Chapter 178 Athens Surrender (1)

Callistratus brought back the premise of Dionia's agreement to agree to a peace, and read it at the citizens' assembly on Prix Hill, immediately arousing the anger of the citizens, who, according to Isocrates, "are vicious. Dionysus is trying to destroy Athens!".

So the citizens fought fiercely and agreed: to fight to the death with the Dionysians who were ready to destroy Athens.

The Athenians were ready for a full-scale defense, and after the two Dionian armies joined forces, the self-aware Clotokatax voluntarily ceded the unified military command to Patroclus.

Patroclus did not refuse, but did not immediately attack the city of Athens, but ordered the 100,000 troops to build strong camps around the city of Athens (the 100,000 troops not only included Clotokatax and Pablo). The Dionian army led by Troclus, as well as the allied armies of Thebes, Mandinia, Argos, Corinth, and Megara).

At the same time, he also divided troops to sweep the entire Attica region. After capturing the villages and towns, he rushed all the villagers and townsmen who failed to escape into the city of Athens in time to the city of Athens, and then the army immediately moved away.

These people wailed outside the city, and the soldiers in the city saw that there was no danger, so they immediately opened the city gate and let them in.

Callistratus, Ifikrates, and others could not stop them at all, because these people were all Athenians, relatives or relatives of the citizens of the city, so in a few days the city of Athens accommodated the entire Atti. The population of the card area has reached nearly 300,000 people.

Although Athens is the largest city in mainland Greece, plus the port of Piraeus, the entire urban area exceeds 20 square kilometers, but such a huge population still brings a lot of pressure to the whole city: many escaped to The Attica residents in the city had no place to live, so they slept directly in the courtyards and squares of public buildings, and even temporary shacks built by the people could be seen everywhere along the road from Piraeus to the Acropolis. The house is clean and tidy, there are excrement everywhere, and few people clean it up, and it is still the end of September, the temperature is still high, flies and mosquitoes are flying everywhere, and the stench is high.

For the generals, it was still a small problem, and the main headache for them was food. Although he had hoarded a lot of food in the city in order to organize the coalition to fight against Dionia, he still felt tight in the face of such a large population pressure. Callistratus and others had to spend a lot of words to convince the 500-member parliament, and then organize the manpower to strictly control the consumption of food.

Also, drinking water is a problem. There were originally several rivers in the Athens area, but they were all outside the city and under the control of the Dionysian army, so the people in the city could only rely on the wells in the city. Disputes and even conflicts occurred over the right to use, and the Athenian government had to send additional staff to maintain the order of water intake from each well.

And during this period,

Several Athenian doctors who have participated in the Greek Medical Forum held by the medical school of Dionia Academy for many times warned the Athens government: We must try our best to ensure the cleanliness of the city, otherwise the too dirty environment will lead to the occurrence of plague.

Their suggestion attracted the attention of the General’s Executive Committee. It must be known that after the Peloponnesian War began, the Spartan coalition attacked Athens by land. At that time, Athens was also based on the city’s defense. The situation is not much different from today. After a long time, a great plague occurred in the city, and Pericles also died of the disease. Although these doctors claimed that "the knowledge they learned was learned from the Dionysian Medical College", the Athens generals did not ignore it. After all, the high medical level of Dionia has gradually gained The recognition of some city-states in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the nightmare caused by the plague to the Athenians was too terrifying, so even if they were enemies, Callistratus and others still decided to follow their advice and sent a large number of people to clean the streets every day. Do your best to keep the city clean.

Before the official battle, the high-level Athenians headed by Callistratus were already exhausted by the sudden increase in administrative affairs in the city, and the people were also struggling to spend every day in tension, panic and busyness.

However, Dionia's army still did not launch an attack. Only the ballista teams of each legion, under the order of Patroclus, were evenly distributed around the city of Athens and began to launch a large number of small stone bullets into the city of Athens. These stone bullets Constantly crossing the city wall, smashing nearby houses, causing panic among the Athenian people, forcing them to stay away from the city wall, and causing congestion in the center of the city.

In order to ensure that the soldiers went up and down the city wall without hindrance, Athenian officials had to arrange slaves to clean up the ruins caused by the bombardment of stone bombs near the city wall. It didn’t take long for someone to report to the city hall, saying, “The slaves at home have repeatedly Go out quietly, meet in secret with other slaves, and travel secretly."

The city hall immediately dispatched patrols and arrested some slaves for interrogation. The result was astonishing. It turned out that the slaves who were responsible for cleaning up the ruins near the city wall found that almost all the stone bullets shot into the city were engraved with Greek characters, the main meaning is "as long as the slaves dare to dare to." Rise up against their masters and city-states, assist the Dionysian army to break through the city, and Dionia will not only give them freedom, but even give them land..."

Athenian culture is prosperous and commerce is developed. Many slaves are not only literate, but also trained by their masters to be their assistants in business. Moreover, in their interactions with foreign merchants, they know something about "the comparison of the treatment of slaves by the kingdom of Dionia in the west". Tolerance", so some slaves were a little tempted, and began to contact and negotiate in private, as a result, the news quickly spread among the Athenian slaves...

When the executive committee of the generals found out, they broke out in a cold sweat, because the population of slaves in the city of Athens was as high as more than 100,000, which was almost the same as the population of Athens, and the living conditions of the slaves in Athens were not all better than those of Sparta. The mining slaves of the Laoliang Silver Mine are not only extremely numerous, but also live extremely poor. Every year, many slaves die in the mines... Of course, these slaves are full of resentment against the slave owners who exploited them. event. The most famous one is that during the Peloponnesian War, more than 40,000 Athenian slaves united to escape from the city of Athens, which caused a major blow to the national strength of Athens.

At the previous military meeting, Ifikrates also made a suggestion: organize young and strong male slaves, distribute weapons, and assist in defending the city.

Although this suggestion was not approved immediately, it did make some people moved, so it has been under discussion, but now that this incident has happened, it will naturally not be considered again. And under their orders, the city patrol immediately took action and arrested hundreds of slaves who had previously cleaned the ruins.

At the same time, the 500-member council passed a resolution, requiring the people in the city to be optimistic about their slaves, forbid them from going out, and report to the city hall immediately if they find any abnormality. The city hall also organized a group of soldiers to take care of the city-state slaves.

Just when the General's Executive Committee was busy, another bad news came: the main city built on the heights of Aegina finally fell after several strong attacks by the Dionian army stubbornly defended.

Since then, Dionia's First Fleet and Third Fleet warships have been stationed in the ports of Aegina, Isemia in Corinth, and Megara, respectively, so that they can transport Piraeus in Athens 24 hours a day. The port of Sri Lanka was blocked by Demy and airtight.

On land, Patroclus gave another order: let the soldiers who have built the camp start building a siege platform 100 meters away from the city.

At the same time, he also ordered: Let each legion engineering battalion build super siege towers.

After the order was issued, 100,000 soldiers and soldiers immediately began to work, and the surrounding area of ​​Athens became a construction site, dusty every day. Dionysian convoys were also busy, transporting the trees felled by the Mesenians and Laconians from Mount Tigertos to Megara, and then by pack teams to Dionysus Ya camp, and then engineers led craftsmen to manufacture siege equipment (in the entire land of Peloponnese and Central Greece, there are only dense forests in Sparta, which do not pay attention to navigation, and the trees on Mount Tigertos are unusually stout and tall).

Standing on the top of the 10-meter-high Athens city, the Athenian citizens and soldiers became more and more nervous every day, because they saw mounds rising on the originally flat land outside the city, and they were getting higher and higher every day, and they were about to surpass the city wall of Athens. .

Ifikrates has no passive defense, he has led Thracian light shields and Jason's mercenaries out of the city several times to raid the city. At the beginning, he achieved some results, killing and wounding some enemy soldiers, and even once. During the night attack, the camp of the Megara army was broken, but there were not many soldiers involved in the night attack for fear of causing the enemy to be alert, and the Dionysian army was reinforced in time, which failed to expand the victory.

But after that, the Dionian coalition learned a lesson. Under the strict requirements of Patroclus, the various military camps not only strengthened their defenses, but also strengthened their connections with each other, and the Dionian soldiers will also The earth trenches in front of each siege platform (formed by excavation for the construction of the siege platform) were connected and expanded to form a trench, which made it difficult for the Athenian army to even raid the construction site. So after a few crippling raids, Ifikrates had to temporarily stop this risky approach.

Therefore, the construction speed of the Dionian soldiers was greatly accelerated, and finally the siege platforms more than 10 meters high towered outside the city of Athens. The Athenian soldiers looked up at these mounds higher than the city wall, and all felt panic. But what made them panic even more was that stone bullets roared from these mounds, passed over the city walls, and landed in the city of Athens.

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