"Very good defense measures!" Davers said again with praise: "It seems that you are not afraid of the upcoming siege of Carthage troops. Instead, you are actively thinking about better defenses, which is great!"

Davers walked up to the city and looked out.

In his vision, not only was there dust, but also the sound of people was buzzing. Through the dusty fog, countless figures a hundred meters away from the city were like hard-working ants constantly busy. They were digging a long ditche surrounding the city of Selinus, and at the same time piled up the digging of soil in the rear. Behind this unfinished earthen pile was a continuous camp. A tent was countless like stars in the sky. And further apart, another earthen wall surrounding the city of Selinus, with a built...

Davers stared for a while, and the expression on his face became serious: "It seems that the Carthaginians are serious this time. They are really ready to attack Selinus City!"

"I'm afraid the Carthaginians have no other choice than to attack Selinus." Alexis said.

Davers nodded without saying anything. When he walked down the city tower, he specifically observed the soldiers patrolling the city. They all looked tense and their muscles were tense.

After arriving at the city lord's mansion, Davers immediately held a military meeting.

"The situation in Selinus is serious and the Carthaginians are about to attack. What do you think?" Davers asked straight to the point.

"Your Majesty, you must immediately reinforce Selinus. I am willing to lead the First Legion to Selinus defense!" Amintas took the initiative to fight and stayed in Minoa during this period. He also saw that Davers did not intend to fight with the Carthaginians in a short period of time, and Selinus would definitely become the focus of the next war.

"I agree with Amintas's opinion, Selinus must receive reinforcements!" Alexis also said: "But one legion has too few troops, at least two legions of reinforcements, so that while completing defense, there are also troops that can take the initiative to attack and disrupt the Carthaginians' attack.

Carlsydis gave me a good inspiration just now. In the past, we used to laying multiple obstacles in the city and camp outside the camp in defense to achieve the purpose of obstructing and killing the enemy. Now that the Carthage army is approaching, it is impossible to make detailed arrangements outside the city, but defense measures can be built in the city. Why not build more inner walls and place more traps? After all, what we need to focus on protecting is the port. There are no residents in the city. We can completely treat it as a battlefield to achieve the goal of killing Carthage soldiers and giving them major blows! However, it is necessary to demolish the city's residences and build city walls, traps and other facilities in a short period of time, which also requires a large number of manpower..."

Davers was listening carefully while thinking, and then he said to Amintas seriously: "Did you hear all the suggestions from Alexis just now? What do you think?"

Amintas said anxiously: "Alexis' proposal is very good, but those are all after the enemy began to attack the city. If I were the commander of the city of Selinus, I would ask His Majesty to send a cavalry army to command me. The Carthaginians are now building walls at such a close distance, and in fact, the obstacles to their use of cavalry are caused by the obstacles. I would send cavalry army to raid them from time to time.

In addition, I would like to ask His Majesty to allocate all the crossbows and belly bows to me. I will place them all on the top of the city, carry out precise attacks on the Carthaginians, and constantly kill and damage the Carthaginian soldiers..."

After hearing this, Davers pondered for a moment and said decisively: "Amintas, 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. Keep Selinus City for me. If you lose it, don't come to see me!"

Davers certainly had his own considerations when choosing Amintas as Commander of Selinus: Although Amintas sometimes loses his calmness in offense because he is too belligerent in offense, his performance becomes much more calm when defending, and instead he can fully utilize his experienced expertise and show it very clearly in Ostia's defensive battle.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will make Selinus the underworld for the Carthaginians!" Amintas said loudly with excitement.

"I will inform Secretlian and ask him to draw out some crew members to assist your troops in completing the construction of the Selinus City defense facilities as soon as possible."

After Davers said that, he looked at Karcidis again: "Karcidis, you will still command the 4,000 soldiers and have the power to attend every military meeting in Selinus City, because you are familiar with the situation of Selinus City and the enemies outside the city, and you can provide good advice to Amintas."

When Carlsidis heard this, he was excited. His original position was appointed by commander Leotizides. Now King Davers continued to command these 4,000 people, and confirmed the appointment. Moreover, such wartime military meetings can only be attended by positions above the Legion Commander, and ordinary team officials are allowed to participate in special circumstances. Davers allowed him to participate normally in the future, which means that he has the qualification to be on par with the Legion Commander.

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

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

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

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After successfully building the exterior wall of the camp, Ma Ge ordered the soldiers to build the inner wall as soon as possible. Seeing that the trench had been dug and the soil was gradually being built and compacted, the situation changed. The originally calm city of Selinus suddenly rushed out of several hundred cavalry from the north gate, east gate and west gate, and raided the Carthage soldiers who were building the inner wall of the camp.

The unprepared Carthage soldiers immediately dispersed. When the fully armed Carthage reinforcements arrived, the Dionysian cavalry retreated back to the city in time.

Several consecutive raids made Mago realize that the Dionians had increased troops to the city of Selinnus and began to intensify harassment outside the city. It was obvious that the Carthaginian army could not build facilities like before without attacking the city of Selinnus and not attracting the attention of the defenders, and advance to the city with all their might.

Although he wanted to attack Selinnus City to attract the main force of Dionia to fight again, he hoped that after completing all arrangements, the city of Selinnus City would lose its defensive advantage, so he ordered the troops to step up the construction of the inner walls of the camp, and at the same time arranged a fully armed army behind the soldiers who built the inner walls to prepare for defense.

At the same time, he also transferred thousands of cavalrymen to patrol the outside of the inner wall of the camp, staring at the movements of several gates in Selinus City.

Unexpectedly, the crossbows and belly bows were fired together, focusing on attacking the places where the Carthaginian cavalry and infantry gathered a hundred meters away, causing some casualties, forcing Maggie to hurriedly retreat the defensive forces.

Of course, he did not interrupt the construction of the inner wall, but instead sent more soldiers to speed up the construction. At the same time, he also pulled up crossbows and launched an attack on the head of the city of Selinus under the cover of the earthen tower.

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When Mago was racking his brains to deal with the raid in the city, he received a request for help from the messenger of Palermos: an army of tens of thousands of people landed on the beach near Palermos!

Ma Ge was surprised: Dionian's army was either on the south coast or in the mountainous areas in the central region, why did another army of tens of thousands of people appear? Could it be that the Dionians were recruited from Great Greece?

Ma Ge never thought that it might be the Dionian army attacking Syracuse. He mainly saw the city of Syracuse with his own eyes. He did not think that the Dionian army could conquer Syracuse in such a short time.

Although he was a little worried about the military potential of Dionia, Mago now has no time to think about the origin of this Dionia army. He realized that due to the calmness of the north coast during this period, he began to ignore the Phoenician city-state that was a little far away from the core area of ​​western Sicily. Instead, he also took away some of Palermos' citizens to come to Selinus to build the city wall. Now that Palermos is attacked, if it falls, it means that the coastline that the Carthaginian army can use will be further shortened, which will be more conducive to the blockade of the Dionia fleet.

He secretly scolded himself for his negligence, and immediately sent a messenger to the north to inform Hasdruba, stationed near Segesta, and asked him to lead his troops to rescue Palermos immediately.

After Hasdruba received the order, he soon led 30,000 soldiers to march quickly to Palermos.

But he didn't know that after Leottizides led the Seventh and Eighth Legion quickly landed on the coast, he neither directly attacked Palermos nor started building a camp. In addition to leaving a small number of soldiers to monitor the movements of Palermos and Sorus in the east, the large army quickly rushed to the mountain pass to the south and the coastal trail entrance to the west with the prepared city construction materials. All the soldiers seized the time to dig trenches, traps, lay down deer forts, build earthen turrets, smash wooden stakes, and build wooden towers...

Hasdruba did not choose to take the coastal path because it was not conducive to the passage of the army, and the Dionia fleet controlled the coastline. When his army lined up in long queues and was unable to look after each other at the end, it was easy to be attacked by the Dionia fleet, so he led the army to the mountain path.
Chapter completed!