"Very good defense!" Once again, Davers said approvingly: "It seems that in the face of the upcoming siege of such a large Carthaginian army, you are not afraid, but are actively using your brains to think of better defenses, which is good!" ”.

Davers walked up to the top of the city and looked out of it.

In his field of vision, not only was it dusty, but it was full of people, and through the gray mist, countless figures were busy like industrious ants a hundred meters away from the city, they were digging a long earthen ditch around the city of Selinus, and at the same time piling up the excavated earth behind it, and behind this unfinished earthen rampart was a series of camps, and tents were as numerous as the stars in the sky, and in the distance stood another earthen wall that had been built around the city of Selinus......

Davers stared for a long time, and the expression on his face became serious: "It seems that the Carthaginians are serious this time, they are really preparing to attack Selinus City!" ”

"I'm afraid the Carthaginians have no choice but to attack the city of Selinus." Alexis said.

Davers nodded, but did not speak, and as he walked down the tower, he observed the soldiers patrolling the city, all of them looking nervous and tense in their muscles.

Arriving at the City Lord's Mansion, Davos immediately convened a military council.

"What do you think of the grave situation in Selinus and the imminent attack of the Carthaginians?" Davers asked straight to the point.

"Your Majesty, you must immediately give reinforcements to Selinus, I am willing to lead the First Legion to Selinus for defense!" Amintas volunteered to fight, and while staying at Minoa, he also saw that Davers was not going to fight the Carthaginians in the short term, and Selinus would definitely be the focus of the next war.

"I agree with Amintas, Selinus must be reinforced!" Alexis also said: "However, one legion is still too small, and at least two legions will be reinforced, so as to ensure that while the defense is completed, there are still troops to take the initiative to disrupt the Carthaginian attack."

Calcides gave me a good inspiration just now, in the past, we used to lay multiple obstacles outside the city and camp in the defense, in order to achieve the purpose of hindering and killing the enemy, now the Carthaginian army is pressing, it is impossible to make detailed arrangements outside the city, but you can build defenses inside the city, why not build a few more inner walls, and arrange more traps? After all, we want to focus on protecting the port, and there are no more inhabitants in the city, so we can use it as a battlefield to achieve the goal of killing and wounding a large number of Carthaginian soldiers and inflicting a major blow on them! However, it also takes a lot of manpower to demolish the houses in the castle and build the castle walls, traps, and other facilities in a short period of time......"

Davers listened carefully and pondered, and then he said to Amintas, "Did you hear all of Alexis's advice just now?" What do you think? ”

Amintas said impatiently: "Alexis's proposal is very good, but those are after the enemy begins to attack the city, if I am the commander of the city of Selinus, I will ask Your Majesty to send a cavalry regiment to give me command, the Carthaginians are now building the walls at such a close distance, in fact, the obstacles caused by their use of cavalry, I will send a cavalry regiment to raid them from time to time."

In addition, I would like to ask Your Majesty to transfer to me all the ballistas and bows, and I will place them all at the head of the city, and carry out precise attacks against the Carthaginians, constantly inflicting casualties on the Carthaginian soldiers......"

After hearing this, Davers pondered for a moment, and said decisively: "Amyntas, I appoint you as the commander of Selinus, leading the First Legion, the Sixth Legion, the First Cavalry Legion and the defenders of Selinus, a total of 22,000 people, to hold the city of Selinus, if it is lost, you will not come to see me!" ”

The reason why Amintas was chosen as the commander of Selinus was of course his own considerations: although Amintas sometimes lost his cool in attack because he was too belligerent, he was much more calm when defending, and he was able to give full play to his experienced strengths, which was very evident in the defense of Ostia.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, I will make Selinus a prison for the Carthaginians!" Amintas exclaimed, in high spirits.

"I'll inform Sekrian and ask him to send out some of his crew to assist your troops in completing the construction of the defenses of Selinus as soon as possible."

After Davers finished speaking, he looked at Calcides again: "Calsides, you will still command the original 4,000 soldiers, and you have the right to attend every military meeting of Selinus City, because you are familiar with the situation of Selinus City and the enemy outside the city, and you can give good advice to Amintas." ”

When Calcides heard this, his heart was heartbroken, and his original position had been appointed by the commander Leotizides, and now that King Davos continued to put him in command of the 4,000 men, he confirmed the appointment. Moreover, wartime military meetings like this can generally only be attended by the rank of corps commander and above, and ordinary officers are allowed to participate in special circumstances, and Davers allows him to participate in Selinus's military meetings normally in the future, which means that he has the qualifications to sit on an equal footing with the corps commander.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" He said in a trembling voice.

"Alexis still has to command Minoa's army for me, I can't do without you!" Davers said half-jokingly, half-seriously.

"Your Majesty, I am more than happy to serve you!" Alexis said with a relaxed expression.

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After successfully building the outer wall of the camp, Margo ordered the soldiers to hurry up the construction of the inner wall, seeing that most of the trenches had been dug and the earth barriers were gradually being built and compacted, but the situation had changed. The originally peaceful city of Selinus suddenly rushed out of the north, east, and west gates with hundreds of cavalry to surprise the Carthaginian soldiers who were building the inner walls of the camp.

The unsuspecting Carthaginian soldiers then dispersed, and by the time heavily armed Carthaginian reinforcements arrived, the Dionian cavalry retreated into the city in time.

After a series of raids, Margo realized that the Dioonians had increased their forces on the city of Selinus and began to intensify their attacks on the outside of the city, and it was obviously impossible for the Carthaginian army to build facilities and advance in front of the city without attacking the city of Selinus and attracting the attention of the defenders.

Although he wanted to attract the main Dionian army to fight again by attacking Selinus, he wanted to do so after all the arrangements had been made and when Selinus had lost its defensive advantage, so he ordered his troops to intensify the construction of the inner wall of the camp, and at the same time placed a heavily armed army behind the soldiers who built the inner wall for defense.

At the same time, he also mobilized several thousand cavalry to patrol the outer walls of the camp, keeping an eye on the movement of several gates of the city of Selinus.

Unbeknownst to him, the ballistas and belly bows at the head of the city were fired together, concentrating on the place where the Carthaginian cavalry and infantry had gathered a hundred meters away, causing some casualties and forcing Margo to hurriedly retreat the defensive troops.

Of course, he did not stop the construction of the inner wall, but instead sent more soldiers to speed up the construction, and at the same time brought in ballistas, under the cover of earthen ramparts, to attack the head of Selinus.

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Margo was racking her brains to deal with a surprise attack in the city when she received a call for help from a messenger from Palermos: a Dionian army of tens of thousands had landed on the beach near the city of Palermos!

Margo was taken aback: how could Dionia's army be either on the south coast or in the mountains of the center, and how could there be an army of tens of thousands of men? Could it be that the Dioonians were recruited from Great Greece?

Margo didn't expect that it might be the Dionica army attacking Syracuse, mainly because he had seen the city of Syracuse with his own eyes, and he didn't think that the Dionian army would be able to conquer Syracuse in such a short time.

Although he was a little worried about the military potential of Dionia, Margo did not have time to think about the origin of this Dionian army now, he realized that due to the calm of the north coast during this time, he began to ignore this Phoenician city-state that was a little far away from the core of western Sicily, and instead drew some citizens of Palermos to come to Selinus to build the wall, and now that Palermos was attacked, if it fell, it would mean that the coastline that the Carthaginian army could use would be further shortened. More favorable for the blockade of the Dionian fleet.

He cursed his negligence, and immediately sent heralds to the north on horseback to inform Hasdruba, who was stationed near Segesta, that he should immediately lead his army to the rescue of Palermos.

Hasdruba received the order and soon marched to Palermos with 30,000 soldiers.

But how did he know that after Leotizides led the Seventh and Eighth Army Corps to land on the coast quickly, he neither directly attacked Palermos nor began to build camps, except for leaving a small number of soldiers to monitor the movement of the city of Palermos and the city of Solus to the east, the large army quickly rushed to the mountain pass leading to the south and the entrance to the coastal path to the west with the pre-prepared materials for the construction of the city, and all the soldiers hurried to dig trenches, traps, arrange deer barricades, build earthen ramparts, drive wooden stakes, and build wooden towers......

Hasdruba did not choose to take the coastal path, because it was not conducive to the passage of large armies, and the Dionian fleet controlled the coastline, and when his army marched along the coast in long lines, it was easy to be attacked by the landing of the Dionian fleet, so he led his army through the mountain path.

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