"Yes!" Mukru commanded the messenger to run everywhere and shouted loudly to the retreating legion soldiers.

Leotizides had already led the guard to run towards the north gate. He needed to return to the city first, and quickly make arrangements with the Jeras to respond to the defeated troops and defend the enemy to attack the city while the chaos was in the chaos.

The flag hand in the guard held the legion flag high and fluttered in the wind, pointing the direction for the retreating Eighth Legion soldiers.

The enemy's defeat made Hasdrogba's tired body seem to inject vitality, and he followed the Lusitanian soldiers to chase the fleeing enemies.

At this time, the Lusitanians' ability to run was fully utilized, while the heavy armor of Greek infantry made them easily caught up by the enemy.

Hasdruba led the soldiers to slash and slash all the way, and in the end they all turned into blood people.

When they chased the city and wanted to take the opportunity to attack the city, javelins on the top of the city and arrows poured down, causing a lot of casualties to them who were lacking in defense.

Seeing the many black helmets and black armored defenders on the top of the city, Hasdruba did not dare to continue to attack the defeated soldiers crowded under the city, but turned around and chased the defeated soldiers in other directions...

It was not until dusk that the Carthage army withdrew its troops back to the camp.

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In this battle, the 4th Cavalry Legion of Dionia lost half of its cavalry, and the 8th Legion suffered about 1,300 casualties, of which more than half of the light armored soldiers and light infantry brigades were lost. The Jera army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and Kamanlina suffered the most casualties. Only more than 300 of the 3,000 soldiers who originally fought fled back, and the entire coalition army suffered nearly 7,000 casualties. The Carthaginian army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, of which Baleali had the most casualties, more than half.

Due to the defeat of the Dionian coalition forces, most of the injured coalition soldiers were unable to escape.

The war of Gera severely damaged Gera and Kamanlina's militia, making Leottizides's troops able to command even more difficult. More importantly, the news that "the Carthaginians defeated the army of Dionians who had been winning battles in a row" was like a stone that smashed into Sicily's seemingly peaceful political situation, causing trouble in some city-states.

After the Battle of Gera, despite the Minoans' repeated requests for help, Leotiziedes continued to stay with Gera, resting the troops while resisting the Carthaginians' siege. With the fewer and fewer troops under his command, he was even more reluctant to break it up and stationed in various city-states, so that it would only be eaten by the Carthaginian army one by one. Compared with Minoan, he believed that Gera's strategic position was more important.

Of course, he could not sit idly by Minoa, so he sent a messenger and went to Patchinos to ask for help with him.

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On the fourth day after the Battle of Gera, Sicily Governor Siprous in Katanai received an urgent report from the head of the Kingdom's intelligence department in Sicily: Military mobilization is underway in the city of Syracuse, and its motive is unknown.

To be cautious, Siphorus immediately sent a messenger to inform him of the arrival of Katanai, and was ordered to go to the Seventh Army in Hena, so that he could quickly return to guard the new military camp near Leotini to prevent accidents.

But the accident happened. Pacchinus promised to rescue Minoa and sent 3,000 reinforcements. Shortly after leaving the port by boat, he suddenly encountered the fleet of Syracuse.

In recent years, the eastern waters of Sicily have been the world of the Second Fleet of Dionia. The Syracuse Navy, which once dominated Sicily, has long lost its glory. It has shrunk into a small fleet of only 30 three-layer warships and a total of 50 warships. It usually only patrols the sea near its own city-state, but suddenly appeared on the sea near Pachinus and launched an attack on the troop transport fleet.

Since the Dionys Sicily fleet has been stationed in Selinus for a period of time, while vigilating the western waters, while concerned about the war in Selinus, and did not send warships to escort. Of course, the Pachinus did not make any requests to Katanai. After all, it is far away from the battlefield and the nearby waters have always been safe, and it has close ties with Dionys and is also considered harmonious with its neighbor Syracuse. They believe that the sailing from their city-state to Minoa should be safe. Therefore, the Pachinus only sent only five 3-layer oar warships in their city-state to escort, making a symbolic look.

As a result, after being suddenly attacked by the Syracuse fleet, although the Pacchinus warships resisted stubbornly, they were outnumbered. Except for four troop transport ships that fled back to the port, the rest were all sunk.

Meanwhile, Syracuse sent an army of 12,000 people. Instead of marching north to attack Taunis, which was very close to it, it turned south and rushed to Kamanlina, claiming to the outside world that it was "to help the Kamanlina and resist the Carthaginian invasion."

After the Kamanlina rejected the request of the Syracuse army to enter the city, the Syracuse army immediately changed its face and surrounded the city of Kamanlina. While making a move to attack the city, they sent envoys into the city, threatening the Kamanlina: Syracuse has formed an alliance with Carthage, and either resigned to Syracuse again, so that it can be protected when the Carthage army arrives; or choose to refuse, Syracuse will attack the city. After the city is broken, the people in the city will be handed over to the Carthage people to deal with.

Since Kamanlina had sent most of the civilians to aid Jera, there were only more than 500 civilians in the city who could fight in the city. They were weak and could only helplessly say: It takes time to consider.

The messenger of Syracuse was arrogant and only gave him one day.

After the messenger returned, the Syracuse army not only immediately blocked the road leading to Jara from Kamanlina, but also blocked its port by the Syracuse warships.

At this time, the Carthaginian army, who had won the battle, had moved the camp eastward and increased the siege of Gera, so Leothis was busy dealing with the Carthaginian siege and knew nothing about the Camanlina's incident.

After half a day, the merchant ships of the Dionia who ventured into the port brought news: the Syracuse fleet attacked Pacchinus's troop transport fleet and blocked the ports of Pacchinus and Kamanlina.

Leotizides was shocked when he found out: Syracuse finally joined the war!

The addition of Syracuse undoubtedly made Dionia's plight in Sicily worse, especially on the south coast. The Dionian coalition not only showed a disadvantage in number, but also fell into a dangerous situation of being attacked on both sides in strategic situation.

Even if Leotizides wanted to reinforce Kamanlina, he was helpless for a moment. There was a threat from Carthage troops on land and a Syracuse fleet blocking the way through sea. Without the escort of the fleet, the fleet might not even be able to enter the Kamanlina port, so he fed fish and shrimp.

Leotizides sent the Dionian Clippers docked in the port of Gera and immediately rushed to inform Seclian in Selinus.

A day later, the Camanlina, who was helpless, saw the black Syracuse soldiers carrying a ladder and pushing tall siege equipment to approach the city wall, which made them frightened. The Camanlina, who was afraid of suffering from the tragic encounter of Agrigento, finally chose to surrender.

More than 10 years have passed, due to the strength of the Kingdom of Dionia and the long-term friendly exchanges with the Kamanlina people, there were almost no pro-Syracuse citizens in the city of Kamanlina, which made the Syracuses who captured the city unable to support a government close to them for the time being. In order to prevent rebellion, they demanded that the Kamanlina people hand over many protons and at the same time let 3,000 Syracuse soldiers enter the city, saying that once the Carthage army arrives, it can effectively prevent its destruction of Kamanlina.

In addition, the Syracuse people also asked to draw only 500 Kamanlina soldiers to join the Syracuse army to fight together.

Now that people are on the custody of the sword, the Kamanlina, who I am for fish, finally agreed to these conditions.

After obtaining Kamanlina's dependence, the Syracuse army did not lead the army westward and met with the Carthaginian army besieging Jera. Instead, they entered the city of Kamanlina, leaving 3,000 soldiers to garrison. The remaining soldiers arrived on a boat near the coast of Pacchinus, and immediately surrounded the city of Pacchinus and sent envoys to the city, demanding that they join Syracuse.

The messenger of Syracuse threatened: If Pacchinus refuses this request, Syracuse will not only immediately execute the more than 2,000 Pacchinus citizens (after the Syracuse fleet sunk the Pacchinus fleet, it did not leave, but rescued the Pacchinus militia who fell into the water and captured them), and then led the army to attack Pacchinus City. After the city was broken, all the people in the city would be sold to the Carthaginians and become slaves.

The threat of Syracuse frightened the people of Pacchinus. Their city was surrounded by Syracuse troops and the port was blocked by Syracuse warships. The people looked at the thousands of relatives under the city who were kneeling and tied to the ground with a haggard expression. The Pacchinus, who were panic and at a loss, held an emergency citizen meeting and quickly reached a consensus. The Pacchinus, who had been an affiliated city-state of Syracuse before the Dionians entered Sicily, was once again attached to Syracuse.

Within a few days, Syracuse successively included Paccinus and Kamanlina in his alliance. In a blink of an eye, the entire southeast corner of Sicily became Syracuse's sphere of influence again. The citizens who had always dreamed of revisiting Syracuse's glory were all excited.

The chief general of Syracuse, Teagenis, who proposed this plan and, despite the opposition of his colleagues, vigorously promoted the matter, was praised by the people and his reputation increased greatly for a while.
Chapter completed!