Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 1047

[Chapter 385 Davos and Dido]

“I thought about it!” Dido said without hesitation: “So I decided to go to Sicily and negotiate with the Dionysians!”

“What?! Are you going to Sicily?!” Hakkar was true this time. surprised.

“The more suitable candidate is you, but you are not in good health, and at this time, you cannot be separated from here. So I can only go! Although I am a woman, I am the only one, Margo, the patriarch of the Margonid family. My daughter, I go to Sicily to negotiate in person, which will better show the sincerity of our Margonides family. And the decisions I made during the negotiations should also be agreed by you, right?” Dido is arrogant. Looking straight at her cousin.

Hakkar didn’t respond directly, but instead asked, “What decision are you going to make?”

“I want to let this territory join the Kingdom of Dionia and become their sub-state or… that free city, I think this is the case. Should be able to save my father and Hasdruba!”

Haka looked at Dido with a resolute expression, and suddenly envied her vitality and courage, which was what his sick body lacked: “Okay. , I will take care of everything here, you can go to Sicily with confidence, but you have to prepare for the worst, the king of Dionia is not so easy to talk about!”

Although Hakkar had never seen Davos, he He had a deep understanding of the Dionian king, and even some of the administrative systems currently implemented in the Iberian territory were absorbed and adapted from the Dionian government.

Because of this, as a Carthaginian aristocrat, he did not object to Dido’s rebellious behavior of going to the enemy country, on the contrary there was a trace of envy in his heart.

……………………………………

Ocleton once again came to Sicily as a messenger of Carthage, and at the lord’s mansion of Liliba with the Dionysian court clerk Henepolis Start a new round of negotiations.

After several negotiating confrontations, in the face of the aggressive Henepolis, Okriton made a compromise, offering to cede new colonies in southern Iberia and to return the lands of the East Numibians, allowing them to independent.

But Henepolis was not satisfied, pointing out that what Dionia needed was the entire southern part of Iberia owned by Carthage, including Cadiz, Huelva, Megaropolis and other coastal towns and the gold and silver mines they control cannot be changed.

Ok Critton argued that Henepolis was determined not to let go, and Davos did not give Ok Critton a chance to meet at all, and the negotiations were deadlocked.

When Okreton relayed the news that “negotiations were not going well” back to Carthage, the Carthaginian senate also received another bad news: Ruspina had surrendered to the Dionian army.

It turned out that Alexis once hoped that the Carthaginian army could come to rescue Ruspina, so that he could defeat the new army of Carthage in the field, reduce the difficulty of the soldiers to siege the city in the future, and setback Carthage. people’s confidence.

However, after the Carthaginian Senate learned that the Numibians had joined the Dionysian army, it was even more worried about the safety of Carthage. While stepping up to mobilize reinforcements from the Phoenician allies in the west to protect the city.

Alexis did not order Ruspina to storm Ruspina, but let a total of 30 ballistas owned by the three legions bombard Ruspina city continuously for several days, not only smashing many houses in the city, making The people in the city were panicking all day, and they also blasted several big gaps in the not thick city wall. There were not many citizens in Ruspina, and the news of the reinforcements from Carthage had not yet been received. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Hadrummentum, the terrified Ruspina chose to surrender.

Alexis led his army into the city of Ruspina, and after taking complete control of the city, he immediately notified the Third Legion stationed in Hadrummentum to remove the camp and meet at Ruspina.

Given that the Carthaginians could not hold on, he simply prepared to continue to attack Thapsos eastward, thus completely turning this coastal land into the great rear of the Dionian army.

The Carthaginian elders headed by Hanno received a reply from Okriton, and at the same time learned through the scout that the Dionysian army that landed in Africa was attacking the city aggressively in the east, and they all realized that whether it was for Carthage For the safety of the city, or for the armistice agreement to be successfully signed, Carthage must concentrate its efforts to repel the enemy in front of him.

Therefore, after urgent deliberation, the Senate appointed Samuels as the military commander of Carthage, responsible for repelling the Dionysian army.

Samuels led 10,000 Carthaginian citizens and rushed to Addis, bringing the total force in Addis to 15,000. It also made it difficult to see young and middle-aged citizens in the city of Carthage. The Senate had to Both the elderly and the underage men mobilized to defend the city.

Samuels did not lead his army to rescue Tepsos, which was being besieged by Dionian troops, but stepped up the construction of defense facilities at Addis, while waiting for reinforcements from the Phoenician allies on the west coast.

Since the Dionysian warship was cruising along the coast of Africa, for the sake of safety, the reinforcements of the Phoenician allies did not dare to take the boat, and could only travel by land, marching in the mountains, and the time to reach the city of Carthage would naturally be extended.

……….

_ She wears a rare white fox fur coat, her black hair is tied together, and she is held together with delicate hair accessories made of pure gold… She has a graceful but not elegant temperament, her tenderness also reveals a heroic spirit, although her complexion is slightly darker. , but more glossy, without flaws, and more exotic.

When she walked gracefully into the living room of the city lord’s mansion in Lilibe, not only the guards looked straight, but even Davos was a little lost.

He subconsciously sat upright, coughed twice, and said, “You…are you the messenger from the Carthaginian Iberian colony?”

“Honorable King Dionia.” Dido lightly opened his lips, her voice was not as clear as most girls, but more robust: “I am Dido, the only daughter of Marco, the military commander of Carthage, and I am not Not the messenger of Carthage, but the representative of the Margonid family.”

Davos was not surprised, he already knew the identity of the Iberian messenger in advance, and he also knew through information that Margo’s daughter was not A simple woman, not only is she often involved in political affairs in southern Iberia, but she can even influence Margo’s decisions, so she met her out of curiosity.

And this sentence that Didot emphasized even more confirmed some of his thoughts. He deliberately said jokingly: “Do you have no men in the Margonides family?”

Dido heard Davos’ sarcasm. Apricot’s eyes widened suddenly, but then he lowered his eyes again, and said in a strong tone: “Iberian officials let me come here not because I am a woman, but because I can negotiate with you on their behalf!”

“Oh! Davos pretended to be surprised and said, “I don’t understand why the officials of Carthage in Iberia asked you to come? Don’t you know that the Senate of Carthage has prepared to cede the entire southern part of Iberia. Did you give it to Dionia?”

Dido had expected the other party to ask this question, she took a breath and said in a serious tone: “Dear King Dionia, although we are far away in Iberia, we also know that The negotiations between Dionia and Carthage did not go well, the war is still going on. What’s more, Carthage does not represent our southern Iberia, even if the negotiations are reached in the future, they agree to cede southern Iberia to you Dio Nia, this decision will not be recognized by all the people in southern Iberia! Because the southern region of Iberia has decided to break away from Turii and decide our own destiny!”

Dido said these last words loudly, Davos listened, his eyebrows raised, and his eyes became cold: “So even if we reached a peace agreement with Carthage, you southern Iberia are not going to abide by it?! Don’t you know that you do this? would just give me a reason to send troops to southern iberia, we’ve now taken tens of thousands of captives from southern iberia, including your father and friends! i don’t mind having all southern iberia men Become a slave and mine till you die!”

Although Davos’s voice was not loud, the majesty of the king was not to be seen directly, and the thick bloody aura rushed towards her face, which made Dido panic a little. She hurriedly lowered her head and tried her best to calm herself down. After breathing for a while, he gritted his teeth and said, “Since… Since Carthage betrayed us, why should we obey Carthage’s orders! If Dionysus really wants to send troops to attack us, we would rather all die in battle. , but also to defend the dignity of the Magonid family, and at the same time make you Dionia pay a heavy price!”

“Want us Dionysians to pay a heavy price?” Davos sneered, UU reading wwwwww .sonicmtl.com said disdainfully: “How many troops do you have in the Iberian territory? Can you still deter the surrounding Lusitania and Iberians? We Dionia don’t even need to send troops, just I can soon see that the natives of Iberia will destroy all of you who are alone!”

“Maybe we will perish, but what good will it do to you Dionia?!” At this moment, Dido also went out of his way, loudly “It took us more than 10 years to conquer the Iberian natives, fell trees, leveled the land, and reclaimed it every year, so that we have the territory that we can settle in today. The south was re-occupied by those ignorant and ferocious natives. I don’t know how much gold and silver Dionia was willing to give after the war with Carthage, how many citizens were sacrificed, and how much time it took to reintegrate southern Iberia. Enter the kingdom of Dionia!

But now as long as Dionia accepts my negotiation request, the southern part of Iberia you want will immediately belong to Dionia! Then, king, you can deal with Carthage with all your strength, Make

other demands to them to get more benefits!” The

cold light in Davos’ eyes converged, and he said calmly, “Do you want southern Iberia to be directly merged into Dionia?”

Literature Pavilion