Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Daveus's speech won thunderous applause. The players who were talked about with blood and the off-site audience sang Hades carols. After that, the teams hurried out and the football game officially began.

According to the new rules of the tournament, the eight teams became the A and B groups. Last year's runner-up Turiri and Amendolara became the seeds, which belonged to the two groups. The remaining teams decided to belong to the lottery.

The final members of Group A are Turiri, Nyutum, Crimea, and Grumentum; the members of Group B are Amendolara, Laos, Castellon, and Asprostum .

The two groups played in a single cycle, with one point for winning one game and zero points for losing one game. There were no draws. Teams with the same score will see the relationship.

In order to win the start, Deverst chose Turui VS Nyutum, this close game as the opening game to attract the attention of the audience.

When the two teams Tururi and Nyutum re-entered the stadium, the audience cheered.The majority of the audience were Turiris, of course, to applaud the city team, and most of the Lucanias cheered for Niutum.Among their cheers, the names of Tiger Tilos and Lizaru are mentioned the most, because one is a strong and powerful running back, and the other is a flexible and fast running back. Both are famous scorers of their respective teams.

Bakul in the audience was hot, shouting loudly while slamming his fists and stomping his feet. There was no steady appearance of the elders in the elders’ courts, if not because he had just become the chief executive of Grumentum, he was busy There is no time to train with the team, he will never be a spectator off the court.

Yasisters next to him saw his thoughts and made fun of him: "Now that you are the chief executive of Grummentum, you should support the team of Grummentum, but Niutum is Grumman. Thum's main opponent in the knockout, you should expect them to lose."

Bagul glared at him, and then he was really tangled.

The referee blew the piccolo and the game officially started.

As an athletic powerhouse in Greater Greece, although the previous Dionysia football game has been well-known in Greater Greece, Crotonians still disdain.Now as the game progresses, these invited Crotone guests are attracted by the fierce collision and fierce confrontation. Even General Crotone, who has been rumored before, and the navy commander Askamas also stopped. The mockery, strict organization, reasonable rules, unique ball sports in this era, and exciting sports scenes shocked the young general who had represented Crotone in the four major competitions many times. He exclaimed loudly: "I didn't expect a rugby match to be such a sport. This is much more interesting than the Spartan-style stone ball throwing game that can only be played by oneself. It's very interesting and suitable for our Crotone. People involved!"

"Why?" someone asked.

"Look, there are a lot of people on the field. Although the scene seems very chaotic, it is basically two kinds of sports, offensive and blocking offensive." Askamas pointed to the field and analyzed reasonably: "To do this Two points, the players who need to participate must have strong power, rapid speed, and be able to be afraid of collisions, and these are what our Crotone athletes are good at!"

The proud words of Askamas caused the Crotonians around to nod.Crotone athletes have long-term advantages in the two sports events of wrestling and boxing. They do have extensive experience in training athletes' strength and explosiveness.

"After going back, we should persuade the civic assembly to let Crotonians also start practicing football, and participate in this game next year to defeat these Dionysian teams!" Ascamas looked around and cheered Dioni Sub-audience, there was a bit of anger hidden in his eyes.

At this time, the Turri's Tiger Tilos just happened to hold the ball for a touchdown and the audience cheered thrillingly.

"Master Askarmas is right! We will also participate next year, defeating the Dionysians!" Some Crotonenes said in a similar manner to their enemies. The defeat of the Dionysians made these proud Crotones People feel aggrieved. Like Askamas, they want to win back their dignity on the field to prove the strength of Crotone.

Lucias frowned as he listened to his companions.His mind is not completely attracted by the game, but is thinking about some deeper issues.There are four traditional sports games in Greece and a pan-Athena festival that is famous in the Mediterranean. Athletes from all Greek city-states are very enthusiastic to participate. They are far more active than the Greek city-states on the coast of Asia Minor, and in each Olympia Games In the past, athletes from Great Greece have excellent performances.But Greater Greece itself does not have an influential sports meeting. Crotonians who love sports have tried to hold a sports meeting even if only the big Greek city-states participated, but failed.On the one hand, Crotone's influence is not enough, and the big Greeks do not agree; on the other hand, many city-states have long-term conflicts of interest and cannot reach consensus.As a result, this became a pity for Crotone!

Now, although the football game in Dionysia is just a single game, it includes so many large Greek cities, and it seems to be attracting more city-states to participate... Let Lucias vaguely see an area The shadow of sex games.

Is this a coincidence?Or did the Dionyans deliberately do it?Lucias looked at the figure in the front row of Daphes. Through these two days of contact, this seemingly gentle young consul gave him a profound feeling: in just a few months, Dioni Ya not only stabilized the situation in the newly occupied Asprostoum and Crimea, I heard that he recently occupied Grummentum, a large city in the Lucania region.

Croton’s Citizens’ Congress is still arguing about whether the newly-introduced Asprostum’s original residents have acquired full citizenship and the rezoning of the Croton Plains land destroyed by the war.

Initially Lucias also wanted to survive this difficult period, and then let Crotone rise again, but after more and more contacts with Dionia, each time he took the fast-growing Dionysia and Compared with Crotone, who has always been stagnant, Lucias will almost lose confidence: If you continue this way, Crotone will be left behind by Dionia!

But he was in a hurry, but he was helpless.Crotone's democratic system has always been the same. He has studied why the management of Dioria is so efficient, but these methods are simply impossible to implement in Crotone.Sometimes he was also thinking: joining the South Italy League is perhaps the most right thing Crotone did.

Hearing their words from Ascarmas, Lucias laughed at them in childish mind: next year, even if Crotone really sends the team, what if he wins Dionia?Whether winning or losing, Dionia is a big winner!

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On the third day, while the rugby game was still in full swing, the Elias messenger Kanios was received by Davis.

The young consul received him very warmly, and after two days of deep understanding of the Dionysian Union, Kanios also put aside the initial restraint and restraint, and the two had a friendly conversation.

Davos listened carefully to Kanos talking about Elia’s predicament, and learned from Campos about the Campania region and some people from the Samone... the process of the conversation was Pleasantly, in the end, a league agreement was reached: Elia joined the Dionysian League.

After signing the alliance agreement, Kanios can finally relax the string that is always tight in his heart because of Davos’ solemn promise: as long as there are any forces daring to invade Elia, Dionia will immediately send troops to assist Elia Allies, repel the enemy!

At the same time, Davers also vaguely stated that he hopes that Elijah will cooperate actively in the future when Dionia acts in the Lucania region.

Kanios promised, he realized with joy: He finally saw the hope of solving the nightmare that had troubled Elia for decades. The feeling of backing on a powerful force was really reassuring!

When Kanos walked out of the living room, his mood was always happy.Then, he saw a person coming head-on and smiled and waved at him.

Why is Cypress here?Kanyos was suspicious as he responded.

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"Adult, since we have formed an alliance with Elia, do we still need to talk to the messengers of Picos, Potentia, and Galaguço?" Aristotle asked.

"What do you think?" Davos looked at Kanos's back, feeling very relaxed, and Elia joined the league to make him feel one step closer to the goal of uniting Lucania.

"I think...should take advantage of the strength of Picos and Potentia, and at the same time they do not know the good time for Elijah to join the league, they suddenly attacked and they can easily win Picos and Potencia. Any force in Tia!" Aristotle, following Davos for so long, learned how to get the most benefit with the least casualties.

But Davers shook his head gently and did not agree with it: "Your raid's tactics are indeed good. But at this time, it is not very suitable.

"Why, sir?" Aristotle asked urgently, somewhat dissatisfied.

"Yesterday, when Bagul and Yasistes came to report on the situation of Grumentum, you also heard it on the side. The situation of Grumentum is not very optimistic. There are clashes between tribes from time to time. The second battle almost resulted in a small battle... after all, Grummentum is different from Niutum. It is located in the center of the Lucania region. It has many tribes and complex sources. There are enemies around it. Rumtum and its surrounding areas have stabilized, and Bagul will have to work hard for at least a year or two before these Lucanians can identify with us from the bottom of their hearts and accept our governance...if they attack other regions rashly now, Once an accident occurs, the turmoil of Grummentum is very likely to repeat Turri's tragedy..." Daveus said calmly.