"Why don't you come over and take a look at our little Eunice, too?" Asuna bent down and whispered to the baby in the little wheeled cart.

When little Eunice, who was originally quiet, saw someone she knew approaching her, she immediately screamed, fluttered her hands and feet, and kicked away the thick wool covering her body.

"Madam, you see, even little Eunice is protesting!" Asuna said jokingly as she covered the baby. That is, in the Davers Mansion, which treats slaves kindly, and because Asuna is Christoya's henchman, he dares to speak like this.

Christoya looked at her daughter, her eyes flashed with tenderness, she remembered something, sighed softly and said: "Little Chloe didn't see his father when he was born, who is called Dionya is always at war......"

While the three were sighing, there was a cry from the front yard.

It's little Chloe! Agnes and Asuna's faces changed, and Asuna hurriedly said, "I'll take a look." ”

"No need to go. With Henie and Cynthia here, there's nothing to worry about. "As a mother, Christoya is much calmer than Agnes and Arsuna.

As the war expanded, Dioonia continued to send young men to the front, and many institutions throughout Turriy ceased to function due to lack of manpower, as did schools, with guards and instructors either joining new regiments, sailors, or convoys. Although the teachers were exempted from going to war because of the special law of Dionya for the purpose of protecting high-quality talents, they still went to the places where they were needed under the arrangement of the town hall and contributed to the war effort, such as becoming statisticians in the Ministry of Military Affairs and bookkeepers for baggage transport......

As a result, teaching in schools came to a standstill. And without the protection of guards and instructors, the safety of the students could not be guaranteed, so Ansitanos had to announce that the school was temporarily closed.

For the sake of safety, Cynthia, Adoris, and little Chloe were not allowed to go out, and the little ones who stayed at home and were suffocated saw their big brother Henipolis coming back, and they excitedly pestered him to play.

The childlike Hennipolis had no choice but to take them to play a game of rugby toss on the sports field in the atrium of the front yard (because the children were old and energetic, Davers simply knocked down the pool in the atrium of the front yard and converted it into a small sports field, so that the children could play happily in it and exercise at the same time).

Naturally, the four-year-old Chloe ran around with his brother and sister excitedly, accidentally tripped and fell to the ground, crying.

Adoris was playing with him, and said impatiently: "There is no bleeding, what is there to cry about!" ”

Cynthia glared at him, and Adores immediately stopped talking, he had always been a little afraid of this sister who was two years older than him.

Cynthia rushed over, picked up the crying little Chloe, gently patted the dust off his body, and then said softly: "Little Chloe, you are a brave warrior, and a warrior will not cry." ”

When little Chloe, who often studied with Adoris at home and wanted to be a heroic soldier, immediately wiped his little hand on his face, pouted and said, "I didn't cry!" ”

"Okay, let's rest for a while." Henipolis gasped and sat down on the sidelines. Unlike the citizens of the Alliance, who often conduct military training, he spends most of his time in the academy consulting materials and practicing writing, and he lacks exercise, and just now, as a ball grabber, he ran back and forth with these energetic children, and soon exhausted his physical strength: "I'll tell you a story." ”

"What's the story?" Adoris immediately asked with interest, Hennipolis was a good storyteller, and used to tell them to children.

"The story of the goddess Persephone and the sea monster of Hades' wife, which I collected during my last trip to Sicily, you must not have heard of it."

"I want to listen!" Adores immediately shouted.

"I'm going to hear it too!" Little Chloe shouted even louder.

Cynthia didn't speak, but sat down silently beside Henipolis.

As Aristias entered the house, he saw three children sitting around Henipolis, listening attentively to his eloquent storytelling.

Seeing this heartwarming scene, Aristilas naturally remembered the news he had just received about the "Arrobmas Rebellion", and couldn't help but sigh in his heart......

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In the early morning of December 6, the weather was clear with cloudless skies and a light breeze.

Davers gathered all the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Legions in the barracks, and then led them to the foot of the hill of the Temple of Hades, where many people had already gathered, as well as the senators of the Senate.

Davers was the first to ascend the mountain, followed by the senators and the two captains.

The presiding priest Plesinus was already waiting in front of the temple, and a group of people led by Davers entered the hell temple of the Hades temple with a solemn expression.

Davers looked up at the statue of Hades with black hair and angry eyes holding a double-strand fork, and there was a sense of intimacy in his heart: from his rebirth to the present, he has formed an indissoluble bond with Hades, and now he is resting with him, as long as Dionia has always existed, the royal family of Davers will inevitably be a family with him, worship him, and be blessed by him......

Thinking of this, Davers reverently knelt down and saluted, and then said aloud: "O just and selfless god Hades, your earthly kingdom of Dionya is surrounded by war and is in danger, and your descendants (i.e., Davers himself) are about to lead an army to fight to the death against the people of Syracuse, hoping to be blessed by you and return victorious!" ”

With that, Davers stood up, lit an oil lamp, and respectfully placed it on the offering table in the center of the statue of the deity.

Then Plesinas led a black calf, specially selected from the many Lucanian cows, as if he knew his fate, but when Davers held it down with his left hand, it did not bark or jump.

Davers drew his dagger, touched its neck, and stabbed it with a forceful sword, causing the calf to let out a wail and fall to the ground.

The priests quickly carried it onto the sacrificial table, dissected the abdomen, and removed the entrails to examine it. How can the internal organs of a healthy calf be diseased? Therefore, the diviner, after carefully reading it, exclaimed, "Good signs! It's a good omen!! ”

Everyone was relieved and joyful, and sang the hymn of Hades, watching as Plesinus solemnly offered the fresh blood food to the idol......

In addition to the Hellhall, Davers and the two Legion Commanders also worshiped Valhalla......

"Boom! …… Boom! ......" There were nine long and majestic bells from the mountain, and the people and soldiers under the mountain were excited.

"It's a good omen! It's a good omen!! ......By the time Davers and his party came down from the mountain, it was a sea of joy as if they had won the battle.

Just as Davers led the 1st and 2nd Corps to the military port, Seklian was mobilizing nearly 30,000 sailors before the battle: "Brothers, you have trained so hard for so long, and today you are finally going to war with the enemy at sea. Yesterday, I was ...... by Davers His Majesty summoned him to discuss the naval battle, accompanied by several regimental commanders, who even dissuaded His Majesty from fighting the Syracuse at sea again, saying that 'our navy has just been formed, and we have no experience, so we cannot be the opponent of the Syracuses'. I argued with them, but they reprimanded me and said, 'Our navy has no merit and is not qualified to ......speak to them.'"

Seclian's words infuriated the sailors, and he took the opportunity to shout: "Fortunately, the wise King Davers said, 'He believes that the sailors of Theonia will fight valiantly like citizen soldiers and bring victory to the Alliance!'" ’。 Brothers, let's not live up to Your Majesty's expectations and tell the proud Army with a brilliant victory that we are also heroes in the hearts of the people! And with this victory, we can also get citizenship faster like the legionnaires (because most of the sailors are freemen)! Get your allotted land faster! Brothers, for the sake of your better life in the future, let's do a good job and defeat the Syracuse Navy! ”

"Defeat the Syracuse Navy !!"

"Dionian Navy Victory !!"

"His Majesty Davers !! Victory"

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The sailors who were enthusiastic by Seclian's speech raised their arms and shouted, and the shouts made the people who got the news and were rushing to the coast look sideways, and even Davers, who was halfway there, heard their shouts and couldn't help laughing: "The morale of the navy is very high! ”

Although there was some quarrel with Sekrian yesterday, before starting the fight, Amintas also put those small disputes behind him and said happily: "This is good, we also have a few more chances of winning." ”

"Now I order—" Sekrian looked around at the sailors, took a sharp breath, and shouted loudly, "Tug the boat into the water!!" ”

The sailors immediately rushed to the dock where the ships they were responsible for were kept.

Ships that do not fight in peacetime are stored in dry docks, regularly exposed to the sun, so that maggots, which are extremely damaging to the ship, cannot survive, and at the same time, the rotten ship boards are replaced and maintained, thus ensuring the life of the warship. Thus, unlike the commercial port, the military port of Turiy did not have a wharf, but built a sloping causeway with an angle on the riverbank, and a dock was built on the causeway. When the ships entered the harbor, the sailors would drag the ships down the inclined surface of the causeway into the dry dock for storage.

Because the military port of Turij was built in a hurry and without careful planning, not only was each dock built simply, but also the area was cramped, extending from the temple of Hera to the east to part of the riverbank outside the market, and this section of the Krati River was densely lined with large and small docks.