"Black soldiers! So the Ionian Legion is here, I don't know which legion it is! Xenophanis thought to himself, his eyes glistening with excitement, and he turned and ran south of the town, where the freedmen and the public servants gathered.

The fleeing crowd of Mejaro rushed into the town in terror, blocking the already narrow access to the town, preventing the drawbridge from being pulled up and the town gate unable to close.

When the Sikuli were in a hurry to drive the people into the city, the company led by Leotizides had already arrived outside the town, and when they saw this, they immediately gave the order: attack!

The soldiers rushed to the north gate and stabbed their spears at the people blocking 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, and some desperately squeezed into the town, and the citizen soldiers at the town gate could not stop it at all.

When Melisanda's detachment arrived, he saw that the pursuit of Leotizides' company on the drawbridge at the north gate of the town of Meyaro had made the front of the town extremely bloody and chaotic, and Melisanda thought to himself: if his detachment went up, he would only be able to follow behind the "madman" company, and perhaps he would not even be able to touch the enemy, so he would rush into the city.

Melishanda was unwilling. At this time, he saw some of the Meyaro fleeing 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 Meyaro, only to find that the drawbridge had been pulled up.

Melisanda's heart was half cold.

"Captain, what should I do?!" The soldiers asked anxiously.

Melisanda was also very anxious, and when he looked back, there were other detachments running towards this side, but he did not find the engineering battalion carrying ladders and planks, and it was obvious that they must have fallen behind.

Do you have to wait here?! Melisanda looked at the wooden wall in front of him with only twenty or thirty enemies, and only a few of them were shooting arrows at them who were already in range, and they were not at all a threat to them in armor, but they could not predict whether they would be thrown by javelins when they approached the wooden wall.

"Tortoiseshell array!" He immediately decided: "Approach the moat and swim through!" ”

He saw that there were not many enemies on the wooden wall, and it was only more than three meters high, so he could climb over the human wall.

Fifty soldiers received the order and immediately surrounded Melisanda in the middle, forming a tight small phalanx, covered with long shields on all sides of their heads, like a huge box wrapped in iron sheets, and slowly marched towards the moat.

The other detachments did the same, and some of the detachments that were far away from the town gate, not even the tortoiseshell formation, quickly ran to the moat.

The people of Sikuli, who could not enter the town, fled in panic, and the soldiers did not realize it at all.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of fighting and screams from behind the city gates, mixed with terrified shouts: "The freedmen and slaves have rebelled!" ……”

Soon, the Sikuli on the wooden wall stopped staring at the Ionian soldiers in front of the moat, and instead turned to fend off the thugs who rushed up on the wooden ladder.

Bows and arrows continued to shoot at the wooden walls, knocking down the unprotected Sikuli with arrows.

Although Melisanda under the city did not know what was happening in the town, how could he not take advantage of such a good opportunity, he immediately ordered the soldiers to disperse the tortoiseshell formation, hurried to the moat, threw down the long shield and bayonet spear, and jumped down one after another with only a short sword.

Although the armor makes the body heavy, there is occasionally special training in this area in ordinary military training. The width of the moat is three or four meters, kick your legs, draw your arms twice, and you will reach the opposite bank.

Melisanda and the soldiers struggled to climb ashore and were about to lean against the wooden wall, but the drawbridge was lowered, and then the wooden gate was opened, and someone shouted at the top of the city: "I am Xenophanes, a reserve citizen of Dionia, and the Sikuli have been beaten away by us!" Legionnaires, hurry up and get into the city! ”

When Melisanda heard this, he was stunned, and the laughter of the soldiers of the other detachments sounded in his ears: "Captain Melisanda is diving again!" ”

The subordinates beside him were also complaining to the captain: "Are you cursed by the goddess of doom, even we are unlucky with you!" ”

Melishanda watched the other detachments easily walk across the drawbridge and into the town of Meiyaro, and was annoyed: "Come with me and swim back!" ”

"Ah, in the water again?!"

"The long shield and the bayonet are on the other side, don't you take them back!"

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In the afternoon, the 1st Dionian Army completely captured the town of Mejaro at the cost of minor casualties.

The town of Mejaro is a town, but it is larger than the city of Sikuli, and it lives up to its name, but there is no such authority as the council, the senate, or the town hall, and it has only one consul's residence, where the usual administration and law making are decided.

The city of Sikuli was originally a democratic city-state, but after it surrendered to Syracuse, Dionysius installed one of the first Sikuli nobles to surrender to him, Hibagris, as the plenipotentiary general of Sikuli, and the people of Sikuli were afraid of Dionysius's obscenity and had to submit, so that Sikuli also became a tyrant city-state. And Hibagris, appointing his henchman as the Archon of Mejaro, will directly govern Mejaro in his place, thus placing the former Naxos territory under the rule of the tyrant of Sikuli.

But now sitting at the head of the administrative hall of the Consul's Mansion of Meiaro is no longer Hibagris's men, but Antonios, the First Legion of Dionia.

"Legion Commander, the Sikuli people in the town have been arrested by us, there are 3,653 people in total, most of them are old people, women and children, what do you think you should do?" The first captain, Giogris, said with some unbearability. This attack was supposed to be the first of the fourth brigade to break the city, because Leotizides' company belonged to the fourth brigade, rushed to the front, and was about to break through the north gate, who knew that there was a riot in the city, but instead let several detachments under the first brigade led by Melishanda enter the town from the east gate first, and won the first credit, and also gave Giogris the right to deal with the prisoners in the town.

"Lord Antonios, don't be too merciful to the Sikuli! They were once allies of Naxos, but instead of fighting alongside us, they betrayed the covenant and took refuge in Syracuse, and assisted the evil Dionysius in conquering our cities, taking possession of our lands, and sending troops every year to the mountains west of Etna to hunt down our fugitive people, both men and women, as slaves...... Now the goddess of vengeance has finally answered the prayers of our Naxos, and sent you Dionyas warriors to take their wrath upon the Sikulis, and make sure that they are all slaves and tortured to death! ......" shouted Torrilaus the Naxosian, who stood beside Laodisian and one of the organizers of the riot in the town in response to the Dionian attack.

Giogris frowned, looked at Antonios, opened his mouth to speak, Antonios glanced at him, and then said sympathetically: "Naxos is our Dionian allies, and you suffer as much as we Dionian people suffer...... Trotilas! ”

"In!" Trotilas, the captain of the third group, responded loudly.

"Now go and take the Sikuli people to the square, and let the people of Naxos identify the crimes they have committed and punish them according to their demands!" Antonios' method was apparently borrowed from what Davers had done to Crotone's captives at Turiy.

"Yes!" Trotilas turned to leave.

"Lord Antonios, I'm going to organize the people to go to the square!" Torylauth said happily.

Antonios nodded, and Giogris wanted to say more, but the second captain next to him, Zantiparis, patted him on the leg with his hand to signal him to calm down.

Antonios' eyes turned to him, and he said solemnly: "Whether the food is sufficient or not is an important foundation for our legion and the people of Naxos to be able to gain a foothold here!" So, Giogris, I'll send you to check the town's grain reserves, and collect all the food from the Sikuli family, and we'll distribute it centrally, understand?! ”

"Yes, Legionnaire." Giogris understood that Antonios was dissatisfied with his performance, so he removed him from the duty of guarding the prisoners and assigned him a new task to do, and he obeyed the military law.

Antonios watched Giogris leave, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, if Amintas had seen his subordinates resist the orders given several times, he would have scolded him a long time ago, but he wouldn't. What's more, as a member of the original "Shilos Squad", although Giogris is not as close as Shiros, Matonis, Olivers, and Martius and Davers, the relationship is not bad, so why scold Giogris for this little thing, and affect his perception in Davers's heart, although Giogris is not a man with many tongues, but here, there is a dangerous character......

Antonios' gaze quickly swept to Xenophanes, who was standing quietly in an inconspicuous corner, and then quickly retracted his thoughts and continued to ask: "General Salatus has already taken over the port with his troops (Saratus is the leading general of Lijim's forces sent by Lijim to fight with the First Legion)?" ”

"Yes, sir." Laodisien of Naxos replied: "General Salatus also brought more than 300 slaves in the prime of life with him, so that Jim's ships could be unloaded smoothly after they landed in port. ”

"I'm much more relieved that the port is functioning normally." Antonios said and sighed: "Unfortunately, there are no military facilities in the harbor to moor warships, and our fleet has to go back to Lijim to rest. ”()

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