"These guys are so bold, do they want to riot?!" After a night's rest, Petaru had recovered his spirits, and he angrily asked Pianlen for his life: "Great chief, I will take a thousand soldiers to escort them back first!" ”

Pianlun's furrowed forehead formed deep furrows, he shook his head, released his clenched fist, turned to look at the high priest Firotaru, and said in a deep voice, "High Priest, I have to invite you to go...... Ask them exactly what they want and try to hold them steady. ”

"Great Chief!" Petaru hurriedly shouted, "Don't be soft on these guys!" Otherwise...... Otherwise, they will be out of our grasp, and perhaps even ...... Threaten the safety of the city of Cosenza! ”

Because there were only three people in the council hall, Pianlun, Petaru, and Firotaru, so Pianlun had no taboos to speak, he looked at the two of them with a thick sadness, and sighed heavily: "The failure of this battle is all my responsibility!" I...... I shouldn't have taken a chance to fight the Dionians, because I thought that even if we couldn't win, with our familiarity with the terrain, the warriors would be lighter than the Greeks, and we could easily leave the battlefield and return to the city to defend against the enemy's siege...... Alas...... I didn't expect ...... I didn't expect a battle to cost us so much! Dionya is really different from other Greek city-states such as Crotone! I'm sorry for my people! ……”

"Great Chief, it's not your fault alone, a decisive battle with Dionya is a collective decision of the Elders." Petaru comforted his father-in-law, he hesitated for a moment, and whispered, "It's better to ...... We make peace with Dionia? ”

As soon as these words came out, Pianlun and Firotaru were stunned.

"Under such circumstances, Dioonia will agree to a truce with us?" Firotaru was skeptical.

"Nope! Give it a try! Pianlun's eyes lit up, inspired by Petaro's words, and he thought more: "Petaru, you send a messenger to the Dionian camp and tell their consul, 'Cosenza is willing to be an ally of Dionia, just like Laos. 'If the peace is successful, and Cosenza becomes a temporary subsidiary of Dionia, the captured warriors will be able to return, and there will be time to slowly regain our strength. If you can't, be patient and negotiate with them. As far as I know, the Archon of Dionya was not a very tyrannical man, so he had spared Castrolon and Crotone, so why couldn't he loosen the rope around Cosenza's neck! At least let's buy some time to deal with the people in the outer city, the city of Cosenza can't afford a riot anymore! ”

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Cosenza's emissary rushed to the Dionian camp, and when Davers heard of his intention, he immediately pointed out: Cosenza can only be completely incorporated into the Dionian League, and there is no other way!

He flatly refused the envoy's request for further talks, and when he had absolute superiority, how could he give Cosenza a chance to breathe.

On the third day after the battle, Dionys's army marched westward. The cavalry was scattered six or seven miles away, scouting the surrounding movements; The First Legion, as the vanguard, was resolute and persistent; The Second Army Corps was on either side of the middle of the ranks, winging the baggage battalion, the medical battalion, and the engineering battalion in the middle...... The half-fed and half-starved Bruti captives, under the supervision of the Dionian soldiers, carried supplies, pushed pack carts, and tended the livestock; Legion reserves and Allied forces as rearguards......

The entire march was immense, and even on the vast plateau, there was still no end in sight.

Three hours later, Davers saw the big city standing in front of him—Cosenza.

At this time, the cavalry captain Ryders rushed from the front of the team and hurried over: "Commander, the Fourth Legion is coming towards us!" ”

"That's great!" Davers was overjoyed, and with an excited clamp on the horse's belly, the horse spread its hooves and galloped forward. The convoy followed closely, and then the cavalry gathered around to prevent accidents.

Shiros, the commander of the Fourth Legion, who received the news, also rode his horse from the south, and when he saw Davers, he immediately reined in his horse and saluted: "Your Excellency, the Fourth Legion has captured Knappetia and is ordered to arrive!" ”

"Good work!" Davos solemnly replied, the Shilos in front of him was not the ordinary mercenary he was when he first met in Persia, the long time of commanding troops and handling government affairs made him more majestic, and a little less humble, he was already a qualified Dionian commander.

"My lord, I'm late, the defense of Knappetia City is very tenacious, not only delaying our Fourth Legion for a long time, but also costing us the lives of more than 700 brothers!" Shilos looked slightly sad, and the gentleness in his bones still hadn't changed much.

"The reason why the Fourth Legion captured Knappetia so late is mainly due to my strategic plan, and you can't blame it. The soldiers' sacrifice was worth it, for you have truly captured a well-defended city from the front, which will be the most valuable military asset of Dionia! Davers encouraged him: "And the Fourth Legion has come at the right time!" ”

After speaking, he pointed forward in high spirits: "Go, take me to see the warriors of the Fourth Legion!" ”

Davers and Shilos galloped forward, followed by two hundred red-cloaked convoys (including a hundred warriors from Bissinia).

With the reins in one hand and the glorious banner given to him by Maltius in the other, Rodom followed behind Davers and galloped past the marching column of the Fourth Legion.

The soldiers of the Fourth Legion of Dionia, who were in front of them, stopped talking, and looked at their Supreme Commander with burning eyes. Davers, on the other hand, looked solemn at the moment, raised his right arm above his head, and straightened forward in a salute.

Suddenly, the soldiers let out a thunderous cheer: "Victory over Dionya!! ”

"Davers Win !!"

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This situation made Rodom's blood boil, but also made him envious, he deeply felt: the past trapped in the col and obscurity of the life, it is too boring! A man should be like a commander on the battlefield!

"Listen, that's the recruits of the Fourth Legion screaming. I heard that they came from Trina's side, and it seems that they have captured Knappetia, no wonder they are so spirited. If we hadn't defeated Bruti's main force, how could they have broken the city so easily! These little ones are far from it! In the past few days, we have to let them know that in the Dionian army, we are still the most powerful in the First Legion! ...... "The soldiers of the First Legion looked at the cheers of the Fourth Legion as veterans.

At the head of the city, the Bruti warriors watched this scene outside the city in horror: the "long dragon" from the northeast and the "long dragon" from the southwest gathered together, giving out an earth-shattering cheer, and the momentum was so majestic!

Pianren's face was calm, yesterday he received the news of the "fall of Knappetia", and specially carried out a blockade, he didn't expect the Dioonians to actually make such a show outside the city, looking at the expressions of the warriors, he knew how big a blow this was to them.

At this moment, Targley's voice came from behind him: "The strength of the Dionians is so strong, our number is too small!" The city of Cosenza is too big to be fully defended, and it is better to surrender! ”

When Petaru heard this, his face turned pale, and he hated to beat the old guy, but he still held back. Yesterday, under the mediation of the High Priest Firotaru, Pianlun and his Tagli reached a reconciliation: the Bruti tribal alliance returned the original tribesmen of the Tagli and their chiefs, and they finally agreed to fight the Dionians together with Pianren in the city of Cosenza.

There is only one issue still being debated, and the Targli are demanding: abolishing the Council of Elders and delegating the power to handle the affairs of the alliance to the Federation of Tribal Leaders.

For Pianlun, agreeing to their request meant that the highly centralized Bruti tribal alliance he had been striving for would become a loose tribal confederation, which he could not tolerate, so he postponed this important issue on the grounds that "Bergam is not there, Sedorum is missing", which caused the displeasure of the other tribal leaders, and now the two sides are at odds.

In the face of the Dionian army crushing the city, the city of Cosenza is in such a situation, how to resist the enemy's attack? Pianlun was also worried.

Fortunately, Davers did not give the order to attack the city, but began to build a camp, relying on the absolute superiority of 30,000 troops, he directly ordered the construction to start a mile away from the city, ready to besiege Cosenza.

The captives were taken to dig trenches, the 1st, 2nd, and 4th legions, legion reserves, allied armies...... Davers had the labor to build a huge barracks and the men to keep the guard on the line.

Just as Davers was riding his horse and preparing to make a detailed expedition around the city of Cosenza, Cappus came to report that Sedorum had asked to see him.

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"You've decided? Let Vig join Dionia? Davers suppressed the joy in his heart and looked at Sedorum with a calm expression.

"Yes, Archon of Dionia." After seeing the arrival of the Fourth Legion of Dionia, Sedorum immediately realized that what Davers had said to him before was true, and Dioonia did have a strong siege ability. So he finally stopped being entangled, made up his mind decisively, and relieved himself of the troubles for many days, and his mood was much lighter at this time.

Davers looked at the elder Bruti chieftain who had not been seen for a few days, and asked slowly, "Then what are you going to do?" ”