that the city of Aspurustum had fallen, they were shocked and did not dare to advance, and immediately turned around and ran back.

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The Crotone messenger arrived at Crimea, bringing the council's order to attack.

Miron, who was no longer the chief general, but a convict, finally ended his hesitation and sent 7,000 soldiers, including more than 2,000 infantry, to attack the Dionysian Camp on the south bank of the Umbrian River.

Davos, who observed the enemy's movement on the high platform, immediately asked Adriankes, the captain of the First Brigade of the Second Corps, to lead 2,000 heavy infantry and 500 light infantry across the river to reinforce the troops of the Third Army and the First Corps stationed in the southern camp. 2000 soldiers led by Captain Tony. With strong camps and ready reinforcements from the northern camp, Matonis is confident of repelling these large numbers of invading enemies.

However, Crotone's attack was loud thunder and little rain. After taking a small loss from the traps such as thorns and meat hooks in front of the camp, he immediately retreated back to the city. Of course, Miron would not take Crotone's only capable team to confront Dionia's heavily fortified camp, and the soldiers lacked the courage to attack. As soon as he found that the enemy in the camp was heavily defended, he would The bugle of retreat sounded.

The Crotone messenger, however, angry at the easy retreat of the troops, forced Miron to continue the attack, or threatened to remove Miron from his leadership. However, the soldiers expressed their support for Miron, and the messenger was alone and had no choice but to leave Crimea and return to the Council of Crotone to complain.

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

This time, the calls for peace talks were far stronger than before, and some even said that Dionia's conditions could be accepted, as long as the northern plains of Croton returned to peace.

While the council was still arguing about the peace talks, two events in succession prompted them to finally make a decision: first, 500 soldiers of the Dionysian III Corps crossed Tacchinati in pursuit of the remnant enemy. The river, entered the core area of ​​the Croton Plain, and at one point approached the city of Crotone, although it soon retreated to the city of Aspurustum. But this amazing sight still shocked the defenders and the people in the city. Just when the whole city was in a state of panic, a passenger ship from Cologne entered the port of Crotone, and the Cologne messenger who got off the ship brought even more bad news-Lochry told him. Colonia declares war! The army had already marched towards Corenia, and the messenger had come to ask Crotone for help.

The most worrying thing of the Crotone Council finally happened: the mortal enemy Locle took advantage of Crotone's quagmire to attack the allies of Crotone. As the leader of the alliance, Crotone is duty-bound to send reinforcements. However, at this moment, just dealing with Dioria's attack has already overwhelmed Crotone's manpower. Where can there be extra troops to assist Coulonia, and without Crotone's support, Coulonia is It is impossible to stop the attack of the Allied forces of Locle, which means that Crotone will face the worst war situation of being attacked by the enemy, and Crotone will be in danger of being destroyed!

All members of the council immediately stopped arguing and quickly reached an unanimous opinion: reach peace talks with Dionia as soon as possible!

Lycias had to leave for the north again. In order to prevent him from being too tough and the negotiation failed, he was accompanied by another messenger, the council member Thesprotis (who had previously said No matter what Dio did. Nyati whatever conditions, as long as the tranquility of Croton Plains can be restored, it should be agreed”).

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At this moment, there is a joyful atmosphere in the middle tent of Dionysian Camp. The news that the Third Corps captured the city of Asprostum cheered every general.

Lord Commander, we should take advantage of the good time when we captured Asproustum and the people of Crotone to start an attack on Crimea, and we will definitely be able to take it down smoothly! Drax He said eagerly, as the commander of the Second Army, the record of his troops could not fall behind the Third Army.

Asproustum is ours, it doesn't make much sense for the Crotones to hold on to Crimea, I'm afraid they will give up Crimea soon. We can easily get it , there is no need to sacrifice the lives of soldiers to attack. Caps said cautiously.

However, letting more than 10,000 Crotone people retreat will only increase the difficulty of our attack on Crotone City! Drax retorted loudly.

Capps was at a loss for words. Indeed, Crotone is a large city. Not only is it a vast city with a large population, but its walls are ten meters high and its moat is six meters wide. According to the conventional method of play, it is destined to be a protracted siege battle, but the ocean is not in Dionia's control, and Crotone cannot be completely blocked, so there is only a strong attack, but facing such a strong city, how much does it cost? Soldier's life? Can you capture it? Almost all the generals were beating drums in their hearts. If the strength of the defending city is further strengthened, then the odds of winning will be even slimmer.

Daves looked calm, turned his head and asked, Lord 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 observing silently, did not refuse, and said directly: Why do we We must attack the city of Crotone? Since we have such a big advantage now, why can't we force the people of Crotone to negotiate with us?

The Crotones are dying. Wouldn't it be too cheap to negotiate with them! Drax immediately objected.

Capps was lost in thought.

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

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

A letter from Felixius, Davos frowned thoughtfully after reading the letter. Then he looked at the second letter with the special mark - it was a letter from Aristillas, and his eyebrows were quickly drawn again.