"No, don't send troops anymore!" Falekus, who had been standing by, spoke: "The terrain of the Yuriarus Fortress is narrow and no matter how many troops are, it cannot be deployed. Moreover, from the current situation, the number of people who captured the fortress should not be large. As long as Stacikos can lead the team to arrive in time, there will be a chance to retake it. What I am worried about now is whether the army of the Dionians will take this opportunity to attack us again."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

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

"You always come the latest!" Kuchias knew that the Hiktas lived in the port and was the farthest from the council, but he couldn't help complaining: "When something happened to Syracuse, what can you, the general, help!"

Logically, Hiktas had long been used to talking to him with his colleagues in this tone, but when he heard these bad words these days, he always felt something strange in his heart, just as his face became a little unfair at this moment.

Teagenis, who empathized with it, hurriedly said: "The Fortress of Yuriarus was captured by the Dionians, and we are discussing to take him back."

"Ah!" Hiktas looked surprised and didn't say anything more, but his heart was filled with waves.

At this time, a faint sound of a military call came in outside the door.

Everyone was shocked again.

Kuchias shouted in a little panic: "It's our military call! There's an enemy situation!" While walking out the door quickly.

After a while, he returned to the hall and said anxiously: "The sentries from West City reported to us. They found that the soldiers of the Dionian were gathering on a large scale outside their camp, and it seemed that they were preparing to attack us!"

Everyone was nervous.

"I will go to West City now and lead the soldiers of the military camp to organize defense." Teagenis responded immediately: "Parnisus, you will organize the mobilized civilians as soon as possible, and seize the time to reinforce West City."

"Okay!" Parnisus also followed Teagenis out of the hall.

"I think the Dionians today will also attack from the east at the same time! Kuchias, hurry up and gather all the citizens responsible for defending the east and rush to defend on the east wall." Falekus also said anxiously.

Kuchias was ordered to leave.

"Shiktas, you lead the civilians from the port here. If an unexpected situation occurs, hurry to support immediately!" Falekus continued to issue an order.

Most of the people in the port of Syracuse were mainly crew members of the fleet, but they also selected 4,000 people to participate in the city's defense. Since most of them lived in difficulties, they were more light infantry and were not valued.

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

Falekus couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied: "Hiktas, have you heard me?"

"I get it." Hiktas replied coldly.

Falekus glanced at him and had no time to worry about it. He instructed another general to organize another 3,000 civilians to go north to support him first. At the same time, he decided to personally organize the people in the city to go north to build an emergency defense line to prevent the Yuriarus Fortress from being unable to regain the Yuriarus, at least it could prevent the enemy from going south easily.

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Yuriarus Fortress is a small square fortress surrounded by stone walls. The fortress has residential buildings, warehouses, reservoirs and other facilities, which can accommodate at least 300 soldiers here for a long time. Moreover, the wall of Yuriarus Peak is also a wall that forms the fortress. Once an enemy situation occurs, the soldiers in the fortress can quickly reach the top of the city to block the enemy. However, the peace and steep terrain for many days have also made the Syracuse soldiers, who have been in peace for a long time, relaxed their vigilance, and were successfully attacked by soldiers from the Mount Dionys Reconnaissance Brigade.

After leading the soldiers to attack Yuriarus Fortress, Tyrontus did not continue to attack the city of Syracuse, but instead stood firmly in the fortress and actively supported reinforcements.

Originally, the mountains to the west of Yuriarus Peak were a little flat and lush. Dionysius led the people to spend a long time to change the terrain and burned down the trees and weeds under the city, so that the sentries on the city could see the movements of the enemies under the city clearly.

Unfortunately, after Dionysius's death, Syracuse was in turmoil. In addition, the external environment was relatively safe, no one paid attention to the city defense issues. The walls of Yuriarus Peak were covered with weeds and trees again, which provided help for the soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance brigade to lurking under the city. However, the narrow terrain here also determined that it was impossible for too many soldiers to approach the city at one time, so more mountain reconnaissance brigade soldiers, as well as the two heavy infantry brigades of the Eighth Legion and a light infantry brigade, were hiding in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain to avoid being discovered by the sentries at the top of the city.

It was not until the raided soldiers climbed over the city, seized the torch from the sentry's hands, waved it according to the prior regulations, and sent signals to the mountain. The mountain reconnaissance brigade of soldiers, the corps light infantry, and the heavy infantry accelerated to the mountain in turn.

The mountain reconnaissance brigade rushed in the front. Even if these soldiers who had been specially trained for many years were still very fast, few people fell and fell behind. They did not take a break when they arrived at the city, but instead grabbed the ropes that had dropped from the city's heads and climbed up quickly.

After going up to the city, they took off the skin shield and daggers carrying them on their backs and rushed into the fortress with killing sounds.

The subsequent reinforcements finally defeated the soldiers of the Syracuse defenders who were still resisting.

While defending the fortress and the city walls, Tyrontus also carefully checked the situation inside the fortress. What made him feel a headache was that the fortress opened two door holes on the stone wall south of the city, but no wooden doors or anything else was installed to open and close.

It turned out that when Dionysius built this fortress, he deliberately designed it so that the fortress could only defend the outside but not the inside. It can be said that Dionysius had a thoughtful idea, but he did not expect that the sentry later specially made two large wooden boards for comfort to cover the entrance of the cave at night without affecting sleep (because the terrain here is high, sometimes it blows mountain wind, and the wind blows through the entrance of the cave at night, which is not only cold, but also makes a "whistling" sound, which seriously affects rest).

Terentus found these two large wooden boards at the entrance of the cave, and then asked the soldiers to find a lot of wooden blocks and stones from the warehouse and blocked the boards at the entrance of the cave.

But he was still worried, and in desperation he came up with another solution.

Only after the light infantry squadrons entered the fortress one after another, Terentus breathed a sigh of relief.

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The ambitious Dionysius included the Epipole Heights, Accratica and other areas into the city of Syracuse, which expanded the entire city several times. In order to make the new city sufficiently populated, he actively absorbed as many mercenaries as possible to become the new citizens of Syracuse, and at the same time forcibly moved the conquered people of neighboring city-states to Syracuse, such as Leotini and Katanai.

However, after the Southern Italian War, the mercenaries were expelled, and most of the people from other city-states who were forcibly moved back to their mother states. In addition, the population of Syracuse has been reduced by more than half compared to the original period. As a result, the vast area of ​​Epipole Heights became sparsely populated and almost became a wasteland for the people of Syracuse to grazed cattle and sheep. Therefore, the defeated soldiers who escaped from the Yuriarus Fortress could not find any help nearby. They could only run south to the main city area, inform the members of the General's Executive Committee of the on-duty military information, and then send troops to retake the fortress.

The city of Syracuse is too large and the shortcomings of insufficient manpower are exposed at this time. The Yuriarus Fortress is located in Lalalari from the main city. In addition, it was late at night. When the incident happened suddenly, Stacikos led 2,000 soldiers to the front of the Yuriarus Fortress, it was nearly an hour before it was lost. The Dionia raid troops with careful planning and preparation, especially the two heavy infantry brigades have also entered the Yuriarus Fortress.

Under the flames, Stacikos saw the fortress full of Dionian soldiers, many of whom were wearing dazzling armor. What surprised him even more was that the two holes were blocked from the wooden door because he rushed to lead his troops and did not carry any siege equipment.

Stacikos felt a headache because according to Dionysius's design, the Euriarus Fortress was the center of the defense of the northern city wall. Sentinels could only reach the top of the city through the fortress. Therefore, the sentries in the nearby city were sent by the fortress, and the stone staircase in the upper city closest to the fortress had to reach the middle of the east and west city walls.

Dionysius's design may be based on security considerations, but now it makes Stacikos feel embarrassed: if he leads his army to turn back and go up the city through the stone stairs, it will give the current enemy too much breathing opportunity.

Stacikos made a quick decision and ordered the soldiers to charge quickly towards the fortress, rushed to the stone wall as soon as possible, and broke the stone cave. At the same time, he asked the messenger to rush back to the main urban area immediately and report the situation here to the Military Executive Committee.

The terrain of the Yuriarus Fortress was high, and the soldiers of Syracuse had to use shields to protect themselves above their heads and tilt forward.

The Dionian infantry on the fortress did not need to fire arrows. They raised the stones they had brought from the warehouse, smashed the logs down, and the stones and wood bounced down along the terrain, and could hurt several people at once, causing the attacking Syracuse soldiers to complain, and soon they were dispersed.

Stacidas had to gather the soldiers again and charge forward in person. Finally, he led the soldiers to the wall and was immediately attacked by the Deonian soldiers on the wall. The javelins, arrows, stones and wood were smashed down like raindrops. The soldiers of Syracuse were very injured, and even Stacikos was shot in the arm by a sharp arrow.
Chapter completed!