ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 997 Raid Again
At the same time, Leotizides also asked the soldiers to place the corpses of thousands of Lusitanian warriors in front of the city of Palermos, and at the same time let people shout in Phoenician, threatening Palermos. The Lemos surrendered, or they would suffer the same fate.

Witnessing the terrible encounter of the reinforcements, the threatened Palermo people were very panicked and actually held urgent discussions on "whether to surrender to the Dionysians". After all, more than 20 years ago, when Dionysius led 10 When the Wan Da army conquered western Sicily, they surrendered once. They were also Greeks. If they could surrender to Dionysius, why couldn't they surrender to Dionia?
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While the people of Palermo were anxious about their fate, Midorades led the fleet southward with great ambition.

The port where the Third Fleet departed was not in Theadium or Messina, but in Saros on the island of Sardinia.After discussing with Sekerian the day before yesterday and completing the escort mission of the fleet, he led the fleet directly to Sardinia, docked at the outer port of Saros, and was greeted by the commander of the Ninth Army, Tegeti. A warm welcome from North.

At this time, the chief executive of Saros had already taken office. He was Stromboli, the old senator from Amendolara. Originally, he had no plans to serve elsewhere, but the five rotating presidents of the Senate discussed for a long time and finally agreed that Among the unemployed senators in Thurii, he was the most suitable candidate, so Cornelus came to persuade him personally as an old friend.

In order to ensure the kingdom's final victory in this war, Stromboli finally accepted the appointment. Along with him, he went to Saros with 3000 reserve soldiers from the Turii and Bruti regions.

At the suggestion of the new administrator of Saros, Tagetinos, who had received reinforcements, quickly led his army northward and easily captured Saint Ibinia. This time, the Ninth Legion did not go on a killing spree, but instead tried their best to capture Saint Ibinia. The people of Nia also tried their best not to damage various facilities inside and outside the city.

When Midorades arrived at Salos, Stromboli was reorganizing the city and trying to persuade the captive Saint Ibinians to serve the kingdom and continue collecting and smelting precious metal ores.Tagetinos was training his army and preparing to attack the surrounding Phoenician towns.

After making sufficient preparations in the outer port of Saros, the Third Fleet left the port early on the third day and sailed quickly south, targeting the Phoenician city-state Agilgili on the African coast.

Compared with Sicily, the southern tip of Sardinia is closer to Africa, but it does not directly face Carthage. Therefore, its strategic position is not as important as Sicily, but precisely because it is close to Africa, it is also far away from Africa. Carthage was far away, which created favorable conditions for the Third Fleet's surprise attack.

The burning of Hadrumentum did arouse the vigilance of Carthage and its allies, but it was mainly on the side near Sicily, and the focus of Carthage fleet patrol and defense was also on this side. After all, Dio Both Nia's fleets have appeared in the Sicilian waters.

As a result, the third fleet's raid was successful. It not only burned a Phoenician city-state on the African coast again, but also captured some Phoenician people and returned with a full load, because Stromboli told Midora Des: Santa Ibinia is in desperate need of labor.

The news of "Ogilgia was burned" quickly spread throughout the land of Africa. The Phoenician city-states were repeatedly attacked, which made the Phoenicians very panic. Envoys from various city-states rushed to the Carthage Senate. , strongly demanding that Carthage fulfill its duties as leader and provide security protection to their city-state.

The people of Carthage also gathered together and once again protested to the Senate, hoping that they would take action to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.

The Carthaginian senators were under great pressure. After a fierce debate, the opinions of the Hannoists were adopted, and the Senate finally made two decisions: First, ordered the naval commander Morbar to strictly order He is not allowed to lead the fleet to the Sicilian waters for the time being. Instead, he must patrol the coast of Africa every day to first ensure the safety of Carthage and the allies; secondly, send a messenger to Sicily to put pressure on the military commander Mago and ask him to conquer it as soon as possible. Selinus, otherwise Carthage will have to negotiate peace with Dionia.

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In the city of Selinus, the battle between the Dionysian garrison and the Carthaginian army was ongoing.

Although, the Dionian defenders continued to carry out long-range attacks using ballistae and abdominal bows, and occasionally sent troops out of the city to raid, killing and injuring the Carthaginian soldiers building the city wall.But Mago, while defending against the attack of the Dionian defenders, urged the soldiers to speed up the construction of the inner wall. Due to the large number of Carthaginian troops, although the Dionian defenders tried their best to obstruct it, Carthage The inner walls of the camp are still being built.

Then, Mago sent troops to garrison the inner wall. At the same time, he learned from the Dionia defenders and moved the ballistas to the top of the city to engage in bombardment with the defenders, thus changing the previous relatively passive situation.

Amyntas stood on the top of the city and looked ahead with a solemn expression: Countless Carthaginian heavy infantry lined up in a long queue and were filing out of the newly completed door opening in the inner wall. They did not carry weapons or shields. But everyone was carrying a wooden frame filled with soil. They placed the wooden frame tightly in the open space between the inner wall of the Carthage camp and the wall of Selinus, and then returned to the inner wall in turn. , and so on... just like building blocks, it didn't take long to build a "wooden hill" with a wide base and a height of almost three meters.

During the busy period of the Carthaginians, the catapults on the walls of Selinus never stopped firing. The stone bullets could easily break the wooden frame, but the wooden frame shattered, and the scattered soil invaded the gap between the wooden frames. On the contrary, it makes the "hill" under construction stronger.

There are also ballistae aimed at the Carthaginians, but they are too close to the city wall (about six to 70 meters). If the ballistae on the city wall wants to attack them, they must raise their elevation angle, so that the stone bullets are almost Falling vertically may seem astonishing, but it actually has limited damage and is easy to avoid.

The arrows shot by the Dionian light infantry did not pose a great threat to the Carthaginian heavy infantry, and could not cause fatal damage to them.Under the urging of the team officers, the Carthaginian heavy infantry had to face the incoming arrows and complete the task of building an earthen mountain frame with a wooden frame.

The abdominal bows were a greater threat to them, but the Carthaginians rolled out dozens of arrow-blocking carts early in the morning, overlapping the front and rear to block the long dragon. The incredibly powerful iron arrows might be able to penetrate one or two pieces. A thick plank, but it could hardly be a real threat to Carthaginian life.

"Legion commander, do you want to send soldiers out of the city to raid?" Adjutant Aristonos reminded from the side.

Amyntas shook his head. From the top of the city, he could see a Carthaginian army on guard behind the arrow-blocking vehicles, and the opponent's inner walls were also covered with light infantry on standby. The Dionia guards The army does not have the advantage of defense. If the soldiers attack, they will only form a fierce battle with the opponent.Although Amyntas fought bravely, he knew very well that the strength of the Carthaginians was four or five times his, and it would not be good for him to forcefully consume them in this way.What's more, Carthage also has a large number of cavalry who can rush out from other door openings in the inner wall at any time and quickly circle behind their own soldiers to form a siege.

"Bring up the slingers and let them deal with these Carthaginians!" Amyntas's words made Adjutant Aristonos' eyes light up: Among all the legions of Dionysia, only the light infantry brigade of the First Legion has There are more than 400 slingers. The lead pellets thrown by these soldiers from Rhode Island are very hard and accurate within a distance of [-] meters, and can cause blunt damage to heavy infantry.

"How to distribute these slingers?" Aristonus asked again, because the mountains were not only built outside the north gate, but also outside the city walls on the east and west sides.

"Focus on dealing with the enemies here first!" Amintas said firmly, pointing to the front.

"Commander Amyntas, I have a suggestion." Chalcedis said suddenly.

"Oh, Chalcides, tell me." Amyntas looked at the Selinus garrison general.The tone became polite.During this period, Chalcedis tried his best to assist him, which really helped him a lot and won his respect.

Chalcedis said after careful consideration: "...the Carthaginians took advantage of their large number of people and desperately built mountains of earth. The most we can do now is to delay their progress, just like the wall they built. In the end, they will build the earth mountain. And the purpose of building the earth mountain is probably to allow their ballistae and light infantry to attack the soldiers at the top of our city from a high position and assist their soldiers in attacking the city. We can also build the earth mountain. The walls were raised so that the Carthaginians could not achieve their goals.”

Increase the city wall?Amyntas was surprised.

Chalcides gestured with the walkway at the top of the city with his hand, and continued to explain: "The stone city wall built by the Selinus people is very strong, and the walkway is wide and flat. We can completely use it on the walkway at the top of the city facing the earth mountain. If you continue to build wooden city walls with wood, you can at least increase the height of the 7-meter-high city wall by 5 to 6 meters..."

After hearing this, Amyntas's eyes lit up.

At this time, the adjutant Aristonus raised an objection: "But the Carthaginians have ballistae, and the wooden city wall cannot withstand the attack of stone bullets. When it is built, it will not be effective, but it will increase the number of soldiers." casualties!"

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