Chapter 230 Special Arrangements for the 3rd Fleet

After only a while, Henepolis wrote the letter to the Senate and gave it to Davos.

Davos was satisfied after reading it. He did not change a word. He signed his name at the end, stamped it, and handed it back to Henipolis: "Send it to the Senate according to the highest-level confidential letter."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Henipolis immediately rolled the letter skillfully, using three red ropes to tie both ends and the middle of the roll at the same time, and then proceeded to write the second letter.

At this time, the captain of the palace guard, Martius, walked into the tent: "Your Majesty, Midorades, the commander of the navy of the Third Fleet, is waiting for your summons outside the tent."

"Oh, Midorads is here." Davos waved hurriedly and said, "Let him in."

After Midorades entered the tent, he first gave a military salute, and then said loudly, "Your Majesty, I am late."

"You came at the right time!" Davos said with a pun: "Your fleet and fleet infantry are about to come in handy!"

Midorades got excited when he heard this. He had just led the fleet back to Ladium, and he had already heard that: in the short period of time he left, the army led by King Davos, with Rome as the center, attacked Viai and Casreira northward; To the east, he conquered Phedenay and Crustaum; to the south, he took Gabi, and forced the surrender of many Latin city-states, and drove the Roman army to these small cities by the sea to the west, and was intensifying the siege...

These news gave him a bad feeling that the Third Fleet was out of this war and was completely irrelevant, so he was instantly refreshed when he heard Davos' words.

"Have your fleet infantry been recruited?" Davos asked.

"Everything has been recruited, it's just..." Midorades said cautiously: "It's just that as soon as the order to recruit was issued, not only Trina, but even the citizens of the towns of Sirius and Hibernian were active. I rushed to the naval base, signed up enthusiastically, and found a lot of acquaintances to intercede... So... So I recruited 2,000 more people..."

Davos looked at him seriously.

Midoraduston's heart tensed.

Davos said slowly: "The more you do, the more you will do, but counting the newly added fleet infantry this time, the total number of infantry infantry of the Third Fleet should be 4,000 people. This is already an exception of the Ministry of Military Affairs. The number of people who came out must be disbanded after the war, remember this is not an example!"

Midorades hurriedly stated: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, as soon as the war is over, I will immediately disband all the extra fleet soldiers!"

Davos smiled slightly: "You... this is vying for troops with the Sixth Legion. Be careful Trotiras (the Sixth Legion commander) knows that he will fight with you!"

Midorades was finally relieved when he heard Davos' joke, and said jokingly: "In order to calm Trotiras, I will hold a few more banquets for him and get him drunk. .” The barracks of the Sixth Corps is to the west of the Celestial Court, and the naval base of the Third Fleet is in the bay near Trina. The two are not far apart, and there are frequent exchanges between Midorades and Trotiras. The relationship is not bad, so he is not worried that the other party will blame him.

"Midorades." Thormed said suddenly: "The 3rd Fleet Fleet Infantry is now 4,000 people. We will prepare rations and other supplements for your subordinate Fleet Infantry according to this establishment. 2,000 people, you have to figure it out yourself."

What? ! Midorades thought Tolmid was joking,

But seeing the seriousness on his face, he didn't know what to say for a while. After all, when he recruited soldiers this time, he was really selfish. Tormid received a hint from Davos and gave it to Midorad. A small warning.

But for Midorades, asking him to come up with the baggage for 2,000 people was simply too difficult, and he could only look at Davos with a look of help.

Davos took advantage of the situation to take over the conversation and said sternly: "If you want to solve the provision for the extra two thousand people you have, then you can only do your best to complete the next task for you."

"Your Majesty, the brothers of the Third Fleet and I have made preparations, and no matter how difficult the task is, we will surely complete it smoothly!" Midorades immediately stated loudly.

Since Henipolis was writing the letter, Clotokatax took his place, and he knew Davos' plan, so he found the map from the bookshelf and spread it out on the table.

Davos led Midorades to the table.

Midorades looked down: in front of him was a map of Corsica and Sardinia.

"How much do you know about Corsica?" Davos asked.

Midorades had already made up his mind, he thought about it carefully, and then said: "Corsica is called a giant mountain in the sea by sailors, and the island is almost all towering mountains, which is not suitable for living at all. Only on the east side of the island there are two small coastal flats with two towns, Mariana in the north, belonging to the Etruscans, and Aleria in the south, belonging to the Philippians Nikki. In addition, there are some small Phoenician villages on the west coast, but the offshore reefs on the west coast are dense, the coast is winding, and it will be difficult for warships to land... Your Majesty, you want the Third Fleet to attack the Division. Signa?"

Davos nodded, looked at the map and said, "To be precise, let the Third Fleet attack the towns and settlements of the Phoenicians on Corsica. The reason why Carthage can become the most prosperous, The richest city-state, the most important reason is that it controls most of the precious metal resources and trade in the entire Western Mediterranean, the Iberian Peninsula, the Gaul region, the Etruscan region, and Sardinia and Corsi Carthage, especially Sardinia and Corsica, is completely under the control of Carthage. Since Carthage dares to declare war with us, Dionia, we will destroy it one by one, an important source of trade, Let its treasury not be full enough to sustain a long war with us.

Therefore, the first target of the Third Fleet's next attack was to destroy all the Phoenician settlements on Corsica. Don't underestimate the size of these settlements and the small number of people, but the silver, iron, copper and other metal minerals in Corsica are excavated, smelted, manufactured, and finally transported to Carthage, the entire west coast of Corsica. The Phoenician settlements have formed a complete metal smelting system among each other. So your Third Fleet is going to occupy these settlements and capture all the Phoenicians..."

"Also, try not to destroy the Phoenician metal mines and smelting facilities!" Davos emphasized.

After hearing this, Midorades said solemnly: "Your Majesty, the Third Fleet will overcome all difficulties and complete this task."

"Not only must it be completed, but it must be completed as soon as possible! Of course, be careful of the attacks of Carthage's warships stationed in Sardinia and Corsica. Don't be careless!"

"Yes!" Davos's stern words made Midorades stunned. As the naval commander in charge of defending the west coast of Dionia, of course he has a lot of concerns about the situation in Sardinia and Corsica on the west coast of the west coast. After a more detailed understanding: Before the war, Carthage stationed no more than 30 three-layered warships on these two islands, and they were mainly scattered in several towns and ports in Sardinia. Weak, during the expedition of Dionysian army to Rome, they did not come out to make trouble, so Midorades did not take them to heart, but Davos' warning made him have to pay attention.

Davos pressed the icon of Alenia on the map with his hand, and asked again: "Although Alenia is a Phoenician town, do you feel that the name does not match Phoenicia or Gaia? Taichi people's habit of naming towns?"

"Could it have been a town that belonged to the Greeks?" Midorades chanted the name of the town repeatedly, and then asked a little surprised. In fact, this was just a deliberate expression to meet Davos. As a general Dionysian across the sea, he didn't care about the town's past history.

"You are right, but Alenia was not just a city-state of the Greeks. Logically speaking, he should belong to the town of Dionia!" Henipolis interjected, and he had finished writing to The letters of Alexis and Zantiparis happened to hear this conversation, and the disciple of the historian Ancitanos immediately became interested in being a good teacher.

"Alenia should belong to Dionia?!" Midorades was really surprised.

"In the era of great colonization, we Greeks colonized the Western Mediterranean, not only established Agrigento and Syracuse in Sicily, but also established Tarantum and Sybari in Greater Greece, and established in Gaul. Masseria; Naples, Cumay in Campania; Alenia in Corsica...

But the Etruscans, the masters of northern Italy at that time, were frightened by the surging Greeks. They probably thought that if the crazy colonization of the Greeks was not stopped, the Etruscans would probably be in our Greece. surrounded by colonial cities. So, they united with Carthage, which had established a firm foothold in Sardinia, and fought with the Greek city-states of Alenia, Masseria, and Campania.

The most important battle was a naval battle near Alenia. As a result, the Greeks suffered a disastrous defeat. Not only was Alenia captured by the Carthaginians, but they never dared to colonize northern Italy for hundreds of years. …”

Henipolis was talking nonstop, not only Midorades was listening carefully, but Thormid and Klotokatax were also listening with relish.

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