As a warrior on par with Martonis, Martius is relatively peaceful, not too ambitious, and can be loyal to his duties, so Davers has always trusted him. Although the number of the consul's escort is full, they are also the guards in important places such as the Senate Hall, the Temple of Hades, and the Arena in peacetime, and the vacant places can be filled by the young men recommended by these leaders and tribal nobles in the hall. In order to integrate the Bissinians into the Dionian League as soon as possible, these young Bessinian elites should be allowed to join the political system of the Diorian League, learn the system of Dioria as soon as possible, learn the culture of Dionia, get used to the life of Dionia, and then be assimilated into the real Dionians, as Bachilipi said, and then return to influence the people of Bissinia.

He needed to go back to the Senate to discuss this matter, but for now he could agree to join the convoy as a volunteer in Bissinia. Davers immediately agreed.

Soon, the city of Bissinia assembled a convoy of more than 60 people.

Davers appointed Rodom as the captain of the convoy and announced that they would be in charge of keeping a vigil for him tonight.

As soon as the order was issued, it was strongly opposed by Dracos, Capus and others.

But Davers insisted, declaring: "Now Bissinia is the Bissinia of Dionia, and the Bissinian warriors are also soldiers of Dionia!" How can a commander not trust his soldiers! ”

Eventually, Davos reached an agreement with Dracos and Cappus that Martius would lead the convoy outside the courtyard and the Bissinian warriors would guard the courtyard.

When Rodom and the others got the news, they were all very moved, and vowed not to let Master Davos, who trusted them, be frightened in the slightest.

Originally, the anxious people of Bissinia were also relieved by Davers's action.

In addition to the senior generals of the legion, the most feared of accidents are the leaders of Bachilipi and the tribal nobles, you must know that once something happens to Davers, there are 2,000 Dionian soldiers in the city and more than 10,000 soldiers outside the city, and their anger will burn the city of Bissinia to ashes, so they have repeatedly told the clansmen who will serve as the guards tonight.

The night was spent peacefully.

The next day, Davers, who had slept peacefully, discussed the march on the Cosenza plateau with Capus, Dracos, the three Bissinian chieftains, and the Allied generals of Heraclia and Castron.

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Sincinag waited for the reinforcements sent out to quickly defeat the Elians and then return quickly. In fact, he didn't have to wait long to see Gneinert fleeing back with hundreds of remnants, covered in wounds.

"What do you say?! You fell for the Dionians?! Sincinag looked incredulous: "Outside the city of Picosis, how can there be an army of Dionia?!" Grumentum City has been under my watch, and they haven't sent a single force! ”

Gneinat shook his head and said weakly, "Elia...... I'm afraid they came from Elia...... I could see very well that although they were all dressed in Greek armor, most of them were of ...... height and hair color Even the sound of the roar is Lucanian......"

Sincinag passed his son's reminder, and his thoughts suddenly opened: "You mean they are from Niutum...... Why didn't our spies find out?! ”

On the way back, Gneinat had already thought through the matter, and he coughed and said anxiously: "They...... Cough...... It was supposed to be from Laos...... Maybe not along the coast...... Ahem...... Rather, it went around in a circle...... Our ships are no match for the ships of Laos and Elia...... You can only cruise around the harbor...... Cough...... It's nice not to be blocked...... There were about three or four thousand of them...... Father, what are we going to do now?! ”

"Go back! We must go back to Picosis right away! Sincinag already had a premonition: "Can your body hold on?" ”

Geneina nodded: "...... Cough...... What about those tribes? ”

"Let them come with us, we need more fighters now. If any tribe refuses to come with us—" Sincinag said coldly with a grim look on his face, "We'll do what we did in Grumentim again!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the spies hurried in: "Report to the Great Chief, there is a Dionian army to the north of us, about 4,000 people!" ”

"Report! The tribes to the south have gathered about 5,000 warriors and are coming to our camp! ”

"Newspaper, Great Chief! Grummentum's army is out of town! It was confirmed that the general of their army was Bagul! ”

Bad news followed one after another, leaving Cincinnag's cold sweat layer after layer, and his whole body was soaked. When he heard the news, he was shocked: "You said that Bagul was not injured?!" ”

"Seems to be, Grand Chief."

Sincinagh was stunned. After a while, he muttered, "Conspiracy! This is a conspiracy that the Ionians have long devised! ”

He suddenly remembered something, and said eagerly: "Go and call the leaders of the Ludd and Brina tribes, they will force them to come if they refuse to come!" ”

As soon as the escort went out, one of the leaders of Picosis stumbled in: "The big leader is not good! Lourdes and Briner spearheaded the riot! ”

"Poof!" Sincinag was furious, and a mouthful of blood spurted onto the ground.

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Dionya attacked Picosis' camp from the north, east, and south, but the camp was in disarray, unable to organize an effective defense, and was easily breached.

Gneinat was killed in battle, and Sincinag fled with a few tribesmen into the mountains to the west, while most of the rest surrendered.

"Commander Hieronymus, what to do with so many captives?" Bagul asked his superiors for instructions.

"According to the orders of Lord Davers, all of them will be reduced to slaves of the city-state and sent back to Turiyi to be used as cool......ies for mining, road construction, and temple building," Hieronymus said to himself, not paying attention to the look on Bagul's face, "In addition, take out another thousand Pikosis captives and follow us to attack the city of Pikosis in order to force the tribes in the city to surrender."

Then he ordered: "Bagul, you continue to guard the city of Grummentum, and at the same time do not relax your surveillance of Botentia in the north, and send a messenger to inform me if there is anything unusual." ”

"Yes."

"Agacia, you go and urge the soldiers to speed up the progress of cleaning up the battlefield, otherwise we won't be able to rest at night."

"Don't worry, Captain. I will stare at it with my eyes wide open like a shepherd guarding a flock, and whoever dares to be lazy, I will spank him! Agacia laughed.

The Third Legion carefully carried out the plan proposed by Davers and perfected by them to lure the enemy, and finally came to a relatively perfect result. After assigning the task, Hieronymus showed a rare smile of relief.

"Big brother!" Arcistes called to Bagul, who was walking back with his head bowed: "Master Davers once said, 'Don't be too merciful to the enemy who surrenders, because too much mercy will make the enemy forget the mistake they have made and make it again, so we must sometimes raise the stick, so that the enemy will be afraid and remember the lesson.'" The method that adults call 'bread and sticks' ......"

Assistes looked at the thoughtful Bagul and said with a serious expression: "Our bill to appease those tribes in the north is good enough, not only to give land, but also to some cattle and sheep selflessly...... But when we are in danger, they do not stand with us to tide over the difficulties, but take refuge in the enemy, vainly trying to destroy us and divide more of our land! This severe punishment for them is believed to deter all the Lucanian tribes in this land, so that when they make decisions related to us, they must think carefully, whether they choose to accept the bread or choose to bear the stick?! ”

Bagul looked at the soldiers who were busy on the battlefield as they dismantled the enemy's camps, picked up supplies on the ground, grabbed discarded weapons, and stripped the armor from the corpses...... Put them on the pack carts that are already fully loaded, and then lift the corpses of the enemy and throw them into the burning heaps of corpses......

The mountain wind blew, and ashes floated everywhere in midair.

Bagul let out a long sigh and said, "I hope that after this battle, peace will truly return to the Lucania region!" ”

Bagul vomited the depression in his heart, he slapped Acestes on the shoulder, and said loudly: "Anyway, it is finally the Sincinag that has solved our headaches, so we have to celebrate well!" Tonight, I'm a guest at your house, it's been a long time since I've tasted my sister's roasted mutton, let's not get drunk and go home! ”

A month later, the Sincinag who had fled into the mountains, tired of hiding from the Ionian soldiers all day long, and at the same time enduring the hardships of life in the mountains and the increasingly frenzied insults and beatings of Sincinag, finally could not resist killing Sincinag while he was asleep, and descended the mountain to Grummentum City to surrender.

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By the time Pianlen returned to Cosenza with his army, the rebellious tribe had already fled.

In the following time, he led Petaru and Firotaru to be busy pacifying the people in the city and meeting with other tribal leaders in the city......

While he was busy, Knappetia's messenger arrived in Cosenza.

Pianlen was taken aback when he received Pangeiru's request for help, he never expected that the city of Knappetia, which was known as "easy to defend and difficult to attack", had only been defended for more than ten days, and it was almost impossible to hold on. Moreover, he was even more shocked by the two terrible siege weapons possessed by Dionia, as described in Pangaru's letter.