Vol 6 Chapter 140: Shock of the Syracuse

After everything was arranged, Faxi Pesas had some concerns: "Adult, if it rains in the next few days..."
"You can rest assured that this issue. I specifically asked a few old fishermen who have lived here for decades. They all agree that it will be a sunny day from tomorrow. You can see that the rain today is much smaller!" Dionysius looked around and encouraged: "You, you must hurry up these two days and build enough siege equipment as soon as possible! Fassi Pissas, your mission is a bit heavy, in order to prevent the siege tower because of the ground. Muddy, unable to push to the north gate of Crotone, you must build at least five solid embankments, can you do it?!"
"General, you have assigned me enough people, this is no problem at all!" Fassi Pissas promised.
"Very good!" Dionysius looked confidently at everyone: "Everyone, two days later, we will attack Crotone again! After this battle, I will be at the Temple of Apollo in Crotone. Celebrate you, don't let me down!"
The generals vowed in unison: "Apollo is on, we will definitely break the city of Crotone!"
The atmosphere in the account was overwhelming, and Dionysius was also infected with it. He smiled and said to the Phoebe master who had remained silent. "Dave Davis dared to be self-proclaimed as a king. Is Sparta not punished?"
To know that before the Hippo War, Sparta used to call a
liberator
, and they also claimed to be liberators because they overthrew one after another in the Greek mainland and even on the Aegean islands. Regimes, such as the descendants of the Pisces of Athens, the sons of the Ayurveda of Thessaly, and so on, so the Greeks once thought that Sparta was extremely hateful of dictatorship.
Pfeidas glanced at Dionysius, his abdomen: You only know Davers, why not look at yourself first? !
Of course, he couldn't answer this way, but he said coldly: "Is Syracuse a punishment, isn't it enough?"
Dionysius laughed haha.
At this moment, the tabernacle opened, and the servant officer hurried in and whispered next to Dionysius.
The smile of Dionysius suddenly solidified on his face, and his face became extremely ugly. His "Ah!" screamed and slammed the table next to him, and then grabbed the attendant and angered: " Le Putinies! Where is this bastard?! Let him roll over to see me!!"
The attendant was shocked by the anger of Dionysius, and the voice trembled and said: "Adult...Leptinis...the wounded, in his camp...healed..."
"Let this coward immediately roll over to me! Even if he is dead, he must bring his body to me!" Dionysius's anger is not diminished, and the tone is cold.
"Yes...is..." The servant officer rushed out of the big account.
When the account was silent, he only heard the rapid breathing of Dionysius and the pacing of the back and forth.

Is the fleet experiencing setbacks?
Finally, someone asked questions that everyone wanted to ask.
Dionysius glanced at him and found that the person who spoke was Phibidas, and only this Spartan talent dared to speak when Dionysius was angry.
Dionysius looked at him and returned to sit back in the wooden chair, vomiting two sighs: "It’s a setback, it’s a big defeat!"
Big defeat? ! Everyone in the account was shocked.
"Adult, is it... the Carthage people entered the war?" Fasi Pesas asked cautiously.
Everyone has a tight heart: with the strength of the Syracuse navy, only the Carthaginians are rivals in the Western Mediterranean. If Carthage is involved in the war, it may be a little dangerous in Syracuse in Sicily!
In the face of more than a dozen pairs of slightly panicked eyes, Dionysius felt more sullen in his chest: "Don't think too much, Carthage did not participate in the war, it was the fleet of Dionia... alone defeated our navy, let More than 300 of our warships have lost two-thirds, and three of them have lost nearly 200 of them..."
what! ! ! The big account is like a blasting pot, and everyone can't believe the fact that the Syracuse Navy is facing a terrible defeat to its Dionia fleet.
We must know that since the last sea battle was defeated to Carthage, after years of construction and accumulation, Syracuse has made it difficult to reach 500 ships, including three ships of three layers. This time, in the big Greece, in addition to leaving dozens of warships to stay in the port of Syracuse, Leiptines has all gone with the team, and then sent dozens of warships in Messina to block the profits. Jim, control the strait. The rest of the warships were led by Leptines personally, all participated in this naval battle, and the result was defeated, and lost to a Diorian who did not have a warship a few years ago! This is simply...
"Don't be noisy!" Dionysius, who was already annoyed, was even more upset by the disputes of the generals: "What happened to this naval battle, and I will know all the time when Leptinies came. Keep me quiet now!"
The voice just fell, and the silence was restored again in the big account. Only this time, the restless people became the owners of the account.
With the command of Dionysius, Leptinies came very quickly, only to see his stumbling crash into the big account, and slammed into the ground, and trembled and said: "Big... adults, I... I am guilty. !"
Dionysius saw his head and arms wrapped in linen, blood stained it red, looks miserable, and his heart rose a little, and was suddenly overwhelmed by the anger: "You come just right, everyone really wants to know How did you kill more than 300 warships!"
The sound of his negative test contained endless hatred, and Leptinies couldn't help but hit several embarrassments.
Dionysius saw him in this pocket, and his heart was even more angry. He grabbed the iron sheet that had just been picked up by the guards on the table, and threw it over, and was in the forehead of Leptinies. When he came out, he didn't dare to scream.
"You are going to say!" Dionysius pointed at him and roared.
"Yes! Yes!..." Lep Tinies responded.
Originally angry, his generals felt that he was a little pitiful at the moment, but Phibidas looked at himself. When the Spartans were obedient, they were beaten by the instructors with sticks. If they did not pass the training assessment after they grew up, they would be beaten if they failed. The Spartans were jealous of their own citizens, and they were more loyal to the Blacks and the Allied soldiers. Alas, this kind of stick violence often makes other city-states reluctant to get close to Sparta, and Spartan citizens have long been accustomed to it. Therefore, Phibidas even felt in his heart that the generals who caused great losses to the city-state should be hoisted and beaten to death.
Le Putinies’s brief description of the entire naval battle.
After listening to it, Dionysius looked calm and fell into thought: "You mean... The Dionys installed a wooden bridge on the ship, they can hook the nearby warships, and then they can board the ship and fight. And won the victory?"
"Yes...Yes. Their wooden bridge is very flexible and can be turned in all directions, so that our warships can't attack around." Leptinis hurriedly argued.
"Since I know that the collision tactics don't work, why not retreat in time?!" Dionysius roared.
Leptinies is speechless.
"He wants to catch the new king of Dionia and end the war." Fibidas sighed: "So that Davers just guessed your thoughts beforehand, so I will be myself." Be a bait, seduce your ship to fight desperately, and capture a lot of your ships, which led to your fiasco... Davers is really a great commander!"
Dionysius glanced at the past, and Pfeidas did not care.
Faxi Pesas discovered a problem from the narration of Leptinies and asked urgently: "General Leptines, listen to you, there is nothing too much about the warships captured by the Dionys. Big damage, can they use these ships to deal with us soon?!"
Everyone's face changed.
"Oh... this..." Leputines didn't know how to answer.
"Hey! The Diaonians want to expand their fleet, there are so many sailors!" Dionysius's words reminded the generals here: Yes, Syracuse was captured three There are hundreds of ships on the layer of paddles. To restore their combat power, at least three or four thousand sailors are needed. Judging from the situation of the Dionysian Union territory that is now known, their young and middle-aged people have already invested in the expanding army and navy to cope with the wars that have occurred in many places. They should not be able to produce such a large number of young and middle-aged people. And not everyone can immediately become a qualified sailor, which requires long-term training. Experienced helmsmen are not so easy to get together!
The generals were relieved a little.
"Leptinis~EbookFREE.me~ Your failure has caused a lot of trouble for our army!" Dionysius said with an indisputable look, "I asked now." You, if the Denia fleet came to attack, do you have the confidence to lead the remaining warships to victory?"
The generals immediately turned their attention to Leptinies again, which made him more nervous and fearful. He subconsciously touched the bandage wrapped around his head with his hands, and the wound under the bandage was his own knife. In order to win the sympathy of his brother.
"Speak quickly!" Dionysius screamed and scared him to say, "If... If you can bring the fleet of Dionia to the deep sea, and slowly, they will... I have a certain The grasp of them defeated them. Their warships erected such a large wooden bridge on the front mast, which easily led to the heavy tail of the warship. Not only... not only the speed and flexibility, but also the wind and waves at sea. It’s easier to overturn when it’s big, but... if it’s offshore –
Leptinies looked up and looked at Dionysius carefully, then bowed his head and lowered the bass to say:
Front against their offense, our fleet is afraid ...and will fail..." At the end, his voice was completely weak.
Dionysius is not as angry at the moment as he was at the beginning. When he calms down, he has to admit that this novel naval tactic of Dionia has caused a lot of trouble for Syracuse. Anyone who is the commander of this fleet will suffer a big loss without knowing it.