Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

At the same time, Leotizides also asked the soldiers to put the bodies of thousands of Lusitan fighters in front of the city of Palermoes, and at the same time let people yell under the city in Phoenician language, threatening Par The Lemurs surrendered to the city, otherwise they would suffer the same fate.

Witnessing the terrible experience of reinforcements, the threatened Palermos were very scared and really had an urgent discussion on whether to surrender the Dionysians, after all, when Dionysius led 10 more than 20 years ago When the Great Army conquered western Sicily, they once surrendered once. They were all Greeks, and they could surrender Dionysius. Why not surrender Dionysia?

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When the Palermos were anxious about their own destiny, Midolades led the fleet with ambition and headed south.

The port where the Third Fleet departed was not in Sewardium or Messina, but in Sarros on Sardinia.The day before yesterday, after discussing with Seclian and after completing the escort mission of the fleet, he led the fleet directly to Sardinia, docked at the outer port of Saros, and was received by the head of the ninth army, Tegti. North's warm welcome.

At this time, the Chief Executive of Saros was already in office. He was the old veteran Stromboli from Amendola. He had no plans to work in the field, but the five rotating chairmen of the senate discussed for a long time, and finally agreed that Among the veterans of Turi Yifuxian, only he is the most suitable candidate, so Cornelius came to persuade himself as an old friend to persuade him.

In order to ensure that the kingdom can finally win in this war, Stromboli finally accepted the appointment, and he went to Sarros with 3000 reserve soldiers from the Turri and Bruti regions.

After receiving the proposal of the new Chief Executive of Sarros, Tigtinos, who was reinforced, quickly led the army north to capture St. Ibinia. This time the ninth legion did not kill, but tried to capture St. Ibi. The people of Niah also try not to damage various facilities inside and outside the city.

When Midolades arrived in Saros, Stromboli was reorganizing the order in the city of Saros, while trying to persuade the captive Saint Iberians to serve the kingdom and continue to collect and smelt precious metal ores.Tigtinos is training the army, preparing to attack the surrounding Phoenician towns.

After making sufficient preparations at the outer port of Saros, the Third Fleet departed early in the morning on the third day and sailed quickly south. The target was agilgili on the Phoenician city-state on the coast of Africa.

Compared with Sicily, the southern tip of Sardinia is closer to the continent of Africa, except that it does not directly face Carthage, so it is not as important in strategic position as Sicily, but because it is closer to Africa, it is also at the same time. Carthage was far away, which created favorable conditions for the Third Fleet's raid.

The burning of Hadrummentum did cause Carthage and its allies to be vigilant, but it was mainly on the side near Sicily, and the center of gravity of the patrol and defense of the Carthage fleet was also on this side. After all, Diao Both fleets of Niah have appeared in the Sicilian waters.

As a result, the raid of the Third Fleet was successful. Not only did it again burn down a Phoenician city-state on the coast of Africa, but it also captured some Phoenician people and returned with full load, because Stromboli told Midola Des: St. Iberia is desperate for labor.

The news that "Ogilgilis was burnt down" quickly spread to the land of Africa. The Phoenician city-states were repeatedly attacked, which caused the Phoenicians to panic. The envoys of the city-states rushed to the Carthage senate , Strongly urged Carthage to fulfill the duties of the lords, and to give their city-state security protection.

And the people of Carthage also gathered together to protest again to the Senate, hoping that they would take action to prevent such a tragic incident from happening again.

The Carthage veterans were under great pressure. After some heated debates, the opinions of the Hannoites were adopted, and the senate finally made two decisions: first, ordering the naval commander Morbar, strict order He cannot temporarily lead the fleet to the Sicilian waters. Instead, he must patrol the coast of Affiliga daily to ensure the safety of Carthage and the Allies first. Second, send a messenger to Sicily to apply pressure to military commander Marco and ask him to overcome it as soon as possible. Serinus, otherwise Carthage will not be able to discuss and discuss with Dionysia.

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In the city of Serinus, the contest between the defenders of Dionia and the army of Carthage has been ongoing.

Although, the Dionysian garrison used ballistas and belly bows to carry out long-range attacks, and occasionally sent troops out of the city to attack and kill Carthage’s soldiers who built the walls.However, while defending against the attacks of the Dionysian garrison, Marco urged the soldiers to speed up the construction of the inner wall. Due to the large number of Carthage troops, although the Dionysian garrison tried their best to obstruct, Carthage The inner walls of the camp were still completed.

Then, Marco dispatched troops to the inner wall, while studying the Dionysian garrison, he also moved the ballista to the city head, and carried out a bombardment with the garrison, thus changing the previous relatively passive situation.

Amintas stood on the head of the city, looking dignifiedly in front of him: countless Carthage heavy infantry lined up as a long dragon, coming out of the newly built inner wall gate hole, they did not carry weapons and shields, But everyone was carrying a wooden frame full of mud. They placed the wooden frame tightly on the open space between the inner wall of the Carthage camp and the wall of Serinus, and then returned to the inner wall in turn. And so on and back... like a building block, it didn't take long to build a "wooden hill" with a wide base and a height of three meters.

While the Carthaginians were busy, the ballistas on the walls of Serinus did not stop firing. The stone bullets were easy to break the wooden frame, but the wooden frame broke apart, and the scattered mud invaded the gap between the wooden frames. Instead, this "hill" under construction is made stronger.

There are also ballistas aiming at the Carthaginians, but they are too close to the city wall (about sixty to seventy meters). If the ballistas on the city wall want to attack them, they must raise the elevation angle. It fell vertically, seemingly shocking, but in fact it has limited lethality and it is easy to avoid.

The arrows fired by the Dionysian light infantry did not pose a great threat to the Carthage heavy infantry and could not cause fatal damage to them.Under the urging of the team officers, the Carthage heavy infantry had to face the arrows hit and complete the task of constructing the earthen mountain frame with a wooden frame.

The belly bow threatens them even more, but the Carthaginians launched dozens of arrow shields early in the morning, overlapping front and back, blocking the front of this long dragon. The mighty iron arrow may penetrate one or two pieces. Thick wooden board, but it is difficult to really threaten the life of the Carthaginians.

"Leader, do you want to send soldiers out of town to raid?" Adjistor Aristonos reminded.

Amintas shook his head. He could see a Carthage army behind the shields on the city’s head, and the inside wall of the other side was also covered with light infantry. The army does not occupy the advantage of defense. If the soldiers attack, they will only form a fierce battle with the other party.Although Amintas fought bravely, he knew in his heart that the Carthaginians were four or five times stronger than him, so it was not good for him to fight hard.What's more, Carthage also has a large number of cavalry who can rush out of other door holes in the inner wall at any time and quickly go around to the rear of their own soldiers to form a siege.

"Turn up the slingers and let them deal with these Carthage!" Amintas' words made the adjutant Aristonos brighten his eyes: Only the Light Infantry Brigade of the 1st Corps is in all the Dionysian Corps More than 400 troopers, the shots thrown by Rhode Island soldiers within a distance of 100 meters are fierce and accurate, and can cause blunt damage to heavy infantry.

"How to distribute these troopers?" Aristonos asked again, because the Tushan was built not only outside the north gate, but also on the east and west walls.

"First focus on solving the enemies here!" Amintas said firmly in front of his finger.

"Master Commander Amintas, I have a suggestion." Carl Sidis next to him suddenly said.

"Oh, Carl Sedis, you said." Amintas looked at the general Selinus defender.The tone became polite.During this time, Carl Sidis did his best to assist him, and it really helped him a lot and won his respect.

Carl Sidis said with discretion: "...The Carthaginians rely on the large number of people to build the earth mountain in desperation. The best we can do now is to delay their progress, just like the wall they built. In the end, they will build the Tushan. The purpose of building the Tushan is that they want their ballistas and light infantry to be able to attack the soldiers of our city and assist their soldiers to attack the city. We can also The heightening of the city walls prevented the attempts of the Carthage to be achieved."

Increase the city wall?Amintas was surprised.

Carl Sidice gestured the aisle of the city with his hand and continued to explain: "The stone wall built by the Serinus people is very strong, and the aisle is wide and flat. We can use it on the aisle directly opposite the mountain. The wood continues to build the wooden city wall, at least the 7-meter-high city wall can be increased by 5 to 6 meters..."

Amintas's eyes lit up after listening.

At this time, the adjutant Aristonos objected: "But the Carthaginians had ballistas, and the wooden walls could not withstand the attack of stone bombs. By the time they were built, they did not work, but they increased the soldiers. Casualties!"