Only a few moments later, Henipolis wrote the letter to the Senate and handed it to Davers.

Davers was satisfied with it, and without changing a word, he signed his name at the end, stamped it, and returned it to Henipolis: "Send it to the Senate in accordance with the highest level of confidential letters." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Henypolis immediately and skillfully rolled the letter, tying both ends and the middle of the roll with three red strings, and then proceeded to write a second letter.

At this moment, the captain of the palace guard, Martius, walked into the big tent: "Your Majesty, the commander of the Third Fleet, Midorides, is waiting outside the tent for your summons. ”

"Oh, Midorades is here." Davers hurriedly beckoned, "Let him in." ”

After Midorades entered the tent, he gave a military salute and then said loudly: "Your Majesty, I am late for my return. ”

"You're here at the right time!" Davers punned on the fact that "your fleet and fleet infantry are about to come in handy!" ”

When Midorades heard this, he immediately became excited. No sooner had he returned to Latin with his fleet than he had heard that, during the short time he had been away, the great army led by King Davers, with Rome as the center, had marched north to conquer Viai and Kesreira; conquering Phidinae and Crustaeum to the east; He conquered Gabi to the south and captivated many of the Latin city-states, driving the Roman army into these small cities to the west by the sea, and was escalating the siege of them......

The news gave him a bad feeling that the Third Fleet was out of the war and completely irrelevant, so hearing Davers's words lifted his spirits.

"Have you gathered all the infantry in your fleet?" Davers asked.

"It's all recruited, it's just ......," Midorides said cautiously: "It's just that as soon as the order for conscription was issued, not only Trina, but even the citizens of the towns of Siriting and Hibernian actively rushed to the naval base, enthusiastically signed up, and found many acquaintances to intercede...... Thereupon...... So I recruited 2,000 more people......"

Davers looked at him with a serious expression.

Midorladston felt a pang in his heart.

Davers said slowly: "If you have more moves, you can make more moves, but counting the newly increased fleet infantry this time, the total number of infantry of the Third Fleet fleet should be 4,000 people, which is already an exception for the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the extra number must be disbanded after the war, remember not to take it as an example!" ”

Midorades hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, as soon as the war is over, I will immediately disband all the extra fleet soldiers!" ”

Davers smiled slightly: "You...... This is a competition with the Sixth Legion, beware of Trotilas (Commander of the Sixth Legion) knowing that he will fight with you! ”

When Midorades heard Davers's joke, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and jokingly said, "In order to dissipate Trotilas, I will hold a few more banquets for him and get him drunk." "The military camp of the Sixth Legion is west of Siriting, and the naval base of the Third Fleet is in the bay near Trina, the two are not far apart, and there are many contacts in peacetime, and the relationship between Midorades and Trotiras is not bad, so he is not worried that the other party will blame him.

"Midorades." Tormid said suddenly: "Now the establishment of the infantry of the Third Fleet fleet is 4,000 people, and we will prepare military rations and other material supplements for your subordinate fleet infantry according to this formation, and you have to figure out how to do it yourself for the extra 2,000 people." ”

What the?! Midorades thought that Tolmide was joking, but seeing his serious face, he didn't know what to say for a while, after all, when he recruited soldiers this time, he was indeed selfish, and Tolmid received a hint from Davers and gave Midorades a small warning.

However, it was too difficult for Midorades to ask him to take out the baggage for 2,000 men, and he could only look at Davers with a pleading eye.

Davers took advantage of the situation to take over the conversation and said solemnly: "If you want to solve your supply of the two thousand extra people, then you can only do your best to complete the next task given to you." ”

"Your Majesty, my brothers and I of the Third Fleet are ready, and no matter how difficult the task is, it will be successfully completed!" Midorides immediately spoke out.

Since Henipolis was writing a letter, and Crotocatacuses took his place, he was well aware of Davers's plans, so he found the map from the bookshelf and spread it out on the table.

Davers led Midorades to the table.

Midorides looked down: in front of him was a map of Corsica and Sardinia.

"How much do you know about Corsica?" Davers asked.

Midorides already had a plan in his mind, and he thought about it carefully before he said: "Corsica is called by the sailors the great mountain of the sea, and the island is almost all high mountains, which are not inhabitable at all, except that on the east side of the island there are two small coastal flats, and two towns are built, the town of Mariana in the north belongs to the Etruscans, and the town of Aleria in the south belongs to the Phoenicians. There are also some small Phoenician villages on the west coast, but the west coast is full of rocky reefs and twists and turns, making it difficult for warships to land...... Your Majesty, are you going to let the Third Fleet attack Corsica? ”

Davers nodded, looked at the map and said, "To be precise, let the Third Fleet attack the Phoenician towns and settlements on Corsica." The most important reason why Carthage was able to become the most prosperous and wealthy city-state in the Western Mediterranean was that it controlled most of the precious metal resources and trade in the entire Western Mediterranean, and the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, Etruscan, as well as Sardinia and Corsica, especially Sardinia and Corsica, were completely controlled by Carthage. If Carthage dares to declare war on us, Dionia, we will destroy it one by one, an important source of trade, so that its treasury is no longer full and cannot sustain a long war with us.

So, the Third Fleet's first next attack was to destroy all the Phoenician settlements on Corsica. Don't underestimate the small size and number of these settlements, but the silver, iron, copper and other metal minerals on Corsica were excavated, smelted, manufactured, and eventually transported to Carthage, and the Phoenician settlements on the entire west coast have formed a complete metal smelting system with each other. So your Third Fleet is going to occupy these settlements and capture all the Phoenicians......"

"Also, try not to destroy the Phoenician metal mines and smelting facilities!" Davers emphasized.

After hearing this, Midorades immediately said solemnly: "Your Majesty, the Third Fleet will overcome all difficulties and complete this task. ”

"Not only to get it done, but to do it as soon as possible! Of course, we must also be careful of the attacks of Carthage's warships stationed in Sardinia and Corsica, and we must not be careless! ”

"Yes!" As the naval commander responsible for defending the west coast of Dionia, he certainly had a more detailed understanding of the situation in Sardinia and Corsica on the west coast of the west coast: before the war, Carthage had no more than 30 three-story war ships stationed on these two islands, and they were mainly scattered in a few towns and ports in Sardinia. So Midorades didn't take them to heart either, but Davers' warning made him have to pay attention.

Davers pressed his hand on the icon of Alenia on the map and asked, "Although Alenia is a Phoenician town, do you feel that this name does not conform to the Phoenician or Carthaginian habit of naming towns?" ”

"Could it have been a town that belonged to the Greeks?" Midorades repeatedly chanted the name of the town, and then asked in a slightly surprised voice, in fact, this was only a deliberate expression in response to Davers, as a general of Dionya who crossed the sea, he did not care about the past history of this town.

"You're right, but Alenia wasn't just a Greek city-state, and it stands to reason that he should belong to Dionia's town!" Henipolis interjected, having finished writing his letters to Alexis and Zantiparis, and just as he heard this conversation, the historian Ansitanos's disciple immediately became interested in being a good teacher.

"Alenia should belong to Dionia?!" Midorades was really surprised.

"In the era of great colonization, we Greeks colonized the Western Mediterranean, not only established Agrigento and Syracuse in Sicily; In Greater Greece established Tarantum and Cybari; Massella was founded in Gaul; Naples and Cumai were founded in Campania; Alenia was also founded on the island of Corsica......

But the Etruscans, the masters of northern Italy at that time, were frightened by the influx of Greeks, and they probably thought that if they did not stop this frenzied colonization of the Greeks, then the Etruscans would probably be surrounded by our Greek colonial cities. So they united Carthage, which had established themselves in Sardinia, and went to war with the Greek city-states of Alenia, Marcella, and Campania.

The most important battle was a naval battle near Alenia, which resulted in a crushing defeat for the Greeks, who not only lost Alenia to the Carthaginians, but also did not dare to colonize northern Italy for centuries......"

Hennepolis gushed on, and not only Midorades listened attentively, but also Tolmide and Klotocatax.

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