Puamot, who was checking the enemy situation in the city, was extremely anxious, but he did not dare to send troops out of the city to block the attack, because the city of Potendia was already surrounded, and the Samonets' troops far exceeded the information he had received in advance.

Some tribes in the southern part of the Potendia territory thought that the Samones were still far away from them, and were careless and did not evacuate in time. As a result, they were either annihilated or captured by the Samones that were rushing in like a tide, or they were desperately retreating to the Grummenthum territory further south in fear.

The panic atmosphere brought by these fleeing Potendia tribes naturally spread to the tribes in the north of Grummentum territory. Just as they began to clamor for evacuation to the south, Alexis, who had already received news from the reconnaissance soldiers, felt that the situation was urgent and decided to no longer wait for the orders of the Senate. He immediately led more than 8,000 soldiers who had returned to the military camp to march northward.

In recent years, Davers not only equipped each legion with a reconnaissance team, but also considered that in Italy, the mountains and ridges, the light infantry had already had a numb arms after completing long-range strikes, and also had to assist heavy infantry to attack the enemy's flanks and pursue them in a roundabout way. Their physical strength was no less than that of heavy infantry, but their combat efficiency was reduced. Therefore, after discussion with the generals, he added a light armored brigade to each legion. They wore leather helmets, cowhide breastplate, carried triangular leather shields, leather shins, leather sandals, and combat weapons of 1.2 meters long double-bladed thick iron swords. They specialized in picking young and middle-aged citizens who were good at running and could climb mountains, and prepared citizens to be selected into the brigade to assist the main force of heavy infantry.

At the same time, Davers also reformed the original light infantry brigade. Since the excellent source of the stone-throwing soldiers in Dionia mainly came from Rhode Island (the Balearic Islands, which is rich in stone-throwing soldiers, was under the control of the Carthaginians), the scarcity of troops made it difficult for the legions established later to recruit stone-throwing soldiers. Therefore, in addition to the first and second legions, there were also stone-throwing soldiers, other legions were half archers and half javes. In addition, the number of excellent Thracian light shield soldiers could no longer meet the expansion speed of the Dionia Legion. Therefore, starting from the Fourth Legion, the light infantry brigade had no light shield soldiers. Its functions were mainly undertaken by javelins and light armored soldiers, thus making the legion organization more simplified and unified.

In addition to the engineering battalions, equipment battalions, cavalry squads, medical battalions and other auxiliary institutions in the legion, the number of Dionian legion is now close to 8,700, which can be said to be a huge army with complete functions.

While heading north, Alexis also sent people to inform Bagule to defend against the northern territory of Grummentum.

The Lucania region is mainly mountainous, and Potendia is the highest altitude in this region, with an average altitude of more than 500 meters. Fortunately, most of the soldiers of the Third Legion are Lucanians. They have lived here since childhood and have long adapted to the environment here.

The Third Legion trekked in three columns of columns between the lowlands and river valleys, winding like a long dragon between the mountains and the mountains, stretching for five or six miles from the head of the team to the tail of the team...

At this moment, on a small hill, Gerny, the son of the eldest leader of Hillpini, was closely watching the movements at the foot of the mountain.

"Chief, look!" the warrior next to him suddenly shouted.

"Silly, whisper!" Gelny kicked him and scolded, "Don't scare the enemy away!"

I saw a little golden light flashing in the distance from the mountain road hidden by trees. After a while, the golden light turned into a high-rise flag. The brass statue of Hades holding a double fork on the top of the flag was extremely dazzling under the sun. The hand held the mark was a tall man in military uniform, and he was wearing a complete animal fur, so he looked particularly burly (in fact, it was the fur of a large hunting dog, which meant loyal and brave. Hades's loyal dog was the three-headed dog, Cerpalos. Besides, with the modern thinking of Davers, his subordinates were not allowed to hunt animals for decoration due to the needs of decoration).

"Hmph, it looks good." Some Samone warrior murmured in disdain: "I just don't know if I can fight."

Gerny didn't say anything. He focused on the army of Dionia that was slowly approaching him. He knew very well that this time his father contacted the two tribes of Penteney and Kauteni and attacked Potendia together, not only because of the strong support and instigation of Syracuse, but also because of the oppression of this suddenly rising powerful neighbor in the south.

At this moment, he had to open his eyes wide and see clearly what the strange and powerful enemy he was about to face was like?

Behind the hand holding the mark was the flag bearer. The golden letter "Dionian Third Legion" embroidered on the high black flag was fluttering in the air. Originally it was a red flag, which was influenced by the Romans of the previous life, but when he became more and more integrated into this era, Hades's faith had penetrated into the hearts of the people of the Dionys, considering that Hades was the Lord of Darkness and advocated black, he changed the color of the military flag.

Behind the legion's flag bearer, the flag hands of the first brigade held high, holding the statue of Death, which was one smaller than the statue of Pluto. Then the legion drum trumpeter...

Gerney rubbed his slightly tired eyes: Dionia's army looked majestic, but there were too many fancy things.

He complained in his heart that the next Dionian army soldier opened his eyes widened: the black bronze helmet was not like the Corinthian helmet worn by the Greek soldiers he saw in Campania, which covered the head with only two eye holes, but was like an upside down bowl, with the whole face exposed, with cheeks covering the side of the face. Its style was very similar to the helmet of the Samone warrior, except that there were no feathers or colorful ponytails on the crown. Black linen breastplate, black tibia, holding a spear in the right hand, and a shield in the left hand...

This shield...Gelny suddenly discovered that the shield held by the soldiers of the Dionian were very similar to the shield plates of their Samonet. They were half a person tall, rectangular, with a convex center and concave sides, and the shield surface was arc-shaped. The only difference was that the shields of the Dionian soldiers were painted black instead of red...

Isn't Dionia a Greek city-state? Why didn't they use the traditional Greek round copper shield and Corinthian helmet, and they are so similar to our Samonese?!

Gerny was surprised, of course, he didn't know that in recent years, the consul Davers, the consul of the Dionia, finally completed the update of the legion's weapons and equipment, abandoned the bulky Clins helmet and round shield, and changed it to a new type of helmet and long curved shield. Moreover, such a large shield could not be covered with copper, but it was made of wood, with a layer of cowhide on the outside, which reduced the soldiers' mutual weight by at least ten kilograms, enhanced their ability to move, and also brought some new tactical changes.

Except for the occasional helmets worn by people in the Dionia army, which were red, white, purple and other crowns, they should be team officials and generals, the others were almost black, making the entire team look like a black snake emerging from hell, filled with the breath of death and coldness.

Gerny took two breaths unconsciously, put on the helmets with a row of colorful ponytails on the crown on the side, pulled down the cheeks, and whispered: "I inform Abrini on the opposite mountain to be prepared. When the enemy's front army comes over, we will launch an attack and give these enemies who are pretending to be magical and ghosts a good look."

"Yes, leader!" The rider shook the red battle flag painted with a wolf's head on the top of the mountain. The soldiers of the Dionian at the foot of the mountain could not see it, and the Samones on the top of the mountain also shook the military flag in response.

The Samone warriors held their breath and held their javelins and stones, and crept on the mountains and waited for the Dionians to pass through the mountain.

But at this moment, the Dionians stopped moving forward, and a general riding a horse rushed to the front of the team, as if saying something to the soldiers.

After a while, the team started moving forward again, but after walking a few steps, they stopped again, and the general said something to the soldiers.

Three times in a row, stopping and stopping. The Dionians were almost about to enter the ambush circle, but they were slowing down at this short distance, delaying too much time.

Gerney felt that his patience was about to be used up. He rubbed his stiff body with his hands and secretly scolded the Dionians for being slow to move.

At this moment, a commotion suddenly broke out on the top of the mountain.

"The enemy is here! The enemy is here!..." the soldiers shouted loudly.

"What's going on?!" Gerney didn't care about ambushing at this moment and hurriedly asked around.

"Chief, the Dionians... The Dionians came from the back mountain and wanted to surround us!" The guard who ran to observe the situation hurriedly came to report.

In fact, he didn't need to say much. Gerney had already overlooked the mountainside behind him, and the dark shadows flashed between the woods.

Being fooled! The cunning Dionians had known that we were ambushing here for a long time, and deliberately attracted my attention in front of me, but they wanted to encircle and annihilate us! This thought flashed through Gaelny's mind, but he was not panicked and immediately ordered: "Blow the trumpet! Since the Dionians dare to go up the mountain, let them taste the power of our Samonets!"

The deep and long horn sounded at the foot of the mountain, and the commander of the Third Legion, who was riding a horse at the front of the team, immediately looked up.

"It seems that the Samones discovered our roundabout troops." Lizaru, the captain of the First Battalion, said in relatively fluent Greek. Since he suffered humiliation in the Isthmus Race, he returned and spent a lot of time to train his Greek language, which has improved significantly.

"Krigoru, are you sure there are only 1,000 Samonets on the mountains on both sides?" The lieutenant of the legion confirmed to Krigoru, the reconnaissance captain beside him again.

Thank you Jingting for the trembling and autumn sounds. You are such a troublesome reward for choosing a name! Your support is my greatest motivation for writing!!
Chapter completed!