Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

At the same time, Leotidides also asked the soldiers to place thousands of corpses of Lusitania soldiers in front of the city of Palermos, and at the same time let people shout in Phoenician under the city, threatening Palermo. The people of Remus opened the city and surrendered, otherwise they would suffer the same fate.

Witnessing the terrible encounter of the reinforcements with their own eyes, the threatened Palermos panicked and really had an urgent discussion on whether or not to surrender the Dionysians. After all, more than 20 years ago, when Dionysius led 10 When the Wan Da Army conquered western Sicily, they surrendered once. They were all Greeks. They could surrender to Dionysius, but why not Dionysus?

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While the Palermos were anxious about their own fate, Midorades set off southward with a smug fleet.

The port of departure of the Third Fleet was not at Siedium or Messina, but at Saros on Sardinia. After discussing with Sekelian the day before yesterday and completing the escort mission of the fleet, he led the fleet directly to Sardinia, docked at the outer port of Saros, and received the command of the ninth army commander Tigeti. North's warm welcome.

At this time, the chief executive of Saros had already taken office. He was the old senator Stromboli from Amendolara. Originally, he had no plans to serve in other places, but the five rotating chairman of the Senate discussed for a long time and finally agreed that Among these veterans who were idle in Turii, only he was the most suitable candidate, so Cornelus personally went to persuade him as an old friend.

In order to ensure the final victory of the kingdom in this war, Stromboli finally accepted the appointment, and he went to Saros with 3,000 reserve soldiers from the regions of Turii and Bruti.

Under the proposal of the new Sarros administrator, Tigertinos, who had received reinforcements, quickly led his army northward and easily captured St. Ibinia. This time, the Ninth Legion did not kill, but did his best to capture St. Iby. At the same time, try not to destroy various facilities inside and outside the city.

When Midorades arrived at Saros, Stromboli was putting order in the city of Saros while trying to persuade the captured Saint Ibinians to serve the kingdom and continue to collect and smelt precious metal ore. And Tigertinos is training his army, preparing to attack the surrounding Phoenician towns next.

The Third Fleet, having made adequate preparations at the outer port of Saros, departed early on the third day and sailed rapidly south, targeting the Phoenician city-state of agilgili on the coast of Africa.

Compared with Sicily, the southern end of Sardinia is closer to the African mainland, but it does not directly face Carthage, so it is not as important as Sicily in terms of strategic position, but precisely because it is close to Africa, but also far away. Carthage is farther away,

This created favorable conditions for the raid of the Third Fleet.

The burning of Hadrummentum indeed aroused the vigilance of Carthage and its allies, but it was mainly on the side close to Sicily, and the focus of Carthage fleet patrol and defense was also on this side. After all, Dio Both of Nia's fleets have appeared in the Sicilian waters.

As a result, the raid of the Third Fleet was a success, and it not only burned again a Phoenician city-state on the coast of Africa, but also captured some of the Phoenician people and returned with a full load, as Stromboli had told Midora Des: Santa Ibinia is in desperate need of labor.

The news of Ogiergili was burned quickly spread throughout the land of Africa. The repeated attacks of the Phoenician city-state made the Phoenicians very panic, and the envoys of the city-states rushed to the Carthage Senate. , and strongly demanded that Carthage perform the duties of the leader of the alliance and give their city-state security protection.

The people of Carthage also gathered and protested to the Senate again, hoping that they could take action to prevent such a tragic incident from happening again.

The Carthaginian elders were under a lot of pressure. After a heated debate, the Hannos' opinion was adopted, and the Senate finally made two decisions: first, to order the naval commander Morbar, to strictly order He is not allowed to lead the fleet to the Sicilian waters for the time being, but must patrol the coast of Aphilia every day to ensure the safety of Carthage and its allies; secondly, send a messenger to Sicily to put pressure on the military commander Marco, asking him to conquer it as soon as possible. Serinus, or Carthage will have to negotiate a peace with Dionysus.

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In the city of Serinus, the battle between the Dionian defenders and the Carthaginian army has been going on.

Although, the Dionysian defenders used ballistas and abdominal bows to continuously conduct long-range attacks, and occasionally sent troops out of the city to raid, killing and wounding the soldiers who built the walls of Carthage. However, while defending the attack of the Dionysian defenders, Marco urged the soldiers to speed up the construction of the inner wall. Due to the large number of Carthaginian troops, although the Dionysian defenders tried their best to obstruct, Carthage The inner walls of the camp are still being built.

Then, Marco dispatched troops to guard the inner wall, and at the same time learned from the Dionysian defenders, and moved the ballista to the front of the city to fight against the defenders, thus changing the relatively passive situation before.

Amyntas stood on the top of the city and looked forward with a solemn expression: countless Carthaginian heavy infantry lined up in a long dragon, and they were sprinting out of the doorway in the inner wall that had just been built. They did not carry weapons or shields. But everyone was carrying a wooden frame, which was filled with dirt. They placed the wooden frame tightly in the open space between the inner wall of the Carthaginian camp and the wall of Serinus, and then returned to the inner wall in turn. , and so on and so forth... Just like building blocks, it didn't take long before a wooden hill with a wide base and a height of almost three meters was erected.

During the busy period of the Carthaginians, the ballista on the wall of Serinus kept firing. The stone bullets could easily break the wooden frame, but the wooden frame shattered, and the scattered soil penetrated into the gap between the wooden frames. On the contrary, it makes the hill under construction more solid.

There are also ballistas that aim at the Carthaginians, but they are too close to the city wall (about 60 or 70 meters). If the ballistas on the city wall want to attack them, they must raise the elevation angle. It is a vertical fall, which seems to be amazing, but in fact, the lethality is limited, and it is easy to avoid.

The arrows fired by the Dionysian light infantry were not too threatening to the Carthaginian heavy infantry to inflict mortal damage to them. Under the urging of the team officers, the Carthaginian heavy infantry had to face the incoming arrows and complete the task of building the earth mountain frame with the wooden frame.

On the contrary, the abdominal bow is a greater threat to them, but the Carthaginians launched dozens of arrow-blocking vehicles early in the morning, overlapping front and rear, blocking the front of this long dragon. The powerful iron arrows may penetrate one or two pieces. A thick plank, but it was hardly a real threat to the lives of the Carthaginians.

Legion Commander, do you want to send soldiers out of the city to raid? Adjutant Aristonos reminded.

Amintas shook his head. He could see a Carthaginian army guarding behind the arrow-blocking vehicles on the top of the city, and the other side's inner walls were also covered with light infantry on standby at any time. The army does not take advantage of the defense. If the soldiers attack, they will only form a fierce battle with the opponent. Although Amyntas fought bravely, he knew very well that the Carthaginian troops were four or five times his strength, and it would not be good for him to recklessly consume them. What's more, there are still a large number of cavalry in Carthage who can rush out from other door openings in the inner wall at any time, and quickly circle behind their own soldiers to form a siege.

Bring up the slingers and let them deal with these Carthaginians! Amintas' words made the adjutant Aristonos' eyes light up: of all Dionysian legions, only the First Legion's Light Infantry Brigade has it. More than 400 slingers, the lead shot thrown by these soldiers from Rhode Island within a distance of 100 meters is ruthless and accurate, and can cause blunt damage to heavy infantry.

How to distribute these slingers? Aristonos asked again, because the construction of the earth hills was not only outside the north gate, but also outside the city walls on the east and west sides.

Concentrate on solving the enemy here first! Amintas said firmly with his finger in front of him.

Commander Amintas, I have a suggestion. Karsidis said suddenly.

Oh, Karsidis, you said. Amyntas looked at the general of the Serinus garrison. The tone became polite. During this time, Karsidis did his best to assist him, which really helped him a lot and won his respect.

Karsidis thoughtfully said: ...The Carthaginians relied on the number of people and built the mountains desperately. The best we can do now is to delay their progress, just like the wall they built, In the end, they will still build the earth mountain. The purpose of building the earth mountain is to allow their ballistas and light infantry to attack the soldiers at the top of our city and assist their soldiers in attacking the city. The height of the walls made it impossible for the Carthaginians to achieve.

Raise the walls? Amyntas was surprised.

Karsidis gestured at the aisle at the top of the city with his hand and continued to explain: The stone city wall built by the Serinus is very strong, and the aisle is wide and flat. The wood continues to build up the wooden city wall, at least the 7-meter-high city wall can be raised by another 5 to 6 meters...

After Amintas heard this, his eyes lit up.

At this time, the adjutant Aristonos objected: But the Carthaginians had ballistas, and the wooden city walls could not withstand the attack of stone bullets. At that time, they did not work when they were built, but they increased the number of soldiers. casualties!