Teagenis responded with confidence: "This huge war between Dionya and Carthage in Sicily has involved all Sicily city-states. Can we be the exception? No! Carthage's army has approached Gera, and Dionya's army is stationed in Leotini. We must make a choice, otherwise we will be crushed by the forces of both sides.

But we will not be true allies with the Carthaginians who have been our mortal enemy for decades, nor will we stoke the Dionians who have taken away our hegemony. All we have to do is to seize all favorable opportunities in this fierce war and regain the glory of Syracuse in the past!”

That's what Teagenis said and did it.

When Siprous of Katanai sent an envoy to question at the Syracuse Council, he angrily asked: "You Syracuse fleet attacked Pacchinus' fleet and led troops to capture Camanlina. This is a provocation to Dionia! This dangerous behavior must be stopped immediately, withdraw troops from Camanlina, and compensate Pachinus, and guarantee that no similar actions will be taken in the future, otherwise Dionia will not sit idly by!"

Teagenis responded calmly: "Is Dionia and Pacchinus, Kamanlina an alliance? Of course not, you have neither a covenant nor even an agreement with these two city-states, but we have, and are a comprehensive military alliance."

Kamanlina said, and even brought the covenant he had just signed and showed it to the messenger of Dionya, and said with a slight mockery: "I am very grateful to Dionya for his concern for what has happened recently, but this is an internal matter between us and the allies. We can resolve it by negotiation ourselves. You, the outsider, don't worry about it."

The messenger of Dionia was speechless for a moment. After a moment, he said hatefully: "Is Syracuse ready to join forces with the Carthaginians?!"

"How could we Syracuse join forces with our mortal enemy Carthaginians!" Teagens said with a serious expression: "We just want to protect ourselves on this frequent war-torn island of Sicily."

The messenger of Dionys understood and said coldly: "It turns out that you Syracuse are to be crows. After the beasts fight, they steal the dead bodies, but no matter how much carrion the crow eats, it is still a crow. I hope that the peace and tranquility of Syracuse today, which the heroes who resisted Dionysius' tyranny more than ten years ago, with their blood exchanged for Syracuse's tyranny!"

The dialogue between Teagenis and the Dionysian messengers was spread out at the Council. Many people praised their chief general for his toughness and wit when speaking in the face of the Dionysian messengers, and a few were worried about the warnings raised by the Dionysian messengers.

Just as the envoy of Dionys left the city of Syracuse, many Syracuses rushed over and verbally and humiliated them to vent their dissatisfaction with Dionys.

Teagenis had long expected this. He did not want to openly break up with Dionia for the time being, so he sent a patrol team to escort it.

The messenger of Dionia left Syracuse and his nose was bruised and his clothes were torn, which was regarded as a great shame.

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When Secnian led the fleet to Gera, Leotitzides already knew that Kamanlina and Pachinus belonged to Syracuse, which forced him to cancel the original plan. At the same time, the successive changes also made him shake his confidence in continuing to defend the South Coast.

So, as soon as he saw Secrean who had just arrived, he said bluntly: "Camanlina and Pachinus have surrendered to Syracuse. It is estimated that Minoa will not last long. Now we are completely at a disadvantage, but my army is scattered in Selinus and here, and it will not play any role in the entire battle situation. So I decided to evacuate all the troops in the South Coast city-state. If Minoa and the Jera are willing to follow us, then we will return to Catania together, meet with the Seventh Legion, strengthen our strength again, and find opportunities to continue to resist the attacks of the Carthaginians and even Syracuse."

Secrean looked at Leotizides's serious expression, thought about it seriously, and said in a deep voice: "Everything elsewhere can be evacuated, but Selinus must keep it!"

"The army from other places has been evacuated, and Selinus has completely become an isolated city. How many days can Carcidis hold on?" Leotizides seemed to have no confidence in this.

Secrean was very confident about this: "These days, the Carthaginians launched several attacks on Selinus, but they were all repelled, and our defenders did not suffer much losses. I think Carscidis has the demeanor of a general, and he is not anxious or panic. He has a good way to defend the city. Selinus should be able to defend it."

"Carcidis is of course very capable." Leotizides shook his head slightly: "It's a pity that he has too few troops. Once we leave, Selinus will become the focus of the Carthaginian attack and will not last long."

Secrean said anxiously: "With the help of our navy, how could there be fewer soldiers under Karcidis? As long as he holds for a few more days, after September, after harvesting the farmlands in Catania, I will transport thousands of crew members who do not have warships in the naval base and tens of thousands of people to go there. Although these crew members do not have the ability to fight with Carthage soldiers head-on, they can still help defend the city.

Selinnus is so important! As long as it is still in our hands, our warships and crew will have a foothold in the western part of Sicily, and the fleet can safely hunt in the western waters, and their Carthage ships dare not easily transport soldiers and supplies on the south coast..."

Seclian was just as he spoke, and Leotizides interrupted him and said simply: "Well, just do what you said, your Sicilian fleet will provide reinforcements, hold on to Selinus, and all other city-states and troops will evacuate the south coast."

Secrean was stunned and immediately reacted: "Did you have this plan long ago and want to lie to me to help you defend the city?!"

Leotitzides said expressionlessly: "Now I want to persuade the generals of Jera to leave here and go to Katanai to take refuge. The persuasion of the Minoans must be handed over to Lord Secrean. Jera has our Eighth Legion guarding here, and there is no major problem at the moment, but Minoa is already in danger. I hope you can seize the time."

"Uh...I said, Prosous, you are not His Majesty Davers, what right do you have to assign tasks to me! This matter should be discussed first and then decided..." Secreon expressed his dissatisfaction loudly, but Leotizides had already walked out of the hall with great strides...

A day later, a fleet full of Minoan people was escorted by the Deonia fleet and sailed eastward along the south coast. When passing through the southeastern corner of Sicily, Secrean was both nervous and excited. He spread all the fast ships and ordered all the warships to open their eyes wide and observe the abnormalities on the sea surface carefully.

But to his disappointment, the Syracuse fleet did not appear, and the entire fleet arrived at the port of Katanai smoothly.

At the same time, Minoa City was captured by Pomirka, and all the remaining Minoa militias were killed in battle.

The Jeras also agreed to evacuate to Catania, not because Leothides was strongly persuasive, but because their ideas were the same as those of the Minoans: if the Syracuse people were surrounded, the people who were unable to leave their hometown might also consider whether to surrender, but outside the city were Carthaginians, and those indigenous people with fierce and barbaric faces, the Agrigentos had been slaughtered, and the Jeras did not want to follow their footsteps.

The Sicilian fleet soon returned to the south coast from the Catanian naval base and escorted this numerous fleet, which not only carried food and supplies, but also 16,000 sailors, who came to fulfill his promise with Leothis.

Originally, Secretly was preparing to do this after the autumn harvest, but after talking to Sipros, Sipros suggested to him: "After you all evacuate from the south coast, the Selinus defenders will inevitably face greater offensive pressure. Since this city is so important, don't delay and send the crew as soon as possible. You don't have to worry about their farmland harvesting problem, I will help them solve it."

Seclian accepted Cyporus's advice.

The fleet arrived in Selinus smoothly.

Seclian first unloaded all the food and weapons in the fleet from the dock, and allowed 10,000 sailors to stay in the port. While managing and defending the port, he assisted Karcidith in defending the city to make up for the shortcomings of his defensive power.

After a night of rest, he asked the remaining 6,000 sailors to drive more than 30 Phoenician warships that had been simply repaired (captured when they were fighting with the Eastern Phoenician fleet from Persia), and followed the Sicilian fleet and the fleet to rush to Jera.

According to the notice from the Clippers in advance, Leotizides led the Eighth Legion, the 4th Cavalry Legion, the large number of Jera people, and the Agrigento people who had fled to Jera before were ready, and they were waiting in an orderly manner at various docks.

So as soon as the fleet entered the port, everyone boarded the ship quickly.

When Carthage's provocate told Hasdruba that "a huge fleet arrived at the port of Gera", he did not realize at first that the entire city of Gera was preparing to retreat, because after the victory of the Congregation, the Carthaginian army had failed several sieges. Even in the siege the day before yesterday, the soldiers of the Dionian army also left the city to attack, catching Hasdruba off guard and resulting in Carthaginian siege troops being defeated. This shows that the morale of the defenders in the city is very high. Hasdruba had to rest in the past two days.
Chapter completed!