"Black soldier! So the Dionysian legion is here, I don't know which legion it is!" Xenophanes thought in his heart, his eyes flashing with excitement, he turned and ran to the south of the town, where there are free people And the gathering area of public servants.
The fleeing people from Meyaro rushed into the town in horror, causing the narrow passage into the town to be blocked, resulting in the suspension bridge being unable to be pulled up and the town gate unable to be closed.
While the Sikuly people were anxiously driving the people into the city, the company led by Leotizides had already arrived outside the town. Seeing this, they immediately ordered: Attack!
The soldiers rushed to the north gate and stabbed their spears at the crowd outside the town.
The screams continued to sound, and the people who were about to enter the town were even more frightened. Some simply jumped into the moat, while others desperately squeezed into the town. The citizens at the town gate could not stop it.
When Melisanda's team arrived, they saw that the pursuit of Leotizides' company on the suspension bridge at the north gate of Meyaro Town made the front of the town extremely bloody and chaotic. Melisanda thought: If his detachment goes up, they can only follow behind the "Mad Men" company, maybe they can't even touch the enemy, and they will rush into the city.
Melisanda was unwilling. At this time, he saw some Mayaro people fled around the moat to the other side, and he immediately shouted: "Follow me to attack another town gate!"
The soldiers chased the fleeing people to the east gate of Mayaro, but found that the drawbridge had been pulled up.
Melisanda's heart froze.
"Captain, what to do?!" The soldiers asked anxiously.
Melisanda was also very anxious. Looking back, there were other teams running towards this side, but they did not find the engineering battalion carrying the ladders and wooden planks. Obviously, they must have fallen behind.
Are you going to wait here? ! Melisanda looked at the wooden wall in front of them, there were only twenty or thirty enemies, and only a few people shot arrows at them who had entered the range. There was no threat to them in armor, but It is unpredictable whether the javelin will be thrown after approaching the wooden wall.
"Row tortoise shells!" He made a decisive decision: "Approach the moat and swim in the water!"
He saw that there were not many enemies on the wooden wall, and the height of the wooden wall was only more than three meters, so he could climb up on a human wall.
50 soldiers received the order and immediately surrounded Melisanda in the middle, forming a tight small square, with a long shield covering the top and all sides, like a huge box wrapped in iron, and slowly advancing towards the moat.
The other teams did the same. There were teams far away from the town gate, not even the tortoise shell array, and quickly ran to the moat.
The people of Sikuli who could not enter the town fled in panic, and the soldiers had no psychological understanding at all.
At this time, there was a sudden sound of slaughter and screams from behind the city gate, mixed with terrified shouts: "Freemen and slaves are rebelling!!..."
Soon, the Sikuli on the wooden wall no longer stared at the Dionian soldiers in front of the moat, but turned to resist the thugs who rushed up on the wooden ladder.
Bows and arrows kept hitting the wooden walls, knocking down the unprotected Sikuli.
Although Melisanda at the bottom of the city did not know what was going on in the town, how could he not take advantage of such a good opportunity. He immediately told the soldiers to disperse the tortoise shell formation, and rushed to the moat, leaving behind the long shield and the spear. Only worthy of hanging a short sword, they jumped down into the moat.
Although the armor makes the body heavy, but there are occasional special trainings in this area in the usual military training. The width of the moat is three or four meters, kick your legs and draw your arms twice, and you will reach the other side.
Melisandre and the soldiers climbed ashore with great difficulty, and were about to lean against the wooden wall, but the drawbridge was lowered, and then the wooden door was opened, and someone shouted from the top of the city: "I am a reserve citizen of Dionia, Xie. Norfinis, the Sikuli have been driven away by us! Soldiers of the Legion, hurry up and enter the city!"
When Melisanda heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and the laughter of the soldiers of the other detachments sounded in his ears: "Captain Melisanda is diving again!"
The subordinates beside him are also complaining about the captain: "Are you cursed by the goddess of doom, even we are unlucky with you!"
Melisanda watched the other teams easily walk across the suspension bridge and into Mayaro Town, and was annoyed: "All swim back with me!"
"Ah, are you going into the water again?!"
"The long shield and the spear are on the other side, won't you bring them back!"
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In the afternoon, the Dionian I Corps completely occupied the town of Mayaro with only minor casualties.
The town of Mayaro is a town, but its size has exceeded the size of the city of Sikuli, worthy of its name, but there is no such authority as the council, the senate, and the city hall in the town. In a consul's residence, the usual administrative management and decrees are decided here.
The city of Sikuli was originally a democratic city-state. After it surrendered to Syracuse, Dionysius supported a Sikuli nobleman, Hibagris, who first surrendered to him, as the plenipotentiary general of Sikuli. The people of Sikuli were frightened by Dionysius' lewd power and had to surrender, and Sikuli also became a tyrant city-state. And Hibagris appointed his confidant as the consul of Meyaro, and directly governed Meyaro in his place, thus stealing your control from the former Naxos territory under the rule of the Sikuli tyrant.
But now sitting on the first seat of the administrative hall of the Mayaro consul's residence is no longer Hibagris's men, but Antonios, the commander of the Dionysian First Army.
"Legion Commander, we have arrested all the Sikuli people in the town. There are 3,653 people in total, and most of them are old people, women and children. What do you do?" Some said reluctantly. This time the attack should have been the first of the fourth brigade to break the city, because Leotizides' company belonged to the fourth brigade and rushed to the front. It was about to break the north gate. Who knew that there would be a riot in the city. Instead, several sub-units of the first brigade, led by Melisanda, entered the town from the east gate and won the first credit, and also gave Giorgris the right to deal with the prisoners in the town.
"Lord Antonius, don't be too kind to the Siculi! They were once allies of Naxos, not only did not fight with us, but instead betrayed the covenant, took refuge in Syracuse, and helped the evil Dionysius He has broken through our cities and occupied our land, and every year he sends troops to the western mountains of Etna to hunt down our fleeing tribesmen, who are taken back as slaves, regardless of gender... Now Nemesis finally responds to us Naxos Sincere prayers, send your warriors, Dionia, to bring wrath upon the Sikkuri, and make them all slaves and torture them to death!..." Standing beside Laodicien, as the supporter of this time, One of the organizers of Onia's attack and rioting in the town, Tolilaus, a Naxosian, shouted through gritted teeth.
Giorgris frowned, looked at Antonios, opened his mouth to speak, Antonios winked at him, and then said with sympathy: "Naxos is our ally of Dionia, all of you are Suffering as we do the people of Dionia... Trotiras!"
"Yes!" The third captain, Trotiras, responded loudly.
"You go now to escort the Sikuli people to the square, and let the people of Naxos identify the crimes they committed and punish them according to their requirements!" This method of Antonios is obviously borrowed from the original wearer. What Firth did to the Crotone captives in Turii.
"Yes!" Trotiras turned to leave.
"Master Antonios, I'm going to organize the people to go to the square!" Tolilaus said happily.
Antonios nodded, Georgris wanted to say more, and the second captain Zantiparis next to him patted his leg with his hand to signal him to calm down.
Antonios looked over and said solemnly: "The adequacy of food is an important foundation for our legion and the people of Naxos to gain a firm foothold here! So, Georgris, I sent you to check. The grain reserves in this town, and the grains from these Xikuli people’s homes are collected and distributed by us, understand?!”
"Yes, Legion Commander." Giorgris understood that Antonios was a little dissatisfied with his performance just now, so he removed him from the task of detaining the prisoners and assigned him a new task to do, who always obeyed the military law. He complied.
Antonios was a little relieved when he watched Giorgris leave. If Amyntas saw his subordinates repeatedly resisting the orders, he would have scolded him long ago, but he would not. What's more, Georgris, as a member of the original "Hiros team", although not as close as Hiros, Matonis, Olivers, Martius and Davos, but the relationship is not bad, why because of this Going to scold Geogris for trivial matters will affect his perception in Davos' heart. Although Geogris is not a talkative person, there is a dangerous person here...
Antonios' eyes quickly swept to Xenofannis, who was standing quietly in an inconspicuous corner, and then quickly recovered his mind and continued to ask: "General Saratos has taken his troops to take over the port (Sarah Tus is the leader of Lijim's troops sent by Lijim to fight with the First Corps)?"
"Yes, my lord." The Naxos native Raodisian replied: "General Saratos also brought more than 300 prime-age slaves there, so that Jim's ship can be safely transported to the port after landing. And the supplies were unloaded smoothly."
"I'm more relieved that the port can operate normally." Antonios said, sighing: "Unfortunately, there are no military facilities in the port, so the warships cannot be berthed. Our fleet has to go back to Lijim to rest."
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