Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Very good defensive measures!" Daveus once again said with approval: "It seems that in the face of the upcoming siege of such a large number of Carthage troops, you are not afraid, but are actively using your brain, It’s good to think of a better defense!".

Daveus walked up to the city and looked out of the city.

In his field of vision, not only the dust is also filled, but also the human voice is engulfed. Through the gray dust and mist, countless figures hundreds of meters away from the city are like hardworking ants who are constantly busy, they are digging A long trench surrounding the city of Serinus, and at the same time, the excavated soil was piled up in the back to ram it. Behind this unfinished earth barrier was a series of camps, and a tent was like a star in the sky. There are countless, and in the distance there is another earth wall that has been built around the city of Serinus...

Daveus stared for a while, and the expression on his face became serious: "It seems that the Carthaginians are serious this time. They are really ready to attack the city of Serinus!"

"I'm afraid the Carthaginians have no choice but to attack the city of Serinus." Alexis said.

Daveus nodded and said nothing. As he walked down the tower, he specially observed the soldiers patrolling the city. They were all tense and tense.

Immediately after arriving at the main residence of the city, Davers immediately convened a military conference.

"The situation in Serinus is grim, and the Carthage attack is imminent. What do you think?" Daveus asked straight away.

"Your Majesty, you must immediately provide reinforcements to Serinus. I am willing to lead the First Army to Serinus to defend!" Amintas took the initiative to fight, staying in Minoa during this time, he also saw: Davis did not intend to fight with the Carthaginians in a short time, and Serinus will surely become the focus of the next war.

"I agree with Amintas. Serinus must get reinforcements!" Alexis also said: "However, there is still too little strength in one legion. There are at least two legions of reinforcements, which can guarantee the completion of the defense. At the same time, there are forces capable of taking the initiative to disturb the Carthage attack.

Just now, I was very inspired by Carl Sithis. In the past, we were used to arranging multiple obstacles outside the city and the camp in defense, in order to achieve the purpose of hindering and killing the enemy. Now the Carthage army is under pressure and it is no longer possible outside the city. A detailed layout is carried out, but defensive measures can be built in the city. Why not build more inner walls and arrange more traps?After all, what we want to focus on protecting is the port. There are no residents in the city. We can use it as a battlefield to achieve the purpose of killing a large number of Carthage soldiers and giving them a major blow!However, it takes a lot of manpower to demolish the houses in the city, build the walls and traps in a short time..."

Daveus listened carefully while thinking, and then he said to Amintas directly: "Did you hear Alexis' suggestions just now? What do you think?"

Amintas said impatiently: "The Alexis proposals are good, but those are after the enemy starts to attack the city. If I am the commander of the city of Serinus, I will ask His Majesty to dispatch a cavalry. The legion gave me command. The Carthaginians are now building walls at such a short distance, which actually creates obstacles for them to use cavalry. I will send cavalry legions to attack them from time to time.

In addition, I would like to ask His Majesty to allocate all of his ballistas and belly bows to me. I will let them all be placed at the head of the city to carry out precise attacks on the Carthaginians and continue to kill Carthage soldiers... "

After listening to Daphes, he pondered for a moment, and said decisively: "Amintas, I appointed you as the commander of Serinus, leading the First Army, the Sixth Army, the First Cavalry Corps and Serinus. The defenders, a total of 22,000 people, hold me firmly to the city of Serinus. If you fail, you will not come to see me!"

The reason for choosing Amintas as the commander of Serinus, of course, Davis has his own considerations: although Amintas sometimes loses his calmness because of being too bellicose during the offense, but when defending, his performance is He was much calmer, but he was able to give full play to his experienced abilities, which was very obvious in the Ostia defensive battle.

"Your Majesty, rest assured that I will make Serinus the Underworld of Carthage!" Amintas exclaimed with excitement.

"I will inform Seclion and let him mobilize some of the crew to assist your troops to complete the construction of the defensive facilities in the city of Serinus as soon as possible."

After Daphes finished speaking, he looked at Carsidis: "Carsidis, you will still command the original 4,000 soldiers and have the power to attend every military meeting in the city of Serinus, because you are familiar with Serin The situation of the enemies in Nus and outside the city can provide good advice to Amintas."

Hearing this, Carl Sedis was heartened. His original position was appointed by commander Leotizides, and now King Daveus continued to let him command these 4,000 people, but he confirmed this appointment.Moreover, wartime military conferences like this can generally only be attended by officers above the rank of regiment, and ordinary team officers are allowed to participate in special circumstances, and Daveus allows him to participate in the military conference of Serinus in the future, which means He possessed the qualification to be on an equal footing with the regimental commander.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" he said with a trembling voice.

"Alexis had to command Minoa's army for me. I can't live without you there!" Daveus said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"Your Majesty, I am very happy to help you!" Alexis said lightly.

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After successfully building the outer wall of the camp, Marco ordered the soldiers to work hard to build the inner wall. Seeing that the trench was mostly dug, the earth barrier was gradually being built and tamped, but the situation changed.The originally calm city of Serinus suddenly rushed out hundreds of cavalrymen from the north, east and west gates, and raided the Carthage soldiers who were building the inner walls of the camp.

The unprepared Carthage soldiers collapsed, and when the fully armed Carthage reinforcements arrived, the Dionysian cavalry returned to the city in time.

Several successive raids made Marco realize that the Dionysians had added troops to the city of Serinus, and began to increase the harassment outside the city. It is obviously impossible for the Carthage army to attack Selin as before. The city of Nus, building the facilities without any attention from the defenders, moved forward.

Although he wanted to attract the main force of Dionysia by attacking the city of Serinus, he wanted to fight again, but he hoped that after completing all the arrangements, the city of Serinus lost its defensive advantage Therefore, he ordered the troops to step up the construction of the inner wall of the camp, and at the same time, a fully armed army was placed behind the soldiers who built the inner wall for defense.

At the same time, he also brought in thousands of cavalrymen, patrolling the outside of the camp's inner wall, keeping an eye on the movement of several gates in the city of Serinus.

Unexpectedly, the city's ballistas and belly bows were fired together, attacking the places where the Carthaginian cavalry and infantry gathered a hundred meters away, causing some casualties and forcing Marco to rush back the defense troops.

Of course, he did not interrupt the construction of the inner wall, but instead sent soldiers to step up the construction, and at the same time brought in ballistas and attacked the city of Serinus under the cover of the earth barrier.

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When Marco was racking his brain to deal with the raid in the city, he received the request of the Palermo messenger: a tens of thousands of Dionysian troops landed on the beach near Palermo city!

Marco was taken aback: Dionysia’s army was either on the south coast or in the mountains in the middle. Why did another army of tens of thousands appear?Was the Dionysian recruited from Great Greece?

Marco didn’t even think that it might be the Dionysian army attacking Syracuse, mainly because he had seen the city of Syracuse personally. He did not think that the Dionysian army could capture it in such a short time. Syracuse.

Although a little worried about Dionysia’s military potential, Marco now has no time to think about the origin of this Dionysian army. He realized that because of the calm seas on the north coast during this time, he began to ignore this little distance. The Phoenician city-state in the core area of ​​western Sicily has instead drawn some citizens of Palermo to come to Serinus to build the wall. Now Palermo is under attack. If it falls, it means that The coastline available to the Taiji army will be further shortened, which is more conducive to the blockade of the Dionysian fleet.

He insulted his negligence, and immediately dispatched heralds to ride north to inform Hasdrruba, who was stationed near Seguesta, and let him immediately lead his army to rescue Palermo.

After Hasdruba received the order, he quickly led 30,000 soldiers and hurried to Palermo.

But where did he know that after Leotizides led the 7th and 8th legions to the coast quickly, he neither directly attacked Palermos nor started to build camps, except for leaving a small number of soldiers to monitor the city of Palermos In addition to the movement of the city of Soros in the east, the large troops quickly rushed to the mountain pass to the south and the coastal path entrance to the west with the pre-prepared building materials. All soldiers seized the time to dig trenches, traps, and lay Luzhai , Build earth barriers, drive into wooden piles, build wooden towers...

Hasdrubal did not choose to walk along the coast, because it was not conducive to the passage of the army, and the Dionysian fleet controlled the coastline. When his army lined up with dragons on the coast, he could not meet each other. To the landing attack of the Dionysian fleet, he led the army down the mountain road.