Pianren nodded, he could only remind them that although he had been elected as the new Grand Leader of the Alliance, he had no right to interfere in the management of these tribal towns at all. He turned and asked Sedorum again: "Picosis and Pothenia have agreed to form an alliance with us, do you think they will attack the Dionians?" ”

"It's hard to say......" Sedorum mused, "because now it's the Dioonians attacking us, not them." Judging by Sincinag's cunning character, he will never attack first, unless we let the Dionians be defeated! ”

Pianlun's eyes were slightly disappointed, but soon returned to normal, and he loudly encouraged everyone: "Everyone, as long as we resist the attack of the Dionians, and persist for half a month or a month so that Theoria cannot enter the Bruti Mountains, their fighting spirit will be defeated, their grain transportation will also suffer, and the Lucanians, who are oppressed by the Dionians, will also take the opportunity to rebel, and the Dionians will inevitably be in trouble!" Then will it be time for us to fight back, to defeat the blockade of Theoria once and for all, and to seize the fertile plains of the Greeks for our children and grandchildren! ”

Pianren's words of encouragement made everyone's blood boil, and Nikuru shouted: "Defeat the Dionians!" ”

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Building roads in the winding and rugged mountains is a huge and complex project, which not only consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, but also tests the engineering and technical level of a country. The construction of the Boulevard de Turiyi-Laos began as early as last year, and Laos, Turiyi, and Niutum have invested a lot of manpower, but it has not yet been completed. Therefore, Davers led an army of 20,000 men and a huge baggage army for five days in the mountains before reaching the fortress of La River.

And Silos led the Fourth Army to the outside of Trina, and Trina's generals and council members went out of the city to greet him, and Sipros introduced Hilos one by one, and the atmosphere was very friendly.

Shilos declined the offer of the Trina to come to the city for a banquet, insisting on staying with the soldiers, winning the praise of a group of dignitaries.

He led his army and encamped on the coast, ten miles northwest of the city of Trina, at the exit of the seaside pass, only eleven or twelve miles from the city of Knappetia.

After Shilos arranged the construction of the camp, he immediately took the escort and Sipros to the outside of the city of Knappetia.

With cliffs on the left and mountains on the right, the seaside road leading to the Cosenza plateau is not wide, but the city of Knappetia is even narrower, and it seems that the length of the city is no more than 200 meters, but it completely blocks the access to and from it; The city is not large, but it is cut from bluestone; The walls were only four meters high, but the whole city was high, and the road went diagonally upwards from where Shilos was, narrowing and narrowing......

It took a lot of energy for the soldiers to make their way to the city, not to mention dodging the enemy's arrows and javelins. Fortunately, the geographical environment of Aspraustum City is somewhat similar, and the soldiers also have experience in this area in peacetime training.

Shiros observed the situation on the road, wondering if the two siege engines that had just been equipped with the Third Legion could be pushed under the city.

Seeing that Shilos was staring at the city of Knappetia and silent for a long time, Sipros thought that he was frightened by the difficulty of the siege, so he reminded him: "There are still a few trails in the nearby mountains that can go around Knappetia and go north to Cosenza. ”

"Really?!" Shilos turned his head suddenly.

"Yes, otherwise how could the Siru and the tribesmen who rebelled against Cosenza escape from Bruti."

"So do the people in here know?" Shilos pointed to the city of Knappetia ahead.

Sipros understood what he meant, and he affirmed, "Of course they do." ”

Shilos was left to chance, but he decided to send someone to scout first when he returned.

"I've heard that there is a port in Knappetia." Shilos asked again.

"There is a port, but it's not big." Sipros said, turning over and dismounting, walking to the edge of the cliff.

Silos did not hesitate to dismount, he did not think that he had good horseback riding skills, in case he was frightened by the crotch of the cliff, and the Fourth Legion had not yet started the battle, I am afraid that he would have to lose one of the legion commanders first.

"There!" Sipros pointed in front of him, his voice ethereal in the strong sea breeze.

Shiros fixed his gaze on the cliff jutting out of the land, and with a height difference of nearly a hundred meters above the sea, his eyes could reach the coast a few miles north of the city of Knappetia, where he saw a flat land, a small beach with a simple pier, and a few dozen boats moored......

"According to the intelligence of the Siru and the observations made by our ships through the city of Cornapetia, the port of Knappetia was built at the mouth of the Savuto River—"

"Savuto River?"

"The Savuto River is a large river in the territory of Cornapettia, and the city in front of us seems to be barren and surrounded by mountains or seas, but in fact it is not far to the north, and there is a small plain around the Savuto River, and along the valley of the Savuto River it is possible to reach Cosenza smoothly." Speaking of this, Sipros smiled with disdain: "It is said that the Brutites originally built the city of Knappetia here because they were afraid that we would destroy and plunder their farmland and pastures on the Savuto Plain, but we Trina people could not even cultivate the fertile land on the Euphemian Plain, so they would covet this small plain, but their city was ten miles away from the Savuto River, and it was very inconvenient to work, so they had to build another town on the banks of the Savuto River——"

"How's the town's defense?" Shiroth abruptly interrupted Sipros.

"I heard that this town has no walls."

Shilos breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't want to go to great lengths to capture Knappetia, and to take the town again in order to completely occupy the territory of Bruty.

"In the past, Knappetia was not rich in production, poor shipbuilding technology, and had no contact with other Italian city-states, so there was only a port, but in fact there was almost no maritime trade, but ......," said Sipros worriedly: "Now that the Bruti tribal alliance has been formed, this is the only port for the Brutis people, and I believe it will develop soon......"

Shilos nodded, but they didn't know that the Brutis had broken through the blockade of Dionya through the improvised docks, and formed an alliance with Picosis and Pothenia.

"Legionnaire, look!" At this time, the guard reminded loudly.

The gates of Knappetia were opened, and a troop of men rushed out.

"Let's go!" Shilos gave the order, and the whole team returned to the camp in a hurry.

"See, the Dionians are cowards!" Nikuru was armed with a spear and laughed insolently.

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Davers arrived at the fortress of the La River, where Sesta and Hieronymus, who had received the news, were already waiting.

"Your Excellency, the people of Niutum have mobilized and are at the disposal of the town hall to carry food and grass for our troops, build camps, and transport the ......wounded," Sesta reported.

"Don't those Lucanian tribes have an opinion?"

On the contrary, they were more than happy to see the Brutis conquered. The stronger the Dionias, the safer they became, and it was not just Lucania that would belong to the non-Greek race of Dionyas in the future. They are willing to provide a garrison for the legion, but in that case our soldiers will have to be careful that Lucanian women break into their tents at night, considering that Greek citizens of Dioonia are now very popular! Sesta said jokingly.

Davers listened amusementably and laughed. He looked at Sesta and said with some emotion: "Lord Sesta supplied, I think you, as a mercenary, should have never held a city-state office, or even managed a city. ”

Sesta shook his head: "I worked hard to have a bite of bread to eat, how could I have thought that there would be today, this is all an unimaginable change that you have brought to us!" ”

"If you have an opportunity, you have to be able to seize it. And you, as a mercenary with no experience in the management of the city-state, resolutely chose to leave the familiar army and come to this strange land, facing the Lucanians, who were still hostile at the time, not afraid of difficulties, working hard, and boldly solving problems. To this day, I can say that Ninyotum is completely Dionian territory! Sesta, you've done a great job! Not only do I think so, but so do the rest of the Senate! You are now the most administratively experienced senator in our mercenary army! When the term of office ends next year, I think the Senate will definitely have more important tasks entrusted to you! Davers did not hesitate to express his appreciation for Sesta.

After hearing this, Sesta was both proud and excited, and he still maintained a little sobriety: "My lord, you are the most administrative experience in our mercenaries!" ”

"Me?" Davers looked left and right and said, "That's not counted, don't you all say that I am a god, that's all the credit of Hades!" ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

"Your Excellency." Hieronymus couldn't help but say: "What is the mission of our Third Army in this war?" "The last reinforcement of Tarantum did not have the share of the Third Army, and this war mobilization did not give specific instructions to the Third Army, so Hieronymus was inevitably a little anxious.

Davos looked at the commander of the regiment, who had simply moved his home to Niutum in order to facilitate the training and command of the Third Legion, and did not even attend the usual meetings of the Senate, and felt the same emotion in his heart: if Sesta had political ambitions, and this taciturn man made the barracks his home, so although he was a Greek, and most of the Third Legion under his command were Lucanians, the Lucanian warriors who had once hated the Greeks were very convinced of him, and this is why.