Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Yes! Muklu commanded the messengers to run everywhere, shouting loudly to the retreating legionnaires.

And Leotidas had already rushed towards the north gate with the guards. He needed to return to the city first, and quickly and best arrange with the Jera people to respond to the defeated troops and defend the enemy from attacking the city.

The flag-bearers in the Guard held the Legion's flag high and fluttered in the wind, pointing the way to the retreating Eighth Legion.

The rout of the enemy energized Hasdrobba's tired body, and he followed the Lusitania warriors in pursuit of the fleeing enemy.

At this time, the ability of the Lusitanias to run well was brought into full play, and the heavy armor of the Greek heavy infantry made them easily overtaken by the enemy.

Hasdrubal led the warriors to slash all the way, and in the end they all turned into blood men.

When they chased down the city and wanted to take the opportunity to invade the city, javelins and arrows poured down from the city head, causing a lot of casualties to the lack of defense.

Hasdruba saw the many black-helmed and black-armored defenders on the top of the city. He did not dare to continue to attack the rout soldiers crowded under the city. Instead, he turned around and went to chase and kill the rout soldiers in other directions...

It was not until dusk that the Carthaginian army returned to the camp.

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In this battle, the Dionysian 4th Cavalry Corps lost half of its cavalry, the Eighth Corps lost about 1,300 casualties, of which the light armour and light infantry brigade lost more than half, and the Gela army lost more than 2,000 casualties. The casualties were the most. Of the 3,000 soldiers who originally fought, only 300 fled back, and the entire coalition suffered nearly 7,000 casualties. The Carthaginian army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, of which the Balearic slingers suffered the most casualties, more than half.

Due to the rout of the Dionian coalition, most of the wounded coalition soldiers could not escape.

The first battle of Gera severely damaged the civic soldiers of Gera and Kamanlina, which made the troops that Leotizides could command even more stretched. The news of the Army of Nia was like a stone thrown into the seemingly peaceful political situation in Sicily, creating waves in some city-states.

After the battle of Gera, despite the Minoans' repeated pleas for help, Leotizides continued to stay in Gera, resting his troops while defending against the siege of the Carthaginians. When the troops under his command were getting smaller and smaller, he was even more reluctant to dismantle them and station them in various city-states, which would only be eaten by the Carthaginian army one by one, and compared to Minoa, he believed that Jera strategic location is more important.

Of course, he couldn't just ignore Minoa, so he sent a messenger, along with the Minoan messenger, to Pachinus for help.

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On the 4th day after the Battle of Gera, Cypros, the governor of Sicily in Catane, received an urgent report from Serofenice, the head of the kingdom's intelligence in Sicily: a military mobilization is underway in Syracuse, and the motive is unknown. .

In order to be cautious, Cypros immediately sent a messenger to notify the Seventh Legion, which had been ordered to Hena after arriving at Katanai, and asked it to rush back to the new army camp near Leothin to prevent accidents.

But the accident still happened. Pachinus promised to rescue Minoa and sent 3,000 reinforcements. Shortly after leaving the port by boat, he suddenly encountered the fleet of Syracuse.

Over the years, the eastern seas of Sicily have been dominated by the Second Fleet of Dionia.

The Syracuse Navy, which once dominated Sicily, has long since faded away. It has shrunk into a small fleet of only 30 three-tier prize warships and a total of 50 warships. Usually it only patrols the sea near its own city-state, but it suddenly appeared at this time. In the sea near Pachinus, the attack on the troop convoy was launched.

Since the Dionysian Sicilian fleet has been stationed in Serinus for this period of time, while guarding the western seas and concerned about the war in Serinus, they did not send warships to escort them. Of course, the Pachinus did not make any demands to Catanay. After all, it is far away from the battlefield, and the nearby waters have always been safe. It has close relations with Dionysus, and gets along well with neighboring Syracuse. The voyage from one's own city-state to Minoa should be safe. Therefore, the Pachinus only sent their own city-state's only 5 3-tier oars to escort them, symbolically pretending to be.

As a result, after being suddenly attacked by the Syracuse fleet, the Pachinus warships resisted stubbornly, but were outnumbered. Except for four troop transports that escaped back to the port, all the others were sunk.

At the same time, Syracuse sent an army of 12,000 men. Instead of marching north to attack Taunis, which was very close to it, it turned south and rushed to Camanlina. Claimed to be to help the Camanlinas against the invasion of the Carthaginians.

After the Camanlinas refused the request of the Syracuse army to enter the city, the Syracuse army immediately changed their faces and surrounded the city of Camanlina. Na people: Syracuse has formed an alliance with Carthage, either rejoin Syracuse, so that it can be preserved when the Carthaginian army arrives; or choose to refuse, Syracuse will attack the city, after the city is broken , the people of the city will be handed over to the Carthaginians.

Since Kamanlina has already sent most of the civic soldiers to assist Gera, there are only more than 500 Kamanlina civic soldiers who can fight in the city at this time. time to consider.

The messenger of Syracuse arrogantly gave only one day.

After the messenger returned, not only did the Syracuse army immediately block the road leading to Gera from Camarina, but the Syracuse warships also blocked its port.

At this time, the Carthaginian army, which had won the battle, had already moved the camp eastward and intensified the siege of the city of Gera, so Leotizides was busy dealing with the siege of the Carthaginians and attacked Kaman. Nothing happened to Lina.

Half a day later, the Dionian merchant ship, which ventured into the port, brought news that the Syracuse fleet attacked the troop convoy of Pachinus and blocked the ports of Pachinus and Camerina.

When Leotizides found out, he was shocked: Syracuse finally entered the war!

The addition of Syracuse undoubtedly made Dionysian's plight in Sicily worse, especially on the south coast. The Dionysian coalition was not only inferior in number, but also fell into a dangerous situation of being attacked by both sides in terms of strategic situation. .

Even if Leotidides wanted to reinforce Carmanlina, he could not do anything for a while. He was threatened by the Carthaginian army by land, and the Syracuse fleet by sea. In the absence of fleet escort, I am afraid that the fleet could not even enter the port of Kamanlina, so they fed fish and shrimp.

Leotizides dispatched the Dionysian Clipper, which was docked in the port of Gera, and immediately rushed to inform Cykrian in Serinus.

A day later, at the head of the city, the dazed Camanlinas saw black Syracuse soldiers carrying ladders and pushing tall siege machines, approaching the city wall, making them tremble, afraid of being attacked by Agger. The Camanlinas, who suffered tragically in Rigento, finally surrendered.

More than 10 years later, due to the strength of the Dionysian Kingdom and the long-term friendly exchanges with the Carmanlina, there were almost no pro-Syracuse citizens in the city of Carmanlina, which made the Siracusa who captured the city. The Za people were temporarily unable to build a government that was close to them. In order to prevent rebellion, they demanded: the Camanlinas hand over many protons, and at the same time let 3,000 Syracuse soldiers stationed in the city, euphemistically called once Carthage The arrival of the base army can effectively prevent its destruction of Kamanlina.

In addition, the Syracuses also asked to transfer the remaining 500 Camanlina soldiers to join the Syracuse army to fight together.

The Camanlinas, who are now man-made knives and I fish-meat, finally agreed to these terms.

After the Syracuse army got the attachment of Carmanlina, it did not lead the army westward to join the Carthaginian army who was besieging Gera, but entered the city of Carmanlina, leaving 3,000 soldiers stationed there. The rest of the soldiers landed near the coast of Pachinus by boat, and immediately surrounded the city of Pachinus, and sent messengers into the city to ask it to surrender to Syracuse.

The envoy of Syracuse threatened: If Pachinus refused this request, Syracuse would not only immediately execute the more than 2,000 Pachinus citizens (the Syracuse fleet sank the Pachinus troop carrier) After the team, they did not go away, but rescued the Pachinus citizens who fell into the water and captured them), and then led the army to attack the city of Pachinus. After the city was broken, all the citizens in the city would be sold. To the Carthaginians, as slaves.

The threat of Syracuse terrified the people of Pachinus. Their city was surrounded by the army of Syracuse, and the port was blocked by the warships of Syracuse. Kneeling and tied to the ground, their relatives looked tired and haggard, and the Pachinus people, who were at a loss, held an emergency citizens' assembly and quickly reached a consensus. Pachinus, the city-state of Syracuse, was attached to Syracuse again.

Within a few days, Syracuse successively included Pachinus and Camerina into his alliance. In a blink of an eye, the entire southeastern corner of Sicily became the sphere of influence of Syracuse again, and it has always been a dream Citizens who relived the glory of Syracuse rejoiced.

And the chief general of Syracuse, Te Argenis, who proposed this plan, and despite the opposition of his colleagues, strongly promoted it, was greatly praised by the people, and his prestige increased for a time.

But at the same time, some people expressed dissatisfaction with Theagenis' approach. For example, the general Hiktas publicly questioned: In order to obtain two small city-states, Syracuse has taken great risks to provoke anger. Mighty Dionia, this is very dangerous! Theagenis, don't you forget that the Carthaginians are far away in Africa, and we Syracuse are next to Dionia!