v6 Chapter 1： Syracuse's expansion

When Dionya conquered Bruce and spread to Syracuse, Dionysius was accompanied by Masias to inspect the construction of the fortress in Syracuse.

When he saw that the project was nearing completion, he suddenly heard the news and his face suddenly became gloomy. He blurted out and said: "The **** Carthage, hindered my plan!..."

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In the spring of 397 BC, Carthage Sophie Himilco led a large army of 100,000, starting from Carthage City and landing in Sicily after a small-scale battle with the Syracuse Navy at sea. The traitor was quickly sold, and the city of Heraks to the west of Sicily was easily taken, followed by a strong attack on Motiya.

The Syracuse army was forced to withdraw from the siege of Segesta, and Hillico did not win the pursuit, but destroyed the city of Motiya and built a new town near the seaside near it. Lili.

At the time when the Carthaginian army stopped moving forward, the discerning Dionysius did not move in the city of Siracusa.

Shortly after the foundation stone for the Lili New Town, Hillico continued to attack the East on the occasion of the arrival of February. This time he did not follow the offensive route of Syracuse last year, but instead took a boat to the northeast corner of Sicily, and easily took the unguarded Messina.

The fall of Messina is a big stimulus for Lijim on the other side of the strait. This wealthy Greek city-state has been quietly interacting with Carthage for years, relying on favorable geographical locations and prosperous port transshipment trades, in case Syracuse is ravaged by the Strait of Messina. Suddenly, the friendly alien city-state showed its fangs and captured the sister city of Lijim, Messina. Why is it a sister city? Because Messina was first established by the co-colonization of Kumai and the Karkis, it was originally called Zankele, and later changed its name to Messina because of the arrival of the Messianic immigrants. The Messina people realized early on that the straits must be in the hands of their own people, and security will be guaranteed. Therefore, they encouraged the motherland Kumai and the Messenians to establish the friendly city of Lijim.

Li Jim felt panic, and they quickly decided to send the messenger to the South Union Alliance headquarters in West Riding, requesting to join the alliance. At this point, in addition to Locke and its affiliated city-states, other Greek city-states in Greece have a covenant with Dionia.

After Hillico completely destroyed the city of Messina, in order to please the indigenous Sicilian people of eastern Sicily, attacking Syracuse with Carthage, he was preparing to build a new city on the south coast of Messina. - Tao Luomenian, presented to the West Kelly.

In March, Dionysius felt that he could no longer let the Carthaginians continue to attack its affiliated city states. If they did not make a difference, the allies would probably fall to Carthage. So he mobilized the army of land and sea to advance north to the Catania plain.

In the waters near Katane, a sea battle broke out in Syracuse and Carthage. Originally more Greek warships than the Carthaginians, they also dominated the equipment. However, Dionysius was a crony, and his brother Leputines, as a commander of the naval commander, caused the Syracuse navy to suffer defeat and suffered heavy losses.

The Greek army on the land watched the naval battle on the shore. As a result, they saw the tragic situation of the navy and began to shake their hearts.

Fortunately, the land army led by Hilmiko did not arrive in the battlefield in time, because in the past few days, Mount Etna, southwest of Taurogen, suddenly broke out, and the hot volcanic spurt spewed down, destroying the south. The road, the black volcanic ash covered the sky, made the Carthagin army have to choose to detour.

The Syracuse army sang the ode of the **** of fire, Hephaestus, in awe, and hurriedly returned to the city of Syracuse. Katane and Leonidi fell into the hands of Carthage.

Hemirco, with the victory of the naval battle, led the army to finally reach Syracuse, and the Carthage Navy also entered the port of Syracuse, and then they camped on the banks of the Araps River in an attempt to get from land and sea. Siege of Syracuse.

At this time, Dionysius was anxious to send messengers to the Campania of Italy, the motherland of Corinth, the motherland of Greece, and the city of Sparta, and asked them to provide emergency assistance. Although the Great Greece is the closest place to Syracuse, Dionysius has intentionally or unintentionally ignored this area and did not seek assistance from the southern Italian hegemonian Union.

It is also impossible for Dionia to take the initiative to send troops without being invited, which would make Sicilian suspect that it has ulterior motives. Moreover, after frequent wars and rapid expansion, Dionia also needs time to rest, consolidate and integrate, so the Greek city-states in Sicily face all the critical moments of the fall, the Diaonians, and the South. The Greeks have a complex look across the sea.

Greek reinforcements from all over the country came in, especially Sparta sent a young general, Pybidas, to lead 30 warships and 500 hundred Spartan fighters.

At this time, the people in the city of Syracuse launched a riot under the encouragement of the hearts of the people, to oust Dionysius. Fibidas led the Greek coalition forces from all over the world to stop their riots, but they complained to Fibidas: It was because of the terrible command of Dionysius that Syracuse was in trouble and let the people Lose loved ones. At the same time, it also counts the cruel rule of Dionysius in the country, pleading with the spartan Sparta to help them get rid of the shackles of this lord.

Fibidas remembered the shackles of Agassius before, and told them that the Spartans came to Syracuse to help Dionysius against Carthage instead of helping Syracuse. People overthrow Dionysius! He hopes that the rioting people will calm their anger and work together to drive away the Carthaginians who have been under the city.

At the same time, he also asked Dionysius to make sure that from now on, no revenge will be given to the people involved in the riots, and future rule will be more tolerant.

With the full support of the Spartans, Dionysius has temporarily weathered a difficult time.

After the settled Carthage settled down, they began to destroy all facilities outside the city of Syracuse. They not only ruined farmland, villages and towns, but also blasphemy. Not only did it destroy the Temple of Zeus on the Poppi Klein high ground, but it also robbed the temples of the two goddesses Demuel and Persephone.

This kind of blasphemy has angered the Syracuse people. The two sides have repeatedly carried out small-scale land warfare and naval warfare outside the city and the Dagang.

The war was held until the summer, and as the temperature rose, the situation began to benefit the Syracuse, because the number of mosquitoes in the swamp near the Aspra River increased, and the bitten Carthage soldiers were tortured by the plague. The number of deaths is increasing.

At this time, Dionysius, who suffered from internal and external pressures, also ignited his wisdom and developed a clever attack plan: after marching in the night, using the tactics of the East and West to mobilize the enemy, the Navy and the Army simultaneously attacked the enemy’s weak fortress. side.

The Carthaginians were suffering from the plague, and their morale was low, and they were unable to counter the Syracuse attacks.

Dionysius paid the price of thousands of mercenaries and captured the Polkna fortress built by the Carthaginians on the banks of the Arapas River and the Dascon, two fortresses built on the coast. The defeat of the Carthage Navy, the Carthage people suffered heavy casualties, and the Chinese army camp in Himilco was surrounded by the middle of the camp. The camp was in chaos, and the danger of being wiped out by the whole army was seen.

Just then, Dionysius ordered to stop the attack.

That night, the Carthage military camp and the secret envoys of Dionysius frequented.

For the next three days, the two sides remained calm and there was no fighting.

By the fourth night, Himirko only led the remaining 30 three-story paddles to escape from Dagang, abandoning most of the Carthage soldiers, allies and mercenaries they eventually It was met by Syracuse and its allies.

After the victory, Dionysius did not pursue the Carthage, completely recovering Sicily and driving the Carthage out of the island. Because the Sikoraku people’s forced palace incident has made him realize that only the power of the Carthaginians continues to exist in Sicily, and his sect status can be guaranteed, so he not only ran away the remnant of Himirko. Nor did it continue to sweep Carthage’s colonial towns in Sicily, but instead began to focus on the Sicilian indigenous Sikels in the eastern hinterland, because in this war, the Sikels became Carthage. The accomplice, created a lot of trouble for Syracuse, made him feel that the Greek city-state on the island of light is not enough. It must expand the sphere of influence of Syracuse in the residential area of ​​the West Kel, and completely turn the eastern part of Sicily into A piece of iron plate.

The army of Syracuse began to conquer a town of West Kiel, such as Mogantine, Kefaro Idian, Hena, etc., and forced more West Kyle forces to sign a subsidiary agreement with him.

He also surrounded Taoromeon, the only coastal city built by Himmel for the West Kel, but was unable to capture it for a while.

By the second year (396 BC), the power of Syracuse had expanded northward to the northeast corner of Sicily.

On the ruins burned in Carthage, Dionysius rebuilt Messina, and the inhabitants of the city of New Mexico were made up of the colonists of Syracuse's allies, Rocky and Medma. His allies in Greater Greece, as well as hundreds of Messenians who had just been driven out of their places of origin by the Spartans, had no relationship with the Lijim.

But soon, the Spartans sent messengers and expressed dissatisfaction with Dionysius's placement of Sparta's enemies in such an important city.