A part of the mercenaries at the head of the east gate, armed with shields and spears, rushed down the wooden wall and attacked the Pothenian warriors in the city to support the Grumentum who were almost unable to hold on, while the rest of the mercenaries ran to the gatehouse, turned the locked winch, the east gate was opened, and the soldiers who followed rushed in.

The Pauthia soldiers defending the eastern gate were flanked from front and back and struggled to hold on.

Lusau was really shocked when he received Polet's order, he didn't expect that these tribes in Grumentum City actually rebelled again, his first reaction was not worried about the situation at the east gate, but afraid that there would be problems with these warriors under his command, because most of the more than a thousand warriors were tribal warriors who had returned to him after entering the city, and the enemy at the south gate was fiercely attacking, so he didn't dare to disperse his forces at all, so he refused to send reinforcements.

However, as soon as the Pothenian warriors stationed on the mountainside received the order, they immediately descended the mountain to rescue, and when they arrived, their companions in the eastern gate were in a difficult situation, and the leader of the group did not think about it and took the lead in attacking the enemy.

The reinforcements of Pothenia complicated the battle in the east: mercenaries and Grumentum warriors flanked the garrison at the east gate, and the Grumentium warriors were flanked by the Pothenians, and the four forces fought each other in the city and in the narrow area in front of the entrance to the mountain road......

The first to react was Zantiparis, thanks to the "Dionian Military Law", during this period of training, Zantiparis was repeatedly requested: except under special circumstances, the army commander must not fight on the front line.

So this time in the siege, he followed in the rear, and when he encountered this chaotic situation, he quickly made a decision with rich battlefield experience, ordered the mercenaries to slowly retreat to the city wall, and at the same time informed Ksima to lead his soldiers to bypass those houses from both sides and surround the enemy.

The mercenaries' retreat gave hope to the Pothenian warriors in the bitter battle, they thought that the enemy was almost overwhelmed, so their morale was greatly increased, while the Grumentiums felt hopeless, they were originally a rabble, their fighting spirit was almost broken, but as the Pothenian warriors advanced, they gradually surrounded them completely, and they had to fight for survival because they could not escape.

However, Polot, who was at the top of the hill, was terrified, and what he saw was that the enemy was retreating in an orderly and largely unbroken formation, while the enemy who had flocked to the city gate from behind had bypassed between the houses on both sides, gradually forming a large encirclement, pincering the Pothenia garrison and reinforcements in the eastern city, including the Grummentums, while some of the enemy stood at the head of the city, raising javelins in their hands, condescendingly, and at such a close distance, it could be said that every throw was a ......

Paulette closed his eyes in pain, and now he was sure that the enemy was from that terrible Ionian Alliance, and that the warriors of Lucania were full of fighting passion, but the formation had always been loose, and there was no such strong organization and tight formation.

Poret scolded Lusau for his disobedience, and hesitated to send the last of his forces to the eastern battlefield, where there was no hope......

The deadly rain of javelins and the ferocious assault of the mercenaries finally led to the rout of the garrison at the East Gate, and the encirclement narrowed like a noose around the neck of the Pothenia reinforcements, and they finally chose to surrender in despair.

In the end, Pollette did not send his remaining 500 warriors, but held on to the top of the mountain.

Next, Zantiparis and Ksima led their armies to attack south, but Lusau, who was already unable to support them, was defeated and killed by the Grumentum warriors who lost control on the way to the west.

When it was dark, the Dionian army routed the defenders to the east, west, and south, and the whole army entered the city of Grummentum, leaving only 500 soldiers under the command of Polet on the top of the hill in terror as the army approached.

At this time, Hemon raised his torch and went up the mountain alone, ready to persuade Polette to surrender.

In order to save the lives of his people, Paulette finally agreed to surrender, and the warriors had to lay down their arms, open the mountain gate, and go down with Hmon empty-handed.

Polett said to Hmon resentfully: "You helped the Greeks to kill their own people and seize the land of their people, are you not afraid of the wrath of the god of Mount Asinus?!" ”

Hermon turned around and said meaningfully: "You are wrong, I am not helping the Greeks, but helping the Lucanians, and the god Athenu will only be happy about this!" ”

Dionya captured Grumentim with 600 casualties, and Lusau and his henchmen were slaughtered.

A few days later, an armistice was signed between Pothenia and Dionia, and more than 1,000 captured Pothenia warriors were safely returned to the city of Pothenia.

Unlike the fall of Niutum at the beginning, the news of Grummentum's change of ownership quickly spread throughout the Lucaria region, causing huge waves among many small tribes and even many forces.

However, Theoria did not take further military action, but gradually implemented the appointment according to a pre-drawn plan: Bagul assumed the post of city administrator of Grumentum, Hmon became the city's intermediate judge, Yasistes was transferred to Grumentum as the intermediate prosecutor, and Ksima was appointed as the patrol leader.

The first thing Bagul did when he took office was to take over the pass camp between Niutum and Grummentum. Secondly, only 2,000 warriors were left in Grummentum, and the remaining 3,000 warriors and the mercenaries under the command of Zantiparis returned to their home cities of Niutum, Turii, and Asprarustum to relieve the pressure on the supply of military rations.

The next thing to do is to fulfill the promise that Veesbah and Hmon had made to the small tribes around Grumentum, accept them into the Dionian Alliance, divide settlements and pastures for them, and abolish many of the previous exploits of Grumentia and Portentia......

Upon learning that the Dionian League had captured Grummentum, Sincinag scolded it for its insidious cunning. On the surface, Picosis, who had been devastated, had to send an emissary to Turii to express his goodwill for peace.

Even Galaguso, who rarely participated in the tribal strife of Lucania, sent emissaries to know the intentions of the powerful new neighbor.

Pothenia was forced to sign an armistice with Dionya because of the problem of prisoners, but as the dominant Lucanian tribal alliance in the north of Lucania, Dionia's raid hurt its dignity and angered the tribal leaders of Poitya.

The Ionian League's strong Greek flair was so unique in the Lucanian region that it immediately caught the attention of another Greek city-state in the region, Elea.

Elia is also one of the many Greek colonial cities established on the Italian peninsula during the Great Greek Colonial Era, a few decades later than the earliest city of Cumai, and the three adjacent coastal cities of Elia, Picosis and Poseidonia were established one after another. Compared with the other two cities, Elia in the middle seems to be a little obscure, and in the process of the Lucanians moving south a hundred years ago, Poseidonia and Picosis fell one after another, and the weaker Elia survived tenaciously, but Arya, surrounded by the Lucalians, was in danger of being destroyed at any time, if it were not for the contradictions between several tribes in Lucaria, such as Pothenia and Picosius, Pothenia and Grummentum...... This left Elia as a buffer zone, and the Lucanians no longer attacked it with all their might.

But for decades, Elia's life was not easy, and part of the land outside the city was occupied by foreign tribes, and from time to time it was harassed, and it became extremely dangerous for the people to leave the city, and they were easily captured and enslaved by the raiding Lucanians. Therefore, the Elia people relied on the making and processing of handicrafts, as well as the development of maritime trade, transshipment of goods, port services...... and so on to barely maintain the functioning of the city-state and the lives of the people.

Now the appearance of Dionya has given the Elians a glimpse of the light of day.

After deliberation, all the citizens decided to send an emissary to Dionia, the emerging confederation of Greek city-states, expressing their desire to form an alliance.

Canios, a member of the council, gladly took up this glorious mission.

But it was obviously impossible to go to Dionya by land, and Pothenia and Picosis would not allow him to pass through their lands, so they had to go by sea, and the passenger ships did not need to go around the Strait of Messina, because the Elians knew that Laos was an ally of Dionia.

The passenger ship carrying Canios sailed south like an arrow with a strong southerly wind.

As Canios stood at the bow of the ship, thinking about the mission, his Etruscan slave Ino pointed to the east and suddenly shouted: "Picosis! ”

Kaños looked up, and in his vision: the far eastern land was nothing more than a thin ribbon of green cloth dotted with a small white dot, and that was Picosis, once Elijah's sister city, but now an alien lair, Elia's nightmare.

While grieving for the former Picosis, Canios is also secretly determined: never let Elia repeat the mistakes of the past!

Because it was a tailwind, the ship sailed for two hours and reached Laos.

Although Laos was occupied by the Lucarians at that time, it was not forbidden to trade with the Greeks, but the Lucanians were in a habit of plundering and inter-ethnic discrimination, which made it not very reputable, so the Greeks did not have much direct trade with Laos.

But what Canios saw in the port of Laos today was a constant stream of merchant ships coming in and out, laborers at each wharf loading and unloading goods non-stop, and the seas of the harbor were floating in the foamy waters with not only boats, but also a lot of food and garbage residues, so that countless seabirds hovered and pecked at them. 8)