Kuchias did not personally lead the soldiers into the fortress because of his wounds, he waited outside to hear the shouts of victory, but what he was waiting for was countless soldiers with frightened faces and desperately fleeing back, his desperate shouts and dissuasion were to no avail, but under the influence of these routs, the other soldiers who were still outside the fortress also fled, and the loud trumpets of Dionya sounded, allowing the routs to flee faster.

Kuchias also had to flee with him, and he was so anxious that it suddenly occurred to him that there was Falekus leading many people in the construction of defenses not far ahead, and perhaps they could stop these routs and regroup their army.

When he arrived, he saw no one in sight, only a half-dug trench and an unfinished rampart behind the trench, which hindered the retreat of the soldiers.

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When the Council of Syracuse learned of the "rebellion led by Hiktas", they not only sent a messenger to inform Theagenis, but also sent people to inform Falekus in the heights of Epipolis, because there were many old citizens among the people led by Faracus, and they needed to be immediately called up and formed an army to quell the rebellion of Hiktas.

Falekus was also shocked to learn of this, and when he returned to the city, he also prevented the messenger from informing them of them, because in his opinion: the attack on the fortress of Yurialus was in full swing, and at this time the attacking troops received this bad news, which would disturb the morale of the army and make all their efforts in vain.

When Falekus arrived in the main city, he learned that Hiktas had not attacked the council, but had retreated to the Grand Harbour with his army.

Falekus was in a hurry, he knew that the Great Port was very close to the Dionian military camp, and once Hiktath took the harbor and received the Dionian army by sea, Syracuse would be finished!

Time was pressing, and he didn't have time to wait for these old citizens to go home to put on their weapons and equipment, and then assemble and set off, but first led the 1,000 soldiers who had rushed from Xicheng and the 500 old citizens who had just been gathered, and quickly marched towards the port in the southwest direction.

When they arrived at the inner walls, they saw the corpses strewn across the ground, and the soldiers felt the urgency of the situation and the anger at the same time.

Entering the harbor, they soon discovered that the traitor Hitars was leading his army in front of the harbor.

When Hitarx saw Falekus, he was ready to talk to him in front of the battle, delaying a little longer.

Who knew that Falekus had already seen through his intentions and directly ordered an attack.

1,500 soldiers, mostly heavy infantry, roared and charged at each other, while the port soldiers hurled javelins at each other, and the battle was fierce from the start, as it was a matter of life and death for both sides.

But after a period of fierce fighting, the port army, which was mostly light infantry, gradually became exhausted, and if it were not for the arrival of some people in the port area, who attacked the flank of the Syracuse army with wooden sticks and oars, and temporarily relieved some of the pressure on the Hitars army, perhaps the Hiktas's army would have been defeated.

But now the situation is still not optimistic, the port people are constantly falling in the battle, and the whole army has been forced to retreat to the coast.

At this critical moment, 50 warships returned to the military port one after another, and as soon as the warships docked, the deck full of Ionian soldiers quickly jumped off the ship, and before they had time to assemble the whole team, they launched attacks on the flank of the Syracuse army in small groups under the leadership of the officers.

As the commander, Falekus was at the forefront of the battle, so he had no idea that the tide of the battle had changed, and he was not shocked until he found that the soldiers around him were beginning to retreat: the Dionian army had landed!

He threw away his helmet and cuirasse, and retreated desperately with the rout.

The Dionian soldiers were in hot pursuit, while the soldiers of the port area rushed to care for their wounded comrades and civilians.

Although it is a good choice to force the rout to disrupt the opponent's formation, the problem is that there are not many soldiers involved in the pursuit, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to completely disrupt the enemy, but it may be because of the confusion of their own organization, and they may be defeated by the other party, so the officers of the Dionian pursuit force cautiously chose to retreat temporarily, return to the military port, and join the large army that is still landing.

Fleeing from danger, Falekus did not let the 2,000-strong army of the newly drafted old citizens join the rout, retake the port, and prevent the Dioonians from continuing to land.

After the battle just now, he felt that the entire port area had probably defected from Syracuse and continued to fight in the port area, which was likely to once again encircle this army that had been gathered with great difficulty.

After much hesitation, Falekus did not dare to take any chances, so he had to let the army defend the inner wall and send someone to inform the council.

It wasn't long before 3,000 Dionian soldiers joined forces with Hitarx's forces to approach the inner walls.

The inner wall only served to isolate the port area and check the Gentiles, so it was not built as tall and strong as the outer wall, its height was only three meters, the aisles on the city were narrow, and there were no reserves of stones, wooden blocks, asphalt and other weapons to defend the city.

Because the heavy javelins thrown by the Dionian heavy infantry and the light javelins thrown by the port soldiers covered the sky, causing a lot of casualties to the Syracuse soldiers in the city at close range, and at this time, there were not many light infantry in the army led by Falekus, and the aggrieved state of the army could only be beaten but could not make an effective counterattack made Falekus's heart half cold.

It didn't take long for the people of the port area to send some wooden ladders for repairing houses and logs for building ships for the coalition soldiers to use in the siege of the city.

When Falekus saw this scene in the city, he felt uncomfortable, and the soldiers used their shields to defend themselves against long-range attacks under the city, while scolding the porters for their betrayal.

The Dionian soldiers quickly set up these wooden ladders on the three-meter-high stone wall, and took advantage of the favorable opportunity for the enemy troops in the city to be suppressed by javelins, and quickly ascended to the top of the city. At the same time, the coalition soldiers smashed open the city gate with logs and rushed through the openings in the inner walls, and the frontal battle gradually unfolded on and off the city.

At the head of the city, where the battle was raging, Falekus saw a large number of black troops (the second wave of landing force - the Eighth Regiment of Dionia) appear in the port area, and his heart suddenly fell to the bottom.

At this moment, another soldier pointed to the rear and shouted in panic: "The city is on fire!" ”

Falekus hurriedly turned around, only to see thick smoke billowing from the northwest, and the flames were soaring into the sky, and he couldn't help but be shocked: such a wide range of fires could not be accidental fires, could it be that the Dioonians had already entered the city?!

He thought so, and the soldiers were even more panicked, and their morale dropped sharply, but fortunately, these old citizens who had experienced many wars were still sensible and knew very well in their hearts: if they chose to retreat at this time, Syracuse might be all over!

As a result, with Falekus' constant running, they were able to barely support the defence.

Standing on the wall more than 10 meters high, the soldiers of Syracuse not only saw what was happening in the port area clearly, but also saw that thousands of Ionian soldiers had landed in the military port one after another, and were storming the precarious inner wall, and they also saw that the perpetrators of the fire in the city were also the Ionian troops in black armor and black armor, who were rapidly marching towards the core area of the city.

When the Syracuse defenders saw this scene of the Mukh people, they were extremely frightened, and extremely worried about the safety of their families, where was there still morale to continue fighting, and they began to flee into the city, in order to escape responsibility, they ran and shouted: "The city is on fire!!" The Ionians are in the city! The Dionicians have entered the city!! ……”

Their retreat left a defensive void in the southern part of the western wall, and the Dionian soldiers quickly captured the head of the city and attacked north along the walkway.

The defenses of the entire West City quickly collapsed.

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The fire was lit by the army led by Diocassis, who pursued the rout of Syracuse all the way, without giving the enemy a chance to recuperate, and pursued from the fortress of Juliarus to the edge of the main city, although they ran for several miles, but because the terrain was from the top down, the soldiers were relatively relaxed.

In the process of pursuit, Diocassis has been thinking: after the army led by himself enters the city, how can he better help the entire siege force to capture the city more quickly?

Because he knew that in order to gain a foothold in the fortress of Yuriarus, Commander Prosous once again ordered the whole army to launch a strong attack on the city of Syracuse, which was to create an opportunity for himself with the lives of his comrades, so he had to break the enemy's fighting spirit as soon as possible and reduce the casualties of the soldiers.

In the end, the best thing he could think of was to use fire.

So, he sent a company to break into the houses, collect olive oil and asphalt, pour it on a series of houses on the edge of the main city, and then light a fire while he led his troops in the pursuit of the rout.

Kuchias, Stasikos and others fled in the direction of the council, and he also hoped that the council would be able to send a force to intercept the pursuing soldiers who were like maggots attached to the bones, but who knew that the council was already without soldiers, and the councillors were terrified when they heard the news that the "enemy was coming", and they dared to stay in the council hall and fled westward, hoping that the troops of Taiagenis and Falekus would be able to protect their safety.