v8 Chapter 86： Battle of Cerro Dimm (1)

After receiving the order from Hasbrod, the Iberian infantry carried the rations and weapons and began to climb south over the mountains. Haas Drupa continued to attack the city of Cerro Dimm to attract the attention of the defenders.

The Iberian infantry climbed over the mountains and circled a large circle. In the early morning of the third day, it appeared on the mountain pass behind the side of Cerro diam. The Cerro Dim defense camp at the mountain pass was neglected, and the Iberian infantry. The rapid attack quickly fell, and the Iberians quickly approached the east side of Cerro Dim.

The Cerrodihams quickly learned the news that "the enemy appeared in the rear" and was very alarmed. Because they were reminded by the Diaonians, they concentrated their hands on the western wall in a limited time. For the east wall, they only had time to make simple repairs. The walls were not only small, but also outside the city. Do any defensive facilities, but they are lucky enough to think that this direction is temporarily impossible to attack by the Carthaginians. After all, this is already in the sphere of influence of the Diaonian friendly city state, and may be reinforced by the Danonians at any time. If the Carthaginians want to land here, they will take great risks. As the Carthaginians want to climb over the mountains, the towering mountains are not so good, and the Carthaginians are in this respect. not good at. But I didn't think that what they were most worried about happened just now.

At this time, the army of Hasbrodaba also launched a strong attack on the wall of Cerro Diam in the west. The Serodiham defenders immediately appeared to have insufficient strength. They pretended to be in a critical situation and rushed to organize. All the combating citizens went to the city to defend, and they also sent people to the port to take the Clippers and rushed to Messina for help. In addition, they arranged for the people in the city to retreat to the port.

In fact, on the sea near Cerro Dim, every day there are Diaonia's Clippers patrolling and observing the situation. When they saw the army of Carthage appearing in the east of the city of Cerrodim, they realized that the situation was not good and immediately returned to Messina, so when the messengers of Cerrodim came to ask for help, Messina’s Chief Executive, Amish Chris, has organized the fleet to prepare for the rescue.

There is also the third fleet. After the Carthaginians divided the army into two parts and attacked eastward from the north and south coasts, Seklely had to divide the Sicilian fleet he was responsible for into two parts. The first fleet was in Catania. The Three Fleet was in Messina. As the war progressed, most of the ships of the First Fleet later entered the military port of Jela. This was done in order to prevent the Carthage fleet from assisting the Army on both coasts in time. Going to the rear of the friendly city-state of Dionia, you can also protect the fleet that transports heavy or refugees in time, and this time the third fleet is obviously out of the way.

When the fleet of Dionya rushed to the sea near Cerro Dim, the defense of the east wall of Cerro Dim was already broken by the Iberian infantry, and the civics had to give up the defense of the wall. Part of the retreat to the Acropolis, part of the retreat to the port.

Fortunately, when Cerro Dimm was originally built, the port was enclosed in the city, but there was a wall separating it. The original purpose was to prevent the slaves and free people in the port from entering and leaving the city at will, and disturbing the city. Order, but now it plays a key role.

The Cerro Dimu Citizens were armed in front of the port walls, and they also destroyed the stone ladders on the upper wall and blocked the entrances to and from the port. After all, this wall was mainly to prevent the enemy of the port from entering the city. They only hoped to be able to serve the people. The port fled to gain time.

After the ships that had stayed in the port were filled with the people of Cerro Dimm, one after another quickly drove away, and the fleet of Dionia also quickly entered the port and continued to stay at the pier and panic. The people took it, and some ships from Tindares, Caleacte, and Haluntium also came to the rescue, even though the scene was a bit confusing, and even the ships collided and overturned. Things happened, but at this moment, all the Greek city-state sailors on the North Coast are working together to rescue, and there is only one thought in mind: to rescue the Serodiham people as soon as possible, to avoid being slaughtered by the Carthage.

Cerro Dimm is not a big city, and the population is not too large. Soon the old and the young women are on the boat and start loading the cadres who arrived at the dock...

The warships of the Third Fleet were displayed on the sea west of the port to prevent the sudden attack of the Carthaginian fleet. The Clippers approached and reported to the flagship Chief of the Third Fleet, Fralios: "The people of Cerro Dimm in the port have all boarded."

Flarios nodded and said that he couldn’t lift much of his spirit for such a defensive task. He didn’t think about letting the fleet infantry on the crow ship go to the port and help the Cerrodiham to hold it. The port, but after understanding the actual situation, he gave up the idea. He did not think that the 4,000 fleet infantry could block the attack of the 20,000 enemies that were about to break the city with only the weak wall, and the fleet that was hard to train. Infantry breakage is not worth it in this unimportant place.

"After waiting for the fleet to leave, we will return." Fernos just delivered the order.

Suddenly, the gaze on the mast shouted: "General, there is an enemy in front!"

Frarius was in a tight heart, looked up into the distance, through the gaps of many warships, and saw two yellow flags floating on the top of the warship mast on the far west.

It is the fleet of Carthage, the number of warships is almost the same as us...Florios immediately made judgments based on the slogan (the rising yellow flag represents enemy territory, a yellow flag means that the number of enemy fleets is less than the Dionian side, two The yellow flag indicates that the number of the two sides is about equal. Three yellow flags indicate that the number of enemy ships is greater than that of the Dionysian fleet, while the four yellow flags are far more than the number of enemy ships.

When Flarioston was in great spirits, he immediately changed his order: "Blow the military number and raise the black flag!"

On the flagship, the five squadrons simultaneously blew the curved copper number, which rang through the sea, and the long black flag was also flying high on the mast.

"Under the night, there must be stars." The starry sky is the most typical tactic of the Dionysian Navy. It can maximize the power of the crow warship. It was originally based on it, the naval naval building. Only defeated the powerful Syracuse Navy. But after ten years of development, this tactic has undergone new changes due to changes in the composition of the fleet of warships. He is in need of a big battle to verify its effectiveness.

The captains and crew of all the warships immediately became excited after receiving the instructions: the deck operator began to lift the suspension bridge resting on the deck to the front mast for placement; the helmsman adjusted the direction of the warship and began to arrange the formation; the sailor They began to swallow the rations and applied oil to the cushions; the infantrymen who sat in the aisle of the warehouse began to wear armor... Everyone was gearing up and anxiously awaiting the arrival of this naval battle.

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The fleet from the west came from Iberia, and it was accurately subordinated to the governor of Iberia.

The coast of Afrika is flat, but there are no tall and strong trees. A famous maritime race like Carthage has long used the Iberian Peninsula as an important resource base, not only because of the rich gold and silver mines there. Because of the rich timber resources there, most of the Carthage's marine timber comes from Iberia.

After Marco was the Governor of Iberia, he did not have the right to govern the fleet. In fact, in the process of conquering southern Iberia, most of the time could not use the fleet, but Marco considered the future and used the army. When fighting in other places, it is a big trouble for the maritime transporters without the protection of the fleet. If they want to mobilize the Carthage fleet to come to Iberia, they will certainly be obstructed by the Senate headed by Hanno, so he Only after deciding on the money I have earned in Iberia and the trees of Iberia, I built a fleet of my own.

A few years later, an Iberian fleet of 120 three-layer paddle warships, plus small and medium-sized warships and a total of 180 warships was established. The commander was the Admiral of the Magonid family. The sailors had Half came from the Phoenician city state, the rest came from Numidia and Mauritania, and none of them were Carthaginians. The fleet soon ran across the Iberian coast and near the pillars of Hercules.

After Hanno knew it, it was very taboo So this time, when the fleet escorted the army of Hasbrodaba to Lilitun, Sicily, Hanno instructed the Carthage Fleet. Commander Annobs wants to collect it.

This was met with Ardika's resolute opposition. He said: "March is only agreeing to let the Army troops accept the command of Monte Adeno. It does not say that the fleet will accept the command of the Carthage Navy."

And Annobas retorted: "Since it is the army of Carthage, of course, it must be unified command, so that it is good for the battle! It is good for Carthage!"

Admiral refused to obey and the two sides almost clashed.

In the end, the lawsuit reached the Senate, and the Senate had to send someone to discuss with Ma Ge again. This led to the cumbersome negotiations. And the two fleets, one docked in Carthage and one docked in Lili, stalemate each other, which is why Monte Adeno had never seen the Carthage fleet appear on the sea near the south coast of Sicily. The reasons for the troops' guards.

Until Hasdruba knew about it, he asked the fleet to come to help because he was about to capture the city of Cerrodim, in order to prevent the enemy from escaping from the sea. This is why the Iberian fleet happened to be here. s reason.