Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Daveus imagined that instead of sailing northwest with the fleet, the boat went straight ahead, through the second gate, towards the real port of Tarantum.

Although it was during the war, the port of Tarantum was still very busy, even more than usual, because the continuation of the war increased the demand for various materials in the city of Tarantum, so despite the full assistance of the port personnel, Davers It took a long time for the ship to dock on the dock.

Daveus was not in a hurry, he watched the port carefully, and it was different from the port of Turri...

On the shore, the fully guarded uniforms led by Daveus, especially Maltius, attracted the attention of many Tarantums. They stopped the work in their hands, watched curiously, and knew the inside story. People guessed that this might be Dionysian reinforcements, but no one expressed welcome, let alone the cheers that are common in the port of Turui. They just watched indifferently, and some people even showed sadness in their eyes.Daphes noticed that many women were covered with black cloth, and the shadow of the defeat of the war had already shrouded the people of Tarantum.

A member of the senate of Tarantum, out of the restraint of the old strong state, did not go to the port to greet him, but waited at the city gate.

"They are coming!" With this shout, everyone shook their spirits and looked forward.

Oncoming was a young man. He looked calm and walked smoothly, revealing a calmness far different from that of the average young man. But as the governor of a city-state alliance, he was indeed too young.

Yomakas touched Diomeras, who was still in thought, and was about to remind him.

Diomelas understood what he meant, and said first: "Don't say it, I understand, who asked us to ask for help."

After he finished speaking, he strode forward: "Welcome you, the young Diona’s governor. We are waiting for the rain of the close ally Dionysia as the dry field expects rain. Thank you gods, you finally coming!"

Yomakas frowned, worrying that Daveus would be upset when he heard this.

How do you know that Davers immediately apologized and said: "I'm really sorry! I believe you also know that the Dionysian Union was less than two years old. The first time to send nearly 20,000 reinforcements, this is almost Two-thirds of the population of Turiyi is in the autumn harvest season, and it is the first time to transport so many soldiers across the sea. The affairs are too complicated, and we have no experience, so we arrived today, hoping that there will be no major delays. "

"It's not too late! It's not too late! You just came!" Yomacas said busyly: "I really didn't expect that Dionysia sent such a huge team, which really helped us a lot! Master Davers , We Tarantum thank you very much for your generous rescue!"

At this time, Polydorus had the opportunity to interject and introduce: "Sir Daffers, this is our Tarantum's governor Yomakas."

Judging from what he said just now, the consul has at least some affection for Dionia, and Davos earnestly salutes.

"This is Tarantum Consul Diomeras." Polydorus then introduced.

And this... Daveus glanced at him: narrow eyes, thin nose bridge, thin lips, serious expression, a mean look, obviously prejudiced against Dionia, according to the intelligence of Aristilas, There are quite a lot of such people in the Tarantum Senate, but Daveus still pays homage.

Next, we will meet with the elders of the Tarantum House of Elders in turn. The Tarantum House of Elders comes from the Spartan Council of Elders. However, compared with the Spartan Council of Elders, there are only 30 places. But there are a lot more, and the seats of the elders in the elder's house in Tarantum are elected by all citizens every year, like the consul.

"This is—" Polidorus hadn't finished speaking, and the old man in front of him raised his eyebrows, screaming at Daveus: "You still have a face coming to Tarantum, when you vowed To promote our school in Amendolara, we only sent apprentices to Amendolara to help you. Who knows you not only let them betray the school, but also let them use money to lure more apprentices to leave Tarantum! My son still sees you as a friend. Is that how you reward the selfless help of Pythagoras school Dionysia! I tell you, Tarantum does not welcome you!"

Daveus didn't expect to meet the Pythagoreans here. He was a little embarrassed and looked back at Poldorus: "This is this?"

"Aceta's father-Hestiavis." Polydorus replied.

Daveus moved, he stepped forward, no matter how unhappy the old man was, he bowed respectfully: "Achita is my friend, I will definitely avenge him, repel the Mesapi and welcome him back 'S body, I hope you can mourn uncle!"

"Without the help of Dionia, Tarantum can defeat the Mesapi people and recapture my son's body!" Heathavis said with tears in his eyes, and he still talked hard.

Just then, a cavalry came by and yelled repeatedly: "The fleet is back! The fleet is back!..."

Upon hearing the news, the elders of the Senate did not say anything, and immediately left Daveus and the others, and ran to the port.

Polidorus was busy explaining to him that after listening to Daphus, he expressed his understanding and offered to go and see the situation together.

Standing high above the port, looking down at the beach: At the central crowded port in the most crowded port of Tarantum, ships are lined up slowly entering...

Poldorus opened his eyes wide and counted the number of ships. The more he counted, the more he panicked. In the end, his voice trembled: "Only... there are only 19 warships and 25 passenger ships..."

If it wasn't for Daphs to support him in time, he would have fallen to the ground.

Daveus also frowned, according to Glass Dorus: when the Tarantum fleet left the port, they had 80 warships, 100 troop carriers, carrying 4,000 soldiers, and now only 14 ships Returning, the loss of Tarantum can be described as huge. Not only the warships and soldiers, but also the sailors. A three-story paddle warship is full, but it needs nearly 200 sailors. You can imagine how much this has caused to the manpower of the port of Tarantus. Loss……

This also gives Daveus a warning: before you get absolute control of the sea, you must be careful to use ships to transport soldiers across the sea to fight!

Everyone in the harbour was in great sorrow. At such a distance, Daphes could still hear the crying of ears, which made him irritated to see life and death.

Poldorus was still stretching his neck to look forward, hoping that there were still backward warships that did not enter the port in time. In the end, he finally gave up and held Duffus’ hands tightly, saying, “Dave Master Sri Lanka, Tarantum really needs Diony’s full help!"

Davers nodded and thought to himself: Counting this naval battle, the war between Tarantum and Mesappi may have caused the death toll of up to tens of thousands of Tarantum soldiers.

Since the Tarantum House of Seniors is busy dealing with the aftermath, the original joint combat meeting could only be postponed.

Daveus didn't care, just happened to go back and build a camp with the soldiers.

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The failure of a major naval battle will have many effects.Compensation for casualties is only the most basic, as well as repairing the remaining warships, accelerating the reconstruction of the new fleet, appeasing the merchants of the port, making sure that the sea trade routes have not been cut off by the enemy... wait, these complicated aftermaths are not It can be resolved in a day or two, but the urgent war situation forced Tarantum to temporarily abandon it for the next day, and a joint warfare meeting must be held immediately in order to launch a land counterattack against the Mep coalition as soon as possible. To mitigate the enemy’s threat to Tarantum.

Considering that the Archon of Dionysia was neglected yesterday due to an emergency, Yumakas decided to go and ask him in person.

Yomakas hurried to the northwest corner of the bay. The sight in front of him surprised him. In front of him stood a huge barracks, trenches, fences, camp gates, sentry towers, tents...it should be available. In just one day, the Dionysians built a "city" in this relatively sparsely populated area. This efficiency is too high!

Yomakas certainly does not know that, because of the importance attached to the construction of the camp during the operation, at the initiative of Davos, the military engineers have standardized some of the camp facilities after research and trial and error, such as: camp gates and post The materials needed for the building are all made in Turiyi in advance, and are transported by the yoke battalion on board. After arriving at the destination, they are assembled according to the actual situation, which saves time and effort, and is taken away when the camp is pulled out.Of course, the premise is to have a strong logistics and transportation capabilities and better road conditions.

When Yomakas was surprised, he heard someone calling him, and when he looked closely, it was actually Timias, a theater owner in Tarantum, who could not help but ask strangely, "Why are you here?"

"Of course it's business." Timias pointed to some of the women dressed up bewitchingly and said helplessly: "The war with Mesappi failed. Citizens still have the desire to watch the drama, and they have no intention to accompany the girls. I haven’t made any gains in playing for two months now. I heard that Dionysia’s reinforcements came to nearly 20,000 people, and came over to see if there was a chance to make money. The guards here didn’t let us in!”

Hearing this, Yumakas felt a little embarrassed. Timias’s theater mainly attracted people to earn money by performing some vulgar plays, and also provided prostitutes and male prostitutes for the rich because they were mostly actors. High quality and more popular, but did not expect him to pimp to the Dionysian camp.So he persuaded: "There is going to be a war soon. You should not disturb the rest of the Dionysians here."