Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Ancitanos continued: "Also, His Majesty Davis asked me to remind you,'The war between Dionysian and Samoney is a battle between the Warriors. No more deaths and injuries, Dionysian will not go Sorrow, but if! If you Samone dare to point the spear at the defenseless Dionysian people and kill them indiscriminately! Then, Dionysian will let the anger of revenge pour into Samoney In the region, let the people of the Samonei experience more brutal revenge!'Please think about the tragic ending of Dionysius, the Syracuse lord in Sicily, and his hired cavalry!"

The ambassador of Samone dismissed the warnings and threats of Ansitano on the surface, but his heart was overshadowed.

At the same time, Ansitanos also brought Daphes' apology for Alexis. After all, Dafos' nod will make the Samonais add thousands of troops, and will inevitably give the Dionysian army in the road. Operations in the Nigerian region have caused more trouble.

However, Alexis let Ansitanos speak, and please rest assured that King Daveus said: This move will not have any impact on the army. On the contrary, he is confident that he will capture more Samoni captives in the future!

The words spoken by Daphus, propelled by Ansitanos, quickly spread throughout Dawn.In addition, shortly afterwards, the captured Downey people were put back one after another. The Downey were more inexplicable to King Davers, and more proud of being a Dionysian, and to the Kingdom of Dionysian. More attentive, and at the same time more enemies of the Samonais.

Moreover, this incident not only affected the Downey, but also affected the neighboring Puchti and Mesapi people.

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Just as the entire army of Alexis converged on Downey, Leotizides in Sicily also led the army to the Minoa region.

Along the way, the Dionysian army was warmly welcomed by many Greek city-states such as Kamalina, Gera, Pachinos, Agrigento... they changed the previous operations for Dionysian It was a joy to plan and take the initiative to meet the Carthage army that was already in sight, so it not only provided a large amount of food supply, but also sent its own civilian soldiers, so that when this army reached Minoa, it had already been The 15,000 people at the time of departure quickly swelled to more than 32,000.

Since the Dionysian army was advancing along the coast with great fanfare, the movement of the Carthage was detected by the Carthage people. Therefore, the Carthage army did not attack the city with all their strength in these few days, but instead focused on strengthening the camp.

At the same time, with the approach of the Dionysian army, Monte Adnor began to feel uneasy. He sent messengers back to Lilifang on several occasions, demanding that the leader of Lilibian city, Simimre, immediately take Carthage on Sicily The young and middle-aged citizens of the colonial city and the Phoenician city-state are organized as many people as possible, and then immediately send them to the Carthage Battalion in Minoa, and don’t forget to send the Sikan army together. Come.

By the time the Dionyan army reached Minoa, Monte Adno had withdrawn the Carthage army back into the camp on the west bank of the Pletara River.

And Leotizides did not rush forward. He refused the invitation of the Minoa people. After inspecting the surrounding environment, he began to build camps on the rolling hills not far north of the city of Minoa.

The barracks of the two sides met for about four miles, with the Pletara River in between, and the confrontation for several days.

To this end, the men of Leotizides and allied generals were puzzled by the fact that "he has not allowed the army to attack". In order to unify his understanding, he also specifically explained: "We have fewer soldiers, and Carthage has more soldiers, and The defense of the Carthage camp is fairly tight. If you rush forward to attack, the casualties will be large and the chance of winning is too small. We should wait for the Carthage to attack, so as to use the advantages of the defense to kill the enemy in large numbers and finally defeat them. "

"However, the Carthaginians have not attacked us now." Agrigento's general general Mickey Dams said doubtfully.

Leotizides smiled slightly and said confidently: "Our King His Majesty Daveus once said,'This war with Carthage will be a long war. Onia will be able to get rid of the impact of the drought and restore the normal food supply in the country. By then, it will be able to send more troops to Sicily to fight against Carthage...' So we need not worry, let the ignorant Carthage Basic people continue to consume time that would have benefited them."

Another point, Leotizides did not say: most of his tens of thousands of soldiers' food supply was provided by these Greek city-states on the south coast, which greatly reduced the pressure on the food supply of Dionysia's Sicilian territory Of course, he has reason to defend at Minoa leisurely.

"But...the Carthaginians may also continue to increase their strength, and finally attack us at the end!" General Minoa, who came to the military conference, said still worried.

"So I will ask you to rigorously lay out the defensive facilities according to Dionysia's camp standards when building your camp, so as to withstand the attack of the Carthage army!" Leotizides expression Seriously said: "And the Carthaginians concentrated their troops in Minoa, and the defense behind them must be relatively empty, which is conducive to the attack of the Dionysian fleet. And the more enemies here, the more they attack the food. The greater the demand, the transportation of its food must be very frequent. This will help the Sikels to attack their food team and cut off their food channels. Once such a large army lacks food, they will not attack us. Defeated!"

Leotizides's explanation temporarily dispelled the concerns of the allied generals.

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In the large account of the Carthage military camp, Monte Adnor explained to Millefio this way: "The reason why I did not play is because... according to intelligence from reconnaissance, the Dionysian There are more than 30,000 troops in the army, and most of them are heavy infantry. We are only 10,000 more than them, and half of them are low-priced Numisbians. You have also seen the performance of their previous siege. I don’t think they can resist the attacks of the Greek heavy infantry, even if they are crowded! So we need more soldiers, really brave, noble Carthage soldiers or Phoenician soldiers—"

"But you still have our 10,000 holy infantry under your command. We are enough to repel the larger number of Greek heavy infantry. There is nothing to fear!" Millefio said proudly.

"You're right!" Monte Adnor said in the tone of the other party: "The ability and courage of the infantry of the Holy Order is undoubted. I fully believe that you can repel the Dionysians, but put the heavy burden of offense. On your shoulders, it will lead to increased casualties! The infantry of the Holy Order are the essence of our Carthage citizens, because we not only stare at this battle, we will also occupy the Sicily Islands, and even expedite Great Greece , So I must protect your best army in Carthage and use your excellent army! Therefore, I will urge Semimeray to organize more Carthage or Phoenician soldiers, Strengthen our strength so that the Dionyans on the opposite side can be defeated more smoothly!"

Millefio was immediately persuaded. He hesitated and said, "...maybe we can bring Hasdrubal's army back."

When Monte Adno heard it, he immediately shook his head like a rattle: "No! No! No! Millefio, haven't you understood yet? It was Hasdrubba who didn't want to obey the command and had to act independently, Now we ask him to come back again. Doesn’t this make him mistakenly believe that we will not be able to leave the Iberian army? Isn’t he even more arrogant? It’s not that we will command him, but that he will command us!

Before I set off, Lord Hanno warned me again and again that the command of the army of Carthage could only belong to Hanno, not Magonid, and the glory of victory in this war could only be shared by us. It has nothing to do with Iberia!"

In fact, Millefio regretted his words as soon as he spoke them. How could he not know what Monte Adorno said? He had no choice but to say nothing at this moment.

Monte Adnor went on to say: "Now what we urgently need is not the army of Hasdrubal, but our navy of Carthage! I don’t know what happened to our fleet, why these days are only on the sea Seeing Dionysia’s warships flaunting, where is our navy?! Millefio, I suggest you write immediately to urge Lord Hanno, we need a powerful Carthage navy to guard our emptiness The rear, even defeating the enemy's fleet, harassing their rear, so that the Dionysians are attacked on both sides!..."

Millefio clearly realized the importance of this issue and agreed without hesitation.

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Both Dionysian and Carthage's troops are trying to postpone the fighting as far back as possible in order to be more fully prepared.

But the two huge military camps stretched seven or eight miles from north to south, only three or four miles from east to west, standing on the highest hill where the Dionysian military camp is located, looking west, you can even see the middle of the Carthage camp Army account.At such a short distance, Hedgehog gathers so many soldiers. Due to the characteristics of the city-state army, the generals cannot completely control these civic soldiers. Often, a small conflict and friction will lead the battle to an unexpected direction.

This time is February 14 of the Kingdom of Dionia (379 BC). Although it is still spring, the weather in some Mediterranean seaside towns has begun to heat up, especially on this day, the temperature in Minoa suddenly increased After several degrees, at noon, the ground was scorched by the scorching sun. Many soldiers of the Dionysian Confederacy and Carthage soldiers could not bear the discomfort and thirst caused by the high temperature, and ran After leaving the camp, he drew water and even bathed in the Pletara River, not far from the camp.

The Pletara River is a small river. Except for a section close to the estuary, the river is more than 30 meters wide. The average river width is less than 20 meters. In some areas, it is only ten meters.And its downstream flows on the flat ground, the water flow is gentle, the water depth does not exceed the knee.

Therefore, the soldiers of the two sides are on the banks of the river, and they are only more than ten meters apart, so they can understand what the other looks and say (of course not necessarily understandable).