Chapter 162 Landing in Thessaly (4)

The Lamia people are not too panic about this. For hundreds of years, they have continued to transform the hills around the city, making the hillside near the urban area completely unfavorable for climbing, and the top of the mountain is at a parallel distance from the urban area. A hundred meters away, he shot arrows at the Lamia people in the city from a height, and the threat was greatly reduced.

But soon the Lamia people began to panic: the slap-sized boulders continued to whizz down from the mountaintops on both sides, and the sturdy houses were easily smashed by them like paper paste. The death was tragic, and even the temple of the Acropolis could not escape its attack. After just over 10 minutes, the core city of Lamia became chaotic.

Just when Lamia was panicking, Patroclus sent messengers and made a stern request: As long as Lamia surrendered immediately, Dionia would ensure the safety of the people of Lamia, otherwise it would completely destroy the city. , turn all the people in the city into slaves!

Now the war of Dionia in Greece has become the focus of the attention of the whole Greek people. Of course, the Lamia people know the tragic experience of the people of Taigea before, not to mention that they have just seen the tragic situation of the people who brought Oria Dionia. The huge number of the army and its fierce methods, I thought it was difficult to resist, so I had no choice but to choose Kaesong to surrender.

Patroclus fulfilled his promise and did not harm the surrendered Lamia people, but he sent two brigades to the Acropolis in the city and completely controlled the city-state.

It was already afternoon, and it was unrealistic to continue to lead the army over the mountains to the north and into the territory of Thessaly, but Paltroclus did not let the soldiers rest, but issued an order to attack south.

In fact, except for the 12th Army and the Gallic Brigade, the rest of the army did not participate in the battle. They had enough rest in front of the city of Lamia, and they were more eager to win a victory by themselves.

So the soldiers of the tenth, eleventh and third cavalry regiments followed the route of the invasion of Greece by the Persian army a few decades ago, quickly crossed the Spelcius River, and approached Hexa at dusk. Laklia.

Heraclea is facing the city of Lamia, only a dozen miles away. It is located at the northern foot of the mountains in the northern part of Central Greece. It is the northern gate to enter Central Greece from Thessaly. There are two roads to the south through it. One is to go directly south, trekking the trail between the mountains, and finally entering Doris. However, the mountains on the northern border are towering, the mountain road is bumpy and difficult, and the transportation is extremely inconvenient, which is not conducive to the passage of large troops. Therefore, At first, the Persian army did not choose to take this road, but chose to reach Heraclea, turned eastward, passed the hot spring pass near the coast, and then went south along the coast. The legendary story of 300 soldiers who resisted the Persian army alone and died heroically in the end.

After Sparta defeated Athens and became the overlord of Greece, it has always held Heraclea and Thermopylae in its hands. After the battle of Leuctra, Jason led the Thessaly army to destroy Heraclea and control the Hot Springs Pass, but he soon regretted it, because the Hot Springs Pass was just a pass, where the area was extremely narrow,

It is not conducive to the long-term stationing of large troops, and can only rely on the logistics support of Heraclea, which is very close to it.

In order to control the road southward for a long time, Jason had to rebuild the city of Heraclea. But a few months later, the Dionysian army landed on the Peloponnesus, triggering a new war. When Jason led the army south again, Heraclea had just built a circle of dirt walls, not even the city gate. , he left 3,000 soldiers stationed, and hurried south.

3,000 soldiers are not a small number for any Greek city-state. Even if the city is not perfect, but occupying a dangerous position, it is enough to block the possible attacks of these Greek city-states in the south, so as to ensure that the Thessaly army is behind. Safety.

But Jason never imagined that the attack was coming from the north, and the number of soldiers was so large and the attack was so fierce that the three thousand Thessaly soldiers were soon surrounded and defeated by the Dionysian soldiers who rushed into the city frantically. .

At this time, night was about to fall, and Patroclus stood on the earth wall and looked east. The afterglow of the setting sun plated the earth with a layer of gold, and the scenery that caught his eye was extremely clear, but even so, he could not see the outline of the popular hot spring pass (there are many hot springs near Wenquan Pass, which caused It's always hot there, hence the name).

Pressing the regrets in his heart, he ordered: the soldiers camped on the spot and nourished their spirits in preparation for tomorrow's battle.

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When the Dionian armies in the south gathered in the city of Lamia, the armies in the north also passed through the valley pass, 4 infantry corps and a cavalry corps, plus a Balearic slinger brigade (2000 people), a total of nearly 40,000 people took a break in Taniguchi, and Matonis and Lizaru ordered at the same time: march south, targeting Larissa.

This time, the army did not make a hasty march. The soldiers were arranged in a wide frontal column. Along the south bank of the Pinhos River, on the flat and soft land, they marched southward in a mighty manner. The Third Cavalry Corps walked in the front of the queue.

The city of Larissa is located in the center of the northern plain of Thessaly, on the River Pirios, with vast farmland and a large population. It was once a strong state in the northern plain of Thessaly, and has long been the central city of Thessaly. . But after the rise of Philae, Jason conquered the neighboring city-state and deliberately suppressed it, making it less powerful than before. When Jason conducted military mobilization this time, he also specially emphasized that Larissa must provide no less than 5,000 soldiers.

To this end, Larissa recruited most of the young and middle-aged citizens to join the army, and just a few hours ago, they received an order from Polydorus: The Dionysian army was landing on the coast of Mildorus, and the city-states sent as soon as possible. The army is coming for reinforcements!

Larissa had to urgently dispatch another 1,000 citizen soldiers.

When the messenger of Peleus came to ask for help, the Larissas had almost no troops to send, but they knew very well; Peleus was captured and nothing, but once the Dionian army was allowed to pass through the valley pass and rushed into the fortress. The northern plains of Sally, that is the most terrifying thing.

So Larissa had to scrape together another nearly 300 soldiers (including some citizens over 50 years old) and have them rush to Taniguchi camp for defense, while sending messengers to Polydorus for help.

When Larissa's reinforcements were halfway through, they saw that the ground in front of them was shrouded in rising dust, and even the ground was shaking slightly.

The army of Dionia has arrived! ... The Larissa looked at the countless figures of soldiers in the dust and mist, almost frightened, turned around and fled.

At the same time, the Second Dionysian Cavalry Corps also found them and immediately chased after them. The Larissa reinforcements, who had no fighting spirit, raised their hands and surrendered.

Although it was already in the afternoon, Matonis and Lizaru learned from the prisoners who were interrogated that the city of Larissa was vacant and severely lacked major generals, while the remaining troops of Thessaly were all concentrated on the coast of Almiros. Nothing is known about the attack of the Onian army from Peleus... Both commanders thought it was an excellent fighter plane and immediately ordered the army to speed up.

Larissa was nearly 40 miles away from Taniguchi, and it was a smooth road. The Dionian Legionnaires marched normally all the way, and their physical strength had gradually recovered. After receiving the order, they began to run wild again.

When I saw the outline of the city of Larissa in the distance, the sun had already fallen to the west, and there were only a few afterglow on the horizon, and the night was about to fall.

Both Matonis and Lizaru were commanders who acted decisively. Since they had made a decision before, they would never change it easily. The order to "attack the city of Larissa" was immediately issued.

The city of Larissa uses the Pinhos River and its tributaries as a natural barrier, and originally had the advantage of defense, but they just sent off the reinforcements a few hours ago, and they have not received any abnormal news. He was slack, and when the sentry at the front of the city saw the enemy army coming like a tide in the distance, he sounded the alarm bell in horror.

The panicked Larissa wanted to close the city gate, and at the same time urgently mobilized the people to go to the city for defense. The city was in chaos, and it was too late to burn down the pontoon bridge on the river.

The Dionian soldiers stepped on the pontoon on the tributary of the Pinios River and quickly arrived at the foot of the city of Larissa. When they built the wooden siege ladders to the city wall, the Larissa people who drove the ducks to the shelves took rusted weapons and hurriedly climbed up the city head, and failure was inevitable.

"Report to the two commanders, we have captured the city of Larissa!" The messenger reported excitedly to Matonis and Lizaru.

"Which army captured the city first?" Mattonis asked with a smile.

"The Eighth Brigade of the Second Army."

Matonis smiled brighter, turned his head to look beside him: "Oh, Lizaru, I'm sorry, my subordinates won the first prize again!"

Lizaru said coldly: "The Larissas have no resistance at all. This is also a credit? The Second Army is just taking advantage of walking in front of the team!"

"I said Lizaru, don't you know what's wrong, if it wasn't for the Second Army to get through the valley and pass in time, and I notified you in time, you would still be climbing the mountains of Macedonia with your troops!"

"That's because the Ministry of Military Affairs believes in my ability, so it entrusts the most difficult task to me and the easiest task to you."

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The two 50-year-old veterans quarreled with each other like children, and the surrounding staff officers and guards couldn't come out to dissuade them, so they could only smile and stand like puppets.

The two quarreled for a while, and Matonis suddenly remembered something, and said to the messenger who was standing by the side very uncomfortable: "Go and inform the troops entering the city immediately, not to loot the property of the people of Larissa and harm their lives, if there is any Violation will be punished by military law!"

"Yes!"

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