Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 289: The panic of the Syracuse people

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But can the Carthaginians do so, will the souls of our warriors be desecrated? ! No, their sins have even demonstrated the glory of the warriors! The holy souls of the warriors will go to the sacred Elysee and will accompany the great Hades to the beautiful paradise that is like spring all year round! And here—" Daves said under his fingers, word by word, forcefully: "Everything here will be preserved forever, for the people of the kingdom to come and admire, let them understand how brave our soldiers are, and let them They know how cruel our enemy is! And this tower will be demolished, and then a statue will be built. The name of every warrior who died here will be engraved on it, and then remembered in the history of the kingdom, so that future generations will spread it forever! "

There was noise again around the bottom of the tower, but this time it was a sigh of envy from the soldiers.

"Citizens of Dionia! Soldiers of Dionia!" Daves raised his voice again and shouted with a raised arm: "You have been fighting for a year, and you have won victory in Campania. Victory, Victory in Latham, Victory in the Samona Mountains, Victory in Western Sicily, and now it is finally his turn to fight the strongest and most brutal Carthaginians! I hope you can fight for it! The warriors who died here took revenge and attacked the Carthaginians bravely and fearlessly. Once again, they created one victory after another and became a hero in the mouth of the people. After death, they can be crowned in the Hall of Valor, so that your names can also Praised by future generations! Only in this way can our Dionian win the final victory in the contest with Carthage! Our Dionian will also win!"

"Wansheng!!! Wansheng!!! Wansheng!!!" Hearing Davers's words, the soldiers could not help beating their long shields with their short swords, and they were full of passion. call.

The roars of these tens of thousands of people resounded like billowing thunder, resounding through the sacred valley, even as far away as Syracuse...

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In the dark night, everything was quiet in Syracuse, but the candlelight was still shining in a house. The chief general Theagennis sat alone in the study and did not fall asleep. In fact, he could not sleep either.

Some time ago, he resisted all opinions and insisted on letting the council pass a resolution-sending troops to capture Camanlina, and then forced to surrender Pachinus, making Syracuse expand for the first time since the Yugoslavian War After losing his sphere of influence, his prestige in Syracuse skyrocketed for a while. After that, he personally went out to talk with Margo, the Carthage commander in chief. Although the Syracuses were at a disadvantage during the talks and suffered some losses in the signing of the covenant, the democrats still portrayed him as a person for the sake of the tin. Rakuza's interests, the image of a political leader who is not afraid of any threats, and dared to fight with a strong state, so after returning to the city after the negotiation, he was warmly welcomed by the people, and the limelight was no different.

According to the new covenant signed with Carthage, Syracuse must send troops to attack Taunis, but under the instructions of Theagennis, the Syracuse’s army played a trick, they just put on an offensive Posture, and did not seriously implement the covenant.

But the next battle was beyond the expectation of Theagennis. He originally thought that with such a huge army of Carthage, and the fighting power was not weak (to defeat the Dionian army in the Battle of Gela) , Should be able to destroy Dionia's territory in Sicily. However, although the Carthage cavalry ravaged the Catania Plain and the Carthage infantry broke Agilion, its main force failed to attack a small village in Dionia many times, and was blocked for more than 20 days. He began to doubt the combat effectiveness of the Carthaginian army, but fortunately, in the end Paragonia was finally captured.

After receiving the news, Tai Agnes breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to continue playing soy sauce to watch the development of the battle, but suddenly received news: The Carthage army has begun to retreat all south!

Theagennis was shocked and hurriedly crawled out of the messenger and hurried to inquire, but was told that the Carthaginians had received definite news that the main force of Dionia had already conquered the enemy of the north, Rome, On their way to reinforce Sicily, the Carthage army must return to western Sicily and prepare for a full-scale battle.

When the messenger brought this news back to Syracuse, the entire council suddenly fryed.

During the reign of Dionysius, Syracuse had close ties with Italy’s Campania alliance, so he still had some understanding of the situation in north-central Italy, but after the Southern Italy War, Campani The Asian League formed an alliance with Dionia, and the exchanges with Syracuse declined sharply, and the business exchanges between the Syracuses and the north-central Italy were even less. Especially after Dionia launched the war against Rome, the Third Fleet deliberately blocked the Italian South Coast route. Syracuse did not possess Sardinia and Corsica like the Carthaginians, they obtained The news of "The Army of Dionia landed on Latium" was still learned from the mouth of the Carthage messenger.

However, the Syracuse people know that Rome is a strong state in central Italy, with many allies. The position there is similar to Syracuse in Sicily more than 10 years ago, and the Dionians are far away Local warfare cannot easily conquer Rome. It must be a long war. Some people even hope that the Dionians will suffer a crushing defeat in the Latham area. This is why they later agreed to form an alliance with Carthage. One of the main reasons for attacking Dionia.

However, now suddenly there is news that "The Dionians have conquered Rome, and their main force is about to reinforce Sicily." The councillors of Syracuse were severely hit and panicked because if the Carthaginians retreated In the west, Syracuse will bear the anger of the Dionian army alone!

Theagennis had to personally rush to persuade the Carthaginians, and when he caught up with the retreating army of Carthage, he had already arrived at Gela.

Regardless of his request, Margot did not come out to see him in person, only Pomirka came out and told him: Since the next battle with the main forces of Dionia will be related to the rise and fall of Carthage, the army must withdraw to the west. , Be fully prepared, this is not something that anyone can dissuade.

But at the same time, he also comforted Theagennis: even if the Dionian reinforcements landed in Sicily, their main target was still our Carthage, and the city of Syracuse was thick with high walls, sufficient food and a large number of soldiers. As long as they defend themselves with all their strength, the Dionians have nothing to do with you. When we defeated the main force of Dionia, we came to the east to join you in Syracuse. At that time, not only can the Dionians be driven out of Sicily, but they can also further advance to Great Greece, which has always been your Greek territory, and it is more appropriate to take the towns and hand them over to you to control... …

At this time, Theagennis was slightly attracted by the bright prospects of the Carthaginian paintings, and at the same time he knew in his heart that the matter was irreversible. Now that the matter has ended, he can only say: Syracuse will do his best Defend the coming offensive of the Dionians and expect the Carthaginian army to return to the east as soon as possible.

On the way back to Syracuse, Theagennis has been living through the ambivalence of anticipation of the future and fear of reality.

When he hurried back to Syracuse, he got bad news: Dionian’s reinforcements had begun landing at the port of Catane and the naval base of Catania.

Due to the sudden incident, the Syracuse army did not completely withdraw from the camp outside the city of Taunis. The Catania naval base was only a dozen miles away from them, and they were transporting supplies from the camp to the port of Syracuse. The sailors on the cargo ship were surprised to see that dozens of Dionian warships were waiting in the north sea, and behind them, outside the Dionian naval base, there were many ships and many more ships. Coming from the sea further north...

The Syracuse fleet was so scared that it quickly turned back to the port. The Syracuse Navy, which received the news, hurriedly dispatched several clippers to investigate, and it turned out that the Dionian ships were not troop carriers full of soldiers. , Is the cargo ship loaded with supplies, they keep going in and out of the Dionian Naval Base until the evening...

On the second day, such military operations were still going on in the waters where the Dionian Naval Base was located.

How many reinforcements did the Dionians send? ! The people of Syracuse all panicked after receiving the news, and the Argennis, who had just returned to the city, was no exception.

Especially after knowing that the Carthaginian army was determined to return to the west, many people in the council were even more frustrated.

Even Hiktas, the general of the civilian sect of the port, shouted: "Since the Carthaginians have abandoned us, then we don't need to abide by the covenant anymore, just negotiate with Dionia."

Hiktas's words really fascinated a small group of people, but no one dared to take the initiative to agree. After all, the reason Syracuse united with Carthage and declared war on Dionia was to restore its former hegemony. As a result, before actually fighting the Dionia, he took the initiative to seek peace. Most of the parliamentarians could not. Accepted, the majority of Syracuse citizens cannot accept it either.

Everyone argued in the evening. Apart from "removing all the troops besieging Taunis quickly and preparing for the defense of the city", they couldn't think of any other concrete and effective plans to solve the current predicament.

On the third day, the council continued to discuss yesterday’s issues, and at noon received an urgent report from the spies: about 50,000 well-equipped Dionian soldiers left the city of Katane and marched toward the south. Come.

The congressmen suddenly panicked and immediately demanded that the citizens of the city be urgently mobilized to prepare to meet the enemy.

But soon another spy came to report, saying: The Dionian army turned to the southwest and stopped in front of the ruins of Paragonia.