There was a burst of cheers on the side of the road, and soon the cheers spread throughout the plains of Subari.

The last fears in their hearts were completely dispelled, and the people began to sing and dance to celebrate this hard-won victory. Some devout believers simply canceled their plans to go to the port and turned to the temple of Hades in the city of Turiyi, thanking Hades for the protection he had given to Dionia......

When the news reached the Senate venue, there was also jubilation.

"It seems that we made the right decision before! After Lord Davers became king, victory soon followed, and Hades answered our prayers and truly blessed the Dionian League! Plecinas exclaimed, feigned excitement.

"Yes, thanks to our Senate who dared to make such an amazing decision, today's victory is possible!" Mariji echoed.

At this time, most of the senators were no longer angry when they were forced to elect Davers as king, and they were more glad that they agreed with what the two men said.

Kuno Gorata was no longer as disgusted by the singing and harmony of the two as usual, he withdrew his gaze from the two of them, and said loudly: "Judging from the battle report brought back by the messenger, His Majesty Davers has led an army to trap the Syracuse in Siliting, and the final victory is not too far away!" But now the big problem for the Union is food! ”

"Mistress Kunograta is right, although there is enough food to supply our army fighting outside for two months, for the people of Dionia, especially the families of freemen and reserve citizens, their food reserves have been exhausted. Now that the port is open, the merchants who come to trade are raising the price of grain, so that the people who have selflessly donated money and grain to the alliance will pay a higher price to buy food! I am afraid that before the war is over, the people of Dionya will deplete all their savings, which will not be conducive to our post-war recovery! Cornerus said worriedly.

"These merchants are simply disgusting!" "The price of the grain they sell has tripled and it's rising...... Mariji, as a commercial officer, you should think of a way to vigorously rectify these hateful businessmen! ”

Mariji smiled wryly: "We have already taken some measures, and we have also negotiated with these merchants who come to Turii to sell grain, so it is already our best effort to keep the price within three times." But there is an urgent shortage of food in the Union, and there is a great demand for it, and the number of people buying food is increasing day by day, and the price increase is inevitable, so we must not force the merchants to sell food at a fixed price. ”

"Why not!" "We must now guarantee the interests of the people first, and we should immediately pass a plan for these merchants to sell grain at a fair price, otherwise they will not be allowed to sell goods within the alliance!" ”

"You can't do that!" Before Marigi could speak, Mersis cried out: "This is a stupidity to destroy the tradition of free trade of the Greeks!" In the future, who will dare to come to Turii to do business, and if the port declines, will we still receive commercial taxes! ”

"With such a large territory and such a large population in Dionia, I don't believe that those greedy Gentile merchants will not come to business!" Stromboli sneered, as an Amendora, he didn't have much affection for merchants.

"Even if we had used coercion, the merchants would have been able to sail to Heraklia or Crotone instead of selling grain in Turiyi." Mariji reminded the senators: "When the time comes, our people will flock there to buy grain, and they will complain that we have caused them so much trouble!" Instead of that, it would be better to keep them in Turii, and at least we can do something to control the price a little bit. After all, now that the war is not over, the lack of food in the alliance will continue, these merchants have taken the risk to transport grain, if they can't make a good profit here, I'm afraid no one will want to transport grain anymore! ”

After saying this, the senators, including Strompori, all looked sad: yes, who told Theoria that he had to rely on these merchants for food!

"I wonder what happened to Ansitanos' mission to Africa?" Kunogorata remembered Ansitanos, who had an important mission.

At this moment, the door of the venue was pushed open, and the guards hurried in, whispering in the ear of the rotating chairman, Kunogorata.

Kunograta immediately looked overjoyed and said loudly to the crowd: "Rest in peace, Ladies and gentlemen, Lord Ansitanos has returned, and with him ten great ships of Carthage, laden with grain!" ”

The originally deserted venue erupted in cheers again: "We have food!" The people are saved! Ansitanos succeeded! ……”

"I didn't expect it to be the 'enemy of Greece' that the Sicilians attacked - Carthage helped us!"

"I'll just say, Hades won't let the people who believe in him suffer disaster, and he has fulfilled his promise again!"

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Just as the senators of the Senate rushed to the port of Turiyi to welcome the Carthaginian envoys, 15,000 soldiers of the combined Dionian-Ligim army led by Shiros, Hieronymus, Fidun, and Rydes set out from Trina and marched towards Hibernian.

When they arrived at the city, they found that the gates were wide open, and the Hibernians took the initiative to go out of the city and ask for surrender. Last night, the news of the "crushing defeat of Lockry's army" had frightened the Hibernians, and the performance of the Lockry army refusing to enter the city to participate in the defense and fleeing straight back to Medma made the Hibernians fall into a panic...... When they discovered the next day that "tens of thousands of Dionian soldiers were coming towards the city of Hibernian," they surrendered without hesitation.

Before dividing the army, Davos had discussed with Shiros what to do with the allies in Lokry, and Shilos accepted Hibernian's surrender, but demanded that every family in the city surrender their loyalty by surrendering protons.

Faced with a large Ionian army, the Hibernians had to agree.

Under the low city, the people of Hibernian wept and reluctantly bid farewell to their children, and the scene was bleak and touching.

Unmoved, Shilos sent a force of a thousand men to escort the hundreds of children to the city of Trina. At the same time, he made a new request to the Hibernians: to collect as much food as possible from the city and provide it to the Dionian troops as military rations, otherwise the Dionian soldiers would starve and their children would be left with nothing to eat in the first place.

Now it is man who is the sword, and I am the fish and the flesh, and the Hibernians have to submit again.

The Daly coalition army was stationed outside the city of Hibernian, assisting the Hibernians in collecting grain, sending sentry spies south to reconnoiter the enemy, and at the same time allowing the engineering battalion to lead the soldiers to build siege equipment and fully prepare for the next attack on the city of Medma.

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At the same time, Davers, who learned of the "return of Coronia to the Southern Italian League", wrote another letter and sent a fast horse to the city of Coronia, in which he wrote: "...... I'm glad that Coronia made the right choice, and I, Lucias, and Siblos were overjoyed to hear the news! Now the Syracuse army is weakening under the heroic attack of the soldiers of Dionia, Crotone, and Trina, and it is believed that the day of its defeat is not far off.

Therefore, we hope that Coronia, as a member of the Southern Italian Alliance, will mobilize all the citizens in the city who can fight, take up the shield and spear, and launch an invasion of Lokri's territory, so that the culprit who caused this cruel war will also taste the pain of being ravaged by the war, so that it will not dare to send reinforcements to help the Syracuse people who are besieged by us in the Silitin, because they are worried about your attack, so as to ensure that we can successfully retake the Silitin and annihilate these evil invaders! Dionia, Crotone, Trina, and Lijim look forward to your actions! ……”

It is clear that the main purpose of Davers's letter was not to praise Coronia for the right choice, but to urge them to act immediately and not sit idly by, and the last sentence was more like an implicit threat.

The ready Coronia, of course, knew the serious consequences of rejecting Davers's demands, and the citizens' assembly quickly passed a resolution to "attack Lokry".

Although Coronia had a thousand citizen soldiers trapped in the Siriting, Coronnia still suffered the least losses in the war among the southern Italian city-states. By the afternoon, Coronya had quickly mobilized 4,000 citizen soldiers.

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As soon as the Coronya troops set off for the south, the main forces were all dispatched outside, and the city was empty, Lockrie had long been uneasy about the enemy Coronia, who had been the enemy for decades, and had been paying close attention to Coronnia's movements, and the scout cavalry quickly sent back the news.

At this time, Lockry was already overwhelmed by the bad news that followed, the defeat of the Syracuse army, the defeat of Lockry's main army, and the danger of the city of Hibernian...... Now that the Coronian army is suddenly moving south, it is not to help Lockley, any sane Lockley would make such a judgment.

The sharp turn of the battle situation made Lockley's chief general Demordokas panic, and he actually abandoned the almost dictatorial style of the past six months and convened a rare meeting.

However, a strange sight arose in the council, and Demodocus repeated the question several times: "Damned Coronians have broken their promise and invaded our territory!" Now that the situation is urgent, what can we do to deal with it?! ”