Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 329: Carthage wants to negotiate a peace?

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Davers said sternly: "Dionia and the Phoenician region in the east have never had any grudges, but they sent a fleet to attack Dionia's fleet not far away. It is worthy of the destruction! If they send another army, I welcome it very much. We have just acquired a lot of mines recently, and we are short of slaves."

El Accra's heart trembled, but he had to continue on this topic, because the Eastern Phoenician united fleet was annihilated within the sphere of influence of Carthage. If the Carthaginians did not make remedies, They will go back to see the Phoenicians in the Eastern Mediterranean who have provided great assistance to Carthage.

"We want to redeem the Phoenician crew from the Eastern Mediterranean that you captured. What do we need to pay?" El Accra's tone softened.

Davers looked at him and said with a slight mockery: "When your army occupied Agrigento, Etchium, and Gela, you originally had the opportunity to redeem them in exchange for prisoners. Yes, but the army led by Margot killed all the people in the city!"

El Accra was silent for a while and said softly: "What if Carthage wants to truce with you Dionia?"

Daves was a little surprised when he heard this suddenly. He blinked and said teasingly, "I shouldn't have heard it wrong, right? Carthage, the overlord of the Western Mediterranean, wanted to stop for these prisoners. This costly war?!"

El Accra finally uttered this sentence on the grounds of being a captive, ignoring Davers’s mockery, and continued: “King, you’re right. This is indeed a game against both sides. It’s a huge war! I mean if—if you and me cease the war, will these prisoners be released?"

This time, Daves did not joking any more, but said solemnly: "Since the truce is reached, of course the prisoners will be released. However, you broke the covenant! You started the war! Now again It's you who want to end the war! You want to start the war, we can't control it, but you want to end it, it's not so easy!"

"So... what conditions do you need to accept the truce?" El Accra asked seriously.

Daves did not answer directly. He said faintly: "The armistice negotiation is a very important matter for both of you and me. Of course, you and I must negotiate and decide together, just like trade and business. , It takes a long bargaining process..."

"But as the most distinguished person in the Kingdom of Dionian, you must have some requirements for the truce?" El Accra continued to ask without giving up.

"To be honest, since the outbreak of the war, I have been running around, and I really haven't thought about the truce. After you just mentioned it, I now have a doubt." Davers said , Paused intentionally.

"What doubts?" El Accra asked subconsciously.

"If... If your Carthage Senate wants to discuss with us about a truce, will your military commander Margo agree to it?"

El Accra hesitated for a while, and then immediately replied: "Of course Margot will agree, because Carthage is different from Dionia. We don’t have a king, but there is a Senate. The important affairs of the city are It is up to the Senate to decide."

Daves smiled immediately, raised his wine glass, and said: "War is really a headache, and peace is a good thing for the people of both you and me!...Welcome to come today, come and do it. This one!"

El Accra thought he understood Daves's words, so he quickly toasted and drank, and after that, I didn't ask any more questions.

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After sending off El Accra, Hernipolis couldn't wait to ask: "Your Majesty, are you really going to negotiate peace with Carthage?"

Daves smiled slightly: "I want to talk with Carthage, but they may not be able to agree to my terms."

"What are the conditions?" Hernipolis asked directly without any shy.

This time, Daves did not evade answering: "At least Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia must all belong to the kingdom, and then part or all of their southern Iberia territory..."

Henipolis listened, his eyes widened unconsciously, and after a while he reluctantly said: "I think it would be difficult for the Carthaginians to agree to your conditions..."

Davos glanced at him and said leisurely: "I didn't tell the messenger these conditions, just because I was afraid of causing the Carthaginians to be alert. Actually, I don't want to be with Carthage at this time. Ji carried out a truce, because he finally formed a favorable situation of closing the door and hitting the dog. How could he waste this excellent opportunity and reopen the door to let the dog escape again...unless the dog is completely killed? , Maybe it’s when I put forward these conditions."

Henipolis suddenly realized, but he also reminded a little worried: "Your Majesty, in case the Phoenician region of the Eastern Mediterranean will send reinforcements, even Persia will really send reinforcements..."

Daves said indifferently: "Persia has brought reinforcements from thousands of miles away to fight us, with his enemy Egypt and the local Greek city-states that may become his enemies at any time. This is a very big risk. The risk! The fiasco of the Athenian army’s attack on Syracuse was a lesson. Altaxerxes probably did not have such courage, and according to the information obtained, the Persians are still preparing to attack Egypt again. In addition, the Dukyas A riot broke out in the hinterland of Persia... Now Persia has neither the ability nor the possibility to send an army thousands of miles away to assist a foreign city-state that has no close relationship with them.

As for the Phoenicians in the east, as far as I know, their strength is much worse than that of Carthage. The only thing worth mentioning is the navy, which has been wiped out by us. What is there to worry about. "

After hearing these words, Hernipolis was relieved.

"By the way, the Sicilian fleet captured a lot of Phoenician crews in the Eastern Mediterranean yesterday. You asked Martius to bring some Greek-speaking prisoners. I want to ask them some information about Persia. "

"Yes, Your Majesty." Henipolis muttered to himself as he walked out: "Actually, the Eighth Army captured many Numibians in the previous Minoan War, but it was Carte. Jiren came to discuss the redemption several times, but never mentioned them, as if completely forgot about them."

An aura flashed through Daves' mind, and he immediately said: "Heni, where are the Numibian prisoners now?"

"Your Majesty, they are doing coolies in Katana."

Daves remembered that at that time Proseus had reported to him, but he had just landed at the time and had a lot of affairs, so he didn't care too much.

"Send someone back to Katane to inform Cipros and ask him to send all these Numibian prisoners to Minoa!"

Henipolis moved in his heart and hurriedly asked: "Your Majesty, what do you want to—"

The corner of Davers's mouth is slightly raised: "Since the Carthaginians don't regard Numibians as human beings, let us take care of these poor Numibians."

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El Accra left Minoa and did not return directly to Carthage. Instead, he took a boat to Mazara, and then arrived at the Carthage camp outside the city of Serinus and met Carthage. Margot the military commander.

"You didn't come to see me specifically?" As soon as we met, Margo asked directly. As a Carthage messenger, El Accra had just left the house on the front foot, and Pretakuba sent the Clippers to Sicily on the back foot. , Informed him.

"Master Margot knows that the city of Hadrummentum was raided by the Dionian Navy and burned down?" El Accra asked rhetorically.

"Yes, I just heard about it." Margo said calmly: "Dionia is a powerful country. Fighting against them is inevitable. The Senate should not blame Mo. Erbar, I think he is much better than Annobas. Not long after he took office, he solved the army’s food transportation problem and won a naval battle. This old man is really not easy!"

"But he made a proposal to the Senate to ‘negotiate with Dionia’, Lord Margot, what do you think?" El Accra looked at him directly and asked this important question.

Marco doubled his eyebrows and said in a deep voice, "Morbal has just joined this war, and he still knows too little about the whole battle. He only knows that we are not as good as Dionia in the navy, but in the army, We are stronger than the Dionians. I firmly believe that Carthage will eventually win this war!"

"Since we are better than the Dionians in land warfare, why didn't Margot attack the Dionians? The news we heard in Carthage was that you were leading the army continuously. Retreat! Isn't this because of fear of Dionia's attack?" El Accra asked unceremoniously.

"Afraid of the Dionians?" Margo gave a contemptuous smile, and then said helplessly: "Has Druba defeated his equal number of Dioni in the battle of Gela. The Asian army, in the field we are not afraid of the Dionian army at all! But the Dionian navy controls the coast of Sicily, and our food supply is difficult. In order to prevent the soldiers from disintegrating because of starvation, I had to retreat. Going to the west, hoping to defeat the main force of Dionia through a battle, but the King Dionia clearly knew that he was inferior to us in land warfare, so he refused the battle and led his army to set up defenses on the Minoan Mountains. , Of course I will not lead my troops to attack the enemy defending on the mountain, that will cause heavy casualties to the soldiers..."

"Have you been confronting the Dionians like this?!" El Accra couldn't help but question.