Davers thought a lot, and did not follow the fleet to the northwest, but went straight forward through the second water gate and headed towards the real port of Tarantum.

Although it was during the war, the port of Tarantum was still very busy, even more than usual, because the war continued to increase the demand for various materials in Tarantum City. Therefore, despite the full assistance of the port personnel, it took Davers' ship a long time to get on the dock.

Davers was not in a hurry. He carefully observed the port, which was different from the port of Turiyi...

After getting ashore, Davers and his group, especially the fully-equipped guards led by Martius, attracted the attention of many Tarantum people. They stopped their work and watched curiously. Those who knew the inside story guessed that this might be the reinforcements of the Dionians, but no one expressed their welcome, and there was no common cheer in the port of Turiyi. They just watched coldly, and some people even showed sadness. Davers noticed that many women were wearing black cloth on their heads, and the shadow of the defeat of the war had already enveloped the people of Tarantum.

Out of the reserve of the old-fashioned strong country, a group of people in the Tarantum Senate did not go to the port to greet him, but waited at the city gate.

"They are here!" With this shout, everyone cheered up and looked forward.

Coming toward him was a young man with a calm expression and steady pace, and his whole body showed a sense of stability that was far different from that of ordinary young people. But as the consul of a city-confederate alliance, he was indeed too young.

Eumacas touched Diomilas, who was still thinking, and was about to remind him.

Diomilas understood what he meant and said first: "Stop talking, I understand, who told us to ask for help."

After saying that, he strode forward: "Welcome to you, the young consul of Dionia. We are waiting for the arrival of our close ally Dionia reinforcements like dry fields. Thanks to the gods, you are finally here!"

Eumacas frowned, worried that Davers would be upset when he heard this.

But Davers immediately said with an apology: "I'm really sorry! I believe you know that the Dionian Alliance has been established less than two years ago. It has sent nearly 20,000 reinforcements for the first time. This is almost two-thirds of the number of Turiyi citizens. It is also the first time that the autumn harvest season is about to be transported, and it is also the first time that so many soldiers are transported across the sea. The affairs are too complicated and we have no experience, so we have arrived today. I hope there is no delay in major events."

"Not too late! Not too late! You came just right!" Yumacas hurriedly said, "I really didn't expect that Dionia sent such a huge team, which really helped us! Lord Davers, we Tarantum people are very grateful for your generous rescue!"

Only then did Polydorus have the opportunity to interrupt and introduce: "Mr. Davers, this is the consul of our Tarantum."

Judging from what he said just now, the consul at least had a good impression of Diony, and Davers saluted seriously.

"This is Diomilas, the consul of Tarantum." Polydorus continued.

And this... Davers glanced at him: his long and narrow eyes, thin nose, thin lips, serious expression, and mean appearance, obviously he was biased against Dionia. According to Alistilas's information, there were many such people in the Tarantum Senate, but Davers still saluted and greeted him seriously.

Next, we greeted the elders of Tarantum Senate in turn. The Senate of Tarantum originated from the Spartan Elders Council, but compared with the Spartan Elders Council, there were a lot more senators in Tarantum, and the seats in the Senate of Tarantum, like the consul, were elected by all citizens every year.

"This is-" Before Polydorus finished speaking, the old man in front of him glared at Davers and pointed at Davers and cursed: "You still have the face to come to Tarantum. When you swore that you would promote our school in Amendolar, we sent apprentices to Amendolar to help you. Who knew that you not only let them rebel from the school, but also let them use money to tempt more apprentices to leave Tarantum! My son still regards you as a friend. Is this how you repay the selfless help of the Pythagoras school to Dionia? Let me tell you, Tarantum does not welcome you!"

Davers didn't expect to meet someone from the Pythagoras school here. He was quite embarrassed and hurriedly looked back at Polydorus: "Who is this?"

"Achita's father, Histiavis." Polydorus replied.

Davers was moved, and he stepped forward, no matter how unhappy the old man was, bowed respectfully: "Acheta is my friend, I will definitely avenge him, fight back the Mesapi people, and welcome his body back. I hope you can mourn me, uncle!"

"No need for the help of Dionia, we Tarantum can defeat the Mesapi and take back the body of my son!" Histiavis' eyes were filled with tears, and he was still stubborn.

At this moment, a cavalry rushed over and shouted repeatedly: "The fleet is back! The fleet is back!..."

The senators who heard the news immediately left Daphs and his group, and ran towards the port without saying a word.

Polydorus hurriedly explained to him. After hearing this, Davers expressed his understanding and proposed to go and see the situation together.

Standing at a high place outside the port, looking down at the beach: At the central dock where the most crowded population in the port of Tarantum, warships are slowly entering...

Polydorus opened his eyes wide and counted the number of ships. The more he counted, the more he became more and more panicked. In the end, his voice was trembling: "Only... only 19 warships and 25 passenger ships..."

If Davers hadn't supported him in time, he might have collapsed to the ground.

Davers also frowned. According to Gandorus, when the Tarantum fleet left the port, it had 80 warships, one hundred troop transport ships, carrying 4,000 soldiers. Now only one quarter of the ships have returned. Tarantum's losses are huge. Not only warships and soldiers, but also sailors. A three-layer oar warship full of people, but it requires nearly two hundred sailors. You can imagine how much damage this will cause to the manpower of the Tarantus port...

This also gives Davers a warning: before obtaining absolute sea control, use ships to transport soldiers to fight across the sea, be very cautious!

Everyone in the port was in great sorrow. Davers could still hear the deafening crying sounds, which made him, who was accustomed to life and death, feel a little moved.

Polydorus was still stretching his neck and looking forward, hoping that the lagging warships would not enter the port in time. In the end, he finally gave up, held Davers' hands tightly, and said repeatedly: "Sir Davers, Tarantum really needs the full help of Dionia!"

Davers nodded and thought to himself: Including this naval battle, the war between Tarantum and Mesapi may have caused the number of casualties of Tarantum soldiers to reach tens of thousands, which is indeed damaged.

As Tarantum Senate was busy dealing with the aftermath, the upcoming joint combat meeting could only be postponed.

Davers didn't care and could go back and build a camp with the soldiers.

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The failure of a major naval battle will have all kinds of impacts. Pensions for casualties are only the most basic, as well as repairing remaining warships, accelerating the reconstruction of new fleets, appeaseing the merchants in the port, and confirming that the route of the sea trade was not cut off by the enemy... etc. These complicated aftermath matters cannot be resolved in one or two days, but the urgent war situation forced Tarantum to temporarily put it aside the next day, and a joint combat meeting was needed to be held immediately to launch a land counterattack against the Map coalition as soon as possible to reduce the enemy's threat to Tarantum City.

Considering that the consul who had neglected Dionia due to the emergencies yesterday, Eumacas decided to invite him in person.

Eumacas rode a horse to the northwest corner of the bay. He was surprised by the scene in front of him. In front of him, a huge military camp, trenches, fences, camp gates, whistles, tents... It should be all available. In just one day, the Dionians built a "city" in this relatively sparsely populated area. This efficiency is really too high!

Of course, Eumacas didn't know that because Dionia attached importance to the construction of camps during combat, under the initiative of Davers, the military engineers had standardized some camp facilities after research and repeated trials. For example, the materials required for the camp gate and the post tower were made in advance in Turi, and were transported by the baggage battalion on the ship. After arriving at the destination, they were assembled according to the actual situation, which saved both time and effort and was taken away when the camp was pulled away. Of course, the premise was to have strong logistics transportation capabilities and good road conditions.

When Eumacas was surprised, he heard someone calling him. After a closer look, it turned out to be Timias, a theater owner in Tarantum City, and couldn't help but ask strangely: "Why are you here?"

"Of course it's business." Timias pointed to the women dressed in charmingly around him and said helplessly: "The war with Mesapi failed. The citizens had no intention of watching the show or playing with the girls. I have not made any profit for two months now. I heard that nearly 20,000 reinforcements from Dionia came, so I came here to see if there was any opportunity to make money. As a result, the guards here did not allow us to go in!"

Hearing this, Yumacas felt a little embarrassed. Timias's theater mainly relies on performing some vulgar and obscene plays to attract the public to make money. At the same time, it also provides prostitutes and male prostitutes to the rich, because most of them are actors and are more popular. However, he did not expect that he would pimp and actually come to the camp of Dionia. So he advised: "The war is about to go, don't disturb the rest of the Dionians here."

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