Vol 8 Chapter 66: Military operations of the Carthaginian army on the South Coast

Mazara is a town built by the Phoenicians. It has long been under the jurisdiction of Carthage. It is only 30 miles away from the city of Lili, but the army of Carthage is slow, not only has a lot of weight, but Monte Adeno also brings Some Carthaginians and even prostitutes, so the team is bloated, and the formation is somewhat scattered, and the march is slower.
The next day, the team continued on, and at dusk arrived at the city of Sellinus, about 40 miles from Mazara.
Celinus was founded by Greek colonists and was once known as Sicily for its wealthy agriculture and fisheries. During the Peloponnesian War, it clashed with Segesta, not far from it, in the northwest, and it became the cause of the Athenian army's expedition to Sicily. In the long-term battle between Carthage and Syracuse, Serenus and Segesta were repeatedly captured in the Greek colonial towns surrounded by the Phoenician towns in western Sicily. Most of its Greeks fled to the eastern part of Sicily, and most of them later moved to the Phoenicians, so when Dionya signed an agreement with Carthage, Davers would agree to return to Selinus. Carthage jurisdiction.
On the third day, the Carthage army arrived at another town, the Thera, at dusk. The Carthage soldiers marching all the way were exhausted, but their faces were very excited.
Look at the name of the town and you know that there is a hot spring in this place. It was originally because there was a hot spring in the Caroguero Mountains. The Serinus talent built a village here. After the Carthaginians occupied it and strengthened friendly relations with Dionia, the hot springs of Turui The bathhouse inspired the Carthage people from the merchants, so they developed it vigorously, built several spas similar to Turui, and attracted countless Carthaginians to enjoy the bathing of the sulphur springs. The village also quickly developed into a town.
The soldiers simply built the camp and went to the bath in batches, while Monte Adeno even called several women to bathe with them.
The next day, the Carthage army, which had been washed by the hot springs, continued to march eastward, both in the generals and in the soldiers.
In the afternoon, the army arrived in Heraklia, the city of Minoa. This is a Greek colonial city, situated on a hill on the east bank of the Halikas estuary, overlooking the fertile lowlands of the West Bank and sanctifying the eastern port. For more than a decade, this city-state has been close to Diaonia, and even because of its name, it has established friendly and close ties with the city of Heraclea, under the jurisdiction of the kingdom. Therefore, for the persuasion of the Carthaginians, the Minorians rejected it without hesitation.
Monte Adeno had expected this early, and he ordered the army to camp on the west bank of the Halikas River.
For the next three days, the Carthaginians were preparing for the siege, and the Carthage Clippers sent to the east coast for the return of the news did not find that Dionia sent reinforcements to Minoah.
Monte Adeno suddenly decided to launch a full-scale attack on Minoa City tomorrow.
He did not know that the Sikel tribes in the city of Enna in the northwestern part of Minoa and in the center of the inland of Sicily had sent a thousand soldiers early, crossing the mountains, trekking in the valley, and heading towards Minoa.
The next day, the Carthaginian army crossed the Halikas River, arrived under the city of Minoa, lined up, surrounded the city of Minoa, and then blew the attacking army.
The city of Minoa is not large, and the population is not too large. The number of young and middle-aged citizens who can fight in the city is less than 4,000. There is no moat in front of the city. The height of the hill is less than 150 meters, and the is gentle. However, the Minorians completely followed the guidance of the team officers sent by Dionia, not only arranged a lot of traps, but also cut down all the trees on the hills, and even dug up the rocks that can be used as offensive cover, as a defense. The stone used to kill the enemy.
Because of the existence of hills, the large siege equipment made by Carthage is not only going to cost more manpower, but also the action is very slow. The attack of the artillery is too far, the degree of accuracy. Both the power and the power were greatly reduced, so the Numidian soldiers who served as the main force of the attack slammed the ladder and rushed to the front, and they were deeply troubled by the trap.
Moreover, the Minorians pushed down the large stones that were rounded and rounded toward the intensive places of the Carthage army under the city. The stones rolled down the mountain, crushing many Numidian soldiers all the way, and even Crashing and attacking the siege equipment eventually led to the collapse of the siege forces...
After knowing the situation in the big account, Monte Adno was not in a hurry and ordered the troops to reorganize their formation and continue their attacks.
Seeing the low morale of the Numibia soldiers marching toward the city of Minoa, the anxious Millefio in the heart broke into the big account and asked Monte Adeno to send the sacred troops he led. As the main attack, he was rejected by the commander. He eloquently persuaded that "attacking such a dangerous and defensive city can not be successful in a day or two. We must have patience! Our Holy Legion, Carthage The civic soldiers and even the Phoenician soldiers of the Allies are precious and cannot be consumed in the arduous and long siege war. The Numidians are not only many, but also low-lying, dead, and then pull a batch. This is also conducive to the stability of the Numisia region..."
Millefio is silent.
In the afternoon, the Carthage army attacked the city and began a fierce ant attack on the city.
When the battle progressed to the heat, outside the northern city of Minora, behind the battlefield, the horn sounded, and thousands of West Kyle soldiers rushed out of the mountains to the north, killing the Carthage army that was fighting.
The negligent Monte Adno was affected by the information returned by the Clippers. After the siege began, neither the spies nor the detectives explored the enemy around the battlefield, nor did they set up a reserve force as a guard behind the siege forces, especially It is north of the city of Minoa.
The West Kyle Warrior only wore a robes, armed with spears and javelins, so the speed was quick, and he climbed up the hill in the blink of an eye and ran to the city to attack the Numidian soldiers who were attacking the city with full force. The original morale was not high. The Mibians suddenly collapsed.
The rout of the Numisians outside the North City quickly affected the troops in other directions. The soldiers screamed in a panic that "the enemy's reinforcements are coming! The enemy's reinforcements are coming!..." rushing down the hill, the speed is even faster than The Sikels who pursued them, the mountain people were stunned and watched the tens of thousands of Numidian soldiers rushing through the Halikas River and even wrapped them up to block their Carthage. The troops fled into the big camp together.
Millefio took the sacred cavalry and infantry, bypassed the squadron, and went to block the enemy's reinforcements. As a result, he found that these simple, low-numbered enemies did not enter the city of Minoa, but ran quickly. In the mountains.
The tens of thousands of troops in the Carthage were defeated by the West Kiel mountain people of only a thousand people! Philomi's heart was extremely shy and angry.
However, Monte Adeno is calm, but in his view, although the attack of the Sikels led to the defeat of the siege forces, the deaths and injuries caused by it are not large (less than 1,000 people), for attacks of this scale. For the city war, it is nothing. On the contrary, the attacks of the Sikels are exposing the intentions of the Diaonians, and as long as the Carthaginian army is on increased alert, the Sikels can no longer cause any damage to the army.
After listening to the comfort of Monte Adeno, Millefio returned to the camp, and his heart was still unfair. He vaguely felt that Monte Adeno’s lack of initiative and command of such a large army seemed to be insufficient, so he immediately wrote To his father-in-law Hanno, expressed his concern to him.
Two days later, a Clippers from Carthage brought a personal letter from Hanno. In the letter, Hanno warned that Monte Adno should go all out to deal with the war and get some results as soon as possible to let the Senate know. He appointed Monte Adeno as the military commander is the right decision!
At the same time, he also warned that Monte Adeno should not neglect the idea and let the army suffer losses! Otherwise, even if some people in the Senate do not impeach him, he can't face the anger of the people!
After reading the letter, Monte Adeno felt the pressure. He finally stopped being drunk in the big account, personally reorganized the army and commanded the soldiers to attack the city of Minoa.
The Minorians seized the two-day break and re-arranged the defensive facilities previously destroyed by the Carthage, again causing great trouble to the Carthage army.
During the Battle of the Carthaginians, the Sikels swam on the edge of the battlefield, harassing from time to time, and one time they burned the camp of Carthage. Although Monte Adeno had prepared for this, the damage caused by it was not great, but they contained a lot of energy for the Carthaginians~EbookFREE.me~ and in the army of Carthage, not only The cavalry, even the infantry, came from the plains and deserts of Afrika, and there was no way to take the Sikel troops who had no such mountains and flats.
In addition to the meditation of Monte Adeno, I remembered the Xikan people who lived in the western mountains of Sicily and belonged to the Carthaginians. So he sent people to order the Semimray of Lili, so that he could quickly organize a West. The troops of the Kan people were sent to Minoia to fight.
And the news that "a thousand West Kyle warriors defeated Carthage's 40,000 siege army" also spread to the Dionysian Sicilian commander Leotisids, who was closely watching the war in Katane, let him Also very surprised.
After asking the whole process of the battle in detail, he stared at the map and fell into meditation.
After a long time, he took out the information that the intelligence department gave him about the Carthage army repeatedly and looked at it several times. He finally made up his mind.
Soon, the Sicilian wartime governor, Cypress, hurriedly rushed to "Plooseus, so I was so anxious to find me, did the situation change?!"
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