Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

At this time, Zantiparis' force was reduced to 7,000 men, but this was three and a half times as many as Segovani's.

For two days in a row, the Kautini warriors repelled the enemy's attack, but they also paid a lot of casualties. The city of Abela was even more dilapidated. The bad news of the fall of Beneventum, that night, abandoned the people of Abella and Cesara in the city, and led the army to quietly withdraw to Kautim.

The next day, the people in the city discovered that they had been abandoned by Segovani. The few remaining Abella and Cesaras soldiers decided to surrender to the coalition forces outside the city, but they were full of hatred and suffered a lot of losses. Of course, the Nia warriors were firmly opposed, and Zantiparis refused. Because of Davos's instructions, Abella, as a small town connecting Cautem and Beneventum in the eastern plains of Campania, is too important and must be completely in the hands of the Kingdom of Dionia. In order to avoid future management troubles, Zantiparis felt that it would be appropriate to directly occupy it.

The Dionysian coalition launched an attack, and in a flash, they entered the city and occupied Abella.

Nakonian warriors brought captured Kautini warriors to the corpses of Nakonia's former chiefs and sacrificed them in blood.

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In the east, Alexis only rested in Beneventom for a day, and simply dealt with some affairs in the city, that is, let Paulette divide half of his troops to garrison the city, and he personally led the other troops to the city. March west, through the mountain pass, to Kautim.

After Zantiparis captured Abella, he also led his troops to march east without stopping, and successfully joined forces with Alexis at Kautim, with nearly 30,000 troops.

The Kautim garrison was less than 2,000 people, which made the tribes in the city feel very panic. Some leaders joined together and suggested to Segovani whether they could surrender to the Dionysian coalition to protect the people in the city.

Segovani refused without thinking.

The unwilling leaders eagerly argued with him. Unexpectedly, this angered Segovani, who became increasingly surly due to the repeated defeats. He arrested the leader, expelled the others, and threatened to fight with Dionysus. The Asian coalition fought bloody to the end.

This crazy move caused some tribes to be distracted, and there were not a few people who went out of the city that night to secretly communicate with the Dionysian army.

How could Alexis miss such a good opportunity and immediately launch a siege the next day.

Cautim soon fell, and Segovani was also killed at the head of the city. So far, the two most powerful tribes in the Samonai tribe, the Hirpini, were completely conquered, and Cautini was also mostly conquered. , the remaining Kautini towns in the north, such as Kapua and Calatia (), are hard to support, and it is also a matter of time before they are conquered.

Just when the Dionian coalition joined forces at Kautim, Contruk and Badani gathered the maximum force of 5,000 soldiers that the two tribes could muster, and wanted to carry out a surprise attack on the Dionian army in the east. .

However, the cautious Capps did not go further into the mountains after occupying Equium. Instead, while stabilizing the local order, he continued to send reconnaissance teams to investigate the surrounding terrain in detail.

As a result, the movements of Samone's army were detected, and he immediately made preparations for defense.

The raid by the two Samonai tribes finally turned into a frontal assault. After paying some casualties, they had to choose to retreat.

Subsequently, the news of Beneventum and Kautim's fall came one after another.

Contruk and Badani were shocked, and had to lead their own troops and retreat to the tribal territory to prepare for the coming attack of the Dionian coalition.

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Your Majesty, good news! Zantiparis' army not only captured Lola, but also defeated Kautini's main force who came to the rescue!... Thormid hurried into the tent, excited said out loud.

Oh! Davos hurriedly took the battle report, and after reading it carefully, he immediately smiled and said, This is indeed good news! The defeat of Kautini, the surrender of the Naconians, and the victory of Samonay's battle have been decided. Zantiparis has done a great job! Is this the first time he has independently led the army?

Yes, Your Majesty. Zantiparis was about to retire from the army before, and he was temporarily recruited by the Ministry of Military Affairs to Lucania to form a reserve army. Because of the outbreak of the Samona War, he led his team to participate in the camp in Campania. War... Thormed said it in such detail because he was selfish. He had a very good relationship with Zantiparis, and they both came to Great Greece together back then, so he hoped that Zantiparis, who was over 60 years old, would be in the kingdom. There can be a good development.

Of course Davos knew that Tormide and Zantiparis were better, but he didn't care about his hidden thoughts, instead he patted the battle report, half sighing and half regretting: Whether it is to capture Lola, Still defeating the main force of Kautini, Zantiparis has shown excellent military command ability! He should not have been a prosecutor of the Ministry of Military Affairs in the first place, and all these years have been wasted in vain! My understanding of them is still Not enough!  …”

Thormed did not speak, but he was happy for his friend in his heart.

Davos sighed for a while, and then praised loudly: This time the strategic plan for Samonay designated by your military affairs department is also very good! Alexis in the east, Zantiparis and Campa in the west. The Allied Forces of Nia, Abenerum and Potentia in the central part cooperated closely and took turns to attack, so that Gu Dong of the Samone could not take care of Xi, and Gu Xi could not take care of Zhong, and failure was doomed. Understand!

Yes, Your Majesty. Henipolis, the secretary, also said with a smile: As you have said, although the Samonais are hungry wolves, we Dionia are lions, evil. Even if the wolf bites the male lion a few times, it will not cause much damage, but as long as the male lion gives the hungry wolf a paw, its half life will be gone.

We have to be more greedy, the whole life of this evil wolf. Davos made a joke, and then said: Heney, go and take out the map of the Samona area and put it on it.

Henepolis responded. Then he went to look for the bookshelves full of various documents, and Krotokatax came to help him.

Thormid. Davos continued: I thought about the letter from the Ministry of Military Affairs saying, 'The increase in the number of troops involved in the Samona war has led to the shortage of rations', I thought about it, and later Alexis and Zanti We will supply the rations for the troops led by Paris.

Your Majesty, you mean... transporting rations from Rome to Campania? Tolmid asked this, just out of courtesy, in fact he was not surprised, because the food hoarding in Rome was indeed very abundant, Not only the rations seized by the army from Rome, as well as the food scavenged from almost all Roman noble houses, but also the rations collected from the captured Latin and Etruscan city-states, the amount is staggering enough to supply Latin America. This Dionian army of Mu and the people of Rome were used for half a year.

The young people you lead the staff will formulate a more detailed food supply plan based on the military situation in Campania, as well as the food and transportation conditions in Rome, and then submit it to me for review and then send it to Asistes. , let him be in charge of the arrangement. Davos instructed.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Davos touched his jaw, pondered for a while, and then said: It seems that we should also send someone to ask the Etruscan and Latin allies for rations...

Father, isn't Rome's food reserves still very sufficient! And it will be harvested again in two months. Most of the farmland outside Rome, Wiai, Gabi and other cities has not been destroyed. Good care, I believe that enough food will be harvested at that time, not only to supply the Latinum and Campania troops, but also to provide assistance to the Sicilian army, there is absolutely no need to ask for food from the newly joined allies, thus Deepen their dissatisfaction with us. Clotokatax persuaded a little worriedly.

Davos looked at him with a smile: I am glad that you are not idle in Rome, and have a more detailed understanding of the areas we occupied, as it should be! However, the reason why I have to send people to ask for food from these allies, Not because we are short of food, but to solve their confusion.

Resolve their confusion?! Clotokatax himself was confused.

Davos smiled and explained patiently to him: In the past, when Rome fought every year, they often asked these allies for food and soldiers, and they were used to it. Now these city-states have joined us in Dionia, and We've been fighting alone, never asking them for help, and I'm afraid they'll be confused and even worried if we'll turn to them after we've wiped out Rome.

Crotokatax suddenly realized: So asking them for food is to show them that Dionysus really regards them as allies.

Davers continued: This is just a purpose. Also, I would ask the envoys to ask them for food without making a hard and fast rule on the amount. This way, each ally can provide just enough food We make a rough judgment how much sincerity they have towards Dionia!

Clotokatax was thoughtful.

Davos glanced at the map already placed on the table and said, Clotto, you have just heard the news that 'Zantiparis led the army to defeat the main force of Kautini in Lora', and Alek The Sith have also come under the city of Beneventum, and Kapus is attacking the Hillpini Mountains from the east... It is only a matter of time before the defeat of the Samonais. If you are to deal with the conquered Samona What will you do with the mountains?