v6 Chapter 227： It’s better to chase after the poor

Masias also refused to take care of the village, and led the soldiers to stay in the village and ordered the villagers to prepare food.

The exhausted soldiers barely filled their stomachs and fell asleep. Only Mathias turned to the side and couldn't sleep. The news of the riots in Syracuse made him very worried about the outer city of Syracuse. The situation of the mercenary villages, after all, the horrors of the Katanei mercenary village made him secretly alert, and the hundreds of mercenaries who stayed in the village could hold their homes! When he leads the army back to Syracuse tomorrow, the riots have passed more than a day, and many things can happen in this day. If the rioters really occupy the whole city, then they will The mercenaries of Onisius who have close relationships may be expelled and become homeless. I hope that the adults of Phillips can calm the riots, even if they can't calm down, they must control and hold on to some of the city, waiting for his reinforcements to arrive!

Concerned about the completion of Syracuse, he was worried about how to lead this unit safely back to Syracuse. When he traveled to Meyaro, he led the army, heading north along the flat coast, passing through Tonys, detouring the column of Ortini, then passing through Katana, and finally to Sikuri, it was said that he was All the way to the defensive forces of these city-states gave the insurgents the opportunity to lead to large-scale riots.

But now is not the time to regret this. From today's situation, Katane may have been completely occupied by the insurgents, otherwise there will be more troops to send troops out of the city to attack them. Even if Sikuli is not completely occupied, the Diaonians are so close to it, it is a matter of time before the fall. The Leonidians were forcibly removed from the population by Dionysius, and the people left behind were afraid of Syracuse. For such a trend, there is no need for free people and slaves to rebel. It will automatically overthrow the lord who was helped by the adults of Dionysius, so Mathias is not optimistic that the Leonidians of the pro-Syracuse can resist this riot.

However, there is some confidence in Tonys, Masias, because Tonys has always been a subsidiary of Syracuse, never betrayed, and is dissatisfied with the supporters in time. It should not rashly attack Syracuse. The army of the tie. What's more, the port of Tonys is still anchored by the Syracuse fleet that has been defeated from Naxos Bay. With their help, if there is a riot in Tonys, the possibility of success will not be too great.

Therefore, Marcias finally decided: after the departure, the team bypassed Katane, avoiding the possible attacks of the Leonidians, then walked to the beach, passed through Tony, and finally reached Syracuse... This is A long journey of a hundred miles, full of unknown risks, but in order to get back to Syracuse as soon as possible, he can only take the risk. Otherwise, for safety, he can not walk the coast, and walk around the mountainous area where there is almost no smoke on the west side of Ortini. Although the mountains there are not too high, but the road is rough and difficult, it will undoubtedly slow down the journey, and the food is also A big problem...

Mathias thought a lot, and finally could not resist the sleepy and went to sleep...

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The next day, three days in the sun, but still asleep, he was woken up by the guards, only to know that during the time of his sleepy, something went wrong: when they woke up in the morning, the soldiers found that they had lost dozens of horses, and the village’s The residents also lost more than half of them. The soldiers certainly suspected that the residents of the village had done good things. The angry people immediately arrested the villagers who had not escaped and interrogated them. In the process, the former mercenaries who had recovered their energy relapsed, robbed, Rape, killing... The most common evils they recreated in this village in the process of following Dionysius's conquest of Sicily.

This provoked dissatisfaction and anger among a small number of Katana mercenaries in the team, as this is a village under their jurisdiction. The conflict broke out between the two sides, and finally the angry Cartana mercenaries left the team, and the number of the entire army dropped sharply to 3,000.

In the face of such a difficult situation, Masias can do nothing, even he believes that without the Katana people dragging their legs, their march will be faster, food consumption will be reduced, not to mention other annoying problems. Although they were all compatriots from Campania, they have been fighting comrades who fought side by side before today, and they have deep friendships. Now they are in a difficult situation and can only care for each other.

Masias ordered the soldiers to raided all the food in the village and set off immediately.

Under the urging of Masias, this team of more than 3,000 people, composed of former mercenary citizens of Syracuse, rushed forward with the expectation of returning to Syracuse as soon as possible and defending their homeland.

On their way to the southeast, they encountered two or three defeats from time to time, and Marcias took the opportunity to bring them all into the ranks.

At the same time, this team also suffered from a number of detective squad peeping, while Masias sent the cavalry to drive away, urging the soldiers to speed up the march.

His pre-testing. Soon from the northeast came a team of seven or eight hundred people, they did not wear armor, hand bows and javelins, and quickly attacked the team of Masias.

Masias almost certainly confirmed that the enemy was from Katane, and he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to attack.

But when the Syracuse soldiers began to form and began to attack, these light infantry from Katana retreated. They waited until the Syracuse soldiers resumed their formation and continued to march. They appeared again.

So many times, Mathias understood: the Katana rebels just wanted to attack themselves, not really want to make a positive fight.

But Mathias can't care, otherwise the javelin and arrows that are shot will continue to take away the lives of the soldiers and destroy their not-high fighting spirit, so he will have only 50 cavalry and nearly 500 left. Light infantry is placed at the end of the team to be able to fight enemy attacks. However, he is not allowed to pursue the soldiers excessively, because this not only consumes physical strength, but also breaks away from the large forces and is easy to ambush. Now the whole army has only one goal - to go home.

The Syracuse army stopped and went out of the Catania plains in the afternoon. The terrain began to narrow in the east. The east is the sea, the west is the mountain, and the middle is a flat seaside corridor with a width of less than five miles.

Masias was originally worried about the emergence of the Reteignan rebels. Fortunately, there was no, and probably because the narrow terrain limited the mobility of the Katana rebels, so they did not continue to harass behind the team. The Syracuse soldiers can finally relax.

The Syracuse army accelerated its march, because it was the city of Tonys ten miles away.

After the introduction of the city of Tonys, I thought that the Syracuse escaping soldiers who had escaped the catastrophe saw it: not far from the north of the city of Tonys, there was a four or five thousand troops lined up in front of them, neatly arranged, blocked Living in this seaside corridor, the black armor of most of the soldiers made them feel excited just after the bottom of the valley: the Diaonians! It is the army of Dioria! ! How did they get to us? ! ! ......

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A hard fight yesterday ended with the defeat of the Syracuse army.

At the same time as the First Army of Diaonia pursued, Anton Rios finally saw the messenger sent by Antrapolis, and learned that "Katanay has been captured and the Syracuse riots succeeded" After the news, Antonios finally breathed a sigh of relief: the First Army paid a price, and finally stood firm in Sicily.

But he can't relax because he is happy, because Antrapolis hopes that the First Corps can intercept this army in Syracuse to avoid their return to Syracuse and the riots in Syracuse. Actions bring a lot of variables.

To be honest, Antonios really didn't want to follow the advice of this secret probe. Although this battle, the first legion finally won, but nearly a thousand people died and wounded, several senior team officers sacrificed, even his close comrade Zeppel Also unconscious, the First Corps fought 8,000 people (excluding the auxiliary forces) before the outbreak of the war, and there are only 4,000 people left. The number has dropped by more than half, and huge sacrifices have been made. It is true that the rest should be replenished. However, the environment in which it is now is not allowed, and the danger is not completely gone. It is the last step in the effort until now.

Antonios certainly does not want the expedition of the First Legion because of this collapse and fleeing to Syracuse and fell short of itThe habit of the Dionysian Army after the victory has always been to win the pursuit of the end" Can only reluctantly agree with the advice of Antrapolis: Joint action with Katanai to completely eliminate the Syracuse army on the way back!

After sending the messenger, Antonios rushed to the port after meditation, and the sailors of the Dionysian fleet were sending the exiles to the warship.

Antonios soon saw Flarios replacing the Seychelles commanding fleet. After deliberation, Fralios agreed that the fleet would not return to Lijim and stay overnight in Meyaro for the next day. Participate in military operations.

There is no military port in the port of Meyaro, and there is no dry dock to dock the warships. This means that the warships of the Venetian fleet can only be pushed onto the beach, which requires a great risk. The reason why the Athens Fleet was destroyed by Laishande in the Battle of Yanghe was one of the main reasons why the warships in Athens were parked on the beach, and there was no time to go to the sea when they were attacked...

To this end, Fralios led the sailors to drag the warships to the beach with the help of the exiles, then set up a tight guard post, and asked the lighthouse's sentinels to closely monitor the sea and arrange all the Clippers. I’m patrolling the bay all night...