Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Tolmed was stunned, he did not think of this layer just now.

Daveus stood up and said decisively: "It seems that we have to send troops to reinforce Serinus, we will not add troops again and again, we will directly join the Sixth Army, the Roman Reserve, Potentia and Samo. The Nai reinforcements were sent to Serinus and given to Amintas for command."

Tolmed was surprised: "Your Majesty, you have sent the Sixth Legion and the Roman Reserve to Serinus, but only the Fourth Legion and the Ninth Legion will be left by you. Noah..."

Daveus said without hesitation: "I don't think Marco will easily give up his efforts in Serinus during this time. If he really disregards everything and leads the army to attack Minoa, I I really hope that he wastes his little time like this. In addition, we can let Alexis execute our plan."

"In doing so, Minoa's defense is even more—" Tolmed reminded loudly again.

Davies smiled slightly: "Marco dared to put his army that was originally used to defend Seguesta into the siege battle, we can't let Lizaru and Epitanis idle, they can be transferred Coming to Minoa."

Tormid and Prentals were shocked when they heard this: a few days ago, His Majesty was still talking about not tightening the rope too tightly to prevent the Carthage army dogs from jumping off the wall in a hurry, just a few days later, It is necessary to order the delayed Third Army and the Lucaria Reserve Army to move to Minoa. Is this the start of the final decisive battle?!

The two looked at Dave's calm face and responded forcefully: "Yes, Your Majesty!"

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In the early morning of the second day, Marco assembled the army and launched an attack on the city of Serinus again.

At noon during the war, the earth walls built by the Carthage were interconnected with the walls of Serinus. Fortunately, the wooden wall panels prepared by the Dionysian garrison had increased the height of the wall at the junction, making the Carthage soldiers unsuccessful. Can immediately rush into the city walkway.

However, after all, the wooden walls were not strong enough. Under the persecution of the team officers, the Carthaginian soldiers braved the javelin rain thrown by the tower of the city head, and kept burning with fire and hitting with sashwood. After paying a lot of casualties, in the afternoon Break through the wooden city wall and flood into the city aisle.

The Dionysian garrison has to deal with long-range attacks on the earth and mountains outside the city, ant-attached attacks by enemies under the city, be wary of tunnel attacks that the enemy may come at any time, and send heavy soldiers to stop the enemy from rushing through the earth wall to the city head. Amintas is holding a shield spear, ready to personally participate in the battle.

At this critical moment, a total of 16,000 soldiers of the Sixth Legion and the Roman Reserve Brigade (including the Roman noble soldiers who were organized into the legion) arrived by sea, and finally repelled the already tired Carthage.

Although the Carthaginian army was repulsed, Marco was not frustrated: the increase in Dionysia’s army of Serinus actually inspired him. He had originally formulated “through attacking Serinus to attract Dionysian The plan for the main force to come to a decisive battle has been initially realized, and judging from today's fighting situation, after connecting the walls of Serinus, the Deonian's defensive advantage has been greatly reduced.Tomorrow, when we gather the whole army to attack the city, we will send the Celts and Lusitans to attack along the walls. I wonder if the Dionysians can stop it?Will they send more reinforcements?Did you build a few more causeways to connect the city walls, so that more soldiers can directly climb to the head of the city to fight the Dionysians directly?...

Marco sat in the big tent, thinking about tomorrow's siege plan.

At this time, the adjutant walked into the account and reported to him: "Master Marco, Segsta has heard from the news that the Dionysians raided the Sikan territory, Sikel's army and us stayed there. 3000 Numbian soldiers were also defeated."

Marco frowned and asked, "When did this happen?"

"This afternoon."

Originally, the territory of the Sikan people was guarded by Hasdrubal with more than 30,000 soldiers, mainly to stare at the Diocean army from the east of the mountain, but the Xikai headed by the Taknian tribe After entering the territories of the rivals, the Er people had some conflicts with the Sikan people, but because of the existence of Hasdrubal, the contradiction can always be resolved.

Some time ago, because the Dionys attacked Palermoes, the Sikels were reluctant to go with the army. Hasdrubal specially separated the Sikels' resident from the Xiqian before he led the army to reinforce. , Leaving thousands of Numbian soldiers, hoping to remain calm here before he returns.Unexpectedly, later Hasdruba's troops were transferred back to the Carthage Battalion in Serinus by Marco, and the Sikan territory seemed to have been forgotten by the Carthaginians.Since the three forces in the territory were difficult to unite, it was only natural for the rapid defeat after being attacked by the Dionysian army.

Marco's eyebrows spread out again and asked, "Do you know how many people the Dionysians dispatched?"

"According to what Scouting observed, there are about tens of thousands of people."

"Only more than 10,000 people." Marco was a little disappointed. He deliberately left the flaw of the Sikan territory in order to attract the Dionysians to attack: "Where are these Dionysians now?"

"They retreated west."

"What? Run?!" Marco frowned again. He was hesitating just now: Has Hasdrubal led tens of thousands of soldiers to eat this enemy?Still simply disregarding and lure more Dionysians into the Sikan territory, or even start attacking Segersta, not far from the Sikan territory, and then build up a large army to destroy them... As a result, Dioni After the Asians attacked, they slipped away.

Marco felt powerless and nowhere to scream, glaring at the adjutant and shouting: "The next report of the situation is not allowed to be on and off, but to finish it at once!"

The adjutant was wronged in his heart, and he could only say so.

The Dionysians are not fooled, it seems that they must attack Selinus!...Marco made up his mind, and then said to the adjutant: "There is no need to station troops in the Sikan territory again. After collecting the broken soldiers, they will be brought back to the camp."

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When Alexis led one of the Tenth and Fourth Legions to raid the Sikan territory, the scout reported the news to the camp. Marco was leading the army to siege, and the adjutant did not dare to fight in the siege. Disturb him at a critical moment, but there is a unit that has the independent troop sending power, that is cavalry.

Marco had seven thousand cavalry under his command, most of them were Numibian cavalry. They moved fast and ran like wind. They were accustomed to throwing javelins to kill enemies, but they rarely ran head to head.Since Marco led his army back to the west of Sicily, the Dionysian army could not stand up, but took advantage of the sea, and often dispatched a fleet to land in the rear to attack, so Marco let the cavalry patrol the west coast every day. Once the enemy was found, he could initiate Attacking, slowing down the enemy’s movements, and facilitating the main force to rush to annihilate it, because of the characteristics of the Numibian cavalry, he does not worry that they will suffer great losses.

Therefore, after receiving the news that the "Dionyans attacked the Sikan territory", the cavalry idle in the camp quickly rushed to the Sikan territory, but did not expect the Dionysians to withdraw quickly In the mountainous area, the cavalry who wanted to kill the enemy for merit had to do the chores of gathering the broken soldiers.

And when Marco returned to the camp account, on the northwest side of the Carthage battalion, a Numibi stood in front of Tinum, a leader of the Masiri tribe in a military account in the Namibian cavalry camp. Asian soldiers.

"I thought it was you who wanted to see me. I didn't expect it to be you, Kenomus. How could your father be willing to let you take part in this terrible war!" Tinum said slightly surprised.

"In the eyes of the Carthaginians, we Numibians have no distinction between high and low, but only one identity-their slaves. The population of our tribe has decreased year by year in order to make up for the troops that the Carthaginians have imposed on us. The number of people, even if I don’t want to participate in this war, I must get it!" Kenoms said angrily.

The leader Tinum was silent for a moment, and after a while said: "Carthage is indeed a bit harsh on your tribe!"

Jinomus looked at him and sneered: he knew that the other party was far less dissatisfied with Carthage, because Tinum was from West Numbia and he was from East Numbia.

It turns out that there are east and west divisions in Numbia because of Carthage.The Carthaginians refer to the Numbians living in the interior of the Phoenician confederacy along the coast of Africa as East Numbia, while the Numbians living inland to the west, far from the sphere of influence of Carthage People call it the Nunumbia.

A long time ago, the East Numbians were very close to the Carthage and Phoenicians. They had convenient exchanges and frequent exchanges. They not only traded frequently, but were also influenced by Carthage culture. The tribes of Asia have begun to gradually change from the original nomadic life to a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral life. Because food is sufficient and the material is relatively abundant, East Numbia has a large population.The West Lumibians are always in a nomadic state. Not only are they poor in food and small in population, but they also often compete for pastures and fights between tribes. Sometimes because of climate change, reduced pastures and lack of food, they can only go to the East. The Mibians asked for food assistance, and it was for this reason that the Masili tribe became familiar with the Genomes.

But since 20 years ago, the Carthaginians were no longer satisfied with their territories limited to the coast. They coveted the vast land inland, and began to gradually change their previous strategy of treating the Numbians, and continued to deal with East Numbi. The tribes in Asia used provocation, differentiation, and separation strategies, and began to use force conquest from north to south, and this force conquest reached its peak after Hanno took power.For the Sinomibians, Carthage adopted a policy of bribery, providing cheap food to the tribes, and also hired their people as auxiliary cavalry to participate in the war of Carthage, even when they were still in Sinumi. The Biars deliberately promoted the contradiction between the East and West Numbians (because in the past East Numbians were wealthy and the West Numbians were poor, and the West Numbians went to East Numibi from time to time. Asians ask for help, so Easterners often face Westerners with arrogance and contempt), and let them participate in the war to conquer the East Numbians, so although they are the same race, Tinum will have such a kind of The mentality is not strange.