"Father, you are not in good health now, and the doctor won't let you out! You have to believe that Titus and they can handle this! ......" Lucius pressed his father and said eagerly.

While the two were arguing, Titus walked in.

Lucius happened to see him and asked in surprise, "Titus, why did you come back so soon?!" Things in the camp have all subsided?! ”

Lucius said, glaring at him.

Titus was obviously in no mood to pay attention, he looked tired, looked at Camillus on the couch with a worried face, and said eagerly: "Your Excellency, as soon as I heard that you were awake, I rushed to come. Emissaries from Volch and Tarquna came, and they said that Kesrela and Viai had fallen, and demanded that their armies be withdrawn in order to guarantee that their city-state would not be invaded by the Dionians—"

"If it is true that Kesrela and Viai were taken by the Dionians, as these emissaries claim, how did they get to the camp? Titus, are you sure they are really the emissaries of Volch and Tarchuna?! Lucius immediately questioned.

"We all know the people who came, Mesala, the consul of Walch, and Koda, the patriarch of Tarchuna, who had come by boat to Adi, and then landed. According to them, the Dionian ships did not intercept them. ”

Titus replied indignantly: "As soon as they arrived at the camp, they went around spreading the word about the fall of Kesrela and the Victories, and the already restless camp became completely chaotic, not only the Etruscan army was leaving, but also the soldiers of the colonial city on the north bank of the Tiber River, and the armies of some Latin allies were also asking to leave!" Now, Quintus and his army were blocking the gates of several camps, and the Etruscans declared, 'If you don't let them go, they're going to break in!' There's already a skirmish between the two sides, so I'm here to ask for advice! ”

"It's all a Dionian conspiracy!" Lucius shouted angrily: "Damn the Etruscans! Damn the Latin city-states! And the Roman civilians who deserved to be crucified! ……”

At this moment, Camillus calmed down, and he let out a faint sigh: "A fire in Ostia...... Burning the soldiers' hopes of fighting, Kesrera ...... and the fall of Victory has disintegrated our army...... King of Dionia...... Alas......"

Camillus suddenly stopped talking, and he lay quietly, his eyes slightly closed.

"Father!"

"Your Excellency the Dictator!" The two shouted worriedly.

After a moment, Camillus asked, "Titus...... Have you asked them, even if ...... The Etruscan army broke away from us...... But how do they get back? ”

Titus immediately replied, "Yes." They said that they would cross the Tiber and immediately head east into the mountains, bypassing the Viai, which was still an area controlled by their Etruscans, and was relatively safe......"

Camillus nodded slightly, his expression unchanged, and said intermittently: "Judging from the current situation...... It is no longer possible to force them...... Otherwise...... It will only lead to a civil war in the camp......... It doesn't matter who wins or who loses...... It will only be the Dionians who will benefit, and we will ...... ...... with Etruscan Colonial City ...... and even the ...... between the Latin allies Friendly relations...... will be completely destroyed...... In that case...... Why don't you let them go......"

"Your Excellency the Dictator!" Titus said eagerly: "Since we returned from Helniki and fought with the Dionians, we have lost nearly 30,000 men!" If we let the Etruscans, the colonists, and the Latin allies leave, we will have less than 15,000 soldiers left, and not only will we not be able to retake Rome, but we may also be attacked by the Dionians! ”

"Titus!" Camillus shouted with difficulty, and then said to himself, "I made a big mistake before...... As soon as they heard that Rome had fallen, they hated to take it back immediately...... So...... will make the army suffer so many casualties...... Caught in such a big predicament...... It's all my fault......"

"No, Lord Dictator, the rapid recapture of the city of Rome is not your idea alone, it is the urgent hope of our entire army!" Titus wasn't just comforting him, because what he said was also the truth.

"Now we all know that...... The swift recapture of Rome was a ...... An impossible thing......" Camillus sighed lightly and coughed a few times, revealing a look of pain: "Attack an Ostia...... It's all so hard...... So, when to really attack Rome...... What will happen?! ”

Titus and Lucius could not refute it, because it was true, so they kept silent.

At this time, Camillus opened his eyes, and there was a glint in his eyes: "Titus, remember how we defeated the Celts in the first place?!" …… We attacked a detachment of Celtic rations...... Raid the raiding forces they sent out to attack other villages...... Victory after victory...... Let the Celts poison the Latins...... Etruscan...... The Sabines have joined us...... The team is snowballing and getting bigger...... The Celts, on the other hand, were forced into the city of Rome...... Don't dare to go out of the city......... Later, they were too scared to fight us head-on...... I had to retreat...... But in the end, we caught up and defeated us! ”

Camillus's voice gradually became more and more powerful: "That war...... I remember that it lasted more than half a year, and the next thing to deal with the mighty Ionians, we ...... We should also adopt such a strategy, only to insist on a long-term war with the Dionians...... in order to finally win! ”

Titus was a little moved when he heard this, but he felt a little uneasy: "The Dioonians don't only know how to burn and loot the Celts, they are more cunning than the Celts!" ”

"But...... The Celts didn't have Carthage...... Such a formidable enemy as Samonay! Camillus replied confidently.

Titus was convinced, and he immediately said, "I will convey your intention to Quintus and them at once......"

Although Quintus explicitly opposed Camillus's decision, the Roman generals eventually agreed: the Etruscan army was allowed to leave, but they were to accompany the colonial soldiers and promised to return home safely.

After the departure of this force, the generals generously allowed the Latin allies to return to their respective city-states, and instead of leaving in such a hurry as the Etruscans, the Latin generals rushed to the Great Tent and made a sincere offer to Camillus that their city-states were ready to continue the battle with Rome and drive out the Dionys, an outsider, as long as he was called!

Watching the troops who fought side by side leave one by one, it had a great impact on the Roman soldiers who remained in the camp, and they inevitably panicked, and the generals made great efforts to barely quell the chaos in the camp.

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The coalition of about 13,000 Etruscan and Roman colonies marched eastward, arrived in the Tustron region in the evening, and after resting for the night, they reached Phidinai in the afternoon of the second day, crossed the Tiber River by pontoon bridge.

Just as they left the river bank and prepared to go further east into the mountains, they found that the Dionian army was already in front of them, blocking their way, and the panicked coalition soldiers had to prepare for a desperate fight.

Just as the two armies were approaching, the Etruscan forces in the cities of Volch and Tarzuna suddenly turned their spears and attacked the flanks of the soldiers of the Roman colony.

The Roman soldiers, not expecting the sudden betrayal of their allies, were defenseless and immediately plunged into chaos.

The Dionian army took advantage of the situation to storm from the front, and the coalition forces were quickly routed.

Most of the Roman colonial soldiers were captured, with the exception of a very small number who escaped across the Tiber and into the city of Phidine. Other Etruscan city-state soldiers surrendered, and the Dionian army won a resounding victory with little to no losses.

It turned out that Printors led a mountain scout team to attack the city of Kesrela at night, but a few people fled to the neighboring city of Tarquna at night.

The people of Tarquna were shocked, the Dioonians had been in Los Angeles for a night, and their strong force made them feel afraid, and Tarquna, who was now lacking young and middle-aged citizens, was obviously unable to resist the continued attack of the Dionian army, so Tarquna sent an urgent notice to the neighboring Etruscan city-state of Volch, and sent an envoy to Kesreira to find out.

Immediately after capturing Caislera, Printors sent someone back to Rome to report the victory to Davers.

Davers was overjoyed, and immediately sent two brigades of the Third Legion to Kesrela City to garrison according to the prior plan.

When the envoys of Tarchuna arrived in the city of Kesrela, Printors was busy not only to quickly settle the city, but also to deal with the complicated affairs of the port in a timely manner, for King Davers repeatedly stressed that he should not plunder or encroach on the merchant ships of the other city-states except the seizure of the ships of Kesreira and Carthage.

As for the arrival of the envoy from Tarchuna, Printors simply told him that he could come to Rome and talk to His Majesty the King if there were any proposals and requests.

Seeing that the Dionian generals who occupied the city of Kesrela did not speak ill of each other or even threaten with force, the envoy of Tarquna relaxed a little, so he really rushed to Rome.

Not long after, Walch's messenger arrived.

Davos received them very kindly, and expressed his desire for the Dionian kingdom to ally itself with the Etruscan city-states against the Romans.