Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 163: Landing in Thessaly (5)
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"This order...Patroclus had already emphasized it yesterday. There are no Gaul soldiers in our army. I believe soldiers will not easily violate it..." Lizaru said, so I just remembered something like: "Oh, I forgot who said that you are from Larissa?"
Lizaru’s words smashed into Matonis’ heart like a rock, setting off those old memories. He didn’t quarrel with Lizaru jokingly anymore, but turned his head and looked at the northwest for a while. , Said in a daze: "You remembered wrong, I am not from Larissa, but from Orosson (the city-state of Sesari in the northwest of Larissa, adjacent to the mountainous area of Epirus), just like you People in the mountains."
After finishing speaking, he called his staff officer: "You immediately send someone to Peleus and inform Sir Hiros that we have captured his hometown."
The staff officer was a little surprised, but didn't ask much, and turned to look for the messenger.
"Please, Lizaru, I will take you to see the largest city in the north of Thessaly." Matonis made an inviting gesture.
"The largest city...is there Turey?"
"How can it compare to Turey!"
"What about Crotone?"
"That's incomparable!"
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Surrounded by the soldiers, the two entered Larissa on horseback, talking and laughing.
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After the main forces of Dionia have successfully landed and captured the nearby coastal city-states, the transport fleet enters the port, quickly unloads the army’s auxiliary personnel and materials, and then distributes them in the 1st fleet. Under the **** of the fleet, they began to return to Sparta and Messenia.
It didn’t take long for the fleet in Pagaza Bay of Sesali to receive notice from the Clippers and immediately ordered the soldiers who were still pretending to pave the Mildoros beach to return to the ship as soon as possible, because the fleet will have to The 13th Army soldiers were sent to the neighboring Mariakos Bay to land.
The Sesali garrison saw the Dionian soldiers using straw and planks to pave the road to the foot of the mountain. They were all ready to attack, but suddenly they saw the enemy retreating to the beach to board the ship. Soon all the warships and troop carriers disappeared from their sight.
After squatting on the mountain for a long time, the deliciousness of the mouth suddenly ran away, which made Polyfuron suffocated and uncomfortable. He immediately suggested to Polyodorus: "We should let the port of Philae The fleet will attack immediately, and the Dionia's fleet must not be allowed to come and leave as long as they want, and somehow they must bite off a piece of their flesh!"
Poridorus said cautiously: "You don’t know that the reason why our fleet stayed in the port and did not dare to attack is because the number of Dionian warships in the bay far exceeds us, since The Dionians have taken the initiative to retreat, so there is no need to take this risk."
"Before I suggested that the soldiers should take the initiative to attack the enemy in the tidal flat. You disagree! Now I suggest that the fleet attack, but you disagree! You only know that you are sitting here and dare not do anything. What's the use of Chief Thessaly!" Polifuron screamed at his brother angrily, humming and tearing the tent apart, and strode out of the camp.
The adjutant in the tent complained quietly: "General, Polifuron is too much. Ignore you--"
"Forget it." Polidorus waved his hand helplessly: his brother has been brave since he was a child, and when he grows up, he has a tyrannical temper and a lack of respect. He has long been used to it. Because of this, the eldest brother Jason did not dare to let the youngest brother take on any important tasks, but kept letting him follow him to do things. He originally hoped to make some changes to him, but unfortunately he hasn’t grown much...
Poridorus left this annoying thing behind. He shouldered the heavy responsibility of defending Thessaly and was unwilling to have more troubles, so he allowed the Dionia fleet to leave, but he still had something in his heart. Doubt: Did Delnia dispatch such a large fleet and spent most of the day here in vain, and then left without gaining anything? Will there be other conspiracies?
Poridorus was thinking about it, and he did not forget to give the adjutant an order: "You send soldiers to burn the road that the Dionians paved in the tidal flat."
"Yes, my lord."
As soon as the adjutant left the account, Larissa's messenger rushed to the camp.
"The Dionian army has landed on the coast of Peleus!!" Polydaurus was shocked when he heard the news, and his anxiety was finally confirmed. The Dionians used the tactics of slamming him to beat him. Caught off guard.
At this moment, he knew very well: Because of the great fanfare of the Dionian army landing on the coast of Mildoros, he mobilized the citizen soldiers from the surrounding city-states to come to support. Now the defense on the west is very empty. The army rushed into the northern plains through the pass, and the consequences would be disastrous. Peleus could be captured, but the pass in the valley must be blocked!
Polytorus made up his mind and immediately issued an order: two thousand Philae citizen soldiers stationed at the Mildoros Coast Camp, and the rest immediately rushed to the valley pass camp.
Considering that the city of Larissa is more than 100 miles away from the coast of Mildoros, and the valley pass is farther from here, the arrival of the Courier Larissa has been delayed for a long time, and the battle on Peleus's side is probably already in place. Great changes... Just in case, Polydurus gave a special order: let the only 500 cavalry under his command quickly reinforce the valley pass.
After all the orders were issued, Polyodorus felt a little more at ease. He led the main force of more than 10,000 people to march towards the river valley at a faster speed.
When night fell, Thessaly's army had traveled less than 40 miles, but Polydurus was worried about the battle ahead and did not dare to stop the soldiers and just let them go on with torches. .
It didn't take long for Polydurus to finally get the exact news ahead, but this news was brought back by the cavalry unit he had sent before.
It turned out that the Thessaly cavalry rushed from the southeast coast of Mildoros to the valley pass just north. They did not encounter the Dionian army heading to Larissa, waiting for them to approach the valley pass camp. When I found that the camp was full of Dionian soldiers with black helmets and black armors, the shocked Thessaly cavalry dared to go forward and fight, and worried about the safety of Larissa not far away, so they turned to the south again. The investigation revealed that the Dionian army was attacking the city of Larissa.
"Are you sure that the Dionian army has captured the city of Larissa?!" Polidorus asked the cavalry general with a sullen face.
"General, I’m not sure, because the Dionians had spotted us at the time and sent a cavalry to attack us. Since they were far more numerous than us, we did not fight, but we also brought They circled for a while before choosing to retreat." The cavalry general tried his best to express the bravery of his team: "During this process, we heard the cheers of the Dionian soldiers. The cheers were loud. I think it should be The Dionians captured Larissa."
"Should it be?" Polifuron listened in the sidelines and said dissatisfied: "Since I didn't see it with my own eyes, don't guess wildly. Larissa is a big city. The Dionian army easily captured it!"
The cavalry general was a little aggrieved. Just when he wanted to explain, he heard Polydurus ask: "How many people are there in the Dionian army?"
"Because it's getting dark, I can't see clearly, and the Dionian cavalry rushed up quickly, there is no more time to observe... But according to my judgment, it should be more than 20,000 people."
"It's another'should be'—" Polifuron expressed his dissatisfaction again.
"Thanks for your hard work, go down first and let the soldiers rest." Polydurus interrupted Polyfuron in time.
After the cavalry general left, Polifuron shouted again: "That guy must be talking nonsense, you should accelerate the army to Larissa!"
"Shut up! I am the commander-in-chief of this army. I don't need you to tell me what to do!" The bad news that followed made Polidorus in a bad mood, and he finally couldn't bear this brother's noise. , Sternly shouted: "Get me back to your own team immediately, don't disturb my thinking here!"
For the first time, Polidorus was unabashedly angry at his brother, making Polifron a little startled, and then his face flushed red, and he suddenly let out a heart-piercing roar, killing the people around him. They were all startled, and then he turned and left angrily.
Polytorus knew that Polyfuron was annoyed by himself, but now he is not in the mood to apologize or comfort him. He must quickly figure out a solution to the current predicament. After some thinking, He finally made a decision: the whole army stopped advancing and immediately returned to the camp outside Philae!
At the same time, he sent multiple outposts to Larissa to ascertain the enemy's situation as soon as possible.
As the interim military commander of Thessaly, Polydorus knows that the soldiers in Larissa and its surrounding areas have been emptied. If the incoming Dionian army exceeds 20,000, the Larissa It is certainly difficult to resist their attack, so the cavalry general's judgment is likely to be correct. The army rushed to reinforce Larissa in the middle of the night. This Dionian army only took one day to complete the landing on the coast of Peleus, breaking through the valleys, and capturing Larissa. The combat power is quite terrible. The Thessari troops under his leadership could not be the same. opponent.
It was precisely because of this that he decided not to act rashly, but to concentrate his forces on Philae, and then send people to notify Jason and request reinforcements, while observing the enemy's movements and looking for fighters.