Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 881

[Chapter 228 The ending of the Samona coalition (3)]

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”, the people of Abella and Cesara in the city were abandoned that night, and the army quietly retreated 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 for a day in Beneventom, and simply dealt with some affairs in the city, that is, let Polert divide half of his troops , stationed in the city, and the rest of the army, led by him, marched westward, through the mountain road, 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 difficult 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 fell” came one after another.

Contruk and Badani were shocked and had to lead their troops and return to the tribal territory to prepare for the upcoming Dai Onian coalition attack.

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“Your Majesty, good news! Zantiparis’ army not only captured Lola, but also defeated the main force of Kautini who came to the rescue! …” Thormid hurried into the big tent and said excitedly.

“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! This is the first time he has led the army independently, right?”

“Yes, Your Majesty. Zantiparis was about to retire from the army, and the Ministry of Military Affairs temporarily recruited him to Lucania. To form a reserve army, because of the outbreak of the Samona war, and led the team to participate in the war in Campania…” Tormide said such details is selfish, he and Zantiparis have a good relationship, and they both They came to Great Greece together, so he hoped that Zantiparis, who was over 60 years old, would still have a good development in the kingdom.

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 It’s

not enough!…”

Thormed didn’t say anything, 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. It

‘s done!”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” The clerk Henipolis also said with a smile: “As you have said, although the Samonais are hungry wolves, we Dionia are Male lion, 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 wicked wolf.” Davos made a joke, and then said: “Heney, go and get the map of the Samonai area and put it on it.”

Henipolis responded .

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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 army led by Paris.”

“Your Majesty, you mean . . . transporting rations from Rome to Campania?” Not surprised, because the food hoarding in Rome is indeed very abundant, not only the military rations seized by the army from Rome, and the food looted from almost all Roman noble houses, as well as from the captured Latin and Etruscan city-states. The amount of forage collected was astonishing, enough to supply the Dionian army in Latium and the people in Rome 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 chin, pondered for a while, and then said, “It seems that we should also send someone to ask for rations from the Etruscan and Latin allies…”

“Father, from Rome. Isn’t the grain reserve still very sufficient? And it will be harvested again in two months. Most of the farmland outside the cities of Rome, Wiai, Gabi, etc. has not been destroyed, and is now being well taken care of by the Roman people. I believe There will be enough food to be harvested not only for the Latinum and Campania armies, but also for the Sicilian army, there is absolutely no need to ask the new allies for food, thus deepening their love for us. Dissatisfied.” Clotokatax persuaded a little worriedly.

Davos looked at him with a smile: “I’m glad that you are not idle in Rome, UU reading www.sonicmtl.com has a more detailed understanding of the area we occupied, it should be like this! However, the reason why I want to send People ask these allies for food, not because we are in short supply, but to solve their confusion.”

“To solve 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 have been fighting alone, never asking for any help from them, and I am afraid they will be confused and even worried that after we have eliminated Rome, we will not turn to them again.”

Crotokatax suddenly realized: “So to They ask for food precisely to show them that Dionysus really sees them as allies.”

Davos continued: “This is just a purpose. Also, I would ask the messengers to ask them for food at the same time as There is no hard and

fast

rule on its quantity. In this way, the amount of food provided by each ally allows us to make a rough judgment on how much sincerity they are to Dionia!”

think.

Davos glanced at the map already 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 invaded the city of Beneventum, and Capus has attacked 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?”