Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 350: Dionia’s peace talks conditions

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Okliton looked at Hernipolis subconsciously, and Hernipolis was also looking at him with piercing eyes. Although Daves' quick agreement to negotiate made him happy, it also made him aware of this Truce negotiations may not be so easy...

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The place of negotiation was arranged in a vacant military account not far from the camp’s big account. There were only 4 people in the account-Hernipolis, Okriton, and a writer each with them, so The simple configuration will determine the direction of this war, which is related to the future situation in the Western Mediterranean.

After the two parties sat down, Hernipolis put his hands on the table, leaned forward slightly, and said straightforwardly: "Master Okriton, since you Carthage want a truce to negotiate a peace, the conditions must have been drawn up. ."

"...Yes," Okriton looked at the somewhat imposing Hernipolis, and after a little hesitation, he said softly: "Before I leave, the Senate has reached a preliminary intention... The two sides stopped the war and regained the sphere of influence defined when the peace agreement was signed. Carthage is willing to make a certain amount of compensation for the losses caused by the war to Dionia. The specific amount is determined by the two parties after negotiation— —"

Henipolis didn't wait for him to finish, and stood up and walked out.

Okliton was stunned: "Master Hernipolis, what do you mean?"

Henipolis turned around and said with a mocking face: "Oklidon, you are not here to negotiate, you are here to tell a joke. You have to make it clear that this war is not our Dionysian Ya provoked it, and now it is you who hope to end this war! But you are negotiating with this attitude, as if it is not our Dionia, but you Carthage who dominate the whole battle. If this is the case, then there is no need to negotiate, go home separately, and continue to wait for the outcome of the war, maybe you will wait for our Dionian envoy to go to Carthage and request a truce!"

After all, Okriton had been fighting with Preta Kuba all year round in the Carthage Senate, and his face was hardened enough. He slowly said, "Negotiating is like buying and selling goods. You give me a price. Give a price, bargain between the two sides, and finally reach a reasonable price, complete the transaction... Now it is the initial price at which we Carthage came up with the armistice. Since you are not satisfied, then I want to hear what the initial price of Dionia is What?"

Henipolis looked at him and smiled slightly. The previous dissatisfaction disappeared without a trace. He sat back to the original position, straightened his chest, stretched out his right hand, and said loudly: "The conditions for the armistice of Dionia It was made by His Majesty Daves himself! Article 1, the Carthage army in Sicily surrendered to us Dionia!——"

Okliton stared at the finger that the other party extended, and he was awe-inspiring: King Dionia was kind to him before, and he thought it would be easier to negotiate this time. Who knew he was being beaten by Daves The kindness is bewildered! It is very difficult for him to agree to the first article alone, because it is an army of 100,000! Most of the young and middle-aged citizens of Carthage and the citizens of the Phoenician city-states are concentrated in it. Once they surrender to Dionia, if Dionia detains them for a long time and prevents them from returning to Carthage, then Carthage hardly has enough troops to guarantee the safety of the city... This article neither the Carthage Senate nor the people would agree to it. Brother will definitely refuse to execute! "

Okliton groaned in his heart, still keeping calm on his face, and asked: "Is there a second?"

"Of course." Hernipolis looked at him and stretched out his second finger: "Secondly, Corsica and Sardinia will be taken over by Dionia—"

Occleton’s heart beats wildly: Corsica and Sardinia are one of the important sources of income for the Carthage’s treasury. If Dionian takes it away, Carthage’s national power will undoubtedly be significantly weakened. !

No matter how hard it is for Okriton to remain calm, he snorted and said in a more serious tone: "Anything else?!"

"Don't worry, of course." The corner of Hernipolis' mouth was slightly raised, and his third finger stretched out: "Carthage will withdraw from Sicily, and this island will be completely ruled by Dionia!"

Okliton’s eyelids jumped straight: if taking Corsica and Sardinia weakened Carthage’s national power, then allowing Dionia to completely control Sicily would directly threaten Carthage. It’s safe, especially with the powerful Dionian Navy...

"Is Dionia really going to truce with our Carthage and restore peace?!" Okriton finally couldn't help but question.

"Of course we have the will to truce, but at the beginning we begged you not to start a war, but you saw that Dionia was at war with Rome and the Samoneites, thinking that there was something to take advantage of. Tore up the agreement and blatantly provoke a war. If your conspiracy succeeds, in the war today, Lien Chan was defeated in a row and asked for a truce, Dionia, and it was the same as the conditions you just put forward. I think you will never Agree!

But if you fail, you will be punished if you fail! Our army has taken Corsica! Occupied most of Sardinia! Occupied most of the land in Sicily! …These results were obtained by our Dionian citizens with blood and lives. The people will never allow us to abandon them. You better understand this! "Henipolis warned righteously.

"Corsica, Sardinia, Western Sicily...These are the lands that we Carthage and Phoenicians have worked so hard to manage for hundreds of years. If you want to take it from us forcibly, it doesn’t mean They belong to you! Dionia claims to be a civilized Greek kingdom, and is famous in the Western Mediterranean for'keeping its promises'. He should understand the truth very well!" Okriton retorted sternly.

Henipolis sneered: "When you Carthage tear up the agreement and start a war, we can only use long shields and stabbing guns to reason with you!"

"You used force to occupy it, and you may lose it under the threat of force in the future...It is better to use more compensation to redeem the land you occupy. I hope you can consider it!" Cliton's tone softened slightly.

"Carthage needs a huge compensation for Dionia's losses in this war. This is our fourth condition." Hernipolis stretched out his fourth finger in a cold tone.

"You!..." Okriton finally couldn't help standing up, and asked: "Dionia is so greedy, it seems that he has no intention of truce and peace talks with us in Carthage!"

"His Majesty Daves really intends to negotiate, otherwise he won't put forward these detailed conditions." Hernipolis said seriously: "He also asked me, except that the amount of compensation can be negotiated, other conditions shall not be changed. ! Of course, I don’t think Lord Okriton can decide on such an important matter, but I hope that the Carthage Senate can confirm this matter as soon as possible, otherwise as time delays, our conditions will be more than that. ."

Okliton's heart was shaken. But it is true that as Hernipolis said, he could not decide any of the conditions for the peace talks proposed by Dionia. He could only take them back and hand them over to the Senate for negotiation.

While leaving Minoa by boat and returning to Carthage, passing through the seas of Silinus, the heavy heart of Okriton suddenly moved in his heart and ordered the passenger ship to change its course. The beach is docked.

When Okriton came to the Carthage camp, he was catching up with Margot leading the army to attack the city, so under the leadership of the guards, he boarded the inner wall of the camp and witnessed the tragic attack. City battle.

Carthage’s army attacked the city of Silinus from three sides at the same time from the east, west, and north. Almost 20,000 people were thrown into the northern wall facing Okriton, and countless light infantry were waiting. The tall dirt hills used arrows and javelins to suppress the defenders at the head of the city, and the Balearic slingers stood on the inner walls and threw lead shots at the city of Serinus.

The army responsible for the main attack is divided into three parts: one part is Numibian soldiers. Under the leadership of the Iberian army officers, they carry sacks full of soil and rush to the front to fill the city. The second wave of offensive troops were Phoenician infantry. They carried ladders, pushed siege trucks, siege towers and other large-scale siege equipment, rushed to the city like a tide, and attacked; the third wave was The Phoenu infantry, whom Margot trusted, recharged behind the inner wall, and when the siege battle became fierce and both sides consumed a lot of physical energy, they were sent to make the final impact.

There is another huge team of tens of thousands of people on the battlefield. Their task is: while the Dionian soldiers are busy coping with the siege, seize the time to build camps on both sides of the earth mountain. The earth wall extending outward from the inner wall finally reached the purpose of connecting with the city wall of Silinus.

In addition, ballistas are of course indispensable for siege. However, due to fear of being attacked by the bow of the city, Carthage’s ballista units retreated behind the inner wall. Their main targets were those newly built on the wall. The wooden tower, but because of the internal wall, the hit rate is obviously not high, and it is also threatened by the Dionian ballista. The same is across the city wall. The stone bullets fired by Dionia’s ballistas in the city can always fall around the Carthage ballistas. They are obviously targeting the Carthaginian ballistas, and the number of them is even higher. More than Carthage (at the request of Amintas, all the ballistas in General Davos were transferred to Silinus).

The reason why Margo wanted the ballista units to focus on the wooden towers was because they were too threatening to the light infantry on the earth mountain. The original native mountain was slightly higher than the walls of Serinus, and the Carthage light infantry could Condescendingly attacked the city head, but after the Dionian people built these three or four-meter-high wooden towers on the walkway of the city head, the Dionian light infantry once again gained the advantage of long-range attack.