He was glad that he did not blindly follow some people into Brindisi, but fled north to his homeland. Because within a few days, Brindisi fell.

Only later did he hear that at the time of the battle, more Dionian legions had appeared from both flanks and detoured to the flanks of the Mesapi and Puchetti armies, and that the cavalry of the Mep-P-p-army had been defeated by the two Dio-P-Ian cavalry corps, and that the Mep-P's army had no chance of victory from beginning to end, and was almost completely surrounded and annihilated.

It is said that at the end of the battle, King Tremoni shouted, "Davers of Dionia, dare you fight me?!" Dare to fight me?! ...... led his elite guards to the Dionian Army's banner, but was surrounded by the swarming Dionian legionnaires, and all of them were killed.

Hearing of the king's death, Elemus sighed, believing that none of the Pchetti warriors who had survived that great battle would have the courage to fight the Dionians.

The next two years were spent in terror and terror over who would succeed the new king, and several important towns and tribes of Puchetti were at odds with each other, and even fought for each other......

In the process, news came from the south from time to time.

"Manduria was captured by the Ionians......"

"Ugentum surrendered to Dionya ......"

"Ocdrum is captured ......"

"The capture ...... Oudière"

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Elemus, who was already in his forties, knew that the Dioonians would soon set foot on Puchetti's territory, and with the current chaos in Puchetti's territory, it was impossible to stop the Dioonian legion's advance, even for a moment.

Sure enough, when the Dionian legions poured into Puchetti one by one, the Puchetti, who claimed to be more fierce than the Mesapi, fared much worse than the Mesapi, and Blera fell, Silvium, Barium, Venusia, and finally Canusian, where Eloms lived......

In less than four months, the Dioonians had conquered all of Puchetti, but it was a good thing that Puchetti had already killed too many people.

Grimus and the others watched with mixed emotions as heavily armed Dionian legionnaires escorted the city's new ruler into the city, and the Dioonians gathered the Canusian people into the square.

Agacia is known as the "Administrator of Canusian", and he first reassured the Canusians present not to be afraid, because they were already Ionian citizens and would be protected by the Dionian Law, and no one would dare to harm them.

Then he began to read out the new decree of the Kingdom of Dionia, the contents of which Elemus still remembered: "...... All Puchetti tribes in the Canusian Territory must be dissolved, and every Canusian will have independent freedom, and you will no longer be governed by any other organization except under the jurisdiction of the Dionian Administration, and you will abide by the Laws of the Kingdom of Dionia, and you will receive the land that is truly your own, and you will only have to pay a tax of 1% per year, and you will not be forced to do additional labor except for military service......"

At the time, Elems, like everyone else, thought he had misheard.

But the next steps of the Dioonians proved that they were not talking empty words, and they sent an official message to all the tribes in the territory of Canusian: first, to ask the tribes to surrender the land they occupied and hand it over to the town hall for redistribution; The second is to allow all ethnic groups to register at the household registration office of the city hall.

Elemus knew how much this document had shaken the tribes of Canusian, and in just three days there had been six riots and commotions in Canusian's territory, but they were all quickly quelled by the powerful Dionian army, and groups of leaders and nobles who had led the rebellion were taken to the square to be beheaded, and for several days they were killed, with heads and blood all over the place.

This scene also played out in other towns of Pucciti, and this bloody slaughter also killed the courage of the Puccittis (due to the constant riots and riots of the Mesapi tribes in the process of Dionia's previous conquest of Mesapi, Davos and the Senate realized that the Mesapi people were different from the Lucanians and the Brutis, and Dionia's current strength also gave Davers enough confidence to make him determined not to use the method of subtle and slow disintegration of the indigenous tribes, but to quickly cut through the chaos as soon as he came upto completely eliminate the Puchetti, who were further removed from the influence of Greek culture than the fierce Meshapis, and who were likely to rebel against Dionian rule).

Apparently, Davos overestimated the ferocity of the Puchetti, and soon after quelling the riot, the leaders of the various Puchetti tribes, including the leader of Elems' tribe, rushed to the town hall to show their loyalty.

A few days later, the Elems family, who had registered as citizens of Dionia, were given new land. Elemus, who had been living in the tribe for the first half of his life, was both at a loss and a little excited: he was at a loss because he had suddenly lost the support of the tribe, and he felt a little panicked and helpless; The excitement was that he was free from the constraints of the tribe, and Elms had a feeling of being free.

Although as a tribal warrior, he already had land, but the land he regained only had to pay a small tax burden each year, and the next three years were exempt.

The "three-year tax exemption" bill made the newly divided Puchetti people much less dissatisfied with Dionia.

Under the rule of Dionia, more than two years have passed, the city of Canucian has changed a lot, I am afraid that only the temple of Lekaon is still standing in the city, and many people still go to worship every year, but this number is decreasing, and more and more people are beginning to believe in Hades from Greece, and his temple is not far from the temple of Lekaon. Because the priests of the Temple of Hades were able to heal the sick and sick of the people for free, and they were also good at healing, and they also actively helped the believers in need, they were too friendly compared to the higher priests of the Temple of Laikaon.

The young people of Canusian fell in love with the games of rugby and football invented by the Dionians, including his children. During the off-season, they play in the open spaces inside and outside the city from morning to night, and in order to play these games, they also actively learn Greek, because their instructors are all Dionians from across the bay of Taranto.

These Ionians were the recruits of the legions who had participated in the conquest of Mesapi and Puchetti over the years, and their senate allocated them a share of land in Canusian, and they settled down, from the initial rejection, resistance, and even disputes and conflicts, to slowly opening up the situation, and gradually being accepted by the Puchetti, first by the popular ball games in southern Italy, and secondly by military training.

Under the mandatory decree of the town hall, the young men of Puchetti must take part in military training, and it is the new Ionian legionnaires who train them to fight with them, and friendship grows during the seven-day training.

For Elems, what attracted him the most was the food of Dionia. In the past two years, Remus has had a good harvest on the banks of the Ofanto River, and since he has no taxes to keep it for his own use, he will sell the rest of the grain to the city's market, and he will divide a few of the sheep he raises each year and sell them to the city's Kristonia restaurant for a modest price.

For this reason, Elems, who has money, is often dragged by his former comrades-in-arms to Christoya's restaurant for a small gathering, drinking cool beers, eating delicious food, reminiscing about the joy of fighting in the past, complaining about the changes of today, and making them happy. In fact, deep down, they admit that their comfortable life today is much better than it was two years ago.

As they drank wine, cursed Dionia, and looked forward to their future lives, a message shook the peaceful city of Canusian: Dionya had declared war on the Daoni!

The Puchetti were happy to fight the Dorni, after all, they were sworn enemies for decades, but Elems, who had just passed two years of peace, was like some old Puchetti, and feared that this war would cause the Puchetti to bleed again after many wars and the depopulation had led to a sharp decline.

It turns out that they overthink.

When the army marched in from the south and set up a huge military camp not far from the city of Canusian, Elems knew that the next war would not be a matter for the Puchettis.

The Puchetti were a little unhappy, and some young people ran to the town hall or the training camp outside the city to protest and demand to join the war against the Daunis. Elite and other citizens set up a makeshift market near the barracks under the organization of the town hall to sell the daily necessities of the soldiers on the expedition. The formerly aggressive Canusians have begun to develop a sense of business, and perhaps this is the biggest change in mindset in the past two years like Elems.

Elhams's booth was near the entrance to the makeshift market, a good spot to occupy thanks to his early wake-up this morning, and just as he was thinking about it, there was a deafening cheer from the barracks there, and Elhamston was in good spirits: from yesterday's experience, this should be the end of the soldiers' training.

Suddenly, the vendors in the whole market immediately stopped chatting and loitering, and were busy putting the goods to be sold neatly stacked on the stalls, grapes, olives, boiled beef and mutton, pulp water, bread, salted fish, cloth, ironware......

No sooner had Elemus and his wife set up their belongings than they saw a crowd of soldiers pouring into the market.

"Adoris, this is the delicious syrup shop I told you." Several soldiers stood in front of Elemus's booth, surrounded by a young man of about eighteen or nineteen years old.

When the young man heard this, he looked at the stall and immediately said, "Bring me a drink." ”