"Here-" Thormid pointed the wooden stick at a town icon west of Minoa City: "It is the city of Selinus, which has been occupied by us. It is currently stationed by 4,000 reserve soldiers in our Sicily territory, and more than 10,000 sailors assisted in defending the city-"

"The Sicilian fleet is ready to withdraw all the sailors in the city of Selinus to the Katanai Naval Base." Secrean interrupted him and said seriously: "I have received an order from the Ministry of Military Affairs to allow the crew members who have lost their warships to take a boat to Castron or Tarantum Naval Base, and prepare to receive the newly built warships..."

Seeing Thormid’s face a little stunned, Secretly emphasized again: “I just reported this to His Majesty this morning.”

Davers nodded and explained, "Seclian did tell me, because he was busy going to the port to welcome the arrival of Alexis. Before he could tell you, I agreed to Seclian withdraw the sailors. In such a small town in Paragonia, there were only 3,000 soldiers guarding it. The Carthage army besieged for more than 20 days and suffered considerable casualties before capturing it. The city of Seclian is 4,000 soldiers stationed in the city of Seclian and has sea routes to reinforce at any time. Now the main forces of Carthage are in a confrontation with us. It is impossible to have the ability to assemble the army and attack Seclian... Even without the assistance of the sailors, Seclian should be safe in such a situation."

"I understand, your majesty." Thormid looked at Secrean and continued: "According to the return of the Clippers, the Carthaginians built a camp outside the city of Selinus and besieged it, with about 10,000 Carthaginian and Phoenician soldiers stationed...

Let's look at the east side of Sicily, Syracuse, a new ally of Carthage, which had sent 15,000 people to attack Taunis, but according to our inference, Syracuse was able to form an army of more than 20,000 people to fight outside. Therefore, His Majesty has arranged for Commander Prosous to lead the Seventh and Eighth Legion and the Sicily Allied Army to prepare to attack the City of Syracuse directly—"

"Your Majesty," Alexis interrupted, "The fleet that transported us had a brief mooring in the port of Catanai. I met with Governor Siprous, Commander Prosous, and learned from them that the reserve soldiers from the Locre area had already supplemented the Seventh Corps. At the same time, Leotini, Taunis Allied Forces, and citizens of friendly city-states such as Agrigento, Gera, and Minoa were also prepared. According to their estimates, they could gather about 25,000 soldiers to attack Syracuse. I think when we arrived here, Commander Prosous had led his troops to march towards Syracuse."

"I didn't expect that you, Alexis, was a messenger for free." Davers said jokingly.

Everyone burst into laughter.

"What I just introduced is the situation of ours and the Carthage Army. In terms of the navy-" As soon as Thormid's words began, Secretlian stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, let me tell you about the situation of the navy."

Davers looked at him and nodded to Thormead, who handed the stick to Secrean.

Seclian did not answer, pointed to the map and said, "I can't use this thing, because only one island was drawn, and without the ocean, our warships could not be parked on land."

There was another burst of laughter in the tent.

Seclian straightened his chest, looked around everyone, and said loudly: "You have heard Thormid's story just now. In terms of the army, we have no advantage in several directions. Perhaps it is slightly better to the east, but it will be more difficult for Prosous to lead the army to capture the strong city of Syracuse.

But in the naval aspect, Carthage's warships were almost completely destroyed since the sea storm a few months ago. They secretly invited sea reinforcements from their mother bon Tel, but were defeated by the Sicilian fleet. The few remaining Phoenician warships never appeared in the waters around Sicily, which was probably scared.

Not long ago, Carthage formed a fleet with about 190 newly built warships to protect the route of Sardinia. His Majesty has sent the third fleet to deal with it. Even if this new Carthage fleet has dozens of warships more than the third fleet, I firmly believe that the Third Fleet can ultimately defeat him and win!

In the waters of Sicily, in addition to the 70 warships of our Sicily fleet, there are 50 warships of Syracuse, but they are basically huddled in the port and dare not fight us. Now Prosous leads his army to attack Syracuse, and I believe that soon the warships of Syracuse will have no place to stand and there is no need to think about them any more.

Our Sicilian fleet has always had an absolute advantage in this area of ​​water, so we can safely and boldly send fleets to transport soldiers and supplies, use warships to attack Carthage's routes, and carry fleet soldiers to harass the rear of the Carthage army. This is also one of the reasons why the Carthage army retreated from the east. Even if the newly built warships in Carthage have been put into service one after another, our warships are about to be put into battle. The newly formed Sicilian fleet can not only control the dominance of the Sicilian waters, but also increase the suppression of the Carthage Navy to achieve the goal required by His Majesty - the sea area that threatens the basic land of Carthage!"

After Seclian finished speaking, no one raised any objections, after all, no one in the navy tent was more authoritative than Seclian.

"Now everyone knows the current situation." Davers looked around and said slowly: "What advice do you have on how to fight against the Carthage army next?"

As soon as Davers said this, the tent temporarily returned to silence, and many people fell into thinking.

Several of the leaders of Samonet's leading leaders were still shocked. Before, the four major tribes of Samonet united to declare war on Dionia. The more than 40,000 soldiers that had finally been pieced together gave the big leaders courage. However, now the Kingdom of Diaonet has gathered more than 100,000 soldiers to fight against Carthage. This is not counting the number of Shanghai troops, and it seems that they still have strength. The strength of Dionet's national strength can be seen!

Only then did they deeply realize that the Samonets' previous extravagant hopes were a mistake from beginning to end, and were entirely caused by the shallow understanding of the Kingdom of Dionia!

Alexis understood that the reason why he asked Tolmede to tell the situation of the enemy and us in detail before the military meeting began was mainly for what they said when they had just arrived in Sicily and were not familiar with the situation. So he coughed lightly and said, "Your Majesty, here in Minoa, due to the joining of the 10th Legion and Potendia and Samone reinforcements, we are already in equal strength as Carthage. Can we be here-"

He pointed the lowland west of Minoa with his hand: "Work a president with the Carthage army and defeat their main force first?"

Davers shook his head lightly without thinking.

"Your Majesty, will the Carthaginian army in Kefaroytion, north of Minoa return to aid?" asked Melisandar anxiously.

Melisandar asked what Amintas, Matonis and the others wanted to know. Davers looked at their expressions and said in a deep voice: "It's because of the cavalry! In terms of heavy infantry, I think our legion is better than the Carthaginians, but in terms of cavalry, they not only surpass us in number, but also slightly better than us in terms of cavalry. You should know that if you fight against the Carthaginians on the flat ground, such a Carthaginian cavalry with such a large number will inevitably become the decisive force that can control the outcome of the battlefield, so we cannot take huge risks to fight against the Carthaginians!"

While explaining, Davers thought that the brilliant victory created by Alexander and Hannibal in battles in the past history, were basically determined by the cavalry.

Everyone was in thought, and some people even turned their eyes to the commander of the cavalry Ledes and Kuzius.

They all remained silent and did not refute.

Alexis leaned over and looked at the map. When his eyes moved from Minoa to Kefaroytien to the north, another thought suddenly popped up in his mind. He thought carefully and said, "Your Majesty, since we are at a disadvantage in cavalry, can we start a battle with the Carthaginians near Kefaroytien so that they can't play the advantage of the cavalry. We have the Lucanians, Samones, and other legion soldiers who are good at mountain combat, and we should have an advantage in this regard."

Alexis's words lit up everyone's eyes.

Amintas looked at Alexis, feeling a little annoyed: Why don’t he have such an idea? Is he really inferior to Alexis?

In fact, letting heavy infantry fight in mountainous areas is indeed a violation of common sense of military law. Most people dare not try it. Alexis dared to come up with this idea because he conquered the Samone Mountains and had this experience.

However, Davers said: "Last night, Printols also gave me a similar suggestion to you."

Alexis subconsciously turned his head to look at Printols sitting behind him.

More than ten years ago, he had a good cooperation with Printols. With the assistance of Printols, he led his army to conquer Copsa and Enona one after another, and eventually forced the Samonets to sign an agreement. Alexis admired Printols very much, believed that he was flexible and often had amazing and bold ideas, and valued him very much. When the General Staff of the Military Affairs Department was established, he took the initiative to recommend it to King Davers. But what he did not expect was that since the war broke out last year, Printols' name illuminated the military department of the Dionian. Every time Alexis reads the deeds about him in the military newspaper, he is happy for him.
Chapter completed!