"One...... Opol. Elems gestured, in stiff Greek.

The young man took a drachma from the purse he was carrying, threw it to Elemus, then crouched down and picked up a wooden cylinder, which was a simple wooden cup made by hollowing out the center of the fist-thick trunk, sanding, and painting, and the cup was full of milky white slurry, and it was heavy in his hand. The young man did not dislike its simplicity, first took a small sip, and after tasting it, his face was surprised: "It tastes very good, you have mixed goat's milk with the syrup, as well as grape juice, and you should have added honey, but this goat's milk has no smell, how did you do it?" ”

The young man who spoke was Adoris, the adopted son of King Davers of Dionia, who had reached the age of 18 and was participating in this war against Daoni for the first time as a legionnaire. Although he has no interest in cooking, he has been tasting food at home all year round, and he has some experience in this area.

Elems pretended not to understand and looked down for change.

Adoris didn't ask any more questions, took out another drachma and threw it to him: "Don't look for it again, bring me ten cups of slurry." He looked left and right and said, "The brothers train hard, I have a treat, and they all drink some syrup water to quench their thirst." ”

His teammates immediately cheered, "Thank you Adoris!" Generous Adores! ……”

Elams and his wife hurriedly filled each cup with slurry water and handed it to the thirsty soldiers.

"I said, Prince, don't just ask your teammates for a drink, but also us! We're thirsty too! Not far from the entrance to the market, a soldier shouted.

Prince?! Elite looked curiously at the young man in front of him, and in his memory, the title of "prince" was Vadalka, the son of the former king of Pucetti, Tremoni. Due to the death of Tremoni in the Battle of Brindisi, and the almost total loss of his tribal warriors, after the war, due to the great loss of royal strength, Puchetti's country was in chaos, and Vadalka had the name of "prince", but could not become the new king because he did not have the support of any large tribe. After the Dionian invasion, Vadharka fled by boat with his family to Epirus on the other side of the Adriatic Sea.

The young man in front of him was tall and burly, with big eyes and thick eyebrows, but unfortunately the remaining childishness on his face concealed his might, and Elems did not know whether the title "prince" was true or false.

Adonis turned around and scolded: "Amphias, if you shout nonsense, believe it or not, I will make you unable to drink water today!" ”

The soldier was not afraid, and he responded with a grin: "As long as you have a treat, I will not shout." ”

Adores glared at him, but couldn't do anything about him. After the original Southern Italian War, Dionya almost completely occupied Greater Greece, Crotone was forced by the situation, and at the same time they had to rely completely on Dionya in order to rebuild the new city and restore the prosperity of the past, so the people finally chose to merge into the Dionian Kingdom, Lycias, Milon and other Crotonite respected councillors were elected and became the patriarch of Dionia, and Amphias was the son of Lycias, who followed his father to Touri, and became a classmate of Adoris in Touri's school. When Adoris became an adult, in order not to be taken care of too much, he specially asked Davers to serve as a legionnaire in the Fourth Legion centered on Crotone, thinking that no one would know him. Who knew that he met Amphias in the Fourth Legion, and it turned out that this guy did not set his household registration in Turii when he became an adult, but chose his birthplace of Crotone, and Adoris's identity was revealed.

Knowing the personality of Amphias's dead-faced face, Adoris looked around the market, turned around and pointed to the clay pot next to the stall, and asked, "How much is your jar of slurry?" ”

Elems' heart raced, and he quickly replied, "Two drachmas." ”

"You still have 15 cans here, and I bought them all. Whoever comes here is a comrade-in-arms, you give him a glass of syrup water to drink, can you do it?! Adoris said dryly, counting out 30 drachmas from his purse.

"Okay! Yes! ......" Elems nodded repeatedly.

Louder cheers rang out in the market, "Victory for Prince Adores!" The cheers were mixed with an abrupt shout.

Damn Amphias! Adoris was so angry that he immediately shouted loudly: "Brothers, just now Amphias told me, today I will invite you to drink slurry water, and when you return to Turiyi after the victory, he will invite everyone to drink beer!" ”

"How can I—" Amphias was about to argue, when the soldiers shouted excitedly, "Amphias, I didn't expect you to be more generous than Adory!" ”

"Amphias, we can't wait to go to war, then win, go home and drink your beer!"

……

There was a lot of laughter in the market.

As Elems busily handed the young soldiers the water, he lamented that the young soldiers were fearless and did not know the cruelty of war, reminding him of his youth.

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In the large tent of the Chinese army in the camp of Dionia, Alexis, the commander of the army in charge of attacking Dauni this time, was puzzled by a letter written by King Davers, because at the end of the letter, Davers wrote: "...... On the north bank of the Ofanto River, a place where a glorious battle took place in history, I expect you to win a victory that is not inferior to that of your predecessors! ……”

Alexis thought about it carefully, but he couldn't remember any major battles in the vicinity, so he asked the lieutenant, who had graduated with honors from the Turiyi School, "Eumattius, do you know of any fierce battles that have taken place near the Ofanto River before?" ”

Eumattius, the eldest son of Bagul, thought for a moment and immediately replied simply: "I don't know." ”

Could it be that the battle that took place here a long, long time ago has not been recorded, but His Majesty, as a god, can know it through the inspiration of Hades...... Alexis could only think so, and the encouragement in Davers's letter gave him an ambition in his chest.

Of course, he would not have known that the "glorious battle" mentioned in Davers's letter did not take place in the past, but in the history of the previous life: about ten miles east of the Dionian military camp there was a place called Cannae, where the Carthaginian army was stationed, and the great commander Hannibal led 50,000 troops across the river and fought with 80,000 Roman troops. This also made Davers have the impulse to rush over and personally command the war, to compete with Hannibal, and finally he gave up, after all, Dauni was too different from Rome in his previous life to be worthy of his personal intervention.

Unbeknownst to Davos, who was not very knowledgeable about history, another battle that took place in the following decades of history to the south of the city of Ausculum, northwest of the north bank of the Offanto River, was also quite famous - the Battle of Asculum, in which the king of Epirus led his army to fight the Romans for the second time, and although he eventually won, he suffered heavy losses, which made Pyrus not want to fight the Romans again, and finally he led his army out of Italy and went to Sicily.

"The Legion of Amintas has arrived! …… The Legion of Oliver has arrived! …… Captain Giogris has arrived! …… Captain of the Ryders Legion has arrived! ......" the guards outside the big tent kept calling their names loudly.

After the captains entered the tent, they finished their military salutes with Alexis and sat down separately.

"Legion Commanders." Alexis sat down on the main seat and said solemnly to them: "We have been here for seven days, and the legions and auxiliaries have arrived, as well as the rations and baggage, and the Daunis have gathered on the other side, so I have decided to cross the river tomorrow and attack the enemy. ”

"It's long overdue to attack! Staying here for so long, it's almost suffocating our soldiers! Amintas immediately raised his hands in approval.

"Master Amyntas, I think you're the one who's being suffocated." Oliver, who was next to him, laughed.

"Okay, you Olivers, dare to make fun of me, come to a football game in the afternoon, the First Legion VS the Fourth Legion, you and I serve as quarterbacks, who loses, who jumps around the training ground, dare you?!" Amintas shouted for battle.

"It's not that I don't dare." Oliver politely refused: "Tomorrow is the battle, and in the afternoon I have to assign tasks to the legion so that the soldiers can prepare, how can I have time to compete." ”

"Find a reason!" Amintas whispered, he also knew that Oliver had a point, and he didn't dwell on it anymore.

"Commander, will the Dawnians come out to intercept us tomorrow when we cross the river?" Giogris asked cautiously.

"Very likely!" Alexis replied simply: "According to the information from the north, although King Daoni is reluctant to go out of the city to fight, Ascurum, Sipontum, and Herdoniae ...... The great chiefs of many other towns insisted on keeping us out of Dauni's territory, so they instigated their kings to finally gather their armies on the other side of the Offato River, they had fewer troops than us, and relying on the river to fight would increase their advantage, and they should not easily let go of this advantage, so they would probably line up on the opposite bank to prevent us from crossing the river. ”

"In that case, we will go out of camp early tomorrow morning and cross the river as fast as possible, believing that the Daoni army will not move as fast as our Dionian legions, and by the time they reach the other side, we will have already crossed the river." Oliver offers his own proposal.

"If that is the case, the Daoni are likely to retreat to the city of Hedonia on the other side and not come out to fight with us in the field, which will undoubtedly not be conducive to our annihilation of the main force of the Daoni in one fell swoop, and will also delay our time to conquer the entire Daoni region and increase the casualties of the soldiers." Alexis shook his head. (https:)

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