Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 198: Target: Sicily

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Fidun rushed to Taurena, preparing to bring the remaining Lijim troops stationed there to Medmar to participate in the siege.

In order to prevent the Lorraine army from attacking the city from the rear when the coalition forces were attacking the city, Shiros also sent a brigade to build a simple Muzhai to block the mountain road leading to Lorley, and dispatched a reconnaissance team to monitor the Lorley people at all times. The trend.

Silos, who has a certain amount of siege experience, led the army to implement his siege plan in an unhurried and orderly manner, but the citizen soldiers who returned to Lockley did not immediately go to the northern border to repel the invading Cullen. Niacin.

Due to the capture of Diopantos, Lokri’s army needed a new commander, but Demodocas appointed one of his confidants to serve, but was opposed by the council members on the grounds : Lockley is in a period of crisis, and there is an urgent need for a man with military ability to lead the citizen soldiers to defend Lockley. Demodocas’s candidate lacks war experience and has no prestige in the army. It is difficult to give orders to soldiers. Once they fight Failure, Lorry will lose the only unit, so we must be cautious!

This is the second time the council has refuted Demodocus’ proposal in two days. It has never happened before. Demodocas held back his anger and watched the MPs unanimously elect McGarys. The old man McGarys led his army to fight Crotone many times over a decade ago, and he had many victories. In the past few years, he has been squeezed by Demodocus and has to stand aside.

At this time, in the face of the strong demands of everyone, Demodocus had to agree to this appointment and let his political opponent be the head of the army, but he felt very cold.

Macgaris immediately reorganized the team and led more than 6,000 people to fight against the enemy.

After the Correnian army burned down a village, they did not face the enemy head-on, but quickly retreated back to the border of their own city-state territory, but instead of staying away, they camped and continued to deter Lokri.

The cautious McGarys was worried about any conspiracy by the Corenians. He was afraid of lying in ambush and did not attack. He also stood firmly at the border, and the two sides formed a confrontation.

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In the early morning, the Lijim people flocked to the port, not only to bid farewell to the Dionia fleet and the First Army, but also to bid farewell to the nearly 1,000 soldiers and their families who had just joined the cross-sea expedition to Sicily.

Most of them were fugitives from the Sicilian city-states that were attacked by Syracuse, such as Katane and Naxos. Previously, Lijim built a city for them on the Mile Peninsula in order to counteract the two new city-states (Messina and Tindaris) that Syracuse had built on the other side of the strait. However, the Siracusa army moved quickly and quickly broke through the new city. Some people were arrested and killed, some fled into the mountains, and some were rescued by the Lijim and picked up the city by boat.

Now the Lijim people are praying that all this troop will go to Sicily will go well and that they will not repeat the same mistakes.

The Dionian fleet and dozens of Lijim ships sailed out of the port together. In front of the fleet was Sekrian’s ship. The young Dionian admiral stood on the side of the ship, watching On the other side, there was a trace of regret in his eyes. He pointed his finger forward and said to the commander of the First Army in his warship, Antonios: "Messina is not far ahead, why don't we capture him first! It is very far away from Lijim. Near, it is easy to get the support of Lijim. After capturing Messina, we can block the strait and completely wipe out the warships in the port!"

Antonius squinted at Sekrian's appearance of beating Fang Qiu. He had known this young man was aggressive and arrogant. If Amintas is here, he will definitely criticize him: "What right does your navy have to tell the Legion!"

But Antonios would not do this. In fact, when Daves asked his opinion, his initial consideration was to land on the Mile Peninsula between Tindaris and Messina. Both city-states It is a new building, not very strong, and far from Syracuse, and is easy to be taken as their forward base in Sicily. The city was captured and destroyed two years ago, when Dionysius led his army northward and expelled the Carthaginians from the north coast, the city was rebuilt).

"I thought about it in the same way before, but I was opposed by your majesty." Antonios said euphemistically.

"Oh, why?" When Sekrian heard the word "Your Majesty," the dissatisfaction on his face disappeared for most of the time.

"Time." Antonios spit out a word: "'It will take a few days to attack Messina, and in these few days, the Syracuses have gotten'we attack Sicily.' 'The news, we will definitely be prepared for defense. When we go south to attack, the difficulties we encounter will increase. Messina is too far away from Syracuse, and its fall will not affect the forces of Syracuse. The scope has too much impact. We must take advantage of Syracuse’s unprepared opportunity to raid the nearby city-states, causing panic and chaos in the area under his control, and more opportunities will be born in the chaos...'This is your Majesty The original words."

Sekrian listened carefully, and sighed: "Your Majesty is still considering it all! But in this way, our risk becomes greater.

Antonius smiled: "Are you afraid of these difficulties?"

Sekrian immediately said proudly: "I just hope that the fleet in the port of Syracuse can be attracted, so that my fleet can defeat them, and the Dionian Navy can completely become the master of this sea. !"

The two laughed confidently.

The fleet traveled south along the east coast of Sicily. A lot of merchant ships were encountered along the way. They saw this large-scale mixed fleet, especially the “jewels, black hair, double They were shocked by the "share fork" sign, and they had a foreboding that something big would happen, some hurriedly retreated, and some turned around and accelerated their return south, apparently preparing to go back to report.

Sekrian was sitting on the flagship, unmoved, his fleet was already sailing at the fastest speed, not far from the destination.

And Antonios has been looking at the coast from the side of the ship. He has never been to Sicily before, and what he sees on the map is completely different from the immersive feeling.

Daves once told him: From Messina to Taurromignan, the road can only take a narrow road close to the coast, and the road is thirty or forty miles long. "

It seems to be true now, because after sailing out of Lijim port for almost three hours, in his eyes, the mountains on the opposite bank have never been broken, overlapping and continuous, and it looks soothing. , Qingcui is pleasing to the eye, just like a picture. But Antonios knew this was because it was five or six miles away from him. Based on experience, it was judged that these peaks were no less than a thousand meters high, and it was indeed difficult to climb.

"Master Antonios, that is Tauromegnan." A middle-aged man next to him pointed to the other side and said.

This person was called Lao Dixian, originally a noble of Naxos. After the fall of Naxos, he led his family to flee to the interior of Sicily, near Aguirion, and gathered with other city-state exiles. , And gradually formed a larger village. Due to the constant harassment of the Syracuse allies and the hatred of the West Kaiers, their lives are very difficult. Later, when he heard the news that Lijim was going to build a new city for these exiles, he happily went there. Unexpectedly, the rapid response of the Syracuse people destroyed the newly built New City of Mile, and some of his relatives died in the war, and he fled to Lijim.

Although he has gone through ups and downs, his determination to rebuild his home has not changed, but has grown stronger. Therefore, as soon as Dionia was about to attack Sicily, he took the initiative to find Antonios with the remaining relatives and asked to join.

At this time, Antonios heard the words and looked intently: I saw a city on the high ground near the coast. The most strange thing is that it is a twin city. Two stone fortresses are located on the high ground. It is a horn, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and to hold this long and narrow coastal passage.

"I heard that this is a city built by the Carthaginians for the Westkels?" Antonios asked uncertainly, recalling some brief information he had learned about the city.

"Yes, Carthage General Shimirko, in order to win over the Sikai people, let these natives join his side when Carthage attacked Syracuse, and only then built Tauro for the Sikai people. Menion..." Lao Dixian said with some glee: "Later, when the tyrant of Syracuse attacked Tauro Menion, because of the steep terrain, he could not use the siege equipment, so he could not attack it. In the end, The Sikelians took the initiative to surrender and got it. Now the masters of this city are the hateful Campania mercenaries!"

Antonius listened to his commentary and looked at Taurromignan in a daze: If he chose to attack Messina first, even if he succeeded, he would not be able to break Taurromignan by land and enter the tin. Rakuza controls the core area, and can only travel by sea... and the Seaker is a force that King Daves suggested he can contact...

"...To attack Sicily, you have to remember,'Three points depend on the military and seven points depend on diplomacy.'..." Antonius recalled the words Daves solemnly reminded before leaving.

The fleet continued to move forward, and Antonios’ vision suddenly widened: the sleepy mountains that had been seen disappeared, and the undulating hills appeared, and the terrain became more and more flat as it went south...

Antonius’ gaze was attracted by the farther sight on the land: it was a majestic mountain, even if it was nearly 20 miles away, its majestic mountain was still so clear, presenting a huge trapezoid, straight into the sky , Like a pillar in the sky. What's more bizarre is that the other mountains are emerald green, but it is gray and old and mysterious. This is the melting pot of the legendary Hevestos to build the magic weapon-the Etna volcano in Sicily. .