Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Yes!" Mukruk commanded the soldiers to run around and shouted to the retreating legionnaires.

And Leotizides had already led the guard towards the north gate. He needed to get back to the city first, and then quickly and best arranged with the Geralds to cope with the collapse of the army and the defense of the enemy.

The flagman in the guard held the Legionnaire's banner high and fluttered against the wind. It pointed out the direction of the retreating Eighth Army soldiers.

The defeat of the enemy made Hasdrogba's tired body seem to inject a vitality, he followed the Lusitania warriors to hunt down the running enemy.

At this time, the ability of the Lusitans to excel in running was fully exploited, and the heavy armor of the Greek heavy infantry allowed them to be easily overtaken by the enemy.

Hasdrubal led the soldiers all the way to the end, and all of them became blood men by the end.

When they chased down the city and wanted to seize the opportunity to enter the city, the javelins and arrows on the city head poured down, causing a lot of casualties to the lack of defense.

Hasdrruba saw the many black helmets and black armor defenders on the city's head, and dared not continue to attack the broken soldiers crowded under the city, but turned around to chase down the broken soldiers in other directions...

It wasn't until dusk that the Carthage army retreated to the camp.

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In this battle, the 4th Cavalry Regiment of Dionynia lost half of its cavalry, and the Eighth Regiment suffered about 1300 casualties. Among them, the light armor and light infantry brigade lost more than half, and the Jera army suffered more than 2,000 casualties. Kamalina The casualties were the most. Of the 3,000 soldiers who originally fought, only more than 300 fled back. The entire coalition suffered nearly 7,000 casualties.The Carthage army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, of which the Balearic troopers had the most casualties, more than half.

Due to the collapse of the Dionysian coalition, most of the wounded coalition soldiers failed to escape.

The World War I had devastated the civic soldiers of Gera and Kamalina, which made Leotizides’ ability to command even more stretched, and more importantly, “The Carthage defeated Dior The news of the "Nia Army" was like a stone smashing into the seemingly calm political situation in Sicily, creating waves in some city-states.

After the battle of Gera, Leotizides continued to stay in Gera despite the repeated appeals of the Minoa, and he resisted the siege of the Carthaginians while resting his troops.In the case of less and less troops under his command, he is even more reluctant to dismantle it and station it in various city-states, so that he will only be eaten by the Carthaginian army one by one, and compared to Minoa, he believes that Jera Strategic position is more important.

Of course, he could not ignore Minoa, so he sent a messenger and went to Pachinus with the Minoa messenger for help.

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On the 4th day after the Battle of Gera, Cipros, the Sicilian governor in Katane, received an urgent report from the Kingdom’s Sicilian intelligence department, Serofinis: Military mobilization is underway in Syracuse, and its motive is unknown. .

To be cautious, Cipros immediately sent a messenger to notify the Seventh Army after he arrived in Katana, and was ordered to go back to Henna quickly, and rushed back to the new military camp near Leotini to prevent accidents.

But the accident happened.Pacinos promised to rescue Minoa and sent 3,000 reinforcements. Soon after leaving the port by boat, he suddenly encountered the Syracuse fleet.

In recent years, the eastern waters of Sicily was dominated by the Second Fleet of Dionia. The Navy of Syracuse, which once dominated Sicily, has long since disappeared and has shrunk into a fleet of only 30 three-tier award warships and a total of 50 warships. The small fleet only patrolled the sea near its own city-state, but then suddenly appeared on the sea near Pachinus and launched an attack on the troop fleet.

Since the Dionysian Sicilian Fleet has been stationed in Serinus during this time, while guarding the western waters and concerned about the fighting in Serinus, no warships were sent.Of course, the Pachnus did not make a request to Katane. After all, it is far away from the battlefield, the nearby waters have always been safe, and they have close relations with Dionysia, and they can get along well with the neighboring Syracuse. The journey from your city-state to Minoa should be safe.Therefore, the Pachnus only sent the only five 3-story paddle warships in their city-state to escort them, symbolically.

As a result, after being suddenly attacked by the Syracuse fleet, the Pachinus warships were stubbornly resisted, but outnumbered. Except for the four troop-convoys fled back to the port, the rest were all sunk.

At the same time, Syracuse sent an army of 12,000 people. Instead of marching north, it attacked Taunis, which was close to it. Instead, it turned south and hurried to Kamalina. Claimed to be "to help the Kamanlinians and resist the invasion of the Carthaginians".

After the Kamalina rejected the request of the Syracuse army to enter the city, the Syracuse army immediately changed its face and surrounded the city of Kamalina, while sending a messenger into the city while threatening Kamanli. Naren: Syracuse has already formed an alliance with Carthage, or reattached to Syracuse, so that they can be preserved when the army of Carthage arrives; or choose to refuse, Syracuse will attack the city, after the city is broken , The people in the city will be disposed of by the Carthaginians.

Since Kamalina has sent most of the civic soldiers to assist Gerald, there are only more than 500 Kamalina civic soldiers who can fight in the city at this time. They are weak and can only helplessly say: Need Time to consider.

The messenger of Syracuse gave me a brutal day.

After the messenger returned, the Syracuse army not only immediately blocked the road from Kamalina to Gera, but also the Syracuse warship blocked its port.

At this time, the Carthage army that won the battle had moved the camp eastward, increasing the siege of the city of Gera, so Leotizides was busy responding to the siege of the Carthage, against Kaman Lina's misfortune is ignorant.

Only half a day later, the Dionysian merchant ship that had ventured into the port brought news: The Siracusa fleet attacked the Pachinus troop transport fleet and blocked the ports of Pachinus and Kamalina.

When Leotizides knew it, he was taken aback: Syracuse finally entered the war!

The joining of Syracuse has undoubtedly made Dionia’s plight in Sicily worse, especially on the south coast. The Dionysian coalition is not only more disadvantaged in number, but also in a strategic situation. .

Even if Leo Tizids wanted to reinforce Camarlina, he was helpless for a while. He was threatened by the Carthage army by land and blocked by the Syracuse fleet by sea.Without the escort of the fleet, I am afraid that the fleet cannot even enter the port of Kamalina, so I fed fish and shrimp.

Leotizides dispatched the Dionysian Clippers docked in the port of Gera and immediately rushed to inform Seclian in Serinus.

One day later, the bewildered Kamalina saw the black-pressed Syracuse soldiers carrying the ladder, pushing the tall siege equipment at the head of the city, and approaching the city wall, making them tremble and afraid of suffering Ag The Camerina, who suffered a tragic encounter in Ligento, finally chose to surrender.

Over the past 10 years, due to the strength of the Kingdom of Dionia and the long-term friendly exchanges with the Kamalina people, there is almost no pro-Siracusa citizens in Kamalina, which has captured the city of Syracuse. The Zha people were unable to support a government close to them for the time being. In order to prevent rebellion, they demanded: The Kamalina surrendered many protons, and at the same time, 3000 Syracuse soldiers were stationed in the city. The arrival of the base army can effectively prevent its destruction of Kamalina.

In addition, the Syracuse people requested that only 500 Kamalina soldiers be left to join the Syracuse army to coordinate their operations.

The Kamalina, who are now artificial swords and I am fish, finally agreed to these conditions.

After receiving the attachment of Kamalina, the Syracuse army did not lead the army westward, and joined the Carthage army that was besieging Jera, but entered the city of Kamalina, leaving 3,000 soldiers stationed. The rest of the soldiers landed on the coast of Pachinus by boat, and were about to encircle the city of Pachinus. They sent envoys into the city and demanded that they be attached to Syracuse.

The Syracuse messenger threatened: If Pacinus refused this request, Syracuse would not only immediately execute the more than 2,000 Pachinus citizens (the Syracuse fleet sunk the Pachinus troop ship) After the team, they did not go away, but rescued the fallen Pachinus civic soldiers and captured them), and then led the army to attack the city of Pachinus. After the city was broken, all the people in the city would be sold To the Carthaginians, to be slaves.

The threat of Syracuse frightened the people of Pachinus. Their city was surrounded by the army of Syracuse, the port was blocked by the warships of Syracuse, and the people looked tearfully on the head of the city and looked at thousands of people under the city. Relatives who were tied to the knees and looked haggard, and the Pacnus who were at a loss were at a hurry to hold a civic conference and quickly reached a consensus. This had been before the Dionysians entered Sicily. Pacinos, a city-state affiliated with Syracuse, once again attached to Syracuse.

Within a few days, Syracuse successively incorporated Pachinus and Camerina into their alliances, and in a blink of an eye, the entire southeast corner of Sicily became Siracusa’s sphere of influence again, and had always dreamed The citizens who revisited the glorious Syracuse are all happy and cheered.

And the proposal of this plan, and despite the opposition of colleagues, the strong general Siracusa, General Ty Agnes, was greatly praised by the public, and his popularity increased for a time.

But at the same time, some people expressed dissatisfaction with Te Agnes’s approach. For example, General Hiktas publicly questioned: "In order to obtain two small city-states, Syracuse took great risks to anger Powerful Dionia, this is very dangerous! Ty Agnes, don’t forget that the Carthaginians are far away in Africa, and our Syracuse is next to Dionysia!"