Leotizides showed a rare smile at this moment and asked, "How is the situation in the barracks today?" ”

Since the capture of Selinus, Leotizides has temporarily assumed the responsibility of managing the entire city (although most of the people in Selinus have been escorted to Catanay), so naturally he does not have a lot of time and energy to devote to the army, so he usually let Calcides manage the military camp for him, and so far there have been no major mistakes.

"Everything is fine, the defeat of the navy has not affected the morale of the brothers, on the contrary, they hope that the adults will let them raid the enemy camp again and make a few more achievements." Calcides replied.

Leotizides shook his head: "The Carthaginians have already been fooled once, and it is difficult for the same strategy to work again, but I am ready for a big military operation"

With that, he looked at Calcides.

Calcidis stood with a steady expression, and did not show any eagerness.

Leotizides praised in his heart, and his face was as cold as ever: "Now the Carthaginians have divided their army into four parts, one part is besieging Selinus, one part is storming Minoa, one part is attacking Enna, and the other part is attacking Gela, and the situation is very serious. If you were me, what would you do at this time? ”

For high-ranking officers like Calcides, the information obtained by spies and clippers is generally open to them, so Calsides knows more about the current battlefield situation and has his own thoughts, so he thought about it and said: "The number of Carthaginian troops is much larger than ours, but since they are scattered to attack, we can take advantage of the sea advantage and destroy them individually." ”

"Each one breaks the ...... Well......" Leotizides asked again quietly: "Where do you think you should start first?" ”

"Geral." Calcides said without hesitation: "The Carthaginian army there is said to be not very strong, and it is lone and close to the coast, which is the best target for attack!" ”

Leotizides nodded: "You and I have to go together, I am ready to lead the Eighth Legion and the 4th Cavalry Corps to Gera by boat to defeat this Carthaginian army as soon as possible." After I leave, you will be left behind with 5,000 legion reservists. ”

Calcides did not respond immediately, but showed hesitation, much to the surprise of Leotizides, who knew him.

After a while, Calcides resolutely said: "Commander, 5,000 soldiers is too much, 3,000 is enough, so that you have more soldiers to defeat the Carthaginian army, and I am confident that you will hold on until you return victorious!" ”

Leotizides looked slightly stunned, sat on the wooden chair, looked directly at Calcides for a while, then stood up, walked up to him, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "After I led the army out of Selinus this time, not only to defeat the Carthaginian army in Gela, I'm afraid I won't come back for a long time, and Selinus is very important to us, we must try our best to hold it, that's why we left you so many soldiers, you don't have to worry about the small number of troops I lead, wait until you get to the east, I have soldiers available. ”

After hearing this, Calcides immediately solemnly said: "Commander, please rest assured, as long as I am here, Selinus City is here, and I will definitely defend Selinus to the death!" ”

Leotizides twitched his cheeks, and his tone was a little mild: "If you really can't hold on, you don't need to defend it, there is a naval fleet in the port, bring the soldiers home safely, this war will be very long, and we will have the opportunity to take Selinus back in the future......"

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When Catanay's fleet arrived at the port of Selinus, Leotizides led his army to board the ship, just in time to encounter a messenger sent by Minoa to ask for help.

It turned out that after Pomilka led the Carthaginian army to the territory of Minoa and set up camp, he began to attack the city of Minoa. Unlike Monte Adno, Pomilcar personally went to the front line to supervise the siege, coupled with the iron-blooded command of the Iberian army generals, the soldiers did not dare to slack off, and the attack was fierce, putting a lot of pressure on the Minoan defenders.

At this time, Leotizides got the news, and there was nothing good to do, he could only comfort the Minoans to hold on for a while, and he would lead the army to the rescue as soon as possible.

Escorted by the Sicilian fleet, the flotilla of Leotizides' army smoothly entered the port of Gela.

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At the same time, the commander of the 7th Corps, Breru, who was in the Lockley barracks, received an order from the Ministry of War: the 7th Regiment would go to Katanai on the same day, urgently!

"It's finally our turn!" Breru's muscular body leaped from his seat and excitedly shouted to the adjutant, "Send someone to inform the Governor of Lockrie and ask them to get ready for the expedition." And also...... Inform the brigades of this and let them immediately recall the soldiers who went out! ”

"Yes, Captain!"

Not long after, the barracks resounded with continuous cheers.

Breru smiled when he heard this.

Breru, who had been the chief of the Bruti in the city of Bissinia, and who was later incorporated into Dionia, became a senator, but instead of doing government like Bachilipi, he chose to join the Dionian legion. During the Italian War, he was the captain of the First Brigade of the Fourth Army, but was captured by Dionysius along with the Legion Commander Dracos, who was killed, but he was imprisoned because of his former status as the leader of the Bruti and was eventually rescued. As the only senior officer of the Dionian Legion who survived the Syracuse during the Southern Italian War, he regarded this as the greatest disgrace and fought valiantly in the subsequent wars, rising to the rank of commander of the Seventh Legion for his exploits.

In this war, all other legions participated in the war, but only the Seventh Army is still idle, and Breroux has repeatedly written to the War Department complaining about injustice. Not long ago, the Ministry of War sent a message that the Carthaginian army had landed in Sicily again, reminding him to prepare in advance.

Breyroux began to issue a summoning order for the Seventh Legion to the surrounding towns, and now the barracks were full of Seventh Legion, and the morale of the soldiers was very high, waiting to go into battle to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions.

But soon, the reply from the Lockley City Hall poured a jar of cold water on Breru, because there were not enough passenger ships in the port of Lockley to transport troops for the time being, and it would take another day or two to make preparations.

Breyroux was frustrated.

At this time, the adjutant reminded: "There is no ship in Lockery, isn't there still Lijim!" ”

Breru's eyes lit up: In the past, the soldiers of the Seventh Legion came from Lockley, Hibernian and Colonia, but after Lijim and his son Bontarina were completely incorporated into the kingdom last year, these two cities were also included in the source of the Seventh Legion by the Ministry of War, but because the relationship has not been straightened out, coupled with the outbreak of war, the Seventh Legion has not yet issued a notice to let the military trainers of Lijim and Taurina arrange for their citizens to participate in rotation training at the Lockley military camp, although there are no Lijim citizens in the Seventh Legion for the time being, However, as a port city guarding the Strait of Messina, Lijim has no shortage of ships, which can help transport troops.

Breyroux immediately said: "Send a messenger to Lijim as soon as possible and ask them for support!" ”

The next day, Lijim responded to the request of the Seventh Legion, and nearly two hundred passenger ships sailed into the port of Lockley at dusk.

Early on the morning of the third day, Breyru led the 7th Army Corps, with more than 8,000 men, out of the barracks and into the city of Lockley, where the people of Lockley gathered on both sides of the street to bid farewell to their loved ones. Unlike the people of other cities in the kingdom who saw off the army, they rarely shouted, did not get excessively excited, and did not rush into the streets to hinder the march, but stood by the streets in an orderly manner and waved their hands.

Although after joining the Kingdom of Dionia, Lockry no longer applied the cruel laws made by Zaleucus, and there were no more disabled people for more than 10 years, the citizens of this city have integrated restraint and obedience into their blood, which also made Lockry, who was originally an enemy of Dionia, hardly add any trouble to King Davers and the Senate after being incorporated into the kingdom. Of course, the easy identification of the Dioonian kingdom by the citizens of Lockley, who believed in Persephone and emphasized the rule of law, was also an important reason.

Before entering the harbor, the army also passed by the shipbuilding workshops of Lockley: seven or eight large dry docks lined the beach, in which a number of shipwrights were building three-layer oared warships; Stacks of thick tree trunks were piled up on the sandy ground around the perimeter, and from time to time a procession of wagons carried the trees into the workshop; In a number of makeshift wooden sheds, carpenters are constantly working on rough tree trunks into straight and smooth planks...... The people throughout the workshop were focused on their work, and few were distracted to look at the Seventh Legion passing by.

This lively and orderly shipbuilding scene is not only found in Locke, but also in other seaside towns with shipbuilding capabilities, such as Turii, Crotone, Trina, Siritin, Lijim, Tarantum, Catanay, Naxos...... The entire kingdom of Dionya was doing its best to build more ships as quickly as possible in order to continue to gain maritime superiority in the war with Carthage.

In the morning, the flotilla, carrying the soldiers of the 7th Legion, left the port of Loclery and sailed towards Catanay, on the eastern coast of Sicily.

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Although Midorides was very excited after receiving the order from King Davos, he did not immediately lead the fleet to invade Corsica, because he aimed the first target of the attack on Alenia, which was the only Phoenician town in Corsica, with its small but fertile farmland, rich mining and large port, which undoubtedly made Midorades stretch three feet in contrast to the small villages scattered by the Phoenicians on the island of Corsica.