Segovani was annoyed, but he had to comply with this decision.

Since Alexis learned that Samonai's main force was stationed in Beneventum, he no longer sent troops to attack Beneventum, and also withdrew the ballista team, but the improvement and reinforcement of the entire camp continued.

Although the intensity of the Samonai raids on the coalition camp is increasing, the increasingly complete camp provides sufficient protection for the soldiers, and the Pothenia warriors and Abenirum warriors, who have not fought for more than ten years, have also gained a lot of experience in successful defenses again and again, and have become more and more appropriate.

In the midst of the constant fighting, the camp of the Dionian coalition dug deep trenches, built thick earthen ramparts, erected strong wooden fences, erected towers one after another, and arranged dense deer barricades and traps......

The soldiers sent by the Samonai coalition to attack the grain route were idle because Alexis had stocked up enough food in the camp in advance and did not transport military food for the time being.

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The next day, bad news reached the city of Bereventum, which was besieged by the Dionian army.

Equeum, a town of Hirpini, located directly east of Beneventum, on the edge of the eastern mountains of Samonay, not far from the Dauni region, is neither as easy to defend as Aquilonia is perched on top of a hill, nor is it as populous as Bereventum, half of its small population has been drafted away by the tribal coalition, while the Dionian army that besieges it is said to have numbered nearly 10,000.

The four great chieftains knew in their hearts that without reinforcements, the fall of Aqueum would be a matter of great speed.

But when Lesguk saw Segovani sneering at him, and remembered what he had persuaded him the day before, he did not mention reinforcements at all, but thought about how to persuade the Ecuum warriors in the army and the other tribesmen who were in the army.

However, Badani said worriedly: "The Kingdom of Dioonia has a large population, and there are so many allies, they can gather many more soldiers than us, and now they are using this advantage to increase their attack on us, even if we gather all the warriors less than 20,000 people, even if we defeat the enemy outside the city, we will not be able to change the situation we are in a disadvantage!"

Although we do not know how the war between Dionya and Carthage is going, it is clear that Carthage does not have the advantage, otherwise the Dioonians would not have been able to commit so many troops to us, and our original hope of relying on the Carthaginians now seems to have been frustrated, what should we do? ......" Badani tried to say "simply make peace with Dionia" several times, but in the end he held back, he didn't want to be scolded by the stubborn old man again.

Of course, the other three could hear what he meant, but even Contruk remained silent, and the room was silent, and the four of them were thinking about their own thoughts.

In the evening, Segovani, who was anxious about the current war situation, received another request for help from Lola's messenger: the Ionian Campania coalition army was in a hurry to attack the city, they had built a dirt hill higher than the city wall, and they had also made a lot of siege equipment that had never been seen before, which was a great threat to the defense of the city wall, and if it could not get reinforcements immediately, Lola was in danger of being destroyed!

Segovani finally couldn't sit still, and he immediately went to Lesguk and asked for an immediate return to Lola's aid.

Of course, Lesguk didn't want Segowani to leave with his troops, because now Kautini was already the strongest of the four major tribes, and if they left, the entire coalition force would probably be reduced by half.

So, Lesguk hurriedly persuaded: "The main force of Dionya is here, there will not be too many enemies attacking Lola, you only need to send one or two thousand people to reinforce it, and you can completely hold Lola." The most important thing for us now is to defeat the enemies outside the city! ”

"Defeated? How to beat?! Segovani coldly interrupted him: "Just use your coward-like method?!" Our warriors have been in the mountains for two days, and we have not seen a single pack animal carrying a load! Even if we do intercept Dionia's baggage one day, I'm afraid that our towns in Cautini on the plains of Campania will be lost! ”

At this time, Lesguk ignored Segovani's taunts, and simply persuaded him: "If you are really in a hurry to go back, it is better to have a good discussion with our big leaders, and launch a fierce attack on the Dionian camp within two days, defeat them first, and then return to the aid of Lola together."

"Enough! Lesguk, are you and I a fool like Kontruk and Badani, and you can be fooled by you at will! Segovani glared at him and scolded loudly: "In the past two days, we have sent soldiers to attack the enemy's camp many times, and many soldiers have been killed and wounded, I believe you should know very well how difficult the enemy's camp is!" Now, you're going to let us storm it, do you want my people to die?!

Lesguk, you are a person who can only play with cleverness, only play tricks, hesitate to do things, lack decisiveness and ruthlessness, more than ten years have passed, you have not been able to kill Gherni and pacify Abernirum, but have made them our henchmen! We have waged war against Dionia, and most of the actions we have carried out have come from your advice, and we have lost more than half of our warriors to this day, and we have yet to win a single victory!

Two days ago, the Dionian camp was far less troublesome than it is now, and if you launched a fierce assault as I suggested, it would have been more rewarding, but you dissuaded you, and now when the Dioonians have completely repaired the camp, you let us attack...... I have seen through you, Lesguk, you are not worthy to be the chief of Hippine, nor to be the commander of the army in battle, you are just a poor creature who was defeated by the Dioonians more than ten years ago and has always feared him! ”

Shame and annoyance at Segowani's scar, Lesguk rushed to his brain, and he pounced on Segovani's hand with one hand and choked Segovani's neck with the other.

Segovani struggled so hard that he couldn't break free, and suddenly his face changed, and he hissed, "Liesi...... Guk, you ...... What do you want to do?! ”

"What do you think I'm going to do?!" Lesguk approached him with a hideous face: "You say I'm not worthy of being a big leader, are you worthy?!" Look at your emaciated body, and you are worthy of being called a valiant Samonai warrior?! No wonder the Grand Chieftain of Kautini and his people have always been looking forward to having Quinduk as the Grand Chief! If it weren't for you secretly making trouble and slandering his reputation, how could you become a big leader! And what did you do when you became the Grand Leader?! Tearing up the alliance with the Dionians, invading the Campanian League many times, triggering wars with the Dionians, not only suffered a crushing defeat, but also became a prisoner himself! ……

Say I'm not worthy to be a big leader, aren't you worthy! Say that I am not fit to lead the army into battle, if it were not for me, you bastard would still be imprisoned by the Dionians, not only are you not grateful, but you also insult your benefactor, have you thrown away our Samonai tradition of repaying kindness! You say I can't do anything with Gherny, is it your credit to get rid of Quinnduk! That's not my suggestion, the cooperation of several big leaders, otherwise it's up to you stupid head to come up with any way to solve him! ”

"What are you two doing?" Contruk, who rushed to hear the news, walked into the room, saw the two people who were entangled, and scolded loudly: "As the great leader of the clan, it is not good to think about how to defeat our enemies, but you are in the mood to fight and scold here, and you are not afraid that the people will see the joke!" ”

Lesguk took the opportunity to let go of his hands, took a few steps back, his face was immediately full of apologies, and explained loudly: "We had an argument just now because of something, I was too impulsive, I apologize to you, Segovani, I hope you can forgive me!" ”

Segovani rubbed his red neck with his hand, and his cold gaze stabbed Lesguk: "Forgive?!" Unless you die! ”

Throwing down the words, he turned and walked out.

Contruk frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "Segovani, some small disputes should not affect our unity, otherwise"

"Shut up, old fellow!" Segovani unceremoniously interrupted Contruk's preaching: "The three of you unite on your own, I'm leaving, I'll leave tomorrow morning with my clan warriors, I'll see how long Benevenum can last!" He strode out of the room.

"In the end...... What the hell is going on?! Contruk was rarely abused in front of others, and his old face turned red.

Lesguk looked equally ugly, but he didn't answer.

Badani, who had just arrived outside the door, heard the conversation between the three and quietly turned to leave.

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That night, Segovani refused to see anyone, and despite the repeated persuasion of the two great chiefs, Lesguk and Contruk, he led Kautini's 8,000 warriors out of Beneventum early the next morning.

Just as the two Grand Chiefs looked at the empty camp of Kautini in the city and complained about Segovani's narrow-mindedness and disregard for the overall situation, the bad news came from the city again: the Grand Leader of Badani had gathered more than 4,000 Pentni warriors and was going to leave the city through the north gate and return to his territory.

Lesguk was shocked: the Kautini army has left, the Putnid army has left, and the Samonai tribal coalition army will fall apart, and there will be less than 7,000 warriors left in the city, and in the face of more than 20,000 enemies outside the city, it will be completely at a disadvantage!

So he hurried to the north of the city, trying to dissuade Badani.

Contruk was close behind, but he slowed down after a while, for he suddenly felt that it might be a good thing for Badani to lead his troops away, as long as he held off the invasion of the enemy from the east and held the territory of Pentney, Caracheni to the north of Pentney would be safe.