v8 Chapter 308： Hold the fortress

"No, don't send any more troops!" Falecus, who had been sitting on the sidelines, said: "The terrain of the Yuri Ruth fortress is narrow and there is no more troops to carry out, let alone from the current situation. The number of people the Oni people captured the fortress should not be much. As long as Stacycos can lead the team in time, he has the opportunity to retake it. I am now worried that the Dionysian army will take advantage of this opportunity. Attack us again."

Everyone heard this and they were shocked.

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

"You always come the latest!" Kuchias knew that Hiktas lived in the port, the farthest from the council, or could not help but complain: "I really waited for Syracuse, you can Help me!"

It is reasonable to assume 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 different, just as his face became a little bit at the moment. good looking.

Teaggenus, who felt empathy, said: "The fortress of Yuri Ruth was captured by the Dionys, and we are negotiating to take him back."

"Ah!" Hiktas was amazed and didn't talk much, but his heart was choppy.

At this time, there was a faint voice coming in from outside the door.

The people were surprised again.

Kuchias shouted in a panic: "It’s our military number! There is a hostile situation!" While walking out of the door.

After a while, he returned to the hall and said anxiously: "The sentinels of the West City reported that they found that the Dionysian soldiers were gathering outside their camps. It seems that they are preparing to attack us!"

Everyone is nervous.

"I am going to Xicheng now, and the soldiers in the barracks are organized to defend." Taiaggenis immediately responded: "Parnissus, the civic soldiers you will mobilize will be organized as soon as possible, and seize the time to reinforce Xicheng."

"Okay!" Parnissus also followed Taiaggens out of the hall.

"I think today's Dionyns will definitely attack from the east at the same time! Kuchias, you will quickly gather the citizens responsible for defending the east, and rush to the East Wall defense." Falekus Also eager to say.

Kuchias was ordered to go.

"Hicktas, you lead the civic soldiers in the port to sit here, and if there is an unexpected situation, immediately rush to support!" Falekus continued to give orders.

Most of the people in the port of Syracuse mainly served as the crew of the fleet, but they also took out 4,000 people to participate in the defense in the city. Because most of them lived in poverty, they were more of a light infantry and were not taken seriously.

Upon hearing this order, Hiktas thought more in his mind and did not respond in time.

Falecus is a little dissatisfied: "Hicktas, have you heard me?!"

"I know." Hicktas said coldly.

Falecus looked at him and didn't have time to care about it. Another general then organized another 3,000 civic soldiers to go to the north to support. At the same time, he decided to personally organize the people in the city to go to the north to build a defensive line. In order to prevent the inability to recapture the Yuri Ruth fortress, at least it can prevent the enemy from easily going south.

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The Yuri Ruth Fortress is a small square fortress surrounded by stone walls. There are houses, warehouses, reservoirs and other facilities in the fortress. At least 300 soldiers can be stationed here for a long time. Moreover, the wall of the Yuriarus Peak is also a wall that constitutes the fortress. Once there is a hostile situation, the soldiers in the fortress can quickly reach the city and block the enemy. However, the calm and steep terrain of the past few days have also relaxed the vigilance of the Syracuse soldiers who have been in peace and tranquility for a long time. As a result, they were attacked by the soldiers of the Dainian Mountain Ridge Investigation Group.

After Terendus led the soldiers to attack the Yuri Ruth fortress, they did not continue to attack the city of Syracuse, but stayed in the fortress and actively responded to the reinforcements.

Originally, the western hills of the Iuliarus Peak were somewhat gentle and wooded. At the beginning, Dionysius led the people to spend a long time trying to change the terrain and burn down the trees and weeds under the city. The sentinel can see the movements of the enemy under the city at a glance.

Unfortunately, after Dionysius’s death, Syracuse has been in turmoil, and the external environment is safer. No one is paying attention to the city defense problem. Under the walls of the Yuri Rus, the grass is re-grown with weeds. Trees, which helped the mountain squad soldiers to lurk to the city, but the narrow terrain also determined that there could not be too many soldiers close to the city, so more mountain squad soldiers and the eighth army The infantry brigade and a light infantry brigade are hiding in the jungle below the mountain to avoid being discovered by the city's sentinels.

Until the assaulted soldiers turned over to the city, they took the torches in the hands of the sentinels, waved them according to the prior regulations, and sent signals to the mountains. The mountain squad soldiers, the army light infantry, and the heavy infantry then accelerated to the mountains.

At the forefront is the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade. These soldiers who have been specially trained for many years are still very fast, and few people fall and fall behind. They have not taken a break under the city, but they have seized The soldiers who had fallen from the city before the soldiers from the city climbed up quickly.

After going to the city, they took off their skin shields and short swords and rushed into the fortress where they were killed.

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

While defending the fort and the wall, waiting for the reinforcements, Telantus also carefully examined the situation inside the fort. The result was that the fortress had two door openings on the stone wall to the south of the city, but it was not installed. Open the wooden door or something else to open and close.

It turned out that when Dionysius built the fort, it was deliberately designed so that the fort can only be outside and not protected. It can be said that Dionysius was very thoughtful, but he did not expect that the later sentinels made two large planks for ease, and covered the hole at night, which did not affect sleep (because the terrain is high here, sometimes scraping When the mountain winds, the wind blows through the hole at night, not only the cold, but also the sound of "whistling", which seriously affects the rest).

Tarantus found the two large planks at the entrance of the cave, and then asked the soldiers to find a lot of wood and stone from the warehouse, and blocked the planks at the entrance.

But he still didn't trust, and he came up with a solution.

When the Light Infantry Brigade soldiers also entered the fort, they were slightly relieved.

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The ambitious Dionysius included the Epipiles Heights and the Accra Dina into the city of Syracuse, which expanded the area of ​​the city several times. In order to make the new city full of population, He actively absorbed as many mercenaries as possible to become a new citizen of Syracuse, and also forced the conquered neighboring city-states to forcibly migrate to Syracuse, such as Leotini and Katane.

However, after the South Italian War, the mercenaries were expelled, and most of the other city-states who were forcibly moved back to their mother states. Coupled with years of political turmoil, the current population of Syracuse has decreased from the original. Half of the endless, the vast Epilpel Heights became sparsely populated and almost became a wasteland for the Syracuse people to graze cattle and sheep, so the squad that escaped from the Yuri Ruth fortress could not find any Help, they can only go south to the main city, and inform the members of the executive committee of the general who is on duty, and then send troops to retake the fortress.

The defects of the city of Syracuse are too large and the shortage of manpower is exposed at this time. The fortress of Ilyrus is la la la from the main city, plus it is late at night, suddenly, and Stesicus leads 2000. When the soldiers arrived in front of the Yuri Ruth fortress, they had already been close to an hour of their fall. The well-planned and prepared Dianian raids, especially the two heavy infantry brigades, have already entered Yuria. Inside the Rus Fortress.

Under the light of the fire, Stacycos looked at the soldiers above the fortress, and many of them were wearing dazzling armor. What surprised him even more was that the two holes were blocked by the wooden door because he Hastily led the troops and did not carry any siege equipment.

Stacycos felt a headache, because according to the design of Dionysius, the fortress of Ilyrus was the center of the defensive northern wall. The sentinel could only get the city through the fortress, so the sentinels in the nearby city were It is sent by the fortress, and the nearest Shangcheng stone ladder is the middle section of the east and west walls.

Dionysius's design may be based on security considerations, but now it makes Stacycos feel embarrassed: if the current army turns back and goes through the stone ladder to the city, it gives the current enemy too much respite. Machine.

Stacycos decided to take the initiative and ordered the soldiers to quickly charge the fort, rushing under the stone wall as soon as possible, and smashing the cave. At the same time, he asked the commander to immediately return to the main city and report the situation to the military executive committee.

The terrain of the Yuri Ruth fortress was high, and the Syracuse soldiers had to use their shields to protect their heads and attack them.

The Dionysian infantry on the fortress did not need to fire arrows, lifted the stones and logs from the warehouse, and the stones and wood bounced down the terrain, and they could hurt several people at a time. The Syracuse soldiers who attacked were so bitter that they would be disintegrated in a short time.

Stacydas had to regroup the soldiers and personally rush forward, and finally led the soldiers to the wall, immediately attacked by the Dionian soldiers on the wall, javelin, arrows, stones The wood fell like a raindrop, and the Syracuse soldiers were very wounded. Even Stacycos was shot at the arm with a sharp arrow.