Chapter 308 Stick to the Fortress

"No, don't send any more troops!" said Falecus, who had been standing idly by before: "The terrain in Yuriarus Fortress is narrow, and no amount of troops can be deployed, not to mention from the current situation, Dai The number of the Onias who captured the fort should not be large. As long as Staceikos can lead his troops to arrive in time, there is a complete chance to retake it. What I am worried about now is whether the Dionysian army will take advantage of this opportunity. Attack us again."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

"What happened?!" The last Syracuse general, Hiktas, also arrived.

"You always come last!" Kukias knew that Hiktas lived in the port and was the farthest from the council, but he couldn't help complaining: "If something happens to Syracuse, you general will be able to What a favor!"

It stands to reason that Hiktas has long been accustomed to his colleagues talking to him in such a tone, but when he heard these unpleasant words these days, he always felt a little strange in his heart, as if his face became a little strange at this moment. nice.

Theagenis, who felt the same way, said hurriedly: "The fortress of Yuliarus was captured by the Dionysians, and we are discussing to take him back."

"Ah!" Hiktas was surprised, and he didn't say more, but his heart was turbulent.

At this time, a faint sound of bugles came in from outside the door.

The crowd was surprised again.

Kukias shouted in a slightly panicked voice: "It's our bugle! There is an enemy situation!" He walked out the door quickly.

After a while, he returned to the hall and said anxiously: "The sentinels in the west city reported, and they found that the Dionysian soldiers were massing outside their camp, and they seemed to be preparing to attack us!"

Everyone was nervous.

"I will go to the West City now and lead the soldiers of the army camp to organize the defense." Te Argenis responded immediately: "Parnisus, you will organize the mobilized citizen soldiers as soon as possible, and hurry up to reinforce the West City."

"Okay!" Parnisus also followed Teargenis out of the hall.

"I think today's Dionians will also attack from the east at the same time! Kukias, hurry up and gather all the citizens who are responsible for defending the east, and rush to the east wall to defend." Falecus also said eagerly.

Kukias was ordered to go.

"Hiktas,

You lead the citizens of the port to sit here, and in the event of an unexpected situation, immediately rush to support! "Falekus continued to give orders.

Most of the people in the port of Syracuse were mainly crew members of the fleet, but 4,000 people were also selected to participate in the defense of the city. Because most of them were living in poverty, they were mostly light infantry, and were not paid much attention.

Hearing this order, Hiktas thought more for a while and did not respond in time.

Falekus couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied: "Hiktas, did you hear what I said?!"

"I see." Hiktas replied coldly.

Falecus glanced at him and didn't have time to worry about it. He instructed another general to organize another 3,000 civilian soldiers to go to the north to support first. At the same time, he also decided to organize the people in the city himself and go to the north to urgently build a defensive line. In order to prevent the fortress of Yuriarus from being recaptured, at least it can prevent the enemy from being able to easily go south.

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The fortress of Yuriarus is a small square fortress surrounded by stone walls. There are residences, warehouses, cisterns and other facilities in the fortress. At least 300 soldiers can be stationed here for a long time. Moreover, the city wall of Yuria Russ is also a city wall that constitutes the fortress. Once there is an enemy situation, the soldiers in the fortress can quickly go up to the city head and block the enemy. However, the calm and precipitous terrain over the past few days also relaxed the vigilance of the Siracusa soldiers who had been in peace and tranquility for a long time. As a result, they were attacked by the soldiers of the Dionysian Mountains Scouting Brigade.

After Terentus led his soldiers to take the fortress of Yuriarus by surprise, he did not continue to attack the city of Syracuse, but stayed in the fortress while actively receiving reinforcements.

Originally, the western mountain of Yulia Rus was somewhat flat and lush with trees. At that time, Dionysius led the people to spend a long time to change the terrain, and burned the trees and weeds under the city, making the city on the The sentry can clearly see the movements of the enemy under the city.

It's a pity that after Dionysius' death, Syracuse has been in turmoil. In addition, the external environment is relatively safe, and no one pays attention to the problem of city defense. Trees, which helped the soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance brigade lurking under the city, but the narrow terrain here also determined that it was impossible for too many soldiers to approach the city at one time, so more soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance brigade and two heavyweights of the Eighth Army. The infantry brigade and a light infantry brigade hid in the dense forest below the mountain to avoid being discovered by the city sentry.

It was not until the raiding soldiers climbed to the top of the city, seized the torch in the sentry's hand, waved it according to the previous regulations, and sent a signal to the bottom of the mountain.

The mountain reconnaissance brigade rushed to the front. These soldiers who had been specially trained all the year round were still very fast even when they were climbing the mountain, and few people fell or fell behind. They did not rest for a while when they arrived at the city. The soldiers who went to the city before quickly climbed up the ropes hanging down from the city head.

After going to the city, they took off the leather shields and daggers they were carrying, and rushed into the fortress where the sound of killing was everywhere.

Follow-up reinforcements came one after another, and finally defeated the Syracuse defenders who were still resisting.

While defending the fortress and the city walls and waiting for reinforcements, Terentus also carefully checked the situation in the fortress. The result was a headache for him: the fortress opened two door openings towards the stone wall on the south side of the city, but there were no installations. Go to a wooden door or something to open and close it.

It turned out that when Dionysius built the fort, he deliberately designed it so that the fort could only be protected from the outside but not from the inside. It can be said that Dionysius was very thoughtful, but he did not expect that the later sentinels specially made two large wooden boards for comfort to cover the opening of the hole at night, so as not to affect sleep (because the terrain here is high and sometimes scratched). The mountain wind blows through the entrance of the cave at night, which is not only cold, but also makes a "huhu" sound, which seriously affects the rest).

Terentus found these two large wooden boards by the entrance of the cave, and then asked the soldiers to find a lot of wood and stones from the warehouse and blocked the wooden boards at the entrance of the cave.

But he was still worried, and in a hurry, he came up with a solution.

Terentus breathed a sigh of relief when the soldiers of the light infantry brigade also entered the fort one after another.

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At that time, the ambitious Dionysius included Epipole Heights, Akradina and other areas into the city of Syracuse, which expanded the entire urban area several times. In order to make the population of this new city sufficient, He actively recruited as many mercenaries as possible to become new citizens of Syracuse, and at the same time forced the people of the conquered neighboring city-states to move to Syracuse, such as Leotine and Catane.

However, after the South-Italian War, the mercenaries were expelled, and most of the people from other city-states who were forcibly relocated also returned to their home states. Coupled with years of political turmoil, Syracuse's current population has decreased compared to the original. More than half of it, as a result, the vast Epipole Heights became sparsely populated and almost became a wasteland for the people of Syracuse to graze cattle and sheep, so the routed soldiers who escaped from the Yuria Rus fortress could not find any nearby. To help, they can only run south to the main city, and inform the members of the general's executive committee who are on duty of the emergency military situation, and then he will send the army to retake the fort.

The shortcomings of Syracuse's large area and insufficient manpower were exposed at this time. The Yuria Rus fortress was far from the main city. In addition, it was late at night and the incident happened suddenly. When the soldiers arrived in front of the Yuria Rus fortress, it was nearly an hour away from its fall. The Dionysian raiding force with careful planning and preparation, especially the two heavy infantry battalions, had also entered Yuria one after another. Inside Ruth Fortress.

Under the light of the fire, Staceikos saw that the top of the fort was full of Dionian soldiers, many of them wearing dazzling armor, and what surprised him was that the two holes were also blocked with wooden doors, because he He came in a hurry and did not bring any siege equipment.

Staceycus felt a headache, because according to the design of Dionysius, the fortress of Yulia Rus was the center of the defense of the northern end of the city wall. It was dispatched by the fortress, and the stone stairs to the upper city closest to the fortress were not available until the middle section of the east and west city walls.

Dionysius may have designed such a design based on safety considerations, but now it makes Staceycus feel embarrassed: if he leads the army to turn back and go up the city through the stone ladder, it will give the current enemy too much breathing. chance.

Staceikos made a decisive decision and ordered the soldiers to quickly charge the fortress, get under the stone wall as soon as possible, and break through the stone cave. At the same time, he asked the messengers to rush back to the main city immediately and report the situation here to the Military Executive Committee.

The terrain of the fortress of Yuriarus was high, and the soldiers of Syracuse had to protect their heads with shields and attacked forward.

The Dionian infantry on the fortress didn't need to fire arrows at all. They lifted the rocks and logs from the warehouse and smashed them down. The rocks and logs bounced and rolled down along the terrain, and they could hurt several people at a time. , so that the attacking Syracuse soldiers complained, and they were scattered in formation after a while.

Staceidas had to regroup the soldiers and charge himself in front. He finally led the soldiers to the wall, and was immediately attacked by the Dionian soldiers on the wall, javelins, arrows, stones. , The wood fell like raindrops, and the soldiers of Syracuse were injured a lot. Even Stacey Kos was shot in the arm by a sharp arrow.