Minoa's fiasco was actually caused by an unexpected incident, not a real battle, and he looked down on Monteadeno, who only knew pleasure, and it was no wonder that he did not go to the front line during the battle, so he did not lose. The final defeat, which was a matter of success or failure in the war, was largely due to the Carthaginian army's prolonged siege and the sudden rebellion of the Numibians, not by a head-on battle with the Dionian army. The only real battle was the Battle of Jera, where Hasdruba led his army to defeat the Ionian coalition and capture Jera.

In addition, Samors had the experience of fighting the Greeks, and that was 20 years ago when he fought with Shimilko against Sicily's Syracuse, when he was still a young officer, and the army had reached the city of Syracuse, and if it weren't for the damned plague, the Carthaginian army would not have suffered a crushing defeat, and would have taken the city of Syracuse.

Since the Kingdom of Dionya was founded by the Greeks, their army was not much stronger than the Syracuses, and now that the city of Carthage was in crisis, the soldiers were naturally able to exert a stronger force than before, and with the armies of both sides roughly equal in number, they could completely repel the Dionians...... It was on the basis of this judgment that Samors decided to take the initiative to send troops and change the tide of the war through battle.

But as the battle progressed, he realized that he was wrong: at the beginning of the battle, Dionia's light infantry ran freely in that peculiar formation, and Dionia's array changed from scattered to aggregated...... He knew that this would be difficult to achieve without long and rigorous training; The Carthaginian soldiers, motivated by their belief in defending their homeland during the battle, bravely attacked the enemy, but the Dionian legionnaires stood still like rocks until they were exhausted and exhausted...... This is the way of attack that only experienced, sophisticated and mature armies dare to take!

Samors regretted it now, but once the battle began, the tide of the battle was out of his control.

Alexis looked much more relaxed, and he said to Printoles, "It's time for the infantry of the Third Fleet to attack. ”

It turned out that the two of them received news yesterday that Carthage had sent thousands of reinforcements to Attis, and these reinforcements looked either young or old.

Based on the current state of the war, they quickly deduced that the Carthaginians were preparing to take a risk.

As Alexis said to the legion commanders before, "This may be the last battle of the Carthaginians, they will definitely do their best, although the Dionian army now has the advantage, but after all, it is in danger, and if the battle is lost, the situation will be quite dangerous." So Alexis was under pressure too, so he took a safe approach, and immediately sent a clipper ship to inform the Third Fleet stationed on the island of Khosla (after the landing of the Dionian army in Africa, Davers gave a simple division of labor between the two fleets, with the Africanic waters west of Carthage being given to the Sicilian Fleet and the waters east of Carthage to the Third Fleet).

When Midorades received the news, he was overjoyed: the infantry of the Sicilian Fleet had launched an attack on the Phoenician allies of Carthage with the Tenth Legion, and how could the Third Fleet miss this important battle to defeat Carthage!

So he immediately gathered the ships that patrolled all night, and early on the second day he led the fleet south into the port of Ruspina, and after the 3,000 infantry of the fleet were ashore, he quickly marched westward, and by the time they reached the Dionian camp, the Dionian army was already lined up outside the camp.

Hearing the news that "the infantry of the Third Fleet has arrived", Alexis asked the heralds to inform them: rest well in the camp, wait for orders, and be ready to attack at any time.

And now it's time for this new force to go on the field and kill the enemy!

At a time when the Carthaginian army was already in decline, the infantry of the Third Fleet appeared on the battlefield.

It was difficult to keep an accurate picture of the situation on a dusty and noisy battlefield, so by the time Samors learned of the terrible news, the fleet infantry had already launched an attack on Carthage's left flank.

Although the Carthaginian soldiers were still fighting stubbornly, the defeat was a fact, and in order to avoid too many casualties and no one to defend the city of Carthage, Samors ordered: Immediately blow the trumpet of retreat!

The physical strength and morale of the Carthaginian soldiers were already declining dramatically, and after the trumpet sounded, a full-scale rout was soon formed.

The Dionian legionnaires immediately gave pursuit, and Alexis sent someone to urge the Sinumibian cavalry, who had been watching and recuperating in the second half of the battle, to join the pursuit.

This forced a large number of Carthaginian routs to flee into the mountains to escape the ferocious pursuit of the Ionian army.

It was only at dusk that Alexis gathered his troops and returned to the camp.

The battle, which lasted nearly four hours with more than 50,000 participants, was brutal, with nearly 5,000 casualties on both sides (nearly 2,000 Dionian soldiers and more than 3,000 Carthaginian soldiers) and nearly 6,000 Carthaginian soldiers taken prisoner.

When the news reached Carthage, the whole city shook, and the people panicked and cried for a long time......

On the second day, Samours gathered the remnants of his army and fled back to the city of Carthage, despite the retention of the Attis and the fact that the routs were still returning.

Enraged by their grief, the Carthaginian people surrounded Samores, who had slipped into the city, first scolding, then beating him until he fell to the ground.

In order to appease the anger of the people, the Senate tried him in absentia as quickly as possible, and the result of the trial was crucifixion.

This is perhaps the saddest death of one of the leading generals in Carthaginian history.

But the execution of Samours did not help change the tide of the war.

On the third day, Alexis marched west with a rested army, and Addis surrendered in Kaesong.

On the fourth day, the Dionian army joined up with the East Numibian forces heading north at Attis.

On the 5th day, the Dionian coalition continued its westward advance, with the surrender of the city of Turnes, followed by the surrender of the city of Megalopolis.

Eventually, more than 40,000 Ionian soldiers rounded Lake Tunes (present-day Lake Tunis) and approached the city of Carthage.

The terrified Carthaginians stood on the western wall and watched as the Ionian soldiers wreaked havoc on the isthmus between Lake Bizerte and Lake Tunes, destroying ditches and cropland piece after crop, and then starting to build camps on top of it, apparently in preparation for the complete blockade of the Carthaginians (the Carthaginians considered it an isthmus, but in fact the shortest distance between the two lakes was about 10 li, and the terrain was very flat).

The frightened Carthaginians did not dare to attack, so they could only hide within the tall and thick walls and intensify their preparations for defense. Men, women, and children were mobilized, armed and ready to go to the city to fight, and all the blacksmiths in the city were open 24 hours a day to urgently produce all kinds of weapons: short swords, javelins, spears, shields......

Even the senators, who were already panicking, passed the high priest's proposal to persuade the people of the city to hold a sacrifice on an unprecedented scale to the protector of Dionia, Bar. Harmon prayed for protection, a ritual that was once popular among the Phoenicians of the western Mediterranean, a fire sacrifice that discolored other races and has been held less frequently in recent decades.

But by this time the Carthaginian people were on the verge of despair, and this was what little hope they had left, so there was almost no opposition. By lot, a total of 200 children under the age of six were selected, and to the chanting of the whole city, they were pushed alive into the bar. In the fire pit in front of the statue of Hamon, their terrible screams made the Carthaginians even more distressed and confused......

However, after the fire sacrifice ceremony, Barr. Harmon's blessing did not materialize, but bad news kept coming: Daretos had surrendered to Dionia...... It wasn't long before Utica, the second largest Phoenician city-state in Africa besides Carthage, also chose to surrender. As a result, another Dionian army (i.e., the Fourth Legion and the infantry of the Sicilian fleet) was able to approach the city of Carthage from the west by means of the western coastal road. At the same time, some of the ships of the Sicilian Fleet and the Third Fleet sailed into the Great and Tournes lakes and anchored at the improvised docks built by the Dionian army in the camp (the Carthaginians had long opened up the communication between these two lagoons and the sea, and had also built a port where the lakes jutted into the city), so that the city of Carthage was completely surrounded and left in a desperate situation.

The reason why the senators, led by Hanno, had not yet made up their minds to fully accept Dionia's terms of negotiation at this moment was because they had one last bit of luck: intervention from Persia.

In fact, Tyre did respond to Carthage's request by sending emissaries to Babylon.

The Persian king Artaxerxes was very surprised to learn that "Carthage was actually cornered by Dionia", and after careful consideration, he decided to send an envoy to the western Mediterranean to learn more about the process of this war, to explore the reality of Dionia, and to understand the true attitude of the newly rising Greek kingdom towards Persia.

And mediating this war was only a secondary purpose, after all, he had been in power for more than twenty years, and he knew very well: Dionya had worked so hard to push the enemy into a corner, how could he give up all his previous efforts because of a few words of his own thousands of miles away, and not to mention that Persia had never shown its strength to this newly established state.

In mid-February, when the passenger ship of the Persian envoy entered the Carthaginian seas, he was intercepted by the Dionian warship, and even though he claimed to be an envoy sent by the Persian king, he was still forbidden to enter the city of Carthage.

The Persian envoy had to turn to the king of Dionya and was taken to Lilipa.

Davers did not slow down the Persian envoys, and the reception ceremony was quite grand.

However, since the Corinthian War, not only did Sparta, the overlord of Greece rely on the support of Persia, but also the big Greek city-states such as Athens, Corinth, and Thebes also had to rely on the Persian breath, and Persia became the de facto overlord of the Eastern Mediterranean.

But the Persian noble envoy came to the western Mediterranean with great ambition, but he was hit on the head, not only was the passenger ship hijacked, but also the request was refused, and his heart was naturally breathless, and after seeing Davers, and seeing that the barbarian king had neither a precious crown nor a magnificent robe, and even only received him in an ordinary drawing-room, his heart was full of contempt, and before he could say a few words, he said to Davers in a commanding tone: " Our holy and noble King is very concerned about the war between Dionya and Carthage, and he wants both sides to stop the war immediately, return the lands they occupy, and return to the state they were in before the war began! As long as both sides follow suit, they will get the friendship of Persia, otherwise the consequences will be very serious, and Dionya will not be able to bear it! ”

In the face of the arrogance of the Persian envoys, Davers, who was almost fifty years old, had a deeper city, and did not make a powerful mockery of the Persian envoys as he did when he ridiculed the Spartan envoy Phoebidas, and he said in a calm tone: "It is good that you Persia can manage the affairs of Asia Minor well, and you do not need to worry about the affairs of the Western Mediterranean." ”

The two sides parted unhappily, and even the banquet to be held after the meeting was canceled.

The next day, the Persian emissaries departed Lilia and were "escorted" all the way away from the western Mediterranean.

When the Persian envoy returned to Babylon, he told Artaxerxes about his "misery" in the western Mediterranean and what the king of Dionya had told him to bring to the king of Persia, and the king of Persia was so angry that he swore in public that one day he would give the kingdom of Dionya the most severe punishment!

The Carthaginian senators never waited for news from the Persians, but the Dionian attack had always made them nervous: the Dionian army had not sent soldiers to attack the city directly, but their ballistae bombarded the city walls every day, and even threw fire pots into the city, increasing the panic among the people in the city; They also erected earthen ramparts higher than the city walls, and attacked the defenders of the city from a distance. Not only were the Dionians attacking, but their navy was also not idle, they spliced together several warships, laid wooden planks, placed ballistae and bellied bows on them, approached the harbor in the two lakes, and attacked the city's defenses...... The Dionian army did not exert all its strength, more like practicing the tactics of attacking the city by land and sea, but the Carthaginians, who had never encountered such a desperate situation, were already feeling a little breathless.

The siege lasted for more than three months, and the Carthaginians, with broken walls, lack of drinking water, half of the city destroyed, and extremely low morale, finally lowered their proud heads and were forced to sign an extremely harsh truce with the Dionians: Carthage recognized Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia as part of the Dionian kingdom;

cede all of the colonial cities of Iberia to Dioonia (excluding the new colonies that the Magonides would later conquer);

Carthage agreed to the annexation of Hadru Mentum's domains to the Kingdom of Dionia;

Carthage must not infringe on the interests of the East and Sinumbians, the allies of Dionia;

Carthage and Dionya restored peace and resumed trade for a period of 20 years, during which disputes of interest were to be settled by mutual agreement;

The alliance of the parties shall not be infringed upon within the time limit......

……

Half a year later, the island of Ortigya also surrendered due to food depletion. Thus ended the war between Dionya and Carthage.

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