At the same time, Leottizides also asked the soldiers to place the bodies of thousands of Lusitanian soldiers in front of the city of Palermos, and at the same time, they were shouting under the city in Phoenician language, threatening the Palermos to open the city and surrender, otherwise they would suffer the same fate.

After witnessing the terrible experience of reinforcements, the threatened Palermos were very panicked and had an urgent negotiation on "whether to surrender to the Dionians". After all, when Dionisius led an army of 100,000 to conquer western Sicily more than 20 years ago, they surrendered once. They were all Greeks. If they could surrender to Dionis, why could not surrender to Dionia?

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When the Palermos were anxious about their fate, Midolades led the fleet to set out south with confidence.

The port where the Third Fleet set out was not in Seedium or Messina, but in Saros on Sardinia. After discussing with Sarklian the day before yesterday, after completing the fleet's escort mission, he led the fleet directly to Sardinia, docked at the outer port of Saros, and was warmly welcomed by Tigtinos, the commander of the Ninth Legion.

At this time, the Chief Executive of Saros had already taken office. He was the old senator Stromboli from Amendorara. He had no intention of working in another place, but the five rotating chairmen of the Senate discussed for a long time and finally agreed that among the unemployed veterans in Turiyi, he was the most suitable candidate, so Cornerus came to persuade him personally as an old friend.

In order to ensure that the kingdom can win the war, Stromboli finally accepted the appointment, and with him there were 3,000 reserve soldiers from the Turiy region and Bruti region.

At the suggestion of the new Chief Executive of Saros, Tigtinos quickly led his army north to easily capture Saint Ibinia. This time, the Ninth Legion did not start a large-scale killing, but instead tried his best to capture the Saint Ibinia people, and at the same time tried not to destroy various facilities inside and outside the city.

When Midolades arrived at Saros, Strompoli was rectifying the order in Saros, while trying to convince the captured St. Iberians to serve the kingdom and continue to collect and smelve precious metal ores. Tigtinos was training the army, preparing to attack the surrounding Phoenician towns next.

After sufficient preparations were made at the outer port of Saros, the Third Fleet left the port early on the third day and sailed south quickly, with the goal of the Phoenician city-state agilgili on the coast of Afiliga.

Compared with Sicily, the southern end of Sardinia is a little closer to the continent of Afiliga, but it does not face Carthage directly, so it is not as important as Sicily in its strategic position. However, because it is close to Afiliga and is also far from Carthage, this creates favorable conditions for the raid of the Third Fleet.

The burning of Hadrumtum did arouse the vigilance of Carthage and its allies, but that was mainly on the side close to Sicily, and the Carthage fleet patrolled, and the center of defense was also on this side. After all, both fleets of Dionia had appeared in the Sicily waters.

As a result, the Third Fleet's raid was successful. Not only did it burn a Phoenician city-state on the coast of Afilica, but it also captured some Phoenician people and returned with a full load, because Stromboli told Midorades that St. Ibenia was in urgent need of labor.

The news that "Orgili was burned down" soon spread throughout the land of Afiliga. The repeated attacks of the Phoenician city-states made the Phoenicians panic. The envoys from various city-states rushed to the Carthage Senate and strongly demanded that Carthage perform the duties of the leader and give them security protection.

The Carthaginians gathered together and protested to the Senate again, hoping that they could take action to prevent such a tragic incident from happening again.

The Carthage elders were under great pressure. After a fierce debate, the Hannover faction's opinions were adopted. The Senate finally made two decisions: first, ordered the naval commander Morbar to strictly order him not to lead the fleet to the Sicily waters, but to patrol the coast of Afiliga every day to ensure the safety of Carthage and the allies; second, send messengers to Sicily to pressure the military commander Mago, asking him to capture Selinus as soon as possible, otherwise Carthage would have to discuss peace with Dionya.

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In the city of Selinus, the battle between the Deonian defenders and the Carthage army was ongoing.

Although the Dionian defenders used crossbows and their belly bows to continuously attack long-range attacks, and occasionally sent troops out of the city to raid to kill and kill soldiers who built the city walls in Carthage. While defending against the attacks of the Dionian defenders, Mago urged the soldiers to speed up the construction of the inner walls. Because the Carthage army was large and powerful, although the Dionian defenders tried every means to obstruct, the inner walls of the Carthage camp were still built.

Then, Mago sent troops to guard the inner wall, and at the same time learned from the Deonia defenders, brought the crossbows to the top of the city and bombarded the defenders, thus changing the previous relatively passive situation.

Amintas stood on the head of the city, looking forward with a serious expression: countless Carthage heavy infantry lined up in a long row, and were coming out of the newly built inner wall door hole. They did not carry weapons or shields, but each of them was carrying a wooden frame, which was filled with mud. They placed the wooden frame tightly on the open space between the inner wall of the Carthage camp and the Serinus wall, and then returned to the inner wall in turn, and recurred in turn... Just like building blocks, a "wooden hill" with a very wide base and a height of almost three meters was built soon.

During the busy period of the Carthaginians, the crossbows on the walls of Selinus had not stopped firing. The stone bombs could easily break the wooden frame, but the wooden frames were broken and the scattered soil invaded the gaps between the wooden frames, which instead made the "small hill" being built more solid.

There are also crossbows that aim at the Carthaginians, but they are too close to the city wall (about 60 to 70 meters). If the crossbows on the city wall want to attack them, they must raise the elevation angle. In this way, the stone bullets fall almost vertically, which seems to be amazing, but in fact they have limited lethality and are easy to avoid.

The arrows shot by the Dionian light infantry did not pose much threat to the Carthage heavy infantry and could not cause fatal damage to them. Under the urging of the team officials, the Carthage heavy infantry had to face the attacking arrows and complete the task of building a timber frame with wooden frames.

However, the belly bow poses a greater threat to them, but the Carthaginians had launched dozens of shields early in the morning, overlapping front and back, blocking the long dragon. The amazingly powerful iron arrows may penetrate one piece and two thick wooden boards, but it is difficult for them to truly threaten the lives of the Carthaginians.

"Captain of the Legion, do you want to send soldiers out of the city to raid?" Adjutant Aristonos reminded.

Amintas shook his head. On the top of the city, he could see a Carthage army behind the shields. The opponent's inner wall was full of light infantry on standby at any time. The Dionian defenders did not have the advantage of defense. If the soldiers attacked, they would only fight fiercely with the opponent. Although Amintas was brave in fighting, he knew in his heart that the Carthaginians had four or five times that of his, and it would be detrimental to him to fight hard. What's more, Carthaginians had a large number of cavalry that could rush out from other door holes in the inner wall at any time, quickly circled the rear of his soldiers, forming an encirclement.

"Transfer the stone-throwing soldiers and let them deal with these Carthaginians!" Amintas's words made the adjutant Aristonos's eyes lit up: among all the Legion of the Dionia, the only Light Infantry Brigade of the First Legion has more than 400 stone-throwing soldiers. The lead balls thrown by these soldiers from Rhode Island within a distance of 100 meters are fierce and accurate, and can cause blunt damage to heavy infantry.

"How to allocate these stone-popular soldiers?" Aristonos asked again, because the construction of the earthen mountain was not only outside the north gate, but also outside the city walls on the east and west sides.

"First focus on solving the enemies here!" Amintas said firmly in his tone.

"Commander Amintas, I have a suggestion." Karcidis next to him suddenly spoke.

"Oh, Karcidis, you said." Amintas looked at the Selinus defender general and became polite. During this period, Karcidis tried his best to assist him, which really helped him a lot and won his respect.

Carthedes said carefully: "...The Carthaginians rely on the large number of people to build the earthen mountains at all costs. The most we can do now is to delay their progress. Just like the wall they built, they will eventually build the earthen mountains. The purpose of their construction of the earthen mountains is probably to allow their crossbows and light infantry to attack the soldiers on the top of our city from a high altitude and assist their soldiers in siege the city. We can also increase the city wall so that the Carthaginians' attempts cannot be achieved."

Increase the city wall? Amintas was surprised.

Karcidis gestured the walkway at the top of the city with his hands and continued to explain: "The stone wall built by the Selinus people is very solid, and the walkway is wide and flat. We can use wood to continue to build a wooden wall upwards on the walkway opposite the Tushan Mountain. At least the 7-meter-high wall can be increased by 5 to 6 meters..."

After hearing this, Amintas's eyes lit up.
Chapter completed!