On this day, the army of the Dionian landed on Palermos territory was busy with the defense of the southern mountain roads and coastal roads, and was building camps and transporting supplies from cargo ships, and they were busy until the evening.

All night was safe.

On the second day, Leotizides did not rush to attack Palermos City, but continued to let the more than 10,000 soldiers build the camp. The third fleet, which guarded the fleet on the nearby sea, did not appear again, and the lively camp returned to peace until the evening.

However, it was not calm in the mountains south of the Dionian army camp. The Carthaginian army was blocked in the mountain path leading to the Palermos territory. The strong attack might not be successful, but there would be great casualties. However, Hasdruba did not give up. He knew that once the Dionians occupied Palermos, the space for the Carthaginian army would be further compressed, not to mention that he was not a person who could bow his head easily in the face of difficulties. Time is very urgent now, and he was worried that the Palermos who lacked troops would not even be able to defend for several days. Therefore, he repeated the same trick and sent 4,000 Lusitanian tribe warriors to cross the mountains, go to support Palermos, and defeat the Dionian army.

The Iberian army led by Hasdruba once stationed in Palermos for several months and was familiar with the terrain there. After walking eastward at the entrance to the south of the mountain road and crossing several tall mountains, the streams on the surrounding mountains gathered into a small lake. The lake water flowed to the low-lying land to the east, gradually forming a small river. After the river flowed east for ten miles, it turned north and flowed into the sea. The place where it flowed through formed a narrow valley. Although it was difficult to walk, it could enter Palermos' territory.

The Lusitanian soldiers trekked through the mountains and valleys throughout the day. It was not until dusk that they saw the small river flowing out of the mountains and flowing into the flat territory of Palermos, which is located east of Palermos, more than 10 miles from the city of Palermos. The Lusitanian soldiers stopped moving forward, hid in the densely-wooded forest, and after eating the food they carried, they lay on the grass to rest to restore the energy they consumed during the day.

Late at night, the soldiers who were still sleeping soundly got up reluctantly under the urging of the leaders and walked out of the mountains in a daze.

As they marched eastward, they gradually recovered their consciousness, especially when they saw the vague outline of the Dionia camp in the distance, many soldiers began to be excited.

This time they came to Sicily to fight, they first followed Hasdruba to capture Seedium, and then slaughtered Agrigento, Econom and Jera, looted a lot of trophy, enjoyed Greek women, and killed many Greek men... But they themselves had few casualties. The main reason was that Hasdruba never allowed them to participate in the arduous siege battle. For example, attacking Enna and attacking Paragonia, they were all standing by. However, they only once in the frontal battle, and they were also soldiers of the Greek city-state on the south coast, and they did not feel much pressure.

Although Hasdruba once said, "The army of Dionia is a strong enemy!" they did not take it too seriously. On the contrary, they were eager to defeat the army of Dionia and cut off the heads of the soldiers of Dionia to prove their strength, and now is the opportunity.

Carthaginians, Greeks... These so-called civilized people fear the night, but they are not afraid. On the contrary, they like to use the night to cover up their whereabouts, approach the enemy quietly, and then launch a deadly attack. In Iberia, this is how they dealt with the Carthaginians, and eventually forced the Carthaginians to sign a peace agreement. Now they want to apply this tried-and-true attack method to the poor Dionians. Thinking that they were about to taste the blood of the Dionians, the Lusitanian soldiers held their swords tightly and accelerated their pace.

But while walking, few people made noises except for the sound of footsteps, and 4,000 people quietly approached the Dionia camp.

The huge camp in Dionia is also very quiet. Every section of the wooden fence is erected torches to illuminate the surroundings, but there are no sentry patrols. Sentinels can be seen on the several towering sentries behind the wooden fence, but they are all in a deep sleep.

The Dionians thought that they had blocked the mountain roads and could attack Palermos City with confidence and boldness. No enemy would threaten them anymore. They could attack Palermos City with confidence and boldness. Only then would the camp be so relaxed!... After discovering that the situation in front of them was beneficial to them, the leaders of Lusitania were very happy. They led the soldiers to no longer hide and approached the camp with loose formations.

Due to the tight time, the Dionians had not set up traps around the camp, so the Lusitanians easily came to the trench at the east gate of the camp, and then some soldiers carefully climbed over the trench and came under the wooden fence.

Some of them stacked and climbed up; some took out lassoes, threw them onto the wooden wall, accurately covered the wooden stakes at the top, and then grabbed the ropes and climbed up... After a while, more than a dozen soldiers crossed the wooden fence and quickly opened the camp gate.

The Lusitanian soldiers who were waiting outside the camp couldn't wait to rush into the camp. They let out a deafening roar and rushed towards a tent, but the soldiers who rushed into the tent found that there was no one in the tent.

Just as they were surprised, a loud military horn suddenly sounded in the camp. The black surging ahead was surging. Countless Dionian soldiers appeared in the passage between the tents with long shields and spears. They lined up in dense queues to form shield walls and rushed towards the Lusitanian soldiers.

The Lusitanians' first reaction was not to go forward to fight, but to realize that they had been fooled. "If you can't attack, retreat immediately and come again next time" was their traditional tactic, so the Lusitanian leaders immediately shouted: "Retreat! Let's retreat quickly!"

The soldiers turned around and wanted to run outside the camp gate.

However, the previous sound of the bugle not only allowed the Dionian soldiers to block the enemy attacking in the camp, but also informed the troops who were ambushing outside the camp to take action. So when the Lusitanian soldiers rushed out, they found that there were also countless black helmets and black armored Dionian soldiers outside the camp gate, completely blocking their way back. At the same time, soldiers rushed from the passage inside the wooden fence, cutting off their last outward path.

"Sir Commander, we have completely surrounded the enemy!" Taglu, who was standing on a sentry tower in the camp and observing the situation in the camp, said excitedly.

Although Leotizides did not speak, he also had a little relaxed expression on his face. He and Zantiparis had expected that the Carthaginians might send mountain races to support him, so he sent out the soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance team in the two legions to closely observe the abnormalities in the surrounding mountains.

The specially trained reconnaissance soldiers were evenly scattered in the mountains to the south. At noon, someone discovered this Lusitanian army who was trekking through the mountains. Instead of alarming the snake, they sent people to continue tracking and surveillance, and sent people back to the camp and informed Leodicides. Therefore, the Lusitanians thought they were acting mysteriously, but they did not know that their movements were completely under the control of Leodicides. They had already formed a net, waiting for their ignorant moth to hit.

Seeing that there was no hope of retreat, the Lusitanians decided to use force to fight a bloody path. They held the wooden shield and used their strength to hit the wall of the Dionyan shield that blocked their Dionyan shield, and then used the Fakara dagger to stab the Dionyan soldiers who had exposed the defense gap.

The soldiers of the Dionian Legion tried their best to maintain a dense formation, using spears to force the enemy not to get close. At the same time, with the strong support of teammates in the rear, they used the long shield with strong defense to suppress the enemy inward.

The real killing role of the enemy was the light infantry behind the heavy infantry of the Dionia, who shot round after round of arrows and javelins at the enemy in the encirclement.

Most Lusitanian soldiers have no other protection except for their helmets and wooden shields, so Dionia's long-range attack caused considerable damage to them.

But the soldiers who kept falling down by arrows inspired their companions' blood bravery. They were like wounded beasts, violently attacking the shield wall formed by the soldiers of the Dionians, using wooden shields, short swords, fists, teeth... and using all the methods that can be used to kill the enemies that blocked their way.

Therefore, although Dionia surrounded the Lusitanians with nearly 4 times the superior force, the battle continued.

The Palermos were awakened by the movement outside the city, and they came up to the city to watch uneasily. They saw that the lights in the camp of Dionia were brightly lit and the sound of killing was shocking.

They were both excited about the arrival of reinforcements and were worried about their safety. Almost everyone was praying for them on the top of the city, and the god Mailkat, but they never thought of sending troops out of the city to support them.

Of course, even if they have the courage to send troops out of the city, the 1,500 light armored soldiers reserved by Leothis will have a place to use.

The prayers of the Palermos did not work. When dawn was approaching, the sound of fighting from the camp in Dionia gradually disappeared. 4,000 Lusitanian soldiers were either killed or injured in battle, but none of them surrendered. The east gate of the camp was covered with corpses, and the army of Dionia also suffered nearly 600 casualties.
Chapter completed!