"Yes!" Muqru commanded the heralds to rush everywhere, shouting loudly at the retreating legionnaires.

Leotizides, who had already led his guards towards the north gate, needed to return to the city first, and make the best arrangements with the Gera men to meet the rout and defend against the enemy.

The flag-bearers in the Guards, holding aloft the Legion's flag, fluttered in the wind, and it pointed the way to the retreating Eighth Legionmen.

The rout of the enemy rejuvenated Hasdroba's tired body, and he followed the Lusitanian warriors in pursuit of the fleeing enemy.

At this time, the Lusitanians' ability to run was put to good use, and the heavy armor of the Greek heavy infantry allowed them to be easily overtaken by the enemy.

Hasdruba led the warriors to slash and slash all the way, and in the end they all turned into blood.

When they pursued the city and tried to take advantage of the opportunity to attack the city, javelins and arrows rained down from the city, causing many casualties to the unsuspecting ones.

Seeing the many black-helmeted and black-armored defenders at the head of the city, Hasdruba did not dare to continue to attack the routs crowded under the city, but turned around and pursued the routs from other directions......

It was not until dusk that the Carthaginian army returned to its camp.

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In this battle, the 4th Cavalry Regiment of Dionya lost half of its cavalry, the 8th Legion suffered about 1,300 casualties, of which more than half of the light armor and light infantry brigades were lost, Gela's army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and Kamanlina suffered the most casualties, and only more than 300 of the 3,000 soldiers who originally went out to fight fled back, and the entire coalition suffered nearly 7,000 casualties. The Carthaginian army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, of which the Balearic slingers suffered the most casualties, more than half.

Due to the retreat of the Ionian coalition, most of the wounded coalition soldiers did not escape back.

The battle of Geral devastated the citizen soldiers of Gera and Camanlina, making the forces that Leotizides could command even more stretched, and more importantly, the news that the Carthaginians had defeated the Ionian army, which had been fighting continuously, was like a stone into the seemingly calm political situation in Sicily, causing ripples in some city-states.

After the Battle of Gera, Leotizides remained at Gera, resting his troops and fending off the Carthaginian siege. With fewer and fewer troops under his command, he was even more reluctant to break them up and divide them into city-states, which would only be eaten one by one by the Carthaginian army, and he considered Gela's strategic location to be more important than Minoa's.

Of course, he couldn't sit idly by with Minoa, so he sent messengers, along with Minoa, to Pacinus for help.

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On the fourth day after the Battle of Gela, Sicilian Governor Sipros in Catanay received an urgent report from Shelovenes, the head of the Kingdom's intelligence service in Sicily, that a military mobilization was underway in the city of Syracuse, and that his motives were unknown.

As a precautionary measure, Sipros immediately sent messengers to inform the Seventh Legion, which had arrived at Catane and had been ordered to go to Hena, so that they could quickly return and garrison the new camp near Leotini to prevent accidents.

But the unexpected happened. Pacinus promised to rescue Minoa, sent 3,000 reinforcements, and shortly after leaving the port by boat, he was suddenly confronted by Syracuse's fleet.

In recent years, the waters east of Sicily have been the world of the Dionian Second Fleet, and the Syracuse Navy, which once dominated Sicily, has long since ceased to be a small fleet of only 30 three-tier ships and a total of 50 ships.

Since the Dionian Sicilian fleet had been stationed in Selinus during this time, it was wary of the western seas and concerned about the war in Selinus, so it did not send warships to escort it. Of course, the Pacinus did not ask for it either, for it was far from the battlefield, the nearby seas were always safe, it was close to Dionia, and it was at peace with its neighbor Syracuse, and they thought it safe to sail from their city-state to Minoa. Therefore, the Pacinus only sent the only five three-layer oared warships in their city-state to escort them, symbolically for show.

As a result, after a surprise attack by the Syracuse fleet, the Pacinus battleship, although stubbornly resisted, was outnumbered, and all but four troop transports escaped back to the port.

At the same time, Syracuse sent an army of 12,000 men, and instead of marching north to attack Taunis, which was very close to it, it turned south and quickly rushed to Kamanlina, claiming that it was "to help the Carmanlinas against the Carthaginian invasion".

After the Kamanlina refused the request of the Syracuse army to enter the city, the Syracuse army immediately changed its face, surrounded the city of Kamanlina, and sent messengers into the city while making a gesture to attack the city, threatening the Kamanlina people: Syracuse has made an alliance with Carthage, or reattach it to Syracuse, so that it can be preserved when the Carthaginian army arrives; Either they refused, and Syracuse would attack the city, and after the city was broken, the people of the city would be handed over to the Carthaginians.

Since Camanlina had already sent most of the citizen soldiers to aid Gela, there were only more than 500 Camanlina citizen soldiers left who could fight in the city at this time, and they were weak, so they could only reluctantly say that they needed time to think about it.

The Syracuse envoy was brutal and only gave one day.

Immediately after the emissaries returned, the Syracuse army blocked not only the road from Kamanlina to Jera, but also the Syracuse warships.

By this time, the Carthaginian army, which had won the battle, had moved its camp eastward and intensified the siege of the city of Gera, so Leotizides was too busy dealing with the Carthaginian siege to know anything about what had happened to Camanlina.

Half a day later, the Dionian merchant ships that ventured into the harbor brought news that the Syracuse fleet had attacked Pacinus's troop convoy and blockaded the ports of Pacinus and Kamanlina.

When Leotizides found out, he was shocked: Syracuse had finally joined the war!

The addition of Syracuse undoubtedly made the Dionian dilemma in Sicily even worse, especially on the south coast, where the Dionian coalition was not only numerically inferior, but also in a strategic situation in danger of being caught between two sides.

Even if Leotizides wanted to reinforce Camanlina, he could not do anything for a while, and there was a threat from the Carthaginian army by land, and the Syracuse fleet stood in the way by sea. In the absence of a fleet escort, I am afraid that the fleet will not even be able to enter the port of Kamanlina, so the fish and shrimp are fed.

Leotizides sent the Dionian Clipper docked in the port of Gela to immediately inform Sekerian in Selinus.

A day later, the bewildered Camanlinas saw the black-pressed Syracuse soldiers approaching the city walls with ladders and tall siege engines, and they were terrified, and the Camanlinas, who feared what would happen to Agrigento, finally surrendered.

More than 10 years later, due to the strength of the Dionian Kingdom and the long-term friendly exchanges with the Kamanlina people, there are almost no pro-Syracuse citizens in the city of Kamanlina, so that the Syracuse people who captured the city can not support a government close to them for the time being, in order to prevent rebellion, so they demand: the Kamanlina people to hand over a large number of protons, and at the same time let 3,000 Syracuse soldiers stationed in the city, in the name of once the Carthaginian army arrives, it can effectively prevent its destruction of Kamanlina.

In addition, the Syracuse demanded that the remaining 500 Kamanlina soldiers be drawn to join the Syracuse army in order to fight together.

The Kamanlinas, who are now human swords and fish and fish, finally agreed to these conditions.

After receiving the attachment of Camanlina, the army of Syracuse did not lead its army westward to join the Carthaginian army besieging Gela, but entered the city of Camanlina, leaving 3,000 soldiers to garrison, and the rest of the soldiers arrived by boat near the coast of Pacinus and landed, and then surrounded the city of Pacinus, and sent messengers into the city to ask it to join Syracuse.

The Syracuse envoy threatened that if Pacinus refused this request, Syracuse would not only immediately execute the more than 2,000 Pacinus citizens (after the Syracuse fleet sank the Pacinus troop convoy, it did not go away, but rescued and captured the Pacinus citizens), and then led an army to attack the city of Pacinus, and after the city was broken, all the people in the city would be sold to the Carthaginians as slaves.

The threat of Syracuse frightened the people of Pacinus, whose city was surrounded by Syracuse troops, the port was blocked by Syracuse warships, and the people looked at the thousands of haggard relatives under the city with teary eyes.

Within a few days, Syracuse had included Pacinus and Camanlina in its alliance, and in the blink of an eye, the entire southeast corner of Sicily had once again become Syracuse's sphere of influence, and the citizens who had been dreaming of reliving the glory of Syracuse rejoiced.

The chief general of Siracusa, Taiagenis, who proposed this plan and forcefully promoted it despite the opposition of his colleagues, was greatly praised by the people and his popularity increased for a time.

At the same time, however, there were those who expressed dissatisfaction with Theagenis's approach, such as the general Hiktas, who openly questioned: "It is very dangerous for Syracuse to take great risks to provoke the mighty Dionyas in order to obtain two small city-states!" Don't forget that the Carthaginians are far away in Africa, and we in Syracuse are right next to Theonia! ”