Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

The strong force gave Marco enough confidence that a few deaths and injuries would not make him care, and his words also cheered up the generals.

Marco said to the adjutant again: "You immediately send someone to notify Admika in the south camp, let him organize 10,000 soldiers, and then rush to the east camp as our backup."

"Yes, lord!"

Marco looked around the crowd and then said in blunt Celtic: "Rutham, you and your clan are the strikers."

The Celtic leader Rutham, who looks and dresses clearly different from others, reverberates: "Oh!"

Rutham is a Lusitan, a fierce and militant race widely living in northwestern Iberia, which once caused Marco’s expansion in the Iberian Peninsula to cause great trouble and even threatened him in Iberia In the rule of southern Asia, Marco finally had to conclude a peace agreement with them.This time he impressed several large tribes of this race with generous interests, so that they formed an army of about 8,000 people and followed Marco to fight in Sicily.Rutham is just one of the tribal leaders. Since the melee in the night relies more on personal force, it is in their favor.

After about ten minutes, the army of the Chinese army battalion successively left the south gate of the camp and followed the built earth wall toward the east camp that was in chaos.

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When the evening arrived, Leotizides went to the east side of the city, always focused on the camp of Carthage, and waited until the opposite camp was loud and noisy, he was temporarily relieved. The tone, and then immediately ordered the 10,000 heavy infantry composed of the Eighth Army and the reserve soldiers who had been waiting in the city to rush out of the city and continue to attack the enemy camp that began to fall into chaos.

At the same time, Leotichides, who was careful in his work, did not forget that while the enemy’s attention was attracted by the night attack, he sent soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance team, over the earth wall, lurking in Carthage In front of the camp, he promptly reported what he saw, so that he could fully understand the enemy's response.

Therefore, even though he learned that the raids had merged and completely shattered the resistance of the enemy, leaving the camp completely in chaos, he was not excited.On the contrary, after learning that most of the Carthage camps in other regions had assembled their soldiers, they did not rush to rescue, but instead stood at the border of their respective camps, which made him uneasy.

Sure enough, the raid forces wanted to drive the squads down to crush the neighboring camp, and the chaos continued to expand, but progress was slow.

At this time, another urgent news came: Carthage's central camp had sent troops, and they were rushing along the earth wall to the east.

Leotizides immediately realized that the Carthaginians wanted to cut off the return of the night raids and surround them with annihilation.

The Dionysian soldiers who participated in the night raid were the main force of Leotizides. She has been standing at the head of the city, paying attention to the progress of the battle, just to avoid such things happening.

"Woo! Woo! Woo!..." The troop soldiers who had long stood at the head of the city immediately sounded the retreat horn.

Before leaving, the assault soldiers who were repeatedly instructed by the commander heard the horn, reminded each other, and stopped to pursue the defeated soldiers one after another...

Before retreating, they did the last thing-burning the camp.

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The rescue team led by Marco has not arrived yet. The news that the "Dionyans actually retreated back to the city" did not meet his expectations. In his opinion, after the Dionysian night raid was successful, he will definitely take advantage of the victory. The soldiers were defeated and the results expanded, which gave him time to surround him, but the calmness and decisiveness of the Dionysians defeated his plan, and the rushed reinforcements had to become a fire brigade.

As a pioneer, the Lusitalia people were unwilling to chase after the title, but they were long-ranged by the long-prepared city defenders. After paying some casualties, they had to retreat.

In this night raid, the Dionysians only sustained more than 400 casualties, but caused nearly 4,000 casualties in the Carthage army. Half of them were caused by the Carthaginian soldiers pushing and trampling on each other while fleeing in the night.At the same time, 13 areas of the Eastern Barracks were burned into a white field, and the Carthage army suffered heavy losses.

After returning to the big account, Marco had been unable to fall asleep. He was deeply concerned about this defeat. The indomitable strength of the Dionysian fighting will and the change of tactics shocked him and made him aware. The huge force paralyzed himself, making his reaction to the battle situation dull.

After feeling painful, the next day he used this as an excuse to remove most of the Carthaginian generals. The senior team officers who followed him on the Iberian Peninsula for many years took over Carthage’s army and began to fight It was reorganized and trained.

At the same time, he suspended the construction of the earth wall and stepped up the repair of the humble camp.

Of course, last night's fire caused the Carthaginians to lose a lot of materials, and Marco sent a messenger to notify the master of Lilithi, Imiseray, to deliver a batch of materials to the camp.

There is no shortage of materials in Lili Bicheng for the time being, but the manpower is insufficient, and the labor of the port has to be recruited temporarily.

When the team carrying the heavy load was about to arrive at the Carthage camp, there was an accident: a laborer from the port excused his stomach and broke away from the transport team in an attempt to escape from the team. The patrol cavalry was found halfway. Under their pursuit, the laborer Jump off the cliff and fall into the sea.

For the Carthaginians, this was a trivial matter, and no one mentioned it again when the transport team arrived at the camp.

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In the past two days, Miltias became more disturbed, because the Sicilian fleet had made great efforts in the night before the attack, not only won a big victory, but also suffered minor casualties. He believed that the Ministry of Military Affairs had received this good news. , Will reduce dissatisfaction with him.

After having breakfast, he was ready to go to the pier, command the fleet to leave the port, and go to cruise in the western waters of Sicily.

Although the Carthage army landed in Sicily, but to support such a huge army, it is not enough to rely on the help of the Carthage confederations in western Sicily. More materials will also need continuous transportation across the continent of Africa. Over here, this will require the Sicilian fleet to cut off the route between Carthage and Sicily. For a long time, the army of Carthage will fall into the dilemma of insufficient supplies, so now Miltias can not dare to slack off.

But before he walked out of the house, the door was suddenly pushed open, and the guard rushed in: "General, good news! Master Sectrian... still alive! He... he is back!"

Miltiyas felt a shock in his heart, and looked at the guard with excitement, subconsciously asked: "Who said you are alive?!"

"Miltias, Hades protects, of course I am still alive!" Along with the familiar voice, a familiar figure appeared at the door.

"Ah... Lord Seclion!" Miltias hurriedly saluted.

At this time, Seckrian's face was thin and tired, and he was wrapped in a big red clot, and he said anxiously: "Hurry and give me something to eat, I will starve to death."

"Go to the kitchen, reheat the porridge, bake the bread again, and fry a few more fish..." Miltias quickly urged the guard.

"What's hot, bring the bread and porridge directly, and I'll fill the stomach first." Seckrian said impatiently, then turned back to the fleet officers who accompanied him here: "Brothers, hurry up Go back and perform your tasks. If you delay, you will be punished. After I rest, I will chat with you."

A large group of crews crowded outside the door listened to Sekerian's persuasion, left the house and returned to the dock, and the news of "Sekerian returned alive" quickly spread throughout the fleet. Every crew member was excited, Because they thought the dead naval commander and heroes were back, it was a miracle!

Watching Seckrian gobble up eating breakfast, Miltias choked on what he wanted to say until Seckrian burped, stopped eating, put his hands on the wooden table, and stared at his eyes Clay pots containing porridge.After a moment, he said in a low voice: "On the way to come, the brothers told me...Flarios died in battle, almost all the Sicilian fleet was destroyed by the storm, and drowned many brothers..."

Miltias watched Seclian's whole body slowly leaning forward. It seemed that the whole person would be paralyzed on the wooden table. He just wanted to speak, and he heard a "slap" bang, and Seqlian's right hand suddenly slammed. Photographed on the wooden table, he almost turned the earthen jar on the table, but he straightened his waist again: "However, we still have dozens of warships saved, but the Carthage fleet was completely annihilated. We also seized the opportunity to occupy Serinus, so that naval battle was still won by my Sicilian fleet!"

Confident Suiyan returned to Seckrian’s face, and Miltiyas certainly would not argue with him. Whether the battle with the Carthage Fleet on the stormy day was right or wrong, but took the opportunity to raise the doubts in his heart: "Adult , This time we have been looking for you, but have not been found, where have you been?"

"I'm in Lilifeng." Seckrian said lightly.

"You... you were captured by the Carthaginians?!" Miltias was taken aback: Why did the Carthaginians who had previously exchanged captives never mentioned this?!

"Of course not." Seckrian remembered bitterly: "...After that storm, I woke up and found myself lying on the beach, surrounded by drowning and unconscious crew... I wanted to rescue them, but I watched When the Carthaginians arrived at the beach, I did not want to be captured by them and swam into the sea again...

But I was tired and hungry at the time. After a short swim, I was physically weak. I happened to have a few slow-moving Carthage ships searching for the survivors of the shipwreck nearby... I was helpless and dived into the water, dark by night, While the Carthaginians didn't pay attention, they grabbed the side of a big ship that was about to return, and were taken into the port of Lilipo.

Due to storms and shipwrecks, the Lili Pian port was very chaotic, allowing me to board the pier quietly, and later with the help of the Greek compatriots in the port, I temporarily lurked in Lili Ping...I later recalled that when I was lying The beach may be between Mazara and Lili Peng...

Because the Lili people are worried about being attacked by our army, the city has been heavily guarded and it is difficult for me to go out.If it wasn't for this time after the landing of Carthage's army, we need to transport the heavy load, I'm afraid I'm still waiting for an opportunity in Rili Pyong, but—"