Chapter 179 Athens Surrender (2)

With the siege platform closer to the city and commanding the city, the attack distance of all ballistas has been greatly increased, covering almost half the area of ​​the city of Athens, and the ballistas not only fired stone bombs, but also threw burning oil tanks into the city. This led to fires everywhere in the city of Athens and chaos.

Immediately afterwards, the Dionysian army launched nine super siege towers. They were guarded by siege equipment such as arrow-blocking vehicles and wooden box cars, as well as the light and heavy infantry who followed closely behind, slowly moving towards the west of Athens. Wall advance.

The defending soldiers at the head of the city were very panic when they saw these behemoths higher than the city wall coming towards them. Ifikrates and Cabrias, who arrived after hearing the news, were also stunned.

At this moment, the super siege tower, which was 50 meters away from the city wall, stopped advancing. The light infantry on the top floor began to fire arrows at the defenders at the head of the city, and the next layer of the siege tower also opened. The baffle, showing the hideous face of the abdominal bow, the huge iron arrow roared towards the city head, like a meat skewer, it can knock down several soldiers at a time, and the death is terrifying.

If the guards hadn't rescued him in time, Ifikrates was almost killed by an iron arrow. He looked at the towering siege platform not far away, and the huge siege equipment in front of him with lingering fears, and a strong sense of helplessness suddenly rose in his heart...

For several days, Patroclus launched an attack on the city of Athens in this way. Although he had not launched a full-scale siege, he had already caused a lot of damage to the defenders at the head of the city, and even caused a lot of damage to the city. Panic and confusion. He not only showed the Athenians the terrifying siege ability of the Dionysian army, but at the same time cryptically told the Athenian high-level officials: The Dionysian Holy Kingdom has strong national strength, and has enough ability to protect the huge consumption of the 100,000 army, which can be carried out completely. Continued siege warfare.

For Athens, these days are a complete disaster. One-fifth of the city was attacked by Dionian ballistas, and a small half was burned to rubble. Even the Citizens' Assembly Hall on the Pnyx Hill was also damaged. When it comes to destruction (Plix Hill is very close to the southern city wall, just off the avenue leading to the port of Piraeus, well within range of the ballista on the nearest siege platform outside the city, and a Patlock The main target that Ross mentioned, the reason why it did not cause much damage is that Clotoka Tax has asked for mercy), nearly a thousand families lost their homes, cried day and night, asked for assistance from the city hall, and also gave others The Athenian people caused a great shock.

The Athenian government sent a large number of people to deal with the aftermath of these attacked urban areas, and at the same time strengthened the defense of the city walls to prevent the Dionian army from launching a siege by taking advantage of the turmoil in the city. However, the vast city of Athens, coupled with the long wall and the port of Piraeus, required a large number of civic soldiers, which greatly reduced the number of patrols to maintain order in the city. However, the destruction of the urban area by ballistas has led to more tension in food supply and water supply, and the conflicts between urban residents and displaced persons outside the city have been intensified, triggering many conflicts.

When the patrol was exhausted, more than 2,000 miners took advantage of the turmoil in the city and the weakening of supervision.

Rush out of the prison-like slave camp, collect weapons, and destroy the mine owner's estate. Then, on the way to the city gate, he killed the Athenian people in the houses along the way and freed the slaves. When they approached the west gate, the number of slaves increased to more than 6,000.

After receiving the news, Ifikrates urgently mobilized the army at the gate of the west city to block the slave team trying to escape, and the two sides started a fierce battle.

Although Ifikrates has a small number of soldiers, the soldiers are all fully armed and physically strong. Although the slave team was large, the equipment was poor, and many of them were even bare-handed. Moreover, due to the abuse of the mine owners, most of the slave slaves were physically weak. In addition, the streets were narrow, and they could not give full play to the advantages of the crowd. It didn’t take long for the slave team to disappear. Some could not resist the attack of the Athenian soldiers.

At this time, Kabrias led another troop from the rear. Under the front and back, the slave team quickly collapsed and fled.

Since the Dionysian coalition outside the city was still using siege equipment to attack the defenders from a distance as before, the light infantry on the siege tower noticed the strangeness in the city and rushed to inform the commander in the rear camp.

Patroclus made a quick decision: launch a formal attack on the western wall.

But just as the Dionian soldiers assembled and blew the bugle to attack, the riots in the west gate had subsided. Patroclus, who got the news, hesitated for a moment, and finally canceled the order to attack. It can be said that Missed a great opportunity to capture the city of Athens.

But this slave riot had a great impact on the city of Athens. Although the rioting slaves only killed less than 300 Athenians in two blocks, it caused panic among many Athenians, especially those citizens with more slaves in their homes, who either asked the city hall to send patrols to watch them Slaves, or simply give the male slaves to the city-state for free, and even a few Athenian citizens killed the slaves at home because of excessive fear, and naturally they were also desperately resisted by the slaves, so scenes of family tragedy from time to time in Athens. Staged in the city, the contradiction between slaves and slave owners was intensified by extreme drama...

Besieged by enemy troops outside and many internal contradictions, the city of Athens is like sitting on a volcanic crater that is about to erupt, and it may be wiped out at any time. Finally, at the emergency meeting of 500 people in the city hall, most of the members scrambled to propose: accept Dionia's request and negotiate a truce with him.

The next meeting of the citizens had to be temporarily transferred to the Theater of Dionysus due to the threat of the Dionysian ballista on Mount Pnyx.

The citizens of Athens, who once expressed unanimous indignation that "would rather die with the city than surrender to Dionia", have endured the lack of water and food, their compatriots have become enemies, slave riots, fires, and faced Dionia every day. After all the hardships, such as the threat of bows and arrows and stone bullets, and the great mental pressure, most of them were relieved when they heard Callistratus announce the proposal of the 500-member council.

Only a few citizens headed by Isocrates expressed firm opposition, and Isocrates even gave an impassioned speech from the pulpit, in which he exclaimed in his hoarse voice: "...children of Theseus, your ancestors Once the best and bravest citizens in the world, when hundreds of thousands of Persian troops invaded Greece, and other city-states were afraid and retreated, your ancestors bravely stepped forward and won less and more damage in Salamiga. The powerful navy of Persia, and finally the victory of the Hippo War. Through this great victory, other city-states saw the greatness of Athens, and regarded Athens as their savior. Since then, Athens has created great splendor! You also Remember what Pericles said, 'Athens is the school for all the Greeks!' Yes, that was the golden age we all yearn for!

And today history repeats itself, another powerful invader invaded Greece, and they even killed the city of Athens! Citizens, it's time! It's time to be like our ancestors, when other Greek city-states are afraid to surrender, we should bravely stand up and fight the Dionian army unyielding for your freedom and dignity!

Athena prefers heroes, she will only bless us who fight unyieldingly, and in the end we will repel the Dionian army, and then we will be the saviors of the whole of Greece, without Sparta's elbows, we will create more than before. A brighter future for the golden age! ...

And if you choose to surrender, to these barbarians who don't speak Greek fluently, you will have to abandon the democracy that once made us proud, and let a king call the shots; the witty and humorous drama you love will To be replaced by their grandiose but hilarious square dances; the beauty of power and skill that you admire in athletics will be replaced by horrific competitions of brutality; more importantly, we cannot be the same as before Sacrifice the beautiful and wise Athena and other Greek gods, and have to bow down to their heresies; in the end, the glorious culture and history of Athens will be forcibly erased, and only their conquests will be shown to future generations. history!

Citizens, then the great Athens will perish! die! …”

At the end, Isocrates burst into tears and wept.

There was a deadly silence in the theater, choking sounds gradually sounded, and finally there was a cry.

However, the ideal is beautiful and the reality is cruel. When it came time to vote, the resolution was still passed by an absolute majority.

Athens surrendered! ! ! When the Athenian messenger walked into the camp of the Dionysian army with a look of despair, the good news quickly spread throughout the Dionysian coalition, and there was thunderous joy everywhere.

Patroclus repeatedly asked Clotokatax to preside over the surrender of Athens, but Clotokatax was delayed but had to accept it. The two army commanders humbly and cooperated with each other throughout the war in Greece was a legend for a while.

When the Athenian envoy signed the armistice contract painfully, a fishing boat quietly rowed out of the port while the Dionysians were celebrating and the blockade outside the port was loosened, and flexibly turned westward into Sala Mega Bay.

Just then, a tall and burly man emerged from the humble boat shed.

"Hey, what are you doing out? Hurry in and hide. If you are bumped into by Dionia's patrol boat, you will be in trouble!" the boat owner shouted eagerly.

"Don't worry, you Athens have already surrendered. I am afraid that the Dionians are celebrating, who would care about your little fishing boat." The man said nonchalantly.

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