"The free people have no food?!" Kunogorata asked in surprise.

"The war broke out too suddenly. Many free people did not store grain in advance. By the time they wanted to buy grain, the market had already sold out." Phelisius looked at the two of them. Isn't the initiator the Alliance itself?

"Then use food as salary and continue to let the free people fight for the alliance. Instead of always using shortening the citizen inspection period as a reward, so that the civil rights of the alliance are less precious! Philicius, the free people can make great contributions under the leadership of the consul and defeat the regular army of Crotone. Then even without the leadership of the consul, it should be fine to deal with the invasion of ordinary sailors of the Crotone fleet?" Kunogorata asked Philicius in a stiff tone.

Phelisius didn't care and said seriously: "Of course there is no problem! My plan is to let every hundred free people be a team of patrol every day on any coast where they can land. At the same time, send a battalion to the edge of the Turiy-Castron Avenue, station a company every five miles, and use reconnaissance cavalry as a connection between the patrol and the heavy infantry company. When encountering a small group of enemies, the patrol should be able to repel them; when encountering a large number of enemies, the patrol team will first block the enemy's raid, and the reconnaissance cavalry notify the nearest heavy infantry company, and then arrive to attack the enemy..."

Kunogorata looked slightly clear: "This idea is a good one."

"Our grain supply is probably going to be tight again. We have to use the treasury money to buy grain from Heraclia again. Melsis is going to blame us again." Cornerus said helplessly.

"There is no money to fight. As long as the consul can win the final victory, the money will be available." Since the victory of the Triwento River, Kunogorata, who was afraid of war, has more confidence in Davers.

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Miron originally thought that the army of Dionia would take the opportunity to launch an attack with the help of the high platform, but Dionia's army confronted the Crotone soldiers on the city for a whole morning. Except for the light infantry on the high platform, there was no movement. In the end, even the light infantry stopped attacking because of their soft hands.

Such a strange calm made Miron very puzzled. Of course, he would not know that the 5,000 people of the Third Legion of Dionia and the 3,000 Lausian soldiers had entered the northern plains of Croton and began to destroy farmland and villages. He did the same thing as the sailors of Crotone landing, but Davers had a military order in advance: they were not allowed to kill the Crotone people. So the soldiers just intimidated and drove them away.

As early as after the defeat of the battle, the Crotone Council advised the people in the villages on the northern plains to temporarily escape to the city to hide from the war. Because of the spring sowing and no sign of the enemy for two or three days, the Crotone people thought that Miron blocked the Dionians in Crimesa, so most of the people did not evacuate. Now, the brigade of Dionian soldiers suddenly appeared in front of them in a fierce manner, and the Crotone people fled south in panic.

In southern Italy, the reason why the Croton Plain is comparable to the Sybari Plain is due to two rivers: one is the Neto River, which originates from the mountains in the southern Apennines and flows into the Taranto Bay from west to east. Due to the influx of many tributaries, the width, depth and flow of this river are ultimately greater than the Crati River on the Sepali Plain; the other is the Tacinadi River, which also originates from the southern Apennines, but flows into the sea from north to south. These two rivers in the east and south irrigate the Croton Plain and also cut a piece of the Croton Plain to an approximately square shape.

The area is located on the side of this core area near the sea. Crotone, a famous Greek state, is Crotone. Because Crotone is frequently close to the Gulf of Taranto, it has one of the few deep-water ports among the Greek city-states on the Apennine Peninsula. Crotone has fertile plains and excellent ports. The fundamental reason why the war between Subaris and Crotone a hundred years ago was that Subaris wanted to destroy potential opponents, while Crotone wanted to seize the dominance of trade in southern Italy. Therefore, a small number of Subaris people fled to Crotone due to disputes, which was just the fuse of the war.

Strangely, these two rivers are very close to each other after flowing out of the mountains. Between them, there is a city called Asprostum, which is founded by the Brutis. To the west of the northern plains of Croton is the continuous Apennines, which are difficult to pass through. However, following the valley naturally formed by the Alvo River, a tributary of the Neto River, and trekking northwest, you can reach the only plateau in southern Italy - the Cosenza Plateau. The Brutis who lived there started from the upper reaches of the Alvo River and went down the valley to reach Asprostum.

However, when Crotone became powerful, it would not allow an alien city to control the upper reaches of the two rivers in the northwest of more than 20 miles away from it, controlling the northern plains of Crowton. Without passing through the Neto River, it could walk into the southern passage and threaten the safety of the Crotone. Therefore, a hundred years ago, Crotone launched a large army to attack Asprestum. After several battles, it finally occupied the city and drove the Bruticits back to the Cosenza Plateau. Until now, Asprestum has completely become a Greek city. As a colonial city of Crotone, it is completely under the control of Crotone, and it is mutually supportive with Crotone and protects the safety of Crotone.

The bad news of the Dionians invading the Croton Plain reached the inner city of Crotone, and the people were very panicked. Especially the 3,000 soldiers from Laus were rushing forward all the way, and they were about to approach the north bank of the Neto River.

The guards on the south bank of Neto River were panicked. In order not to allow the enemy to cross the pontoon bridge, they rushed directly to the city of Crotone. They lit fire and burned several pontoon bridges on the river, which made many people fleeing south stay on the north bank of Neto River.

Just as Crotone was ferrying them on ships, the Lausian army had already arrived at the Neto River. The people of Crotone cried and were forced to flee northwest along the Neto River bank.

When the Greeks first came to this plain, due to the Neto River and its numerous tributaries and abundant rainfall, there were swamps everywhere. However, the Greeks had mature drainage technology and after hundreds of years of governance, there were basically no swamps. However, the Crotone people were still full of risks on their way to escape, because the Lausians sent several teams of soldiers to chase them.

The people of Crotone were shocked and tired. Fortunately, there were more young people in the team. They enthusiastically helped women carry heavy objects, picked up children, and helped the elderly, so that the escaped team did not lie down with an old, young, female and child. In the end, the Lausian soldiers stopped chasing, and the city of Asprestum had appeared in front of the escaped people.

General Asprostum, who was born as a citizen of Crotone, opened the city gate without hesitation. Nearly nine hundred fugitives were put in dust and panic-faced with panic faces.

At this moment, the spy urgently reported: 5,000 Dionian soldiers attacked the city of Asprestum!

When Fagris heard this, he immediately panicked. In the war with Dionia, more than 6,000 Asprestumus were transferred to the battle, almost as meat buns to fight dogs, and never returned. There were only more than 700 citizens in the city who could fight. How could it be possible to stop the 5,000 Dionian soldiers who defeated Crotone's army in the battle?!

Fagris, who lacked practical experience, had no confidence. When his eyes fell on the panicked refugees in the city, he instantly changed his idea of ​​escorting them out of the city to reward and drag them down immediately to win the favor of the Crotone Council.

"The people of Crotone! The people of Crotone!!" He stood on the stone stairs of the city wall and shouted loudly, but the mess below was so messy that only a few people paid attention to it. So the soldiers also began to shout, and finally the fleeing people calmed down and looked up at the general of Asprestum.

"The people of Crotone, 5,000 people from Dionia came to this city!" Fagris said as soon as he became restless: "What! Dionians are chasing me!"

"Not opening the south gate yet, let's leave here!!"

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The people started to clamor, and Fargris and the soldiers finally restored their peace.

"Of course you can leave. But you must know that because Crotone launched two wars against Turiy, most of the citizens of Asprestum followed Crotone's army to fight, but failed to come back, resulting in the lack of many civilians in the city, and I am afraid that they cannot stop the crowded and powerful Dionians! Asprestum is the northern barrier of Crotone. Once the Dionians are occupied, they can move south smoothly and easily cross the Tachinadi River that can be traversed and enter the central plain of Crotone. It will be a disaster!...I urge all the men among you who can pick up the shield and spear to join us and defend Asprestum! That is to defend Crotone!"

Fagris said this sincerely because his home was outside the city of Crotone. Asprestum said it was a city, but in fact it was more like a special Demo (the administrative divisions from Athens, several villages combined together, equivalent to a town). Although he had his own council, there was only one general responsible for managing the city-state, and was elected by the "Ten Generals" elected by Crotone every year. Therefore, in an emergency, Fagris, who was also General Crotone, had the right to order the people of Crotone.

The fugitives fell into silence, and everyone was thinking and weighing the benefits and interests of this.

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