Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

However, Contruc did not intend to lead the team to leave. He decided to follow the ancient tradition of the Samonei tribal alliance, and together with the Hilpini tribe, defend Beneventum and advance together.

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In the mountains of early summer, the soil is still wet, the trees are already lush, and the wild grasses are growing madly. Xia Cicada has begun to whisper.The scorching sunlight passed through the dense branches and leaves and cast a dappled light mass on the grass in the mountains.

Three Abenerum spies were lying on the ground, patting the mosquitoes biting on them, while looking closely at the winding mountain road under the mountain.

"Brother look!" A spy pointed to the front and yelled in surprise.

I saw a lot of birds flying between the mountains to the east, twittering and circling in the air.

"Let's go and see!" The spy named Big Brother also had a happy look on his face. He stood up and moved some tummy thighs, and then led the two of them along the ridge to the east.

Soon after, they lay down on the mountain again and looked down: the mountain paths more than a hundred meters apart were packed with dense Samona warriors, they lined up in a long line, and stretched to the east...

Although the costumes of the four tribal warriors are roughly the same, and they are too far apart to see the flag clearly, the experienced Abenerum spies can still judge that this is Kaoutini’s army because of the sunshine This long dragon showed a lot of reflection, indicating that the team's strike rate is not low, and only Cautini among the four major tribes can do it, because they have the richest tribes in the eastern plains of Campania. What's more, the direction in which this unit is advancing is Kautim.

"Guerny Garni was right, the Cautinis were evacuated from Beneventum, and we did not wait for this day!" The leading spies couldn't hide the joy in their faces.

"But we haven't found where the Naconians are?"

"Of course I can't see clearly on this mountain, but I can roughly guess their location." The leading spies said confidently: "Since their army entered Benevento, we haven't seen Naconia. People went out to fight in the city, and even they were not sent to patrol the city. It can be seen that the Cautini guarded them. I think they must have been in the middle of the team... But there are 3,000 people. It is easy to find. Holding them.

You rushed back immediately and told Chief Gellney that I said Seduni had already begun to implement the plan... And you, hurried to Camp Dionia in Lola and told their commander that we had contacted The Naconian army..."

"Brother, be careful!"

"Relax, I can easily get in by myself."

Seduni’s remarks are not comforting, because Samone’s army does not march in the mountains like the Dionysian army. When the mountains on both sides slow down, the Samonei army will Separate some soldiers to march on the mountainsides on both sides, which not only shortens the length of the marching column, but also reduces the possibility of being ambushed, but it is easy for Seduni to mix into this army.

After sending away two spies, he took the dust off his body, carried a few javelins, followed by the cover of the trees, dived down the mountain, and hid in the wild grass.

After listening to the conversation of the marching soldiers at close range for a short time, he stood up decisively, dressed up as if he had just finished the small solution, and approached the team walking on the hillside. Because he was wearing the same yellow short-sleeved shirt, plus The marching column of Upper Kautini was not as rigorous as the Dionysians, but rather scattered, so he easily mixed into the team.

Then, through unmarked conversations with several Naconian fighters around him, he decided to go to the chief of the army of Afan Gum, the second largest tribe of Naconia (the reason why he did not go to the Quinduk tribe , Because this tribe has been completely spun off by Segowani, and its people have been forcibly incorporated into the tribes of Lola and Cesara).

"You said that you are from Abenerum?" Vasunk stared at his face, watching the man who was trying to get closer to himself but was stopped by the guard, with a hint of excitement in his tone.

Seduni also noticed his youth, and it looked like he should have just turned 20 years old. According to the tradition of Samoney, it is impossible to fight as a leader of a tribal army, but Segowani imprisoned each of Nakonya. The leader of the tribe, letting their young children command the warriors of the tribe, is for better control.

"In order to prevent some people from seeing it, we'd better say it while walking," Saidum suggested softly.

Vasunk subconsciously looked around, then nodded.

Seduni pretends to be Vassok's guard and follows Vassok's back with other fighters.

Vasunk asked in a low voice, "What happened to Naconia?! We heard rumors in Beneventum that the Dionysians hated us for killing Hadi in the territory. After the invasion of the Naconian territory, the priests and Dionysian merchants not only killed the evil wolf of Segowani, but also... also killed our...our tribe...but The familiar Cavutini warriors quietly told us that your clan often shouted outside Beneventum, saying that the Dionysians were allied with our clan who stayed in the territory... there are some others Rumors, which one is true?"

Instead of speaking immediately, Seduni took out something from his arms and quietly handed it to Vasunk.

Vasuncock's eyes suddenly widened, and he recognized this as a favorite little woodcarving when he was a kid.

Seduni looked at him, and he had a bottom in his heart: "This is a token that your tribal elders have asked me to bring to you. I also have a token that I brought to several other tribal leaders. The real situation is Dioni The Asian army drove away the Kautims stationed in the city of Naconia and formed an alliance with the elders of various tribes in Naconia to fight against the coalition of Samone..."

After Seduni finished speaking, Vasongke had not yet responded. The guards next to him were all excited. The Cautim people hunted Quinduk, imprisoned tribal leaders, and slaughtered the tribes of the territory, forcing them to go out for battle. , And regardless of their life and death, always let them rush to the front... These Naconian fighters have long burned a fire in their hearts, but they have to bear the humiliation and burden because of the strength of the Samonei coalition and the safety of the people of the territory. , Now the opportunity is coming!

Someone whispered, "Great!" They fired a flame of revenge in their eyes, staring directly at Vasunk.

Vasunk squeezed the small woodcarving in his hand and whispered: "When Kautim is reached, I will quietly send someone to tell the other Nakonian generals..."

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On the day Segovani led the army to retreat from Beneventum, Zantiparis at the barracks outside Lola City had decided to attack Lola City.

Four days have passed since the siege, why is he so eager to siege?On the one hand, he was worried about the return of the Samonei coalition forces, which led to the abandonment of his previous efforts; on the other hand, his siege layout was nearly complete.

When he first arrived under the city of Lola, Zantiparis carefully observed the plain town of Kautini: although it is nearly seven meters high and is a stone city, the city walls are worn and the gap between the stone walls is large, some There are even grass growing in the place, and the trench outside the city is not too wide. Although there is a simple deer village outside the trench, there are no traps...

Zantiparis estimated that this town of Kautini has never been attacked, so it has not been well maintained and repaired, which gave him the confidence to break the city shortly (actually, last year The Utini invaded Campania, was defeated by Dionysian reinforcements, and the Third Army entered Tsara, which has made Kautini towns such as Lola and Cesara closer to Tsala feel Dangerous, they put "strengthening the defense of the city" on the agenda, but it didn't take long for the full-scale war between the Samonians and Dionia to break out, the young and middle-aged people of Lola were transferred, and the repair of the city wall was delayed).

Zanteiparis considered that there were few defenders in the city of Lola, except for the enemy reinforcements that might come from the north, other areas were controlled by Dionysian and his allies, so he and the head of the Campania army, Alos After deliberation, they decided to build a tushan to approach the city wall.

The Xiutu Mountain Siege is a project of the usual military training of the Dionysian Army. Zanteiparis and the soldiers are no strangers. After deciding to build the Tushan in the south of Lola City, after the engineers surveyed, the starting point to be built Set at 40 meters away from Nancheng.

So Zantiparis ordered: Most of the soldiers went to the mountains to cut down trees.

At the same time, after Enano’s Chief Executive Adrianx received help from Zantiparis, he not only organized thousands of Enona people, but also sent some administrative officials. They took three days of rations and passed The original business road passes through the territory of Naconia and reaches outside the city of Lola.The Nakonians also sent thousands of people after they heard the news.Then the Campania League sent tens of thousands of people. Within less than two days, the Dionysian army camp gathered more than 30,000 people (including 12,000 coalition soldiers).

Zantiparis made such a plan for the construction of the mountain: he first left 2,000 Campania heavy infantry stationed in the camp to prevent the enemy from sneaking out of the city, the other soldiers went to the forest to cut the wood, and the cut wood was made into five , A six-meter high wooden fence, and then two hundred soldiers erected this row of wooden fences 30 meters away from the south wall of Lola, discharging a length of 70 meters, used to resist the javelin and arrows fired by the enemy at the head of the city At the same time, there were 300 Dionysian heavy infantry on both sides and rear of Muzha at any time to prevent the enemy from possibly destroying the city.