Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

After receiving an order from Hasdrubal, the Iberian infantry carried rations and weapons and began to cross the mountains south.Hasdrubal continued to attack Serodiham to attract the attention of the defenders.

The Iberian infantry crossed the mountains and made a large circle. They appeared in the mountain pass at the rear of the city of Serodiham in the early morning of the third day. The Serodiam defensive camp on the mountain pass was negligent, and the Iberian infantry He quickly fell under the offensive, and the Iberians quickly approached the east of Serodiham.

The Serodiam soon panicked the news that "the enemy appeared in the rear".After being reminded by the Dionysians, they only concentrated their hands to strengthen the west wall for a limited time. For the east wall, they had only time to make simple repairs. The wall was not only short, but also outside the city. Do any defensive facilities, but they are lucky to think that this direction is temporarily impossible to be attacked by the Carthages. After all, this is already in the sphere of influence of the Dionysian friendly city-state and may be reinforced by the Dionysians at any time. , If the Carthaginians want to land here, they will take a great risk. As for the Carthaginians to turn over the mountains, those high mountains are not so easy to climb over. not good at.But I did not expect that what they were most worried about just happened.

At this time, the army of Hasdrubal also launched a strong attack on the west wall of Serodiham in the west. The defender of Serodiham immediately appeared to be underpowered. They foresee a critical situation and a hurried organization. All the combatable citizens went to the head of the city to defend, and they also sent people to the port to take the fast boat and rushed to Messina for help. In addition, they also arranged that the people in the city began to retreat to the port.

In fact, on the sea near Serodiham, Dionysia’s Clippers patrol and observe the fighting every day.When they saw Carthage’s army appearing in the east of the city of Serodiham, they realized that the situation was not good and immediately returned to Messina. So when the angel of the city of Serodiham came to ask for help, Messina's Chief Executive Ameris has already organized the fleet to prepare for the rescue.

Along with it was the Third Fleet.After the Carthaginians divided the army into two parts and attacked east from the north and south coasts, Seclion also had to divide the Sicilian fleet under his responsibility into two parts. The first fleet was in Catania. The Third Fleet was in Messina. As the war progressed, most of the ships of the First Fleet later settled in the military port of Jera. This was to prevent Carthage’s fleet from assisting the Army on both coasts in a timely manner. Going to the rear of the friendly city-state of Dionysia, you can also protect the fleet that transports the weights or refugees in time, and this time the third fleet was clearly deployed for the purpose behind.

When the fleet of Dionysia rushed to the sea near Serodiham City, the defense of the eastern wall of Serodiham City had been broken by the Iberian infantry, and the civilian soldiers had to give up the defense of the city wall. Partly retreat to guard the city, partly to the port.

Fortunately, when Serodiham built the city, although the port was included in the city, it was separated by a wall. The original purpose was to prevent the slaves and free people of the port from entering and leaving the city at will, and disturbing the city. Order, and now it has played a key role.

The Serodiam civic soldiers armed the port wall in advance, and also smashed the stone staircase on the upper wall, blocking the entrance to and from the port. After all, this wall is mainly to prevent the enemy of the port from entering the city. They only hope that The port fled for time.

After the ships that stayed in the port were full of Serodiam people, one by one quickly drove away, and the fleet of Dionysia also quickly drove into the port, continuing to stay at the dock, terrified The people picked up, and some ships from Tindaris, Calaitec, and Haluntium also came to the rescue, although the scene was a bit confusing, and even the ships collided and capsized It happened, but at this moment, all the Greek city-state sailors on the north coast are working together to rescue, and there is only one idea in their hearts: to rescue the Serodiam people as soon as possible and avoid being slaughtered by the Carthaginians.

Cerro Diham is not a big city, and the population is not large. Soon the old women, children, and children got into the boat, and began to load the civic soldiers who rushed to the pier...

The warships of the Third Fleet are displayed on the sea surface west of the port to prevent the sudden attack on the Carthage Fleet.The Clippers approached and reported to the flagship of the Third Fleet on the flagship, Flarios: "The Serodiam people in the port have all boarded."

Flarios nodded and said that he did not have much energy for such a low-risk escort mission. He did not think about letting the fleet infantry on the crow warship land in the port to assist the Serodiham to guard. Port, but after understanding the actual combat situation, he gave up the idea, he does not think that the 4,000 fleet infantry can only block the attack of 20,000 enemies that are about to break the city by virtue of the weak wall, and finally train the fleet. Infantry damage is really not worth it in this unimportant place.

"We will return when the fleet has left." Frinhos had just conveyed the order.

Suddenly, the watchman on the mast shouted loudly: "General, there is hostility ahead!"

Flarios's heart tightened, and he looked up into the distance, passing through the gaps of many warships, and saw two yellow flags floating on the top of the warship's mast on the west side.

It is Carthage’s fleet, and the number of warships is similar to ours...Flarios immediately made a judgment based on the semaphore (the yellow flag indicates the enemy, a yellow flag means that the enemy fleet is less than the Dionysian side, two The yellow flags indicate that the two sides are approximately equal in number. The three yellow flags indicate that the number of enemy ships is greater than that of the Dionysian fleet, while the four yellow flags indicate that the number of enemy ships far exceeds the number.

Flarioston was so energized that he immediately changed the order: "Blow the bugle and raise the black flag!"

Above the flagship, the five commanders blew the curved copper trumpets at the same time, resounding through the sea, and a long black flag was raised high on the mast.

"Under the dark night, there must be stars." Gypsophila is the most typical tactic of the Dionysian navy. It can maximize the power of the crow warship. It was originally relying on it. The navy built by Dionysian Only then defeated the powerful Syracuse navy.But after ten years of development, due to the change in the composition of the fleet warships, this tactic has undergone new changes, he is in need of a war to verify its effectiveness.

The captains and crew of all warships were immediately excited after receiving the instructions: the deck operator began to lift the suspension bridge resting on the deck to the front mast for placement; the helmsman adjusted the direction of the warship and began to line up; the sailor We began to swallow rations and apply grease to the cushions; the infantry sitting in the aisle of the bottom compartment began to wear armor... Everyone was rubbing their hands, anxiously waiting for the arrival of this naval battle.

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The fleet from the west came from Iberia, to be precise it was under the jurisdiction of Iberian Governor Marco.

Africa's coast is flat, but there are no tall and strong trees. A famous nautical race like Carthage has long used the Iberian Peninsula as an important resource base, not only because of its rich gold and silver mines, but also Because of the abundant wood resources there, most of Carthage's marine wood comes from Iberia.

After Marco became the governor of Iberia, he did not have the right to rule the fleet initially. In fact, in the process of conquering southern Iberia, most of the time did not need the fleet, but Marco considered that in the future, he would use the army When fighting in other places, the sea troop has no fleet protection, it will be a big trouble, and if you want to mobilize the Carthage fleet to come to Iberia, you will be hindered by the senate headed by Hanno, so he Only then decided to use the money earned in Iberia and Iberian trees to build a fleet of their own.

A few years later, an Iberian fleet consisting of 120 three-tier paddle warships, plus small and medium warships, and a total of 180 warships was established. Its commander was Admika of the Margonide family, and the sailors had Half came from the Phoenician city-state, and the rest came from Numbia and Mauritania. None of them were Carthage.The fleet quickly spread across the coast of Iberia and near the pillar of Hercules.

When Hanno knew about it, he was very afraid of it, so this time, when the fleet escorting Hasdrubal’s army to Lili Pike, Sicily, Hanno instructed Carthage Fleet Commander Annobas To be included.

This was met with strong opposition from Admika. He said: "Master Marco only agreed to let the army troops accept the command of Monte Adnor, and did not say that the fleet should also be commanded by the Carthage navy."

And Annobas retorted: "Since they are all Carthage's army, of course they must be under unified command. Only in this way is it good for the battle! It is good for Carthage!"

Admika refused to obey, and the two sides almost clashed.

In the end, the lawsuit reached the Senate, and the Senate had to send someone to discuss with Marco again, and then the cumbersome negotiations started again and again.The two fleets, one docked at Carthage and one docked at Lilithium, stalemate with each other, which is why Monte Adno has never seen a Carthage fleet appear on the sea near the south coast of Sicily. The reason for guarding the troops.

Until Hasdrubal knew about this, he asked the fleet to come to help on the grounds that he was about to capture the city of Serodiham in order to prevent the enemy from escaping from the sea, which is why the Iberian fleet happened to be here. s reason.