Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 256: Falling down the well

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"Yes!" Mukru commanded the messenger to run everywhere, shouting loudly to the retreating legionnaires.

Leotizides has already led the guards toward the north gate. He needs to return to the city first, and quickly and best arrange with the Jera people to respond to the rout and defend the enemy to attack the city.

The flag bearer in the guard held the legion flag high and fluttered in the wind. It pointed the direction for the eighth legion soldiers who were retreating.

The defeat of the enemy made Hasdroba's tired body seem to be infused with vitality, and he followed the Lusitania fighters to chase and kill the fleeing enemy.

At this time, the Lusitania's ability to run well was fully utilized, and the heavy armor of the Greek heavy infantry made them easily overtaken by the enemy.

Has Drupa led the soldiers all the way to hack and slay them, until all of them became blood men in the end.

When they chased down to the city and wanted to take the opportunity to invade the city, javelins and arrows poured down the city, causing many casualties to them who lacked defense.

Hastruba saw the numerous black helmets and black armor defenders on the city’s head, and did not dare to continue attacking the ruined soldiers crowded underneath the city. Instead, he turned around and chased down the ruined soldiers in other directions. ...

It wasn't until dusk that the Carthage army returned to the camp.

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In this battle, the Dionian 4th Cavalry Regiment lost half of its cavalry, and the 8th Regiment suffered about 1,300 casualties. Among them, the light armour and light infantry battalion lost more than half. The Gela army killed more than 2,000 people. Manlina suffered the most casualties. Of the 3,000 soldiers who originally fought, only more than 300 fled back. The entire coalition suffered nearly 7,000 casualties. The Carthaginian army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, of which the Balearic slingers had the most casualties, more than half.

Due to the retreat of the Dionian coalition forces, most of the wounded coalition soldiers failed to escape.

The Battle of Gela severely damaged the civic soldiers of Gela and Kamenlina, making the forces that Leotizides could command even more stretched, and more importantly, "The Carthaginians defeated the previous Lien Chan Lien Victory The news of the “Dionian Army” hit the seemingly peaceful political situation in Sicily like a stone, causing waves in certain city-states.

After the Battle of Gela, despite the Minoan's repeated requests for help, Leotizides continued to stay in Gela, restoring his troops while resisting the Carthaginian siege. When the forces under his command are getting less and less, he is even more reluctant to dismantle them and station them in various city-states, so that they will only be eaten by the Carthage army one by one, and compared to Minoan, he thinks Gela The strategic location is even more important.

Of course, he couldn't just ignore Minoa, so he sent a messenger and went to Pachinus with the Minoa messenger for help.

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On the 4th day after the Battle of Gela, the Sicilian governor Cipros in Katane received an emergency report from Seraphinis, the head of the kingdom’s Sicilian intelligence department: Military mobilization is taking place in Syracuse. The motive is unknown.

For the sake of caution, Cipros immediately sent a messenger to inform the 7th Army that was ordered to go to Hena after arriving in Katane, so that it quickly rushed back and stationed at the new barracks near Leotini to prevent accidents. .

But the accident still happened. Pachinus promised to rescue Minoa and sent 3,000 reinforcements. Soon after he left the port by boat, he suddenly encountered Syracuse's fleet.

In these years, the eastern seas of Sicily have been dominated by the Second Dionian Fleet. The Siracusa navy that once dominated Sicily has long lost its beauty. It has shrunk into a fleet of only 30 third-tier warships and a total of 50 ships. The small fleet of warships usually only patrols the sea near their own city-state, but suddenly appeared in the sea near Pachinus and launched an attack on the troop carrier.

Because the Dionian Sicilian fleet has been stationed in Serinus during this period, it has been alerting the western waters and concerned about the fighting in Serinus, and has not sent a warship to **** it. Of course, the Pachinus people did not ask Katana. After all, it is far away from the battlefield, and the nearby seas have always been safe. It has a close relationship with Dionia, and it can also be regarded as getting along well with its neighbor Syracuse. They think that from The voyage from your own city-state to Minoa should be safe. Therefore, the Pachinus only sent the only five 3-layer paddle warships in their own city-state to **** them as a symbolic gesture.

As a result, after being suddenly attacked by the Syracuse fleet, the Pachinus battleship resisted stubbornly, but was outnumbered. Except for four troop carriers that fled back to the port, all the others were hit and sunk.

At the same time, Siracusa sent an army of 12,000 men. Instead of marching north to attack Taunis, which is very close to it, it turned around and headed south and hurried to Kamanli. Na, declared to the outside world "to help the Kamenlina, resist the invasion of the Carthaginians."

After the Carmenlinans rejected the Syracuse army’s request to enter the city, the Syracuse army immediately changed their faces and surrounded the city of Carmenlina. While attacking the city, they sent envoys into the city to threaten Carmenlinans: Syracuse has already formed an alliance with Carthage, and either re-attaches to Syracuse, so that it can be preserved when the Carthage army arrives; or choose to refuse, Syracuse will attack the city, After the city is broken, the people in the city will be handed over to the Carthaginians.

Since Kamanlina has sent most of the citizen soldiers to assist Jera, there are only more than 500 Kamanlina citizen soldiers who can fight in the city at this time. They are weak and can only shirk helplessly Say: It takes time to consider.

The messenger of Syracuse gave only one day arrogantly.

After the messenger returned, the Siracusa army not only immediately blocked the road from Kamanlina to Gela, but the Syracuse warship also blocked its port.

At this time, the Carthaginian army that had won the battle had moved the camp to the east, increasing the siege of Gela, so Leotizides was busy responding to the Carthaginian siege. Nothing is known about Kamanlina's changes.

Half a day later, the Dionian merchant ship, who ventured into the port, brought news: The Syracuse fleet attacked Pachinus’s troop carrier, and blocked Pachinus and Camanlina’s port.

Leotizides was surprised when he learned about it: Syracuse has finally entered the war!

The addition of Syracuse has undoubtedly made Dionian’s predicament in Sicily worse, especially on the South Coast. The Dionian coalition is not only disadvantaged in terms of numbers, but also caught in a two-sided attack on the strategic situation. Dangerous situation.

Even if Leotizides wanted to reinforce Carmenlina, he was unable to do anything for a while. There was the threat of the Carthage army by land, and the Siracusa fleet blocked the way by sea. Without the **** of the fleet, I am afraid that the fleet could not even enter the port of Kamanlina, so it fed fish and shrimp.

Leotizides dispatched the Dionia Clippers docked in the Port of Gela, and immediately rushed to inform Sekelian in Serinus.

One day later, at the head of the city, the bewildered Carmenlinans saw the black and heavy Syracuse soldiers carrying the ladder and pushing the tall siege equipment, approaching the city wall, making them frightened and afraid The Carmenlinans who suffered the tragic experience of Agrigento finally chose to surrender.

Over the past 10 years, due to the strength of the Kingdom of Dionian and the long-term friendly exchanges with the Carmenlinans, there are almost no pro-Syracuse citizens in the city of Carmenlina. For the time being, the Syracuses were unable to foster a government close to them. In order to prevent rebellion, they demanded that the Kamenlinans surrender a large number of protons and at the same time allow 3000 Syracuse soldiers to be stationed in the city. Once the Carthage army arrives, it can effectively prevent its destruction of Carmenlina.

In addition, the Syracuse also requested that the remaining 500 Kamenlina soldiers be transferred to join the Syracuse army for coordinated operations.

The Kamanlina, who is now an artificial knife and I am a fish, finally agreed to these conditions.

After the Syracuse army gained the attachment of Kamenlina, they did not lead their troops westward and joined the Carthage army which was besieging Gela. Instead, they entered the city of Kamenlina, leaving 3,000 troops behind. The soldiers were garrisoned, and the rest of the soldiers arrived by boat and landed near the coast of Pachinus. They immediately encircled the city of Pachinus and sent envoys into the city, asking it to be attached to Syracuse.

The messenger of Syracuse threatened: If Pachinus refuses this request, Syracuse will not only immediately execute more than 2,000 Pachinus citizens (the Syracuse fleet sank Pachinus After the troop transport fleet, instead of flying away, they rescued the fallen Pachinus citizen soldiers and captured them), and then led the army to attack the city of Pachinus. After the city was broken, all the people in the city were Will be sold to Carthaginians and become slaves.

The threat of Syracuse frightened the Pachinus people. Their city was surrounded by the Syracuse army, and the port was blocked by the Syracuse warship. The people looked down at the city with tears on their heads. Thousands of relatives who were kneeling on the ground and looking haggard, the Panchinus, panicked and at a loss, held a civic assembly urgently and quickly reached a consensus that this was when the Dionian entered Sicily. Pachinus, who had been a city-state of Syracuse before, once again attached itself to Syracuse.

In a few days, Siracusa has included Pachinus and Carmenlina into his alliance, and in a blink of an eye, the southeast corner of Sicily has once again become Syracuse’s sphere of influence. Citizens who have always dreamed to relive the splendor of Syracuse are all rejoicing.

This plan was put forward, and despite the opposition of his colleagues, Siracusa’s Chief General Theagennis, who strongly promoted this matter, was highly praised by the public and his reputation increased dramatically.

But at the same time, some people expressed dissatisfaction with Theagennis’ approach. For example, General Hiktas publicly questioned: “Just to obtain two small city states, Syracuse risked great danger. , To provoke the mighty Dionyia, it is very dangerous! Theagennis, don’t forget that the Carthaginians are far away in Africa, and our Syracuse is right next to Dionia!"