Chapter 72 The Dionian Warrior

"My lord, do you already have a plan?" Antonios asked hurriedly.

Davos looked at the two legion commanders with piercing eyes: "Judging from the experience of the Samonites in treating the Third Legion, their commander is a decisive and active person, plus The Samonites are more arrogant, so..."

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Syracuse's army worked hard all night, and accidents were frequent. Therefore, on the second day, almost all the soldiers were resting.

The camp of the Syracuse army stretched for more than ten miles, occupying all the open space from the mountains on the west side to the coast of Locle, and also cut off the traffic from the north to the south. It was said to be a camp, but it was actually a tent set up by the soldiers hastily. There were no simple fences and earthen barriers on the periphery, and there was no protection at all. Of course, the neighboring hostile city-states of Coulonia and Taurina on the west side of the mountain were already overwhelmed by Syracuse's huge army.

At noon, Dionysius woke up from his slumber. He had just eaten breakfast and was about to discuss the issue of sending troops with his relative Demodocus, when he received an urgent report from the guards: a presence in Corenia. About 20,000 South Italian coalition troops!

Dionysius was taken aback: his army had just arrived in Locle, and the reinforcements of the South Italian Alliance had arrived. How could it be so fast? Unless the enemy already knew that he was going to leave on that day, so be prepared in advance. But how is this possible? He also decided to go out according to when the Samones attacked Potentia, and when Davos of Dionia led his army to leave Turii. It only took two days from the time when the expedition was arranged to the departure of the fleet (although the army had already begun to gather outside the city of Syracuse, and the fleet had been prepared for a long time, but it had not moved), so short It was impossible for these city-states in Greater Greece to respond so quickly, so he decided to find out for himself.

As the tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius is not a manipulator who can only play tricks. He used to be a hero who fought against the invasion of Carthage, otherwise he would not have been panicked when Syracuse was in danger. The people had high hopes, and was eventually elected as a plenipotentiary general. Even when he was firmly seated as a tyrant and no longer needed to charge himself, he still took the lead from time to time to set an example. A few years ago, when he led the army to attack Motia, the important city of Carthage in Sicily, when it could not be attacked for a long time, he heard the surrendered soldiers say, 'There is a secret way to directly reach the core area of ​​Motia'. Immediately, he led 2,000 death squads to climb the steep back mountain path in an attempt to raid the Motians. Unfortunately, he was discovered by the enemy and was besieged. Fortunately, he was rescued by his mission, and with the blessing of the goddess of fate, he was able to escape. disaster.

At this moment, he quickly brought the military advisor Phoebe Das, the important generals of Syracuse Fasipesas and Astagras, as well as the leader of the Numibian mercenary army Asilita, and 500 Nurses. The Mibian cavalry galloped north.

More than 60 miles from Lokrie to Cologne, along the narrow and winding coast, the war horses walked on some bad and undulating muddy roads. After two hours, they entered the territory of Coulonia, and then Dionysus Hughes saw the enemy cavalry patrolling ahead.

Seeing their all-black attire, Dionysius, who had already carefully studied the armies of the great Greek city-state, immediately judged: "It's Dionysian cavalry!"

Hearing this, Phoebe Das, who was also amazed at why the reinforcements from the South-Italian Alliance came so quickly, seemed to have an answer: he had been paying attention to this alliance of great Greek city-states that had humiliated him in the past few years. Dionia's army also understood that this alliance, which attached importance to military affairs like Sparta, was indeed very different from other Greek city-states in terms of military affairs, and it was possible to get there quickly.

Akirita, the leader of the Numibian mercenary army, hurriedly whistled a few times, and 30 Numibian cavalry rushed over, and the ten Dionysian scouts turned around and ran away.

The two sides started chasing, and they actually let the Numibian cavalry pull the distance closer and closer, only to see their legs clasped in the horse's belly,

In such a fast gallop, he didn't use his hands to pull the reins, but freed up his hands, grabbed a few javelins in his left hand, pulled out one in his right hand, leaned back slightly, and then threw them with all his might.

More than a dozen javelins staggered in the air, followed by several screams. Three Dionian cavalrymen were shot with javelins and fell off their horses. Two horses were stabbed by javelins and jumped wildly, knocking the cavalry on their backs. fell.

In just one encounter, the ten Dionian scout cavalry had been reduced by half, causing the remaining Dionian cavalry to flee to the camp desperately.

The Numibians captured two cavalrymen alive and brought them before Dionysius.

Dionysius sat high on the horse, looked down at them, and said coldly: "Tell me, how many soldiers have the Dionysians come? Who are they leading? What is the battle plan in Corenia? Who said All right, I'll let him go."

The two Dionian captives looked at each other and said nothing.

Dionysius didn't have the patience to wait for the two unknowns to speak, and snorted coldly: "Since you don't say it, let the Numibians take you to cross the Styx! Akilita!"

"Lord Dionysius, I'm here!" Akilita smiled grimly, revealing jagged yellow teeth, and her long loose hair covered most of her face. He jumped off his horse and pulled out the Dagger, as he approached, one of the captives became nervous.

When Akirita grabbed his shoulder and aimed the sharp point of his sword at his throat, he shouted in panic, "I say! I say!"

Achillita looked back at Dionysius, who nodded.

He released the captive and waited for him to speak again.

Then another captive shouted: "La Sibles, are you crazy! Do you want your family and children to never look up and be cast aside in Turii! Can't pass the trial of hell, the soul is pushed into the terrifying hell of swords and flames!..."

"What are you waiting for!" Dionysius hurriedly shouted after seeing the hesitation on the captive's face dissipating when he heard the call of his companion.

Akirita immediately charged at the other captive with a sword.

The soldier looked at the Numibian who was rushing fiercely, with a calm expression, and shouted to his teammates: "I'll wait for you at the Elysee!"

The sharp sword slashed his neck, and blood spurted out like a spring, but he didn't cry out, gritted his teeth, and finally fell straight down.

La Sibles looked sad, but his eyes became firm. He closed his eyes, straightened his chest, and shouted: "Come on, give me a sword! My name will be on the Hall of Valor!"

Achillita looked at Dionysius again.

Dionysius became inexplicably irritable, waved his hand vigorously, and then rode his horse forward.

Phoebe Das watched the prisoner being executed, and then caught up on horseback, and said with a sigh: "It's two warriors! If the Dionysian soldiers were like them, this war would be difficult!" You must know that in the war between Greek city-states, most of the two sides are ordinary citizens. Once the war is unfavorable, it is easy to flee, and it is common to surrender when caught. For example, Leonidas led 300 Spartan soldiers to defend the Hot Spring Pass, It's rare to see all of them die in the end. Now in addition to Sparta, there is also Dionia, how can it not shock Phoebe Das.

"That Davos boasted that he was Hades' 'God-Blessed One', and these stupid Greeks actually believed it!" Dionysius said angrily, and then he emphasized again: "The outcome of the war is determined by strength. Fake God's family cannot change the war situation!"

Phoebe Das did not speak, but there was anxiety in his heart.

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"Commander, you see that our legion has been marching since yesterday, and we are building camps at night. We rushed to Coulonia early this morning, and we haven't rested much until now. Can we just build trenches and earth forts today? , let the brothers have a good night's sleep, and tomorrow will be perfecting the camp?" Epithenes asked Felixius.

Felixius was a little hesitant, of course he saw the exhaustion of the soldiers, but now that he was at the forefront of the battlefield, the army of Syracuse could be overwhelmed at any time. According to the "Dionysian Military Law", it is necessary to step up Build strong camps. So he turned his head and asked Drax, the commander of the Fifth Army, who was sitting on the other side: "What do you think?"

Of course, Drakes answered without hesitation: "Even if you are tired, let the soldiers build a camp according to military regulations, and rest well at night."

"Your legion has to continue to do it, you do it yourself, our legion dug a camp for your legion last night, of course it is more tired than you!" Epithenis glanced at Drakes and said dissatisfiedly.

"Okay, okay!" Felixius hurried out to smooth things out: "The brothers are really tired, but..."

Felixius was considering how to express his decision in a more tactful way, when he saw Sobochus, the captain of the cavalry regiment, hurried over.

While Davos reformed the heavy infantry corps, he also upgraded the original cavalry brigade to a corps. The cavalry, unlike the infantry, was small in number and expensive, and only citizens with warhorses were competent. Davos set the headquarters of the cavalry corps in Turii, and dispatched training officers to various cities in peacetime to organize and train the cavalry according to the plan. Up to now, the cavalry corps has a total of 2,000 cavalry, the corps commander Ryders, and four subordinate captains, each of whom leads 500 cavalry (for the military power of the great Greek city-state, 500 cavalry is already a considerable amount. assault force). This time Davos went to Potentia and took away two battalions of 1,000 cavalry. 500 cavalry were sent to the southern front, under the command of Felixius, and only 500 cavalry remained at Turii, patrolling the coastline, Prevent enemy raids from landing.