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Chapter 945 Mago’s Determination

"Stop attacking Catanai?" Marco said angrily with a look of hatred on his face: "Don't forget, the Senate forced me to drive the Dionians out of Sicily within a year, and time is running out. There are too many, so I still need to strengthen the offensive!"

"We can no longer attack, Lord Mago!" Pomirka urged urgently: "I will write a letter to the Senate and explain to them in detail the reasons why we stopped attacking."

"It's useless, those people in Hannuo won't listen to your explanation." Ma Ge laughed disapprovingly.

But Pomilka heard a hint of relief from Mago's words, and he immediately said: "But Lord Ace Yaruba will support me, and there is Preta Kuba..."

When Mago heard this, he put down the leg of lamb in his hand and said calmly: "Okay, as you said, we will retreat to the west first."

Pomilka didn't expect that the always stubborn Mago would agree so simply, and was in a daze for a moment.

Of course he didn't know that after the failed attack on Paragonia during this period, Mago had already felt a little uneasy. He had realized that: whether it was Selinus, Paragonia, or Dionia, Everyone showed terrible ability to defend the city. The Carthaginian army with many cavalry, especially the Iberian army, gave up the field and mountain fighting they were good at and carried out brutal siege battles one after another. In fact, Giving up his own strengths was completely worth the loss, and today's fire made him determined.

"You mean to withdraw to the west of Sicily?!" Pomilka recalled it again, with a look of surprise on his face. He just suggested to stop the siege, but he never thought of completely abandoning the achievements of the previous few months.

"There is no way around this!" Mago did not hide the hatred in his eyes and pounded the table with his fist: "We are deep into the east, the transportation line is quite long, and the dominance of the Sicilian sea is still occupied by the Dionians. Unfortunately, the Senate also sent the newly formed fleet to Sardinia. We can only rely on land transportation of military rations. You should know how huge our army is, and the amount of military rations consumed every day is naturally very huge. Now we have to calculate Those laborers who transport food, if it were not for the previous food reserves, plus some assistance from the Syracuse people, I am afraid that our military food supply would have been very tight! Now, the Dionia fleet is increasing its supply of food to us Attacks on convoys and empty rear areas...

As you said, the Dionians have a strong ability to defend the city. It is impossible for us to capture Catanai in a short time. The main force of Dionia is about to arrive. If our military food transportation is at this time Something went wrong..."

Mago didn't say any more, but Pomilka couldn't help but shuddered and fell into deep thought.

Mago continued to gnaw on the leg of lamb until Bomirka made up his mind and said: "... Since the situation is so serious, I agree with your opinion... I will write a letter to tell Mr. Aisyaruba about the situation here, he is experienced Wisdom will definitely understand our current situation and intercede for us in the Senate to reduce the criticism of us by other senators... However, once we retreat to the west, what will happen to Syracuse?"

Mago sneered and said disdainfully: "Syracuse wants to become our Carthage ally. That is just their wishful thinking. The noble Carthage people will never do anything with these cunning and shameless Syracuse people. Friends! They think I don’t know that they have stood still in Taunis for such a long time and have not posed any threat to the Dionian allies at all. Is this fighting the Dionians?! Our Carthage merchant ship is here In ten days, more people were killed and injured due to sea storms than they died in the battle under Taunis! Since Syracuse wants to take advantage of our battle with Dionia to preserve its strength and obtain more benefits... Haha , it is only worthy of being a stone that we use to impede the Dionian reinforcements so that they cannot move westward with all their strength!"

Pomilka looked at the angry expression on Mago's face, and suddenly remembered that Mago and his cousin Himilko suffered disastrous defeats in front of the people of Syracuse more than 10 years ago. It seems that he has always been brooding about this, and some This attitude is naturally not surprising, and the behavior of the people of Syracuse during this period really displeased Bomirka. Therefore, he did not want to persuade him to say anything more about the fulfillment of the covenant. He just reminded: "Without our support, the Syracuse people will not be able to do anything." The Lacuzans face the attack of the Dionian army alone, and they are likely to choose to surrender."

"Surrender? Become the second Tarantum?" Mago suddenly laughed: "These shameless Syracuse people think they are the masters of Sicily and are inherently nobler than the people of other Sicilian city-states. They will easily Surrender to the Dionians?!"

Indeed, for more than 10 years, Syracuse has been surrounded by the increasingly powerful Kingdom of Dionia and its allies and friendly city-states. There are still conflicts from time to time, which shows how unwilling its people are... Pomirka is thinking in his heart As he looked, he heard Mago continue to say: "As long as we Carthage maintains strong strength, the people of Syracuse will not easily fall to Dionia, so before retreating, we must attack Parc with all our strength tomorrow." Lagonia!”

Pomirka was startled and said hurriedly: "The Numibian army has attacked Paragonia these days and suffered a lot of losses. In addition to today's fire, if they don't rest and recover, we want them to attack Paragon immediately." Gonya, I’m afraid—”

"Let the Iberian army and the Phoenician army be responsible for the siege tomorrow!" Mago suddenly interrupted and Pomilka choked on the words.

The more than 1 Iberian troops who followed Mago to the plains of Catania are very powerful, but these days they have been guarding against the military camps of the Dionians and Leotini of Catanai against Paragonia. The reinforcements were not used in siege battles. They only fought several battles with the enemies coming from the north. The losses were very small. It can be said that it is a new force.In order to capture Paragonia, Mago was finally willing to send his own troops to the battlefield!And there is also the cooperation of the Phoenician army, which is not weak in combat effectiveness... Bomilka cursed in his heart, but continued: "Who will defend the enemies in the two directions of Catanai and Leotini? Just rely on these An army with heavy losses and low morale after many sieges?”

Mago heard some reproach hidden in Pomilka's words. He sneered: "Although their attack on the city was blocked, their defense was still possible. After all, there were more soldiers than the enemy. Those young officers sent by the Senate Haven't they been clamoring to lead troops to the battlefield? I'll give them a chance."

Pomilka was startled, and was about to dissuade him, Ma Ge suddenly stood up, and said in a deep voice: "I have sent a messenger to Agilion to inform Hasdrubal that he will lead the army here early tomorrow morning. ! If Katanai’s enemies really dare to attack, we can just expand our results!”

Having said this, Mago looked directly at Pomilka: "Even if we want to retreat, we must let the soldiers understand that nothing in Sicily and the Western Mediterranean can stop their attack! Therefore, Paragonia must be destroy!"

"Puff!" Mago punched the table hard.

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Adjutant Tagru hurriedly walked into the hall: "Commander, we just received the report from the scout cavalry. The commander of the Brelu Army is leading 4000 soldiers to Paragonia!"

"What?!" Leoticides, who had always been expressionless, could not keep calm at this moment and said angrily: "Didn't I give him an order to stick to the camp and not lead the army to attack?! How dare he Disobey military orders, you deserve to die!"

After all, Taglu is a Bruttian, and Brelu is also a Brutian general he respects. He couldn't help but want to defend Brelu: "Well... maybe it's because the Carthaginians are suffering from Pablo." After the great fire in Lagonia, they launched another fierce attack on Paragonia today without taking any rest. The commander of the Brelu Army was probably worried that it would be difficult to hold on to Paragonia, so he sent troops to harass and contain Carthage. People dare not attack the city with all their strength... Although he leads a small number of soldiers, he has led his troops to attack several times in the past few times and has been able to return safely. I believe there will be no problem this time. "

"Stupid!" Leotizides said coldly: "In the past, the Carthaginian cavalry was stationed in the south. It was difficult for our reconnaissance cavalry to detect the battle situation in Paragonia, but this time it can be easily obtained. What does this mean?! Moreover, because we burned the weeds on the plains of Catania, the Carthaginian cavalry has rarely gone deep into the hinterland of the plains these days. Today, a large number of Carthaginian cavalry have gone to the west of Catania. It cuts off our connection with Hena, and we are unable to understand the movements of the enemy in Agilion, so what does this mean?!"

With Leotizides' prompt, Tagru thought about it for a moment and was immediately shocked: "This... is this a trap?! Commander of the Brelu Army is in danger! Commander, you... you should Lead your troops to rescue them!"

Leotizides looked livid and did not respond.

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Two days later, it was still in this hall, but it was no longer just Leotizides and Tagru and a few other people. Amyntas, Matonis, Lizaru, Olivers, Troti The seven army commanders of Lars, Breru, and Leotizides, the three cavalry commanders of Ledes, Curzius, and Acethemis, the Sicilian fleet commander Seclian, and the mountain reconnaissance battalion commander The two staff officers Izam, Tormid and Printols, as well as the governor of Sicily, Sipulos... filled the entire hall.

In the center where the star shines, sits Davos, King of Dionia.

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