Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 945

[Chapter 283 Marco’s Determination]

“Stop attacking Catane?” Marco said angrily with a look of hatred on his face: “Don’t forget, the Senate forced me to drive the Dionians out of Sicily within a year, and the time is running out. There are too many, so I need to strengthen the attack!”

“I can’t attack any more, Lord Margo!” Pomirka urged urgently: “I will write to the Senate and explain to them in detail why we stopped the attack. ”

It’s useless, those people in Hanno won’t listen to your explanation.” Marco sneered disapprovingly.

But Pomirka heard a bit of slack in Margo’s words, and he said: “But Lord Ace Yaruba will support me, and there is Preta Kuba…”

Margo heard this and put it down. He took the leg of lamb in his hand and said indifferently: “Okay, as you said, we will withdraw to the west first.”

Pomirka didn’t expect the always stubborn Marco to agree so simply, and was a little stunned for a while.

Of course he didn’t know that after the failed attack on Palagonia during this period of time, Margo felt a little uneasy. He had realized that whether it was Serinus, Palagonia, Dionia Everyone has shown a terrible ability to defend the city. The Carthaginian army with many cavalry, especially the Iberian army, gave up the field and mountain battles that they were good at, and carried out one brutal siege battle after another. Abandoning his own strengths is completely worth the loss, and today’s fire has made him make up his mind.

“You mean withdrawing to western Sicily?!” Pomirka then came back to his senses with a look of surprise. He just suggested to stop the siege, but he never thought of completely giving up the results obtained in the previous months.

“There’s no way out!” Marco made no secret of the hatred in his eyes, slamming the table with his fist: “We go deep into the east, the transportation line is quite long, and the dominance of the Sicilian waters is still occupied by the Dionysians. The Senate also sent the newly formed fleet to Sardinia, and we can only rely on land to transport rations. You should know how huge our army is, and the daily consumption of rations is naturally huge, and it still counts now. If it weren’t for the grain transportation workers, if it weren’t for the grain reserves and some assistance from the Syracuses, I’m afraid our army grain supply would have been very tight! Now, Dionia’s fleet is increasing the amount of food we have. The convoy and the attack of the empty rear…

As you said, the Dionysians are very strong in defending the city, we can’t capture Katanai in a short time, and the main force of Dionia is coming again Come

, if there is a problem with our rations transportation at this time…”

Marco didn’t say any more, but Pomirka couldn’t help shivering and fell into contemplation.

Marco continued to eat the leg of lamb until Pomirka made up his mind and said: “…Since the situation is so serious, I agree with your opinion… I will write to tell the situation here to Lord Ace Yaruba, he is experienced Wisdom, he will definitely understand our current situation, and intercede for us in the Senate, reducing the criticism of other elders against us… However, once we retreat to the west, what will Syracuse do?”

Marco sneered, disdainful said: “Syracuse wants to be our Carthaginian ally, it’s just their wishful thinking, the noble Carthaginians will never be friends with these cunning and shameless Syracuses! They think I don’t You know, they stayed in Taunis for such a long time, and did not pose any threat to the Dionian allies. Are they fighting against the Dionians?! Our Carthaginian merchant ships were killed and injured by the sea storm within ten days. More people than they died in the battle under Taunis! Since Syracuse wants to take advantage of our war with Dionia to

preserve its strength and gain more benefits… Hehe, it only deserves to be us A stone used to implicate the Dionysian reinforcements and prevent them from advancing westward with all their strength!”

Pomirka looked at the resentful look on Marco’s face, and suddenly remembered that Marco and his cousin Himilco suffered a crushing defeat in front of the Syracuses more than 10 years ago. It seems that he has always been worried about it. This attitude is not surprising, and the behavior of the Syracuses during this period really made Pomirka unhappy, so he did not want to persuade him to fulfill the covenant, but reminded: “Without our support, the tin The Rakuza are facing the attack of the Dionian army alone, and they are likely to choose to surrender.”

“Surrender? Become the second Tarantum?” Margo laughed suddenly: “These shameless Syracuses People think that they are the masters of Sicily, they are naturally nobler than the people of other Sicilian city-states, they will easily submit to the Dionysians?!”

Indeed, over the past 10 years, Syracuse has been dominated by the increasingly powerful Dio

Surrounded by the Kingdom of Nia and its allies and friendly city-states, there are still conflicts from time to time, which shows how unwilling the people are… Pomirka was thinking about it, but she heard Marco continue: “As long as we in Carthage keep the With great strength, the Syracuses will not easily fall to Dionia, so before retreating, we must attack Paragonia with all our strength tomorrow!” Pomirka was

shocked and hurriedly said: ” These days, the Numibian army stormed Paragonia, and the losses were not small. In addition to today’s fire, without rest, if they want to attack Paragonia immediately, I’m afraid”

“Let Iberia be tomorrow .

The sub-army and the Phoenician army are in charge of the siege!” Margo’s sudden interjection made Pomirka choked on the words.

The more than 10,000 Iberian troops who followed Marco to the plains of Catania were very strong in combat, but these days they have been guarding against the Barracks of the Dionysians and Leotines of Catania against Palagonia. The reinforcements were not involved in the siege battle, but there were several battles with the enemy attacking from the north, and the losses were very small.

In order to capture Paragonia, Margo is finally willing to send his own troops to the battlefield!

And there is also the Phoenician army, which is not weak in combat power… Pomirka sneered in his heart, but continued to say: “Who will defend the enemies in the two directions of Kathanai and Leotine? It depends on these. An army that has suffered many sieges, suffered considerable losses, and is demoralized?”

Marco heard the reproach implied in Pomirka’s words, and he sneered: “Although their siege is blocked, they can still defend themselves. After all, there are more soldiers than the enemy. Those young officers sent by the Senate. Haven’t they been clamoring for the soldiers to go to the battlefield, and I’ll give them a chance.”

Pomirka was shocked, and was about to dissuade him when Marco suddenly stood up and said in a deep voice, “I’ve sent a messenger to Agilion to inform Ha Strouba, let him lead the army to come here early tomorrow morning! If Katanai’s enemy really dares to attack, we can just expand the results!”

Having said that, Margo looked directly at Pomirka with bright eyes. : “Even if we are going to retreat, let the soldiers understand that nothing in Sicily, in the Western Mediterranean, can stop their attack! Therefore Paragonia must be destroyed!”

“Bulge!” Margo punched hard on the desktop.

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Adjutant Taglu hurriedly walked into the hall: “Lord Commander, just received the report from the scout, the commander of the Brelu Legion led 4,000 soldiers to Pala. Gonia!”

“What?!” Leoticides, who had always been expressionless, couldn’t keep calm at the moment, and said angrily: “Didn’t I already give him an order to stick to the camp and not lead the army to attack? ?! He dares to violate the military order, damn it!”

After all, Tagle is a Brutite, and Brelu is also a Brute general he respects. He couldn’t help but want to defend Brelu: “Uh …Maybe it was because the Carthaginians launched a fierce attack on Paragonia today without taking a rest after suffering the fire of Paragonia. The commander of the Brelu Legion was probably worried that Paragonia would be difficult to defend. That’s why he sent troops to harass the city to prevent the Carthaginians from daring to attack the city with all their strength… Although he led a small number of soldiers, but these days he led his troops to attack several times, and he was able to return safely. I believe there will be nothing wrong this time. question.”

“Stupid!” Leotidides said coldly: “In the past, the cavalry of Carthage was deployed to the south, and it was difficult for our scout cavalry to detect the battle situation in Paragonia, and This time, it can be easily obtained, what does this mean?! Moreover, because we burned the weeds on the plain of Catania, the Carthaginian cavalry has rarely penetrated into the hinterland of the plain these days, but a large number of Carthaginian cavalry today are not We ran to the west of Katanai, cut off our connection with Hena, and couldn’t understand the movements of the enemy in Agilion, what does this mean?!”

With Leotizides’ prompt, the tower Gru thought about it for a while, and was immediately shocked: “This is… is this a trap?! The commander of the Brelu Legion is in danger! Commander, you… you should lead your troops to save them!

” Des turned pale and did not respond.

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Two days later, it is still in this hall, but it is no longer just a few people such as Leotizides and Tagle, Amin Tas, Matonis, Lizaru, Olivers, Trotiras, Breru, Leotizides 7 army commanders, Ryders, Kuzius, Asitemis 3 A cavalry corps commander, Sicilian fleet commander Sekelian, mountain reconnaissance commander Izam, two staff officers, Thormid and Plintos, in addition to the Sicilian governor Cypros… crowded the entire hall Full to the brim.

In the center of the shining star sits King Davos of Dionia.