The Syracuse army retreated again.

Not long after, another general of Syracuse arrived, leading 3,000 soldiers, and saw wounded soldiers groaning everywhere and low-spirited army.

After learning about the entire battle with the injured Stacikos, both sides realized that the Dionians were well prepared, so it would be very difficult to regain the Yuriarus Fortress, and they began to regret their previous neglect of the Yuriarus Fortress.

So the two joined forces and carefully planned the next attack.

At this time, the person in charge of the defense of the Euriarus Fortress was the leader of the Fifth Bastion of the Eighth Legion.

In the previous consecutive battles, a captain of the Eighth Legion was seriously injured, and the first captain had been guarding Selinus. Therefore, there were two vacancies temporarily in the position of captain. Due to his outstanding record, Diocessis had been promoted from company captain to captain. Leotizides, who valued him, handed him such an important task to him this time. Therefore, even if he defeated the attacking enemy, he did not take it lightly and summoned Terentus and the other two captains to discuss and improve the plan to defend the fortress.

When everything was laid out, he began to worry about food.

In order to successfully attack, the soldiers did not carry rations. There was some food in the fortress warehouse, but this was a grain reserve for 200 people. However, for the army of Dionian, which had more than 3,400 people, Diocasis roughly estimated that it was only enough for one day to use. It was difficult to transport a large amount of food and supplies from the bottom of the mountain and from outside the city to the fortress. This is one of the reasons why Leotizides only sent more than 3,000 people here.

At this time, Terentus found Diocasis and suggested to him: "We need doctors and nurses here, and the injured soldiers need treatment and care in urgent need!"

Seeing him anxious, Theocasis knew that he was worried about the injuries of the soldiers of the more than 20 mountain reconnaissance brigade.

Previously, Terentus personally led 100 reconnaissance brigade soldiers to successfully climb over the wall, not only attacking the fortress, but also intercepting the walkways on both sides, but also sending people to tie the ropes hanging down the city. When the enemy was too many and we were few, the soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance brigade, as the vanguard, took one as one to ten, and the rapid and brave attack caused chaos in the already unexpected defender, creating conditions for the arrival of the subsequent troops, and of course some casualties were also suffered.

"You're right." Diocasis immediately agreed and took the opportunity to say: "However, the mountain roads here are difficult to walk, and the sky is dark, but these are not a problem for you mountain reconnaissance soldiers, so I hope you can send a small team of soldiers down the mountain to the medical camp, pick up a few doctors and nurses, and bring some engineers and carpenters by the way."

Terentus was stunned: "Does the engineers and carpenters want them to install crossbows on the fort?"

"This is a reason," Diocasis said seriously: "In addition, they also want to install a pulley device on the city wall, which can easily pull the baggage transported to the city to the top of the city."

"I'll send two teams down the mountain right away." Terentus promised immediately.

At this time, a soldier came in and said anxiously: "Captain, the enemy has begun to attack!"

Theocasis and Terentus looked at each other, quickly walked out of the dormitory, and climbed to the top of the city.

This time, the Syracuse army not only launched an attack on the fortress from the south, but also many soldiers were quickly approaching the fortress on the walkways of the city walls on the east and west sides.

The messengers sent by Stacikos told Teagenis and Falekus about the difficulties encountered by the army in attacking the fortress. Although not only the Dionian army outside the west city had begun to attack, but the Dionian coalition army outside the east city was also gathering, in order to regain the fortress and eliminate the enemy who broke into the city, the two generals still sent hundreds of soldiers to march north along the aisle at the top of the city to participate in the attack.

Enemies from three directions attacked at the same time, but Theocassis was not nervous because they had already made arrangements in advance.

The northward the Syracuse wall, the narrower the walkway. After all, it is not easy to build a city wall on the high ground. Moreover, it is not easy to attack with the terrain. There is no need to build a tall and thick wall like the city wall near the main urban area. Therefore, the wall corridor near the intersection on the east and west sides is only 4 people side by side.

Theocasis each sent two heavy infantry companies to garrison the walkways on both sides, and they arranged into extremely thick walls of shield formations to prevent the enemy from entering the fortress through the city wall.

Meanwhile, on the east of the fortress, the light infantrymen on the west stone walls picked up bows and javelins and launched long-range attacks on enemies on the walled walkway not far from them.

It is very difficult for the Syracuse soldiers on the aisle to break through the blockade of the Dionys heavy infantry, because the city wall is built along the terrain and the intersection is the highest. They also need to attack upwards, but at the same time they must be prepared for side fire from the fortress. Ten percent of the strength can only be used for 30 to 40%, which poses no threat to the Dionys on the front.

Facing the countless Syracuse soldiers surging south, the Dionian soldiers on the fort took out a round grass cage, poured it on asphalt, ignited it with fire, and threw it down. One by one, burning fireballs rolled into Syracuse's offensive army along the terrain, causing great chaos. The soldiers retreated in a hurry, pushing each other and injured.

These grass cages stored in the warehouse were originally reserved by the Syracuse defenders to deal with enemies who were struggling to climb mountains and attack cities. The Dionian soldiers used it to attack their original owners, and the effect was also very good.

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When the news of the "Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade successfully captured the Fortress of Yuriarus" was quickly returned to Leotizides, he gathered the troops in the camp without hesitation and once again issued the order to "strike the city".

Although the army had just carried out a fierce siege yesterday and suffered considerable casualties, it was to create conditions for the night attack of the mountain reconnaissance brigade at night, and now it has to continue to create conditions for the troops occupying the Yuriarus Fortress to gain a foothold in the city. Therefore, Leoticides sent 10,000 soldiers, carrying cloud ladders, pushing the siege equipment, divided into three waves, and launched an attack on the middle section of the west wall to the entire wall section of the sea.

In addition, he also retained a heavy infantry brigade, with two light armored brigades of 3,000 people as preparations. The purpose is not only to support the siege, but to have deeper expectations. If the development of the battle situation is beneficial to his side, he will consider putting this reserve team into the Yuriarus Fortress in the north, meeting with the original troops, and establishing the victory in one fell swoop.

To this end, he sent a lot of messengers, hoping to maintain close contact with the troops of Yuriarus Fortress and always understand the dynamics inside.

At the same time, he also sent a messenger outside the East City of Syracuse to inform Zantiparis of the good news of the "successful night attack" and hoped that he would urge the coalition forces to increase their attack on the East City.

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Most of the Syracuse civilians fought fiercely in the east, west and north directions, but one army was relatively leisurely - in the square next to the Temple of Apollo, the 4,000 soldiers from the port area did not seem to be facing the urgency of fighting, they either sat, lie, chat, play, or sleep...

Compared with the soldiers' relaxation, as the commander of this unit, Hiktas on the high-sedge square platform seemed to be worried, but what he didn't know was that among the thousands of soldiers resting in the audience, there were several eyes that were always paying attention to him.

"Artemis, it's been so many days, and this old guy still has no action. It seems that he doesn't plan to defect to our kingdom!"

"If he doesn't do it, we might as well leave him alone and go directly to Zamoratis and the others. They are more familiar with us and have a better impression of the kingdom. I believe that we will be able to convince them and surrender to the kingdom!"

"Don't worry, if Hiktas really made up his mind to protect Syracuse, he would have sent someone to arrest me and then rectify the entire port area, but he did not do so, which means that he still had ideas about my proposal, but he was still hesitating... We need to give him some time to continue to convince him. Moreover, his prestige in the port area is very high. Without his joining, it would be difficult to convince most of the port people to join us alone. By then, the news had been exposed, which would inevitably arouse the vigilance of the Council of Syracuse. Then the efforts we made in the past will not only be in vain, but will also affect the progress of Commander Prosous to capture the city of Syracuse and the war against Carthage in the Kingdom!"

"Artemis, I'm afraid we can't wait any longer! There was a lot of riots in the city just now. It is said that our army has occupied the Fortress of Yuriarus, and Prosous and Zantiparis are leading the army to attack the city with all their might. The citizens of Syracuse have basically been sent out to fight, and only this army in the port are left. What a good opportunity! Think about it, if Hiktas leads these more than 4,000 soldiers to launch a riot at this time, the Syracuse people have no extra army to quell the rebellion! Whether he leads his army westward or attacks the defenders eastward, it will lead to the defeat of Syracuse's army, allowing our army to successfully break through the city!"

"Right! Artemis, have you heard that our legion is on the verge of attack! We must seize this great opportunity created by our soldiers with their lives and blood!"

"Okay, let me think about it again... I think... let's take a risk. Since Hiktas is still unsure of his mind at this time, then we will force him to make a choice! We do this..."
Chapter completed!