"We're waiting to see it." Davers smiled relaxedly, not taking Lycius' threat seriously: "But I also remind you that the next time you come again, the conditions I have proposed will not be as good as it is now! In addition, I would like to remind you that Crotone has more than the enemy we are Dionia... If the war continues, who knows what will happen?"

Lycius was shocked when he heard this.

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By noon, the first batch of grain transport teams arrived at the military camp.

Davers breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time brought a letter written by Kunogorata, which mentioned that Locre's messenger arrived in Turiy and proposed to the Senate that "Locre and Dionia form an alliance to fight Crotone together." The Senate did not respond on the grounds that the consul was not there. The envoy fell ill due to fatigue from the journey and was ill in the hospital for treatment. He was unable to go south to find Davers directly in a short period of time.

Kunogorata made his opinion at the end of the letter: "Whether the consul is confident of resolving Crotone independently, please be sure to consider that the strength of the city-state of Locre is second only to Crotone. Behind it is Syracuse's strong support. Eliminating or seriously weakening Crotone and causing Locre to take the opportunity to annex Crotone's allies will establish a stronger enemy for Dionia..."

Davers read it several times, then picked up another letter, which was a secret letter, which was handed to Davers through special channels. The letter mainly mentioned some things that happened in Turiyi in the past few days, and of course the arrival of the envoy of Locke. In addition, it also mentioned what happened around Dionia, such as: after Tarantum's consul Diomilas led his army to capture Manduria, he asked Achita to lead his army to attack Blindsey, and continued to fight fiercely with the Mesapi people; Potendia was summoning the surrounding tribes, as if preparing to go south to attack Grummentum...

The last news attracted great attention from Davers: Dionysius, the plenipotent general of Syracuse, led 80,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry and 400 warships to war on Carthage... Including the war between Dionyya and Crotone, at the beginning of this year, the entire Greek world in the Western Mediterranean was full of war.

80,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry, 400 warships?!!! Davers widened his eyes and carefully confirmed the numbers on the letter. Although he had known before that Syracuse was the leading Greek power in the Western Mediterranean, the powerful strength it showed at this moment still made Davers frightened. After all, Syracuse was located on the island of Sicily, but it was not far from Turijko, and it arrived in two or three days. When Delon, the brother of the dictator who created Syracuse's glory decades ago, succeeded to the tyrant, there was a precedent for interfering in the internal affairs of other city-states of Greece. Davers had to be vigilant.

He picked up Kunogorata's letter again, read it carefully again, and then pondered for a long time...

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After Lucias returned to Crimesa, he naturally talked with Miron about his talks with Dionys consul Davers. Miron was angry at the Dionians' dare to propose such harsh terms of peace talks against Crotone.

Throughout the morning, Miron observed the situation of the military camp in Dionia on the city wall, thinking about ways to break the enemy. Whether on the south or north coast, the soldiers of Dionia continued to build camps and continued to move the defense line forward, trenches, deer villages, traps, etc., laying them at intervals between them, making people feel as if they were not going to attack Crimesa, but the Crotones were going to attack them.

Miron sometimes lamented: What methods did the commander of the Dionian army use to make such brave and fierce and ruthless civilians willing to continue to do such hard and dirty work. If the Crotone soldiers had long since left their hands and had caused trouble.

At noon, Askamas, the commander of Crotone's fleet, rushed to the port of Crimesa, and Miron finally became excited because Askamas, one of the ten generals of Crotone, was also a friend of Miron and a representative of the radicals. Miron believed that he could agree to his plan and help him.

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After seeing Askamas off and receiving his affirmative answer, Miron finally could breathe a sigh of relief.

He was about to lie down and rest for a while when the guards came in to report: The enemy outside the north gate had a strange movement.

Before, the soldiers of the Dionians had been working a few hundred meters away from the north gate, but at this time they suddenly advanced within a hundred meters. They happened to level the ground, consolidate the land, and organize a large piece of flat land, at the same time, there were fully armed light and heavy infantry guarding on both sides to prevent the defenders from leaving the city to raid.

There has not been a stone catapult in this era. At such a long distance, there is a moat and a wall blocking it. It is impossible to have any harm to the city of Crimea. Therefore, the Crotone soldiers watched curiously on the wall and were not very nervous.

Milong was also watching all this. He was already a little tired and wanted to understand clearly: What exactly did the Dionians want to do?

The soldiers of the Dionian began to carry four or five meters long tree trunks and placed them on the edge of the flat ground. They pushed the trunks into the soil one by one, and then connected them with ropes to fix them. Soon they made a wooden frame about 30 meters long and 5 meters wide.

"Does the Dionians want to build houses here, and they are not afraid that we will burn them!" said a Crotone soldier jokingly, causing a burst of laughter.

But the soldiers of the Dionian were carrying heavy sacks, putting them one by one into the edges of the wooden frame, and stacking them neatly...

"Hahaha...I think the Dionians not only want to build houses, they also want to make bread (because it is a sack for cereal flour)!" Another Crotone soldier's playful words caused another burst of laughter.

Since there were thousands of Dionian soldiers involved in the work, a wall was built with sacks in a blink of an eye, and the height of the wall was quickly level with the Crimean wall, and it continued to rise...

Seeing this, Miron's face changed drastically, and the adjutant beside him shouted: "No, the enemy wants to build high walls to attack us!"

Seeing the scene in front of him, the Crotone soldiers who were still watching the fun had already understood and they began to panic: there were many powerful stone-populated soldiers among the Dionian light infantry, and the range was relatively long. Now the Dionians used clever methods to quickly build a platform nearly two meters higher than the four-meter-high Crimesa wall. This means that their light infantry climbed onto this high wall and could use their height to attack the soldiers on the Crimesa wall.

Once the enemy sieges the city, their stone casters and archers can stand on a high platform and attack the soldiers defending on the city wall, which will make the defenders on the city wall busy avoiding the attack and have no intention of defending the city wall...Milon is already sweating profusely: this platform must be destroyed!

But he also knew that the enemy would definitely guard against each other, so he decided to set the raid in the evening.

Soon, he saw the Dionians digging trenches around the platform and filling the gaps in the middle of the platform with the dug out soil...

Miron was a little crazy: the Dionians were simply mice, and they were always thinking about digging holes to save their lives!

By dusk, the Dionians built another small camp around the high walls.

Miron finally gave up the decision to attack. He did not want to waste the soldiers' lives on this action with little hope, and he had already felt a little disappointed in his heart.

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Early the next morning, the military horns of the North Camp of Dionia were roaring, and soldiers from each company of the Second Corps carried the ladders and formed small square formations, forming a fish scale formation a hundred meters away from the city wall.

Davers stepped on the slope built by soil and stood on the platform for the first time. He subconsciously stomped his feet twice, and felt that it was still relatively stable.

When he first saw Crimesa City, he had the idea of ​​building a high platform. The city wall that was more than three meters high was indeed too short. However, it was not easy to build a pile of soil higher than the city wall, because it was easy to collapse. Fortunately, the engineers came up with a good idea, using tree trunks and ropes as frames, using sacks to fill soil as support, and then filling the soil... It was both fast and firm.

Davers was condescending, and the situation on the walls in the north of Crimea was clearly visible. Seeing the city opposite were full of soldiers, Davers said to Epigenis beside him: "Can our archers shoot the enemy?"

"Mr. Commander, there is no problem at all!" Epitians said confidently.

Davers nodded: "Then attack."

"Shoot the arrow!" With the order of Epigenis, the archers on the high platform began to shoot the first round of arrows. The stone-throwing soldiers located behind the archers also began to wave the stone-throwing rope in their hands.

Finally, the siege began! Milong, who was standing on the head of the North Gate, was full of fighting spirit at this moment. Facing the arrows flying in the air and flying stones, he shouted: "Defense!"

On this section of the city wall facing the high platform, he specially arranged heavy infantry to defend the city. They raised their round shields to protect their heads...

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There is a newly built village near the sea on the southern bank of the Krati River in the Sobari Plain. Aguilas is the village chief of this village. This is currently the lowest level official in the Dionian administrative system. According to the newly promulgated law, the village chief is elected by the citizens of the village and has a term of one year.

However, becoming a village chief is not an easy task. The candidates also need to meet several necessary conditions: first, they must be a formal citizen of Dionys; second, they must pay taxes on time without a record of major violations of laws and regulations; in addition, those who have served in the military and made military achievements will be given priority to those who have special contributors to the Dionys League.

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