ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 909
"Yes!" Muklu commanded the messengers to rush everywhere, shouting loudly to the retreating legionnaires.

And Leotizides had already led the guards towards the north gate. He needed to get back to the city first, and make the best arrangements with the Gera people quickly to respond to the broken troops and defend the enemy from taking advantage of the chaos to attack the city.

The flag bearer in the Guard held the legion's flag high and fluttered in the wind. It pointed the direction for the retreating Eighth Legion soldiers.

The enemy's defeat seemed to inject vitality into Hasdroba's tired body. He followed the Lusitanian warriors to hunt down the fleeing enemies.

At this time, the Lusitanians' ability to run was fully utilized, and the heavy armor of the Greek heavy infantry allowed them to be easily overtaken by the enemy.

Hasdrubal led the soldiers to kill all the way, and in the end everyone turned into a bloody man.

When they chased to the bottom of the city and tried to take the opportunity to attack the city, javelins and arrows poured down from the top of the city, causing many casualties to them who were unprepared.

Hasdrubal saw the numerous black-helmeted and black-armored defenders on the top of the city. He did not dare to continue attacking the defeated troops crowded under the city. Instead, he turned around and chased the defeated troops in other directions...

It was not until dusk that the Carthaginian army retreated to camp.

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In this battle, the 4th Dionysian Cavalry Corps lost half of its cavalry, and the 1300th Corps suffered about 2000 casualties, of which more than half of the light armor and light infantry brigade were lost. The Jela Army suffered more than 3000 casualties. The casualties were the highest. Of the 300 soldiers who originally went to battle, only more than 7000 fled back. The entire coalition suffered nearly 2000 casualties.The Carthaginian army suffered more than [-] casualties, among which the Balearic slingers suffered the most casualties, more than half.

Due to the retreat of the Dionia coalition, most of the injured coalition soldiers failed to escape.

The battle of Gela severely damaged the citizen soldiers of Gela and Camanlina, making the troops that Leotyzides could command even more stretched. More importantly, "the Carthaginians defeated Dio, who had been winning consecutive battles before. The news of the "Nian Army" was like a stone thrown into Sicily's seemingly calm political situation, causing ripples in some city-states.

After the Battle of Gela, despite repeated requests for help from the Minoans, Leotizides continued to stay at Gela, resting and reorganizing his troops while resisting the Carthaginian siege.As the number of troops under his command became smaller and smaller, he was even more unwilling to dismantle them and station them in various city-states, otherwise they would only be eaten one by one by the Carthaginian army. Moreover, compared to Minoa, he believed that Gera strategic location is even more important.

Of course, he couldn't just sit back and ignore Minoa, so he sent a messenger, together with the Minoa messenger, to Pachinus to ask for help.

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On the fourth day after the Battle of Gela, the Sicilian Governor Sipulos in Catanai received an urgent report from Serofennis, the head of the kingdom's intelligence department in Sicily: a military mobilization was underway in the city of Syracuse, and its motive was unknown. .

For the sake of caution, Sipulus immediately sent a messenger to notify the Seventh Legion, which had been ordered to go to Hena after arriving at Catanai, and asked them to rush back quickly and garrison the new military camp near Leotini to prevent accidents.

But the accident still happened.Pacinus promised to rescue Minoa and sent 3000 reinforcements. Shortly after leaving the port by ship, he suddenly encountered Syracuse's fleet.

In recent years, the eastern waters of Sicily have been dominated by the Dionian Second Fleet. The Syracuse Navy, which once dominated Sicily, has long lost its glory and has shrunk into a fleet of only 30 three-tier warships and a total of 50 warships. The small fleet usually only patrols the sea near its own city-state, but at this time it suddenly appeared on the sea near Pachinus and launched an attack on the troop carrier fleet.

Since the Dionysian Sicilian fleet has been stationed in Selinus during this period, while guarding the western seas and caring about the war in Selinus, no warships were sent to escort it.Of course, the Pacinos did not make any demands to Catanai. After all, it is far away from the battlefield, the nearby sea has always been safe, has close relations with Dionia, and is in harmony with its neighbor Syracuse. They believe that from now on It should be safe to sail from your own city-state to Minoa.Therefore, the Pacinus people only sent their city-state's only five three-layer oar warships to escort them, as a symbolic show.

As a result, after being suddenly attacked by the Syracuse fleet, the Pacinus warships resisted tenaciously, but were outnumbered. Except for four troop transports, which escaped back to the port, all the others were sunk.

At the same time, Syracuse sent an army of 12 men. Instead of marching north to attack Taunis, which was very close to it, Syracuse turned around and headed south, quickly rushing to Camanlina to attack the outside world. The claim was "to help the Camanlinans to resist the invasion of the Carthaginians."

After the people of Camanlina rejected the request of the Syracuse army to enter the city, the Syracuse army immediately changed their attitude and surrounded the city of Camanlina. While preparing to attack the city, they sent envoys into the city to threaten Camanlina. Naren: Syracuse has already formed an alliance with Carthage. It can either re-affiliate to Syracuse so that it can be protected when the Carthage army arrives; or choose to refuse and Syracuse will attack the city and after the city is defeated , the people in the city will be handed over to the Carthaginians.

Since Camanlina has sent most of its citizen soldiers to assist Gela, there are only more than 500 Camanlina citizen soldiers who can fight in the city at this time. Time to consider.

The envoy from Syracuse arrogantly gave him only one day.

After the envoy returned, the Syracuse army not only immediately blocked the road from Camanlina to Gela, but also the Syracuse warships blocked its port.

At this time, the Carthaginian army that had won the battle had moved its camp eastward and intensified the siege of the city of Gela, so Leotizides was busy dealing with the Carthaginian siege and attacking Carman. Nothing is known about what happened to Lina.

Half a day later, a Dionian merchant ship that ventured into the port brought news: the Syracuse fleet attacked the troop transport fleet of Pachinus and blocked the ports of Pachinus and Camanlina.

When Leotizides found out, he was shocked: Syracuse finally joined the war!
The addition of Syracuse will undoubtedly worsen Dionia's predicament in Sicily, especially on the south coast. The Dionia coalition is not only more disadvantaged in terms of numbers, but also falls into a dangerous situation of being attacked from both sides in terms of strategic situation. .

Even if Leotizides wanted to reinforce Camanlina, he was unable to do anything for a while. The Carthaginian army was threatening him by land, and the Syracuse fleet was blocking his way by sea.Without fleet escort, I am afraid that the fleet will not even be able to enter the port of Camanlina, so it will feed the fish and shrimps.

Leotizides sent the Dionian clipper docked in the port of Gera, and immediately rushed to inform Sekelian in Selinus.

One day later, the confused Camanlina people saw the dark Syracuse soldiers carrying ladders and pushing tall siege equipment at the city wall, approaching the city wall. They were frightened and feared that they would be attacked by Agora. The people of Camanlina finally chose to surrender after the tragic experience of Rizhento.

Over the past 10 years, due to the strength of the Dionia Kingdom and the long-term friendly exchanges with the Kamanlina people, there are almost no citizens who are pro-Syracusa in the city of Kamanlina, making Syracuse, who captured the city The Zha people were temporarily unable to support a government close to themselves. In order to prevent rebellion, they demanded: the Kamanlina people surrendered many hostages, and at the same time let 3000 Syracuse soldiers enter the city. The arrival of the Ki army can effectively prevent its destruction of Kamanlina.

In addition, the Syracuseans also requested that the remaining 500 Camanlina soldiers be transferred to join the Syracuse army for coordinated operations.

The people of Camanlina, now a slave to the people and a fish to me, finally agreed to these conditions.

After the Syracuse army gained the attachment of Camanlina, they did not lead their army westward to join the Carthaginian army that was besieging Gela. Instead, they entered the city of Camanlina, leaving 3000 soldiers to garrison. The rest of the soldiers arrived by boat and landed near the coast of Pacinus. They immediately surrounded the city of Pacinus and sent envoys into the city, asking it to surrender to Syracuse.

The Syracuse envoy threatened: If Pachinus refuses this request, Syracuse will not only immediately execute the more than 2000 citizens of Pachinus (the Syracuse fleet sank the Pacchinus troop transport After the team, they did not leave, but rescued the citizens of Pachinus who fell into the water and captured them), and then led the army to attack the city of Pachinus. After the city was broken, all the people in the city would be sold. To the Carthaginians, as slaves.

The threat of Syracuse frightened the people of Pacinus. Their city was surrounded by the Syracuse army, and the port was blocked by Syracuse warships. The people looked at the thousands of people below the city with tearful eyes from the city top. With their relatives kneeling and tied to the ground, looking tired and haggard, the panic-stricken Pacinos held an emergency citizens' meeting and quickly reached a unanimous opinion. This had been going on before the Dionians entered Sicily. Pachinus, a city-state affiliated with Syracuse, was once again attached to Syracuse.

Within a few days, Syracuse successively included Pachinus and Camanlina into its alliance. In a blink of an eye, the entire southeastern corner of Sicily once again became Syracuse's sphere of influence. It has always been a dream. Citizens rejoiced as they relived the glory of Syracuse.

Theagenes, the chief general of Syracuse, who proposed this plan and vigorously implemented it despite the opposition of his colleagues, was highly praised by the people, and his reputation greatly increased for a while.

But at the same time, some people expressed dissatisfaction with Theagenis' approach. For example, General Hyktas publicly questioned: "In order to obtain two small city-states, Syracuse took great risks to provoke the Powerful Dionia, this is very dangerous! Theagenis, don't forget that the Carthaginians are far away in Africa, and we Syracuse is right next to Dionia!"

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