In the Carthaginian Senate, the attackers, led by the Magonides, who enjoyed strong popular support, attacked the conservatives led by Hanno, and their proposal to attack Syracuse and rebuild a security barrier for Carthage to the north was finally approved.

So the Carthaginian Senate reappointed Shimilko, the patriarch of the Magonides family and one of the Carthaginian Sufites (similar to the consuls, also two), as commander-in-chief, and began to recall the army that had just been sent to open up the Iberian Peninsula, whose commander was Shimirko's brother Margo, and also began to prepare military rations for the army.

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A big event happened in Grumentum a day ago, the two small tribes to which it belonged in the north, Loud and Brina, clashed because of the territorial issue, and even had a fight, the city administrator Bagule personally went to mediate, but suddenly was besieged by his tribal warriors, Bagule was defenseless, thanks to the guards desperately broke through, only fled back to Grummentum City, and soon the news came out of the city that Bagule was seriously injured and his life was in danger, and at the same time, the city gate was closed, and the city was heavily guarded, But no troops were sent to attack the two tribes that openly raised the flag against them.

For a time outside the city, the tribes under Grummentum's jurisdiction were panicked and rumors spread.

Word soon reached Picosis and Pothenia.

"Son, this old fox of Puamot has finally struck! We can't wait, we must immediately send troops and attack Grummentum! Sincinag said excitedly and anxiously.

"Father, didn't you say before that we would wait for Botentia to send troops!" Seeing that Sincinag was so excited, Gneenat asked puzzled.

"It's a different situation now! Although Pothenia did not send troops, they already moved. Didn't you just hear that 'the lord of Grumentum was ambushed and seriously wounded', this must be a good deed done by Puammut and their secret instigation of the Grumentum tribes adjacent to Portentia! It stands to reason that the Dioonians should have sent an army to take bloody revenge on those tribes, but the Dioonians did not, and instead locked the city gates, what does this mean?! ”

Sincinag waved his arms and said excitedly: "It shows that the Dionians simply do not have the extra forces to suppress those rebellious tribes, and their soldiers have been drawn to attack Bruti." Why the Bruti envoy who came yesterday was not as nervous as he was when he had asked us to join him the last time he had made it clear that 'Dionya sent an army of nearly 20,000 men to attack the Bruti Mountains from the north, but he was never able to reach the city of Weg, and suffered heavy casualties; They also had 10,000 men attacking Knappetia from the south, also held out of the mountains, unable to move forward. 'Dionyas are in the middle of a war with the Brutis, so the Dioonians here only want to hold the city of Grummentum. Now, the tribes of Grumentum are like calves that have lost their mothers, and we must get ahead of Portentia, send our troops at once, and hurry to the territory of Grummentum, and the tribes will surely fall into obedience, and our ranks will grow rapidly. By the time Puammut arrives, it's too late, and Grummentum is up to us Pikosis! Thinking of the smugness, Sincinag couldn't help but babble and laugh.

"Father, I'm going to gather the warriors!" Gnainat's blood boiled at what his father said, and he immediately strode out of the living room, and from behind him came Sincinag's hateful voice: "The cunning Dionians, dare to take my Grumentum, I have finally waited for the day of revenge!" I, O god Arsinus, will sacrifice to you with the blood of the Greeks, and I hope to be blessed by you! ”

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"Big brother, what are you still hesitating about!" Polet shouted anxiously: "The Picosis have already struck first, it must be the cunning Sincinagra who gathered those tribes of Grummentum and designed to inflict a heavy blow on Bagul of Dionia!" Now, Picosis' army must have set off, and if we don't send any more troops, Grumentum will go to Picosis! ”

Compared with the impatient Polet, Puamott, the chief of Pothenia in his fifties, sat upright on a wooden chair, and when he heard this, his eyebrows did not move, and he said slowly: "I still say the same thing—wait." ”

"Big brother, you don't want to take the risk, why don't I take some of the soldiers to Grumentum first-" Polette was so anxious that he wanted to say more, Puammut's expression became serious, he looked at his younger brother, and said in a cold voice: "Pothenia is still my decision now, if you want to give orders, wait until I die." ”

Paulette didn't dare to speak anymore, he and Puamot were nearly 20 years apart, his father died early, he was actually raised by this brother, so although they were brothers, they were more like father and son.

"Pollett." Puamot's tone became softer: "Don't forget how we lost Grummentum. ”

Paulette didn't speak, but his expression was clearly unconvinced.

Puamot sighed, his face a little more solemn: "I know that you have been complaining that I am too cautious in doing things all these years, and I have not intervened in the internal disputes of Lucania...... But you see, we in Pothenia are different from Pikosis and Grummentum, they are surrounded by Lucanians, and there are terrible Samonians to the north, and you must not forget what our ancestors always told us, 'We have been driven from the north by these Samonites to this mountainous area', and don't see that these Samonei tribes are not fighting with us now, because we have enough warriors, and they have to deal with the Greeks in the west, so they are all right. But if our strength is weakened, do you think those hungry wolves will let Pau Tia go! ”

Pollat's expression moved slightly.

"At the beginning of the year I did not resist your repeated requests to send troops to Grumentium, and in the end you and your warriors were captured by the Dionians...... DID YOU KNOW...... During that time, the Samonai sent messengers to me offering to help me defeat the Dionians. ”

At this time, Paulett was moved, and he couldn't help but ask urgently: "Is there such a thing?!" You agreed?! ”

"Agreed?" Puamot sneered: "If I had agreed, the city of Pothenia would have belonged to Samonai a long time ago." Thankfully, I was relieved that we made peace with Dionya and put you back. Now, the situation in Grummentum is complicated, and the war between Dioonia and Bruti does not know what will turn out in the end, I can't see it clearly...... If you can't see clearly, don't send troops lightly. If Sincinag wants to snatch Grumentum, let him rob it, the Dionians are not so easy to deal with. ”

After listening to this, Paulette was silent for a while, and asked a little unwillingly: "Since this is the case, why do you agree to form an alliance with Bruti again, big brother?" ”

A glimmer of light flashed in Puammut's cloudy eyes: "The alliance is also for one more way out, Asinu bless!" In case a good opportunity arises...... So now we have to calm down and wait slowly......"

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Pianren hurried back to Cosenza, just in time to intercept Nikuru, who had hurriedly returned from Knappetia, and persuaded him to stay in Cosenza and wait for the army to be assembled before attacking Bissinia.

But it didn't take long for the scouts to report that the Greeks had built a fortress on the road leading to the plateau in Bissinia.

Pianren could no longer sit still, and if the Greeks were allowed to repair the fortress, it would undoubtedly add more difficulties to the recapture of Bisinia. He had no choice but to have Nikuru lead his warriors to obstruct him, and added him a thousand warriors from other tribes, repeatedly telling him not to fight the Greeks.

After Nikuru had been leading his troops for three hours, the Greeks, who could already faintly see ahead, suddenly widened their eyes: they had turned the exit of the mountain road into a large construction site, digging pits, driving piles, and moving wood...... A scene in full swing, and a three-meter-high, dozens of meters long wooden wall stands impressively there, there are city gates, battlements, trenches, deer barricades, all the fortress should be basically complete.

Nikuru was also moving quickly, but it had been a day and a half since the Second Army occupied Bissinia, and Commander Dracos seized the opportunity of this day and a half to divide his 7,000 soldiers into three teams and take turns to build the fortress day and night. The soldiers also knew that time was pressing, and they also sold enough strength, and with some simple defenses assembled by the engineering operation, the fortress had begun to take shape by the time Nikuru arrived.

When the scouts found the Brutis ranks, they immediately rushed back to the letter, and the trumpets sounded in the fortress, and the soldiers who were working in the fortress retreated unhurriedly.

Although Nikuru was surprised by the speed with which the Dionian soldiers had built the fortress, and considering that it had taken seven or eight days for Bisinia to remove the fortress facing Cosenza, he was even more angry that the Greeks were doing whatever they wanted in his territory.

"Kill the Greeks who are outside the city!" At his command, the trumpet sounded, and his warriors, hating the enemy for taking their homeland, rushed like ferocious wolves at the unarmoured and unarmed Dionians.

The Dionian soldiers, under the command of the officer, did not panic, and passed through the city gate in an orderly manner and withdrew to the wall, and the soldiers at the end of the line even had some leisure to turn their heads and look back, hoping that something good would happen.

At a distance of 50 meters from the city wall, the charging Bessinian warriors suddenly screamed so loudly that they fell to the ground, and when they pulled out their feet, they were either pierced by sharp wooden stakes buried in the grass, or they were cut bloody by hanging meat hooks, and the narrow foot pits could break their ankles......