This infuriated the Selinus, who shouted angrily: "If the Carthaginians dare to leave, Selinus will immediately surrender to Theoria!" ”

Hearing the threat, Millefio hesitated again.

While the two sides were arguing, the soldiers of the 8th Army who had landed had already rushed to the city of Selinus.

Upon hearing the news, Millefio saw the enemy outside the city, dressed in black armor and neat appearance, and with high morale, and immediately remembered the scene when the Templar army he led was defeated and pursued head-on by this Dionian legion, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and he lacked confidence in whether he could lead this remnant army out of the city to repel the enemy, or successfully avoid the enemy's attack and return to Lilipa smoothly.

After urgent consultation with the equally fearful officers, Minerfio decided to stay in the city and urgently sent messengers to Lilibal for help.

The messenger arrived at Lilibal and reported to Monte Adeno that "the Dionian army was marching on Selinus and that the return route of the troops led by Minerfio had been cut off", and informed Selinus that he was now short of food and hoped that Monteadeno would be able to send troops to help.

Monteadeno, who had recovered a little from yesterday's fiasco, did not make a sarcastic remark as Millefio had envisioned, but instead considered the possible punishment of his defeat by the Senate, and for the sake of his own life, he had to rebuild relations with Millepheo, so he immediately gave the order for the rescue of the generals, and asked the generals to quickly gather troops, this time he would personally lead the army to Selinus to rescue.

However, this back and forth, including the time consumed in between, was enough for the main Dionian army to rush to Selinus, so Monte Adeno saw the Dionian army waiting outside the city, and he had no choice but to fight hard.

The trumpets sounded, and not long after the two sides engaged, the Numibian soldiers, whose morale was not high, were quickly defeated. Although this time the battle in a wide area allowed the capabilities of the Numibian cavalry to be brought into play, it did not affect the overall situation at all.

The reinforcements led by Monte Adno were routed, and they fled back to Lilipa in a hurry, and the Dionian army suffered minor losses, so that Millefio, who was standing at the head of the city and watching the battle, completely rested his thoughts of going out of the city to flank the attack.

Leotizides, however, did not let his soldiers desperately pursue the rout of Monteadeno, but allowed his army to build a camp outside Selinus, as if to completely besiege the city-state, which had led to the war between Carthage and Syracuse for more than a decade.

During this time, Monte Adno, who had fled back to Lili, did not give up his efforts, and he sent a messenger to Palermos, ordering Hasderogba, with the Iberian troops, to rescue Selinus.

Hasdroba had not listened to Monteadeno's orders very much, and now he heard that the main Carthaginian army had suffered a crushing defeat to the Dionians despite the superiority of the army, so he ignored Monteadeno.

Poor Millefio watched the Dionian camp outside the city expand and strengthen day by day, and even heard the spies report that "the Dioonians built a super siege tower in the camp", and his mood was naturally more and more anxious day by day.

The only fortunate thing was that Dionia's blockade of the sea was not too tight, and the clippers sent by Selinus repeatedly evaded enemy interception and went to Carthage to ask for help.

After a few days, the Carthaginian Senate finally put an end to the argument and reached a resolution: remove Monte Adno as commander-in-chief of the Carthaginian army and send him back to Carthage for trial. The Iberian governor Marco was appointed as the new commander-in-chief of the army. During his absence, the elder Pomilka temporarily took his place to deal with the affairs of the Sicilian army.

Pomilka, who belonged neither to the Magonides nor to Hanno, but to the centrists of the Senate. However, unlike Esyaruba, he had a good relationship with the other two factions, and perhaps for this reason, his election as acting commander was also recognized by most of the senators.

Immediately after his appointment, Pomilcar sailed to Lilibal and announced the Senate's decision to Monteadeno, who had already expected this result and was escorted down by the guards without resistance, after all, as a prominent patriarch of the Carthaginian family, his rebellion or even flight would seriously affect the future of his relatives and the prestige of his family.

Pomilca personally sent Monte Adno to the port.

Before boarding the boat, Monte Adno, whose face was dejected, couldn't help but remind: "...... Dionyas are different from the enemies we have encountered before, their soldiers are brave and their generals are cunning, and our Numibian troops are really terrible in combat, so even if you outnumber them, you must be vigilant when fighting! ……”

Pomilka thanked him for the reminder.

In the end, Monteadeno let out a long sigh: "The Senate has been worried for so long, but it still made Margo, the leader of the aliens, the commander of the Carthaginian army!" This is not a good thing for Carthage! ”

Pomilka watched in silence as Monte Adno boarded the passenger ship, then he turned back to Lilili, and the next thing he had to do was to settle the conflict between the Carthaginian fleet and the Iberian fleet.

Since the Iberian fleet was built by the Magonides themselves, Marco did not want the fleet to be controlled by the Senate, so Admirica, the commander of the fleet as a relative of the Magonides, was reluctant to put the fleet under the command of the Carthaginian fleet and accept the command of the fleet commander Anobas.

In the name of the acting commander-in-chief, Pomilka invited Anlobas and Admika to the palace of the commander of Lilibi, and solemnly announced to them the decision of the Senate: the acceptance of the command of the Iberian fleet under the command of Anobas, the commander of the Carthaginian fleet, was a prerequisite for agreeing to Margo's succession as commander of the Carthaginian army.

Admika looked at Ambaros, who gave him a friendly smile.

Ademika was not fooled by his smile, having heard Margo say from his time in Iberia that Anobus was not friendly to the Magonides. Of course, he used to be close to the Magonides family in the Senate, so he became the commander of the Carthaginian navy when Shimirko led the army to attack Syracuse more than 20 years ago, and defeated the main fleet of Syracuse led by Leptinies in the naval battle, but the Carthaginian army suffered a crushing defeat under the city of Syracuse, and the predicament of Shimilko in order to survive, privately talked with Dionysius, and did not inform Anobus for the sake of secrecy, as a result, Shimilko led his cronies to escape successfully on more than a dozen boats, The Carthaginian fleet led by Anobus was besieged in the great port of Syracuse, and was almost completely lost, and under the desperate rescue of his subordinates, he barely escaped with his life on a clipper. From then on, he hated the Magonides and became a neutral.

In fact, it was for this reason that the Senate would continue to give him the responsibility of commanding the Carthaginian fleet, so as to counterbalance Margo, who already had a strong military power.

Although Admirica knew Margo's desire for the position of commander of the Carthaginian army, he was uneasy about bringing the Iberian fleet under the command of Anobas. However, the defeat in the naval battle not long ago had worn out a lot of his hard work, and he did not dare to oppose it directly, so he reasoned: "This fleet was built by Lord Margo's own hands, and I cannot make a decision, and must ask Lord Margo's consent." ”

Pomilcar did not insist, but immediately sent a messenger to Iberia to consult Margo, during which time he also sent a messenger to Hasdruba, who was stationed in Palamós, in the hope that the young and promising general would lead his army south to relieve the besieged Carthaginian army.

Pomilka's humble tone was very much to Hasdruba's appetite, and he almost immediately decided to lead the group out, but fortunately Kisgow reminded him: "Whoever takes the credit for repelling the enemy and saving the friendly army?" Perhaps the Senate will think that Pomilka can command us as commander-in-chief, so there is no need for Margot......"

Hasdruba heeded, did not respond to Pomilka, and continued to lead his army to stay in Palermos, watching the battle.

Pomilka had nothing to do with it.

A few days later, however, Margo's reply came: he agreed to Pomilcard's suggestion that the Iberian fleet be under the command of Carthaginian Admiral Anobas, but demanded that Anobus not interfere in the management of the fleet.

As a result, the Carthaginian fleet and the Iberian fleet were unified under the command of Anobus, making the total strength of its navy reach about 540 warships, of which 432 are three-layer oars warships, which can be described as powerful.

At the same time, Pomilca's task to Anobus came: in view of the critical situation of Selinus, Lilili had to urgently deliver food and soldiers for him, and asked the Carthaginian fleet to escort the fleet.

In fact, during this time, the Dionian army had launched several attacks on the city of Selinus, and Millefio repeatedly sent clippers to Lilipa for help, although the Carthaginian Senate had already transported the first mobilized 4,000 Carthaginian citizen soldiers to Lilipa, but in view of the current state of the Carthaginian army, Pomilka did not dare to lead the army to rescue by land, he set his sights on the sea, where the Dionian military force was relatively weak, and through sea transportation, the reinforcements were sent to Selinus to strengthen the defense of Selinus, use it to hold back the enemy, and drain the enemy's sharpness in order to wait for Margo to lead a large army to arrive.

However, Anobus had repeatedly rejected Pomilca's demands on the grounds that the command of the Iberian fleet had not yet been resolved, and it was impossible to cooperate on the battlefield, which could easily lead to defeat. And the strength of the Carthaginian fleet alone was not enough to match the fleet of Dionia.

Although the Carthaginian fleet had been docked at the military ports of the city-states at the western tip of Sicily, Anobasas had been keeping an eye on the movements of the Dionian Sicilian fleet and had some knowledge of the strength of its fleet. Of course, on the other hand, he was also urging Pomilka to solve the problem of the Iberian fleet as soon as possible. ()

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