"The reason for the defeat of Asikulodoyaks was that he led his army to attack Laos, because of the unfamiliar terrain and the ambush of the enemy on the mountain road, which led to a crushing defeat. www.biquge.info If it was a face-to-face confrontation on the plains of our Turiyi, how could the poorly armed and loosely organized Lucanian mountain people be the opponents of the Greek heavy infantry, even if the number was a little smaller. Kunograta retorted.

"Philis, we can't afford this war. If we take refuge in the city, we allow the enemy to trample our farmland and burn our villages, fisheries, and mines again, and every month we have to hold a citizens' assembly to discuss whether or not to levy a war tax in order to pay the salaries and food of the mercenaries. I don't think the citizens would agree! Neosis stepped forward as well.

"Of course the citizens will not agree! The citizens elected you as chief general because they thought you could quickly turn the tide of battle, drive out the Lucanians, and keep Turiyi safe, just as you had done when you first came to power, and immediately sent Burkos out to recruit soldiers and emissaries to Tarantum for help. Now that powerful reinforcements have arrived, you can no longer hesitate and sit back and watch the destruction of citizens' property and the collapse of the treasury of Turiyi, you must make a decision as soon as possible and not disappoint the expectations of the population! Polyxis, who had been silent before, also spoke.

Bulkos didn't expect Polyxis to join the ranks of urging Philis, and when he was in a hurry, he was seen by Kunograta who had retreated into the corner, and remembered something, and asked the guards to invite Bulkos out of the town hall on the grounds that "important military meetings involve the secrets of the city-state, and irrelevant people should take the initiative to avoid them".

Bulkos stood on the steps of the town hall and was stunned for a moment: from a rational point of view, he felt that he should trust Ferres's judgment, after all, compared to other generals who had no experience in warfare because of their long history, Ferres, who was over sixty years old, had participated in the war with Tarantum when he was young, and successively served as the commander of a heavy infantry squadron and a captain, and had rich combat experience; Emotionally, he also wanted to defeat the fearsome Lucanians quickly, as every Turiyi wanted the bandits to stay away from their homeland, and Davers's forces gave him confidence.

Under the influence of this ambivalence, he subconsciously walked towards the port, and after walking for a while, he stopped, although the generals of the town hall accepted the agreement he had signed, they still had frequent contacts with Davers's troops, and I was afraid that he would be criticized. He sighed and turned to go home......

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Davos was of course unaware of the quarrel that had taken place at the town hall of Turriy, and although he was surprised that Burcos, who had promised him to come after reporting to the generals of Turii, never showed up, his main focus was on the construction of the camp.

In the past few days, all the soldiers have worked together, and the Turii camp has begun to take shape. At this time, Burkos sent his men to send four horses, saying that they were borrowed for his use.

Davers was aware of the deliberate estrangement between Burkos and the Turriyi leadership, but he didn't pay attention to it. After all, when the team passed through many Greek city-states on the coast of the Euker Sea, those city-states had the same attitude towards mercenaries, which was the helplessness of mercenaries.

He asked Brkos' men to convey his thanks to him, and then asked Phellisius to stay in the camp to take care of the military affairs, and he took Ashistes, Ledes, and a henchman slave of Bulkos as his guides, and rode around Turriyi to get a sense of the terrain.

The flat and fertile Sybari Plain (known to some Turi people as the Turi Plain) is already full of grass and warblers in the spring of April.

Davers and his party galloped in a happy mood, and they were constantly in sight of green farmland and canals, as well as hard-working slaves and farmers, wide dirt roads made muddy by frequent spring rains, and from time to time caravan slaves could be seen pushing wagons stuck in mud pits......

A thought crossed Davers's mind: it was common in the Greek city-states of the Eucortic Sea, where the merchantable Greeks were not interested in building the roads that best facilitated the flow of trade, and their energy seemed to be focused on maritime trade and ships, but the Romans who rose after them created the most complex and advanced Mediterranean road network of their time.

After about twenty miles west along the Crati River, he saw a large city standing on the north bank of the river.

At this point, the guide said, "That's Turiyi!" When choosing a site to build the city, the Athenians found the confluence of the Klatty and Koseni rivers to be a good place to build the city. Because the river is wide and the current is gentle, a wharf can be built to accommodate enough merchant ships. When they were about to build a city here, they found that there was a big natural fountain here, and the locals called it Turi, so they called this new city Turiyi......"

"Very interesting story." Davers said in response, looking up at the Cratty River, where there were so many boats that he couldn't even see the other side.

"It's better to rebuild it in the old town of Sybaris. Wouldn't it be better to build a port directly by the sea! Asistes said puzzled.

Davers already knew about it from Burkos, so he didn't want to say more, but he stretched out his hand and pointed ahead and said, "Let's go around the city." ”

Because it was built at the confluence of the two rivers, it was divided into three parts by the river: the southern city, the northern city, and the delta protrusion at the confluence of the two rivers, and the main body of the city was in the northern city.

Daves and his party traveled about a mile along the moat outside the walls of the northern city of Turiyi, and finally reached the banks of the Koseni River. In their eyes, the walls of Turriyi were made of large strips of rock, and the gaps between the stones were tightly connected, the walls were at least ten meters high, and there was a moat five meters wide twenty meters beyond the walls, which connected to the Klatty River, and its depth must have been shallow, all of which was enough to give every besieger a headache. And the three or four sentries patrolling back and forth in the city made them feel the imminent smell of war.

Young Assistes even jokingly waved to the sentinels.

Heading north along the north bank of the Cosseny, and soon seeing the pontoon bridge over the river, Davers noticed that the delta between the two rivers was not flat, but hilly. According to the guide, these uneven, undulating hills have instead been used to prevent the river from swelling in the spring and turning the land between the two rivers into a swamp.

After about 20 miles, the terrain began to rise gradually, and the ground began to change from pure mud to sand, but fortunately the banks of the river were relatively flat.

The group walked a few more miles, and the upper reaches of the Koseny River turned from due north to the northwest, while a river rushed down due north and joined the Koseny River.

"This is the Tino River, a tributary of the Koseni River, a river that the Turiyi people hate more." The guide said.

"Why?" Assistes asked curiously.

"Because there are a lot of hot springs upstream." The guide answered the question.

"Hot springs?!" When Davers heard this, he became interested.

They quickened their speed, but when they reached the place, they were all dumbfounded: the Tino River had become a small river a few meters wide, and on the south bank of the river there were indeed steaming pools, but countless small streams flowed from the crevices of the rocks at the foot of the mountain, turning this area of rock and meadow into a swamp.

"In the spring, because of the snow on the mountains, it becomes a mixture of small streams and hot springs, and finally they all join the Tino River, and if the water of the Tino River swells in the rainy season, it will overflow the banks of the river and pour back into the hot spring swamps on the south bank, and back there on the north bank—" The guide pointed ahead: "The big river beach." ”

Davers looked ahead, and saw that the bank in front of him seemed to have been bitten off in a large piece, and it was sunken into the shape of half a huge bowl, with the river beach below, and the high gentle slope on all sides.