The crew immediately pulled out their shields and bayonet spears and short swords from the pile of silver nuggets, and jumped onto the dock to kill the oncoming enemy.

"They are indeed enemies!" The leading port officer shouted loudly that the freedmen at the dock were going to kill all the enemies who were attacking.

It turned out that after the fleet's infantry successfully attacked the north gate and entered the city, the news of "the Dionians were coming" quickly spread throughout the city, which was completely contrary to the good news that the Phoenician coalition had defeated the Dionian army from the Water Gate, and the officials of the city hall quickly realized that there was something wrong with the fleet that came to the port late at night, so they urgently sent someone to inform the port.

Since the infantry of the Dionian fleet had just entered the city at this time, and had not yet caused a fierce battle, although the inner harbor was in the city, it was located in the most remote place in the south, one south and one north were far apart, so the crew had not yet felt the changes in the city for a while, so the port was prepared.

Because of the many benefits promised by the Salos officials, the laborers of the port rushed up, and the infantry of the fleet calmly lined up to meet them, and the battle of the port preceded the city.

The fleet's infantry had been trained for a long time, and the free people of Saros, who were not a rabble, could compare, and soon inflicted no small number of casualties.

However, the officials of the port constantly organized new laborers to surround them, taking advantage of the large number of people to suppress these foreign enemies on the docks, but at the same time, the most young and middle-aged areas of Salos at this time could not support the fierce fighting in the city.

The armies of the Dioonians were surrounded in the square and the port of the city, and this stalemate was extremely unfavorable to them, because the Salos, who had gradually stabilized, mobilized as many people as they could to fight to surround and attack them, and they were left alone.

When the counterfeit Carthaginian fleet was introduced into the Saros waterways, the Dionian clippers, far behind, noticed the anomaly and immediately turned north.

In order not to be detected by the Salos and aroused, all the ships of the 3rd Fleet were moored in the nearby sea corresponding to the ridge that separated St. Ibnha from the city of Saros, and the commander of the 9th Army, Tegetinos, was on the flagship of the 3rd Fleet.

After learning this news, Midorades first felt nervous, he was worried that the Salos had discovered the flaw and wanted to trick the fleet into the inner harbor of the city of Salos to catch turtles in an urn, and at the same time, he was also worried that because the fleet was exposed, the army that would go to the city by land would be ambushed, because the infantry of his subordinate fleet, a total of 1,500 people, participated in this operation, in case ...... He was a little afraid to think about it.

At this time, Tegtinos said decisively: "Lord Midorades, since the situation has changed, I suggest that the warships of the Third Fleet go directly and quickly south, dock at the beach near the outer harbor of Saros, and I will take the soldiers of the Ninth Legion to quickly disembark and land, rush to Saros City, and support your army!" ”

Midorades listened, and although he was a little moved, he was still a little worried: "This is too dangerous!" In case the Salos have already detected our plan and are prepared, there are many Phoenician towns near that bay, and once united, your Ninth Legion will be surrounded by the enemy when it lands, and the situation will be very dangerous! ”

Tegertinus smiled: "Lord Midorades, you are confused, the only Phoenician army on this island has been annihilated by us, and my ninth legion is full of 6,000 elite soldiers (another 2,000 soldiers and 2,000 fleet infantry stayed in the port of St. Ibenia to guard the captured Phoenician prisoners, and there are hundreds of fleet infantry to guard the two wooden bridges), even if we march within the territory of the Phoenicians, can they still stop me!" ”

Tegtinos' reminder lifted Midorades' spirits, and he had forgotten about it when he had been so concerned that he had forgotten about it.

So the order was issued, and all the warships of the Third Fleet quickly went south by the faint moonlight and relying on the exquisite skills of the crews.

When they saw the lighthouse in the outer harbor of Salos flashing in the distance, they knew that the bay was almost there, and with the lighthouse as a location, the Third Fleet docked the warships on the beach relatively safely, and the soldiers of the Ninth Army quickly disembarked and gathered.

Such a loud noise naturally caused panic among the people of the outer harbor of Saros, but Tegatinos did not care, and led his soldiers to march north along the shore of the lagoon according to the instructions of the map.

On the way, he also unexpectedly encountered the messenger of the infantry of the overland fleet who came to ask for help.

It turned out that after the infantry of the fleet deceived the north city gate, they sent people to the outer harbor to meet the Ninth Army Corps, but the soldier found that the outer harbor was calm and there was no trace of reinforcements at all. After that, the fleet infantry also sent someone to check it once, but there was still no change. However, there was a change in the city, and after the Saros had surrounded all the enemies who had entered the city, the situation stabilized, and then they remembered that the northern gate was still in the hands of the enemy, so they organized a group of people to retake it.

With only 200 Dionian fleet infantry guarding the northern gates, seeing a large number of Saros rushing towards them, they felt that the situation was urgent, and had to send people to the outer harbor to check on the situation, hoping to gain something, only to run into the Ninth Legion.

After getting a general idea of the situation in the city, Tegatinos immediately ordered his soldiers to march quickly, and the outer harbor was only five miles from the city of Salos, and they had already walked halfway before, and it was not long before the soldiers of the Ninth Legion arrived at the northern gate.

By this time, the infantry of the fleet had been divided into two parts: one part was at the head of the city, stubbornly guarding the means of lifting the drawbridge (the city of Salos was close to the lagoon and had a moat); The other part blocked the gates of the city and prevented the Salos from closing them, and their thin defenses were already crumbling under the onslaught of the Salos.

Without hesitation, Tegtinos rushed to the front and led the soldiers into the north gate, and the trumpeters sounded the trumpet in time.

"Woo! ......" The high-pitched sound of the trumpets resounded throughout the city, invigorating the infantry of the city's fleet and alarming the Saros.

The Ninth Legionnaires were not fleet infantry, they were true Dionian hoplites, wearing black armor and armed with long shields and swords (because it was dark night, they could not see the target clearly, and the short swords were more effective than the bayonets), and fiercely attacked the Saros at the gates of the city.

The Saros, on the other hand, saw that new enemies were pouring into the doorway, and they did not know how many reinforcements the enemy had come, and their morale was so depressed that they did not hold out for long and began to disperse.

Instead of giving the order to pursue, Tegatinos immediately ordered the Ninth Legion soldiers to move towards the place where the fighting was loudest.

Not long after, the mighty legionnaires rushed to the brightly lit square and charged the Saros, who were besieging the infantry of the fleet.

The Saros collapsed in an instant.

The infantry of the fleet, who were in the center, appeared in the eyes of Tegtinos, and when they saw the reinforcements coming, they were at last relaxed, and they were so tired that they threw down their shields and spears, and sat down on the ground, and around them lay on top of each other the Salos, some of whom had been completely trampled to meat sauce, some of whom were still groaning in pain, and among them even old men and women.

Such a bloody scene shocked Tegtinos, who had experienced countless battles, but he immediately sent 3,000 men to pursue the fleeing Salos and gave them an order: kill any Salos who appear on the streets!

Tegtinos was disturbed by the Saros' terrible will to resist and decided to put it to an end. But what he didn't know was that the Saros were not as brave as he thought, and if the Ninth Legion had invaded the city in the first place, the Saros would have given up their resistance long ago, and it was only because the infantry of the fleet had less than 1,000 men when they entered the city, which was not enough to deter such a large town, which gave the Saros hope.

At the same time, Tegatinos sent another 3,000 men to the inner harbor, but the freedmen of the port had long since collapsed, leaving only more than 100 fleet infantry to rescue their wounded comrades at the docks.

In the second half of the night, the soldiers of the Ninth Legion patrolled the various neighborhoods of the city, cutting down the Salos whenever they came across them while roaming the streets.

Tegatilos also sent men to arrest the most important officials of the Salos City Hall by interrogating the captured people of Saros.

The Saros had lost all their courage to fight, and they fled home, too frightened to speak, helplessly hugging their families and praying to their gods in silence.

Gradually, the whole city returned to quiet.

According to the casualty statistics after the incident, the Dionian army paid nearly 600 casualties (mainly fleet infantry) in this battle of the city, while the Salos casualties were as high as 4,000, and counting the 2,000 Saros citizen soldiers in the defeated and captured Phoenician coalition, the city of Salos lost 2/5 of its population and suffered heavy losses.

But this is not the worst situation for the Saros.

In the early morning of the second day, Tegatinos sent troops to seize the outer harbor and waterways, capturing five Phoenician warships that had not escaped. The Third Fleet entered the inner harbor through the waterway, and Midorides and Tegetinos, who were grieving the casualties of the fleet's infantry, discussed that in view of the stubborn resistance of the Salos last night and the heavy slaughter of the army, the two sides had actually become mortal enemies, and for the sake of the future safety of the army, and in order to deter the other Phoenician towns on the island, they decided to reduce all the Saros to slavery and immediately forcibly transport them back to Trina in the ships of the Third Fleet.

As far as the other Phoenician city-states on the island of Sardinia are concerned, it was only yesterday that the Dionians had sacked St. Ibnia, and on the second day the Saros fled to their town and asked them for help, saying that the Dioonians had captured the Saros and were slaughtering the Saros.