Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 883

[Chapter 230 Special Arrangements for the 3rd Fleet]

After only a while, Henepolis wrote the letter to the Senate and gave it to Davos.

Davos was satisfied after reading it. He did not change a word. He signed his name at the end, stamped it with a seal, and handed it back to Henipolis: “Send it to the Senate according to the highest-level confidential letter.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Henipolis immediately rolled the letter skillfully, tied both ends and the middle of the roll with three red ropes at the same time, and then proceeded to write the second letter.

At this time, the captain of the palace guard, Martius, walked into the tent: “Your Majesty, Midorades, the commander of the navy of the Third Fleet, is waiting for your summons outside the tent.”

“Oh, Midorades is here.” Davos hurriedly waved his hand and said, “Let him in.”

After Midorades entered the tent, he gave a military salute, and then said loudly, “Your Majesty, I’m late.”

“You’re here just in time! Davos said with a pun: “Your fleet and fleet infantry are about to come in handy!”

Midorades was immediately excited when he heard this.

He had just led the fleet back to Ladium, and he had already heard that: in the short period of time he left, the army led by King Davos, with Rome as the center, attacked Viai and Casreira northward; To the east, he conquered Phedenay and Crustaum; to the south, he took Gabi, and forced the surrender of many Latin city-states, and drove the Roman army to these small towns by the sea to the west, and was intensifying the attack on them. Siege…

These news made him have a bad feeling that the Third Fleet was out of this war and was completely irrelevant, so when he heard Davos’s words, he was instantly refreshed.

“Have your fleet infantry been recruited?” Davos asked.

“Everything has been recruited, it’s just…” Midorades said cautiously: “It’s just that as soon as the order to recruit was issued, not only Trina, but even the citizens of the towns of Sirius and Hibernian were active. I rushed to the naval base, signed up enthusiastically, and found a lot of acquaintances to intercede… So… So I recruited 2,000 more people…”

Davos looked at him with a serious look.

Midoraduston’s heart tensed.

Davos said slowly: “The more you do, the more you will do, but counting the newly added fleet infantry this time, the total number of infantry infantry of the Third Fleet should be 4,000 people. This is already an exception of the Ministry of Military Affairs. The number of people who came out must be disbanded after the war, remember this is not an example!”

Midorades hurriedly stated: “Your Majesty, please rest assured, as soon as the war is over, I will immediately disband all the extra fleet soldiers!”

Diver Slightly smiled: “You… this is vying for troops with the Sixth Legion, beware Trotiras (the Sixth Legion commander) knows it, and will fight with you!”

Midorades heard Diver After joking, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said jokingly, “In order to calm Trotiras, I will hold a few more banquets for him and get him drunk.” On the west side of the court, the naval base of the Third Fleet is in the bay near Trina. The two are not far from each other, and there are many exchanges between the two. The relationship between Midorades and Trotiras is not bad, so he does not Worry that the other person will blame you.

“Midorades.” Thormed said suddenly: “The 3rd Fleet Fleet Infantry is now 4,000 people, and we will prepare rations and other material supplements for your subordinate fleet infantry according to this formation. 2,000 people, you have to figure it out yourself.”

What?

!

Midorades thought that Tormide was joking, but seeing

his serious face, he didn’t know what to say for a while. After all, when he recruited soldiers this time, he was really selfish. At Davos’s hint, Midorades was given a small warning.

But for Midorads, asking him to come up with the baggage to supply 2,000 people was simply too difficult, and he could only look at Davos with a look of help.

Davos took advantage of the situation to take over the conversation and said sternly: “If you want to solve the provision for the extra two thousand people you have, then you can only do your best to complete the next task for you.”

“Your Majesty, I and the Third Fleet My brothers are ready, and no matter how difficult the task is, it will be successfully completed!” Midorades immediately said loudly.

Since Henipolis was writing the letter, Clotokatax took his place, and he knew Davos’ plan, so he found the map from the bookshelf and spread it out on the desk.

Davos led Midorades to the table.

Midorades looked down: in front of him was a map of Corsica and Sardinia.

“How much do you know about Corsica?” Davos asked.

Midorades had already made up his mind, he thought about it carefully, and then said: “Corsica is called a giant mountain in the sea by sailors, and the island is almost all towering mountains, which is not suitable for living at all. Only on the east side of the island there are two small coastal flats with two towns, Mariana in the north, belonging to the Etruscans, and Aleria in the south, belonging to the Philippians Nikki. In addition, there are some small Phoenician villages on the west coast, but the offshore reefs on the west coast are dense, the coast is tortuous, and it will be difficult for warships to land… Your Majesty, you want the Third Fleet to attack the Division Signa

?”

Davos nodded, looked at the map and said: “To be precise, the Third Fleet was to attack the Phoenician towns and settlements on Corsica. The reason why Carthage could become a The most prosperous and richest city-state in the Western Mediterranean, the most important reason is that it controls most of the precious metal resources and trade in the entire Western Mediterranean, the Iberian Peninsula, the Gaul region, the Etruscan region, and Sardinia Niea and Corsica, especially Sardinia and Corsica, are completely under the control of Carthage. Since Carthage dares to declare war on us Dionia, we will destroy it one by one. An important source of trade, its treasury is no longer full, and it cannot support a long war with us.

Therefore, the first target of the Third Fleet’s next attack is to destroy all the Phoenician settlements in Corsica. Don’t Underestimate the size of these settlements and the small number of people, but the silver, iron, copper and other metal minerals in Corsica are excavated, smelted, manufactured through them, and finally transported to Carthage, the entire west coast. The Phoenician settlements have formed a complete metal smelting system with each other. So your Third Fleet will occupy these settlements and capture all the Phoenicians…”

“Also, try not to destroy the Phoenician metal mines and smelting facilities!” Davos emphasized.

After hearing this, Midorades said solemnly: “Your Majesty, the Third Fleet will overcome all difficulties and complete this task.

” The attack of the warships of Sardinia and Corsica, must not be careless!”

“Yes!” Davos’ stern words made Midorades stunned, as the navy responsible for defending the west coast of Dionia Commander, of course, he has a more detailed understanding of the situation in Sardinia and Corsica on the west coast of the west coast: before the war, Carthage sent no more than 30 three-layered warships to these two islands. And it is mainly scattered in several towns and ports in Sardinia. It may be because of their weak strength. During the period of Dionysian army’s expedition to Rome, they did not come out to make trouble, so Midorades did not Take them to heart, but Davos’ warning made him have to pay attention.

Davos pressed the icon of Alenia on the map with his hand, and asked again: “Although Alenia is a Phoenician town, do you feel that the name does not match Phoenicia or Gaia? The habit of the Taichi people to name towns?”

“Could it be that it was once a town belonging to the Greeks?” Midorades chanted the name of the town repeatedly, and then asked a little surprised, in fact, it was just for the sake of The expression he showed deliberately in response to Davos, as a general Dionia who traversed the sea, he didn’t care about the town’s past history.

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“You are right, but Alenia was not just a city-state of the Greeks. Logically speaking, he should belong to the town of Dionia!” Henipolis interjected Dao, he had finished writing his letters to Alexis and Zantiparis, and just hearing this conversation, the disciple of the historian Ancitanos immediately became interested in being a good teacher.

“Alenia should belong to Dionia?!” Midorades was really surprised.

“In the era of great colonization, we Greeks colonized the Western Mediterranean, not only established Agrigento and Syracuse in Sicily, but also established Tarantum and Sybari in Greater Greece, and established in Gaul. Masseria was established; Naples and Cumay were established in Campania; Alenia was also established in Corsica…

But Etruria, the master of northern Italy at that time, was swarmed by the surging Greeks Frightened, they may think that if this crazy colonial behavior of the Greeks is not stopped, then the Etruscans will probably be surrounded by our Greek colonial city. So they united the already in Sardinia Carthage, which stood firm, fought with the Greek city-states of Alenia, Masseria, and Campania.

The most important battle was a naval battle near Alenia, in which the Greeks suffered The fiasco not only caused Alenia to be captured by the Carthaginians, but also did not dare to colonize northern Italy for hundreds of years…”

Henipolis said incessantly, not only Midorades was in the Listen carefully, and Thormed and Klotokatas also listened with great interest.

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