This tone made Marco feel very harsh, his eyes widened, but then he remembered Pretakuba's advice, and immediately lowered his gaze again, and asked as calmly as possible: "I heard that the Senate sent you to mention the armistice to the Dionians, I wonder how the Dionian king responded?" ”

Margo's sudden outburst of devouring momentum just now frightened El Accra, and he quickly replied: "The king of Dionya is very willing to negotiate an armistice with Carthage!" ”

"Doesn't this show that the Dioonians know that they are inferior to us, and they are afraid that they will continue to fight and suffer defeat, so they want to preserve their current victory through an armistice, are we willing to stop fighting with the Dioonians in such a situation?!" Margo asked loudly.

El Accra was stunned for a moment, then muttered, "Now...... Judging from the current situation, we are Carthage at a disadvantage! ”

Margo looked at him coldly for a while, then suddenly stepped forward and grabbed his arm, and said in a commanding tone, "You come with me!" ”

El Accra staggered out of the tent by Margo, feeling both puzzled and a little frightened.

Marco led him to the empty area in front of the tent, pointed to the back, and said, "What do you see?" ”

El Accra settled down and said with a little dazedness: "A wall under construction...... It looks like a long ......."

"It's not like, it's really long!" "It will stretch from the seashore to the east of Selinus to the seaside to the west, including the city of Selinus and our camp in Dionia!" ”

"When I came, I wondered, why did you build the wall to the back of the camp?" El Accra raised its own doubts.

"Since the Dioyans do not dare to engage in a battle with us, then we can only take the initiative to attack!" Margo looked ahead and said in a deep voice, "Our target is Selinus!" Selinus is the station of the Dionian fleet, the Dionian fleet can patrol the western seas every day, blocking our shipping routes, the port of Selinus plays a great role, as long as we can capture it and let the Dionian navy lose a foothold in western Sicily, it will inevitably reduce their naval superiority and reduce their threat to the western seas and the coast of Africa. However, because of the importance of Selinus, the Dionians will definitely not give up, they will definitely defend stubbornly, and I am afraid that in the future, the main force of the Dionian army will enter Selinus by sea and fight against us......"

Hearing the previous words, El Accra was still happy, but after listening to the latter words, he was a little worried: "Isn't this another way for us to attack and the Dionian army to defend?!" Didn't you say that such an attack would cause a lot of casualties to our soldiers ?! ”

"The Dioonians do have some experience in defending cities, but it's much easier to attack Selinus than Minoa!" Margo said confidently: "After a few days of analysis and discussion with Ademia, I decided to build an outer wall to protect our entire camp, so that the army can attack the city with all its strength, and prevent the Dionian army from killing from the east while we are attacking the city, or landing on the nearby beach and attacking us. ”

At this point, Marco pointed ahead again: "What do you see that is?" ”

El Accra's gaze passed through the gaps in the many tents, and he saw something in front of the city of Selinus, and couldn't help but say in surprise: "You still want to build an inner wall?!" ”

Margo looked at the earthen wall that had been left unfinished for a long time, and couldn't help but think of the night when he was attacked by the Dionian army, and he exhaled lightly and said: "I will not only build an inner wall to surround the city of Selinus, but also build a number of earthen hills on the basis of the inner wall, and then build a longitudinal wall on the basis of the earthen mountain, which will extend forward to meet the wall of Selinus...... At that time, the Diorians will have no defensive advantage, and fighting under equal conditions, we will definitely be able to defeat the Diorians! ……”

Hearing this, El Accra inexplicably felt more confident, but he was a little puzzled: "Listen to this plan of Lord Margo, this will be a big project!" and thou shalt build these walls and hills...... I'm afraid it's going to take a long time, right?! ”

"Don't forget that I have more than 100,000 soldiers under my command!" Margo said proudly: "After getting the military rations from Carthage, they started to build the outer wall, and it has been two days now, and you have already seen the progress of the outer wall when you entered the camp, do you think it will take a long time to complete my plan?" ”

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After Leotizides and Zantiparis led an army to capture the main city of Syracuse, the Sicilian governor Cypros arrived in Syracuse on the second day, and consulted with Leoticides, Zantiparis, Hiktas, who had just returned to Dionia, and his nephew Zamoratis, how to deal with the captured Syracuse soldiers and the people of the city, and how to stabilize order in the city as soon as possible......

It was soon agreed that all but a few of the city's citizens who were directly related to the people of the port area would become slaves of the kingdom of Dionia.

The reason for this decision is that Sipros, who has been in Cataneh for many years, believes that since Syracuse has always been the overlord of Sicily before, even if he is now down, the people of Syracuse always think very highly of themselves, and always have a dream of restoring their former glory in their hearts, forcibly pulling such a group of restless people into the rule of Dionia, and they may jump out and make trouble if there is an abnormal situation, especially now that Dionica is at a critical juncture of war, so they are all reduced to slaves. Leaving Sicily is the safest thing to do.

For Hiktas and Zamoratis, their rebellion led to the final fall of Syracuse, and the people of the same city were already on the same page, of course, they were not willing to live in the same city as them, not to mention that after the people of the port area became Dionian citizens, they certainly hoped that it would be best to live in Syracuse, and their share of land was also in Syracuse, and most of the land in Syracuse was in the hands of the people of the city......

Therefore, for all parties, the people of the city of Syracuse can only become victims.

At the same time, the officials of the ministries of finance, household registration, agriculture, commerce, and the courts brought by Sipros had begun to take over the affairs of the city of Syracuse, counting the goods and spoils of war that had been obtained, counting the dwellings in the city, measuring the land of Syracuse, registering the people of the port district, and giving them a serious lecture on the rights and duties of becoming citizens of Dionia......

The long-cherished wish of the people of the port area of Syracuse was about to be realized, and they radiated great enthusiasm, under the leadership of Hiktas, actively assisted the Dionian officials in their work, especially with the soldiers of the 7th and 8th Legions, and built a tall wall on the isthmus, completely cutting off the connection between the island and the main city, and every day there were warships (from the original Syracuse fleet) cruising around the island of Ortigia without stopping.

Syracuse is undergoing a sea change, and it is being seen by the people of Tounis and Leotini, who are not far from it, and they are jealous.

Tonis, who was located on the seashore and owned very little land, Leotini was in a slightly better position, but could not meet the land needs of the growing population, and now they were saddened to see that the people of the port area of Syracuse, who had been much worse off than them, now had access to fertile land and good homes: because they had also taken part in the battle against Syracuse, they had sacrificed more than the people of the port area of Syracuse, but they could only get a small share of the spoils, which was so unfair!

At the urging of the populace, the top officials of the two city-states rushed to Syracuse to plead their case with Sipros.

Sipros looked embarrassed, and reluctantly told them that the distribution of the spoils of war between Dionya and the allies after the victory of the war was strictly written into the covenant, and the land was not included in it, and he had no right to make changes on his own. Moreover, according to the laws of Syonia, only Ionian citizens can obtain land, and the people of Toannis and Leotini have only one way to obtain land in Syracuse - become Dionian citizens!

The top leaders of the two city-states returned in vain, but the words of Sipnos were quickly spread in the two city-states under the impetus of well-intentioned people.

Moreover, there are also some rumors that have spread rapidly among the people of the two cities, such as that even after the distribution of land in Syracuse is completed, there will still be a lot left, but the Dionian Senate will allocate other landless citizens of Dionica to Syracuse according to this situation, and there will be no surplus land at that time.

Another example: it is much better to be a citizen of Dionya than to be a citizen of Tounis (Leddinis), not only do you not have to worry about not having land, you don't have to worry about being invaded by powerful enemies, you also have the pride of being a citizen of a powerful kingdom......

More than 10 years ago, when Tonis, Leotini, and Catana all became independent from Syracuse, the people of these two cities had to show respect to the people of Catanay, who were even more miserable than they were, and who were regarded as slaves by Dionysius, who began to rebuild their homeland, how they gradually became richer, and how they had a proud position...... More than ten years have passed quietly, and the seed of wanting to become a citizen of Dionya has already been unconsciously planted in their hearts, and the impact of this capture of Syracuse on them has only finally caused this seed in their hearts to blossom and bear fruit.

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