Only a few "boom" sounds were heard, Antonios felt a few gravels jumping onto his legs, causing a faint pain, and he shouted with concern: "All of you are okay?!"

Just as the guards reported their safety, 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.

It turned out that Tspit, who was commanding the light infantry to avoid it, was hit on the head by a large stone splashed on the wall, and fell to the ground immediately.

As a comrade-in-arms of the Persian Expeditionary Force, Antonios, a colleague of the Senate, had a good relationship with Zpit. Seeing that he was unconscious at this moment, he was both worried and angry. While calling the guards to call the medical camp, he ordered with a firm order: "Blow the attack trumpet, don't let the enemy run away!"

"Woo!..." At the same time as the Dionia trumpet was sounded, the sound of the retreat of the Syracuse coalition forces also sounded.

It’s not that Masias didn’t want to lead the troops to retreat more safely, but the situation had lost control. Some Syracuse soldiers saw that the situation was not good and had begun to escape with the Allied troops. The encirclement of the entire army was already in turmoil. If they did not take decisive actions, it would be possible that the enemy would surround the troops that were still standing there. Therefore, he issued a order to retreat, and would rather let the soldiers escape like dispersed sand than be captured by the enemy.

The retreating trumpet woke Antonios upset and said to the light infantry in grief: "Brothers, don't be solemn, it's time to avenge Lord Zpite! Chase the escaped enemies and kill them!"

The light infantry roared and immediately ran downstairs to meet with their companions in the army and quickly participated in the pursuit. These light infantry were considered relatively good people in the First Legion. In addition, they were not wearing heavy helmets and heavy armor. Their pursuit speed would cause great trouble to the retreating enemies. Antonios believed this.

Since the Syracuse coalition surrounded the First Legion with a circular array, when retreating, the First Legion soldiers in the inner circle attacked from all directions, they were unable to retreat in the same direction and were forced to flee everywhere.

In order to escape from Mearo quickly and avoid encountering the traps set by the Dionians in the town, many Syracuse soldiers chose to escape south. When they were bombarded with crossbows for a whole day yesterday, everything went smoothly until they crossed the almost non-existent wooden wall and jumped into the river, they were buried in the mud at the bottom of the river by the First Legion. The ineffective pointed wooden stakes and iron pricks pierced their feet. They fell into the river one by one and drowned in a shrill scream. This discouraged the people behind them. Under the pursuing Dionian soldiers, they were either killed or surrendered.

A small number of soldiers chose to flee north. They were mainly mercenaries of Taurumenan. They ran all the way under the pursuit of the enemy. They were about to reach the mountainous area and were not far from the city of Taurumenan, but found that nearly a thousand sailors in front of them were holding wooden oars and bows and arrows blocking their way.

It turned out that after loading the families of exiles, the Dionian fleet did not leave the port, but was paying close attention to the battle situation. When it was observed that the enemy began to retreat, the Dionian fleet, who was eager to make contributions, took advantage of the characteristics of the beaches everywhere in the Bay of Naxos, and used the straight-line distance on the sea to quickly row the warships near the pass to land, snatch the enemy in front of them and wait.

The exhausted mercenaries did not have the intention to fight when they had enemies in front and pursuers in the back, and most of them surrendered.

Most of the Syracuse soldiers followed the Allied forces to escape westward from Mearo town and fled southward while marching the river.

Marcias rode his horse to the south bank of the Alcantara River early, preparing to gradually gather the defeated troops here and then lead the troops to make further plans. However, he did not expect that after winning, the Dionians still refused to give up and chased the soldiers of the Syracuse coalition.

The defeated soldiers rushed through the Alcantara River like a tide. They did not listen to Marcias's shouts at all, but instead dispersed him and hundreds of cavalrymen and fled south together.

The soldiers of the Dionys Legion, who are good at pursuing the enemy after victory and often conducting armed long-distance running in training, have suffered a lot. They are also exhausted soldiers after a fierce battle. The Dionys chased the defeated soldiers behind from time to time, and their screams kept driving the Syonys League soldiers like whips, and ran without stopping...

After five or six miles, most of the soldiers of the Dionian stopped chasing and began to turn back to capture the enemies who squatted on the roadside and surrendered, and only the light infantry were still chasing them angrily.

Shibagris was still thinking of leading his army back to Sikuli City, but his militias had long been dispersed by the defeated soldiers. He rushed to Sikuli City and saw that the four gates were closed and the rebels shot arrows from the city. They dared not stay too long, so they had to follow the Syracuse soldiers around Sikuli and continue to flee south.

The Dionian light infantry finally stopped chasing before they almost arrived at Sikuli City. After they revealed their identities to the rebels at the top of the city, they were happily welcomed into the city by Sikuli rebels.

Masias was fleeing to Katanai and then gathered up some of the defeated soldiers.

While he was thinking painfully about where to go next, both Katanai and Sikuli's tyrants found him and asked him to help regain the city.

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

Massias was shocked and did not care about anything else. He was anxious and led his men to recruit defeated soldiers and wanted to return to the army to rescue.

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When Dionysius led his army to attack the camp of Dionysia, a small clutch came from outside the port of Siliting. Faced with the blockade of the Dionysia fleet, it was not afraid at all. Instead, it played the game of mouse and cat with the Dionysia warship. The flexible and small clutch shuttled through the gaps of many warships, and finally allowed it to easily break into the port.

At this time, Dionysius, who had attacked the empty Left Camp, was blocked by wooden walls and trenches, and was outside the Dionia Central Army camp, finally made the decision to retreat.

However, this order is a bit late.

Davers has already returned to the camp to help the first, fifth and sixth legions arranged a circular encirclement behind the wooden wall, deliberately allowing Syracuse soldiers to break through the wooden wall, pour into the camp, and start a face-to-face battle with them.

After fighting for so long, the Syracuse soldiers and the free people who had already lost most of their physical strength and lacked armor protection were fully armed, and the infantrymen of the Dionysian Legion who were waiting for it, and the Fourth and Seventh Legion soldiers who fought on the remaining wooden walls, the Syracuse people who attacked the Central Army camp were soon killed and defeated, and rushed to flee to Siliteng. If it weren't for the threat of the army led by Dionysius next to them, Davers did not let the army chase the city of Siliteng for safety reasons.

After learning that the troops in the front attack camp were defeated, Dionysius did not dare to stay any longer. He hurriedly led his army to retreat to the city. In order to vent his anger, he burned down Diony's left camp with fire.

Back in the city, before Dionysius could take a breath, Leptines came over with panic.

After listening to the news that his younger brother reported in a low voice, Dionysius was extremely shocked: he never expected that while Davers surrounded Siliteng and divided his troops to attack the Locre Allies in Syracuse, he also sent troops to land in Sicily!

Although according to Leptines, there were only a few thousand troops landing in Sicily, Dionysius was not as calm as Phylistos. After defeating Davers again, he was full of vigilance against the young consul of Dionys. He even highly doubted that Davers was willing to negotiate with him before, not just to cover up his division of troops to attack Hibernian and Medema, but to delay him and complete the landing of troops to Sicily. This is probably Davers' real killer move!

As the tyrant of Syracuse and the overlord of the Greek city-state of Sicily, Dionysius actually knew how the people of each city-state felt about him. When he thought of this, he felt anxious, but he tried his best to pretend to be safe and sound, bid farewell to everyone, and return to his temporary residence.

When Fasci Pesaas rectified the defeated soldiers and came to report the losses of the battle to Dionysius, he saw a haggard general.

Dionysius absent-mindedly listened to the report of Fasci Pesa, and was indifferent to the huge number of more than 2,000 people killed and nearly 6,000 people injured in the Syracuse army. Instead, he said quickly: "Syracuse just sent a messenger to tell me that more than 3,000 Dionys soldiers landed in the Gulf of Naxos and quietly captured Mearo..."

In order to reduce the impact and avoid causing too much panic, Dionysius intentionally said less of the number of the landing Dionysian troops, but it still shocked Fasci Pesa, and even forgot his respectful title to Dionysian: "What?! The Dionys actually attacked Sicily?! When did this happen?!"

Dionysius glanced at him and smiled lightly: "What happened two days ago. The Dionys wanted to cause us some trouble, but their number was too small. Massias had led a 10,000 troops north, and along the way there were support from city-states such as Taunis, Leotini, and Catanai. I believe that all the Dionys who landed are now wiped out!"
Chapter completed!