Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

It wasn't until the sunset and the night came that this incomplete Sicilian fleet took the captured warship and the captured Phoenician crew and slowly sailed into the port of Serinus...

In this naval battle, there were only 43 ships remaining in the 130 battleships of the East Phoenician Fleet, while 31 ships (including 6 damaged ones) were left in the 150 warships of the Dionysian Sicily Fleet, and 23 Phoenicia were also captured. Base warship.In addition, only 2,000 soldiers carried by the Sicilian Fleet returned to Serinus safely, most of which were legionary soldiers.

The Dionysian Sicily fleet finally won a terrible victory, but strategically they lost.Because on this day, Hasdruba led some 17,000 soldiers from the Iberian army to use only sapwood and ladders to launch another attack on the city of Agrigento.

In the face of the dilemma that the rations have been exhausted and the city cannot be attacked, the soldiers may suffer from hunger and starvation.In particular, the fierceness of the Lusitania fighters and the Celtic fighters in the mountains of northern Iberia brought great trouble to the defenders of Agrigento.

Agrigento’s civic soldiers suffered a lot of losses in the previous Minoa battle, and then after the siege of Serinus and Leotizides by the Carthaginian army, Ag Regento once again sent reinforcements, so there were not many defenders in the city. Although the enemy's attack was repelled in the battle of the defense of the city yesterday, many soldiers were killed and wounded. Today, they waited for the reinforcements for a long time. In the afternoon, the Agrigento finally could not resist the enemy's attack, and the city was broken by the Carthaginians.

Hasdrubal indulged soldiers in the city to loot and kill. In addition to part of the Agrigento fled to the port and fled by boat, the rest were brutally slaughtered.

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Early in the morning of the second day, Seclion came to the main residence of Serinus and saw Leotizides who was sitting in the hall waiting.

"Prosius, I haven't seen you in a long time. I hope you called me this time, not to borrow the fleet infantry, or to change our temporarily idle sailors into light infantry." Seclian's remarks clearly expressed his right Leotizides' dissatisfaction with previous practices.

Leotizides did not respond at all to his sarcasm. He glanced at him indifferently and spit out a sentence: "Miltias is dead in battle."

Upon hearing it, Sectrian immediately expressed his dissatisfaction: "Who did you listen to?! We searched for a long time yesterday, but we never found it. Where did you get it from?"

"Look at this." Leotizides coldly interrupted him, pushing the wooden box on the table case.

Seckrian immediately focused his gaze on the wooden box that didn't look like a Greek style. A terrible thought suddenly appeared in his heart. He walked forward and opened the lid carefully.

"Carthage Commander Margo sent envoys to say that when their army attacked the crew and soldiers we swam ashore on the beach, only Miltias led the unarmed crew to attack them bravely, Before the death of the war, he also cut down two Carthage soldiers. A Celtic leader from Iberia admired his bravery. He specially cut off his head as a booty...After Marco knew this, I redeemed it specifically, but the body can no longer be found, so I can only send him his head..."

Leotizides's flat, lifeless voice rang next to his ears, and Sekerian stared at the vaguely face in the wooden box, which he had identified with his former colleagues. After a while, he whispered in a low voice A sentence: "Miltias, you stupid..." Then gently cover the box.

After sitting back in the wooden chair, he could hardly suppress his indignant emotions: "The Sicilian war only began a few months. Not only did our Dionysian Navy suffer heavy losses, we also killed both Flarios and Miltias. Fleet leader... Damn Carthage! Damn, what a brother!..."

Seckrian scolded loudly to vent his grief.

"Carthage's messenger also brought a request." Leotizides ignored his anger and continued: "They captured thousands of our crew, hoping to replace us with Phoenicia, who was captured by us. Base sailor."

"The Carthaginians want beauty, and I haven't let the Phoenicians who attacked my fleet suffer hard enough!" Seckrian said bitterly.

"So you are rejecting the proposal of the Carthaginians?"

"No, change with them!" Seckrian raised an eyebrow: "The life of our navy crew is very precious, is it not comparable to those of the Phoenicians from Persia, let them go back, I believe it will not take a few God, they will also become our captives."

After the naval battle, the Sicilian Fleet brought the captives back to Serinus. After questioning, Seclian was temporarily relieved: the original fleet was a reinforcement from the Phoenician city states of Tyre and Sidon in the Eastern Mediterranean, not It was Carthage that had built a batch of warships earlier than Dionia.In light of the status of the Carthaginian motherland, it is obviously impossible for them to frequently send their fleets to help Carthage.

"In a few moments, you and I will send someone to discuss with the Carthage messenger to complete the exchange of captives as soon as possible."

"Okay." McLean replied succinctly, then asked sensitively, "What's the matter with such anxiety?"

"This morning, Cipros' messenger brought bad news, and Kefaluo Yitian was occupied by the Carthaginians."

"Kefaluo Yitian?" Seclian was puzzled. He had been at the naval base of Tarantum before, and he had only stayed in Sicily for a few months, and was always busy with the Sicilian fleet. Some things inside Sicily are not very clear. The name of this town is completely foreign to him.

"Kefaluoitian is a town of the Sikels, in the inner mountains of Sicily, northwest of Agrigento, on the frontier of the kingdom and the Carthaginians dividing the sphere of influence in Sicily. , Bordering on the territory of the Sikans..." Leotizides made a rare explanation, and Sectrian tried hard to recall the location of the town.

Seeing this, the deputy deputy Mukeru immediately took the map of Sicily, placed it on the table next to Sectrian, and pointed out the location of the town.

"This town of the Sikels was the former residence of the Tanikian tribe." Leo Tizids's next sentence impressed Seclian. After all, the matter of Laodicean was There was a huge storm in the kingdom politics.

"How did you lose it?" Sectarian was interested now.

"According to the messenger, when Carthage’s army surrounded Serinus a few days ago, more than 2,000 Sikans invaded the Sikel territory, and the Sikels had always remained strong against the Sikans, So he summoned four thousand soldiers without hesitation, and wanted to defeat them completely..." Leotizides slightly grinned, seeming to be laughing at the Sikel stupidity: "As a result, in battle, Carthage The army suddenly appeared, the Sikels suffered a fiasco, and the Carthaginians took advantage of the chase, successfully occupying Kefaluoitian.

Then, the Carthaginians and the Sikans continued to attack the city of Enna eastward, and the leader of the Tanikian tribe, who originally fled to the west of Sicily, became the guide of the Carthaginians, and also helped the Carthaginians to persuade West The tribes of Kyle made the hearts of the tribes of Sikel floating. Although Cypros had asked Herna Chief Executive Crelu to send reinforcements to Enna, the situation in Enna was not optimistic.

... In addition, since we did not transport reinforcements to Agrigento yesterday, I am also worried about the situation of the city of Agrigento.Once it is captured, tens of thousands of Carthage soldiers will have a firm foothold in the central part of the south coast, which will not only threaten the safety of neighboring friendly city-states, but also our safety."

Seclion straightened up, looked at Leotizides, and asked seriously: "Do you want our navy to send reinforcements to Agrigento again?"

"Of course I have this idea. Now you are the highest-ranking military commander of the Sicilian Fleet (although Seclian is not yet the chief of the Sicilian Fleet, but after the death of Miltias, the new Sicilian Fleet Chief has not yet been appointed as the first The naval commander of a fleet, McLean has the highest military position in the Sicilian fleet, and naturally becomes the spokesperson of this fleet), of course, I need to discuss with you, can the current situation of the Sicilian fleet be able to carry out the task of transporting reinforcements?" Leo Tizides asked seriously.

"Of course!" Seckrian replied succinctly. In the face of the military priorities of the Kingdom's interests, he has always been very important: "I can use the captured Phoenician warship as a troop carrier and use the Sicilian fleet Escort, the Phoenicians were still repulsed by us even though they had the upper hand yesterday. I am afraid that they will be hiding in the port for a few days and dare not come out. If they really dare to come, they can be wiped out! But this time, We can’t transport so many soldiers."

"Even if you can, I don't have so many reinforcements, just 2,000 people." Leotichides said that although plain, Seclion still felt a little helpless from the words, he looked at it again. A Sicilian Army commander who rarely travels, and then said: "It's okay to transport 2,000 people. I'll go back and get ready as soon as possible and set off before noon as soon as possible."

Leotizides did not express his gratitude, but continued: "There is one more thing, you need to know that when I let the courier return to Kataney, he will bring a message to Cipros and let him send a fleet as soon as possible. , To transport the army here to Gera, and you will still need your Sicilian fleet to escort it."