Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 202: Xenofinis’s suggestion

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Aristilas actually sent his own brother to Sicily, which shows that he has really taken great pains here! Antonios's spirits lifted up, and he immediately asked: "Where is he now?"

"Katana or Syracuse? I don't know too." Xenofinnis shrugged and said, "But you are in Sicily, he should get news soon, and he will send someone immediately. Contact us."

Antonius nodded and asked seriously: "Now that the First Army has occupied Mearo, what should I do next, do you have any suggestions?"

"My lord, I don't know much about military affairs. I can tell you what I have learned here for your reference." Xenofinnis's humility has won the favor of Antonios. He is busy. Put on the table the map of Sicily that he took away from Daves when he left the Xiliting camp: "Please tell me!"

Xenofinnis did not refuse, stepped forward, carefully distinguished the map, and then pointed to the map, and said: "My lord, you see that the location of Meyaro is actually very good. Its east is the ocean. To the west is the huge Mount Etna, and to the north is Tauromegnan, although it is only ten miles away from us, but its population is too small, I am afraid that even 500 soldiers can not be sent. In the south, there are more than 20 in Siculli. Here, that is also a small city-state. Now Mearo is occupied by us again, and so many citizens of Sikuli have been captured. It is hard to say whether the tyrant of Sikuli can gather 3,000 civilian soldiers. It is more than 40 miles to the south. Tanay--"

When Xenofinnis said this, his expression was painful. He let out a sigh of relief and said: "Originally, Katane was a big city. There used to be fifty to sixty thousand citizens, and the fertile Catania Plain gave it The people provided enough grain to easily organize an army of tens of thousands of people... But... After Katane was destroyed by Dionysius, he let Campania mercenaries occupy the city. Tanay...is not Katane anymore!..."

"Are you from Katane?" Antonios asked suddenly.

"Yes, I, like Aristilas, used to be from Katane!" Xenofinis said in a deep voice, "But now I am a Dionian citizen!"

"After defeating Syracuse, Your Majesty will definitely let the Catanes rebuild your homes!" Antonios comforted, and then asked: "How many citizen soldiers does Catane have now?" When he arrived at the mercenaries in Campania, Antonios increased his vigilance. He had just fought against them during the Battle of Crotone and knew that these mercenaries were not easy to deal with.

"...There may be four to five thousand people. After I returned to Sicily this time, I haven't been to the Catania Plain. I heard the people in Meyaro say." Xenofinnis hesitated. Speculating, and then suggested: "My lord, if you want to know more about the situation, you need to wait for the people from Antrapolis to arrive."

Antonius nodded, pointed to the Leonid icon between Katane and Syracuse on the map, and asked: "Is this city-state also occupied by Campania mercenaries?"

"Leotini is not. It was once a son of Syracuse. After Dionysius usurped power, he formed an alliance with Katane to fight Syracuse. After Tanai was defeated, it could only surrender to Syracuse. In order to punish its betrayal, Dionysius forced most of Leonidian’s citizens to move to Syracuse. Ottini is just a small city-state in terms of population..." Xenofinis said sadly in his eyes.

"Then how many troops can there be in Syracuse now?" Antonios asked earnestly.

Xenofinis had to speculate again: "This...I don’t know. But a few months ago, Dionysius led a large army to invade our Great Greece, and his general, Massias, returned He led about seven or eight thousand Syracuse soldiers to the Mile peninsula, the northernmost part of Sicily, to destroy the new city built by the exiles of Naxos and Katane. I think the tens of thousands of soldiers in Syracuse must be Yes..."

Tens of thousands! Antonios's face became gloomy. He stared at the circle of city-state icons surrounding Syracuse on the map: Taunis, Barclays, Hebesus, Pachinus... These are all Syracuse. Loyal attachment, it is estimated that Syracuse can easily and quickly organize a force of 20,000 people! No matter how strong the fighting power of the First Army is, there are only more than 5,000 people left after repeated battles... Antonios believes that he does not have the magic of Daves, and can defeat so many enemies with so few troops.

Xenofinnis saw Antonios’ concerns. He thought for a while and said: "My lord, Siracusa has so many subsidiary city-states in Sicily. It seems to be very powerful, but the people of these city-states are very Kuza has been dissatisfied for a long time, and even the people of Syracuse are very dissatisfied with Dionysius’ dictatorship!"

"Oh?!" Antonios came to be interested: "You talk about the situation in detail."

"In the past few years, Syracuse has been fighting abroad. The scale of the war is very large, and the money and materials spent are also very huge. Therefore, Dionysius forcibly demanded high tribute to various affiliated city-states. Jin, and he has no mercy on the people of Syracuse. The special war tax levied has risen to 25%. In addition, he not only asks for money but also people. Before each war, he has to provide a large number of troops from various cities and states. , And at the end of the war, the family members of these civic soldiers died and wounded but received nothing; he also planted tyrants in various city-states and attacked those citizens who resisted tyranny, so not only the people of the city-states hated him, Even the nobles are very dissatisfied with him, they are just afraid of his mighty force and dare not resist...

The people of Dionysius must also be very aware of this situation. I don’t think they dared to draw out all the troops to deal with you... After Dionysius led an army to attack Great Greece, Sikuli attacked the people and often privately cursed him for failing this expedition. A few days ago, when the news of'our fleet defeated the Syracuse Navy' reached Meyaro, not only the freedmen and slaves, but even the citizens of Siculli were a little excited, so these days the town The people in, are all talking about it, and the topics discussed are more about Dionia. Even my task has become much smoother. The two organizers of the riots have been cold and cold to me before. These days, they have contacted me actively...

Mayaro is like this, and the situation in other city-states should be similar. It gives me the feeling that these city-states in Sicily are now like a pile of dry wood, only a torch is needed to burn them into a raging fire! Now, the news of "Your Majesty defeated the army of Dionysius in the battle" has spread to Sicily, and I believe it will have a greater impact on the people of the city-states! As long as you can defeat Syracuse’s army once in Sicily, your lord, Sicily will inevitably be in chaos! "Serofennis said impassionedly, her eyes gleaming with excitement.

"It is not so easy to defeat the Syracuse in Sicily." Antonios smiled bitterly. Having said that, after listening to the details of Sicily introduced by Xerofennis, he felt a little more confident: "Our current number of soldiers is still too small! Before coming, Your Majesty had mentioned the Sikelians to me, Do you think we can unite them to deal with the Syracuse?"

Xenofennis thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Although the Cykers are natives of Sicily, they are different from the Lucanians and Brutis of Great Greece. They are far less savage... Oh, no, they are brave and fierce." Serofennis remembered that these two races were already Union citizens, and quickly changed his words: "The life of the Cykers is no different from that of the Greeks, but they prefer to live in Sicily. Inland mountains. They are a race with no reputation. When the Carthaginians attacked, they took refuge in Carthage. When Syracuse became strong, they united with Syracuse...

But their fickleness was met with the retribution of the gods. Dionysius pretended to form an alliance with them. After defeating Carthage, he murdered the King Aguilas of the Western Kels, and The army was sent to capture Aguirion, the central town of the Sikael people, and completely destroyed it. His atrocities frightened the Sikael people, and the other Sikael towns quickly expressed their surrender to Syracuse.

This time, Dionysius invaded our Great Greece, and the Cykers also sent some soldiers to him. So I think the cowardly Seakers will never dare to attack Syracuse with us, but they may not attack us, but remain neutral. But if Syracuse loses against either of us, they will join the victorious side..."

Antonius understands: This is a race that bullies the soft and fears hardship.

Note: In fact, it’s not just Sikel’s characteristic of bullying and fearing hardship, other city-states and races in Sicily are all such hordes, because this is determined by the special political situation of Sicily: in the past hundreds of years in Sicily In history, there have only been two superpowers on this island-Carthage and Syracuse, and there is no third power that can compete with them. On this relatively closed and small island, other city-states and powers can only depend on whoever is strong. If they resist, they can only be destroyed. Of course, Carthage and Syracuse will maintain peace because of their balance of power. Other city-states will be able to have a few days more peaceful days. In the history known by Daves in his previous life, it was not until the intrusion of a powerful foreign power-Rome, that the closed political and military ecology of Sicily was completely broken, and Sicily was finally unified. In this book, Dionia appears in Sicily for the first time. Will it break the balance of power in Sicily?