Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 724

[Chapter 69 The Romans and the Samonais in Action]

After some scramble, Capps transferred him to the quarters department as an adjutant of the quarters. He has undertaken a lot of work in recent years, and also relieved a lot of burdens for Capps.

And since serving as the acting quartermaster, Alpence has performed steadily as usual, and there have been no mistakes, which completely reassured Davos.

At this time, Davos comforted him and said: “You don’t have to worry, the food problem will be greatly improved soon. Lijim merchants bought a large amount of grain in the Eoke Sea and Egypt, which will be shipped soon. In addition, the second batch of grain provided by the Egyptian pharaoh will also be shipped soon, and these grains will be used as military supplies .”

“That’s great!” Alpins finally showed a smile.

“What do you think of Rome’s attack on the Herniki people?” Davos turned to look at the Minister of War, Hiros.

Hieros glanced at Hieronymus, Philisius, and Alpins, and said solemnly: “Your Majesty, after consultation with our military department, we feel that although Rome is an enemy, this time, they have changed their attack. The direction, shrinking the defense line on the sea side, and attacking the Herniki people inland is indeed a good strategy, it makes our 3rd fleet unable to function. At the same time, the Romans are still on the sea side. There were a lot of soldiers stationed in this town, which made us and the Volsci coalition not dare to attack it, because that would lead to more casualties for the coalition with few troops. In this way, Rome Humans can attack the weak Herniki with all their strength. Even with the help of the Volsci, we don’t think they can resist the Romans’ attack. Unless the Eques and the Masi come to the rescue, the Heni will not be able to resist. The Ji people are in danger. Therefore, Amyntas wrote to ask for more reinforcements.”

“Your Majesty, we have just signed an alliance agreement with the Herniki people.” Philisius interjected.

Davos nodded, staring at the area on the map where the Helniki people lived, without speaking for a while.

The others also kept quiet, waiting for Davos to make a decision.

At this time, the herald Aristillas hurriedly pushed the door and walked into the conference room: “Your Majesty, the battle report from the Latium area.”

Davos took a look, his eyelids jumped, and he handed the papyrus scroll .

To Hiros next to him.

Hiros hurriedly took it, and after reading it, he was shocked: “More than 10,000 coalition forces organized by the Equi and the Masi people attacked the Latin city-state of Bolae, trying to attract the Roman army who attacked Herniki to return to help. As a result, it was raided by more than 20,000 Roman troops that quickly set off from Rome city, and suffered a crushing defeat!”

“How could the Romans have more than 20,000 troops?!

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Aristillas replied calmly: “It is estimated that it may be from the Roman colonial city north of the Tiber River and the army of the Etruscan allies.”

“It seems that the Romans have planned this time!” Dive S sighed and said, “Camilus’s trick of ‘baiting the enemy into the bait’ works well.”

The others present are all seasoned veterans, and they understand what Davos means: Camelus will take Rome The large army was placed in the front line, and the rear was deliberately empty. In fact, the army had already been hidden in the city of Rome. The combined army of the Equi and the Masi people did not dare to confront the Roman army head-on due to their small strength, and adopted the method of attacking the rear. Forcing the Roman army to return to help, the result was raided by the Romans who had prepared for it. After all, Rome was only more than 50 miles away from the city of Bonnet.

Philisius leaned over the map again, observed it carefully, and frowned, “Your Majesty, after this fiasco, the Eques and the Masi people may no longer be able to rescue Helniki. Man, the Romans can attack them with confidence, here—”

Philisius pointed to the camp of the Roman army, and said in a deep voice: “There were already more than 40,000 Roman soldiers, plus the new 20,000 people, it is far from Heniki and people. The Volsci reinforcements will be able to withstand it, and I believe the Romans will soon be able to eliminate the Helniki power, and then attack the Volsci towns to the east, or–” Philisius used the long wood The stick tugs on the lowlands between Lepiny and Ausoni, with a worried look on his face: “Let’s go west again, and attack the Volseys in the coastal plain from the east, and by then, Even the First Legion could not stop so many Roman soldiers. If the defenders of these Roman colonial towns in the southwest also take advantage of the situation to attack, I believe that the Volsci will soon be wiped out, and the Romans will Completely conquer the Latium region!”

Hiros also interjected at the moment: “Your Majesty, you used to let us pay attention to Rome. To be honest, we didn’t take it too seriously, but now it seems that its war potential is too amazing! You Look, it attacked more than 40,000 Herniki people, and the coalition that defeated the Equus and the Masi was more than 20,000 people. Each with nearly ten thousand defenders, this is an army of nearly one hundred thousand, which means that it can organize a huge army of at least 100 thousand, assuming that these armies are not the same as the Roman army that opposed the first legion. Combat power will also cause us a lot of trouble!”

Several other military ministers also agreed with Hiros’s words.

“Roman’s huge army is indeed a big problem.” Davos looked around at them and said in a deep voice, “But the biggest problem is their dictator Camelus! Although Carthage is powerful, they are in power. Hanno obviously had no experience of war, and he did not understand the meaning of this war. The generals and troops he sent were like playing games, but Camelus obviously knew that the war with us was related to the life and death of Rome. All out from the start.

I got information that he even proposed and passed the proposal in the Roman Senate to ‘use the newly conquered land to distribute the landless poor, and actively absorb the refugees from the Latinum and Etruscan regions as Roman citizens’…etc. In this way, it will not only alleviate the fierce conflict between the nobles and the commoners in the Roman city-state, but also rapidly increase the number of Roman soldiers that can be summoned.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rome is not causing us a lot of trouble, but a real threat to our kingdom of Dionia!

Davos ‘

remarks made everyone’s face gloomy, and even Hieronymus, who usually doesn’t like to talk, couldn’t help cursing at this time: “This Rome!

Not only stealing from our military system, but also copying our political system from Dionia!

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Whether the military system of Rome was created by itself or learned from Dionia, this is a topic that officials of the Ministry of Military Affairs occasionally talk about in their spare time, but everyone present at the moment is obviously not in the mood to discuss this issue any more. Standing beside this three-dimensional map, he stared cautiously at this familiar and unfamiliar city-state on the banks of the middle reaches of the Tiber River.

Suddenly, Tormide said: “Your Majesty, I have an opinion that the Romans destroyed Heath. Erniki, if they capture the towns in the mountains east of Worcey, their sphere of influence will already be bordered by the Samonei people. With the habits of the Samonei people, will they live in peace with such a tough new neighbor? ?

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As long as we think of a way, maybe we can bring these two forces into a fierce conflict, and then—”

“The Samonais will not be so stupid.

“Philicius questioned: “They just ended a war with us, and now the Romans are at war with us, don’t they know that the enemy of the enemy is a friend?”

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Of course the leaders of Samona knew, but those Samonaite tribal warriors and tribes living on the Roman border might not obey for their own interests, and once the conflict broke out, it was beyond the control of the leaders. Now…” Tormid defended. As

he was speaking, Aristillas, who had just left, entered the conference room again, and he said to Davos with a hurried expression: “Your Majesty, from the Downey area. Emergency military situation!

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Davos took a look, then raised his head solemnly to face the curious eyes of everyone, and said slowly: “There is no need to discuss the possible conflict between the Samone and Rome. This morning, the Samone invaded our country. Downey area!”

“What?!!” Everyone’s expressions changed drastically.

Hiros was busy taking the battle report from Davos, UU reading www.sonicmtl.

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“The Samonites successively raided the cities of Ausculum, Vibinum, and Gerunum in the Downey region, and only the city of Gerunum was located in Fren The frontier of Thani, for lack of precaution, was taken because the Florentanis have always been friendly and friendly with us Dionia, and the citizens of the other two cities have repelled the enemy’s raids, but are now under siege. Your Majesty, The Samonites have declared war on us!” Philisius said in a voiceless voice while reading the battle report.

“Isn’t that just right, to save us from worrying every day when the Samone people will betray the kingdom, since they will be so stupid that they will leave the mountainous areas that give us headaches and fight on the plains, which just gives us the opportunity to completely remove the big Samonei. Trouble!” Davos’s composure was not pretending, the attack of the Samonaites more than ten years ago would have made him nervous, but now the strong national strength of the Kingdom of Dionia has given him enough confidence, even in the event of a drought, he There is also enough confidence to completely defeat the wolf that is blocking Dionia’s northward expansion road. It can even be said that the betrayal of the Samonais was the result of his deliberate manipulation.

Davers’ relaxed attitude and confident words were like drinking a glass of cool water for several people in the room, calming their nervous mood.