Of course, the people of St. Ibiña did not let their guard down, and when the infantry of the Dionian fleet climbed up the banks of the river and appeared in this relatively flat hilly area, they were spotted by the sentries of St. Ibiña, who were on guard, and they immediately informed the city of the terrible news.

The people of St. Ibenia panicked and ran into the city to take refuge. However, the Manno River is only more than 10 miles away from the city of St. Ibinia, which is not too far away, and St. Ibinia, as a center of metal processing, is full of smelters outside the city, and some are even built directly under the mountains a few miles away (so that it is easy to obtain wood), and when the infantry of the Dionian fleet arrived outside the city, there were still many people and slaves working in the smelters and mines who did not escape into the city in time, and the infantry of the fleet divided a small group to capture them, and most of the soldiers bypassed the city of St. Ibinia and went straight to the port of the Temo River.

The port was not connected to the city of St. Ibiña, and although the lower reaches of the Temo River were different from the Manno River, there were some flatter lands on both sides of the river that could be developed into a port, but the Temo River had a height difference of several tens of meters from the hilly city of Ibinia, so the people of St. Ibiña only built a wide and smooth stone road to connect to the port to facilitate the transportation of goods.

The infantry of the Third Fleet followed the road and approached beyond the port.

The port was so important that it was protected by walls, although the focus of its defense was on the mouth of the river to prevent the fleet from penetrating at sea, and on the side near the city, but there were no watchtowers or moats, and Dionyas came so quickly that the panicked St. Ibinians were busy fleeing into the city, resulting in a small number of defenders in the port, but its defenders still climbed to the top of the city and resisted stubbornly.

The infantry of the fleet, with a dozen ladders brought from the warships, set up on the walls of the harbor and began to storm.

After more than ten minutes of fighting, about 100 sailors from the five cargo ships that had entered the harbor earlier suddenly gathered, took out the weapons hidden on the cargo ships, and began to attack the defenders in the harbor.

The St. Ibenians were caught off guard, and under the internal and external attacks, the Dionian army quickly entered the harbor, and successfully occupied the breakwater embankment and tower located at the mouth of the river, raised the barrage wooden lock, and the 160 warships of the Dionian fleet that had been stationed in the nearby sea (after the naval battle, the 3rd Fleet was replenished with some new warships, so that the number of its warships did not decrease but increased) smoothly squeezed into the port.

As soon as the enemy was discovered, the people of St. Ibiña immediately sent messengers on horseback to the south to ask for help.

The nearest Phoenician town to St. Ibiña is Tharros, which is located on the central coast of the west coast of Sardinia, with an excellent port and a fertile riverside plain, about 70 miles from the city of St. Ibinia.

Later, under the coordination of the Carthaginian priests stationed in Sardinia and supervising the city-states of Phoenicia, some of the precious metal goods were transferred south to Saros and then transported to Carthage through their ports.

It is the union with St. Ibinia, combined with its own favorable conditions, that through decades of rapid development, Salos has become one of the most Phoenician towns on the island of Sardinia, no weaker than Caralis (Caralis is a Phoenician town in the southernmost part of the island of Sardinia, which also has an excellent port, fertile river plains, and because it is closest to Carthage, which is across the sea, it has more frequent trade with Carthage). Therefore, since the Dionian fleet attacked Sardinia, the improvised Phoenician coalition of Phoenician towns on the island was stationed in the city of Salos, and the new fleet of Carthage was also stationed in the port of Saros, the main purpose of which was to protect the security of St. Ibinia.

Hearing that the Dioonians were attacking St. Ibinia, this coalition of 10,000 citizen soldiers from various Phoenician towns on the island immediately marched north on the flat road and rushed to the rescue.

On the way forward, they encountered the messenger of St. Libeia again, and received the latest news: the Dionians had captured the river port and were wreaking havoc on the smelting grounds outside the city.

The commander of the coalition was a young nobleman from Carthage, who was originally a judge of Callaris (the citizen soldiers from other Phoenician towns were also basically led by the Carthaginian priests of that town), and when he heard the news, he was both worried and excited: he was worried that if St. Ibnia was significantly reduced in metal production due to the attack and destruction of the Dionians, he, as the commander of the Phoenician coalition, would inevitably be reprimanded by the Carthaginian Senate, and might even lose the fat of the Sardinian judges, was ordered to return to Carthage; Excitedly, he learned from the letter that the attacking Dionian army was only about three or four thousand men, and that if he could arrive in time, it would be easy to defeat them, and counting the last victory, his outstanding performance would surely attract the attention of the Carthaginian people and the Senate, and lay the foundation for his future entry into the Senate.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to give an order: let the whole army accelerate its advance.

In the afternoon, the combined Phoenician forces finally arrived in the city of St. Ibinia, and the infantry of the Dionian fleet, who had received the news, hurriedly gathered and began to retreat towards the Temo River.

The Phoenician coalition was in hot pursuit.

On the banks of the river, the infantry of the Dionian fleet stopped retreating and began to line up.

The Phoenician coalition also stopped the pursuit, and also formed a position 300 meters away, preparing to completely defeat the Dionian army through a frontal battle.

While the Phoenician soldiers were taking advantage of the formation to allow their tired bodies to rest and relieve themselves after several hours of rapid marching, there was a commotion at the forefront of the army.

"Look! Heavy infantry in Dionia! Where did they come from?! ”

"We've been fooled! The Dionian army was more than a few thousand men, they had hidden their heavy infantry in the river harbor! ”

"Oh my God, these heavy infantry keep coming out, how many of them are there!"

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The young commander of the Phoenician coalition had been watching the enemy in front of him while his soldiers were arrayed, mainly fearing that the Ionian army, which was smaller than his own and full of light armor, would suddenly flee (he regarded the infantry of the Dionian fleet as light armor), but he suddenly saw the newly formed Dionian army begin to move to the right, giving way to the river port of St. Ibenia, and then the neat formation of the Dionian army in black armor and black armor, The Ionian legionnaires, armed with bayonet shields, appeared in front of him, and quickly followed the troops in front of him to the right.

Ionian legionnaires continued to emerge, and the length of the Dionian army, which was originally short, soon approached the Phoenician army.

At this time, how could the commander of the Phoenician coalition not know that this was a plot of the Dionians, this sudden change not only made the soldiers panic, how could he not panic, but at this moment he blamed the St. Ibenians for not carefully detecting and giving wrong information, which led to his lack of preparation...... None of this was meaningful, and he had no time to wonder where the regular Dionian army in front of him had come from, for according to the information he had received, the king of Dionya had led all the Dionian armies in Sicily against the Carthaginian army under Margos.

At this moment, the first thought that popped into his mind was to retreat, but he immediately dismissed this idea, because if the coalition forces retreated, the Dioonians would inevitably take advantage of the situation to attack the city of St. Ibinia, which was the center of metal smelting in Sardinia, and the city was planned and built to facilitate the collection, transportation, trade, and smelting of ores...... It didn't exist as a fortified town, and it wasn't even as defensive as an ordinary town, and it was completely impossible to withstand the attack of the Ionian army, which had so many soldiers. Once the city of St. Ibnha was captured, he would definitely feel the wrath of the Carthaginian Senate firsthand.

Moreover, the soldiers were already very tired after several hours of rapid marching, and it was taboo to retreat in front of the battle, and if the Dioonians attacked, it was very likely that the whole army would be defeated.

The only way he could think of it now was to attack while the Dioonians were not yet in formation, and there might still be many soldiers under the river bank who failed to enter the battlefield, and then attack quickly, and perhaps have a chance to win.

So, he gave the order to attack.

Half an hour later, the Carthaginian general's luck was shattered, and the Phoenician army, which was exhausted, was defeated by the recharged Ninth Army and the fleet's infantry, and some of the defeated Phoenician soldiers fled to the city of St. Ibinia, while many more tried to flee back to the city of Saros, but when they fled to the banks of the Manor River, they found that the two wooden bridges had been occupied by the Dionian soldiers.

It turned out that just after the Phoenician forces had crossed the Manno, the ships of the Third Fleet had re-entered the mouth of the Manno River, allowing two companies of Ionian legionnaires to climb ashore and occupy the only two wooden bridges over the Manno.

The return route was blocked, and the pursuers from the rear arrived, and many of the Phoenician routs surrendered in despair, while others turned back and fled to the city of St. Ibinia.

When the Saint-Ibenians heard the news of the defeat of the Phoenician coalition, they were very panicked, thinking that the Dionians would attack their town immediately after the victory, but as time passed, only the Phoenician routs who kept fleeing did not see the Dionian army, and they were all surprised.