Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

The citizens of Taunis gathered together and suggested to the council: the entire city-state was completely incorporated into the Kingdom of Dionysian, and the citizens of Taunis became Dionysian citizens.

The council soon decided to urgently hold a civic conference to vote on the question of "whether to join Dionysia".

Voting result: This resolution was passed with more than 90% of the citizens in favor.

Tonis immediately sent a messenger to Syracuse to show Cipros the strong will of the Tonis people.

Cypros is certainly very welcome, but he said: This matter is of great importance, he needs to ask King Daphes for instructions and report to the Senate.

The matter was quickly learned by the people of Leotini, who had learned something, and soon sent a messenger to Cipros.

And during this period, the instructions of Davos "about Leotizides leading the team to the North Coast" and the subsequent arrival of the third fleet let Leotichides and Zantiparis no longer have to worry about nothing to do .

Cipros, Leotizides, Zantiparis and Midolades soon held a military meeting.

"Your Majesty has sent a letter asking us to carry out military operations on the North Coast as soon as possible." As the host of this military conference, Cipros was very modest: "I hope that a proposal can be discussed and submitted at this conference. Give it to your majesty. Of course, you decide this plan. Although your expedition will increase the consumption of military food, and it will also make the labor shortage in the cities and towns sowing in winter, but I will try my best to protect the army’s food and material supply."

As soon as the voice of Cipros fell, Leotizides said: "Your Majesty asked us to choose a foothold on the north coast in his order, so that the third fleet can easily cruise the western waters of Sicily. My plan is to capture Here."

Leotizides said, pointing his finger somewhere on the map.

Palermos!Zantiparis was shocked and said: "Is it too dangerous? Palermos is not a small city-state, not far from the army of Carthage. In case we cannot be captured in a short time. This city, and Carthage’s army is coming soon, we will be in trouble!"

"Whether it is Seydium, Soros, or the ruins of Himmela, there is not a large enough port to accommodate the Third Fleet, and it must spend manpower and time to rebuild. Only Palermos has the ability to make the Third Fleet Conditions for reluctant entry." Leotizides said to Midolades, and then he turned his head to Zantiparis: "You haven’t been in Sicily for a long time. For the topography of Palermos I don’t know yet. It is surrounded by tall mountains. There are only three roads on the land that communicate with the outside world. A relatively long narrow mountain path connects Eriks to the south, and a rugged path by the sea connects Eriks. A seaside road to the east leads to Solus. As long as we block the mountain pass and the seaside road to the south, we can easily block the reinforcements of Carthage. As for Solus, if we send troops to rescue, we can just wipe it out. , And then took Soros together."

"I heard you said that there are some indigenous warriors in Carthage's army who can cross mountains and mountains." Zantiparis reminded.

"Yes, these natives came from Iberia. They once crossed the mountains in the battle of the Carthaginians against Seidium, attacking the rear of the defender of Seidium, which led to the fall of this friendly city-state But as long as we raise our guard, the sudden attack of the Carthage is impossible, and the height of the mountains around Palermos is more than five or six hundred meters, which is not so easy to cross. Even those Iberian natives can Come here, I believe it is exhausted, we are at ease, we can just crush them." Leotizides said confidently.

"Prosius, you have convinced me." Zantiparis said seriously. The reason why he asked questions just now was just out of caution and wanted to remind Leotizides to take note of these questions, although They are also mercenary generals on the expedition to Persia, but he is very different from Amintas. He has a gentle personality and puts his position very right. He is not less advanced than Leotizides. , He refused to obey the order of the young commander. On the contrary, in the battle against Syracuse, he has been doing his best to execute the orders issued by Leotizides, carefully assisting him in combat, as a retired The veteran at home was able to get what he wanted and was promoted to the commander of the Dionysian Army. He was already very satisfied.

"I also agree with Master Prosius's plan." Midolades nodded and said that he could get Palermo's port to stop the Third Fleet.He looked at Leotizides and Zanteparis. He was a little curious. He hadn’t worked with Leotizides before, but had heard something about the young commander. Seen today, it really turned out to be as ignorant as rumors, disregarding self-esteem, arbitrariness, and arbitrariness. Fortunately, I was a navy.

"You are going to attack Palermoes, I agree! But you don’t have to take the soldiers away, don’t forget that there are still enemies on the island of Ortijia. The main city of Syracuse has just been occupied, not too Stable, there are thousands of captives in the city..." Ciplos reminded.

"I'll take the 7th and 8th legions to the north coast." Leotizides said simply.

Just bring two legions?!You have taken all the regular troops from the Sicilian territory!…Cyprus slandered, but fortunately he knew Leotizides, and he was already prepared: "Can we keep the wounded soldiers in the two legions? On the one hand, it will help them to recuperate, on the other hand, I think Let them temporarily serve as team officers, responsible for training and commanding citizens of the port area of ​​Syracuse, as well as citizens of Taunis and Leotini who will soon join the kingdom.

In addition, can you temporarily lend me the thousands of sets of Greek heavy infantry armor and weapons you obtained in the previous battle to arm these citizens of the port area, stabilize the order in the city, and guard against the enemies of Ortygia."

Leotizides thought about it and nodded in agreement.

At this time, Midolades said: "Master Cypros, regarding the captives in the city of Syracuse, I have a suggestion...The ninth legion occupied the city of Sarros in Sardinia. Your Majesty hopes we can As soon as possible to control the production and trade of precious metals on the island of Sardinia, it requires a lot of manpower to transport all the captives in Syracuse to Saros, and the Ninth Army can transport the captives of Saros to Tin Rakuza becomes the labor you need to rebuild Syracuse..."

Ciplos' eyes lit up: "This is a good idea! But we must first obtain the consent of His Majesty and the Senate."

The Syracuse people never thought of it: decades ago, they took more than 6,000 captive Athenian soldiers to the quarry as labor, and finally no one survived, but now the feng shui turns, they become the slaves of Dionia , Will travel to Sardinia as a mining labor, the fate is really cruel!

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The news that "Carthage's army began to siege the city of Serinus" was sent back to Minoa, which attracted the attention of Daveus. He disregarded Tolmed's dissuasion and decided to go to Serinus to check it out. There are also Alexis and Amintas.

Under the escort of 40 warships, Davers arrived at the port of Serinus.

After receiving the news, the former captain of the former Eighth Army Corps, and now the temporary military chief of the Serinus, Carl Sidis hurried to the dock to meet him.

"Your Majesty, Temporary Commander of the Serinus, Carl Sidis, salutes you!

"It's hard, Carl Sidis! Although you and I are meeting for the first time today, but after reading the report of Prosius, I have been worrying about you! I am worried that you are relying on only three or four thousand irregularities. Soldiers, can you hold such an important city of Celinus. But you hold it, it's amazing!" Davies did not hesitate to praise him.

Calcidis was a little embarrassed, he quickly said: "Your Majesty, in fact, after Commando Prosius led the army to leave, the city of Serinus was no longer heavily attacked by the Carthage army. In addition, Sicily The fleet also helped us a lot."

"The Sicilian fleet should be able to make some effort. This is also their forward base." Daveus casually said, looking around and seeing the busy laborers on the pier trestle, asking: "Are they slaves? Celinus?"

"Your Majesty, we gave the city-state slaves freedom here after we captured the city of Serinus. Many of the slaves and freemen who voluntarily applied to become citizens of Dionysia were left behind by us as port laborers, and part of them were Minoan. The people who fled after the fall of Agrigento and Agrigento were reluctant to take refuge in Katanai, but were willing to come to Serinus to help the Carthaginians. The real Serinus have already been Escort to Katanay, Naxos...become a slave to the kingdom, and now there are no Celinus in the entire city of Celinus..."

"Selinus is at the forefront of the war. It is very important to maintain the stability and security of the order in the city. I am very glad that you have done this." Davers said approvingly.

Carl Sidis led Daveus and his party out of the port and into the city.Then they were surprised to see that the city was dusty and some Dionysian soldiers were demolishing houses near the city walls.

"What is this for?" Amintas immediately asked.

"Only nearly 4,000 of us soldiers live in the city, most of the houses are vacant, we are going to dig trenches and lay traps on the land where the houses were demolished, and at the same time use the obtained stones and bricks to repair another inner wall Even if the Carthaginians broke through the walls outside of us, they would not be able to seize the city of Serinus." Karsidis said firmly.