Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 335: Raid again

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At the same time, Leotizides also asked the soldiers to place thousands of Lusitania fighters’ bodies in front of Palermos, and at the same time let them shout in Phoenician. , Threatening the Palermos to surrender, or they will suffer the same fate.

Having witnessed the terrible experience of the reinforcements, the Palermos who were threatened were very panicked, and they really had an urgent discussion about "whether to surrender the Dionians". After all, they became Dionysius more than 20 years ago. When Si led an army of 100,000 to conquer western Sicily, they surrendered once. They were all Greeks. They could surrender Dionysius, but why couldn't they surrender Dionia?

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While the Palermos were anxious about their destiny, Midolades headed the fleet southward with ambition.

The departure port of the Third Fleet was not in Seedium or Messina, but in Saros, Sardinia. After discussing with Sekrian the day before yesterday and completing the task of escorting the fleet, he led the fleet directly to Sardinia, docked at the outer port of Sarros, and received the commander of the Ninth Army Taigeti. A warm welcome from North.

At this time, the chief executive of Saros has already taken office. He is the old veteran Stromboli from Amendorara. He hadn't planned to go to other places for a long time, but the five rotating chairmen of the Senate discussed for a long time. In the end, it was unanimously agreed that among the veterans who had been spared by Turri, he was the most suitable candidate, so Cornelus personally came to persuade him as an old friend.

In order to ensure that the kingdom can finally win in this war, Stromboli finally accepted the appointment. With him, there were 3000 reserve soldiers from Turiyi and Bruti regions who went to Sarros with him. .

Tegretinos, who had received reinforcements, quickly led his army northward and easily captured Saint Ibnia under the proposal of the new Administrator of Sarros. This time, the Ninth Army did not make a big killing, but did its best. Capture the people of Saint Ibene, while trying not to damage various facilities inside and outside the city.

When Midolades arrived in Sarros, Stromboli was rectifying the order in Sarros, and at the same time trying to persuade the captured Saint Iberians to serve the kingdom and continue to collect and smelt precious metal ores. Taigetinus is training the army, preparing to attack the surrounding Phoenician towns.

After the Third Fleet made sufficient preparations in the Outer Port of Saros, it left the port early on the third day and sailed quickly southward, targeting the Phoenician city-state agilgili on the coast of Africa.

Compared with Sicily, the southern tip of Sardinia is a bit closer to the African continent, but it does not directly face Carthage, so it is not as important as Sicily in terms of strategic position, but because it is closer to Africa, At the same time, it was far away from Carthage, which created favorable conditions for the Third Fleet's surprise attack.

The burning of Hadlummentum did arouse the vigilance of Carthage and its allies, but it was mainly on the side close to Sicily, and the center of gravity of the Carthage fleet's patrol and defense was also on this side. After all, Dionia's two fleets have already appeared in the Sicilian waters.

As a result, the Third Fleet’s raid was successful. It not only once again burned a Phoenician city-state on the coast of Africa, but also captured some Phoenician citizens and returned with full load, as Stromboli told Midolades: Saint Ibínia is in urgent need of labor.

The news of "Ogil Gili was burned" quickly spread throughout Africa. The Phoenician city-states were repeatedly attacked and the Phoenicians panicked. The envoys of the city-states rushed to Jiatai. The Ji Senate strongly urged Carthage to perform the duties of the leader and give their city-state security protection.

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

The Carthage elders were under great pressure. After a fierce debate, the opinions of the Hannoists were adopted. The Senate finally made two decisions: First, order the Admiral Moore Barr, he is strictly prohibited from leading the fleet to the Sicilian waters for the time being. Instead, he must patrol the coast of Afeliga every day to ensure the safety of Carthage and the allies; second, send a messenger to Sicily to put pressure on Margo, the military commander. He attacked Serinus as soon as possible, otherwise Carthage would have to negotiate a peace with Dionia.

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

Although, the Dionian garrison used ballistas and abdominal bows to continuously carry out long-range attacks, and occasionally sent troops out of the city to make surprise attacks, killing and wounding the soldiers who built the walls of Carthage. But while Margo defended against the attack of the Dionian garrison, he urged the soldiers to speed up the construction of the inner wall. Due to the large numbers of the Carthaginian army, even though the Dionian garrison tried their best to stop it, Carthage The inner wall of the camp is still completed.

Next, Margot sent troops to garrison the inner wall, and at the same time learned from the Dionian defenders, and moved the ballista to the head of the city to fight against the defenders, thus changing the previous relatively passive situation.

Amintas stood on the head of the city, looking at the front with a solemn expression: Countless Carthage heavy infantry lined up in a long dragon, filed out of the newly constructed inner wall doorway, they did not carry weapons And shields, but everyone was carrying a wooden frame, which was full of soil. They placed the wooden frame tightly on the open space between the inner wall of the Carthage camp and the wall of Silinus, and then in turn Returning to the inner wall, repeating in this way...Like building blocks, it didn't take long for a "wooden hill" with a wide base and a height of three meters.

During the busy period of the Carthaginians, the ballistas on the walls of Silinus never stopped firing. The stone bullets could easily break the wooden frame, but the wooden frame shattered and the scattered dirt invaded between the wooden frames. The gap between them makes the "hill" under construction stronger.

There are also ballistas aimed at the Carthaginians, but they are too close to the city wall (about 60 or 70 meters). If the ballistas on the city wall attack them, the elevation angle must be raised. The stone bullets fall almost vertically, seemingly shocking, but in fact they have limited lethality and are easy to avoid.

The arrows fired by the Dionian light infantry are not too threatening to the Carthage's heavy infantry and cannot cause fatal damage to them. Under the urging of the team officers, the Carthage's heavy infantry had to face the arrows and complete the task of building the earth mountain frame with a wooden frame.

The abdominal bow is more threatening to them, but the Carthaginians launched dozens of arrow-retaining vehicles early in the morning, overlapping back and forth, blocking in front of this long dragon, and the powerful iron arrow may penetrate a piece. , Two thick planks, but it is difficult to truly threaten the lives of Carthaginians.

"Leader, do you want to send soldiers out of the city to make a raid?" Adjutant Aristonos reminded him from the side.

Amintas shook his head. He could see from the city head that there was a Carthage army on guard behind those arrow vehicles, and the opponent’s inner wall was also full of light infantry on standby, Dio The Nya garrison does not have the advantage of defense. If soldiers attack, they will only form a fierce battle with the opponent. Although Amintas fought bravely, he knew in his heart that the strength of the Carthaginians was four or five times that of him, and it would be detrimental to him to fight hard. What's more, there are still a large number of cavalry in Carthage who can rush out from other openings in the inner wall at any time, and quickly go around behind their own soldiers to form an encirclement.

"Turn the slingers up and let them deal with these Carthaginians!" Amintas' words made the adjutant Aristonos' eyes brighten: Only the first army of Dionian army is light. The infantry brigade has more than 400 slingers. The lead shots thrown by these soldiers from Rhode Island within a distance of 100 meters are fierce and accurate, which can cause bludgeoning damage to heavy infantry.

"How to distribute these slingers?" Aristonos asked again, because it was not only outside the north gate that built the earth mountain, but also outside the east and west walls.

"Focus on solving the enemies here first!" Amintas said with a firm tone in front of his finger.

"Commander Amintas, I have a suggestion." Calcidis who was next to him suddenly said.

"Oh, Calcidis, you say." Amintas looked at the Serinus garrison general. The tone became polite. During this period of time, Calcidis tried his best to assist him, which really helped him a lot and won his respect.

Calcidis deliberately said: "...The Carthaginians relied on the large number of people and desperately built dirt mountains. The most we can do now is to delay their progress, just as they did. Like the wall they built, they will eventually build the mountain. And their purpose of building the mountain is probably to allow their ballistas and light infantry to attack the soldiers at the head of our city condescendingly and assist their soldiers. Siege. We can also increase the wall to make the Carthaginian attempt impossible."

Raise the walls? Amintas was surprised.

Karsidis gestured to the walkway of the city head with his hand, and continued to explain: "This stone wall built by the Silinus people is very strong, and the walkway is wide and flat. Use wood to build a wooden city wall on the walkway. At least the 7-meter-high city wall can be increased by 5 to 6 meters..."

Amintas' eyes lit up after listening.

At this time, the adjutant Aristonos objected: "But the Carthaginians had ballistas, and the wooden walls could not withstand the attack of stone bullets. By the time they were built, they would not be effective, but they would increase. The casualties of the soldiers!"