ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 901 The Seventh Legion comes to help
Leotizides showed a rare smile at this moment and asked: "How is the situation in the military camp today?"

Since capturing Selinus, Leotizides has temporarily assumed the responsibility of managing the entire city (although most of the people in Selinus have been escorted to Catanai), and naturally there are not many He devoted his time and energy to the army, so he usually asked Chalcedis to manage the military camp for him. So far, no major mistakes have occurred.

"Everything is going well. The defeat of the navy did not affect the morale of the brothers. On the contrary, they hope that you will allow them to raid the enemy camp again and make several more military exploits." Chalcedis replied.

Leotizides shook his head lightly: "The Carthaginians have already been fooled once. It is difficult for the same strategy to work again, but I am prepared to conduct a major military operation-"

Having said this, he looked at Chalcedis.

Chalcedis stood with a steady expression and did not show any eagerness.

Leotizides applauded in his heart, with the same indifferent expression on his face: "Now the Carthaginians have divided their army into four parts, one part is besieging Selinus, the other part is attacking Minoa, and the other part is attacking Enna. , and some are attacking Jela, the situation is very serious. If you were me, what would you do at this time? "

For senior team officers like Chalcedis, the information obtained by spies and clippers is generally open to them, so Chalcedis has a better understanding of the current battlefield situation and has his own thoughts, so he thought Thinking, he said: "The Carthaginian army is far more numerous than us, but since they are spreading their attacks, we can use the advantages of the sea to defeat them one by one."

"Destroy each of them...um..." Leotizides asked calmly, "Where do you think we should attack first?"

"Gerra." Chalcedis said without hesitation: "The Carthaginian army there is said to be small in strength, and it goes deep alone, and it is close to the coast. It is the best target to attack!"

Leotizides nodded: "You and I want to go together. I am going to lead the Eighth Legion and the 4th Cavalry Legion to Gela by boat to defeat this Carthaginian army as soon as possible. After I leave , you will lead 5000 legion reserve soldiers to stay here."

Chalcides did not respond immediately, but showed hesitation, which surprised Leotyzides who knew him well.

After a moment, Chalcedis resolutely said: "Commander, 5000 soldiers are too many, 3000 are enough. In this way, sir, you will have more soldiers to defeat the Carthaginian army. I am confident that we can hold on." Until you lead your team to victory and return!"

Leotizides looked slightly stunned. He sat on a wooden chair and looked directly at Chalsidis for a while. Then he stood up, walked to him, stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder: "I After leading the army to leave Selinus for the first time, not only to defeat the Carthaginian army in Gela, I am afraid that we will not come back for a long time, and Selinus is very important to us, so we must try our best. Guard it, that’s why I have left so many soldiers for you, and you don’t have to worry about the small number of troops I lead. When we get to the east, I will have plenty of soldiers to use.”

After hearing this, Chalcedis immediately said solemnly: "Commander, please rest assured, as long as I am here, the city of Selinus is here, and I will definitely defend Selinus to the death!"

Leotizides twitched his face, and his tone was rare and gentle: "If you really can't hold on, you don't need to hold on. There is a navy fleet at the port to bring the soldiers home safely. This war will be very long. , we will have the opportunity to take Selinus back in the future..."

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Catanai's fleet arrived at the port of Selinus, and Leotizides led his army to prepare to board the ship, when he happened to encounter a messenger sent by Minoa to ask for help.

It turned out that after Pomilcar led the Carthaginian army to the territory of Minoa and set up camp, he began to attack the city of Minoa.Unlike Monte Adeno, Pomircar personally went to the front line to supervise the siege. Coupled with the iron-blooded command from the generals of the Iberian army, the soldiers did not dare to slack off and attacked fiercely, which brought great harm to the Minoan defenders. pressure.

At this time, Leotizides had no good solution after receiving the news. He could only comfort the Minoans to hold on for a while, and he would lead his army to rescue as soon as possible.

Under the escort of the Sicilian fleet, the fleet of Leotizides' army successfully entered the port of Gela.

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At the same time, the commander of the Seventh Army, Brelu, who was at Camp Locri, received an order from the Ministry of Military Affairs: The Seventh Army will go to Catanay today, urgent!
"It's finally our turn!" Brelu's strong body jumped up from the seat and shouted excitedly to the adjutant: "Send someone quickly to inform Chief Lokli and ask them to prepare for the expedition. Also Have...notified all the brigades of this news and asked them to recall the soldiers who were out immediately!"

"Yes, Legion Commander!"

Not long after, continuous cheers erupted from the military camp.

After hearing that, Breru smiled.

Breru, once the leader of Bruti in the city of Bisignia, and later Bisignia was merged into Dionia, he became a veteran, but he did not engage in political affairs like Bajilipi, but chose to join Dionia Nia Legion.During the Southern Italian War, he was the first captain of the Fourth Army, but he was captured by Dionysius together with the head of the army, Drakes. Drakes was killed, but he was imprisoned because he was once the leader of Bruti. and was rescued in the end.As the only senior officer of the Dionian Legion who was captured by the Syracuseans in the South Italian War and survived, he regarded this as the greatest shame and always fought bravely in the subsequent wars. Due to his merits, he was promoted to commander of the Seventh Legion.

In this war, other legions have participated in the war, but the Seventh Legion has been idle so far. Brelu has written to the Ministry of Military Affairs many times complaining about injustice.Not long ago, the Ministry of Military Affairs sent a message saying that the Carthaginian army had landed in Sicily again, reminding him to prepare in advance.

Brelu began to issue summoning orders for the Seventh Army to surrounding towns. Now the Seventh Army in the military camp was fully staffed. The soldiers had high morale and were waiting to go into battle to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds.

But soon, the reply from the Locri City Hall poured cold water on Breluxian, because there were currently not enough passenger ships to transport troops in the Locri port, and they needed to wait another day or two to make preparations.

Brelu was frustrated.

At this time, the adjutant reminded: "There is no ship in Locke, but there is also Lijim!"

Brelu's eyes lit up: In the past, the soldiers of the Seventh Legion came from Locri, Hibernian and Colonia, but after Lijim and his son Bontaurina were completely integrated into the kingdom last year, these two cities were also The Ministry of Military Affairs included the Seventh Army's troop source area, but because the relationship had not been straightened out and the war broke out, the Seventh Army had not yet issued a notice asking the military training officers of Lijim and Taurina to arrange for their citizens to go to Lokli. The military camp participated in rotation training. Although there are currently no Lijim citizens in the Seventh Army, Lijim, as a port city guarding the Strait of Messina, has many ships, which can completely help transport troops.

Brelu immediately said: "Send a messenger to Lijim as soon as possible and ask for their support!"

The next day, Lijim responded to the Seventh Legion's request, and nearly two hundred passenger ships sailed into the port of Locri at dusk.

Early on the third day, Brelu led the 8000th Army of more than 7 people to leave the military camp and enter the city of Locri. The people of Locri gathered on both sides of the street to say goodbye to their relatives.Different from the people in other cities in the kingdom who saw off the army, they rarely shouted, were not overly excited, and did not rush into the streets to hinder the march. Instead, they stood by the streets in an orderly manner and kept waving. .

Although after joining the Kingdom of Dionia, Locri no longer implemented the cruel laws enacted by Zaleukus, and no more disabled people appeared in more than 10 years, the citizens of this city have integrated restraint and obedience. In his own blood, this also allowed Locri, who was originally an enemy of Dionia, to hardly cause any trouble to King Davos and the Senate after merging into the kingdom.Of course, the Locri citizens who believe in Persephone and pay attention to the rule of law are also an important reason for their easy identification with the Kingdom of Dionia.

Before the army entered the port, they also passed the shipbuilding workshop of Lokley: seven or eight large dry docks were lined up by the beach, and many shipwrights were building trireme warships inside; Stacks of thick tree trunks felled, and from time to time there are teams of horse-drawn carts carrying trees into the workshop; in several temporary wooden sheds, carpenters are constantly processing rough tree trunks into pieces. Straight and smooth ship plank... The people in the whole workshop are concentrating on the work in their hands, and few people are distracted to watch the Seventh Legion passing by here.

This lively and orderly shipbuilding scene is not only found in Locri, but also in other seaside towns with shipbuilding capabilities, such as: Thurii, Crotone, Trina, Siliting, Lijim, Tower Lantum, Catanai, Naxos... the entire Dionysian Kingdom is making every effort to build more warships as soon as possible in order to continue to gain maritime superiority in the war with Carthage.

In the morning, the fleet, carrying the soldiers of the Seventh Legion, left the port of Locri and sailed to Catanai on the eastern coast of Sicily.

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Although Midorades was very excited after receiving the order from King Davos, he did not immediately lead the fleet to invade Corsica because he targeted Aleni as his first target. Compared with the small village-like strongholds of the Phoenicians scattered across Corsica, Alenia, as the only Phoenician town in Corsica, has small but fertile agricultural land and rich mining industries. And the larger port undoubtedly made Midolades stretch three feet.

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