Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Crotonians say it quickly, let's hear how much appetite Crotone has and want to take advantage of our Dionysia!" Some veterans such as Amintas, Scombras and others started Shouted, the feeling of guilt just now turned into an enemy with the enemy.

Lucias glanced at Daphes: this young man should not be underestimated!

He cleared his throat and said loudly with a normal look: "The Crotone Alliance and Crimea demanded that Dionia compensate Crimea for five hundred talentes, in order to compensate Crimea for the damage he suffered in this battle. The huge losses suffered—"

"What! Five Hundred Talent!!!! You want money and you're crazy!!!" Mercis exclaimed.

Lucias ignored it, looked around the crowd, and continued: "Secondly, in order to prevent the aggressive Agonia from invading the neighboring city-states again, we asked Diaonia to dissolve the alliance and allow Amendolara and Niutou Independence, abolish the alliance!"

"What?! Did I get it wrong?! What right does Crotone have to point fingers at us!"

"We will never agree, this is a humiliation towards Dionia!"

"Get out! Dare to go to the Dionysian Senate to say such things, are you crazy?"

"A fool will agree to such a request! Only a fool will make such a request!"

...

The pot blew up at the meeting place, and the elders yelled and shouted. The grumpy ones such as Amintas, Scombrus even went up to beat Lucias, and were killed by Kunogolata, Cornelius, etc. Stopped and cluttered.

Lucias and Antaoris looked at all of them indifferently as if they were outsiders, as if the chaos was not caused by the two of them, until Daveus stepped forward and said, "Have you heard! This is our answer!"

He said aloud word by word: "No-answer-yes!"

"That means war, because you broke the agreement first." Lucias said rightly.

"Then the war is okay. Isn't that what you really intend to come here." Daveus had already seen through their practices and was too lazy to argue with him again.

His understated attitude prevented Lucias from seeing the expected reaction. It was like hitting an empty punch, and subconsciously said, "War! I am talking about the war between Crotone and Dionia!"

Davers smiled slightly and turned back, "Are we afraid of fighting with Crotone?"

"Great! Finally you can fight again!"

"I can't wait to beat Crotone!"

"We beat Crotone once, and we can defeat it a second time! This time we are going to burn the city of Crotone!"

...

Facing the elders with high fighting spirit, the unexpected Lucias felt a little uneasy.

"Kunogolata, please take note of Crotone's request just now, and it will be available for the next negotiation." Daves said suddenly.

"Next negotiation?" Lucias was puzzled.

"Yes, after the war is over!"

A sigh in Lucias' heart, he saw the burning fighting spirit in Dave's eyes...

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The messengers were sent away. The atmosphere at the venue was still warm. Compared to the former mercenary veterans who had a high level of fighting, the veterans of Amendolara and Turiyi expressed more concerns about the upcoming war.

Kunogolata’s words are very representative: "Master, is it safe for us to fight with Crotone? Crotone has been a great power in Great Greece for decades and has a strong Alliance, it can organize an army of 30,000 or 40,000 people! And it also has 25 three-tiered paddle warships, but we don’t even have a warship. Once the war starts, Crotone can easily block our Port. This time, I am afraid it will not make the mistake of neglecting the enemy again..."

Daveus listened carefully and looked around at these people. He could feel their fear of Crotone, especially the Turui people. It was the power that Crotone had accumulated in their hearts for the third time.He thought about it, and just wanted to answer, and a sudden voice came in: "I said long ago that the damn mercenaries are going to be driven away. You don't listen. Now we have Crotone's revenge! We Some people should be held accountable for indulging them first!" It was Pollux who spoke.

Agassia glared at him.

"Am I wrong?" Pollux glared unwillingly.

"Now that war has broken out, it doesn't make sense to argue this matter anymore. All of us should unite and overcome the difficulties together, and we should not create differences and weaken our power!" Burcos persuaded his friend.

"It is precisely because of this incident that led to the war that the problem has to be investigated clearly so as not to happen similar things in the future!" Polyxsis stubbornly retorted.

At this time, Antonios stood up and said: "As an Ombudsman, many people have recently told me that when rebuilding the city of Turui, veterans such as Burcos and Plesinas often go to the people's houses to express their condolences. I’m sorry, but some people, as the main assistants of Neonsis, had considerable responsibility for the burning of Turiyi, but they slammed into the senate every day, and did not have any regrets for the people of Turiyi. We conduct a thorough investigation to avoid similar things happening again..."

Pollux face changed greatly.

But Daveus asked: "Polykes, do you think this question should be clarified?"

"I...I..." Pollux shivered slightly under Davies' sharp eyes.

"Antonius, as Burcos said, now we should unite to deal with this life-and-death war, and other things will be put on hold for the time being." Daveus's calm voice entered Pollux's ears. Amnesty, suddenly relaxed, lying softly on the stone bench.

Antonios glanced disgustingly at Polyx, turning around and said, "Okay, Lord Archon."

Davies said easily: "Sorry, I was interrupted a moment ago. What I want to say is, adults, you have been busy with your affairs during this time. I'm afraid I don't know much about the military strength that the alliance has today. Scombrus, do you think the number of civic soldiers in our alliance is still more than five thousand?"

The stubborn old man of Scombrus touched his beard and chuckled, "It must be more than that! Now the citizens of the city of Amendora La, I mean that there are more than six thousand people who are counted as reserve citizens. Others I’m not sure, but it’s definitely a lot.”

"Specifically how many civilian soldiers are there, let Military Officer Felix tell us." After Daveus finished, Felius stood up: "Masters, the numbers I announce below are Turui and Amendo. The number of people who participated in military training in Lara and Nyutum and were incorporated into the army. This number is lower than the total number of household registration statistics of adults Rafaias. This is because citizens over 45 years old and some special industries , Citizens under the key protection of the city-state, such as doctors, engineers, scholars, etc., have not been added to the military training system of civilian soldiers."

The veterans nodded and all turned their attention to Philius.

"There are approximately 5,500 citizens of Amendolara who have participated in military training for more than three months, Niutum has approximately 4,300, and Turui has the most, up to 14,800. "Looking at the veterans' expression of surprise, Felix continued to explain meticulously: "Among them, there are seven thousand formal citizens, and the rest are all reserved citizens. At the end of December last year, the lord of the commander ordered me to answer They conducted a preliminary reorganization, which was organized into three legions.

The First Army is mainly composed of veterans and reserve citizens of Amendolara. It is the most powerful force, and the head of the army is Capps.

The Second Army is mainly composed of citizens and reserve citizens of Turui, and the head of the army is Drax.

The Third Army is mainly composed of citizens of Nyutum and reserve citizens. The head of the army is Hironimus, and the first captain is Bagul.

The number of regular combat soldiers in each legion is now 7,000, and the three legions are a total of 21,000.There is also a reserve team of 3,600 people, with a total of about 24,600 people.In addition, there is a cavalry of 300 people, led by Ledes..."

"Philieus did not mention the free people with registered household registration. In fact, we can also organize 10,000 to 20,000 free people who have been trained to fight as light infantry. In addition, Laos can provide us with two to three thousand There are not many troops that Castellon can provide, but there are at least fifty cavalry..." Daveus looked at the crowd and said with passionate voice: "If the whole army is pressed, we can at least shoot There are nearly 50,000 troops! Considering that the ports of Niutum and Turiy need to be guarded, the actual number of troops will definitely be far less than this number, but it is not much different from Crotone’s strength! Masters, please You can rest assured that since the establishment of the alliance, the situation of playing less and playing more will not happen again. We have the ability to compete with Crotone on the land!" The words of Daveus invigorated the elders, Amintas They even shouted confidently: "When there were few people, we were not afraid of Crotone. Now Crotone is not our opponent!"

"As for the sea." Daveus looked at Kunogolata and said, "We really have no way to take Crotone, but Crotone's fleet can do anything but block our port. As long as it dares to enter the mouth of the Korati River, we will wipe it out! And our cavalry will monitor the beach from Amendolara to Castellon at any time to prevent the Crotonians from landing quietly. I believe Croto As long as the insider is normal, he will not do such risky things. Dionysia and Crotone are so close together that the decision to win or lose can only be achieved by land battles!"