For a while, everyone remained silent, and no one responded.

Demordocas was secretly terrified: he knew that during this time, under the instigation of Dionysius and with the support of the powerful army of Syracuse, he had eliminated dissent and attacked political opponents in the city of Locri, and many bills were directly implemented without the vote of the council and the citizens' assembly, and he was almost in charge of Lockry. But now it seems that many people are holding grudges and are ready to embarrass them when they find an opportunity!

Just when he secretly regretted that such a meeting should not have been held, his henchman Panticapes finally stood up and said: "This matter is actually very simple, we can bring back the army stationed in Madema and repel the Corennians!" ”

"It's so easy to say, what about Medma?!" Metrofinis asked rhetorically.

"It is reported that Madema has more than 2,000 citizen soldiers, who can defend against the enemy's attack, and we don't have to worry about it for the time being." Panti Capes replied with a pretended lightheartedness.

"Don't worry?!" Metrofinis sneered: "Earlier, the messenger of Medma reported that the Dionians who defeated our army had more than 10,000 soldiers, and with the Lijim of Taurina, I am afraid that the enemy's number of soldiers exceeded 20,000!" More than 2,000 Mademar citizen soldiers want to resist the attack of 20,000 people?! Dionia's army was no ordinary Greek army, they had powerful ballistas! ……”

Metlofinis anxiously reminded the crowd loudly, "Once Medmar is lost, the huge armies of Dioonia and Lijim will be able to kill from the west, and then join up with the army of Coronia, and we will be in danger at Lokrik!" ”

Metrofinis's words made everyone in the council listen, and all of them looked nervous, and some people couldn't help but shout: "I see...... Let's make peace with Dionya in Lockley! ”

As soon as these words came out, they were echoed by many people.

"Idiot!" Demordokas finally couldn't help but scold: "Crotone, Trina, and Coronia of the South Italian Alliance have been our mortal enemies for decades, and they have all suffered heavy losses in this war, think about it with your pig heads, what price do we have to pay to calm the anger in their hearts?!" ”

"Then the clever Chief General must have a way to repel the combined forces of Coronia, Dionia, and Lijim!" Someone said it in a weird way, which caused many people to snicker.

Demodocas's face was pale, if it was in the past, who would dare to talk to him like this! The defeat of Syracuse has changed the minds of the members of the Lockry Council!

Demodocus felt a chill in his heart, and he reminded loudly: "Syracuse suffered an even worse defeat in the war with Carthage, but the final victory still belongs to Syracuse!" Syracuse, which now owns most of Sicily, even if it loses the battle, still has abundant resources, wealth, and a sufficient population, which is far from being comparable to the city-states of Dionia, Crotone, and Trina, and the final winner will definitely be Syracuse! And here we alone negotiate peace with the enemy, and you think, will Dionysius forgive the betrayer after his victory! ”

Demordocas glared at everyone, it was precisely because of Lockery's close relationship with Syracuse that Lockry knew more about the horror of Dionysius, even if Demordokas's "Syracuse won" was just a hypothesis, they did not dare to take risks because it was a hypothesis, so they avoided Demordokas's gaze.

Demodocus breathed a sigh of relief for the time being, and he glanced at Metrofinis a few more times, and said firmly: "What we have to do now is to persevere!" Hold on to the city of Lochrie! Until the final victory comes! At that time, the lands of Coronia and even Siriting will be owned by Lockley! ”

Eventually, the Lockley Council made the decision to "repatriate Medma's troops and defend the territory", achieving the purpose of Demodocas convening the council to share the responsibility, and avoiding the possibility of "abandoning the allies" for his decision alone. However, the uncertain future of the battle also made Demodocus feel uneasy, and as a relative of Dionysius, he had to prepare a little more.

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Just as Shiros was leading his army on Hibernian, the First Army had already set foot on Sekerian's fleet and headed south.

In the afternoon, the ship entered the port of Lijim and was once again warmly welcomed by the Lijim.

At the same time, Antonios, the 1st Legionn, met with Atilicruz, the ruler of Lijim and Davers's father-in-law, and brought him the good news that "Rocqueri's main force in Hibernian had been severely damaged by the Lijim-Dionian coalition", which excited Attilicruz and the council members present.

Many people praised one after another: "Fei Dun did a good job!" But they completely forgot that last night, when they learned that Fei Dun had taken most of Taurina's troops and sailed north, they were panicked and angrily accused: "Fei Dun has moved his troops without authorization, which has put Lijim in a dangerous situation, and it is necessary to escort him back to Lijim to face a severe trial!" ”

Antonios then presented Davers with a letter to Artilicrus, which he read with such joy that he read it out in public at the council, beginning with Davers' respectful greetings to his father-in-law and about Agnes' pregnancy.

Hearing this, the councillors began to congratulate Attilikruz and compliment him: "I have found a good son-in-law!" In fact, as the war continued, the strength of the two great states of Greater Greece - Crotone and Lockry was greatly weakened, and even the army and navy invading by Syracuse were also severely damaged, and the Lijim people suddenly realized that if there was no major accident, there would be a greater expansion of Dionys's power after the war, and I heard that Davers is now the king of Dionia, so the father-in-law of Attilicruz is even more precious!

Because of this, how could the Lijim people let go of the opportunity to pat themselves on the back.

Attillicruz smiled from ear to ear, glad that he had made the right decision to marry his daughter to the lowly "nouveau riche" Davers.

In the letter, Davers goes on to mention...... Although Dioonia defeated Siracuse, the war is far from over, Syracuse has the rich resources of Sicily, and may send new troops to reinforce it at any time, so in order to end the war as soon as possible, it is necessary to lead the war to Sicily, disrupt the order there, destroy the territory of Syracuse, and capture the allies of Syracuse, so as to better weaken the power of Syracuse and force it to surrender on its own initiative! To this end, Dionia hopes to have the full support of his allies, Lijim......

The parliamentarians, who had rushed to congratulate the chief general just now, stopped speaking when they heard this. They admit that Davers has a point in saying that attacking Sicily is the best way to defeat Syracuse, but to get the full support of Lijim, the merchant habit of the Baht must be carefully considered: full support means the supply of a fleet, the supply of troops, the provision of material transportation, the supply of military rations...... For Lijim, who is also supporting the troops to fight against Lockrie, this will be another huge payment! And who knows when the upcoming war in Sicily will end! ……

Attilicruz looked at the contrasting performances of the crowd, and laughed in his heart, and he continued to read loudly: "...... After the end of the war with Syracuse, Dioonia will surely take Messina and will be co-administered with Ligem! Managing an important strait checkpoint city, Dioonia has no experience and needs to rely on the great assistance of Lijim......"

"I heard you right?! Dionia wants to share Messina with us! ”

"Didn't you understand?! It is mainly up to us to run Messina, and we can finally get it and thus completely monopolize the strait! ”

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The parliamentarians were talking excitedly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, regarding the need for our assistance from the allied Dionia...... " When Attilicruz repeated the matter, the crowd did not hesitate to express their support.

"As long as Master Davers fulfills his promise in Thaksin after the war, Lijim should give his full support to Dionia's attack on Sicily!"

"To get Messina, Syracuse must be defeated! That's why we're here to support Dionia! ”

"Now that the port is open and the shipping routes are open, I think we should be able to supply two or three months of rations, as long as the number of soldiers sent by Dioonia to Sicily is not too large......"

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Seeing this scene, Artili Cruise couldn't help but sigh: he was persuaded by his son to give up the idea of monopolizing Messina, and wrote a letter to persuade Davers to take Messina from Syracuse, but Davers had a greater appetite and exchanged Messina for the support of the Ligems for Dionia's foothold in Sicily!

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The next day, Dionysius of the Celebsil, angry at Davers's unreasonable demands, urged the craftsmen to speed up the construction of iron, and secretly sent someone to quietly dig up the bodies of the Numibians who had been buried due to serious injuries and deaths in the past two days, and set aside their heads, so that the messengers could take them to the camp of Dionya to perfunctory Davers, so as to continue negotiations with Davers on the matter of peace talks.

At Hibernian, the combined Dionian-Lijim army set out in its entirety and marched towards Madema.

The Mademars, on the other hand, were furious by the withdrawal of Lokri's army, but Rokkuri's reminders and warnings made them hope for the Syracuses, so they decided to hold out and wait for help.

After failing to persuade him to surrender, Shilos decided to storm the city of Medma after consulting with Fitun, Hieronymus, and Rydes.

The troops began to build camps, and the engineering battalion continued to build siege equipment.