"And—" Ariandos hesitated, but stopped talking.

"What else?!" Henipolis asked angrily.

"There are people from outside the town hall who claim that their relatives have not betrayed you, but they have been beaten to death by the mob, and I hope you can redress their grievances......" Eriandos said.

"Wronged?" Henipolis clawed at his hair, he was most afraid of hearing this now, so he pushed his burden and said, "This matter will be handled by you, and you will also begin to prepare for the distribution of land to the poor." ”

Eriandos was stunned when he heard this, and then shouted, "My lord, I have never done this, I won't!" ”

"You won't, you can find someone." As soon as Henipolis spoke, he was stunned: Looking for someone? Where can I find it? Almost all of the officials in the city of Laos were killed by the mob, and it was likely that few people with administrative experience could be found in the city.

Henipolis sat down in a dejected manner: Do you want to do these things yourself? However, from the time he became an archon to the present, he has always given orders, and most of them have not been carried out, and he has not really dealt with political affairs, so he does not know where to start. And he has always hated those cumbersome and complicated government affairs, and he has a headache when he thinks about it......

When I lived in the Turi Devos Mansion, I saw the mountains of bills, city-state affairs, letters, etc., in Davers's study, and when Davers returned home, he spent most of his time there on official business...... Henipolis suddenly felt: maybe he was really not fit to be an archon!

Just when the two of them stared at each other, not knowing what to do, Shilos walked into the synagogue: "Lord Henipolis, now that the situation in the city has been calmed down, I would like to ask when we can prepare ships for us?" Now Lord Davers must be anxiously awaiting news of our operation?! ”

Oh, and this thing! Henipolis was in a trance that day, forgetting all this important matter, and he immediately looked at Eriandus: "Go at once and let the harbor prepare ships to transport the troops of Dionysia to Knappetia." ”

Ariandos exclaimed with a look of embarrassment: "My lord, now the port is in chaos, the sailors have all run to the city, the port management has either been killed or hidden, where can I find people to prepare so many ships?" ”

Henipolis was stunned again, and he looked at Shilos helplessly.

Shilos didn't expect this to be the case, and seemed a little anxious.

Henipolis looked at him apologetically, he was still familiar with Shiros, because Shilos had been in and out of the Great Davers Mansion a lot of times, and suddenly a light flashed in his mind: "Lord Shiroth, I remember that you served as the city administrator twice. ”

Shiros didn't know what he meant by this at this point, and nodded truthfully in acknowledgement.

"And Lord Bagul, who is still the administrator of Grummentum." The more Henipolis spoke, the more excited he became: "You see that there is a great chaos in the city of Laos, most of the administrators have been killed by the mob, and the whole city is no longer functioning normally, I want to ask you to help me manage the city, so that Laos can return to normal as soon as possible, so that you can also go to Krape to play a smooth way." ”

When Henipolis finished speaking, both of them in the room thought they had misheard.

"Lord Henipolis, you're not joking, are you?" Shilos blurted out.

"Now that it's such a bad situation, am I in the mood to joke with you?!" Henipolis said impatiently, "Do you want to go by boat?" Otherwise, you'll have to lead your team overland! ”

To get to Knappetia by land is to cross the entire Cosenza plateau, and although there are avenues, it will take at least two days. If Laos wants to resume normal operations, if it is efficient, I am afraid that it will take a ship tomorrow, and it seems that it will take about the same time, but Shilos is no longer the mercenary who only led the army to fight in the past, and after several years of administrative training, he is keenly aware of the significance of taking over the administration of Laos: "I will go back to the barracks and discuss with Lord Bagul. With that, Shilos hurried away.

"My lord, it doesn't seem like a good thing to do that." Thereandos had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

"What's wrong?" Henipolis immediately retorted: "If you feel bad, you will be left to do all these things." ”

Eriandos was speechless in embarrassment.

Henipolis smiled, his eyes brightening, for he had come up with a brilliant idea to get out of the city, which had become a mire and was full of hatred for him.

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It was almost noon, and Dionysius stood at the head of the ruined city of Crotone, withdrew his gaze to the north, and said coldly: "It seems that the young man of Dionysia has no intention of accepting the war letter and fighting us in a decisive battle. ”

"So what to do? My lord, are we going to take the initiative to attack them?! Astargras asked eagerly: "Cross the Neto River and attack the camp of Dionia?" ”

Dionysius glared at the reckless general and said coldly: "Stupid, that's exactly what the Dionians wanted!" In the first place, Crotone was defeated by Ionia, which was weaker than it, because of his rash crossing of the river, do you think I would be so stupid! ”

Astargras didn't dare to speak, he felt that Dionysius was in a bad mood right now.

"Fasipesas, how long can we last with our current food reserves?" Dionysius asked again.

"Including the food obtained from the city of Crotone, it can last for more than a month."

It's been more than a month! With the Dionian fleet in control of the east coast and no longer able to get aid from Sicily, there is only enough food to collect from Lorkry and these conquered city-states, but how much more?! Dionysius was anxiously thinking in his heart, his eyes swept over the slightly anxious generals and ministers beside him, and finally fell to the big city with a history of hundreds of years behind him, and suddenly said: "Burn here!" Burn down the city of Crotone! ”

"What?!"

"Destroy the walls of Crotone and burn the city!" Dionysius gave the order in a cold and stiff voice: "Then all the troops stationed here will be withdrawn to the original camp!" ”

Although neither the generals nor the soldiers of Syracuse preferred to live in comfortable houses compared to the rudimentary tents, Dionysius had already made a decision, and no one dared to object.

"My lord, what about those people in Crotone? The Acropolis is so high, we can't burn them! Fasipesas reminded.

"Leave them alone, let them call for help. Isn't Dionya their ally! Didn't that young man claim to keep his promises! I'd like to see if the Dioonians can save their allies! Dionysius' eyes were cold: "But if the Crotoneites dare to flee the acropolis in large numbers, drive them back." ”

"Understood!" Fasipesas and the other generals really understood this time: this was to force the Dioonians to cross the river to rescue Crotone!

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The city of Crotone burns in the light of the fire......

It was the first time that another Greek city had been burned down in Greater Greece four years later, but for the people of Syracuse, they had done it more than once. Dionysius was known as the "protector of Sicily", in fact it destroyed many historic city-states, including Greek cities, and its ability to destroy was no weaker than that of its rival Carthage, so the soldiers of Syracuse skillfully placed fires all over the city of Crotone, and soon set the whole city on fire.

The flames lit up the sky of Crotone, and the people of the Acropolis wept bitterly when they saw their homes burning in the flames. It didn't take long for the grief on the faces of the people to turn into horror as the fire spread and threatened to encircle the Acropolis.

Fortunately, Lucias and Milon had prepared in advance, and had already sent people out of the city to cut down the trees and weeds around the hillside. Although the fire did not burn the Acropolis, the scorching air and billowing smoke caused great trouble for tens of thousands of people inside the Acropolis, who not only felt the extreme heat, but also had difficulty breathing.

However, there was not much water in the Acropolis, and Milon wanted the people to endure it a little longer, but many frail elderly people and women fainted one after another, and finally had to agree: let everyone go to the pool to wet their clothes and put them on their faces to get through the difficulties.

After the protective measures were completed, most of the water in the pool was used up, and some people gathered in the temple to pray sincerely to the statue of Apollo, hoping that it would bless them from this disaster, and some even confessed to the huge idol, because they believed that it was the burning of Apollo's protection by Melanthius that would lead to today's retribution!

Lucias looked at the burning city at the foot of the mountain in a trance, and his heart was full of concern for the safety of the people in the Acropolis, and he knew that without water, everyone would not be able to hold out for a few days.

"Lycias." Milon came from a distance, and strangely showed a hint of relief on his face at this moment: "Don't worry, the Syracuse retreated, and then set fire to the city, there must be something special happening." I reckon...... It may be that Dionya reinforcements have arrived, and the Syracuse people have done so in order to fight Dionya with all their might! ”

"Is what you said true?!" Lycias immediately perked up and asked loudly.

"Dionia's reinforcements have arrived, it's very likely!" Miron's judgment was firmly in his judgment: "Didn't we get the news of the defeat of the Syracuse navy by the Dionian fleet a few days ago, without the help of the navy, Syracuse has lost the opportunity to threaten the rear of Dionia, and Dionya has defeated the invading Tarantum army, they have no worries now, and they can send troops to reinforce it." ”

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