Pi'anlun nodded, and he could only remind them that although he was elected as the new alliance leader, in fact, he had no right to interfere in the management of these tribal towns. He turned around and asked Sedorum: "Picosis and Potendia have agreed to form an alliance with us. Do you think they will attack the Dionians?"

"It's hard to say..." Sedorum pondered: "Because now the Dionians are attacking us, not them. Judging from the cunning character of Cincinnag, he will never take the lead in attacking unless we let the Dionians be thwarted!"

Pi'anlun's eyes were a little disappointed, but soon returned to normal. He loudly inspired everyone: "Everyone, as long as we resist the attack of the Dionys and persist for half a month or a month to prevent Dionys from entering the Bruti Mountains, their fighting spirit will be thwarted, and their food transportation will be difficult. The Lucanians who were bullied by the Dionys will also take the opportunity to resist. The Dionys will inevitably be in trouble! Then it is the time for us to fight back, completely defeat Dionys' blockade and seize the fertile plain land of the Greeks for our descendants!"

Pi'anlun's inspiring words made everyone excited, and Nikuru even shouted: "Defeat the Deonians!"

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Building a road in the winding and rugged mountains is a huge and complex project. It not only consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, but also tests a country's engineering and technical level. Turiy-Laos Avenue was built early since last year. Laos, Turiy and Niutum have invested a lot of manpower, but it has not been completed yet. Therefore, the 20,000 troops led by Davers and a huge baggage team were traveling in the mountains for five days before reaching the Dala River Fortress.

Hilos led the Fourth Legion outside Trina. Trina's generals and members of the council went out to greet him one by one. Cipolos introduced Hilos one by one, and the atmosphere was very friendly.

Hilos politely declined the kindness of the Trinas to invite him into the city for a banquet, insisting on staying with the soldiers, winning praise from a political politician.

He led his army to camp on the coast ten miles northwest of Trina. This was the exit of the seaside pass, only eleven or two miles away from the city of Knapetia.

After Hilos arranged the camp construction matters, he immediately brought his guards and Siporus to the outside of Knapetia.

On the left is a cliff and on the right is a mountain. This seaside road leading to the Kosenza Plateau is not wide, and the place where the city of Knapetia is narrower. It seems that the length of the city is no more than 200 meters, but it completely blocks the access paths for entry and exit. The city is not large, but it is cut from bluestone; the city wall is only four meters high, but the entire city terrain is high, moving forward from where Hilos is, the road is slanted upward, shrinking and narrower...

Soldiers only need to spend a lot of energy when they march to the city, not to mention avoiding the enemy's rain of arrows and javelins. Fortunately, the geographical environment of Asprestum City is somewhat similar to that, and soldiers also have experience in this area in their daily training.

Hilos observed the road situation and thought about whether the two siege equipment that had just been equipped with the Third Legion could be pushed under the city.

Seeing Hilos staring at the city of Knapetia, Siphorus said for a long time, thinking that he was frightened by the difficulty of siege, he reminded him: "There are still several trails in the nearby mountains to bypass Knapetia and head north to Kosenza."

"Is that so?!" Hilos turned his head suddenly.

"Yes, otherwise how could the Siru people, and the tribal people who resisted Kosenza, escape from Bruty."

"So do people here know?" Hilos pointed to the city of Knapetia ahead.

Ciplus understood what he meant, and he said affirmatively: "Of course they know."

Hilos had no luck, but he decided to send someone to reconnaissance first after he went back.

"I heard that there is a port in Knapetia." Hilos asked again.

"There is indeed a port, but it's not big." Siphorus said, turning over and dismounting and heading towards the edge of the cliff.

Silos did not show off his strength, and then dismounted. He did not think he had good horse-control skills. If the horse was frightened by the cliff, the Fourth Legion would have to lose one of the legion commanders before the war started.

"There's there!" Siphorus's finger in front of him, his voice seemed a little misty under the strong sea breeze.

Hilos looked closely and said that on this cliff protruding from the land, with a height difference of nearly a hundred meters from the sea, his sight could reach the coast a few miles north of Knapetia. There he saw a flat land, a small beach, a simple pier, and a few dozen boats were parked...

Siphorus introduced: "Based on the Siru intelligence and the observation that our ships often travel through the city of Knapetia, the port of Knapetia is built at the mouth of the Savuto River—"

“Savuto River?”

"The Savutto River is a big river in the territory of Knapetia. Although the city in front of us is either mountains or sea, it seems very barren. In fact, it is not far from the north. There is a small plain around the Savutto River. You can reach Kosenza smoothly by going north along the Savutto River." Speaking of this, Siphorus showed a contemptuous smile: "It is said that the Brutis built the city of Knapetia here at first because we were worried that we would destroy and plunder their farmland and pastures on the Savutto Plain. But we Trinas cannot even cultivate the fertile land on the Ofemia Plain. We would covet its small plain. However, their city is ten miles away from the Savutto River, and it is inconvenient to work, so we had to build another town on the banks of the Savutto River-"

"How is the defense of this town?" Hilos suddenly interrupted Sipolos.

"I heard that this town has no walls."

Hilos breathed a sigh of relief. He did not want to spend a lot of effort to capture Knapetia, and he had to spend more effort to capture the town in order to completely occupy this territory of Bruti.

"In the past, Knapetia had poor production, poor shipbuilding technology, and had no interaction with other Italian city-states. So there is only port, but there is almost no maritime trade, but..." Siphorus said worriedly: "Now that the Bruti Tribal Alliance is established, this is the only port of the Brutis. I believe it will develop soon..."

Hilos nodded, but they didn't know that the Brutis had already broken through the blockade of Dionia through this simple dock and formed an alliance with Picosis and Potendia.

"Sir, look!" At this time, the guard shouted.

I saw the gate of Knapetia open wide and a team of people rushed out.

"Let's go!" Hilos gave the order, and the whole team returned to the camp calmly.

"See, the Dionians are all cowards!" Nikuru laughed unceremoniously with a spear in his hand.

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Davers arrives at the Dara River Fortress, and Sesta and Hironimus who receive the news are already waiting there.

"Sir, the people of Niutum have been mobilized and follow the arrangements of the city hall. They will transport food and supplies for our troops, build camps, and transport wounded..." Sesta took the initiative to report.

“Do those Lucanian tribes have no objection?”

"On the contrary, they were very happy to see the conquered Brutis. The stronger the Dionia, the safer they would be, and in the future, there would be more than Lucania, a non-Greek race. They were willing to provide a base for the legion, but in that case, our soldiers would have to be careful that Lucanian women broke into their tents at night. You must know that the Greek citizens of Dionia are very popular now!" Sesta said jokingly.

Davers laughed out loud when he heard it interestingly. He looked at Sesta and said with some emotion: "Sir Sesta, I think you, as a mercenary, must have never served as a public office in the city-state or even managed a city."

Sesta shook his head: "I tried my best to have a bit of bread to eat. How could I have thought that I would be today? This is all the changes you have brought to us by your unimaginable!"

"It provides opportunities and also be able to seize opportunities. As a mercenary with no experience in managing a city-state, you resolutely choose to leave the familiar army and come to this strange land. Facing the hostile Lucans at that time, you are not afraid of difficulties, work hard, and solve problems boldly. To this day, I can say that Nini Utum is completely the territory of Dionia! Sesta, your work is excellent! Not only do I think so, but other people in the Senate think so too! You are now the Senate with the most administrative experience among our mercenaries! When the term of next year ends, I think the Senate will inevitably have more important tasks to you!" Davers expressed his appreciation for Sesta without hesitation.

After hearing this, Sesta was both proud and excited, and he remained a little sober: "Sir, you are the one who needs the most administrative experience among our mercenaries!"

"Me?" Davers looked around and said, "That doesn't count. Don't you all say I am a God's favor? That's all the credit of Hades!"

Everyone burst into laughter.

"Sir." Hironimus couldn't help but say, "What is our Third Legion's mission in this war?" The last time Tarantum reinforced him was not as good as the Third Legion, and the mobilization of this war did not give specific instructions to the Third Legion, Hironimus was inevitably a little anxious.

Davers looked at the commander of the Legion who moved his family to Niutum in order to facilitate training and command of the Third Legion, and even did not attend the Senate's usual meetings. He also sighed in his heart: If Sesta had political ambitions and this taciturn man regarded the military camp as his home, so although as a Greek, most of the Third Legion he commanded were Lucanians, those Lucanian soldiers who once hated the Greeks were very convinced by him, this is the reason.

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