After summoning Publius, Davers convened a military council and, after consulting with the generals, decided on a strategy of attacking the Latin region of "east and west, and combining negotiations with talks".

The city of Phidinae is located on the banks of the upper Tiber River, only about thirteen miles from the city of Rome, but it is a small town founded by the Etruscans, but it straddles both sides of the Tiber. During the rise of Rome, it was the main bridge for the Etruscans to set foot on the south bank of the Tiber River. In particular, the city of Viai was close to Phidinae, and it was used to invade Rome repeatedly.

For this reason, the Romans and the Uighurs fought over the city repeatedly for decades. Eventually, the Romans turned Phidinai into its colony and made it a forward base for the Roman assault on Victoria, which gradually became on the defensive and eventually was occupied by the Romans.

Phidinae, which became a Roman colonial city, was so close to Rome that most of its fertile riverside land was assigned to Rome, making the small city less populated than before.

When Rome was conquered by the Dionians, the Roman people living in Phidinae were terrified, but for several days, there was no movement in the city of Rome, and the return of Camillus with his army made the Phidinaeans breathe a sigh of relief. Soon after, however, the Roman army moved westward, and soon after, the Philidians fell suddenly, which terrified the Phoedines again.

A few days later, the Etruscan Roman colonial coalition arrived, including the return of Phidine's previously recruited citizens. As soon as the people were relieved, the coalition army that crossed the river suffered a crushing defeat, and the people of Phidinae witnessed the detachment of Dionian cavalry along the river bank, chasing the fleeing Roman soldiers, many of whom surrendered on their knees, and some jumped directly into the Tiber River, where they were swallowed up in the blink of an eye......

Although the victorious Dionian army did not take advantage of the situation to attack Phidinae, and calm returned to the city of Phidine in the following days, the Phidinaeans, frightened by the horrors of that day, no longer thought they were safe, and many of the population strongly called for an escape from this dangerous place, to the Latin allies to the south, or to the west to find Camillus.

But the land was hard to leave, and the whole city argued for days, but still could not make a decision.

Early that morning, when the sleepy Philippine sentinels came to the top of the city, they were stunned: in the distance, dust and smoke were billowing from the distance, and a black crowd was pouring towards Ferdinae......

"The enemy is coming!! The Ionians are here!! ......" The alarm bell in the city rang for a long time, and the people panicked.

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Early the morning after the end of the military council, Davers sent a large army to attack Phidinae.

Most of the Third Army and the Roman Reserve marched eastward along the north bank of the Tiber River, while the Second Army, the Sixth Army, the Lucanian Reserve Regiment, the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade, the First Cavalry Corps, and an engineering team of 500 men marched eastward along the south bank of the Tiber River, totaling more than 30,000 men, and attacked the city of Phidinae from both the south and the north.

The reason why Davers used such a large force to attack a small city with less than 1,000 defenders was that he didn't care whether he killed the chicken with a knife, but hoped to use a rapid offensive to crush more enemies in a short period of time, deter the Latin city-states, and create a more favorable situation for himself.

In order to stabilize order in the city of Rome, Davers did not lead the army in person, as he had done last time, but he appointed a temporary commander-in-chief, but this person was chosen to the surprise of the generals as the staff officer of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Printors.

At the time of the announcement, since the 1st Army did not fight, the commander of the 3rd Army, Lizaru, had a good relationship with Printores, and only the commander of the 2nd Army, Matonis, objected: "Printors has never personally commanded the army in battle, and has no experience as a commander......"

But at Davers's insistence, Mattonis, who was accustomed to obeying Davers' orders, had to reluctantly accept it.

30,000 men attacked a small town with less than 1,000 defenders, and the location of the town was so flat that it seemed like it would be easy to capture.

But this was not the case, because for decades Phidinae, as a strategic point of contention between Rome and the Victories, had evolved into a small military fortress, with high and thick walls and moats, which were easy to defend and not conducive to attack, and according to the attack plan that had been formulated, the expeditionary troops had to take the city as quickly as possible, and not form a long stalemate.

In order to repay the trust of King Davers and to prove himself, Printors, after carefully studying the situation of the city of Phidinae and the terrain around it, decided to adopt a tactic similar to that of His Majesty Davers in the capture of the city of Rome: he had the engineering team modify a number of pack wagons, carrying five fast boats, transported by numerous pack beasts and a large number of laborers, by land, avoiding the attention of the defenders, bypassing the city of Phidine and coming to the low flat on the upper bank of the Tiber......

Faced with the persuasion of the Dionians, the Phidines neither agreed nor objected, but only said that they should consider it.

How could Printors allow the other side to stall for time, he immediately gave the order to siege the city.

At the sound of an order, the Dionian army launched a strong attack on the city of Phidine from the south and then from the north.

While the Phidinean garrison was defending itself against the siege of the Dionian soldiers, more than 200 mountain scouts in full armor and rowed five clippers rushed down from the upper reaches of the city, and when they passed the city of Phidine, they were stopped by a pontoon bridge across the river and nearly broke the pontoon.

The upper reaches of the Tiber River to the east of Ferdinae were not only impassable, but also difficult to drive on rafts, and the towns along the river further east of Ferdinae, with the exception of Crustuerium, which was a Roman colonial city, were all Sabinese territory. The hill tribe had never seen the sea, could not build ships, and could not even swim, so the Phoedines had never been attacked by an enemy from the Tiber, but they never dreamed that the Dionians would be completely defenseless because they would whimsically and spend enormous manpower to transport ships from land to the upper Tiber.

When the soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance brigade climbed the pontoon bridge one after another and began to kill the southern city of Phidine, the panicked Phidine hurriedly squeezed out less than 100 soldiers from the city and rushed to the bridgehead to intercept it.

By the time they arrived, some of the soldiers of the Ridge Scout Brigade had already set foot on the land of the southern city, and they immediately launched a swift attack on the Phidinai soldiers who had arrived in a hurry, and the Phidinaean soldiers who were trying to line up were disrupted.

And in the melee, how could the Phidine citizen soldiers be the opponent of the soldiers of the Mountain Scout Brigade who had been trained hard all year round, and not long after they were defeated, the southern city was breached.

Soon, the lonely Beicheng also surrendered.

It was only in the afternoon when the Dionian army captured the whole city of Phidine, and it lasted less than four hours from the end of the attack to the end, and Printores' command ability was initially recognized by the generals and soldiers.

The Dionian army, which had previously occupied Rome, now had access to the upper Tiber River, which completely cut off the Romans from the north bank of the Tiber River.

After resting at Phidine for a day, the Dionian army marched east the next day, targeting Crustuerium, the last colonial city in eastern Rome.

Krustaum was originally a town founded by the Sabines, but its complicated relationship with Rome was established soon after the founding of Rome.

It is rumored that after Romulus established Rome, because most of his followers were single men, they caused a lot of trouble, in order to solve their marriage problems, so that these energetic men could settle in Rome with peace of mind, Romulus thought of a way, he announced to the outside world: to hold a celebration of the Poseidon Festival, invite the surrounding forces to participate.

Some of the Sabine tribesmen believed it and brought their wives and daughters to Rome, only to be robbed of all the Sabine women by Romulus and his followers.

Half a year later, when the bereaved Sabines gathered their forces to attack Rome, and the two sides were about to start a decisive battle, the Sabine women, who had become the wives of the Romans, appeared and knelt down and pleaded for a truce. Inspired by family affection, the two sides reached a reconciliation, and Romulus even invited the Sabine tribes to migrate to Rome, and the two sides became one.

The town inhabited by these Sabines tribes is Krustaum.

Regardless of whether this legend is true or not, it is true that Crustaeum became a Roman colony during the Roman monarchy. Many Latins were called to move to the town by the Roman king, but a few decades later it joined the Latin city-states in their war against Rome, was defeated and became a Roman colony again, and soon became a forward base for Rome to defend against the Sabines, where the Romans defeated the Sabines several times.

Less than ten miles from Phidinae, Christaum was built on a hill on the banks of the Tiber River, looking east over the narrow plains of the Tiber River washed by the mud and sand.

Printors and the Dionian army soon reached the city of Krytaum, but he did not attack immediately, for Publius, who arrived later, said that he was sure to persuade the Krytaum to surrender.

Sure enough, less than two hours after Publius entered the city, the Krustaumites opened the gates.

Kristaum, which borders the Sabines, would have been unable to defend itself against the Sabines without Roman support. Previously, the citizens sent out to join the Roman army ran back and told the people the news of the "collapse of the Roman army", which caused great unease in the city, and then the Dionians broke through the nearby city of Phidine in less than a day, which made the Cristaume people even more frightened.