Alexis was not too surprised when the word "surrender" came out of the mouth of Beneventom's envoy, because all the other Hippini tribes had already surrendered to Dionia, and he later learned that Caracheni's army had left Benevenum City, so Benevenum was already a turtle in the urn.

Therefore, Alexis said with confidence: "It's a good thing that Beneventom can surrender!" However, Beneventom, as one of the initiators of this war, according to other tribes, was also the main commander of this war, causing great disasters to Dionya and its allies, and must be severely punished! ”

When Beneventum's envoy heard this, he was so frightened that he hurriedly said: "Venerable General Alexis, for Benevenum's mistakes, Savoni has already lowered his punishment, and the great leader Lesguk committed suicide last night to apologize!" ”

"Lesgouk is dead?!" Gherney, who was in the tent, asked in surprise.

"Yes, Chief Gellni." The envoy looked at Gairney with a sad expression, and said with a choked voice: "Before he died, the great chief regretted very much what he had done to Abenirum in the first place, and he hoped that all the faults would be borne by him alone, and I hope you can spare the tribes of Beneventum!" ”

"Lesgouk wouldn't say anything like that." Gherney shook his head and sat down again, but he seemed in a good mood.

Alexis said solemnly: "Lesguk's suicide does not absolve the Beneventum people of responsibility!" Our King Davers once wrote that 'The Benevenum people have been full of malice towards Dionya for more than ten years, and have been maliciously suppressing and bullying Abenirum, with whom Dionya had friendly relations, and they are also the main perpetrators of this war! ……’

As a result of your wanton breaking of the covenant, and in order to avoid being provoked by your Beneventum again in the future, King Davers instructed, 'Beneventum must be fully incorporated into the Kingdom of Dionia, and the tribes and people of Beneventum may join the Kingdom of Dionya or migrate to other parts of the mountains of Samonai. When this war is over, the mountains will be sparsely populated, and there will be places where you can live. ”

When the envoy heard this, he was furious, and he blushed and shouted: "Is Dionya trying to use war as an excuse to forcibly annex our Beneventum?!" If so, we Benevenum warriors will not give in and will fight to the death! Savoni will protect us, and even if all the Dionians here are killed, we will not want to attack Beneventum! ”

After the messenger roared, he turned to Gherney and rebuked: "You see, this is the ambition of the Dionians! Today it's Benevuntum, tomorrow it's probably Abenirum, I'm afraid the Dioonians want to exterminate the entire Samoneh, do you still want to be their accomplice?! ”

Gherney turned a deaf ear to the messenger's words of wanting to divide the world, Alexis had already told him Davers's instructions, and he was of course very happy that Davers wanted him to become the chief of the Hilpinei tribe, although the most powerful Beneventum would be separated and completely become part of the Dionian kingdom, which was a pity, but it also meant that Beneventum's suppression of Abenirum for decades would no longer exist, and he would have much less control over the entire tribe in the future, so he could accept this.

He replied unhurriedly, "Abenirum has joined the Kingdom of Dionia. ”

The messenger was stunned.

Alexis said in a tough tone: "Our soldiers have long been ready to storm Beneventim City!" Whether to accept this offer, or to fight to the death, Bereventum must give me an answer today, or tomorrow we will start the siege! ”

The messenger hurried back to the city, but he didn't expect that there was a disturbance in the city.

It turned out that the warriors of the tribe to which Lesguk belonged were provoked by his relatives to believe that the suicide of the leader was related to the greed for life and death of other tribal leaders, and they not only imprisoned the two tribal elders involved in the incident, but also demanded that the other tribal leaders must be held accountable for the incident, and that they should also be judged and punished according to tradition.

The other tribal leaders certainly couldn't accept it, and the enraged tribal warriors of Lesguk insisted on making them pay, leading to an escalation of the conflict.

The tribe of Lesguk is the largest tribe in Beneventum's territory, and the other tribes can only unite to fight against it, and the two sides are tense and unable to give an inch.

The envoy told both sides of Dionia's harsh conditions, and although they finally calmed down their anger for a while and sat down together to discuss the matter, because the dragons were leaderless, they argued for most of the day, and they could not come up with a unified opinion, whether to fight or to make peace?

The tribe of Lesguk elected his eldest son to the council, and he was not only resolute in his determination to fight the Ionian coalition to the death, but also verbally attacked the other chiefs who proposed further negotiations, and when the meeting was dismissed, he glared at the other chiefs with hatred in his eyes, which made the chiefs feel terrified.

Since Benevenum did not reply that day, Alexis kept his promise and sent a large army early the next morning to prepare for the siege.

The morale of the Dionian coalition was high and the fighting was strong. Upon hearing the news that the army, dominated by the Lucanian Reserve Corps, had defeated the main forces of Cautini, the soldiers of the 10th and 11th Legions, of course, could not allow themselves to be compared to the Legion Reserve Soldiers, and they had already asked for battle many times; For the Abenirum warriors, the capture of Benevenum City can finally take revenge and let them vent the oppression and humiliation they have suffered for more than ten years, so they are all very excited; For the Pothenian warriors, the capture of Beneventum would save them from listening to the older generation of Samonai in the future, and they could proudly tell future generations that they had captured the largest town of the Samonians.

Alexis ordered a siege plan: the Pothenian army attacked the eastern wall, the Dionian army attacked the west, and the Abenirum army attacked the south.

Alexis also placed the surrendered Hippinee warriors under the command of Gherney, and he could not allow the entire army to besiege the city, while the camp was watched by some Hirpinee warriors who were not yet sure of their loyalty.

In the face of the objections of these tribes, Gherni viciously threatened: "You once faced the oath that Lesguk made, and now because Lesguk has committed suicide, naturally this oath no longer has to be kept, don't find any excuse to avoid this battle, I tell you, the tribe that participates in this battle is the ally of Dionia, and those who do not participate are the enemy, you choose for yourself!" ”

Many people secretly scolded the Gelni Fox in their hearts for being a fake tiger, but none of the tribes dared to lead troops to leave without permission.

Gherney was not polite either, and directly placed them at the forefront of the siege.

The Dionian coalition army is about to attack the city, but the leaders in Benevenum City have no result because of yesterday's argument, and they have not formulated a defense plan at all, but they did not expect that as soon as the day dawned, the Dionian coalition army launched an attack, and they all panicked, and they rushed to the city to defend with their warriors, and their arrangements were hasty and chaotic.

Moreover, Beneventom was a large city, and 2,000 warriors could not cover the entire city, and at the sight of the enemies pouring in under the city, and the tall siege machines that had never been seen before, some of the leaders beat drums in their hearts and started to think otherwise.

The siege had just begun, and several tribes responsible for defending the southern city took the initiative to open the gates of the city and surrender to the Dionian coalition.

Abenirum's army took the opportunity to rush into the city, Beneventum's defenses collapsed, and the tribes of Lesguk, who had resisted to the last of them, were forced to surrender despite most of the casualties and the death of their temporary leader.

The Ionian coalition captures Beneventum.

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The fall of Benevenum meant that Alexis' coalition forces could reach Kautim through the mountain passes to the east.

The Kautini spies, who had been closely following the situation in Beneventum, immediately quickly transmitted the bad news back to Kautium.

The people of Kautim were terrified, as most of their young and middle-aged people were fending off another Ionian coalition in Abela under the leadership of Segovani.

A few days earlier, Segovani had been angry at the Naconian rebellion, and had his Naconian chieftains imprisoned in Kautim taken to Abella, beheaded and beheaded in the city, as a way to vent his anger and take revenge on the Naconians.

The Nakonian warriors, led by Vassonk, were enraged and asked Zantiparis to attack the city of Abella.

Seeing that the Naconians were fighting high, Zantiparis found that Abella was not only a small city, but also had poor defense facilities (Abella was located in the hinterland of Kautini and had never been threatened by foreign enemies, and was surrounded by difficult mountains, the land was barren, and there was a threat to survival, and the Abella people were busy plundering and had no heart to repair the city), so he agreed to the request of the Naconians, and after carrying over the siege equipment used in the original attack on Lola, he gave the order to siege the city.

The attack was based on the Naconian warriors, supported by the Dionian soldiers, and the Campanian League soldiers as the reserves, waving their flags and shouting to strengthen their momentum.

It turned out that the generals of the Campania League army saw that the remnants of the Cautini army had been driven out of the Campanian plain and there was no longer a threat to them, so they moved the idea of "returning to their mother country and rebuilding their homeland quickly", and asked Zantiparis to resign and leave, and finally even the Neapolitan general Aealos could not sit still, but he left 1,000 Neapolitan soldiers behind.