Chapter 43 Volume Six III

The future of these parts happened as follows: the Arcadians, after disembarking at the port of Calpe at night, proceeded to the nearest village about thirty stadia away from the sea.At dawn, each general leads his company to attack a village, unless the village seems to be too large and the generals form two companies to attack.They also designated a mountain where the teams would rendezvous afterwards.For their raid was unexpected, and many prisoners were captured, and many sheep were easily obtained.But the Thracians who had escaped began to gather—for they were light soldiers against heavy armor, and many escaped the hands of the Arcadians.When they were assembled, they first attacked a company led by the Arcadian general Jusmina.At that time, they were already retreating to the designated place where a large amount of loot was piled up.For a while, the Greek army advanced and advanced, but when they crossed a gorge, the Thracians defeated them. Not only Simier himself was killed, but all the troops were left behind.In another company commanded by Hezhe Shanda in the company to which the ten generals belonged, only eight of them died, and Hezhe Shanda himself was one of them.

Other companies were able to assemble, some with great difficulty, others with little difficulty.But the Thracians were always calling to each other after the victory, and spent the whole night in great numbers to rear their forces.At dawn they spread out their forces and surrounded the hill where the Greeks had encamped.Their ranks consisted of large cohorts of cavalry and light armor, while more were constantly being assembled.They attacked the hoplites without danger themselves, for the Greeks had neither archers nor lancers nor cavalry.They ran or rode forward and threw their spears, and when the Greeks attacked they easily escaped, and each company always attacked a different point of attack.Therefore, one side has many injuries, while the other side has no one injured.It turned out that the Greeks could not move from this point, and at last the Thracians even cut them off from their water supply.When the situation became seriously difficult, they met to negotiate a truce.On every other point agreement was reached, but the Thracians refused to hand over the hostages the Greeks demanded.At this point obstacles arise.This is what happened to the Arcadians.

As for Cherisophus, he sailed safely along the coast, and reached the port of Calpe. Xenophon finally advanced inland.His cavalry went ahead and met some old men on their way.These old men were brought to Xenophon.Xenophon asked if they had heard that there was another army, a Greek army.The old man told him all that had happened, and said that the Greek army was now trapped on a mountain, and that Thrace surrounded them with all his might.Xenophon therefore kept these men under strict guard, that he might make them guides wherever he needed to go.After arranging for watchmen, he called his party together, and said: "My brethren, some of the Arcadians are slain, and the rest are besieged on a hill. I myself think that if they perish, we shall not will be saved, because the enemy is outnumbered and more confident of victory. Therefore, we had better hurry to rescue them. If they are alive, they can help us in the battle, otherwise we are left alone, We must meet the danger alone. We have no refuge from here. It is too far to return to Heracli, and there is still a long way to Chrysopolis, and the enemy is close at hand. The nearest place is Calpe We think Cherisophus should go there, if it is safe to do so. But first of all, we have no ships to sail from there, and we have no provision for a day's stay. Second Please consider that, if you see this blocked force destroyed and go only with Chrysophus's team, it is better to rescue these people, and then unite all the forces to try to save. Then, we must go , be prepared in your heart, or die a glorious battle today, or accomplish a very noble cause to save so many Greek soldiers. Maybe God arranges things in this way, He wants those speeches to be exaggerated, as if they are better than people The first class suffers disgrace, and those of us who have always done God's will are more respected than those who are pompous. Now you must stand in line to carry out orders. Now, then, let us go forward and have time for dinner , and then set up camp. During our march, let Timasong lead the cavalry to open the way in front, don’t stay away from us, and spy on what’s going on ahead, so that we don’t miss anything.”

With that said, he led the way.In addition, he sent some more agile light soldiers to the flanks and nearby high grounds, so that if anything was found anywhere and at any lookout point, he could signal to the army.He instructed them to set fire to all combustible things they found.So the cavalry dispersed properly and went to light the fire.The light soldiers marched along the heights and wells of the main body of the army, setting fire to everything that could be seen burning;The result was that the whole district seemed to be in flames, and the army seemed enormous.When the time came, they went up a mountain and pitched camp.From here they could see the enemy's campfire, about forty stadia away.They themselves lit as many campfires as possible.

However, when they finished eating, they immediately ordered all the campfires to be extinguished.At this time, after sending out the sentry, They slept all night.At daybreak they prayed to the gods, formed battle formations, and set out as fast as they could.Timasson and the cavalry rode ahead with the guide, and unknowingly arrived at the mountain where the Greek army was besieged.But they saw no army, either friendly or enemy (which they reported to Xenophon and the main body of the army), only a few old and weak men and women, and a few sheep and cattle left behind.At first they just couldn't figure out what was going on.But then they managed to learn from those who stayed behind that the Thracians disappeared as soon as it got dark.They said the Greeks had gone too; but where, they did not know.

Hearing this news, Xenophon and his soldiers packed their bags and set off as soon as they had breakfast, hoping to meet up with their comrades in the port of Calpe as soon as possible.As they marched, the traces of the Arcadians and Achaeans could be seen on the road to the port of Calpe.When these two people came together, they were very happy to meet each other, and greeted each other like brothers.The Arcadians asked why Xenophon's party had put out the campfire.They said, "At first we thought that you put out your fires to attack the enemy by night. So, at least we thought, that the enemy was also afraid of this, and went away, because they went away at about that time. But the required time passed. , and you did not arrive, we thought you had learned of our situation, and were frightened, and stole towards the sea. We thought it best not to be left behind, so we also marched towards this place.