Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Another ten years of the covenant?! It is said that Dionia is about to occupy the Apulia region of Italy. If you give him another ten years, I am afraid that the entire Italian peninsula will belong to Dionia! Pretakuba But stood up and warned loudly: Everyone, we must understand that there are only two powerful countries in the Western Mediterranean - Carthage and Dionia, making Dionia stronger is not good for Carthage. !

Apulia has a large area of ​​Numibia?! Occupy the entire Italian peninsula? Okriton sneered: Let's not say that there are our allies Rome in central Italy and the fierce Celts in the north, Even if Dionia can occupy the entire Italian peninsula in the future, we have already completely occupied Numibia, and I am afraid we have completely controlled Mauritania and Nubia. A small Italian peninsula has Numibia As big as Mauritania?!

Just as the two sides were arguing, Aditya Ruba stood up.

The leader of the neutral faction is highly respected, and the noise of the venue has become much quieter. He said earnestly: Everyone, don't forget the purpose of the establishment of our city of Carthage. Our ancestors came to the West hundreds of years ago. The Mediterranean is not to occupy more land, nor to compete for the hegemony of the Mediterranean, but to trade, to obtain the resources of gold, silver and other metal minerals in Iberia and Sardinia to meet the needs of the mother state. Today, the trade of Carthage and other Phoenician city-states in the western Mediterranean is far more than those minerals, but maritime trade has become the nature of every Carthaginian, the reason for the continuous growth of Carthage, and our mother The reason why Bontaire and Sidon were able to live more freely under Persian rule.

And war is the natural enemy of trade, it will consume our resources, take away our customers, and make the market depressed... What good has the series of wars in Sicily over the past ten years brought to Carthage? There is no good, there is only death and decline! If everyone here has forgotten the tragic past ten years ago, then please go to the cemetery outside the city for a walk, and you will know how the people hate war! Peace, Carthage needs peace, and only peace can make Carthage prosper! Therefore, I suggest to continue to form an alliance with Dionia, and Carthage will continue to have the trade market of the Western Mediterranean, and the development of Carthage will be even faster! …”

Aditya Ruba's emotional speech was echoed by many veterans.

Hanno clapped, but he didn't take it seriously. It is somewhat different from Adiya Ruba's concept of developing maritime trade and living in peace with Dionia. He is actually wary of Dionia, who has formed allies in Sicily, Expansion northwards in the Italian peninsula showed the ambitions of the Greek kingdom. In fact, in order to delay Dionia's expansion, the Senate agreed to support Tanikan and to increase its support for Rome, which he secretly pushed.

It's just that Carthage's rule in Numibia is not yet stable, and the Senate's idea of ​​Mauritalia during this time is also a proposal that he has asked his subordinates to carry out many times. He hoped that while acquiring more land and manpower, the influence of the Carthaginian Senate could be extended to the land controlled by the Margonid family on the Iberian Peninsula, whether by sea or by land.

When the internal troubles are resolved and the army is strong, he is happy to compete with Dionysus, in order to wash away Margo's slandering his coward nickname, and push the Hanno family's prestige in Carthage and even the Western Mediterranean. to a new height.

At this moment, taking the opportunity of Aditya Ruba to speak, he immediately expressed his support.

With the promotion of the Hannoites and the centrists, the Tanikian tribe was abandoned, and the renewal of the alliance between Carthage and Dionia was put on the agenda.

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A few days later, in the war room next to the king's office in the royal palace of Turii, Davos and several ministers of the military affairs department were discussing the recent war.

The military ministers are:

The Minister of Military Affairs, Hiros, is responsible for managing and coordinating the various departments under the Ministry of Military Affairs, and has the right to assess, recommend soldiers and promote team officers.

Hironimus, a military training officer under the Ministry of Military Affairs (a few years ago, Davos proposed several times that he should be transferred to the administrator of a certain city, but he was rejected), the unspeakable former mercenary leader of the army. Diligently stayed in this position for more than ten years, and made great contributions to the legion construction of the Kingdom of Dionia.

The quartermaster General Capps, who was subordinate to the Ministry of Military Affairs, took up this position again four years ago. The two wars that Dionia is currently fighting can go smoothly, both of which are inseparable from his full support behind him.

Felixius, the chief of staff of the Ministry of War.

The Staff Department is a new department ordered by Davos six years ago. Its function is to collect information on surrounding forces, make strategic plans for the expansion of the Dionysian Kingdom, deduce specific wars, and provide the king with effective information. At the same time, it is also a school for cultivating the strategic thinking of young officers. Among the ten corps today, the lieutenants of the corps are basically trained in the staff.

Since the Southern Italian War, Felixius has been criticized in the Senate and the Military Department. Many people believe that he made some command errors in the battle of the Lamato River, which made the fourth and fifth legions. The losses were so heavy that even Drax died tragically.

Davos had to transfer him to this new department, both to protect him and to use his experienced strengths, but also to avoid his lack of courage and inability to be a good commander.

In addition, there is Thormid in the room, who is also in the staff, serving as the second-in-command to assist Felixius. However, he was more active and often traveled to and from other military departments to learn about military training, quarters, and the specific situation of each corps, and to provide detailed data for the staff to formulate combat plans.

At the same time, Thormid also served as the messenger of King Davos when he went to the battlefield, and he often came to the palace to report to Davos in peacetime. Therefore, although he is not a veteran, no one in the Ministry of Military Affairs dares to underestimate him.

There is a huge sand table in the center of the war room, showing the mountains, rivers, plains and hills of shrunken Sicily and southern Italy. A few years ago, Davos organized the most outstanding craftsmen of Dionia, according to the detailed information provided by the Ministry of Military Affairs. For the map, it took more than half a year to use clay and sand to create such a three-dimensional, more accurate sand table map. At the beginning, when several officers of the military affairs department first saw it, they were amazed: this is another amazing masterpiece after King Davos was enlightened by God!

This military sand table is regarded as a treasure of the kingdom by the Ministry of Military Affairs and cannot be seen by non-kingdom officials.

Your Majesty, in the Sicilian battle report just sent this morning, after Prossus occupied Hena, he took advantage of the time before the Sikel rebels arrived to quickly repair the city defense. After Arconis led about 15,000 troops. The famous Sikel rebels attacked Hena, probably because they did not have good siege equipment. Prosous boldly left only three infantry battalions to defend the town, and led the main force to leave quietly, bypassing Agilion, and then again. Raided the empty Herbita to the north...

Felixius pointed at the town model representing Herbita on the sand table with a long wooden stick, and continued: After another rebel town was quickly captured, this army of tens of thousands of people gathered by Arconis, the leader of Tarnican, was swept away. The troops must have felt panic, they only attacked He that day, and stopped the attack, but stayed in their camp for two full days. And during this time, our allies Leotini, Taunis' troops and the reserve troops convened by Catane, Sikuli, and Naxos successively gathered in Agilion. Together with the Eighth Legion, there were more than 20,000 people.

The Sicilian rebels began to retreat to Enna. In the process, some tribes broke away from the forces of Arconis and ran to Agilion to demand surrender... Prosous said in the battle report that he was ready to take advantage of the rebellion of Sikel. When the army's heart was unstable, he immediately led the army to attack Euna. Perhaps as I speak now, the Eighth Legion has already begun to attack the city of Enna.

Davos stared at the city of Enna in the center of Sicily in the sand table, pondered for a moment, then raised his head and asked, What do you think?

I was still worried about whether Prosous, the commander of this attack on the Sikel people, would be able to take on the heavy responsibility this time, but I didn't expect his performance to be so outstanding! Your Majesty has a good vision! Ross first exclaimed.

Capps also repeatedly praised: Yes, this Prosusus is indeed powerful! Before the order of the Senate's 'declaration of war' was passed on to Catane, he decisively led his army to the expedition, and moved quickly to capture it. Hena, completely beyond the enemy's expectations. Then he used Hena City to attract the enemy's heavy troops, and led the main force to attack Hebita. The successive victories made the enemy feel panic, and also deterred other swaying Sikeles. Human tribe, Arkonis's team is constantly decreasing, while the affiliated troops of the Eighth Legion are constantly increasing. Arkonis no longer has the advantage of numbers and terrain. This war has no suspense, and it is estimated that it will end soon. .

Dare to be decisive, act fast, mobilize the enemy, attack the weak... Prosous has fully utilized the military principles of the Dionysian Military Law, and is indeed an excellent army commander! We are all old! With a long sigh, he couldn't help thinking of the war years that he couldn't bear to look back ten years ago.

When Hieronymus heard this, his eyes suddenly brightened, but he did not speak.

Today's victory for the Eighth Legion of Prosous is due to the full support and careful preparation of several adults in the Military Affairs Department! Tormide said with a compliment.