The strong military force gave Ma Ge enough confidence, and some casualties would not make him care, and his words also cheered up the generals.

Ma Ge said to the adjutant again: "Send someone to inform Admika of the south camp immediately and ask him to organize 10,000 soldiers, and then rush to the east camp as our support."

"Yes, sir!"

Mago looked around and said in a stiff Celtic language: "Rutam, you and your tribe are forwards."

Rutam, the Celtic leader who looked and dressed clearly different from others, replied in a muffled voice: "Oh!"

Rutam is a Lusitanian. This race that lives widely in northwestern Iberia was fierce and warlike. It once caused great trouble to Mago's expansion in the Iberian Peninsula and even threatened his rule in southern Iberia. In the end, Mago had to sign a peace agreement with them. This time, he impressed several large tribes of the race with his generous interests, causing them to form an army of about 8,000 people to follow Mago to fight against Sicily. Rutam was just one of the tribe leaders, and because the melee in the dark night relied on personal force, which was conducive to their performance.

About ten minutes later, the troops of the Central Army camp successively left the south gate of the camp and marched along the built earth wall toward the east camp, which was in chaos.

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When evening arrived, Leottizides went to the east city and looked at Carthage's camp with all his concentration. He waited until the camp opposite was loud and there was a hustle and bustle. He felt relieved for a while, and then immediately ordered the 10,000 heavy infantrymen, composed of the Eighth Legion and the Preparatory Soldiers who had been waiting in the city, rushed out of the city and continued to attack the enemy camp that had begun to fall into chaos.

At the same time, Leotizides, who was careful in his work, did not forget that while the enemy's attention was attracted by the night attack, he sent soldiers from the mountain reconnaissance team to climb over the earth wall and lurk in front of camps in various Carthage, promptly reporting the scene he saw, allowing him to fully understand the enemy's response situation.

Therefore, even though he learned that the raid troops had merged and completely crushed the enemy's resistance, causing the camp to completely fall into chaos, he was not excited. On the contrary, after learning that most of the Carthage camps in other areas had gathered their soldiers, they did not rush to rescue, but instead stationed on the borders of their respective camps, which made him feel uneasy.

Sure enough, the raid troops wanted to drive away the defeated troops to destroy the nearby camp and continued to expand the chaos, but the progress was a bit slow.

At this time, another urgent news came: the central camp in Carthage had sent troops, and they were rushing east along the earth wall.

Leothis immediately realized that the Carthaginians wanted to cut off the return of the night attack troops and surrounded them and annihilate them.

The Dionian soldier who participated in the night attack was the main force under Leotizides. She had been standing on the top of the city, paying attention to the progress of the battle just to avoid such a thing.

"Woo! Woo! Woo!..." The trumpet soldiers who had been standing on the city wall immediately sounded the trumpet of retreat.

Before departure, the assault soldiers who received repeated instructions from the commander heard the trumpets and reminded each other, stop pursuing the defeated soldiers one after another...

Before retreating, they did the last thing - burning the camp.

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Mago led the rescue troops to arrive, and the news that "the Dionians actually retreated back to the city" was indeed beyond his expectations. In his opinion, after the Dionians successfully attacked the night, they would definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue the defeated troops and expand the results of the battle, which gave him time to surround them. However, the Dionians' calmness and decisiveness made his plan fail, and the reinforcements that rushed to the scene had to become firefighters.

As a pioneer, the Lusitalians were unwilling to chase each other, but were attacked by long-range troops from the city guards who were prepared. After some casualties, they had to retreat in disappointment.

In this night attack, the Dionians only suffered more than 400 casualties, but caused nearly 4,000 deaths and injuries to the Carthaginian army, half of which were caused by Carthaginian soldiers storming and trampling each other when they fled in the dark. At the same time, one-third of the area of ​​the eastern barracks was burned into white land, and the Carthaginian army suffered heavy losses.

After returning to the tent, Ma Ge failed to fall asleep. He was worried about this failure. The tenacious fighting will and the changeable tactics of the Dionians, who were far inferior, frightened him and realized that his huge force had numbed him and made him slow to react to the battle situation.

After learning from his mistakes, the next day he used this as a reason to forcefully dismiss most of the Carthaginian generals, allowing senior team officials who had followed him to fight on the Iberian Peninsula for many years to take over the Carthaginian army and began to reorganize and train them.

At the same time, he temporarily suspended the construction of the earthen walls and stepped up the renovation of the simple camp.

Of course, the fire last night caused the Carthaginians to lose a lot of supplies, and Mago sent a messenger to inform the city lord Emisere of Lilibi to transport a batch of supplies to the camp.

There is no shortage of materials in the city of Lilibi for the time being, but the manpower is insufficient, so laborers in the port have to be temporarily recruited.

When the team transporting the baggage was about to arrive at the Carthage camp, an accident occurred: a laborer from the port made an excuse of being unwell and left the transport team, trying to escape. He was discovered by patrolling cavalrymen in the middle. Under their pursuit, the laborer jumped off the cliff and fell into the sea.

For the Carthaginians, this was a trivial matter, and no one mentioned it again after the transport team arrived at the camp.

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In the past two days, Miltias' uneasy mood improved a little, because the Sicilian fleet made great efforts in the night attack the night before, not only won a big victory, but also had minor casualties. He believed that the Military Affairs Department would reduce his dissatisfaction with him after receiving this good news.

After breakfast, he prepared to go to the dock, direct the fleet to leave the port, and cruise to the western Sicily waters.

Although the Carthage army landed in Sicily, it is not enough to support such a huge army with the help of the Carthage allies in western Sicily. More materials also need to be continuously transported from the continent of Aphilica opposite the sea. This requires the Sicilian fleet to cut off the route between Carthage and Sicily. After a long time, the Carthage army will fall into the dilemma of insufficient supply of materials, so Mirthias dare not slackewer anymore.

But before he could walk out of the courtyard, the gate of the courtyard was suddenly pushed open, and the guards rushed in: "General, good news! Lord Seclian... is still alive! He...he is back!"

Miltias was shocked, and looked at the guards' excitement and asked subconsciously: "Who do you think is alive?!"

"Mirtyas, Hades blessed, of course I am still alive!" Along with this familiar voice, a familiar figure appeared at the door.

"Ah... Lord Seclian!" Mirtias hurriedly saluted.

At this time, Seclian was thin and tired, and a red cloak was tightly wrapped in his body. He said anxiously: "Get me some food quickly, I'm almost starving to death."

"Go and notify the kitchen, reheat the porridge, then heat the bread, and fry a few more fish..." Miltias quickly instructed the guards.

"What's the hot thing? Just bring the bread and porridge up, and I'll fill my stomach first." Secrean said impatiently, then turned around and said to the fleet soldiers who accompanied him here: "Brothers, hurry up and go back to perform your mission. If you delay, you will be punished. When I get rested, I will have a good chat with you."

A large group of crew members who were clustered outside the door followed Seclian's persuasion and reluctantly left the house and returned to the dock. The news of "Seclian back alive" quickly spread throughout the fleet. Every crew member was excited because they thought that the dead naval commander and hero were back, which was simply a miracle!

Watching Secrean eat breakfast voraciously, Miltias choked in his throat until Secrean burped, then stopped eating, put his hands on the wooden table, and stared at the clay pot with porridge. After a while, he said in a low tone: "On the way here, the brothers told me... Flarios was killed in battle, and the entire Sicilian fleet was almost destroyed by the storm, and many brothers drowned..."

Mirtias watched Secrean lean forward slowly, as if he was about to sank on the wooden table. He was about to speak when he heard a "pop" sound. Secrean slapped his right hand on the wooden table, almost overturning the clay pot on the table. He straightened his back again: "However, we still have dozens of warships preserved, but the Carthage fleet was wiped out. We also took the opportunity to occupy Selinus, so my Sicilian fleet won that naval battle!"

Confident and arrogant, returning to Secretyan's face, Miltias certainly would not argue with him. Whether the decisive battle with the Carthage fleet on a stormy day was right or wrong, but took the opportunity to raise the doubts in his heart: "Sir, we have been looking for you for this period of time, but have not found it. Where have you been?"

"I'm in Lilibi." Secrean said lightly.

"You... were you captured by the Carthaginians?!" Miltias was surprised: Why did the Carthaginians who came to exchange prisoners before never mention this?!

"Of course not." Secreyan recalled painfully: "...After that storm, I woke up and found myself lying on the beach, surrounded by drowning crew members... I wanted to wake them up, but I saw the Carthaginians rushed to the beach. I didn't want to be captured by them and swam into the sea again...
Chapter completed!