Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 991

[Chapter 329 Carthage wants to make peace?]

Davos said sternly: “Dionia and the Phoenician region in the east have never had any grudges, but they sent a fleet to attack Dionia’s fleet from thousands of miles, and they deserved their destruction! Sending troops is very welcome, and we have recently acquired a lot of mines and are short of slaves.”

El Accra sighed, but he had to continue on this topic, because the combined Eastern Phoenician fleet was in Carthage’s sphere of influence was wiped out, and if the Carthaginians did not make amends, they would have no face to see their compatriots in the Eastern Mediterranean Phoenicia who provided Carthage with great assistance.

“What do we need to pay to redeem these Phoenician sailors from the Eastern Mediterranean who were captured by you?” El Accra’s tone softened.

Davos looked at him and said slightly mockingly: “When your army occupied Agrigento, Exium, and Gera, you originally had the opportunity to redeem them by exchanging prisoners. But the army led by Marco killed all the people in the city!”

El Accra was silent for a while, and said softly, “What if Carthage wants to truce with you Dionia?”

Davos suddenly heard At this point, he was a little surprised. He blinked his eyes and said teasingly: “I must have heard it right? Carthage, the overlord of the Western Mediterranean, wants to stop this costly war for these prisoners? !”

El Accra managed to say this sentence on the basis of the captive, ignoring Davos’ ridicule, and took advantage of the situation to continue: “King, you are right, this is indeed a match against both parties. A hugely consuming war! I mean if—if the war between you and us ends, will these prisoners be released?”

This time, Davers did not joke any more, but said with a serious expression: “Since the truce has been reached, of course The captives will be released. However, you broke the covenant! You started the war! Now it is you who want to end the war! That

‘s it!”

“So…what conditions do you need to accept the truce?” El Accra also asked sternly.

Davos didn’t answer directly, he said lightly: “The armistice negotiation is a very important matter for both of you and me. Of course, you and I have to negotiate and decide together. Just like trade and business, you need a The long bargaining process…”

“But as the most honored person in the Kingdom of Dionia, you must have some demands of your own for the truce, right?” El Accra continued to ask without giving up.

“To be honest, I’ve been running around since the outbreak of the war, and I haven’t really thought about the truce. After you mentioned it just now,

I have a doubt now.” Davers said, pausing intentionally. for a moment.

“What doubts?” El Accra asked subconsciously.

“If… if your Carthaginian senate wants to negotiate a truce with us, will your military commander Marco agree?”

El Accra hesitated for a moment, then immediately replied: “Of course Marco will agree .

, because Carthage is different from Dionia, we do not have a king, but there is a senate, and the important affairs of the city-state are decided by the senate.”

Davos immediately smiled, raised his glass, and said: “War It’s really a headache, it’s a good thing for the people on both sides of you and me to be at peace!…Welcome to your presence today, come here, drink this cup!”

El Accra thought he understood Davos’s words, Quickly raise a glass and drink together, and then those who are interested will not ask any questions.

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After sending El Accra away, Henepolis couldn’t wait to ask, “Your Majesty, are you really going to make peace talks with Carthage?”

Davos smiled slightly : “I want to talk with Carthage, but I’m afraid it is difficult for them to agree to my conditions.”

“What conditions?” Henepolis asked directly without any hesitation.

This time, Davos did not avoid answering: “At least Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia must belong to the kingdom, and then hand over some or all of their southern Iberian territories…”

Henepolis listened Listening, his eyes widened unconsciously, and after a long while he said reluctantly: “I think it is difficult for the Carthaginians to agree to these conditions of yours…”

Davos glanced at him and said leisurely: “I don’t When I told the messenger these conditions, I was afraid of arousing the alarm of the Carthaginians. In fact, I don’t want to make a truce with Carthage at this time, because I finally formed a favorable situation to close the door and beat the dogs. How could it be possible? Waste this great opportunity to open the door again and let the dog escape again… Unless the dog is completely killed, maybe that’s when I make these conditions.”

Henipolis suddenly realized, but He also reminded a little worriedly: “Your Majesty, in case the Phoenician region in the Eastern Mediterranean sends reinforcements, or even Persia does send reinforcements…”

Davos said indifferently: “Persia is thousands of miles away. Sending reinforcements over to fight with us, with his enemy Egypt and the Greek city-state that could become his enemy at any time, is a very risky move! The Athenian army’s failure to attack Syracuse was a lesson, that Arta Xerxes may not have such great courage, and according to the information obtained, the Persians are still preparing to attack Egypt again, and the Duqya people have rioted in the hinterland of Persia… Now Persia is neither capable nor impossible Sending an army thousands of miles away to aid an alien city-state with which they have no close relationship.

As for the Phoenicians in the east, as far as I know, their strength is much worse than Carthage, the only thing worth mentioning is the navy , and they were all wiped out by us, so there is nothing to worry about.”

After hearing these words, Henipolis felt relieved.

“By the way, the Sicilian fleet captured a lot of Phoenician sailors in the Eastern Mediterranean yesterday. You asked Martius to bring some Greek-speaking prisoners. I want to ask them something about Persia.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Henepolis said to himself as he walked out: “Actually, the Eighth Legion captured a lot of Numibians in the previous Minoan War, but few of the Carthaginians were The next

time I came to talk about redemption, I never mentioned them, as if I had completely forgotten about them.”

An aura flashed through Davos’ mind, and he immediately said: “Herny, those Numibia Where are the prisoners now?”

“Your Majesty, they are working as coolies in Catane.”

Davos then remembered that Prosous had reported to him at that time, but he had just landed at the time, and there were so many affairs that he didn’t have much to do. care.

“Send someone back to Katanai to inform Cypros and ask him to send all these Numibian captives to Minoa!”

Henepolis was moved and quickly asked, “Your Majesty, are you this?

To–

” Davos’ mouth curled slightly: “Since the Carthaginians don’t regard the Numibians as human beings, then let’s take care of these poor Numibians.”

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El Accra left Minoa and did not return directly to Carthage, but took a boat to Mazara, and then arrived at Carthage outside the city of Serinus Camp, saw Marco, the military commander of Carthage.

“You didn’t come to see me specifically, did you?” Marco asked directly as soon as they met. El Accra, as the envoy of Carthage, just went out on the front foot, and Pretakuba on the back foot sent a clipper to Sicily and informed him. he.

“Does Margo-sama know about the fact that Hadrummentum City was raided by the Dionysian Navy and burned down?” El Accra asked rhetorically.

“Yes, I just heard about it.” Margo said calmly: “Dionia is a powerful country, and fighting against them will inevitably lead to such a situation. The Senate should not blame Morbar. , I think he is much stronger than Annobas, he solved the army’s food transportation problem not long after taking office, and won a naval battle, this old man is really not easy!”

“But he suggested to the senate ‘to make peace with Dionysus’, Lord Margo, what do you think?” El Accra looked directly at him and asked this important question.

Marco raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice, “Morbar has just joined the war, and UU reading www.sonicmtl.com still knows too little about the whole war situation. He only knows that we are not as good as Dionia in the navy, but In the army, we are stronger than the Dionians, and I have no doubts that Carthage will win this war in the end!”

“Since we are stronger than the Dionians in the land war, why is Marathon? Did Columbian not attack the Dionysians? What we heard in Carthage was that you were leading the army to keep retreating! Wasn’t this because of fear of Dionysian attack?” El Accra asked rudely.

“Afraid of the Dionysians?” Margo laughed contemptuously, and then said helplessly, “Hasdrubal defeated the Dionysian army, which was equal in number to him, in the battle of Gera. , in the field we were not afraid of the Dionysian army at all! But the Dionysian navy controlled the coast of Sicily, and our food supply was difficult, and I had to retreat to the west in order to prevent the soldiers from falling apart because of hunger. , hoping to defeat the main force of Dionia in a battle, but the king of Dionia obviously knew that we were inferior to us in land warfare, so he refused to battle and led his army to defend the Minoan Mountains, of course I I won’t lead the troops to attack the enemy defending on the mountain, that will cause the soldiers to suffer heavy casualties…”

“Did you just keep confronting the Dionians like this?!” El Accra couldn’t help asking.