Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 337: The leaks in the house happen to be rainy nights

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Margo originally wanted to make up for this deficiency through the advantage of numbers, and eventually defeat the opponent, but when the number of casualties approached 2,000, he stopped sending troops to the tunnel.

And Amintas quickly blocked the three tunnels. The First Army and reserve soldiers also paid nearly 500 casualties. Fortunately, the Dionian soldiers won in every battle, so They were able to rescue the wounded soldiers for treatment.

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Marco is sullen, sitting in the big tent, sulking himself.

The Carthaginians prospered by relying on the precious metal trade. Many citizens were engaged in mining. The Magonis family was no exception. Especially after relocating to southern Iberia, the army he led occasionally did not fight. He is also a part-time miner, so his army is good at digging tunnels. The reason why he didn’t do it during the attack on Paragonia was because the town was located at the foot of the mountain and the geology was too hard to dig. Sri Lanka can.

The last time he besieged the city of Silinus, he built an earth wall to attack through tunnels, but soon after Hasdruba successfully raided the rear of the south coast, the battle situation changed, and he did not have time to implement it, and this time After careful planning and plenty of time, the Dionians hadn’t noticed it when the tunnel smoothly dug under the wall of Silinus. At this time, there were two options: one was to switch to horizontal digging and to hollow out. The foundation of the city wall was pulled out, and then the wooden pillars that supported the tunnel were pulled out, allowing the wall to collapse and a gap appeared; the other was to continue to dig forward into the city, and then wait until night, send troops to sneak into the city through the tunnel, and directly attack the Dionians. Occupy the whole city.

Margo chose the latter one because he thought that this method would be a quicker and more effective way to deal with the defenders of Serinus, but he did not expect to be discovered by the Dionians and eventually evolved into this way. The Dionians will definitely increase their vigilance in the future, and it will be difficult to dig tunnels to carry out sneak attacks.

Marco was regretting it. The messenger sent by Hasdruba entered the big account and gave him another blow: Hasdruba wanted to sneak attack on the Dionian army in Palermos, and as a result In an ambush, 4,000 Lusitania fighters were wiped out.

Margo yelled Hasdruba’s name in the big tent, swearing at him, even calling him too stupid to be a child of the Magnid family, as if he had forgotten that he had just experienced it. A sneak attack failed, and the messenger was held aside by fright.

After the fire was over, Margo calmed down: Hasdruba’s army was blocked and unable to rescue Palermos, only hope that Palermos could hold on to it, but now Palermos defended There are not many troops, it must be strengthened, but now it is not accessible by land...

Marco thought about it for a while, and decided to send reinforcements to Palermos by sea. It would definitely not work during the day. It was easy to be spotted, but only at night, which was a bit risky.

Although Margot had just suffered the failure of the tunnel plan, he did not grind off his vitality. He immediately asked his men to gather 3,000 Palermos from the army, and added 1,000 Solus. People, a total of 4000 people immediately rushed to Lilibi, let Imisele find a way to summon the cargo ships in the port, and send them to Palermos as soon as possible tonight.

In the past two days, these soldiers heard that their motherland was under attack, and they kept shouting to go back. This fulfilled their wish, so the soldiers rushed to the road even in the dark, and arrived in Li in the middle of the night. Benefit.

But the sentinel at the head of Lilibo prohibits them from entering the city, because the Sicilian fleet cruises the western waters every day, and sometimes sends infantry fleets ashore to harass, making the Carthage and Phoenician city-states look like frightened birds. They are very cautious, especially So many soldiers want to enter the military town to benefit in the middle of the night, of course, they must be very cautious, and the city lord Imisele must go to the city to conduct a strict investigation before entering the city.

Almost an hour has been spent after the body was verified and the army's purpose was learned, and Imisele hurriedly sent someone to the port for questioning, but it was already too late.

It turned out that since the Dionian Fleet began to control the western waters, the number of ships coming to Lilibo has gradually decreased, and it has basically disappeared, and some of Lilibo’s ship owners are unwilling to keep their ships there. There was no profit in this blocked port, and they all looked for opportunities to flee to Carthage. This left few ships in the port, far not enough to carry 4000 troops at a time (at least 100 large cargo ships are required). The only chance is to come at night to transport the Carthage army's heavy fleet.

Although Morbar had used the method of "fixing plank roads and storing warehouses in darkness" to successfully organize a large-scale transportation of rations and baggage to Sicily, he knew very well that the consumption of 100,000 troops was huge. It was not enough to rely on one delivery, and after the Dionia fleet learned its lesson, it would not work the next time using this method, so he came up with another method.

Under his proposal, the Carthage Senate passed a decision: to allow Carthage and the nearby Phoenician city-states to trade with Sicily all the year round, to be familiar with the sea conditions there, and to form three ships with rich experience in sailing. There are a small fleet of dozens of cargo ships that take turns to load food and materials during the day, set off at dusk, and arrive at Lilibo, or Ma**, or Erix at night... (the destination is the departure time A temporary decision was made to avoid too fixed a route. After being spotted by the Dionians, come to wait and wait.) After unloading the cargo, the fleet had to leave the port and return immediately to avoid encountering the cruise ships of Dionians after dawn.

So the port workers in these cities are resting during the day and standing by at any time at night. The flames of the lighthouses are extremely bright. Of course, if the weather is bad at night, these small fleets will stop transportation.

So far, the fleet has successfully transported several times. Although not many materials have been transported each time, the victory lies in the long flow of water.

It happened to be that the destination of this fleet tonight was Lilibi, but unfortunately, when Imisele sent people to the port, the fleet had already left.

After sighing, Imisele decided to send someone to notify the two cities of Ma** and Eriques in the morning, no matter which city’s port the Carthage fleet arrives at tomorrow night, they must be notified. Help transport soldiers.

In addition, he also asked the two cities to drive all the idle cargo ships in the ports to Lili, and gather enough ships to transport the soldiers to Palermos at one time.

After making these decisions and placing the soldiers in the barracks, Imisele finally went back to sleep in peace.

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And not long after Margot sent the reinforcements away, he received a messenger from Lilibo. He brought an order from the Senate: Because of the several attacks on the Phoenician ally in Africa by the Dionian fleet, The Senate decided to return the fleet to fully defend the coastline of the mainland, and hoped that Margo could speed up the progress of the siege and capture the city of Silinus as soon as possible.

After reading this order, Margo became angry again: Although there has been no result in this period of time since Morbal won the naval battle, the cruise of the Dionian fleet in the western waters is still the same, but Carthage The fleet’s looming presence in the western waters made the Dionia fleet dare not dared to land ashore and attack the rear of the Carthage army on a large scale. The number of attacks was significantly reduced, and he was able to concentrate on building the camp. The inner and outer walls of the city and the earth mountain, concentrated forces to attack the city of Selinus. Now that the fleet is transferred back to Carthage, the Dionian fleet can unscrupulously harass the rear of the army, forcing Margo to distract him. Moreover, the defenders of Dionia are tightly defended. If the Carthaginian army attacked, even if the city of Serinus was finally taken, the casualties would be heavy. How could the intention of a decisive battle with the main force of Dionia be realized!

Marco extremely suspected that the order of the Senate was made under the instigation of the Hannoites. While cursing Hanno in his heart, he also decided to ignore this order and proceed in an orderly siege according to the original plan.

On the second day, the Carthage soldiers continued to build the dirt mountain, and they had already begun to ram mud on the wooden frame.

The Balearic soldiers on the inner wall kept throwing lead shots to suppress the long-range attacks of the defenders at the head of Silinus, so that the construction of the earth mountain could be carried out in an orderly manner.

While Amintas allowed the light infantry at the head of the city and the ballista units moved to the city to attack the busy Carthage soldiers in front of the city with all their strength, in order to destroy and delay the enemy’s construction of earth mountains, he also let the mountains The soldiers of the reconnaissance squad were distributed throughout the trenches in the city, listening carefully to the movement of the underground to prevent the opponent from digging the tunnel again. In addition, he also assigned some soldiers to assist the engineering battalion to build wooden walls.

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At night, the Carthage fleet, the cargo ships of Ma** and Errix arrived at Lilibo as scheduled. After carrying 4000 reinforcements, the more than one hundred cargo ships quietly sailed northward, and finally went smoothly. Entered the port of Palermos.

When these soldiers jumped off the boat excitedly and boarded the pier, ready to rush back to their homes and enjoy the warmth of their wives and children, countless black helmets and black armor soldiers appeared in front of them to surround them.

The hearts of the reinforcements suddenly fell to the bottom: Palermos has been occupied by the Dionians? !

The fact is: Palermos surrendered to the Dionian army.

Why Leonid Zides was more confident when discussing attacking Palermos with Midolades, because his team had previously Daves left him to assist him in attacking Syracuse Hundreds of engineers in the city of Zha, when they left Syracuse by boat, they also dismantled all the siege equipment previously used to attack Syracuse as much as possible, placed them in a cargo ship, and transported them together.