Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 328: Destroy Hadrumentum

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In order to better control the Numibia area, the Carthaginians have stationed an army of 20,000 inland for a long time to suppress the resistance and riots of the Numibia tribes at any time to maintain the stability of their region. . After the war with Dionia, the number of this army is now less than 10,000.

"Since the number of Dionian soldiers who attacked the city of Hadrummentum was 5,000 to 6,000, the Numibian army alone may not be enough to repel the enemy. We should immediately be in the city. The nearby allied states are mobilizing urgently. I believe that the people will participate as much as possible in order to defend their homeland, and form a sufficient number of troops to join forces in Numibia to fight back the enemy."

When Carthage was facing a crisis, Hanno did not oppose Preta Kuba’s opinion this time, but added: "In addition, we must also notify the neighboring confederacy to prepare for defense and prevent After the Dionian army captured the city of Hadrumentum, it continued to attack other allied states. We will also send ships to explore the waters around Carthage to prevent the Dionians and fleets from coming and harassing. Africa..."

This time, the helpful suggestions put forward by the veterans were quickly adopted and implemented immediately, with unprecedented efficiency.

The whole city of Carthage soon learned the news that "Hadrumentum was attacked by the Dionians", and they were very panicked.

Four hours later, the city of Carthage finally managed to gather an army of nearly 10,000 people. Under the leadership of Tepan Lako, they rushed eastward, and on the way with the army rushing from Numibia. Converge.

During the eastward journey together, the sky was already dark, but they didn't need to light the torch, because the fire blazed into the sky in the direction of Hadrumentum, illuminating the eastern sky.

The Dionians not only slaughtered the people of Hadrumentum, but also burned the entire city? ! ! The Carthage soldiers looked at the flames in the distance, with anger and panic in their hearts.

When Tepan Lako led the army to arrive, he found that the situation was not as bad as he thought: Hadrumentum City was indeed turned into ruins, but most of the people were safe and sound, and they saw that the fire was about to Extinguished, regardless of being scalded, one after another broke into the ruins of the city, scouring for useful items among the ashes...

Seeing the arrival of the Carthaginian army, many people rushed past, tearfully telling their tragic experience to Tepanrak:...After the Dionian army entered the city, a small number of soldiers were in the city. Strangling the people of Hadrumentum who were still trying to resist, most of the soldiers rushed to the port. The terrified people of Hadrummentum suddenly discovered that the Dionians had not blocked the city gates and did not prevent them from escaping, so they fled outside the city and took refuge in neighboring city states. After more than an hour, they suddenly saw a fire ignited in the direction of the mother state. Some people came over with the courage to check and found that the enemy had disappeared without a trace, but the whole city was ignited with a raging fire. Can't put it out...

Tepan Lako was relieved after confirming that the Dionian fleet and army had left, but then he should have a headache again: because these thousands of Hadru who have no home and food and clothing What about the people of Mentum? Arranging them for disaster is the responsibility that Carthage, as the leader of the Phoenician city-state in the Western Mediterranean, must shoulder!

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At this time, the Sicilian fleet had already far away from the port of Hadrummentum, and had entered the western waters of Sicily. We are about to reach the sea near Minoa.

When Sekrian returned to the voyage, he made a special note: In order to prevent the Carthage fleet from waiting on the route of Silinus, he also ordered the fleet to make a small half circle eastward and head directly to Miloia. .

But how did he know that Morbal led the Carthage fleet to the seas between western Sicily and Carthage as usual early in the morning, on the one hand, he was investigating the movement of the cruising Dionian fleet and looking for it. On the other hand, strengthen the training of the fleet in the battle state, speed up the integration between the new warships, and explore ways to counter the tactics of Dionia.

So when the Clippers found the Carthage fleet and told Morbar that the "Dionia Fleet had attacked Hadrum Mentum", he was also taken aback.

He really wanted to lead the fleet to the sea near Silinus to rob the returning Dionian fleet with ease, but when he ordered the fleet to change course and head in the direction of Silinus, The Sicilian fleet has bypassed the island of Kossus and is closer to Serinus than the Carthage fleet.

Sekrian led the Sicilian fleet, quickly assaulted, quickly returned, captured the city of Hadrumentum, destroyed the Eastern Phoenician fleet, burned the entire city...It didn't take much time, nor did the fleet infantry Too many killings.

Of course, one of the main reasons for this was King Daves’ request. He did not want the citizens of the kingdom to become bloodthirsty monsters, nor did he want to kill the unarmed people excessively, leading to Carthage and Philippines. The extreme hatred of the Nicki people caused the same hatred and resentment. The burning of the city not only caused panic in Africa, but also increased the financial burden of Carthage.

Although the crew of the Sicilian Fleet were tired, they were singing happily. The shadow of the failure a few days ago was swept away. They happily manipulated the warship and sailed into the port of Minoa. Among them, a few of the warships also carried property robbed from the Treasury of Hadrumentum, as well as some of the crew of the Eastern Phoenician United Fleet captured.

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The burning of the city of Hadrummentum had an unprecedented impact on the people of Carthage and the Phoenician allies in Africa. On the second day, many Carthage people gathered in front of the Senate to petition and strongly demanded The navy has stepped up patrols on the coast of Africa and strengthened its defenses against Carthage and its allies to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.

The neighboring Phoenician city-state also sent messengers to ask for the protection of Carthage.

When its own security is threatened, the Senate certainly has no energy to discuss reinforcements for Sardinia, and an issue that has been arguing over the past few days finally has a result. The neutral veteran El As a messenger, Accra traveled to Minoa and asked to see Davos, King Dionian.

It was noon, and Daves was eating lunch in the big tent. He specially asked the servant to prepare an extra table. When El Accra walked into the big tent and hadn't spoken yet, Daves invited him to dinner with him.

"Honorable King Davos, on behalf of the Carthage Senate, I have important matters to discuss with you. There is no time--"

El Accra’s words were not finished, but Daves interrupted: "Carthage messenger, you must be hungry when you come from afar. You must have something to eat first. Otherwise, the strongest people will be hungry all the time. You can't do anything with your stomach!" Davers said with a pun.

El Accra sat down helplessly at the dining table. On the table were a bowl of hot fish soup, a plate of salted and hard beef jerky, a bowl of viscous oatmeal, and two pieces of roasted meat. Bread, and a glass of wine, the food is very simple.

El Accra's face became a bit ugly. Although he didn't want to eat, since he said he was serving Carthage's messengers, the food was too simple.

At this time, Davers slowly said: "Except for wine, the food on your table is the lunch of the Dionian soldiers at noon today. You and I have the same food as them."

Will the food of Dionian soldiers be so rich? ! El Accra was shocked, and then he felt that King Dionian was deliberately deceiving himself. After all, it is said that the Dionian army in Sicily is as high as 100,000.

Davers looked at his expression and knew he didn't believe it, but he didn't explain much.

El Accra is not thinking about eating at this time, he once again said loudly: "The Carthage Senate sent me here as a messenger. There are several things to discuss with the King!"

Daves took a sip of wine and nodded slightly to indicate that he heard it.

"The day before yesterday, your Dionian fleet attacked the city of Hadrumentum, slaughtered the people in the city, and burned the entire town... Your approach is too cruel! Hader Although Lumentum is an ally of Carthage, they did not send troops to participate in this war, but suffered such a terrible disaster. This has aroused the anger of all the Phoenician city-states in Africa towards you Dionia !——"

"Emissary, the city of Hadrumentum did not send soldiers to participate in the battle. It does not mean that they did not participate in this war. Didn't they build new ships for you? Didn't provide you with food?... At least we What is certain is that they provided a base for the fleet from the Phoenician region of the Eastern Mediterranean! And it was this fleet that attacked our Sicilian fleet and caused the death of the fleet commander!" Henipolis retorted unceremoniously. "Your Carthaginian army can ruthlessly destroy Minoa, Agrigento, Gela, and other city-states that maintain friendship with Dionia, can't we burn a Hadrummentum? ! And a Hadrummentum is not enough to comfort the people of friendly city-states who have lost their homes!"

El Accra heard the threat in Hernipolis’ words. He forcibly suppressed the urge to refute, grabbed the wine glass on the table, took a big sip of wine, and was choked with coughs. After a while, he said in a deep voice: "You mentioned the fleet from the Eastern Phoenician region stationed in Hadrumentum. In fact, we in Carthage did not invite them to the war, but After they learned that we had a war with you and encountered difficulties, based on their common blood, they obtained the consent of the Persian king and took the initiative to send a fleet to assist us...

I know that you have captured a lot of the crew of this fleet. The Carthage Senate hopes that you can release them and return them to the Eastern Mediterranean safely to avoid Tyre, Sidon and other city-states in the Phoenician region. Under the strong request of the relatives of these prisoners, they made another request to the king of Persia, which led to the further expansion of the war. "

This is a threat from the Carthaginians! Hernipolis frowned slightly and looked at Daves subconsciously.