Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"I have thought about it!" Dido said without hesitation: "So I decided to go to Sicily to negotiate with the Dionysians!"

"What?! Are you going to Sicily?!" Haka was really surprised this time.

"The person who was more suitable was you, but you are in poor health, and you can't live without you at this time. So I can only go! Although I am a woman, I am the only one of the Marconid patriarch Marco. 'S daughter, I went to Sicily to negotiate in person, which shows the sincerity of our Margonide family. And the decisions I made in the negotiation should also get your consent, right?" Dido is imposing. Looking directly at her cousin.

Haka did not respond directly, and asked, "What decision do you have to make?"

"I want this territory to join the Kingdom of Dionysia and become their sub-state or...what a free city, I think that should be able to save my father and Hasdruba!"

Haka looked at Dido with a determined look, and suddenly envied her vitality and courage in her heart, which was exactly what his sickly body lacked: "Well, I will take care of everything here, you can safely go to Sicily, But you have to plan for the worst. The King of Dionysia is not so good at speaking!"

Although Haka had never seen Daphes, he had a deeper understanding of the King of Dionysia. Even some of the administrative systems implemented in the Iberian territory are absorbed from the Dionysian regime. , Adapted.Because of this, as a noble of Carthage, he did not object to Dido’s rebellious behavior of surrendering to the enemy country, but on the contrary he felt a little envy.

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Okreton once again came to Sicily as the messenger of Carthage, and started a new round of negotiations with the clerk of the court of Dionysia, Hernipolis, in the palace of Lilithium.

After several negotiating clashes, in the face of the aggressive Henripolis, Okreton made a compromise and offered to cede the new colony in southern Iberia, and was willing to return the land of the East Nubians, allowing them independent.

However, Henipolis was not satisfied. He pointed out: Dionysia needs the entire southern Iberia owned by Carthage, which also includes Cadiz, Huelva, Megalopolis The coastal towns and the gold and silver mines under their control cannot be changed.

According to reason, Okritton argued that Henipolis was not reluctant to speak up, and that Daveus did not give Okritton an opportunity to meet, and the negotiations stalled.

When Okreton passed the news of "negotiated progress" back to Carthage, the Carthage House also received another bad news: Ruspina surrendered to the Dionysian army.

It turned out that Alexis had hoped that Carthage's army would come to rescue Ruspina, so that he could defeat Carthage's new forces in the field, reducing the difficulty of the soldiers' attack on the city, and thwarting Carthage. Human confidence.

But after learning that the Numisbians had joined the Dionysian army, the Carthage senate was even more worried about the safety of the Carthage basic city. Even though the messenger of Ruspina repeatedly pleaded, the Carthage senate was perfunctory. On the one hand, they stepped up to mobilize reinforcements and protect the city from the Phoenician allies to the west.

Alexis did not order a strong attack on Ruspina, but let the three legions possess a total of 30 ballistas, which bombarded the city of Ruspina continuously for several days, not only destroyed many houses in the city, let The people in the city were panicked all day long, and they also made a few big gaps in the not thick wall. Ruspina’s civic soldiers were not many, plus the news that they never waited for the reinforcement of Carthage. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Hadrumentum, the frightened Ruspina chose to surrender.

Alexis led his army to enter the city of Ruspina, and after completely controlling the city, he immediately notified the Third Army Regiment in Hadrummentum to pull out the camp and meet at Ruspina.

In view of the inability of the Carthaginians to stand up, he simply planned to continue to capture Thapsos to the east, thus completely transforming this coastal land into the rear of the Dionysian army.

The Carthage veterans headed by Hanno received a reply from Okritton, and at the same time, they learned that the Dionysian army that landed in Africa had raided the city in the east by reconnaissance. They realized that whether it was for Carthage For the security of the city, or for the armistice agreement to be successfully signed, Carthage must concentrate on fighting back the enemy in front of him.

Therefore, after an urgent consultation, the Senate appointed Samors as the military commander of Carthage and was responsible for repelling the Dionysian army.

Samuels led 10,000 Carthage corps and rushed to Addis, which made the total strength in Addis reached 15,000. It also made it difficult for carthage to see young and middle-aged citizens again. Both the old man and the underage man mobilized to defend the city.

Rather than leading his troops to rescue Typsos, who was under siege by the Dionysian army, Summers stepped up the construction of defensive facilities in Addis while waiting for the reinforcements sent by the Phoenician allies on the west coast.

Since the Dionysian warships cruised along the coast of Africa, for safety reasons, the Phoenician confederate reinforcements did not dare to take the boat, and could only travel by land, marching in the mountains, and the time to reach Carthage would naturally be extended.

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Dido is tall, graceful, pretty, and has bright eyes. She is wearing a purple pleated skirt with flowers embroidered in gold silk, covered with a rare white fox fur jacket, and black hair. Pulled together, the delicate hair accessories made of pure gold embrace...Temperament is graceful but not elegant, delicate and brisk, and the skin color is slightly darker, but more shiny, without flaws, and more exotic .

When she walked into Tingting's living room of Lili's mansion, not only did the guards stare straight, but even Davis was a little distracted.

He subconsciously sat upright, coughing twice, and said, "You... are the messengers from the Iberian colony of Carthage?"

"Honorable Dionysian King." Dido opened her lips lightly. Her voice was not as crisp as most girls, but rather thicker: "I am Dido, the only daughter of Martha, the military commander of Carthage. Not the messenger of Carthage, but the representative Margonide family."

Daveus was not surprised, he already knew the identity of the Iberian messenger in advance, and he also knew through intelligence that this daughter of Marco was not a simple woman. Not only did she often participate in political affairs in southern Iberia, even Being able to influence Marco's decision, so she was interviewed out of curiosity.And this sentence Didot emphasized more confirmed some of his ideas, he deliberately jokingly said: "Do you have any men in the Margonide family?"

Dido heard Davies' sarcasm, and suddenly Xingyan's eyes widened, but then he lowered his eyes and said forcefully, "Iberian officials let me come here, not because I am a woman, but Because I can negotiate with you on their behalf!"

"Oh?" Daveus pretended to be surprised and said, "I don't understand why Carthage's officials in Iberia wanted you to come? Don't you know that Carthage's senate has prepared to move the entire southern part of Iberia Was the area ceded to Dionia?"

Dido expected that the other party would have this question. She took a breath and said in a more accented voice: "Dear King Dionysia, although we are far from Iberia, we also know that Dionysia and Carthage The negotiations are not smooth and the war is still going on. Not to mention that Carthage cannot represent us in southern Iberia. Even if negotiations are reached in the future, they agree to cede southern Iberia to you Dionysia, and this resolution will not be obtained. We all the people of southern Iberia admit it! Because the southern region of Iberia has decided to break away from Turiri and decide our own destiny!"

Dido spoke the last sentence loudly. Daveus listened, raised his eyebrows, and his eyes became cold: "So even if we reach a peace agreement with Carthage, you will not intend to be in southern Iberia. Obey?! Don’t you know that if you do this, it will only give me reason to send troops to southern Iberia. We have now captured tens of thousands of captives from southern Iberia, including your father and relatives! I don’t mind Let all the men in southern Iberia become slaves and mine until they die!"

Although Daphus didn't speak very loudly, the majesty of the king was not directly observable, and the thick bloody blood came to the face, making Dido panicked. She hurriedly lowered her head and tried to calm herself down. After breathing for a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Since...Since Carthage betrayed us, why should we obey Carthage's order! If Dionysia really wants to send troops to attack us, we would rather all die in battle. , We must also defend the dignity of the Margonide family, and at the same time let Dionysia pay a heavy price!"

"Want to make us Dionysians pay a heavy price?" Daveus sneered and said disdainfully: "How many troops do you have in Iberian territory? Can also deter the surrounding Lusitania People, Iberians? We don’t even need to send troops, we can quickly see the Iberian indigenous people wipe out all of you alone!"

"Maybe we will perish, but what good is it for you Dionia?!" At this moment, Dido also took a break and reminded loudly: "We spent more than 10 years to conquer the Iberian natives and fell down. Trees, flat land, and reclamation every year have the territory where we can settle today. If the orderly and stable southern Iberia is re-occupied by those ignorant and vicious indigenous people, I don’t know that Dionysia has experienced After the war of Carthage, how much gold and silver are willing to take out, how many citizens are sacrificed, and how long it takes to reintegrate southern Iberia into the Kingdom of Dionysia!

But as long as Dionia accepts my negotiation request, the southern Iberia you want will immediately belong to Dionia!Then King, you can deal with Carthage with all your strength and make other demands to them to get more benefits!"

The chill in Dave's eyes converged, and he said quietly, "Do you want southern Iberia to merge directly into Dionysia?"