Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 240: Rescue

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Dionysius left two hundred garrisons and immediately led more than 1,800 mercenaries to storm the barracks under the city. Most of the civilian soldiers in the barracks did not spend the night in the barracks because their homes were not far from the main city. A few soldiers hurriedly put on armor and came out to meet the enemy after hearing the news of the "enemy attack." As a result, mercenaries attacked fiercely broke into the camp easily, and the citizen soldiers disintegrated.

Dionysius did not stop the attack, he led the army quickly to the center of the main city.

The secret agents of Hyparinus took advantage of the darkness and shouted from all over the main city: "Master Dionysius is back with the army! Master Dionysius is back with his army!! Surrender! Those who are not guilty!! Those who catch the leader of the rebels do meritorious services!!..."

In the main city of Syracuse under the dim sky, the residents were awakened by the screams and harsh screams of the streets, and they were shocked when they heard the loud screams of the spies: "Dionysius Si is back!" These words immediately made them feel terrified.

Just when the residents of the main city were in chaos, Herolis, who did not go home because he was busy with city-state affairs and went to bed directly at the city hall, was awakened by his confidant slave and learned that the enemy had killed him. Suddenly stunned.

He calmed down his panic a little, and wanted to go out and organize citizens immediately to resist the enemy's attack.

At this moment, several generals such as Stacykos, Cuzias, Falekus, etc. broke in: "Herolis, go! Go! The enemy will be killed soon! Our army has been disintegrated. Can't stop it at all!..."

For a moment, Herolis' mind was blank, and he muttered weakly: "Go...where else can we go?..."

"Go to Epipole Heights! There, we still have more than two thousand soldiers stationed in the northern city, and there are the poor troops of Tassitis in the port area outside the city...We will wait until dawn to find out the situation in the city. Take it back here!"

Kuzias' words reminded Herolis and his party that they had no time to pack their luggage and inform their families, and they hurried to the Epipole Heights in the northwest of the city.

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After a night of killing and chaos, the main city of Syracuse finally returned to order.

Dionysius’ military adventure was successful, but he was disturbed by not capturing Herolis and other envoys of the rebellion. The troops he sent out to capture them were also repelled by the North City defenders led by Kuzias.

And Herolis also learned that Dionysius did come back, but the army that he led to attack the city was recognized by the people, and they were all in the two thousand on Ortigia Island. The mercenaries, it was obvious that he had not been able to withdraw the army from Great Greece, so they immediately asked for help in the port area.

Dionysius had already learned from Hiparinus about the conflict between the rebels in the city and the poor people in the port, so he sent an envoy to the port early in the morning to tell Tecitis and the other poor people clearly. Chief: As long as the people in the port are on Dionysius’ side, he forgives them for the mistakes they made in the riot, and after the riot is put down, he will allocate ten acres of land on the outskirts of the city to every poor in the port. ...

At the same time, he also asked Hiparinus to send spies around the port area to promote "he negotiated and reached an agreement with the poor in the port area."

In fact, negotiations with the poor in the port area did not make immediate progress, but it caused the split of the port area.

The people headed by Tecites believe that Dionysius is not credible, and they should stand with Herolis and completely defeat Dionysius to ensure their safety and the benefits they will receive!

Others think: Dionysius gave better conditions, because the land area he promised was twice that given by Herolis, and it was also land on the outskirts of the city. Obviously Dionysius Nisius valued them more!

The two sides were in a dispute and couldn't reach an agreement. Under such circumstances, it was naturally impossible to provide reinforcements to Herolis and the others.

Dionysius also issued a ban: prohibiting any inhabitant of the city from going out and walking during the day or at night, only to stay at home! If you need to buy food, you can only send slaves there, and you must get the approval of the patrol, otherwise you can kill!

The ban of Dionysius reduced the risk of people gathering and causing chaos.

He asked the mercenaries to take all the slaves who excavated the quarries in the Abradina area to the main city square, and then told them: as long as they are willing to fight for him and wait for the riots to end, they will all be free! And those who perform well can become citizens of Syracuse! ...

The bold promise of Dionysius gave hope to the quarry slaves. Although the tyrant was tyrannical and tyrannical, these slaves at the bottom could not feel it. On the contrary, they knew that Dionysius acted decisively. Boldly, over the years, too many mercenaries and refugees have become citizens of Syracuse, and they have also been given land. So they chose to believe in Dionysius’ words, and picked up the shield spears he had raided from the people’s homes, thus suddenly increasing Dionysius’s team from 1,800 mercenaries to more than 7,000. .

Dionysius also sent people to the army of Herolis to disseminate his new order in the name of the plenipotentiary general: any citizen previously deceived by traitors such as Herolis immediately leave his team and return Going to his own home, he will be exonerated from the guilt he committed! Citizens stranded in the rebel camp before noon will be regarded as traitors, and their families will be executed immediately!

Many citizen soldiers who lived in the main city area were terrified when they heard about it, and fled the team one after another and ran back to the main city area.

After all these measures took effect, the proud Dionysius also sent an envoy to Herolis to send the heads of his wife and son who had been captured by him.

Then he left Megapolis to lead 500 mercenaries and 500 slaves to guard the main city, and he led 1,300 mercenaries and more than 4,500 slaves to advance to the location of the rebels, and he wanted to eliminate them completely .

The distraught Herolis, Stacykos, and Cuzias knew that the situation was urgent, so they decided to fight Dionysius desperately. Leading the remaining nearly a thousand soldiers back to the gate of Hexa with the northern wall of Syracuse and the back of the coast.

In the first riot ten years ago (that is, 405 BC), Dionysius led the mercenaries to occupy the main city and basically put down the riots in Syracuse. But in the past ten years, under his rule, Syracuse’s urban area has expanded several times, and the entire Epipole Heights has been incorporated into Syracuse’s urban area, making Dionysius’s team costly. It took more than an hour of precious time to reach the Heksa Gate.

It was already the afternoon, and when Herolis asked to talk to Dionysius before the battle, Dionysius didn't want to waste time with him at all, and immediately ordered an onslaught.

The number of soldiers under Herolis was originally much smaller than that of the enemy. In addition, the military spirit was unstable. Even if most of the opponent's soldiers were slaves, the soldiers of the rebel army would soon be unable to resist.

But at this moment, a high-pitched bugle sounded outside the Hexa City Gate, followed by a deafening shout: "Hades!!!"

Dionysius' face changed drastically.

Dionia-Katana Allied Forces arrived immediately!

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When Herolis and others fled to the heights of Epipole and learned that the attack was carried out by Dionysius himself, Herolis felt that he wanted to retake the main city and eliminate the employment. The soldier's hope is slim, because he knows the tyrant of Syracuse too well: Dionysius will not easily take risks without careful preparation!

After discussion, Herolis, Stacykos and others finally decided to put aside their self-esteem and ask the Dionians for help.

They were originally located at the closest location to Taunis. The envoys sent out arrived in the early morning in this city that had belonged to the Dionian League. After Larios learned the news, he immediately sent the Clippers to Katane first, and he led the fleet to arrive later.

At the same time that Catane’s interim chief executive Antrapolis received a message from Herolis for help, he also received a letter from Daves from Xili Ting: Dionysius has fled back to Thira Kuza, I hope they will pay close attention to the developments in Syracuse, and they must not allow Dionysius to regain control of Syracuse!

After a brief discussion, Antrapolis and the commander of the First Army, Antonios, immediately decided to send troops to rescue Herolis.

The First Army sent 2500 heavy infantry and 500 light infantry, and Katana sent 3000 heavy infantry. In fact, as soon as they heard that they were going to attack Dionysius, the people of New Katane enthusiastically signed up and asked to participate. But time is running out, and Antrapolis only recruited citizens in the city of Katane.

A total of 6,000 troops, led by Antonios, boarded the Sekrian fleet.

It was already noon when we landed at the Port of Taunis.

According to Dionia’s lifestyle, this is lunch time. However, Antonios did not stop the soldiers to eat and rest. Instead, after gathering the 500 soldiers provided by Taunis, he urged the army to speed up, and finally rushed into the Heksa Gate when the army of Herolis was disintegrated. .

These days, the soldiers of the First Corps are stationed in Katane. While doing rest and reorganization, they also help Antrapolis stabilize the situation in the Catania plain, train the citizens of Katane, and clean up the villages. The defeated soldiers, assisted the Sicilian city-states of Katane, Leottini, Siculi and others newly attached to the Alliance of Dionysia, attacked the remnants of Dionysius... Wait, the life is fairly easy, raising The energy accumulated has finally been vented today.

So the army of Dionysius, who had just won and was chasing the rover, was hit head-on by the soldiers of the First Legion who served as arrows. The slaves without special military training attacked by the fierce group of soldiers of the First Legion. Down, it soon collapsed. The mercenaries were still able to resist, but the large number of Dionian coalition forces had already outflanked the two wings.