Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 315: Carthage’s grain transport fleet

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Who knew that on the way to escape, I ran into the defeated soldiers who had fled from the West City, only to know that the West City Wall had been lost. Everyone was panicked, and for a moment they didn’t know where to go. Some people even cried bitterly: "It's over...Siraku Finished..."

Suddenly someone shouted: "We can go to Ortigia Island!"

These words reminded the flustered congressmen: Yes, we still have Ortigia Island!

As the birthplace of Syracuse and the acropolis of Syracuse, Ortigia was built as a strong fortress during the reign of Dionysius, and a palace was also built on the island. . After Dionysius was overthrown, Herolis allowed the original inhabitants of Ortigia, who had been forcibly driven out by Dionysius, to return to live on the island.

Someone in the council once proposed to demolish the walls of Otikia Island to prevent it from becoming a gathering place for ambitious politicians.

But it has been opposed by many people. The reason is: As the acropolis of Syracuse, Ortigia Island should have a strong defense. When Syracuse is in danger, it will be the people. Of refuge.

Now these words are fulfilled!

At the beginning, there was a riot in Syracuse, Dionysius retreated to Otigia, and Herolis had an absolute advantage, but he had no choice but to rely on the Spartans to deceive him. Out of Ortigia, the defense of the island is absolutely trustworthy, and most of the people on the island are descendants of the founders of Syracuse. Their loyalty to this city-state is also trustworthy, so Ortigia is a Ideal refuge.

The congressmen settled their minds a little bit, gathered the soldiers and retreated to Ortigia Island (many soldiers refused to go to Ortigia because they were worried about their families), and sent people to inform Falekus and Teagan Nice, I hope they can hold on for a while, so that the people in the city can have a buffer time to retreat to Ortigia Island. Especially the port area is very close to the isthmus. Once the enemy breaks through the inner wall, the isthmus may be cut off.

The line of defense on the inner wall is already shaky, but Falekus is really trying to support it. However, after learning that the southern section of the Western Wall was lost, Theagennis did not continue to defend at the head of the city. Instead, he fled directly to Ortigia Island with a few citizen soldiers willing to follow him.

The defenders of the east city wall also saw the fire in the city, and their reaction was almost the same as that of the defenders of the west city.

The Allied forces of Dionia finally broke through the defense of the eastern city wall, and Zanteparis, as the commander, finally breathed a sigh of relief. It should be understood that compared with the main forces of Dionia on the Western Front, the troops attacking the Eastern Wall are composed of allied citizens. Of course, they cannot obey orders, obey commands, and force attacks regardless of casualties like the soldiers of the Dionia Legion. In order to persuade the generals of these allied forces to lead their respective troops in an uninterrupted offensive, Zanteparis was exhausted. Therefore, the battle on the eastern front was not fierce, but it eventually dragged down thousands of defenders. It created conditions for the Dionian army to break through in other directions.

At dusk, the troops on the east and west sides successfully met in the Apollo Square in Syracuse.

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The main force led by Daves has always stuck to Minoan, and the army led by Lizaru and Epithenis has also stayed in Enna, and is strengthening the city defense every day.

Under such a situation, Margo had nothing to do. Even if he wanted to attack one side, the shortage of food made him give up the idea. After five or six days of confrontation in Minoa, he finally led his army to retreat to the west. Segesta.

After receiving the news of the "Third Fleet Victory", Daves strengthened his determination to implement the strategy of "land defense and naval attack".

These days, new ships have been added to the Sicilian fleet. The total number of ships has reached 320, and its main force has moved forward to the port of Serinus.

Every morning, Sekrian led the fleet to leave the port, sailing to the west mightily, sweeping the entire western coast of Sicily, and not returning until dusk. Because he recently received information from King Davos: Recently, a large number of ships are gathering in the ports of Carthage and the surrounding Phoenician allies, and at the same time, the city is also stepping up to raise food, and it is likely to be Sicily transported grain.

In the early morning of this day, it was raining lightly in the western waters of Sicily, and the sky was a bit gloomy. Although there was a light breeze, the wind and waves were not strong.

Sekrian, who was re-incorporated as the commander of the Sicilian fleet, learned the lessons of the last time. He specially hired several old sailors who have lived here for decades as consultants to provide him with an analysis of the sea conditions and climate in this sea area. , They all made a positive judgment at one time: it is unlikely that there will be big storms in the western waters today.

Therefore, although Sekrian hesitated, he let the Sicilian fleet leave the port as usual and head west along the coast.

Due to rain, the sea was covered with mist, resulting in poor visibility. In order to prevent accidents, the speed of all warships slowed down, and the entire fleet of 280 warships maintained a dense formation (the other 40 warships were anchored) In the Minoan simple port, to protect the needs of the main force led by Dafus).

Therefore, it only took an hour's voyage in normal times, but now it took two hours before the fleet reached the sea near Mazara and began to turn to the northwest.

At this time, the drizzle has stopped, the sky is getting brighter, the fog is gradually dissipating, the blue sky is like washing, the sea is blue, endless, and the breeze is blowing, making people feel relaxed and happy.

Sekrian was relieved, and smiled and said to the two advisor sailors: "Your judgment is very accurate! You deserve to be called the ‘being favored by the sea god’!"

These two old sailors from Silinus hurriedly responded modestly. As Greek sailors, they had a low status in Silinus, relying on fishing and shipping for their livelihoods. The generals of the kingdom of warships have equal opportunities for dialogue.

Seeing them nodding and bowing, Sekrian frowned, but didn't say anything, and turned to the captain of the seated captain and issued an order: "Notify the fleet, restore normal speed, send out the Clippers, and carefully search for sea targets."

Not long after, the speed of the entire fleet increased, and more than 10 Clippers also left the main force and moved forward quickly.

Several minutes later, the Clippers running at the forefront had already approached the surface of the sea. The watchman on the mast moved his sore hands and feet, bowed his head and shouted to the bottom: "Captain!"

When the Clippers captain heard this, he immediately asked excitedly: "Is there an enemy?!"

The watchman wanted to say: "Is the time for the rotation? I should let the next one take his place." But the captain's question made him subconsciously glance at the sea ahead, and then he Frozen, blinked, enlarged his eyes again, and stared forward. After a while, he also shouted excitedly: "There is an enemy ship! One, two, three... many Carthage ships!" /

"My lord commander, the warship ahead has raised the white flag!" The watchman on the main mast of the flagship saw the semaphore passed by the flagship of the squadron ahead, and shouted excitedly: "It's two white flags. ! It is an ordinary fleet equal to our warships!"

Sekrian immediately understood the meaning of the rest, and he was also excited: encountering ordinary fleets in this sea area can only come from Carthage. It seems that the information given by your majesty is correct, and the Carthaginians are indeed It's time to deliver military rations!

He did not hesitate to issue an order: "Tell Stefakas, lead his squadron, and sink all these Carthage ships for me! If one is released, let him accept military punishment! "

After receiving this order, Squadron Commander Stefakas immediately took out the spirit of twelve points and ordered his commander’s forward squadron warship to unfold in one word and move quickly towards the direction of discovering the enemy’s situation. March.

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These more than 200 Carthaginian merchant ships lined up in two columns and were moving in the direction of Lilibo. On the leading merchant ship, a sailor was standing on the top of the mast and looking forward nervously. Suddenly He eagerly yelled: "Old man, the battleship of Dionia...the battleship of Dionia is here!"

After speaking, he quickly slid off the mast.

Merchant ships are not like warships. Generally, they only have one mast, and it is located at the end of the bed. Usually, it is not possible for people to stand on top of the mast and look at it. On the one hand, because merchant ships rely heavily on the propulsion of sails, they are afraid of stepping on the mast; on the other hand, standing people on the mast for a long time can easily disrupt the balance of the whole body and cause accidents. But today is a special situation, they need to know the movement of the Dionia fleet early.

"I think I was crazy. I would actually agree to Morbal and drive a merchant ship to face the warship." The old captain with all white hair didn't look nervous, but sighed.

Beside him was a wrinkled helmsman comforted: "We are pretty good. Like Barricks, they even have to maneuver merchant ships and break into Dionia’s ship formation. That’s too much. Crazy!"

The old captain sighed again: "Why, we were once Morbal's old men. We followed him for so many years and got a lot of help from him... Besides, the motherland is now in a difficult situation, and we are all about to enter the soil. The elderly can play a little role and provide some help for it. I believe that even if we die, it will be an honor to us!"

The old helmsman nodded in sympathy.

"Old man, don’t miss the past! The Dionian warship is coming soon, as planned, the ship will sail to the designated place, which is too far from the coast. If the ship is hit and sunk, we won’t Surely you can swim to the shore!" The young sailor who had just been watching from the mast urged.

"Don't worry, don't worry." The old captain said unhurriedly, closing his eyes, and feeling the direction of the wind intently: "It seems that the wind is a little bit stronger."