This tone made Ma Ge feel very harsh. His eyes widened, but then he remembered Pretakuba's advice, and immediately lowered his eyes and asked as calmly as possible: "I heard that the Senate sent you to mention the truce to the Dionys. I wonder how the Dionys King responded?"

The sudden eruption of man-eating momentum just now shocked El Accra. He quickly replied: "King Dionys is very willing to hold a truce with Carthage!"

"Does this mean that the Dionians know that their strength is not as good as ours, and they are afraid of continuing to fight and failing, so they want to save the victory they have obtained now through a truce. Should we be willing to stop fighting with the Dionians in such a situation?!" Mago asked loudly.

El Accra was stunned for a moment, and then murmured: "Now... from the current situation, we are Carthage at a disadvantage!"

Brother Ma looked at him coldly for a while, suddenly stepped forward and grabbed his arm, and said in a commanding tone: "Come with me!"

El Accra staggered and was pulled out of the tent by Mago, feeling both confused and a little frightened.

Ma Ge took him to a relatively empty place in front of the tent, pointed to the back and said, "What did you see?"

El Accra calmed down and said with a little confused: "A wall under construction... looks like it is very long..."

"It's not like it seems, but it's really long!" said Mago affirmingly. "It will extend from the seaside east of Selinus to the seaside west, and include the city of Selinus and our camp in Dionia!"

"When I came, I felt strange, why did you build the city walls behind the camp?" El Accra raised his own question.

"Since the Dionians dare not fight with us, we can only take the initiative to attack!" Mago looked forward and said in a deep voice: "Our target of attack is Selinus! Selinus is the base of the Dionian fleet. The Dionian fleet can cruise the western waters every day and block our routes. The Selinus port played a great role. As long as we can capture it and make the Dionian Navy lose its foothold in the western Sicily, it will inevitably reduce their naval advantages and reduce their threat to the western waters and the coast of Africa. However, because of the importance of Selinus, the Dionians will definitely not give up. They will definitely defend tenaciously. I am afraid that in the future, the main force of the Dionian army will enter Selinus from the sea to fight us..."

El Accra was still happy when he heard the previous words, but after hearing the following words, he was a little worried: "Isn't this our attack again, the defense of the Dionian army?! Didn't you say that such an attack will cause great casualties to our soldiers?!"

"The Dionians do have some experience in defending cities, but attacking Selinnus is much easier than attacking Minoa Mountain!" Mago said confidently: "After several days of analysis and discussion, I decided to build an exterior wall first to protect our entire camp so that the army can attack the city with all its might, so that we can avoid the Dionian army coming from the east when we were siegeing the city, or landing on nearby beaches and attacking us."

Speaking of this, Ma Ge pointed forward again: "Look at what that is?"

El Accra's eyes passed through the gaps between the many tents and saw what was in front of the city of Selinus. He couldn't help but say in surprise: "You still want to build an inner wall?"

Looking at the earthen wall that had been shelved for a long time before it was completed, Ma Ge couldn't help but think of the night when he was attacked by the Dionys army. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I not only want to build an inner wall to surround the city of Selinus, but also build a number of earthen mountains based on the inner wall, and then build a vertical wall based on the earth mountain, extending forward to connect with the city wall of Selinus... By then, the Dionys would have no advantage in defense. If we fight under the same conditions, we will definitely defeat the Dionys!..."

When El Accra heard this, he felt inexplicably more confident, but he was a little confused: "Listen to your plan, this will be a big project! It will take a long time to build these city walls and earthen mountains, right?!"

"Don't forget that I have more than 100,000 soldiers under my command!" Ma Ge said proudly: "After getting the military rations transported from Carthage, they started to build the exterior wall. It's only two days now. When you entered the camp, you have already seen the progress of the exterior wall. Do you think it will take a long time to complete my plan?"

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Leottizides and Zantiparis led his army to capture the main city of Syracuse, on the second day, Sicily Governor Siprous arrived in Syracuse and together with Leottizides, Zantiparis and Hiktas who had just surrendered to Dionia, his nephew Zamoratis discussed how to deal with the captured Syracuse soldiers and the people in the city, and how to stabilize the order in the city as soon as possible...

Everyone quickly reached an agreement: except for a few urban residents who had immediate kinship with the people in the port area, the rest became slaves of the Kingdom of Dionia.

The reason for making this decision was that Siprous, who had been in Catanai for many years, believed that since Syracuse had always been the overlord of Sicily, even now that he was in a down-and-out situation, the Syracuse people always regarded themselves very high, and always had a dream of restless people in their hearts. They forced such a group of restless people into the rule of Dionia. Whenever there was an abnormal situation, they might jump out of trouble. Especially now that Dionia is at a critical juncture of war, so it is safest to demote them all to slaves and escort them out of Sicily.

For Hiktas and Zamoratis, their rebellion led to the end of Syracuse. The people in the same city were already in power and fire, and of course they were unwilling to live in the same city as them. What's more, after the people in the port area became citizens of Dionia, they certainly hoped that they would still live in Syracuse, and the land they deserved was also in Syracuse, and most of the land in Syracuse is in the hands of the people in the city...

Therefore, for all parties, the people in the urban area of ​​Syracuse can only become victims.

At the same time, officials from various ministries such as finance, household registration, agriculture, commerce, courts, etc. have begun to take over the affairs of Syracuse, count the property and spoils obtained, count the residences in the city, measure the land in Syracuse, register the people in the port area, and carefully preach to them the rights and obligations they should enjoy as citizens of Dionia...

The long-cherished wish of the people in the Syracuse Port Area is about to be realized. They have expressed great enthusiasm. Under the leadership of Hiktas, they actively assisted the officials of the Dionians, especially to help the soldiers of the Seventh and Eighth Legions build a tall city wall in the isthmus, which completely cuts off the connection between the Ortigia Island and the main urban area. Every day, warships (from the former Syracuse Fleet) cruise around the Ortigia Island uninterruptedly.

Syracuse is undergoing earth-shaking changes, and the people of Leotini who are not far from it are seen by them, and they are jealous.

Taunis is located on the seafront and has very little land. Leotini is in a slightly better situation, but it cannot meet the land needs of the growing population. Now they see that the people in the port area of ​​Syracuse, which was originally much worse than theirs, can now get fertile land and good houses. They feel unfair: because they also participated in the battle against Syracuse, and the sacrifices they paid were more than those of the people in the port area of ​​Syracuse, but they could only get a little spoil. This is too unfair!

At the strong demand of the people, the top leaders of the two city-states rushed to Syracuse and made a confession to Sipros.

Siphorus showed a hint of embarrassment and told them helplessly: Dionys and the Allies about the distribution of spoils after the victory of the war was strictly written into the covenant, and the land was not included in it, and he had no right to make changes without authorization. Moreover, according to the "Dionian Law", only Dionys citizens can obtain land. If the people of Taunis and Leotini want to obtain the land of Syracuse, there is only one way - to become Dionys citizens!

The top leaders of the two city-states returned in vain, but what Sipnos said was quickly spread in the two city-states under the encouragement of those who were interested.

Moreover, some remarks were spread rapidly among the people of the two cities. For example, even if the land in Syracuse was completed, there would be a lot of left after the distribution of the people in the port area. However, the Senate of the Dionysia would allocate other landless citizens in the Dionysia area to Syracuse according to this situation, and there would be no extra land at that time.

For example: Being a citizen of Dionia is much better than becoming a citizen of Taunis (Leodini). Not only do you have to worry about not having land, but you don’t have to worry about being invaded by powerful enemies, you also have the pride of becoming a citizen of a powerful kingdom...

More than 10 years ago, when Taunis, Leotini and Catanai were all independent from the rule of Syracuse, the people of these two cities witnessed with their own eyes how the Catanai people, who were even more miserable than them, who were regarded as slaves by Dionysius, began to rebuild their homes, gradually become rich, and have a proud position, which forced them to show respect... More than ten years passed quietly, and the seeds of wanting to be citizens of Dionysia were actually buried in their hearts without realizing it. The impact of this capture of Syracuse on them was only the final result of the seeds in their hearts.
Chapter completed!