Chapter 381

The rebel native warriors occupied the city of Mazara, and while they looted the whole city, they sent people to negotiate with Dionia, and proposed that as long as Dionia sent them back to Iberia, they would no longer be with Dionia. For the enemy, and offer the city of Mazara.

Davos's answer was quite tough: they were not qualified to negotiate conditions with him at all. Unless they surrendered immediately and unconditionally, their bodies would never return to their homeland even after death.

Davos' response made the Iberian indigenous warriors angry but fearful. They wanted to kill their fears by killing them. Therefore, the looting in Mazara City turned into a massacre. The people of Mazara resisted, but how could it be? The opponents of these wolf-like aboriginal warriors are all about to become ghosts under the sword.

Who would have thought that a team of Lusitanias and Celts clashed because of robbing food, and the conflict quickly turned into a fight, and then the fight quickly turned into a melee. The Celts, Lusitanias, The Iberians and the Phoenician infantry, they were not affiliated with each other when they were under the command of Mago, and their treatment was different. There were some contradictions at the beginning. Now, in order to obtain more food and give their own people more chances to survive, Do not hesitate to attack other races...

All races in the city were involved in this great melee, and there was no way to stop it. Throughout the day, the screams and slaughter in the city were always heard, and the sound traveled ten miles.

The Dionysian scout had already reported the news of the civil unrest in Mazara City to Davos. Davos rejected his general's proposal to "send troops to intervene", and just let the scout continue to monitor.

When night fell, the city of Mazara was already full of blood and corpses. Because it was dark, the various forces had to stop fighting, each entrenched in a corner of the city and guarding each other.

The weaker Phoenician infantry naturally gathered with the remnants of the Mazaras, occupied the port, and began to conspire to surrender to Dionia.

At dawn on the second day, the Iberian natives woke up from their sleep and found that thousands of soldiers in black armor and black armor appeared in the city. They were shocked and suspected that the other party secretly opened the city gate and let Dionys The runners-up entered.

But in reality, it was the Mazaras who took a fast boat at the port and arrived at Serinus. They cried out to Davos for help, and were willing to let Mazara join the kingdom of Dionia.

Only then did Davos let the Sicilian fleet urgently transport the soldiers of the two legions, and take advantage of the night to land at the port of Mazara.

Yesterday's melee had caused a lot of casualties among the Iberian natives. Now the Dionysian army has appeared in the city, and the bugle is blaring outside the city, and the smoke is billowing.

No matter how fierce the Iberian natives are, they are already in a desperate situation.

Finally had to choose to surrender one by one.

Segsta and Mazara surrendered one after another, and the 100,000 army of Carthage was all destroyed. Davos immediately asked Segsta and Mazara to send messengers to Eryx to persuade them to surrender.

Eryx - the Phoenician religious center in Sicily had no other choice and soon opened its doors to Dionysus.

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After the surrender of Eryx, Davos led the main force into Lilibe, a military fortress built by Carthage. Apart from the absence of Legionnaire Tegtinos, all the senior Dionian generals who had participated in the war attended the meeting, even the commander of the 7th Legion, Zantiparis, who was stationed at Palermos at a distance. Arrive urgently.

"Your Majesty, congratulations on your victory in the Sicilian War! You led the army to conquer the entire island, completely drove the Carthaginians out, and created a brilliant record that the predecessors could not create!!" The meeting just started, Thormed led all the senior generals to congratulate Davos in unison.

This was obviously beyond Davos's expectations. His eyes slowly swept across the faces of the generals and saw Thormid, Matonis, Olivers, Lizaru, Trotiras, and Zanti. The excitement on Paris’s face, seeing the smiles on the faces of Alexis, Printoles, and Epithenes, seeing the regrets of Amyntas, and seeing the faces of Leotides calm on...

Finally, his eyes fell on Henepolis beside him. The court clerk seemed to be covering his mouth and snickering because Davos had been surprised before.

After a while, Davos said with a solemn expression: "This victory belongs not only to me, but also to your excellent generals, to our heroic soldiers, and to those who have contributed to this war. All the people of Dionia! Without your excellent command, without the hard fighting of the soldiers, and without the full dedication of the people, there would be no glorious victory today! Here, I would also like to congratulate you, and even more to you Thank you!" With that, he solemnly gave a military salute to the generals present.

When the generals saw this scene, they were stunned for a moment, and then they all stood at attention and returned their salutes.

Davos saw that they all seemed to be touched by his own words, he waved his hand hurriedly, eased his tone, and said, "All sit down, standing like this, being seen by others, I'm afraid we don't think we are celebrating Victory, but encountering a strong enemy, ready to fight to the death."

The crowd laughed.

Henipolis even joked: "Your Majesty, now in the Western Mediterranean, there is no other city-state or race that dares to go to war with our Dionia."

This brought a proud smile on the faces of everyone present.

Davos also smiled slightly and did not respond.

After everyone sat down, he said solemnly: "You made a small mistake just now. We have not completely conquered Sicily, and Ortigia is still occupied by the rebels of Syracuse. Of course, they It is no longer worthy of our attention. But this war with Carthage is far from over. On the African land across the sea, the rich Carthaginians may be desperately consuming the treasury gold and silver, wanting to hire More soldiers, more ships to be built, to keep this war going, so now is not the time to celebrate the victory, we must not give the Carthaginians any respite, we must hurry and land in Africa, Completely defeat Carthage! Only then can we completely relax and cheer for the victory!"

After listening to Davos' words, the eyes of the generals became eager and their expressions became more excited: To fight across the sea and conquer Carthage, this will be a great honor!

Looking at these eager generals, Davos looked serious and said solemnly: "Since the outbreak of the war, in order to provide enough military supplies for our huge army, so that the soldiers can fight with peace of mind without any worries. , the kingdom has exhausted the national treasury, the finances of various departments have been tightened, and the people have shrunk their food and clothing, and even the food that has just been collected after the autumn harvest is almost exhausted...

Now that we have to fight across the sea, the distance from the kingdom is farther, and more materials are needed. With the current financial situation of the kingdom, it is impossible to support such a large-scale army. Therefore, the number of soldiers sent in the past will not be too many. , I do not intend to go out with the army again.

Fortunately, most of the military power of Carthage has been eliminated by us in Sicily, and it is impossible to organize a strong army in a short time, and we have formed an alliance with the East and West Numibians, to Sometimes their armies will go to Africa together and fight side by side with our army, so although we only send part of the army to fight, we still have a great advantage! "

At this time, in the eyes of Davos, the generals have different expressions, but they all reveal a desire more or less: to become the commander of the expedition to Carthage!

Davos did not give them more brewing time and opportunity to fight, paused for a while, and immediately gave a firm order: "Now, I appoint Alexis as the commander to lead the first army, the second army, the first army and the second army. The Three Legions expedition to Carthage!"

As soon as the order came out, some generals had a look of "as expected", and their faces were relieved; although some generals were unwilling, they did not dare to raise objections.

Over the years, Alexis, who seldom took the initiative to fight and became more and more pessimistic about honor, immediately stood up, showing a rare excitement on his face, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty... Fight bravely and conquer Carthage as soon as possible to repay your trust!"

Davos nodded, didn't say any more words of encouragement, looked directly at him, and said again in a deep voice: "Time is pressing, there are only two days for your legion to prepare for the expedition. In two days, take a boat to Africa! "

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Alexis, Amintas, Matonis, and Lizaru saluted in response.

"Olivers!"

"Ah... in!"

"Sextus!"

"exist!"

"Recently, I received a battle report from Tigertinos that the Ninth Corps led by him successively conquered several Phoenician city-states on Sardinia, but because each captured city-state had to send troops, He is not strong enough now to conquer the largest city-state on Sardinia, Kararis, and Kararis is now gathering the last resistance on Sardinia, so Tigertinos asked me for help, I It is decided to send the Fourth Legion and the Roman Reserve Brigade to Sardinia!"

Speaking of which, Davos looked at Olivers and reminded in a tactful tone: "In order to avoid excessive consumption of materials, we must end the war in Sardinia as soon as possible, where Tigertinos fought for two Yue, has already been familiar with the situation there and knows the enemy very well, so he will temporarily serve as the commander. You must obey his command and assist him with all your efforts to capture Kararis, occupy the entire island, and make Sardinia a complete Dairy. Onia's territory!"