Thinking of Davers's possible strategic plans in the future, Zantiparis gasped: "Tormid, it seems that I can't get out of the battlefield for the rest of my life!" ”

"At least you don't have to worry about not having a chance to become a legion commander, or even a senator!" Tolmid said excitedly.

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Grumentum is a hill town, and unlike the hill occupied by Amendolar, which is less than 200 meters high, the hill occupied by Grumentum is about 300 meters high.

The first wooden walls of Grumentum City were built at the foot of the mountain, and then expanded greatly during Akpiru's tenure as the Great Chief, annexing and co-opting the surrounding small tribes and moving into Grummentum City, but because it could not accommodate it, the city had to be expanded outward, which doubled the area of Grumentum City and divided the entire city into three parts: most of the outer city was inhabited by newly relocated and incorporated tribes; The inner city was inhabited by tribes that originally belonged to Grummentum; The core area is the top of the hill, which is also built with wooden walls and is inhabited by the tribes of the great chiefs. At its peak, there were nearly 30,000 inhabitants in the city alone.

However, after Davers's mercenaries defeated the Lucaria tribal coalition and Akpiru was seriously wounded, Luçau lacked prestige and could not unite the Rumentum tribes, and because of the outbreak of war with Pikosis, some of the tribes in Grumentum's territory began to flee. After Sincinag captured Grumentum, in order to control the whole city, he used tricks to kill the leaders of the tribe in the city and the people who disobeyed him, which led to everyone's self-endangerment and alienation, and the people in the city continued to quietly flee the city, so that the population of the city was greatly reduced, and the number of people was no longer enough to defend this big city. So after the declaration of war in Pothenia, Sincinag moved all the inhabitants into the inner city and burned the outer walls and houses.

After the Potitians became the new masters of Grummentum, they did not rebuild the outer city. At this time, the inner city had three gates, east, west, and south, and the north side was a cliff.

The initial deployment of Borat was: 500 Pothenia warriors were stationed in each of the three city gate districts, followed by the tribes of the original Grummentum scattered inhabited, and then above were the tribes of Lusau, not only as a reserve force in case of war, but also to monitor the movements of these tribes, once there were signs of riots, up and down the attack, it could easily bridge the war, and the core area of the top of the hill was commanded by Polett with 500 Pothenia elite warriors.

However, this deployment was destroyed not long after its implementation, and the saboteur was Lusau. As his strength grew, he no longer wanted to obey Pollat's orders, especially since he had suffered a crushing defeat at Sincinag and was almost trapped in the city and captured alive, so he insisted on guarding a gate area.

Pollette was eventually forced to garrison Luçau at the south gate. And because of Lusau's oppression of the people in the city, the tribes in the city were forced to not want to live in the southern city, but to concentrate more in the east gate area.

Pollette was well aware of the current situation in the city, and was deeply disturbed, but his prestige and strength were not enough to deter the increasingly delicate Lusau, and because of Lusau's rebellion, it also caused the dissatisfaction of the Pothenians, who were so good that he gradually became unable to control his group of warriors from the various tribes of Pothenia. The growing anger of the inhabitants of Grumentum made Polette feel like he was sitting in the crater, and this sense of crisis led him to finally decide to send someone back to Portentia to complain to his eldest brother Puamot about his current predicament, and to request that Lusau be transferred and more Pothenian warriors to stabilize the situation in Grumentim.

After finally making this decision, Pollette seemed to relax a lot, and in the past two days he actively patrolled the city, and reprimanded its leader for the carelessness of the guards at the gates of the eastern city.

On this day, it was nearly dusk when Pollett returned to his lodgings at the top of the hill, and he felt hungry, so he asked the guards to roast a leg of lamb and bring a jug of wine, ready to eat and drink.

At this moment, he faintly heard the shouting of killing from the bottom of the mountain. You must know that this mountain city is several hundred meters high, and you can hear the sound of the mountain at the top of the mountain, which shows that there is a lot of movement.

Pollett's expression changed suddenly, and he immediately ran out of his residence, and was meeting the sentry who hurried to report the news: "Chief, there is an enemy attacking the city!" The Grummentum in the city attacked our warriors! ”

"What?!" The sentry's words were like a bolt from the blue, and Paulert was shocked.

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At dusk, it was time for the warriors to eat, and the Pothenians were eating cheese and beef and mutton while venting their frustration with their leader, Paulette, who had tormented them for the past two days.

While they were well fed and in a good mood, the trumpets sounded, and when the chiefs and officers of the various divisions drove the soldiers out of the camp with anxious expressions, many did not believe that war had come so suddenly and without warning.

They hurriedly took up arms and straightened out the ranks.

The enemy's attack was very rapid, and as soon as he burst out of the dense forest and was exposed to the view of the sentinels in the city, he quickly approached the east, west, and south of Grumentum as fast as possible......

The sentries on the wooden wall of the east gate watched as the enemy in front of them was forced to converge into several narrow mountain passes leading to the various gates, under the constraints of undulating hills, dense wooden fences and deer barricades.

At this time, if a large number of arrows and javelins were thrown, those dense enemies would inevitably suffer serious damage. However, only a dozen or so arrows fell in the enemy's formation, and they could not make a big wave at all.

"Quick! Fast! Hurry up!! The enemy is pressing!! The warrior at the head of the city anxiously turned back to urge his comrades, who were still grinding under the city, when suddenly his voice stopped abruptly: above the camp of Pothenia, a team of several hundred men rushed down in columns armed with spears.

It's reinforcements sent by the Gruments! The warriors at the head of the city felt a little reassured, but what happened next left him dumbfounded.

The team crashed straight into the rear team of Botentia, who were hurrying to the city, and shouted, "Die!" Damn Poittia pigs! ......" stabbed the spear in his hand at the Pothenian warrior, who was at a loss......

Screams and shouts of killing rang out, and chaos broke out in the city......

Taking advantage of the chaos in the city, the enemy outside the city had already reached the city, and they threw the sacks full of dirt they carried into the trenches, and soon filled a road, and then poured under the wooden walls, and set up long ladders......

The Pothenian warriors resisted stubbornly, but most of the warriors were fighting fiercely with the tribal warriors of Grummentum in the city, and there were not many warriors on the city walls, but the enemy continued to attack upwards regardless of life and death, and it was not long before the enemy killed the city......

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At the remote observation platform at the top of the mountain, Poret saw the continuous influx of enemies on the eastern wall under the mountain, and the defense line was in danger, and his heart was very anxious: "You hold my wolf teeth, immediately go and tell Lusau that the east gate is in crisis, and let him send some soldiers to help defend the east gate, otherwise let the enemy kill into the city, and everyone will not be able to escape!" ”

"Yes, Chief!" The guard nervously accepted the order.

Seeing the guards rushing down the mountain, Polette was not at ease, and sent someone to order 500 Potentia soldiers stationed on the mountainside to rush to the east gate.

After giving the order, Poulette breathed a sigh of relief for a while, and had time to calm down and think: where did the enemy come from?

Is it a Picosis? Will they still be able to send such a large number of warriors after a great defeat?

Is it a Dionian? The thought of the powerful alliance of Greek city-states to the south made Polet's breath tight. Even though Pothenia was not adjacent to Dionia, it still felt the pressure from the south from time to time throughout the year, not only because it was strong, but more importantly, the Lucanians did not reject this Greek-dominated alliance, which was the most terrible thing! This terrible situation made it impossible for the Lucarians to unite against the outsider! This is also the reason why the steady Puamot finally made up his mind to take Grummentum, and only by strengthening himself can he resist this force that is expanding at an astonishing rate. Therefore, when Puamot left, he repeatedly told Poulette to focus on the movements of the Dionian League. Of course, Poret attached great importance to it, and he sent two hundred warriors of his tribe to guard the pass, and at the same time sent spies to the south, wanting to monitor the movements of Niutum, but because Niwutum was heavily guarded, and many checkpoints were set up to block the northbound passage, the spies returned in vain.

Now, there was no unusual news coming from the camp guarding the pass, and the siege of the city was in Lucanian attire, so Polot's suspicion only lingered on Dionya for a moment, and then moved on to the last suspicious object, Galaguso, as the most ancient traditional group of tribes in Lucania, they preferred to live in the mountains rather than on the flats, far from the center of the Lucania region, in the mountains to the northeast, built the city of Galaguso, and for decades rarely participated in the disputes between other tribal alliances, He also refused to ally with other tribes, and was outside of the alliance with several Lucanian tribes. Akpiru didn't have the idea of fighting Lucania when he ruled the south, so could it be that this time the conservative Galaguso people changed their traditions?

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At this time, the eastern wall had been occupied by the Ionian soldiers, who did not rest and continued to advance into the city.

At the forefront were the 500 mercenaries led by Zantiparis, and another 500 mercenaries led by Tormid to defend Niutum.

The mercenaries were followed by 1,500 Lucanian soldiers led by Litoru, one of the captains of the Third Legion, 2,000 soldiers led by Ksima who attacked the west gate, and 2,500 soldiers led by Bagul himself in front of the south gate. Bagul distributed his forces almost evenly, and the reason for this was also a last resort, because the city of Grummentum was built on a hill, with crowded houses and narrow mountain roads, and too many troops concentrated in one place not only could not exert its power, but it was easy to cause congestion and affect the attack.