In particular, each team represents its own Demo or town, which makes the audience more inclined and engaged when watching the game, although they do not know many of the rules, it does not affect them to cheer for the teams in their own area, and even quarrel with the audience in other regions.

As the game continued, a strange phenomenon continued to occur in Rome, where the clashes between the original Romans and the newly relocated Dionian citizens decreased, and even after the game, they were seen hooking shoulders and shouting the names of their players in their respective languages, while the various Demo citizens began to quarrel with each other......

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While the people of Rome were in a revelry, the Dioonian soldiers in the camp outside Satnikum were quite depressed: in order to prevent the spread of the plague, they had to obey the orders to stay in tents as much as possible, not to gather in the camp, not to hold various athletics in the camp, and even to be examined by the doctors every day, which was the most tedious Hades celebration day they lived, and the only fortunate thing was that King Davos would visit the tents from time to time to comfort the soldiers. It was also the most time that the soldiers had direct contact with the Dionian king.

Doctors and nurses were busy, they had to wear clothes that wrapped their whole bodies tightly every day, running from camp to camp, constantly busy with examination and treatment, especially those medical staff who were sent to the camp of the Romans who were suffering from the plague had to risk being infected all the time, but even so, there were still many doctors rushing to go, because this was a rare opportunity for them to combine theory and practice.

The Dionian medical staff carefully treated and cared for the wounded and infected Roman soldiers, treating them as if they were relatives, and gradually moving and eliminating the hatred of the Roman soldiers towards the Dionians.

The chief medical officer, Stascikodas, often wrote to Hippocrates, who lived in Turi, to consult him about the problems he was experiencing.

Hippocrates, who was already in his prime, learned of the plague in Latin and insisted on going by boat, but was repeatedly dissuaded by his students and was unable to make the trip. However, his deeds of risking his life for the sake of medicine spread and inspired countless Dionian doctors.

The Hades celebrations and rugby matches in Turiyi were much less than in previous years, and the towns of Sicily were unable to send their teams to the tournament because they were at war, and the best players in the other cities were often the best soldiers, either on an expedition to Latinum with King Davers, or under Alexis and among the mountains of Samonai.

In addition, there was an enemy situation in the Apulia region, a fleet of ships carrying more than 500 soldiers landed on the coast near Balham, they carried the banner of the former kingdom of Puchetti, shouted the slogan "Drive out the Dionians, give freedom to the Puchetti", but rushed into the nearby villages to loot, the people of the neighboring towns hated their banditry, quickly gathered the citizens of the legion reserve in the city, formed an army of 600 people, under the command of the Second Cavalry Regiment, which rushed to hear the news, Launched an attack on the enemy entrenched in the village, crushing them in one fell swoop.

Knowing from the captives that in the following period, there may be several remnants of Apulian forces that year will invade, and the Senate decided: the towns in the Apulian region do not need to send teams to Turiyi to compete, and they must complete the autumn harvest as soon as possible and make every effort to defend it.

He also instructed the Ministry of War to inform the remaining Ninth Army Corps and the Second Cavalry Corps to be stationed in Puchetti's barracks, and for the time being, under the unified command of the Ninth Army Commander Tegetinos, to sit in the middle and be responsible for countering the enemy who landed on the various coasts of Apulia.

The Senate's decision provoked opposition from the people of the Apulian towns, especially in the Mesapi and Puchetti districts, who sent people to the Turij Senate to plead their case and state that the fact that they had sent their teams to participate would not affect their full defense against a possible enemy.

The Senate finally agreed to their request, but this incident provoked the resentment of the Apulian population against the enemy,

In the face of the common hatred of the Apulian people, the very few who secretly had contacts with the remnants did not dare to act rashly.

During the festivities, there is one thing that the people of Turii have been talking about.

Due to the absence of King Davers, it stands to reason that the person in charge of presiding over the sacrifice at the main temple of Hades on the day of the ceremony should be replaced by Plesinus, the priest of the kingdom's scepter, but Plesinas refused, insisting that on the day of Hades' birthday, there should be his descendants to preside, so as to please the depressed Lord of the Night and let him better protect the kingdom in this special year.

Most of the patriarchs agreed, but the reality was a bit troublesome, not only was Davers not in Turiyi, but even his only adult son, Klotocatax, was not in Turiyi, and the rest of the children were still young......

After discussion, the senators finally decided that Princess Christoya would be in charge of the sacrifice.

In the eyes of the senators, although Christoya is not a descendant of Hades, she is the wife of King Davers and is a family, and Hades will not have much opinion when he thinks about it.

Why didn't you choose Agnes? The reason is simple, she is already the chief priest of the temple of Hera, and if she comes to preside over this ceremony, she will anger the two gods, Hades and Hera. Of course, Christoia's own influence on the senators was also the reason why the senators did not express strong opposition.

Therefore, on the day of the celebration, the graceful Princess Christoya wore a white robe, stood in front of the altar of the main temple of Hades, and solemnly recited the sacrifice to Hades, her beautiful and noble face and crisp and beautiful voice became the most memorable picture of this celebration.

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While the Dionian people of Greater Greece were celebrating to dispel the gloom of the war, the Dioonians of Sicily were gradually ushering in the most difficult moments of the war.

Margo led more than 50,000 soldiers over the mountains into the southern edge of the Catania plain, where he set up camp between the city of Leotini and Palagonia, in an attempt to sever the connection between the towns and isolate Palagonia.

Thus, during the construction of the Carthaginian camp, the defenders of Palagonia, as well as the new camp of Catanay, not far north of Leotinius, sent troops to harass the Carthaginian army, but because Marco was always on guard, they failed to achieve great success. On the contrary, once under the interception of the Carthaginian cavalry, the army that came out of the new camp to harass failed to retreat in time, and suffered a lot of casualties, which also made the commander of the Seventh Army, Brerou, more cautious in the use of troops.

However, the attack of the Dionian army also caused the construction of the Carthaginian camp to be roughly completed a few days later, and during this time, Marco was not idle, and he sent thousands of Numibian cavalry to break into the Catanian plain in an attempt to plunder the people and supplies of the Catanian army.

However, Sipros and Leotizides had anticipated this, and when the Carthaginian army had invaded Palagonia, they had already mobilized all the Dionian people living outside the city to carry supplies and temporarily moved into the city of Catanay.

The Nummibian cavalry, unable to make any gains, began to destroy villages, farmland, and other facilities, so the Catanian plain was lit up by a pile of fires, and villages were reduced to ashes in the fire, the only fortunate thing was that Palagonian had managed to hold back the Carthaginian army for a few days, so that the people of the Catanian plain could complete the autumn harvest in time.

Anxious to learn of the destruction of their homes, the people hiding in the city of Katanai gathered and petitioned to the town hall to repel the alien cavalry that was raging on the plains.

Given that Carthage's main force was attacking from the south of the Catanian plain, Leotizides had already retreated from Agillion to the city of Catane with half of the Eighth Army.

In the past few days, Leotizides went to the city during the day to inspect the defenses, listen to the reports of the scouts, and stay in the study at night, looking at the map and contemplating.

When Cipros came to visit Leotizides, the Sicilian commander remained in his study, as he expected.

"Prosous, it's all up outside now, and you can still sit still!" When Sipros saw him, he said half-jokingly, half-seriously.

Leotizides knew what he was talking about, and said in a cold tone: "War is not a fight, if you are bullied, you must take revenge immediately, I don't need to listen to the shouting and screaming of some ignorant people." ”

Hearing this, Sipros frowned slightly, and he said in a gentle tone: "You have to understand the pain of the people who have lost their homes, although their anger is a little irrational, but I am afraid that it will infect the soldiers under your command, you must know that most of the soldiers of the Eighth Legion and the Reserve are Catanais, and their houses and fields have also been destroyed, which may have a great impact on their morale, right?" ”

Leotizides looked away from the map, looked at Cypros, and asked, "Is there something unusual?" ”

"I don't know about that, but I think the soldiers have some thoughts in their hearts." Sipros replied wryly.

"You want to?" Leotizides raised his eyebrows slightly, considering that Sipros was the wartime governor of Sicily, and he needed his strong support to command the battle, the mocking words that he was about to blurt out were swallowed back by him, and he barely suppressed his emotions, and said: "I will keep an eye on the condition of the soldiers, but now the Carthaginians are hoping to lure our army out of the city, so as to take advantage of their large numbers, defeat us in the field, and reduce the resistance to the capture of Catanay in the future, so we must calm down, You can't fall for the Carthaginians. Sipsy, is there anything important that you have come to me? ”