Originally, he only planned to seize the opportunity between Amendolara and Turriyi and loot on a large scale. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info spies report that the inhabitants of the city of Amendolara are carrying a large amount of baggage and are preparing to leave the city.

How could Vesbah and his people let go of such a good opportunity, immediately chased after it, killed it, and took the opportunity to occupy the city of Amendolara. For Wesbah, this is the blessing of the god of Mount Asinu! The tribe was victorious and captured a large amount of supplies, occupied a city, and was a favorite mountain town for the Lucanians, as well as a large number of "slaves".

But he soon realized that it would be very difficult for his tribe of just over a thousand warriors to occupy a city: first he had to send a few hundred warriors to guard the thousands of captives, and then he had to guard against the Turi's retaking of the city of Amendolara, and most of all Grummentum. After all, the Wesba tribe was unwilling to accept the annexation of Grummentum, and now they took advantage of the bloody battle and victory of the Lucanian tribal alliance with Turii in the front, and obtained the results that should have belonged to Grumentum without much effort. But let Wespar abandon Amendolara and flee back to the mountains, how can he and his people give up the comfort they have so hard to obtain.

Just as he hesitated, a few days passed, and the good news came: the Lucanian coalition army, which was preparing to lay siege to the city of Turiyi, broke out with a plague and was forced to withdraw.

Veesba was overjoyed and even proclaimed the praises of the god of Mount Asinus.

In the months that followed, Turii did not send troops to retake the city of Amendora due to his greatly reduced strength. It was rare for Vesbah to lead his people to live a stable life for a while.

In the spring of this year, Grumantum's emissary crossed the mountains and came to the city of Amendolara, bringing with him an order from Akpiru: he was strongly asked to join the Lucanian coalition and prepare for a second attack on Turiyi.

Vesbah agreed, but sneered in his heart, because the envoy did not mention the question of the ownership of Amendolara after the war.

He has now figured it out, if he wants to keep the city of Amendolara, he can only hope that the Lucanian coalition and Turiyi will be defeated, so that his tribe can get a chance to survive in the cracks, and only then can he have time to slowly use and integrate the power of Amendolara and restore the vitality of the tribe. Therefore, when he learned that mercenaries were constantly arriving in the territory of Turii, he was not worried, but happy.

He restrained his people to go out of the city as little as possible, not to provoke Turiyi, and to let the Greeks prepare for war in peace.

Today, the spies reported that a Greek army of about 100 men had invaded the territory of Amendolara.

He was a little surprised: this was the first time since last year's war that a Greek army had appeared in Amendora, and had they come to attack the city? Why are there only a hundred people? Is it a pioneer? Ignoring the threat of Lucania's coalition army pressing the border, Turiyi wants to solve their worries first? From his careful observation in the past few months, this doesn't quite look like the way the Turii do it?!

With many questions, Vespa stepped onto the wall and looked down the hill: more than a hundred Greek soldiers stood alone on the banks of the Sisno, not moving for a long time, and there was no movement behind them.

I'm here to find out the situation! Wesbah was somewhat sure.

So, he decided to show his strength in order to dispel the illusions of the Greeks. He sent his son Bagul out of the city with a thousand warriors, leaving only a hundred warriors to guard the captives in the city.

Bagul led the Lucanian warriors out of the city gates.

Assistes couldn't help but shout: "Chief, look at their weapons! ”

Armor, round shields, and bayonet spears were all dressed as Greek heavy infantry, no wonder Arcises was surprised, and thought that Amendolala had been recaptured by a Greek army!

Davers looked at it carefully and said with a smile: "It should be the Lucanians who robbed the weapons of the citizens of Amendolara and equipped themselves. It's a pity, it's just like it, and it's far from the real heavy infantry. ”

Indeed, the Greek heavy infantry was in a tight formation, and before engagement, they advanced slowly, and were able to maintain a straight line. Looking at these Luccaria warriors on the opposite side, the formation is not only loose, but also uneven.

When the guide saw the Lucanian warriors out of the city, he was extremely nervous, and when he saw that Davers was still in the mood to laugh, he almost cursed.

Only then did Davers say, "Retreat, go back!" ”

If the guide is pardoned, he will turn his horse and run.

The soldiers spun back in unison, then began to jog.

Davers did not move until the soldiers left him behind, and then he set his horse with Assies and Rydes, much to the awkwardness of the guide.

The Greeks retreated, the Lucanians pursued slowly, and the two sides kept a certain distance.

It wasn't until Davers and they crossed the Saraceno River that Lucania stopped on the north bank.

"A thousand...... A thousand people ......" Davers asked thoughtfully, "Yasi, do you think the Lucanians in the city of Amendolara want to fight us or not?" ”

"Of course I don't want to, just look at their pursuit posture." Assistes said without thinking.

"I heard from Burcos that there are not many Lucanians in Amendolarari, how many are there?" Davers asked the guide.

"There is such a saying in the city of Turiyi, but no one seems to know exactly how many Lucanians are in Amendorala." The guide was a little confused.

Davers smiled mysteriously and changed the subject: "What is north of Amendolara?" ”

Returning to the land of Turiyi, the guide also became much more relaxed: "More than twenty miles to the north is the Sini River, further north is the Agri River, and on the opposite bank is the city of Heraclia, where is the plain of Seris, which is also a fertile land. A few decades ago, there was a war between Turi and Tarantum over that land. ”

"Who won?" Assistes asked curiously.

"We have won twice, but Tarantum is a powerful city-state in Greater Greece. They kept sending troops and the war lasted for a long time, and finally an agreement was signed between the two sides to establish the city of Heraclia together. The guide said with a little pride.

"Oh, I didn't expect Turry to be pretty good before." Arcystes said in passing.

"That's because there was General Creandridas in Turiyi at that time, and he was a Spartan!" The guide said reverently, and then he thought of something, and pouted unwillingly: "Even if the Turriyi was defeated by the Lucanians last time, it was because they ambushed the Turriyi with trickery, and if they fought head-on, they would not be Turii's opponent at all."

Arcises was about to argue, but was stopped by Davers: "While it's still early, let's hurry to the south of Turiyi." ”

The guide did not understand what the young mercenary leader had been running around all day long. To the west, to the north, there are Lucanians, understandably, but to the south, there are no enemies. However, it also reassured him that these mercenaries were too bold to make him afraid of accidents.

Davers and his party crossed the pontoon bridge not far west of the city of Turiyi to the delta between the two rivers. Here, they saw pack carts walking back and forth on a road leading to the west......

The guide told them that it was a shipment of copper ore and stone to the city of Turiyi, which was in dire need of stone and bronze tools due to the recent war.

"To the west are the copper and stone mines of Turiyi?" Looking at the uneven dirt road that ran through the hilly terrain, Davers blinked.

"yes. With the Koseni River in the way, the Lucanians could not cross. The guide, who had been very talkative, did not want to say much at the moment, so he hurriedly ended the conversation and led them quickly to the pontoon bridge of the Klatty River.

The Klatty River is at least fifty meters long, and because it is spring, the current is rapid, and the pontoon bridge swings back and forth. Davers and the others were worried that they would fall into the water and had to lead the horse on foot.

After crossing the Klatty River, the land on which you set foot is still part of the plains of Cybari. It is a green flat corridor between the mountains and the coast, and this corridor is significantly wider than the seaside corridor of Amendorala. Here, more Turi's people can be seen working in the fields, and apparently this is the only safe area for Turii right now.

About ten miles to the south, the corridor narrows abruptly, due to the large tidal flats that have appeared on the seaside side.

Here the guide reined in his horse and said, "Ahead is the territory of Castelón, do you still want to see it?" ”

Note: Castelon Castiglione

Heraclea, the original site of which was founded by Greek colonists before Heraclea (Siris, similar to the name of the Han Dynasty in the Roman Empire), was probably destroyed around 550 BC by the union of Sybaris and Metapontum.