v8 Chapter 289： Syracuse’s panic

But can the Carthaginians do this to make the souls of our warriors suffer? ! No, their sin is a manifestation of the glory of the warriors! The holy souls of the Warriors will travel to the sacred Elysee, and will accompany the great Hades to enjoy the beautiful paradise of the four seasons! Here, "Daveus's finger, at the foot of the word, a word and a strong saying: "Everything here will be preserved forever, for the people of the kingdom to come and see, let them know how heroic our soldiers are, let them know How cruel our enemy is! The tower will be demolished, and then a statue will be built. The names of every warrior who died here will be engraved on it, and then remembered in the history of the kingdom, letting future generations proclaim forever! ”

The buzzing sounded again around the tower, but this time it was the envy of the soldiers.

"Dynia's citizens! Devonian soldiers!" Daphus raised the volume again and shouted: "You have been fighting for a year, winning in Campania, winning in Danny." Victory in Latin, victory in the mountains of Samonet, victory in the west of Sicily, and now it is finally the turn of the most powerful and cruel Carthage! I hope you can die here. The warrior revenge, bravely and fearlessly attacked the Carthaginians, once again created one victory after another, became the hero of the people, and he will be honored in the Hall of the Spirit after death, so that your name can also be a descendant. Only in this way, we can win the final victory in our contest with Carthage! We will also win in Diaonia!!"

"Wansheng!!! Wansheng!!! Wansheng!!!..." Hearing the words of Davers, the soldiers were in a throggy mood, and they couldn't help but beat the long shield with a short sword and shouted with passion.

The screams of these tens of thousands of people are like rolling thunder, resounding through the valley full of eyes, and even spread to Syracuse...

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In the night, the city of Syracuse is quiet, but there is still a candlelight in a house. The chief general, Teaggenis, sits alone in the study room and does not fall asleep. In fact, he can't sleep.

Some time ago, he arguing, insisting that the council passed a resolution to attack Camerina, and then forced Pachinus to make Syracuse expand its sphere of influence for the first time since the South Italian War. For a time, his prestige in Syracuse has exploded. Later, he personally went out to talk with Carthage commander Margo. Although the Syracuse was at a disadvantage in the talks and suffered some losses in the signed covenant, the democrats still shaped him into a tin. The interests of La Cuzza, the image of the political leaders who did not fear any threats and dared to compete with the strong state, were warmly welcomed by the people after the negotiations ended, and the limelight was no longer there.

According to a new covenant with Carthage, Syracuse must send troops to attack Tony, but under the direction of Taiaggenis, the Syracuse army played a slick, they just put an offensive posture, and There is no serious implementation of the covenant.

But the next battle was out of Taiaggens's expectation. He originally thought that with such a large army of Carthage, and his combat effectiveness is not weak (can defeat the Dionysian army in the Battle of Gera), he should be able to The devastating sweep of Dionya in the territory of Sicily. But even though the Carthage cavalry ravaged the Catania plains, the Carthage infantry broke Achillion, but its main force had repeatedly attacked a small village in Dionia, and it was intercepted for more than 20 days. Let him begin to doubt the combat power of the Carthaginian army, but fortunately in the end Paragonia was finally conquered.

After getting news, Tai Aggens sighed and prepared to continue to fight soy sauce to watch the development of the war, but suddenly got the news: the Carthage army began to retreat all south!

Taiaggenis was shocked and hurriedly climbed out of the messenger and rushed to ask. The result was told that the Carthaginians had the exact news. The main force of Dionia had conquered the enemy of the north, Rome, and was rushing to reinforce Sicily. On the way, the Carthaginian army must return to the west of Sicily to prepare for a comprehensive battle.

When the messenger brought the news back to the city of Syracuse, the entire council suddenly exploded.

During the reign of Dionysius, Syracuse had a close contact with the Campania League of Italy, so he still had some understanding of the situation in north central Italy, but after the South Italian War, the Campania League The alliance between Dionynia and the Syracuse has been drastically reduced, and the Syracuse people have less business dealings with the north-central Italy. Especially after Dionya launched a war against Rome, the Third Fleet deliberately blocked the route on the south coast of Italy. Syracuse did not own Sardinia and Corsica like the Carthaginians. The news that "the Daedian army landed in Latin" was still known from the mouth of the Carthage messenger.

However, the Syracuse people know that Rome is a strong state in central Italy, with many allys, where the status is similar to Syracuse in Sicily more than 10 years ago, and the Diaonians are far from the local warfare, It is impossible to conquer Rome easily. It must be a long war. Some people even expect the Dionyns to suffer a fiasco in the Latin region. Later, they agreed to form an alliance with Carthage and attack Dio. One of the main reasons for Nigeria.

However, there is now a sudden news that "the Diaonians conquered Rome and their main forces are about to reinforce Sicily." The members of Syracuse who were slammed were very scared because if the Carthaginian army returned to the west, tin Lacuza will alone bear the anger of the Daonian army!

Teeghennis had to rush to persuade the Carthaginians to wait until he caught up with Carthage's retreating army, and it was already to Gera.

No matter how he asked, Marge did not come out to see him personally. Only Pomirka came out and told him that because of the subsequent war with the main force of the Dionysian, the army had to withdraw to the west and do a good job. Full preparation, this is not something anyone can discourage.

But at the same time he also comforted Teaggenis: even if the Dionysian reinforcements landed in Sicily, their main target is still our Carthage, and the city of Syracuse is high in walls, rich in food, and has many troops, as long as it is fully defended. The Deonians have no way to take you. When we defeated the main force of Dionia, we will meet with you in Syracuse in the east. At that time, not only can the Diaonians be driven out of Sicily, but also can further march to the Great Greece. The Great Greece has always been the territory of your Greeks. It is more appropriate to take over the towns and control them. ...

At this time, Taiaggenis was slightly attracted by the beautiful prospects of the Carthaginian painting. At the same time, he knew that things were irreparable. Since this is the case, he can only say that Syracuse will fully defend Daimo. The Nigerians are about to come to the attack and expect the Carthage army to return to the east as soon as possible.

On his way back to Syracuse, Taiargens has been spending his ambivalence about the expectations of the future and the fear of reality.

When he rushed back to Syracuse, he got a bad news: Dionysian reinforcements have begun to land at Katanay Port and the Catania Naval Base.

Due to the sudden incident, the Syracuse army did not completely withdraw from the camp outside the city of Tonys. The Catania naval base was only a dozen miles away from them, and it was on the cargo ship that was transporting supplies from the camp to the port of Syracuse. The sailors were surprised to see dozens of Dionysian warships on the sea in the north, and behind them, there were many ships outside the Dionya naval base, and more ships from the north. The sea is coming...

The Syracuse fleet was so scared that they quickly turned around and drove back to the port. The Syrian Syracuse navy hurriedly sent several Clippers to investigate and found that those Dionia vessels were not full of soldiers carrying ships, they were fully loaded. The cargo ships of the materials, they continue to enter and exit the Diavian naval base, and continue until the evening...

On the second day, such military operations were carried out in the waters of the Dionya naval base.

How many reinforcements did the Dionyans send? ! The Syracuse people were all scared after getting this news Taiagnis, who just returned to the city, is no exception.

Especially after learning that the Carthage army was ironic and wanting to return to the west, many people in the council were even more guilty.

Even the port civilians general Hiktas shouted: "Since the Carthage people have abandoned us, then we do not need to comply with the covenant, and simply negotiate with Dionya."

The words of Hiktas really made a small number of people tempted, but no one dared to take the initiative to agree. After all, the reason why Syracuse joined Carthage and declared war on Dionia was to restore the hegemony of the past. As a result, he did not really fight with the Dionias, and he took the initiative to seek peace. Most of the members could not Accepted, the vast Syracuse citizens are also unacceptable.

Everyone argued that in the evening, in addition to "quickly evacuating all the troops trapped in Tonys and preparing for the defense of the city," they could not think of any other specific and effective plans to solve the current predicament.

On the third day, the council continued to discuss yesterday's issue and received an urgent return from the spy at noon: about 50,000 well-equipped Dionysians left Katanay and marched south.

The lawmakers suddenly panicked and immediately demanded that the citizens of the city be urgently mobilized to prepare for the enemy.

But soon there were spies to report, saying: The Dionysian army turned to the southwest and stopped moving ahead of the ruins of Paragonia.