Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Ginoms also changed his strategy, and no longer complained, but said: "Tinum leader, now the Lithium of the Carthaginians is occupied, and the military food transportation route from Carthage to Sicily is cut off, and it will not take long. The soldiers throughout the camp will face the threat of starvation. What do you think of this?"

Tinum blinked, showing a less concerned expression, and said, "Lilithus is occupied, the Carthaginians can also transport military supplies to Mazara, and they will also capture Serinus and retake Don't worry too much to recapture Lilifeng."

"Leader Tinum." Kenoms said with a sneer. "Can the Carthaginians recapture Serinus and Lili Pius?! You overestimate the ability of the Carthaginians, just to capture a Parago In the small town of Niah, as long as the Carthaginians have spent and how many people died in battle! You have been in Sicily for so long, you should be very clear that the Dionyans are powerful in defending the city, and they still have such illusions. And thought that Carthage dared to deliver food to Mazara! Don’t you know that the Dionysian navy is stronger?! They not only completely defeated the Carthage navy, but also heard that they also occupied the branch ruled by the Carthage. Siga and Sardinia even landed in Afrika, and burned several allies of Carthage—"

"Where did you hear these things?" Tinum asked sharply, his face changing drastically.

Marco has strict control of the army. All the battle reports except for him and Pomilka and other senior generals are not allowed to pass out. In addition, the entire army is confined to Sicily, and it is difficult to receive the outside world. According to the news, alien cavalry troops like Tinum are even less likely to have their own sources of information, and are very unfamiliar with the development of the entire war.

Ginoms took a breath, and his expression became mysterious. He whispered, "I participated in this war, but I did not follow Marco, but followed Monte Adno before. You may have heard of He led the army to attack Minoa, and suffered a terrible defeat. I was captured by the Dionysian at that time..."

Tinum's eyes widened: "You surrendered the Dionysians?!"

Kenoms made a forbidden gesture and whispered, "No, the King of Dionysia does not want us to surrender, but to be our Numbian ally! He wants to help us get rid of the Carthaginians. Bullying, restoring our independence, reclaiming our land..."

Jinomus said more and more excited, but Tinum suddenly interrupted him, said coldly: "What does this have to do with me?"

"Of course it does!" Kenoms said in a deep voice: "You know, the Carthaginians have sent envoys to the Dionysian barracks to request reconciliation, they can't hold it anymore! But the Dionysians absolutely Won’t easily agree, they have completely blocked the sea route in western Sicily, without the support of Carthage, Marco’s army is so large, he can still consume the food he has stored for a few days? Can only surrender! Both you and your people will become captives, and perhaps also slaves to the Dionysians!"

Kenoms sighed softly and said emotionally: "It is precisely because I used to have a good relationship with you, so this time after mixing in the defeated soldiers, I did not first persuade my eastern fellows, but came to you first, I hope you can see the situation clearly and make choices that are beneficial to your tribe!"

These words said by Kinomos are actually lies. The reason why he chose to come to Tinum is because the East Numbians helped Carthage to fight, basically they were infantrymen, and a certain number of them were drawn from various tribes. People, the team officers can only be Phoenicians or Carthages, and after the successful night attack by the Selinus defenders, Marco sent the Iberian army to be loyal to him Excellent soldiers serve as team officers, so there is a great risk of inciting East Numibian soldiers to defect from the Carthage army on a large scale, and the success rate will not be too high.

Since the land of West Numbia was not controlled by the Carthaginians, they and the Carthaginians were more like a dependency relationship between the big tribe and the small tribe. Carthage hired them to fight, basically as cavalry, No outsiders were sent to serve as team officers. The tribe chiefs commanded their own people. They only needed to obey the commander’s orders when they were fighting. The supervision of them was very strict. This gave Kinomus to mix in and convince them to defect. Created conditions.

Tinum was lost in thought. Although he wasn’t sure whether the bad situation described by Kenomus was true, he was not a fool. During this time, he had more or less noticed some signs: Lili Pui was Daioni It was a fact that the Asians captured it. He saw it with his own eyes. Palermos fell. Although he did not see it, the Numbian cavalry who followed Hasdrubal had communicated with him and told him that there were 4,000 powerful men. Of the indigenous Iberians were wiped out; if the Carthage navy was not at a disadvantage, how could it allow the Dionysians to land on the western coast, so that Marco sent them to patrol the coast every day, and these days, he During the patrol, I did not see any more food delivery teams from Mazara to Carthage... Is the situation so bad?!

Tinum thought about it, and a heart kept sinking.

There was silence in the camp, and the faint light of the oil lamp shook on his face, which was gradually shrouded in haze.

For a long time, he looked at Tinum and asked hesitantly: "Donian...what can benefit me?"

Kenomus was very happy and said: "Carthage can give you the Sinomibian tribe, the Dionysians can also give it, and it will only be better. For example, the Dionysians will sell to The high-quality iron and armor prohibited by you Carthage... and as long as you can successfully lead most of the Numibian cavalry to Dionysia, the King of Dionysia also promised,'In the future, the Masili tribe and other In the clash of the West Numbia tribe, Dionia will be on your side!'"

When Tinum heard this, he was shocked: the Masili tribe is a big tribe, stronger than most of the West Numbian tribes. Several leaders have always had a dream to unify the loose West Numbian tribes. Get up and become a West Numbian alliance led by the Masili tribe.They think so and do the same.But obviously the Carthaginians would not allow their wishes to come true. Not only did they support his opponents, but they also repeatedly suppressed the Masili tribe, weakening their strength repeatedly, and losing several pastures. Tinum actually secretly Taiji has been dissatisfied for a long time.

This is the reason why Kenoms first chose to convince the Masili tribe.

Despite his emotions, Tinum tried his best to keep calm: "Kinoms, the promises made by Dionysia sounds good, but it is difficult to realize, because the center of Dionysia is on the north. On the big island (referring to Italy), and the land of Africa where we live is the Carthaginians."

"Tinum, you don’t understand how great the King of Dionysia was. It took him more than ten years to make the newly established Kingdom of Dionysia a powerful force that scared the Carthaginians. , He has promised me that when the army of Marco is eliminated, he will allow the Dionysian army to land in Afrika to help us the East Numbians. At that time, whether Carthage will exist is a problem. If I want to take care of our Numisbians again, I am afraid it is a dream!"

Tinum was a little disapproving. Of course, he would not be as full of expectations as Dionysia as Kenomus. After all, Carthage’s hegemony in Africa has lasted for a hundred years, even if it suffered defeat in this war. He did not think that change would happen so soon, but the promise given by the Dionysians really moved him. He thought for a long time and decided not to agree first, but he did not reject Kenomus’ request, but observed carefully. The development of the situation will make a decision.

For this reason, he also kept Kenomus in his own army to avoid contact with others.

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On the second day, the Carthage army attacked the city of Serinus again.

This time, Amintas did not place too many soldiers in the city, but used the wall to resist for a period of time, after repelling an attack by the Carthage, taking advantage of the short gap before the next attack , Decisively issued an order to retreat.

The Carthage army successfully occupied the city walls, boosted their morale, and then blindly attacked the city in an attempt to win the city.

Soon, they suffered from the various traps buried by the Dionysian soldiers in the city, and were eventually blocked in front of the large trench, and behind the trench was another high wall.

The seemingly empty city suddenly appeared countless Dionysian soldiers, launched a fierce attack on the enemies under the city.

The Carthaginian soldiers organized chaos during the process of the incursions in the city. They lacked the command of the generals. The hedgehogs gathered in front of the trenches, and did not carry any siege equipment. They were suddenly attacked by arrows and javelins, and they were suddenly in chaos.

Amintas decisively ordered a counterattack, and the heavy soldiers of the legion that had been ambushed for a long time were killed from the reserved channels.

The Carthage army under the city collapsed and fought back to escape.

After being chased by Dionysian soldiers for a while, with the reminders of the team officers, they immediately withdrew into the second wall, allowing the subsequent Carthage forces to catch up.

After Marco heard the city wall behind him, he immediately remembered the experience of Palagonia. He hurriedly ordered all the troops in the city to withdraw immediately, and sent spies into the block between the two walls to investigate carefully. Is there a large amount of flammable material buried?