Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Marco Ben also wanted to make up for the shortcomings in this area through the advantage of the number, and eventually defeated the other side, but when the casualties were close to 2,000, he stopped sending troops to the tunnel.

And Amintas quickly blocked the three tunnels. The First Army and the reserve soldiers also paid nearly 500 casualties. Fortunately, in each battle, the Dionysian soldiers won, so they were able to The wounded soldier was rescued for treatment.

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Marco was sitting face-to-face and sitting in the big tent, he was sulking himself.

The Carthaginians prospered on the precious metal trade, and many citizens engaged in the mining industry, and the Magonid family was no exception, especially after relocating to southern Iberia. The army he led occasionally worked as a miner during non-combat. , So his army is good at digging tunnels. The reason why he didn’t do this when he attacked Paragonia is because the town is located at the foot of the mountain. The geology is too hard to excavate, while Serinus can .

The last time he laid siege to the city of Serinus, he wanted to attack through the tunnel, but soon after Hasdrubal successfully attacked the rear of the south coast, the battle situation changed, he did not have time to implement it, and this time he was carefully There was plenty of time for the planning, and when the tunnel was successfully excavated under the walls of Serinus, the Dionysians had not realized that at this time, there were two options: one was to switch to lateral excavation and hollow out the foundation of the city wall. , And then pull out the wooden pillars that support the tunnel, causing the wall to collapse and appear gaps; another is to continue to dig forward into the city, and then wait until night, send troops to dive into the city through the tunnel, directly attack the Dionysians and occupy the city .

Marco chose the latter one, because he thought that this method could solve the Celinus garrison more quickly and effectively, but he did not expect to be discovered by the Dionysians, and eventually evolved into this, and from now on Diao The Niahs must have increased their vigilance, and it may be difficult to dig tunnels for sneak attacks.

Marco was regretting that the messenger sent by Hasdrubal entered the account and gave him another blow: Hasdruba wanted to sneak attack on the Dionysian army who attacked Palermos and was caught in an ambush. , 4,000 Lusitania fighters were annihilated.

Marco yelled Hasdrubal’s name in the big tent and was a curse on him, even saying that he was too stupid to be a child of the Margonide family. He just forgot that he had just experienced a failed raid attack. , But scared the messenger to froze aside.

After the fire was over, Marco calmed down: Hasdrupa’s army was blocked and could not rescue Palermos. The only hope was that Palermos could defend himself, but now Palermos has not defended too many troops. , Must strengthen its defensive power, but now the land is not accessible...

After thinking about it for a while, Marco decided to send Palermos to the reinforcements by sea. It would definitely not work during the day. It was easy to be found, only at night, which was a bit risky.

Although Marco had just suffered the failure of the tunnel project, he did not wear away the sharpness in his bones. He immediately let his hands go down and summoned 3000 Palermos in the army, and another 1,000 Soros were added. 4000 people immediately rushed to Lili Pian, let Imiseray find a way to summon the cargo ships in the port, and send them to Palermo as soon as possible tonight.

In the past two days, these soldiers heard that the mother state was under attack and kept shouting to go back, which fulfilled their wish, so the soldiers hurried on their way even in the dark night, and rushed to Lilifang late at night.

But the sentinels at the head of Lilly Biden prohibited them from entering the city, because the Sicilian fleet cruised the western waters every day, and sometimes sent fleet infantry to attack the shore, making each Carthage and Phoenician city-state like a startled bird, very careful, especially so much The soldiers in the middle of the night want to enter the military center Lilifeng, of course, they must be very cautious, and the city owner, Imisere, must go to the head of the city to conduct a thorough investigation before entering the city.

It took nearly an hour to verify the body and learn the intentions of the army. Imiseray hurriedly sent someone to the port to check, but it was too late.

It turned out that since the Dionysian fleet began to control the western waters, the number of ships coming to Lili Peng gradually reduced, and now it has basically disappeared, and some Li Li Peng owners are reluctant to keep the ship blocked at this time. The port is not profitable, and they have found opportunities to escape to Carthage, which leaves the port with very few ships, which is far from enough to carry a force of 4,000 people at a time (at least 100 large cargo ships are required), the only one The chance is to come to the Carthage army at night to transport the heavy fleet.

Although Moerbal had successfully organized a large-scale transportation of military food and the weight to Sicily by using the method of "clearing the plank road and concealing Chencang" before, he knew very well that the consumption of 100,000 troops was huge, and only one transportation was needed. It was not enough, and after the Dionyan Fleet learned a lesson, it would not work next time, so he came up with a solution.

Under his proposal, the Carthage Senate passed a decision: to allow Carthage and the nearby Phoenician city-state to trade with Sicily all the year round, to be familiar with the sea conditions there, and to have dozens of experienced shipowners to form three dozens A small fleet of cargo ships takes turns to load food and materials during the day, departs at dusk, and arrives at Lili Py, or Mazala, or Ericks late at night... (the destination is temporarily determined at the time of departure, to avoid the route being too fixed, After being spotted by the Dionysians, they came to a stand-by) The fleet had to leave the port and return immediately after unloading the cargo, to avoid hitting Dionysian cruise ships after dawn.

Therefore, the port workers in these cities are resting during the day and standing by at night, and the flame of the lighthouse is extremely bright.Of course, if the weather is bad at night, these small fleets will stop transportation.

So far, the fleet has successfully transported several times. Although there are not many materials for each transport, it wins in a long stream.

Coincidentally, the destination of this fleet tonight was Lili Ping, but unfortunately, when Imiseray sent people to the port, the fleet had already left.

Imiseray sighed and decided to send someone to notify the two cities of Mazara and Ericks tomorrow morning, no matter which city's port the Carthage fleet arrived tomorrow night, they must notify them to help transport the soldiers.

In addition, he also wants these two cities to drive the idle cargo ships in the port to Lili, collect a sufficient number of ships, and transport the soldiers to Palermo at one time.

After making these decisions and placing the soldiers in the barracks, Ymiser finally returned to sleep with confidence.

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And not long after Marco sent the reinforcements, he received a messenger from Lili Ping, and he brought the order of the senate: due to several attacks by the Dionyan fleet on the Phoenician allies in Afrika, the senate decided The fleet was transferred back to defend the local coastline, and he hoped that Marco could speed up the siege and capture Selinus as soon as possible.

After reading this command, Marco was furious again: although since Morbal won the naval battle, there has been no results during this time, the cruise of the Dionysian fleet in the western seas is still the same, but the Carthage fleet is in the west. The looming presence of the sea area made the Dionian fleet dare not to take a bold landing on the rear of the Carthage army. The number of harassment was significantly reduced, so he could concentrate on building the inner and outer walls of the camp. And Tushan, concentrate their forces to attack the city of Serinus.Now that the fleet is transferred back to Carthage, the Dionysian fleet can unscrupulously attack the rear of the army, forcing Marco to distract him.Moreover, the defense of Dionysia is tight. If the Carthage army attacked, even if they finally won the city of Serinus, the casualties will be heavy. How can they achieve the purpose of decisive battle with the main force of Dionysia!

Marco strongly suspected that the order of the senate was made with the encouragement of the Hanno faction. While cursing Hanno in his heart, he also decided to ignore the order and follow the planned plan to siege the city.

On the second day, the Carthage soldiers continued to build the earth mountain, and they had begun to ram the earth into the wooden frame.

The Balearic soldiers on the inner wall constantly threw lead shots to suppress the long-range attacks of the defenders of the head of the city of Serinus, so that the construction of the earth mountain can be carried out in an orderly manner.

While Amintas let the light infantry of the city and the ballista troops moved into the city attack the busy Carthage soldiers in front of the city to destroy and delay the enemy’s operation of building the mountain, he also let the mountain reconnaissance team soldiers Distribute all over the trenches in the city, listen carefully to the movement of the underground to prevent the other party from digging the tunnel again.In addition, he divided some soldiers to assist the engineering battalion and build a wooden city wall.

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At night, the Carthage fleet and the cargo ships of Mazara and Ericks arrived at Lilifang as scheduled. After carrying 4,000 reinforcements, the more than 100 cargo ships quietly went northward and finally entered the Par Lemos Port.

When these soldiers jumped out of the boat with excitement, they boarded the pier and were ready to rush back to their homes to enjoy the warmth of their wives and children. Numerous soldiers in black helmets and black armor appeared in front of them.

The hearts of the reinforcements suddenly fell to the bottom: Palermos has been occupied by the Dionysians?!

The fact is: Palermos surrendered to the Dionysian army.

Why Leotizides and Midolades were more confident when discussing the attack on Palermoes, because his team had the ones that Davos left him to help him attack Syracuse A team of hundreds of engineers, when leaving Syracuse by boat, they also dismantled the siege equipment used to attack Syracuse as much as possible, placed them in cargo ships, and transported them together.