ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 448 Noble and despicable

Although Epithenes was unwilling, he had to obey the order. No matter how unwilling the soldiers of the Fourth and Fifth Legions were, they had to obey the military order and watched helplessly from the top of the city at the head of the army and their teammates. Continue to be kneeled and tied to the ground...

Time has passed in a minute and a second...

Some captured soldiers lay on the ground because of exhaustion...

Dracos felt that his body was extremely dry, but he used the greatest perseverance to restrain himself and remained silent.As the commander of the legion, he understood the sinister intention of the Syracusans to tie them here, and also understood the reason why there was no movement in Asprostum.In such a dangerous environment, the only thing he could do was to remain silent and not to stimulate the fragile nerves of the brothers in the city, lest they fall into a dangerous situation.Perhaps in the end, the people of Syracuse saw that their plan could not succeed and could only retreat obediently...

But Drakos thought too well of the people of Syracuse. Seeing that there had been no movement at the top of the city, Astagras became a little impatient and glanced at Endimena, the leader of the Campania mercenary next to him. Si, said: "Send a man up and chop off the head of a prisoner to see if these Dionians can still calm down."

Endimenas hesitated, but finally agreed.

In the historical tradition of Greek warfare, it is not allowed to torture and kill Greek prisoners in front of the battle. Astaglass did not want to be charged with this crime, so he let the mercenaries do it. Endimenas accepted it helplessly because of his lust for profit.
The target chosen by the mercenaries was Tatulu next to Dracos, just to stimulate the Dionians even more.When the mercenary raised his gleaming saber high and slashed it hard from the neck of Taturu, who was unable to resist, and the blood from his neck spattered onto Dracos' body, the anger burned again in his weak body.

He understood that the people of Syracuse had no intention of letting them go.

Hearing the uncontrollable screams and noises again on the wall in front of him, the cries of the captive soldiers beside him, and the bursts of severe pain in his lungs, he finally made up his mind.

He struggled to straighten his body, exhausted all his strength, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Dionia is victorious! The Dionia army is victorious!... Ahem... Guard Asprostum, In the future, you will avenge me and my brothers! Revenge!!" After saying that, he used up his last bit of strength and smashed his head against a sharp stone rising from the ground in front of his knees.

At that moment, he remembered the scene in Amendolara Square where Davos, with a smile on his face, presented the military flag to him who was covered in bandages: "Lord Davos..." A smile appeared on his face... …

"Boom!..."

Immediately afterwards, many Dionian captive soldiers also followed Dracos and crashed to death on the ground...

Seeing this tragic scene, Astaglass and Endimenas were as shocked as clay puppets, and it took a while to recover. They didn't expect the Dionysians to be so staunch!Especially Dracos, as an important figure in Dionia, did not spare his life and was not willing to be humiliated, so he died like this...

"Quick! Go and punish them!..." Astaglass, who had always been brave in battle, shouted in panic, and he was inexplicably afraid.

"Commander!" Epithenes, a man who rarely sheds tears, now had tears streaming down his face, and stood in front of Felicius angrily: "Because of our fragility, Drakos... Drakos is brave died in battle..."

Felicius gritted his teeth guiltily, clenched his fists, and his gums were bursting and bleeding. He was completely unaware that the sound squeezed out from the cracks in his mouth was so painful, and at the same time it contained endless resentment: "De Drakos... Drakos was afraid that we would be deceived by the people of Syracuse, so he chose... to go to Valhalla! Hades, I swear! I, Felicius, swear that we will defeat Syracuse, take the corpses of the tyrant and his men to worship the heroic spirit of Dracos!!"

Epithenes snorted, looking at the Syracusans below the city with the same infinite resentment, and then walked towards the soldiers.

Soon, the whole city resounded with the hymn of Hades: "King of Hades, Lord of Justice,

Black-haired, black-eyed Hades,
I, a brave warrior,

Come to your majestic temple,

You want to ask me what I have done before?
I like to wield my shield and spear and drink the blood of my enemies!

Ask me if I have ever trembled and feared?

Never!

Because I want to show off my achievements in front of you!

......"

The solemn and majestic chant echoed over the city of Asprostum, and finally turned into a deafening sentence: "Victory, Commander of the Drakos Army! Long live the Dionian Army!! Kill all the people of Syracuse!!!" …”

When the Syracuse soldiers below the city heard this, their expressions changed.

Astagras became disinterested, waved his hands feebly and said: "Go back and report to your Excellency..."

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When Astagras briefly told Dionysius what happened under Asprostum, there was silence in the big tent.

Now, the people of Syracuse have the absolute advantage in the entire battle, but looking at the solemn expressions on the faces of everyone in the big tent, it seems that the people of Syracuse have lost the battle.

Dionysius coughed a few times and said in a deep voice: "Our siege preparations must be accelerated! I hope to be able to launch an attack on Crotone the day after tomorrow! Asprostum... Well, Stay alert for now.”

"Yes, sir!" Fasipesas stood up in response, then immediately turned around and left the tent, rushing to urge the engineers, craftsmen and soldiers to speed up the progress.

At this moment, everyone in the tent seems to have a sense of urgency in their hearts: the Dionia Alliance must be destroyed quickly while it is still weak, otherwise it is likely to be counterattacked by it!

Even the proud Phoebus was not moved. He couldn't help but think of the Spartan Aristodemus decades ago. This brave Spartan citizen served as King Leonidas for 300 years. A member of the Guard, he was unable to participate in the Battle of Thermopylae due to an eye disease. In the Battle of Pladia a year later, he took the initiative to rush to the front, died heroically and saved his reputation, and was praised by the people...

The citizens of Dionia's respect for honor, their courage, and their will to fight don't seem to be weaker than ours!Phoebidas thought with complicated emotions.

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This day is destined to be an unforgettable day for the people of the Dionia Alliance!
Although the Syracuseans have not yet begun to attack the city of Crotone, the mercenary cavalry has already crossed the Neto River and galloped on the Crotone Plain on the Dionia side. Houses were destroyed one by one. It was ignited, and villages began to be destroyed one by one...

In the northeast of Dionia, the Tarantum people, who have nearly [-] soldiers and have a superior force, are unwilling to confront Dionia-Heraclea's coalition forces in front of the city of Heraclea. Milas sent some soldiers south across the Agri River and entered the territory of Amendolara in Dionysia, and began to cause wanton destruction in an attempt to force Dionysia's new seventh legion to leave the city of Heraclea.

The first waterwheel in the entire Greek world, which the Amendorara people were proud of, was burned in the fire.

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In the Bruti region of the Dionian Alliance, although Petalu's rebels were eliminated, Bergam learned his lesson and led more than 2000 tribesmen who followed him, not to fight with Hieronymus who came to encircle and suppress them. During the war in Sri Lanka, they took advantage of the complex terrain of Ambanya and the protection of Lake Chechita to constantly deal with the counter-rebellion forces.In order to stabilize the situation in Bruti, Hilos had to postpone the plan to recruit soldiers to form a new regiment to support Thurii.

At sea, Leptinius, the commander of the Syracuse navy, finally reunited the warships scattered on the east and west coasts of Magna Graecia at Silitium, gathered a powerful fleet of more than 400 warships, and headed north along the east coast of Magna Greece. , ready to force Dionia's fleet to come out for a decisive battle.

The people of Crimesa, Castellon, and Thurii all saw this huge fleet covering the entire sea, and they all began to tremble...

What the people of Dionia didn't know was that in the west, in Laos, the actual power of its city-state, Arobomas, learned that "Syracuse defeated the Southern Italian coalition forces and quickly occupied Trina. , Xiliting, and conquered Corunnia", he became excited.

However, the news that "Davos completely defeated the Samnites" soon came, and he hesitated.

Until the news came one after another that "Tarantum betrayed the alliance and invaded, the Bruti senators rebelled, and the Syracuse army advanced towards the city of Crotone", Dionia was surrounded by enemies on all sides and was in danger.Arobmas believes that under such circumstances, no matter how powerful Davos is, he cannot guarantee defeat.

But he did not take immediate action. He had to wait for the army led by Daves to leave Lucania and return to Thurii, because he did not want to bear the wrath of the Dionians first.

And when the spies told him, 'Henipolis led his troops to follow the main force of Dionia and went to Turui together'.He was even more relieved. To be honest, he was not willing to raise his swords and guns against his nephew and those Laos soldiers. Their departure removed his psychological barrier.

On this day, he imprisoned the family of his brother Avinogis, summoned the officials and leaders of Laos, and announced: Laos broke away from the Dionian League!

He also sent an army of 1500 people to the Lahe Fortress, claiming that he was responding to the request of the Dionian Consul to reinforce Thurii.

Tagru, the team officer of the Lahe Fortress, had already been reminded by Daves before, and had already raised his vigilance, insisting that the Laos should show the orders issued by the Dionia Senate and the Ministry of Military Affairs, otherwise they would refuse to let Laos. The people enter!
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