Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 761

[Chapter 107 After the Storm]

In the tent of the barracks, Lizaru met Printols, and he immediately greeted the second-in-command, who had helped him in his victory in Campania.

“Okay, let’s talk about the gossip later, let’s quickly discuss how to complete the task assigned by His Majesty.” Amyntas urged.

“What’s the current situation in Latium?” Lizaru asked firstly. This is the basic quality of a senior Dionia commander. If you don’t understand the surrounding situation and the enemy’s situation, there is no way to win the battle. of.

Therefore, Amintas didn’t take it seriously, pointed at the map, and explained seriously: “Since the Romans attacked the Herniqui people on a large scale last month, they have conquered many towns in a row, and now Herni have been conquered. The central town of the Ki people, Ferentirum, was completely besieged and was intensifying the attack. Its troops had increased from 40,000 to 70,000. According to the Wolsey, the situation in Ferentirum was very critical, and they insisted on defending the city. It won’t be a few days. Once the town falls, not only will the Herniki be destroyed, but the Volsi will also suffer heavy losses, because the Volsi sent a large number of warriors to rescue Herniki, and are now in the process of Trapped in the city of Ferentirum, the Volscy territory is already very empty, and it depends on our First Army to support them.”

Lizaru stared at the map for a while before pointing to Wall On the north side of the Western Territory, he asked, “Since the Roman armies are all focused on attacking the

Herniki

people, the defense here must be very empty.”

Helniki, there are not many troops, but here! Here! There are ten thousand Roman troops stationed here!” Amyntas tapped the map three times with his finger.

Lizaru took a closer look and saw that the names of the three city icons were: Velitre, Satnecum, and Antium, and they just blocked the way to the northwest of Wall and into the Latium area.

Lizaru made an estimate and was surprised: “The Romans would have formed such a huge army?!”

“According to the Volsci, this time Rome not only mobilized all its young and middle-aged citizens, but also all the Latin allies and the Etruscan allies to the north to provide a lot of reinforcements, so it is doing its best to carry out In the face of this war, I think this is also the reason why Your Majesty will personally lead the army and deal with the Romans first!” Plintors emphasized on the side.

“But with these three cities blocking the way, it won’t take a day or two to capture one of them. I’m afraid it will delay Your Majesty’s attack plan.” Lizaru said worriedly, pointing to the map.

“Are you stupid!” Amyntas criticized unceremoniously: “We don’t need to attack them at all, we just need to bypass them, enter the coastal area of Ladium, and protect His Majesty’s army from successfully landing on the coast. .”

Lizaru, who had just gotten into the horns, patted his head

and smiled awkwardly. He pondered for a while and said, “If you do this, you can only let the soldiers carry rations and leave the auxiliary troops in the barracks. In order to ensure a rapid march, in case of encountering an enemy out of the city to intercept, we can also respond quickly, just in this way… our military camp, and even the entire Volsci territory is completely open to the Romans!

” He smiled and said: “Don’t worry too much about this, once our army successfully landed, the entire Ladium area will be on alert for our attack, and there is no intention of invading Wolsey! And we will also arrange other personnel in the military camp to go to Serbia. Ershe

, take the fleet, turn around the land newly occupied by the army.”

Lizaru no longer had any worries, and asked eagerly: “When will we act?!”

“Just wait for the army led by His Majesty to arrive in Latin When we are in the Mu area, but before that, we still have to discuss with the senior leaders of Worcey, and we need them to provide some help for this army’s attack.”

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“The battle of Serinus was finally disrupted by the storm, and the warships on both sides were almost wiped out.” The news spread throughout western Sicily early the next morning, and Pomirka, the acting commander of the Carthaginian army, learned of this. Shocked by the bad news, a messenger was dispatched urgently, and the news was quickly sent back to Carthage by a fast boat.

The Dionysian camp outside the city of Serinus was overcrowded, not only the tents were crowded with survivors of the shipwreck, but the passages and open spaces outside the tents were also full of struggling and moaning sailors; Outside the camp were densely packed, white-flowered corpses or people who had not yet been determined to be dead or unconscious. The doctors and nurses had been treating them for more than ten hours, and they were still busy; Allied soldiers are also fully assisting the medical battalion to save their compatriots and comrades in the Navy.

In the big tent, Leotiqides, who has been busy until now and has not slept all night, sat on a wooden chair and listened to the report of the adjutant Mukru. Although he was very tired, he still kept his back straight.

“Lord Commander, from last night to now, our soldiers have found about 150,000 human bodies on the coast, and about 100,000 people have been rescued, including more than 61,500 of us Dionians. The Dionysian crew has 29,379 people…” Mukru held the scoreboard, and his heart skipped a beat every time he read a set of numbers. Behind these huge numbers meant the passing of countless once-fresh lives, one family after another. He

cried bitterly…

Leoticides didn’t seem to have much reaction to this. After listening to the adjutant’s report, he remained expressionless and quickly asked, “How many people are there in our Sicilian fleet? Mukru

thought for a while, and said uncertainly: “Based on the last time they received rations from the Minoan Sicily fleet, they may have about

110,000 to 120,000 people…”

After making an estimate in his heart, he said, “So we still have at most 30,000 crew members who have not been found.”

“They may have drifted to the coast controlled by the Carthaginians, or they may have drifted to the coast of the allies, which requires us to contact Minoa, Agrigento and other south coast city-states in the next few days to understand. Details,” Mukru said.

Leotides nodded, and then sighed: “The navy really consumes the young and middle-aged citizens of the kingdom. This storm cost us tens of thousands of people, enough for us to build five or six legions.

Muklu explained: “Sir, but we also captured nearly 40,000 Carthaginians or Phoenicians with ease. If it was a normal battle, how many battles would it take to have so many prisoners.

”

Leo When Tichides heard this, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and his sharp eyes looked at Mukru without blinking, until the other party lowered his head, he slowly asked: “Sekelian and Flarios have found them. Is it?”

“…I haven’t gotten any news yet…” Muklu looked sad.

“Continue to send people to look for it, don’t give up. And we will entrust Serofenes to send spies to the city-state of Carthage to the west to inquire about the news.” Until then, there was a slight fluctuation in Leoticides’ face: ” I heard that Sekelian is very good at water, and he once crossed the turbulent Klaty River when he was young. He should not drown in the sea so easily.”

“Yes, Lord Commander.”

“Is there anything else?”

“Hmmm …The medical camp reminded that there are too many dead corpses inside and outside the camp. If they are parked for too long, the corpses will rot and easily lead to epidemics.”

“As long as they are determined to be dead, they will be taken to cremation, and the living sailors will burn their corpses. Bring the ashes back to the fleet base in Catania or Tarantum, as for those Carthaginians’ ashes, let’s bury them there.” Leotizides said, remembering something again, and said in a serious tone: ” This must be done at once, so that the living sailors can return to their quarters as soon as possible, so as not to waste our food, but the fleet infantry will stay and fight with us.”

Leotidides had long been envious of these infantrymen in the Sicilian fleet. He had seen their military training in Catania, and believed that their military quality was not weaker than the regular soldiers of the Eighth Legion, taking advantage of the destruction of the Sicilian fleet. , When there is no news of Cykrian and Flarios, they will be incorporated into their own team to enhance their strength.

Mukru has not responded yet, and Leotidides emphasized again: “Also… 10,000 young and strong sailors were drawn from the navy, and UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com gave them spears, Temporarily serve as our light infantry.”

Muklu was surprised, he reminded politely: “Lord Commander, without the permission of the Ministry of Military Affairs, it is already illegal for you to transfer the fleet infantry of the navy, and you have to reorganize sailors, I am afraid The navy will be dissatisfied with this.”

Leotidides disagreed, he said in a deep voice: “We are now deep into the sphere of influence of Carthage, not only the supply line has been stretched, but the enemy will also counterattack at any time, but the battle of the Sicilian fleet is There are no ships to protect our coastline. We are alone, and if we do not strengthen our strength, we may be in trouble at any time. The Sicilian navy cannot function without ships. It is better to let the idle sailors and fleet infantry be temporarily under my command. This is a special period, and I believe that Your Majesty and the Ministry of Military Affairs will understand what I am doing!”

As an adjutant, Mukru could only remind him that since Leotidides insisted on doing it, he could only execute it, and then he immediately changed the topic. Turning to other aspects: “Sir, what to do with the 40,000 Carthaginian prisoners?”

“Leave for now and deal with the prisoners in the past.” Leoticides said thoughtfully: “Carthage There must be our sailors there too, and we can exchange with them at that time.”