The scouts sent by Trina City fled back to the city in panic, and the news of the defeat of the battle was returned to the defenders stationed in the city, and everyone was in great panic.

General Blomalas, given that the main force could not return, and the city of Trina was alone and unable to cope with the upcoming Syracuse army, he had to make a painful decision: to give up Trina and the soldiers retreated to the city of Knapetia in the Dionian League.

The lookouts of the Syracuse warships cruising in the harbor discovered the abnormal movements of the Trina defenders. After the Trinas left, they sent sailors to the shore to test, and they easily occupied an empty city.

In this way, at dusk at the end of the Battle of the Ramato River, the Syracuses occupied Trina, gaining an excellent foothold for their army in the central part of Great Greece. The materials needed by the Syracuse army could be transferred by sea into the Trina port for transit, which was both convenient and safe.

But Dionysius was not satisfied. He stared at Siliteng, not far from the battlefield.

The soldiers who participated in the war in Cilicing were in a miserable situation. They fled eastward and squeezed with the defeated soldiers in Crotone, which consumed precious time. The route of returning eastward was blocked by the reinforcements of Fascepsa. Behind him, Phoebidas led some of the Syracuse soldiers to pursue him regardless of their fatigue. As a result, some of the defeated soldiers in Cilicing were killed in battle, some surrendered, and some were fled north by Crotone. Only more than 3,000 people fled back to Cilicing City.

The fourth and fifth legions of Dioria in the middle were far away from reinforcements on both wings of the enemy and because of the help of friendly forces to block (involuntary), the retreat was relatively smooth. Apart from some setbacks when crossing the Corrache River, they did not suffer much losses.

However, Syracuse mercenaries brought them the greatest losses. Although most of the cavalry were stopped by the First Battalion of the Fifth Legion led by Dracos, it also delayed the retreat of Drax and the brigade, causing him to eventually fall into the heavy encirclement of the Syracuse pursuing troops and failed to escape...

Dionia's greatest luck was that the cautious Philicius agreed to the coalition to fight, but after discussing with Ansitanos, he still kept a secret: he considered the possibility of failure, so after the army was arranged, Ansitalos led the two legions' baggage battalions, engineering battalions, medical battalions... and other legion auxiliary personnel out of the camp, marched northward, and retreated to the place between Asprestum and the battlefield.

Phelisius's plan was: if the victory was won, the Syracuses would be driven out of the Ofermia Plain, and it would not be too late for the auxiliary troops such as the baggage battalion to return; but if they failed, they could not withdraw from the camp, but should follow the instructions of Davers before leaving, retreat to Asprestum City and make new defensive arrangements.

Therefore, when the Syracuse army was pursuing the defeated soldiers, the slow-moving auxiliary troops of Dionia were already retreating to the city of Asprestum, thus avoiding the encounter of becoming a prisoner of the Syracuse people because there was no soldiers in the camp.

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Perhaps Apollo could not bear to witness such a tragic battle between the Greeks, and after the sun fell into the mountains early, the darkness quickly occupied the entire world.

But Apollo's sister, the goddess of hunting and moon Artenis, was lazy and did not let the moon hang high in the sky, so Hades took control of the night.

In theory, the coalition should be grateful that with the blessing of Hades, the Dionians believed in, at least the arrogant Syracuse hired cavalry to chase them in the dark night, but the dark night also created a lot of difficulties for the coalition's retreat.

In the dark, the defeated soldiers could not see the military flag and the cap tassels of the team officers, so they could not be reorganized. Except for the situation in the Dionian Legion, the other defeated soldiers were completely disorganized. In fact, this area was a marginal area of ​​hills, with uneven grounds, bumpy pits, fatigue, hunger, panic, and dark eyes. It was easy for the defeated soldiers to fall. If they could not stand up in time, they would be trampled by the soldiers following behind, so there were many injured soldiers.

Thousands of defeated soldiers were sad about their teammates' death in the dark, shouting the names of team officials, and worrying about their safety...

Trekking forward in the darkness, they felt for the first time that Asprestum and Tarantum were so long from Silitin...

It was not until late at night that Asprestum Chief Executive Aggarcia, who learned of the failure of the battle, urgently sent cavalry and citizens to hold torches to illuminate the defeated soldiers along the way. Tarantum also took corresponding measures, and the defeated soldiers finally escaped from the dark panic.

For a whole night, both cities were busy accepting defeated soldiers...

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And this night was also a sleepless night for the people of Silit.

Since Xiliting is not far from the battlefield, the news of the failure of the battle spread throughout the city at the first time, and the people were immediately in panic.

At dusk, more than 3,000 civilians fled back to the city, and then only sporadic defeated soldiers returned to the city. In the morning, there were a huge army of 14,000 people. In the evening, less than one-third of the people came back, and the whole city was in sorrow.

Chief General Pretinis regretted it even more: if he had known, he wouldn't have forced the Dionians to fight in a hasty battle!

But now the crisis of Siracuse has just begun. In the Southern Italian Alliance, Siracuse City is also a big city. This made the people of Siracuse proud, but now it has become a trouble for the people of Siracuse because of the serious lack of defense. According to the description of the defeated soldiers, they were defeated by the Syracuse reinforcements that suddenly appeared on the battlefield. Then the military power of Siracuse on the battlefield is probably more than 50,000. Such a Hitman Syracuse army with the momentum of victory in the battle, who will Dionysius' next target of attack?

Pretinis and the members of the Council dared to always think that it must be Silithen! Because the distance is too close. Now that Dionia and Crotone have just suffered a crushing defeat, they will definitely not be able to send troops to rescue Silithen in a short time. If Silithen wants to escape from the next attack of the Syracuse people, they can only rely on themselves.

So a citizen meeting was held in the city of Xiliting. The dust had not been washed away, and the fearful citizens would make an important choice for the life and death of the city-state...
Chapter completed!