Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Only the surviving Carthage sailors of the Carthage flagship were not driven off the sea. They were evenly distributed on the decks of the various warships. The crew who were captured by the Carthage and luckily survived held wooden sticks and Leather whip, return all the insults suffered before to the enemy.

Only two captives were left on the flagship-Admira and Carthage's flagship sailor.

Midolades let the captain of the captain take a spear to stab the sailor to death and avenge his chief.

When Midolades turned his attention to Admika, the former commander of the Iberian fleet and the man of the Margonide family looked haggard, but the expression was calm: "Go ahead."

Midolades smiled: "You are the biggest spoil in this naval battle, how could I easily let you die."

With that said, he let his men take a helmet, let the crew pee in, and then brought it to Admika, said in a cold voice: "Either drink the urine inside, or cut off your urine, choose. "

Admika's complexion finally changed.

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In this day’s naval battle, the new Carthage Fleet lost a total of 70 warships and nearly 13,000 crew members; the 3rd Fleet of Dionynia lost 56 warships, and 7 warships were damaged to varying degrees. Capture any enemy ship.

After Annobas fled back to the port of Sarros, he was busy reorganizing the warship that had returned, and did not lead the fleet out to meet Admika.Mainly because he had the primary responsibility for the failure of this plan. For a while, he did not know how to face the Iberian navy general who seemed to be his men, but in fact his competitors. Not upset.

Unexpectedly, at night, news came suddenly: The Dionysians defeated the fleet led by Admika, and even Admika himself was captured.

Annobas was shocked: the news he had received before was that the Dionysian fleet had returned north to Alenia.Unexpectedly, these terrible Dionysians dared to go back and fight Ademika's fleet!

If the last time he could blame the destruction of the fleet on the storm, and this time he had to face the terrible combat power and strong fighting spirit of the Dionysian navy.

In the following days, Carthage’s remaining new fleet shrank in the port, allowing the Dionysian fleet to provoke and never fight.

The route from Sardinia to Carthage was cut off again.

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The army led by Davers left Jera and continued to march westward along the coastline, sleeping in Ekonum and Agrigento. Both towns were destroyed by the Carthaginians, and Daves had enough left. The time allowed the soldiers to build the camp, and the Carthage army never appeared.

On the fourth day, the army arrived in Minoa, the city built on a hill was destroyed even more seriously.

"Your Majesty, it seems that we can only build camps on the flat ground opposite the river." Tolmed suggested.

Daphes stood on a hill, overlooking the lowlands to the west. Although the fields were harvested at this time, the field of vision was still golden.

He asked: "This is the last battle where Prosius led his army to defeat the Carthage?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Tolmeide's finger north of the finger: "It is said that the camp of the Chief Prosius was built there."

Daphes turned and looked for a while, then turned and looked forward, and asked, "How far is the city of Serinus?"

"About a hundred miles." Tolmed replied.

Daveus thought for a moment and issued the order: "We are camping on the mountain, informing the engineers to quickly survey the terrain, let the troops accelerate the pace of the march, and quickly go up the mountain to clear the city of Minoa..."

"Yes!" Although Dalmidt slightly disagreed with Davers's caution, he knew that Davers's idea had been decided, so he did not give the opposite opinion.

As they prepared to return to the ruined city of Minoa, a team of Dionysian scouts from the western plains came across the Pletani River and ran to the foot of the mountain, eagerly high Shout: "Report! Carthage's cavalry is here! There are many, many!"

Some soldiers reported back immediately after hearing it, and everyone was shocked when they heard it.

Daphes murmured, "It seems that the Carthage finally can't help it."

"Your Majesty, I will inform the troops who have gone up the mountain to immediately prepare for defense."

Daveus nodded, and Tormid turned away.

Daveus looked around, then pointed to a large section of the west wall of Minoa that was still standing in front, and said: "We go to the city to check the enemy."

The chief of the palace guard Maltius immediately dissuaded: "Your Majesty, the city of Minoa is badly damaged. I am afraid that the wall is not strong and it is prone to danger."

"Send someone to confirm." Davers did not give up.

Maltius had to send a team of guards up to the wall to investigate, and later replied: "That section of the wall is still relatively strong."

Davers immediately hurriedly walked towards the city wall, others could only follow.

Standing at the head of the city and looking west, the view is wider.

The Carthaginian cavalry came quickly. They poured into the flat lowland like the tide, and their forwards had galloped across the Platani River.

"Carthage has so many cavalry, I don't think there is at least 5,000 rides!" exclaimed Henripolis.

"Accurately, those alien cavalry who should have been conscripted by Carthage. The real Carthage cavalry probably occupies only a small part of it." Daveus opened his eyes wide and pointed to the mountain below the sky covered with dust. The Carthage cavalry unit said seriously: "Look, the cavalry with the most basic equipment but the largest number should be the Numisbians, who are good at projecting javelins; and there... wearing leather helmets, The cavalry with long swords should be Iberians; as for the Carthaginian cavalry...oh, I finally found them, and it was them who were wearing shiny armour; I heard that Marco also hired some cavalry from Mauritania, but The Mauritanian cavalry and the Numibian cavalry are wearing similar clothes, so it is difficult to distinguish..."

"In this way, Carthage's cavalry are all coming together. Although the number of our cavalry regiments is smaller, we should not lose to them?" Henipolis, who does not know much about the military, is against the kingdom. The legionary troops are very confident.

Daphes was silent for a moment and said frankly: "In terms of cavalry, we are weaker than the Carthaginians."

In the previous battles, several cavalry regiments suffered various levels of loss of soldiers, and they have not been well supplemented afterwards. After all, cavalry is different from infantry. It costs too much and is not easy to train.But even if the four cavalry regiments of Dionysia were fully assembled and assembled together, Davers did not think that they would be able to defeat these enemy mounts under the mountain. If a cavalry wants to win, the main reliance is on riding, quantity and training. Dionysian cavalry is naturally stronger than opponents in training, but in the other two points, Dionysian is not dominant.

After listening to it, Henripolis immediately choked, and said comfortably after a while: "This is nothing. Our Dionysian army mainly relies on the infantry regiment, and they are much stronger than Carthage."

At this time, Printors, who was also watching the enemy, said in a deep voice: "Carthage's infantry also came."

Daphus didn't speak, staring at the battlefield intently: I saw a team of Carthage infantry in the distance from the west into the lowland plains. The original empty field was being filled by the Carthage army...

Davers held some cracked battlements in his hand and said softly, thoughtfully: "It seems that Marco is really ready to fight here with us."

Upon hearing this, Henripolis blinked and asked curiously: "Here? We are on the mountain, they are down the mountain? This is not a good choice. Why not wait for our march to this lowland below the mountain, they Fight again?"

Daveus did not answer, but looked at Prentals.

Prientors understood that this was King Daveus’s examination of himself, and thought about it: "If the Carthaginians let us enter the lowlands below, we can send troops to block the coastal road to the west, It is also easy to organize defense, and the Carthaginians are more troublesome to attack, and their superior strength cannot be deployed."

"Then why the Carthaginians did not simply occupy the city of Minoa? In this way, they have the advantage of defense, and our army will be in a difficult position." Facing Prentals, Genipore's Questioning is more direct and bold.

Prentals also responded quickly: "If so, I think your majesty, you will not march to Minoa at all, but return to Agrigento, or even Gela. In this way, Cartha The Ji people should be in a hurry. I think the reason they gave up these towns on the south coast and withdrew to the west is to lure our troops to attack west, so that it is convenient for them to fight and their military supplies..."

Henipolis said suddenly: "The Carthaginians chose this place as the battlefield because he thinks we and they can accept it?"

Davies smiled faintly, and then said: "I heard that Marco is a decisive, determined character, but not meticulous and patient enough. It is rare that he is so considerate and takes care of our feelings very carefully!"

"Your Majesty, are we going to fight Carthage here?" Henripolis was immediately excited.

Davos glanced at the princes with a solemn look, and said softly, "It's a pity that I don't plan to act according to the script written by Marco."

Henripolis gave an "Oh" sound.

At this time, several senior generals such as Amintas, Matonis, Olivers, Trotiras hurriedly ran under the city wall and cried out breathlessly: "Your Majesty, the First Army is ordered to arrive! ...The Second Army was ordered to arrive!...The Fourth Army was ordered to arrive!...The Sixth Army was ordered to arrive!...The Roman Reserve was ordered to arrive!..."