Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Of course, the Saint Iberians did not relax their vigilance. When the Dionyan Fleet infantry climbed the river bank and appeared in this relatively flat hilly area, they were discovered by the guarded Saint Iberian sentry, and they immediately Just informed the city of this terrible news.

The Saint Iberians panicked and ran into the city to hide.However, the Mano River is not more than 10 miles away from the city of St. Iberia, and not too far away. As a metal processing center, St. Iberia is full of smelting fields outside the city, and some are even built directly a few miles away. Under the mountain (so that it is easy to obtain wood), when the Dionyan Fleet infantry rushed out of the city, many people and slaves working in the smelting plant and mine failed to escape into the city in time, and the fleet infantry separated one A small number of them arrested them, and most of the soldiers bypassed the city of St. Iberia and went straight to the port of the Temo River.

The port is not connected to the city of St. Iberia. Although the lower Tmore River is different from the Mano River, some flat land on both sides of the bank can be developed into a port, but the Temo River is built on the hills. The city of Ibania has a height difference of tens of meters, so the Saint Ibnians just built a wide flat stone road connected to the port to facilitate the transportation of goods.

The infantry of the Third Fleet followed the road and approached the port.

The port is so important, of course, there is also a city wall protection, although its focus is on the estuary to prevent the invasion of the sea fleet, and there is also a city wall on the side near the city, but there are no sentries and trenches, and Dio Niah came too fast, and the panicked Saint Ibnians were busy escaping into the city, resulting in a lack of defense in the port, but their defenders still boarded the city and carried out a tenacious resistance.

The infantry of the fleet took a dozen ladders brought from the warships and hurried on the wall of the port.

After fighting for more than ten minutes, about 100 sailors of five cargo ships that had entered the port suddenly gathered together, took out the weapons hidden on the cargo ship, and began to attack the defenders in the port.

The Saint Ibnians were caught off guard. Under the impact of inside and outside, the Dionysian army quickly penetrated into the port and successfully occupied the anti-wave embankment and tower at the estuary, raising the wooden gate blocking the river The 160 ships of the Dionysian Fleet that had stayed in the nearby sea (after the naval battle, the 3rd Fleet was supplemented by some new warships, so that the number of warships did not decrease but increased) smoothly squeezed into the port .

After discovering the enemy's situation, the Saint Ibnians immediately sent messengers to rush to the South for help.

The closest Phoenician town to St. Iberia is tharros. It is located on the central waterfront of the west coast of Sardinia. It not only has an excellent port, but also has a fertile river plain. About 70 miles, although there are mountains in the middle, the road near the sea is relatively flat.

In the past, because of the large metal production in St. Iberia, the capacity of its river port was small, which often led to a backlog of goods. Later, under the coordination of the Carthage judges stationed in Sardinia and supervising the Phoenician city states, Part of the precious metal cargo was transported south to Saros, and then transported to Carthage through its port. For this reason, the Saros people also worked hard to build a wide and flat avenue connecting St. Iberia, and also built on the Manliu River. Two wooden bridges.

It is the union with St. Iberia, coupled with its own good conditions, through decades of rapid development, Sarros has become the best Phoenician town on Sardinia, not weaker than Kalaris (Caralis, Cararis is a Phoenician town on the southernmost tip of Sardinia. It also has an excellent port and a fertile river plain. In addition, it is closest to Carthage across the sea. There is a more frequent trade between the two countries), so since the Dionysian fleet attacked Sardinia, the Phoenician coalition temporarily formed on the island’s Phoenician town was stationed in the city of Salos. Ji’s new fleet is also stationed at the port of Salos, whose main purpose is to protect the security of St. Ibania.

Hearing that the Dionysians were actually attacking St. Iberia, this coalition formed by 10,000 civic soldiers from the Phoenician towns on the island immediately stepped on the flat road and marched north to rush to rescue.

On the way forward, he met the messenger of St. Liberia again, and got the latest news: The Dionysians occupied the river port and were still violently destroying the smelting field outside the city.

The commander-in-chief of the coalition was a young nobleman from Carthage. He was originally a judge of Karalis (civil soldiers from other Phoenician towns were basically led by the Carthage judges in that town). Heard this The news is both worrying and exciting: the fear is that if Saint Ibania is significantly eroded and destroyed by the Dionysian, resulting in a significant reduction in metal production, as the commander of the Phoenician Allied Forces, he will inevitably suffer from the Carthage House May even lose the fatality of Sardinian judges and be ordered to return to Carthage; he was excited to learn from the letter that there were only about three or four thousand Dionysian troops coming if Being able to arrive in time and defeating them should be easy, and counting the last victory, his outstanding performance will surely attract the attention of the people of Carthage and the Senate, and lay the foundation for his future entry into the Senate.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to issue an order: let the whole army accelerate.

In the afternoon, the Phoenician Allied Forces finally arrived in the city of St. Iberia. The infantry of the Dionyan Fleet who had received the news hurriedly assembled and began to retreat towards the Temo River.

The Phoenician coalition was hotly pursued.

Above the river bank, the infantry of the Dionysian fleet stopped retreating and began to form an array.

The Phoenician coalition forces also stopped chasing, and also launched a position 300 meters away, preparing to completely defeat the Dionysian army through a frontal battle.

When the Phoenician soldiers were taking the opportunity of the formation to allow themselves to march for a few hours, resulting in a very tired body that could be slightly relieved by rest, suddenly there was a disturbance in the front of the formation.

"Look! Dionia's heavy infantry! Where did they come from?!"

"We've been fooled! The Dionyan army has more than a few thousand people. They hid the heavy infantry in the river port!"

"Oh my god, these heavy infantry are constantly coming out, how many are they?"

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The Phoenician coalition’s young commander was watching the enemies in front of his own soldiers, mainly worrying that these Dionysian troops, who were fewer than their own and were all light armourmen, would suddenly flee The infantry of the Fleet of the Fleet of Nias were regarded as light armoured soldiers), but he suddenly saw the newly-arranged Dionysian army begin to move to the right, giving way to the avenue of St. Iberian City leading to the river port, and then a team The neatly-arranged Dionysian soldiers wearing black helmets and armour and armed with spears and long shields appeared in front of his eyes, and quickly followed the troops in front to move to the right.

Soldiers of the Dionysian Legion continued to emerge, and the short array of the Dionysian lineup soon approached the Phoenician lineup.

At this time, how could the Phoenician Allied Commander not know that this was a conspiracy of the Dionysians. This sudden change not only alarmed the soldiers, but why did he not panic, but at the moment complained that the Saint Ibnians did not carefully Investigating and giving wrong information led to his lack of preparation... These are no longer meaningful, and he has no time to think about where the regular Dionyan army came from, because according to the information he got : The King of Dionysian has led all Dionysian troops in Sicily to fight the Carthage army led by Marco.

At this moment, the first thought that came to his mind was retreat, but he immediately dismissed the idea, because if the coalition forces retreat, the Dionysian will certainly take advantage of the attack on the city of St. Iberia, which is known as Sardinia Asia’s metal smelting center, the city’s planning and construction are all for the collection, transportation, trade, and smelting of ore...not as a fortress town, and even it is not as good as the defense capacity of ordinary towns. Withstand the offensive of the Dionysian army with so many soldiers.Once the city of St. Iberia is captured, he will definitely feel the anger of Carthage's senate.

Moreover, the soldiers were tired after a few hours of rapid march, and it was a taboo to retreat before the lineup. Once the Dionysians attacked, it is likely to lead to the defeat of the whole army.

The only way he can think of now is: While the Dionysians haven't lined up yet, there may still be many soldiers under the river bank who have failed to enter the battlefield, quickly attack, and may have a chance of winning.

So, he gave the order to attack with a stab.

Half an hour later, the fluke of the Carthage general was crushed, the Phoenician Allied Forces, who were physically weak, were defeated by the ninth Legion and Fleet Infantry, and some of the defeated Phoenician soldiers went to St. Ibi Niah City fled, and more people wanted to escape back to Salos City, but when they fled to the banks of the Mano River, they found that the two wooden bridges had been occupied by Dionysian soldiers.

It turned out that just after the Phoenician Allied Forces crossed the Mano River, the warships of the Third Fleet entered the mouth of the Mano River again, allowing the two companies of the Dionysian Corps soldiers to climb ashore, occupying the only Mano River. Two wooden bridges.

The return route was blocked, and the rear chasing soldiers rushed back. Many Phoenicians collapsed in despair and surrendered, and some of them collapsed and fled to St. Iberia.

The Saint Iberians were very panicked when they heard that the Phoenician coalition had suffered a fiasco. They thought the Dionysians would attack their town immediately after the victory. Phoenician's soldiers collapsed, but they never saw the figure of Dionysian army, they were all surprised.