Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 880

[Chapter 227 The ending of the Samona coalition (2)]

Alexis was not too surprised when the word “surrender” was spat out of the Beneventoum messenger, because all the Shilpini tribes, except Beneventoum, had already surrendered to Dio. Nia, and then he learned that Caracheni’s army had left the city of Beneventum, so Beneventum was already a turtle in a urn.

Therefore, Alexis said confidently: “It is a good thing that Beneventom can surrender! However, as one of the initiators of this war, according to other tribes, Beneventom is still the war. The main commander has caused great disaster to Dionia and her allies, and must be severely punished!” When

the envoy of Beneventum heard this, he was so frightened that he quickly said: “Honorable General Alexis, for the For Beneventum’s fault, Suwani has already handed down the punishment, and the great leader Lesquk committed suicide last night to apologize!”

“Lesquk is dead?!” Gellney in the tent was surprised. asked.

“Yes, Chief Gellney.” The messenger looked at Gellney with a sad expression, and said with a choked sob: “Before he died, the chief regretted what he had done to Abenirum. He hoped that All the faults are borne by him alone, and I hope you can spare the tribes of Beneventum!”

“Leskouk would never say such a thing.” Gairney shook his head and sat down again, but his mood looks good.

Alexis said solemnly: “The suicide of Leskuk does not take away the responsibility of the Beneventoum people! Our King Davos once wrote to point out, ‘These more than ten Beneventoum people Over the years, he has been malicious to Dionia, and has been maliciously suppressing and bullying Abenirum, who has friendly relations with Dionia, and is also the main perpetrator of this war! … ‘

Because of your wanton tearing up Covenant, in order to avoid being provoked by your Beneventum in the future, King Davos instructed, ‘Beneventum must be fully incorporated into the kingdom of Dionia, the tribes and peoples of Beneventum You can join the kingdom of Dionia, or you can move to other places in the mountains of Samona.’ When this war is over, the mountains will be so vast that there will be places where you can settle.”

When the messenger heard this, he was angry, blushing and shouting: “Dionia is trying to use the war as an excuse to take the opportunity to forcibly annex us Beneventum?! If so, we Beneven The warriors of Tum will never give in and will fight to the end! Suwani will protect us, even if all the Dionians here die in battle, they will never attempt to attack the city of Beneventum!”

After the messenger roared, he continued Turning his head to look at Gellney, he rebuked: “You see, this is the ambition of the Dionysians! Today is Beneventum, tomorrow may be Abenerum, the Dionysians are afraid Do you still want to be their accomplice if you want to destroy the entire Samonais?!”

Galney turned a blind eye to the messenger’s words, Alexis had already told him Davos’s instructions, Davos wants him to become the great leader of the Shilpini tribe, of course he is very happy, although the most powerful Beneventum will be separated and completely become part of the kingdom of Dionia, there are some It’s a pity, but it also means that the situation that Beneventum has suppressed Abenirum for decades will no longer exist. In the future, he will rule the entire tribe with much less restraint, so he can accept this.

He responded calmly: “Abenirum has joined the kingdom of Dionia.” The

messenger was stunned.

Alexis said in a tough tone: “Our soldiers have long been ready to storm the city of Beneventum! Whether to accept this condition or fight to the death,

Bereventum must give me an answer today , or we will start the siege tomorrow!” The

messenger hurried back to the city, but he did not expect that there was a turmoil in the city.

It turned out that the tribal warriors in which Leskuk belonged were provoked by their relatives and believed that the suicide of the leader was related to the fact that other tribal leaders were greedy for life, fearing death, and collectively forcing the palace. They not only imprisoned the two tribal elders who participated in the incident, but also asked other tribal leaders. They must be held accountable for this and, according to tradition, be tried and punished.

The other tribal chiefs certainly couldn’t accept it, and the angered Leskuk’s tribal warriors insisted on making them pay, leading to an escalation of the conflict.

The tribe of Leskuk is the largest tribe in the Beneventoum territory, and the other tribes can only unite to fight against it.

The messenger told the two parties about Dionia’s harsh conditions. Although everyone finally calmed down their anger temporarily and sat down to discuss the matter, but due to the lack of a leader, they argued for a long time, but they could not come up with a unified opinion. Or and?

The tribe of Leskuk elected his eldest son to participate in the discussion. He not only took a firm attitude during the meeting and wanted to fight the Dionysian coalition to the death, but also continued to verbally attack other leaders who proposed further negotiations. He stared at the other leaders with hatred in his eyes, which shocked the leaders.

Since Beneventum did not reply that day, Alexis kept his promise and sent a large army early the next morning to prepare to attack the city.

The morale of the Dionian coalition was high and the desire to fight was strong.

After learning that the army dominated by the Lucania Reserve Corps had defeated the main force of Kautini, the soldiers of the 10th and 11th Corps certainly could not allow themselves to be compared by the legion reserve soldiers. For the Abenirum warriors, the capture of the city of Beneventum can finally take revenge and let them vent the oppression and humiliation they have suffered for more than ten years, so they are all excited; for Potentia For the warriors, capturing the city of Beneventum will prevent them from having to listen to the old generation’s ramble about how terrible the Samonites are in the future. They can proudly tell future generations that they have captured the largest town of the Samonites.

Alexis ordered the siege deployment: the Potentian army attacked the eastern wall, the Dionysian army attacked the west, and the Abenerum army attacked the south.

Alexis also placed the surrendered Shirpini warriors under the command of Garni. He could not allow the entire army to attack the city, but there were some Shirpini warriors in the camp who were not sure of their loyalty. on the sidelines.

Facing the dissent from these tribes, Garni threatened viciously: “You once faced the oath made by Leskuk, but now that Leskuk has committed suicide, naturally this oath need not be kept, don’t look for it again. Any excuse to avoid this battle, I tell you, the tribes who participate in this battle are allies of Dionia, those who do not participate are enemies, you choose!”

Many people secretly scolded Garni in their hearts, but none of the tribes dared to lead troops to leave without authorization.

Gellney was not polite, and directly arranged them at the forefront of the siege.

The Dionysian coalition forces were about to siege the city, but the leaders in Beneventum City did not make a defense plan at all because yesterday’s argument was inconclusive. Unexpectedly, the Dionysian coalition forces launched an attack at dawn. Immediately panicked, they brought their warriors and rushed to the city for defense, their arrangement was hasty and chaotic.

Moreover, Beneventom is a big city, 2,000 soldiers could not cover the entire city, and when they saw the enemy rushing in like a tide under the city, as well as those tall siege machines they had never seen before, some leaders felt drums in their hearts and moved. Got other thoughts.

The siege battle had just begun, and several tribes responsible for defending the southern city took the initiative to open the city gates and surrendered to the Dionysian coalition.

Abenerum’s army took the opportunity to rush into the city, and Beneventum’s defense line collapsed. The last Reskok tribe had to surrender even with most of the casualties and the death of the temporary leader.

The Dionian coalition captures Beneventoum.

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The fall of Beneventum meant that the coalition led by Alexis could pass the mountain pass to the east and reach Kautim.

Cautini’s spies, who had been closely watching the battle at Beneventoum, quickly relayed the bad news back to Caoutim.

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The people of Kautim were extremely panicked, because most of their young and middle-aged people were under the leadership of Segovani, and they were defending against another Dionysian coalition in Abella.

A few days ago, Segovani was angry with the betrayal of the Nakonians, so he ordered the Nakonian leaders imprisoned in Kautim to be escorted to Abella, beheaded all, and hang their heads in the city. to vent his anger and take revenge on the Nakonians.

The Nakonian warriors headed by Vasunk were indeed provoked, and asked Zantiparis to attack the city of Abella.

Zantiparis saw that the Nakonians had high fighting spirit, and through exploration, he found that Abela was not only a small city, but also had poor defense facilities (Abela was located in the hinterland of Kautini, and had never been threatened by foreign enemies. The surrounding mountains are difficult to climb, the land is barren and threatened by survival, the Abela people are busy looting and have no intention to repair the city), so he agreed to the request of the Nakonians and attacked Lola. After the siege equipment used in the city was loaded, the order to siege the city was issued.

The attack consisted of Nakonian soldiers as the main force, Dionysian soldiers as auxiliary, and Campania Confederate soldiers as backup, waving the flag and shouting with great momentum.

It turned out that the generals of the Allied Army in Campania saw that the remnants of Kautini had been driven out of the Campania plain and there was no threat to them, so they moved to “return to their motherland and quickly rebuild their homeland” “In his mind, they asked Zantiparis to resign and leave. In the end, even the Naples general Aeolos couldn’t sit still, but he left behind 1,000 Naples soldiers.

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