Chapter 222

He only heard a few bangs, and Antonios felt a few pieces of gravel jumped onto his leg, causing a faint pain. He shouted with concern, "Are you all okay?!"

Just when the guards reported that they were safe, the light infantrymen who were also responsible for long-range attacks on the enemy on the roof exclaimed: "Captain! Captain! Wake up!..."

Captain? !Antonios was shocked.

Tspit, who had been directing the light infantry to escape, was hit in the head by a large stone thrown from the wall by the stone bullet, and immediately fell to the ground.

As a comrade-in-arms of the Persian Expeditionary Force and a colleague of the Senate, Antonios and Tspit usually have a good relationship. Seeing him in a coma at this moment, he is worried and angry in his heart. While calling the guards to call the medical camp, he decisively ordered : "Blow the attack horn, don't let the enemy run away!"

"Wow!..." At the same time as the Dionysian bugle sounded, the horn for the retreat of the Siracusa coalition also sounded.

It's not that Marcias doesn't want to lead the troops to retreat more safely and securely, but that the situation has gotten out of control. Some Syracuse soldiers saw that the situation was not good, and they had already started to flee with the Allied troops. The entire army's encirclement position was already in tatters. If no decisive action was taken, it was very likely that the enemy would remain in place and persist. The troops were surrounded, so he issued an order to retreat, preferring to let the soldiers escape like scattered sand, rather than being captured by the entire enemy team.

The sound of the retreating trumpet awakened the grief-stricken Antonios, who said in a loud voice to the light infantry: "Brothers, don't patronize the grief, the time has come to avenge Lord Tspit! Catch up with the fleeing enemies and kill them. !"

The light infantry roared, and immediately ran downstairs to join the legion's comrades, and quickly joined in the pursuit. These light infantry can be regarded as the relatively good physical strength of the first legion, plus they are not wearing heavy helmets and armor, their chasing speed will cause great trouble to the retreating enemy, Antonios is convinced of this.

Since the Syracuse Allied Forces surrounded the First Corps with a circular array, when retreating, the soldiers of the First Corps who were in the inner circle attacked from all sides, so they could not retreat in the same direction, and were forced to move to different directions. run away.

In order to quickly escape from Meyaro and avoid encountering the traps set by the Dionians in the town before, many Syracuse soldiers chose to flee south. They were bombarded by ballistas all day yesterday. In that part of the country, everything went well until they jumped over the almost non-existent wooden wall and jumped into the river, the pickets and iron thorns that had previously been buried in the silt of the river bottom by the First Legion. Pierced their feet, and in the shrill screams, one by one fell into the river and drowned. This discouraged those behind, who were either killed or surrendered under the lances and daggers wielded by the pursuing Dionian soldiers.

A small number of soldiers chose to flee north.

They were mainly Tauromenian mercenaries. Under the pursuit of the enemy, they ran wildly all the way. When they were about to reach the mountains and were not far from the city of Tauromenion, they found that there were nearly a thousand sailors in front of them holding wooden Oars and bows blocked their way.

It turned out that the Dionysian fleet did not leave the port after loading the families of the exiles, but was closely watching the battle. When observing the enemy's retreat, the eager Dionysian fleet took advantage of the sandy beaches of the Naxos Gulf, and took advantage of the straight-line distance at sea to quickly row the warship to the vicinity of the mountain pass to land, grabbing the enemy's Ahead, Zhang Wang is waiting.

When the exhausted mercenaries had enemies in front and pursuers behind, they still had the will to fight, and most of them disarmed and surrendered.

Most of Syracuse's soldiers followed the Allied forces westward out of the town of Meyaro and southward on the Shed.

Macias rode to the south bank of the Alcantara River early, preparing to gradually gather the defeated troops here, and then lead the army to make further plans. But they did not expect that the Dionians would not give up after their victory and pursued the Syracuse coalition soldiers.

The routed soldiers rushed through the Alcantara River like a tidal wave, and did not listen to Macias' cry. Instead, they scattered him and several hundred cavalry, and fled south together.

The Dionian Legionnaires, who were good at chasing the enemy after victory and often armed long-distance running in training, caused the Syracuses to suffer a lot. They are also exhausted soldiers after a fierce battle. From time to time, the Dionians catch up with the fallen soldiers who are behind. The screams continue to drive the soldiers of the Syracuse coalition forces like whips. They do their best without stopping. run……

After going on for five or six miles, most of the Dionian soldiers stopped chasing and began to turn around to capture the enemies who were squatting on the side of the road and raising their hands to surrender. Only the light infantry was still chasing after them angrily.

Hibagris also wanted to lead the army to kill the city of Sikuli, but the citizen soldiers under his command were scattered by the defeated troops. He rushed to the city of Sikuli and saw that the four gates were closed, and the rebels shot arrows in the city. , How dare you stay longer, so I have to follow the Syracuse soldiers to bypass Sikuli and continue to flee south.

The Dionysian light infantry finally stopped their pursuit before reaching Sikuli City. After they showed their identities to the rebels at the head of the city, they were happily welcomed into the city by the Sikuli rebels.

Marcias was on his way to escaping to Catanay when he gathered up some of the rout.

As he agonized over what to do next, the tyrants of Katanai and Sikuli both approached him and asked him to help retake the city.

Just at this moment, he encountered a messenger from Syracuse who rushed to find him. Only then did he know that there was also a riot in Syracuse, and he was anxiously waiting for him to lead the army back to rescue.

Macias was taken aback, and he couldn't care about other things, so he personally led his men to gather the defeated troops and wanted to return to the division for rescue.

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When Dionysius led the army to attack the Dionysian camp, a small fast ship sailed from the port of Sirius. Facing the blockade of the Dionysian fleet, it was not afraid at all, but followed Dionysian The Asian warship played a game of hide and seek, and the flexible and compact clipper shuttled between the gaps of many warships, and finally made it easy to break into the port.

At this time, Dionysius, who had entered the empty left camp, but was blocked by wooden walls and trenches outside the main camp of Dionysian army, finally made the decision to retreat.

However, this order is a bit late.

In the main camp, Davos had arranged the 1st, 5th and 6th regiments who had returned to support them in a ring formation behind the wooden wall, and deliberately let the Syracuse soldiers break through the wooden wall and poured into the camp to start with them. face to face fight.

How could the Syracuse soldiers and freedmen, who had been fighting for so long, had already lost most of their physical strength, and lacked armor protection, could be the opponents of the heavily armed Dionysian legionnaires who were waiting for work, plus the remaining wood. The soldiers of the Fourth and Seventh Legionnaires who fought on the wall and the Syracuses who attacked the main camp of the Chinese army were quickly killed and defeated, and they scrambled to flee to the Celestial Court. If it weren't for the threat of the army led by Dionysius, Davos did not let the army pursue the city of Sirius for the sake of safety.

When Dionysius learned that the troops who attacked the battalion had failed miserably, he didn't dare to stay any longer. He hurriedly led the army back to the city. In order to vent his anger, he set fire to Dionia's left battalion.

Back in the city, before Dionysius could catch his breath, Leputines looked over in a panic.

After listening to the news reported in a low voice by his younger brother, Dionysius was extremely shocked: he never imagined that while besieging the Cilidian and dividing his troops to attack the Locri allies in Syracuse, he also dispatched troops to land in Sicily!

Although, according to Leputines, only a few thousand troops landed in Sicily, Dionysius was not as calm and composed as Philistos. The young Dionysian consul was full of vigilance, and he even highly suspected that Davos was willing to negotiate with him before, not only to cover up his division of troops to attack Hibernian and Medema, but also for the sake of it. Hold him down and complete the landing of troops in Sicily, this is probably Davos' real killer move!

As the tyrant of Syracuse and the overlord of the Greek city-states of Sicily, Dionysius actually knew how the people of the various city-states felt about him. Thinking of this made him restless, but he tried his best to pretend to be safe and sound. , bid farewell to everyone, and returned to their temporary residence.

When Faxipezas had rectified the rout and came to report the loss of the battle to Dionysius, he saw a haggard-looking plenipotentiary general.

Dionysius listened absent-mindedly to the report of Facipesas, and was indifferent to the huge number of more than 2,000 killed and nearly 6,000 wounded in Syracuse's army, but said quickly: "Syracuse Za sent a messenger just now to tell me that more than 3,000 Dionian soldiers landed in the Gulf of Naxos and quietly captured Mayaro..."

In order to reduce the impact and avoid causing too much panic, Dionysius deliberately said less about the number of Dionysian troops who landed, but it still made Facipesas pale and even forgot to respect Dionysius "What?! The Dionians actually attacked Sicily?! When did this happen?!"

Dionysius glanced at him and smiled lightly: "It happened two days ago. The Dionysians want to cause us some trouble, but their number is too small, and Marcias has already led one The army of 10,000 people went north, with the support of Taunis, Leotine, Catane and other city-states along the way, I believe that all the Dionysians who landed have been wiped out now!"