With anxiety about the loss of their homes on their faces, the adults talked to each other about their resentment against the people of Syracuse, the progress of the war, and their expectations and grievances with their own army; The children used the refuge as a place to play and play together......

When the streets are too noisy, people in the houses on both sides of the street will come out to express their dissatisfaction. In most cases, the refugees in the streets heed the advice and restored peace for a while.

At this time, some people will sigh: "How nice it would be to have a house of your own in the city, so that you don't have to worry about the invasion of the enemy!" ”

Naturally, his words provoked another controversy.

The streets were chaotic but relatively clean, except for a breeze and the smell of urine coming to his nose, and Daverston covered his mouth and nose and looked at Prottesilaus.

Protesilaus said helplessly: "Your Majesty, we have arranged for the people to clean the streets every day according to the doctor's advice, and warned them that they must go to the river to pee and poop to prevent the epidemic from happening, but those children ......"

Now that Prottesilaus had already taken effective measures, it was natural that Davers would not say anything more. As they approached, the bored evacuees spotted Davers and shouted excitedly, "It's Davers! ”

"Master Davers is here!"

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The news that "Davos became King of Dionia" had been officially conveyed by the Senate to the subordinate cities, but the people of Crimesa who had been worried about their homeland being trampled by the enemy all day long did not care too much about it, so they still shouted their familiar name.

At this moment, they stopped complaining and arguing, and rushed to Davers, and the guards immediately took care of him.

"Lord Davers, you're finally here, the people of Syracuse have burned down our village, and our homes are gone!"

"Lord Davers, when will you be able to lead your troops to drive out those vicious aliens?! When will we return to our land?! ”

"Lord Davers, my father died at the hands of those damned aliens, you must kill them all to avenge us!"

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Like wanderers who have finally met their parents, the people confide in Davers about the suffering and anger of this time.

When the convoy and Oliver saw that the crowd was gathering more and more, and wanted to drive them away, fearing danger, Davos stopped them, listened to their pain with a heavy expression, patiently comforted them, and made a solemn promise that he would definitely defeat the people of Syracuse and help them rebuild their homes......

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Henipolis led more than 1,000 Laos soldiers loyal to him out of the mountain pass, to the fortress of La River, where he joined up with the 3,000 Lucanian reservists led by Bagul, and then went south along the La River, soon reaching the outside of Laos.

Here, Shiros, the military governor of the Bruti region appointed by Davers temporarily, had replaced Saru, the governor of Vig City, and more than 3,000 Bruti reserve soldiers had arrived a day earlier and set up camp.

The meeting of the three forces brought the total strength of the Dionian side to nearly 8,000 men.

When Arrobmas in the city received this news, he frowned all day, and he regretted that he had not decisively led his troops out of the city yesterday and routed the enemy from Bruti first. At that time, he had concerns, although he had gathered 5,000 warriors in the city of Laos, but he had been dealing with Dionya for many years, and he knew the fighting power of Dionia's soldiers, and he was not confident of defeating them unless he led most of his forces to attack. And if he did, he was worried that there would be chaos in the city.

In recent days, rumors have swirled in the city of Laos, with civilians and slaves resentful of officials and tribal leaders, and there have even been several major clashes. And because the news of the "fiasco in the Battle of Syracuse", which was originally blocked, was actually spread, it also fueled their arrogance. Under such circumstances, how dare Arobumas transfer the main forces of his troops away from the city. Therefore, for the sake of now, he can only change the bad situation of Laos by holding on to the city of Laos and hoping that Syracuse will defeat Dionya on land.

To this day, he still can't figure out how the mighty navy of Syracuse could be defeated by the patchwork of the Ionian fleet, could it be that the Ionian Archon Davers is really blessed by the gods?!

Due to Bagul's humility, the command of the entire unified army was handed over to Shiros, the former commander of the Fourth Army and the senator of the Senate, who was more senior in military qualifications and trusted by Davers.

At this moment, in the newly built tent, there were Shiros, Bagul, and Henipolis, as well as Ariandos, the most trusted general of the Henipolis army, who was deliberating.

In addition, there is a special person in the tent, he is Tratus, the head of Davers's intelligence department, who was previously appointed by the governor of Aristilas, and has been in charge of Laos's espionage activities on the west coast during this time.

After Terratus introduced the actual situation of the turmoil in the city of Laos, it greatly encouraged the confidence of Shilos and Bagul to take Laos, after all, if Arobumas defended with all his might, it would be impossible for 8,000 people to capture the stone city defended by 5,000 people, as a mixed army that was hastily assembled, they were not even equipped with an engineering battalion, let alone a ballista.

At that moment, Hennepolis uttered a word that surprised everyone in the Great Tent.

"Lord Henipolis." Shilos froze and asked, "Are you really going to do this?" ”

"Of course!" Henipolis raised his head with hatred in his eyes: "I wanted to do this when I became the Archon of Laos, but those greedy wolves won't give me a chance to do it!" But now—" Henipolis sneered, "since they have betrayed me, then I will give them a taste of what it is like to be betrayed by the people!" ”

For the remainder of the day, the Dionian army began to build siege engines, and Tratus contacted his men in the city in a special way.

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The next day, while Davers led his army from Crimesa to the Neto River, Shilos led his army outside the city of Laos.

Seeing the tide of enemies and the hunting of battle flags under the city, the Laos people in the city, both soldiers and generals, were inevitably a little nervous, after all, they had been under the wing of Dioonia for many years, and they were accustomed to seeing and hearing the courage and continuous victories of the Dionian soldiers.

Seeing this, Arrobmas laughed and said, "The Dioonians are only scaring us, they dare not attack the city!" The lives of the families of the more than 1,000 warriors under Henipolis are in our hands, and they have no fighting spirit at all. And apart from them, the Dioonians are not much more numerous than our warriors, and we have tall walls, moats, deer, and traps, and the Dioonians will not dare to come to their deaths unless they are crazy! ”

"Your Excellency is right! Our warriors of Laos are not afraid of any intimidation! I wish the Dioonians would come and attack the city, so we can defeat them!" ”

"With Asinu on top, it's time for the Dioonians to see how powerful our Laos warriors are!"

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The men showed their courage to Arrobmas.

At this time, more than 20 horsemen ran out of the army of Dionya under the city, stood less than a hundred meters from the city, and shouted for the first man: "Warriors of Laos, I am Henipolis, son of Avinogis, your consul!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, more than 20 transmitters repeated his words at the same time, so that the people in the city could hear them clearly.

"My lord, it's that kid! We'll shoot him with arrows! His subordinates' faces changed, and they suggested to Arrobmas.

Arobumas waved his hand. For this nephew, his feelings are complicated, with the guilt of taking his throne, the pain of breaking his brother's promise, the pain of his hatred of iron, and the fear of his reckless behavior.

Arobumas knew that he had to face this young man bravely and cut off these negative emotions in his heart in order to truly become a competent ruler of Laos! So he wanted to hear what this nephew had to say before refuting him.

"Warriors of Laos, we are descendants of the noble people of Xubaris, who have been slaves of aliens for decades. Under the leadership of my father, you, who did not want to be slaves, bravely rose up and rebelled, drove out the aliens, and became the masters of Laos! ”

Henipolis waited for his men to finish transmitting, and shouted again: "But have you really become the masters of this city?!" Most of you have no land, no office, no participation in the planning of the city-states, no political power, but because of poverty, you have to belong to various clans and tribes in order to survive, and you are desperately grazing and planting farmland for those officials and chiefs in exchange for a pitiful little food to satisfy your hunger.

And the officials and chieftains, who do nothing at all, enjoy the food, occupy the positions of the city-states of Laos, occupy all the lands of Laos, and enact all kinds of laws that will help them rule over you. Look at the fat generals and chieftains around you, you really think you're the masters of this city?! You've really been free?! ……”

"Shoot the arrows! Hurry up and release the arrows! Arobumas ordered in a rage, he did not expect this daring nephew to reveal the secret of their rule over Laos in public: damn it! Damn Henipolis! Does he not want our family to rule the city anymore?!

The order of Arobumas was conveyed, but there were not too many soldiers who responded to the order, and more people really did what Henipolis said, looking at the leader who came to reprimand them, and muttered quietly: "He is right, these people are indeed much fatter than us......"