Dionysius left two hundred people to guard the camp and immediately led more than 1,800 mercenaries to attack the barracks under the city. Most of the civilians in the barracks were not far from the main urban area and did not spend the night in the barracks at all. After hearing the news of "the enemy's attack", a few soldiers hurriedly put on armor and came out to meet the enemy. As a result, the mercenaries who were attacking easily broke into the camp and the civilians immediately dispersed.

Dionysius did not stop the attack, and led the army to advance quickly towards the center of the main city.

Hiparinus's spies took advantage of the night to shout loudly from all over the main city: "Mr. Dionysius is leading the army back! Lord. Dionysius is back!! The surrender is not guilty!! The leader of the rebels has made meritorious service!..."

In the main urban area of ​​Syracuse, shrouded in the dim sky, the residents were awakened by the shrill screams and harsh fighting on the streets. When they heard the loud shouts of the spies, they were all shocked: "Dionis is back!" This sentence immediately made them feel awkward.

Just when the residents in the main urban area were in chaos, Herolis, who was busy with city-state affairs, did not go home last night because he was busy with city-state affairs. He was awakened by his confidant slaves. He was shocked when he learned that the enemy had come.

He calmed down his panic for a moment and wanted to go out and organize the citizens immediately to resist the enemy's attack.

At this time, Stacicos, Kuzias, Falekus and other generals broke in: "Gerolis quickly! Go quickly! The enemy is coming soon! Our army has collapsed and cannot be stopped at all!"

For a moment, Herolis' mind was blank and he murmured weakly: "Let's go...where else can we go?..."

"Go to the Epipole Heights! There, we still have more than 2,000 soldiers stationed in the North City, and there are also the slums in the port area outside the city... After dawn, we will take back the situation in the city!"

Kuzias's words reminded Gerolis and his group that they had no time to pack their luggage and notify their families, and rushed to the Epipole Heights in the northwest of the city.

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After a night of killing and chaos, the main urban area of ​​Syracuse finally restored order.

Dionysius' military adventure was successful, but he was uneasy when he failed to capture a group of rebel envoys such as Gloris. He sent out to capture their troops and was also repelled by the North City defenders led by Kuzias.

And Herolis and the others also learned that Dionysius was indeed back, but the troops he led to attack the city were recognized by the people. They were all the two thousand mercenaries on Ortigia. It was obvious that he could not withdraw the army from Greece, so they immediately asked for help from the port area.

Dionysius had learned from Hiparinus that the conflict between the rebels in the city and the poor at the port was in advance, so early in the morning he sent an envoy to the port and told the Testis and other poor leaders that as long as the people in the port stood on Dionysius' side, he would forgive the mistakes they had made in the riots before, and after the riot was quelled, each poor at the port would allocate ten acres of land in the suburbs...

At the same time, he also asked Hiparinus to post spies everywhere in the port area to promote the "he negotiated and reached an agreement with the poor in the port area."

In fact, negotiations with the poor in the port area did not make immediate progress, but it caused the division of the port area.

The people led by Testicus believed that Dionysius was not credible. They should stand with Gloris and the others and completely defeat Dionysius to ensure their safety and the benefits they will gain!

Others think that Dionysius gave better conditions because the area he promised was twice that of Girolis and the others, and it was also the land on the outskirts of the city. Obviously Dionysius attached more importance to them!

The two sides were quarreling and could not reach an agreement. Under such circumstances, it was naturally impossible to provide reinforcements to Gloris and the others.

Dionysius also issued a ban: prohibiting any residents in the city from walking around during the day or at night, and only staying at home! If they need to buy food, they can only send slaves to it, and they must be approved by the patrol team, otherwise they will be killed without any consequences!

Dionysius's ban reduced the risk of people gathering and chaotic.

He also asked the mercenaries to take all the slaves who dug stone mines in the Accratica area to the square in the main city, and then told them: As long as they are willing to fight for him and wait for the riots to be put down, they will be free! Those who perform well can become citizens of Syracuse!…

Dionysius' bold promise made the slaves of the stone mine see hope. Although the tyrant was tyrannical and dictatorial, these slaves at the bottom could not feel it. On the contrary, they knew that Dionysius was decisive and bold in doing things. Over the years, too many mercenaries and refugees had become citizens of Syracuse and could also share the land. So they chose to believe Dionysius's words and picked up the shields he plundered from the people's homes, which immediately increased Dionysius's team from the original 1,800 mercenaries to more than 7,000.

Dionysius also sent people to the army of Herolis to spread his newly issued orders in the name of a plenipotent general: any citizen who had been deceived by Herolis and other traitors immediately left his ranks and returned to his own homes, and he would be exempted from the crimes he committed! Citizens who were still stranded in the rebel camp before noon will be regarded as traitors and their families will be executed immediately!

Many civilians who were in the main urban area were frightened when they learned about it, fled from the team and ran back to the main urban area.

After all these measures came into effect, the proud Dionysius also sent an envoy to send the heads of his wife and son to Gloris.

Then he left Megikolis to lead 500 mercenaries and 500 slave soldiers to guard the main city, and he led 1,300 mercenaries and more than 4,500 slave soldiers to advance to the rebels' location, and he wanted to completely eliminate them.

Grief, Gloris and Stacicos, Cuzias, and they knew the situation was urgent and decided to fight Dionysius to the death. They led the remaining nearly a thousand soldiers to retreat to the Hexa gate on the northern wall of Syracuse, which was backed by the coast.

During the first riot ten years ago (ie, in 405 BC), Dionysius led the mercenaries to occupy the main city and basically put down the riots in the city of Syracuse. However, in these ten years, under his rule, the area of ​​Syracuse expanded several times, and the entire Epipole Heights was incorporated into the city of Syracuse, which took Dionysius's team more than an hour to arrive at the Hexamen Gate.

It was already afternoon. When Herolis asked to talk to Dionysius in front of the formation, Dionysius did not want to talk to him and waste time, so he immediately ordered a fierce attack.

The number of soldiers under Herolis was originally much smaller than that of the enemy, and the morale of the army was not very stable. Even though most of the soldiers on the other side were slaves, the rebel soldiers could no longer resist it.

But at this moment, a loud bugle sounded outside the gate of Hexa, followed by a deafening shout: "Hades!!!"

Dionysius's face changed drastically.

Dionia-Katana coalition arrived immediately!

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When Herolis and others fled to the Epipole Heights and learned that the attack was carried out by Dionysius himself, Herolis felt that there was little hope of recapturing the main city and eliminating the mercenaries, because he knew too much about the tyrant of Syracuse: without careful preparation, Dionysius would not easily take risks!

After discussion, Gloris, Stacicos and others finally decided to put down their self-esteem and ask for help from the Dionians.

Their location was originally closest to Taunis. The messengers sent out arrived at the city that had already belonged to the Dionian League in the early morning. After learning the news, Flarios, the acting commander of the Seclian fleet stationed in the port, immediately sent a clutch to Katanai, and he led the fleet to arrive later.

While receiving a letter from Gerolis, Catanai's interim chief executive, Antrapolis, also received a letter from Davers from Sili Ting: Dionysius has fled back to Syracuse, and hopes that they should pay close attention to the movements in Syracuse City and must not let Dionysius regain control of Syracuse's power!

After brief discussions, Antrapolis and the First Legion commander Antonios immediately decided to send troops to rescue Girolis.

The First Legion sent 2,500 heavy infantry and 500 light infantry, and Katanai sent 3,000 heavy infantry. In fact, when they heard that they were going to attack Dionysius, the people of the New Katanai enthusiastically signed up and asked to participate. However, time was tight, and Antrapolis only recruited citizens in the city of Katanai.

The troops had a total of 6,000 men, led by Antonios, boarded the Secret Fleet.

When we got ashore at the port of Taunis, it was already noon.

According to Dionia's living habits, it was lunch time. But Antonios did not let the soldiers stop for dinner, but instead gathered the 500 soldiers provided by Taunis and urged the army to accelerate. Finally, when the army of Girolis collapsed, he rushed into the Hexamen Gate.

These days, soldiers of the First Legion were stationed in Katanai. While doing rest and recuperation, they also helped Antrapolis stabilize the situation in the Catanian plains, trained the citizens of Katanai, cleared out the defeated soldiers roaming the countryside, assisted Catanai, Leotini, Sikuli and other Sicily city-states that had newly joined the Dionysian League, attacked the remnants of Dionysius... etc., life was relatively easy, and the energy I had saved was finally vented today.

So Dionysius' army, which had just won and was pursuing the defeated soldiers, was hit hard by the First Legion soldiers who were the arrows. The slave soldiers who had not undergone special military training soon collapsed under the fierce group attack of the First Legion soldiers. The mercenaries could still resist, but the number of the Dionys coalition troops was large and they had already surrounded them from both wings.

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Chapter completed!