Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 933

[Chapter 280 Hanno’s Counterattack]

After listening to Pretakuba, he remained silent for a while. As the elder of the Senate and the newly re-elected Sophie, of course he couldn’t open his eyes to talk nonsense and make others laugh.

He hadn’t figured out what to say yet, but El Accra continued to speak loudly: “As Lord Ace Yaruba said, nearly 1/3 of our treasury revenue comes from Sardinia and Cole. Signa, now during the war, money is urgently needed everywhere, as the Sophie of Carthage – Lord Pretakuba, you should think more fully about the huge scale that we Carthage are involved in We must first consider how to keep the source of our treasury income, so that we can build more warships and buy more food so that the war can continue, instead of meeting the requirements of Lord Margo! ”

El Accra’s words were straightforward enough, and Pretakuba’s face changed a little.

At this time, Sifakba, another new senator of the Margonid faction, said angrily: “Don’t you understand? The key to this war lies in Sicily! It is when Lord Margo led his army and Dionia. The eastern part of the fierce battle! The consumption of this war is indeed huge, so we must concentrate all our strength and fully support the army in Sicily. Go to support other battlefields.

Otherwise, even if we keep Sardinia, the Sicilian army will be frustrated due to the lack of guaranteed supply lines, which will change the originally dominant battle situation and prevent the battle in Sicily from ending as soon as possible. It’s

more than worth the loss!”

Compared with El Accra, Sifakba’s words were even more extreme, and immediately aroused the resentment of some elders in the venue, one of the neutral elders even said strangely: “Master Margo led an army of 100,000 people. It took half a month to attack a small town in Dionia, so it would take several months or even half a year to attack the more populated and more fortified cities of Katanai and Naxos. For the above time, with such offensive capabilities, do you still want to end the Sicilian war as soon as possible?!”

“Yes, yes, the reason why we have to keep Sardinia first is to consider that the war in Sicily will continue to be prolonged, first for Sicily Our army provides gold and silver protection!” Another veteran said half-seriously and half-jokingly.

“”Is it because Lord Margo is worried that he will not be able to drive the Dionians out of Sicily within a year!

I’m afraid you want to help Lord Marco to fulfill the promise he made in the Senate as soon as possible, so regardless of the overall situation, you keep trying to help him.

Another elder said dissatisfied.

Sifakba was so angry that he argued loudly with them, but Pretakuba found that more and more elders expressed dissatisfaction, not only Hannoites, but also many neutrals. Elder

, the whole venue became noisy. At this time,

Pretakuba realized that he had made a mistake: Sardinia and Corsica had been the possessions of Carthage for a hundred years, and all the nobles of Carthage had It has close interests with Sardinia. For example, El Accra, who just fully supported the reinforcement of Sardinia, his family owned a silver mine in the mountains outside Saros in Sardinia. The cargo ship carrying silver nuggets from Sardinia back to Carthage was captured by the Dionysian warship…

He has always emphasized the priority of the war in Sicily, but inadvertently pushed the Margonides to other senators. The opposites made almost all the neutral factions who had been relatively supportive of them since the beginning of the war sang the opposite tune, and there seemed to be some differences even among their own camps, such as Santipur and several other Margonidite elders, He had been silent since the beginning of the debate.

Pretakuba suddenly realized that Okleton had raised this issue at the beginning of today’s meeting, I am afraid it was premeditated! During this time, the Margonids not only in Canada The prestige of the Taiji people has greatly increased, and there is also a lot of support in the Senate. Many proposals have been approved… Under the circumstances that everything is going smoothly, even he himself is a little overwhelmed, completely forgetting the horror of that person.

And Just when Pretakuba came to his senses and was anxiously trying to solve the predicament, Hanno, who was sitting in front of the venue and had been quiet for a while, stood up.

The entire venue soon became quiet.

“Should the newly built fleet go to support Sardinia or Sicily first?” Hanno looked around the venue and said slowly, “Whether it is the short-term effect it produces, or the long-term interests of Carthage, reinforcements to Sardinia are very important. Nia should be the first choice. The difficulty encountered by Sardinia is because the entire sea area is controlled by the Dionians, so the defense is so passive. We only need to send the navy to repel the Dionians. order will be restored in Sardinia, and the Carthage-Sardinian trade route will be restored.

But the main problem of the Sicilian war is not just the loss of maritime superiority, but our The army has been blocked from attacking for a long time on land. Even if a fleet is dispatched, they cannot go ashore to fight, and the problem still cannot be solved immediately. Are you right?”

“Yes, Mr. Hanno is right!”

“Still Hanno-sama sees it thoroughly!”

“No need to argue, we choose to support the new fleet to Sardinia!”

…

There was an uproar in the venue.

Pretakuba said anxiously and loudly: “Master Hanno, you are wrong to say that! The key to our war with Dionia is Sicily. As long as Sicily wins, other problems will be solved, so support Sicily. -”

“Pretakuba!” Hanno shouted, like a lion sleeping soundly on the prairie suddenly showing his power, the whole venue became silent, and he looked directly at the Margonid family in the elders. The head of the hospital said with a stern face: “In order to let Carthage win this war, I tried my best to cooperate with you during this time, but your performance has disappointed me a bit. For the interests of your Margonid family, Even ignoring the interests of the entire Carthage, this is clearly reflected in the issue of ‘sending a new fleet to support Sicily’.

And the so-called rectification of our Carthaginian army last time by Marco also reflects this. Why can’t such a huge army take a village in Dionia for a long time?

Isn’t it because Margo replaced all the Carthaginian generals in the army and replaced them with the Numibians who followed him in Iberia as generals, and this happened!

Can these Numibians be loyal to Carthage!

Can they order their fellow men to risk their lives and fight the Dionians to the death!

Marco led the army to attack smoothly from the beginning until now it has reached a deadlock and replaced the generals of the Carthaginian army without authorization. Isn’t that the main reason for this situation?

!

So what puzzles me is that the war has just begun, why did Lord Margo in such a hurry to replace the Carthaginian general who was loyal to Carthage, and insisted on replacing him with him, but he had nothing to do with Carthage. Emotional Numibians to command an army also made up of Numibians?

!

Under

the repeated questioning of Hanno, Pretakuba was speechless for a while, but he was in a cold sweat.

Sifakba hurriedly retorted: “That’s because the generals of Carthage were ineffective in fighting, and only Only by replacing and replacing can improve the combat effectiveness of the army!

So later our army was able to successfully conquer those Greek city-states on the south coast.

As soon as

these words came out, there was a big uproar in the venue. The

elders rose up and retorted: “After the generals of Carthage were replaced, why can’t a 100,000-strong army conquer a small village of Dionia?

!

This is also called increased combat effectiveness!

”

I propose that the Carthaginian army formed by spending a lot of revenue from the treasury must be led by Carthaginian citizens, otherwise how can the security of the city-state be guaranteed!”

”

Now, Lord Margo is commanding an army that is mostly composed of foreigners as commanders and composed of foreigners. Is this still the army of Carthage!”

The former Carthaginian generals who have been replaced must be reinstated, or we will no longer provide any support to this army!

”

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Facing the turbulent elders, Pretakuba’s face changed completely.

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com And also looked at the dignified neutralist leader Ace Yaruba, but Hanno sneered in his heart: He died for so long, just for today.

Before Marco replaced the Carthaginian generals, he made a big mistake, because most of these generals were Carthaginian nobles, but he did not let the elders who were close to him impeach them. The Gonids really made mistakes in the use of the new fleet, and he attacked decisively, forcing the neutral senators to see the true face of the Margonides. As their support for it weakened, the Senate’s The dominance is bound to return to his hands again.

Thinking of this, Hanno said loudly again: “Lord, please listen to me.” The

noisy venue soon returned to silence, but Preta Kuba was shocked.

“The meeting has been discussed so far, and the result has been relatively clear. The new fleet will first reinforce Sardinia, and look for opportunities to retake Alenia, not only to ensure the income of the national treasury, so that we can continue to fight with Dionia, and at the same time. It is also our obligation to fulfill the allies of all the Phoenician city-states in the Western Mediterranean. Now not only all the Phoenicians are paying attention to this war, but don’t forget that people from the mother state are also listening to the news in Hadrummentum. (referring to the remnant fleet sent from the East Phoenicia region), if we don’t do this, we will lose our prestige, and can we order other Phoenician allies in the future?!”

Hanno’s careful political consideration Many elders nodded involuntarily.