Dionysius gave Silitun a favorable condition for surrender: Coulenia provides supplies and troops to fight with the Syracuse army. In exchange, Syracuse will not enter the city of Coulenia.

Of course, what the Courenians didn't know was that for their submission, Dionysius also wrote a letter to his brother-in-law, Locred's chief general Demodokas.

Because while Locred fully supported Dionysius's invasion of the Great Greece, he once made a request: He hoped that Dionysius would hand over the city of Colenia to them after defeating the Southern Italian League. Dionysius expressed his agreement.

For this reason, Dionysius had to assure the Locres again that the disposal of Coleonia is only temporary, and everything is to defeat Crotone and Dionia as soon as possible, and the expedient measures made. After truly conquering these city-states, Coleonia will still hand it over to Locres as promised as before.

The Locredians accepted Dionysius' explanation.

Of course, the Coulenians did not know that their fate had long been destined. They thought they could escape the disaster and were eager to express their obedience to Dionysius. They soon sent 5,000 soldiers and a large number of baggage to Silitun.

The surrender of Coulenia left the Locre army, which had originally besieged Coulenia, freed up. They quickly turned south and crossed the mountain path.

Although Feidun was wary of the east because the person who sent the news to report had not returned, he sent a small force to guard the entrance of the mountain road to safety. However, after the news in the north was completely blocked by the Syracuse people, he completely disgraced. He never expected that the situation in southern Greece had changed drastically in just a few days.

There were so many people coming in the Rocklis (15,000 people) and so fast that the less than a thousand people defended by Yamaguchi was quickly defeated.

Feidun was leading his army to besiege Medma. After receiving the news, he was shocked and had no time to organize troops to fight. He was rushed into the camp by the storm of Locre troops...

When Feidun and countless defeated soldiers fled across the Maro River in a hurry and fled into Taoruina City, there were only less than 7,000 troops left.

Dionysius was overjoyed after learning that Caurenia had surrendered and Lijim was defeated, because at this time, except for Lijim, the southern part of Greece had been pacified, and he could safely attack north with all his might. The surviving Lijim, Locre alone, was enough to deal with it, and he didn't need to worry about it.

So he ordered Leptinez to leave a few warships to station at the port of Trina and continue to cut off the maritime connection between Dionia and Lijim on the west coast, all the warships participating in the war turned to the port of Silitine.

He also asked all troops to complete rest and recuperation as soon as possible and prepare to advance northward.

The war between the Southern Italian League and Syracuse was not only a matter between the Greater Greece and the Greek city-states of Sicily, but also attracted the attention of many forces in the entire Mediterranean.

Not long after the Battle of the Ramato River ended, news of the victory of Syracuse quickly spread throughout the Western Mediterranean. The city-states and forces related to it were thinking about the impact of the war on themselves, and even began to make small plans...

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On this day, the regular meeting of the Senate of Dionia mainly discussed two issues: one was that the Sixth Corps, which had just gone to Crimesa, added logistical pressure to the Military Affairs Department, resulting in insufficient personnel transporting food and supplies; the other was the proposal submitted by Navy Commander Secretyan to Hilonimus. The departure of the Sixth Corps led to a shortage of combat soldiers on the warships, and he asked for a new army to be formed. At the same time, the sailors of the combined fleet of Dionia were just enough. Once there were losses in the naval battle, it was difficult to get supplemented. He hoped to summon sailors from the allies as reserves.

"I think... it is very simple to solve the problem of insufficient personnel transporting supplies in the Ministry of Military Affairs." Turiyi Chief Executive Kunogolata said in thinking: "Since the sea route was hit by the Syracuse Navy, the number of merchant ships has decreased significantly. The porters, warehouse managers, ship repairmen, coachmen and other laborers have no work to do and do nothing all day, which has added a lot of trouble to public security. The Ministry of Military Affairs can recruit some workers at the port without even needing salary. As long as they ensure their food supply, they will do a good job and reduce the pressure on the port patrol..."

"This is indeed a good idea!" Mariji praised, and reminded: "However, even if you use food as a reward, you should pay attention to controlling the supply. As the war progresses, grains will only be more precious than Dracma."

Hironimus nodded, showing his understanding.

At this time, Kunogorata asked: "I don't understand why Secrean had to summon sailors from allies?! There are so many spare staff in our port, why not use it?!"

Seclian is not a veteran and is not in the venue. He can only answer the answer by Hironimus, the only left-behind chief of the Military Affairs Department. Although he is not good at these: "Well... the time is very tight now... Well... the fleet of Syracuse will attack at any time. Seclian needs skilled sailors, so he doesn't have to spend too much time training..."

"The fleet in charge of Secrean occupied a large amount of Turi's manpower, but he always hid in the Krati River. What was he doing?! He should lead the fleet to drive away the overbearing Syracuse warships in the Bay of Taranto, even if we can restore our route for a day or two!" Mariji complained.

"I don't know much about the Navy, but I know it was Lord Davers who asked him to do it."

As soon as Shironimus finished speaking, Marigi immediately laughed dryly and said, "Since Lord Davers has made arrangements, it seems that we don't have to worry too much about the Syracuse fleet."

In the Senate, there were many senators like Mariji who blindly believed in Davers, but after receiving the Southern Italian coalition defeat in Siliteng, Petalu, who was a little confused in the past two days, felt that Mariji's flattering face made him disgusted.

He sneered a few times in his heart, then turned his gaze to Kadulke, who was also absent-minded.

"Let's do it, let's send people to discuss with Castron and Hercullia and recruit some sailors..." Cornerus stood up, and as soon as he spoke his suggestion, the gate of the venue was suddenly pushed open.

The guard captain who was in charge of the defense of the Senate rushed in.

The rotating chairman Kunogorata saw him look panicked and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Dear sirs, I just received an urgent letter. Metapontum was captured by Tarantum!"

"What?!!"

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Tarantum consul Diomeras stood at the head of Metapontum, looking proudly at the soldiers of Tarantum who rushed into the already open gate, strangling the people of Metapontum who were still trying to resist in various blocks in the city...

The attack of Tarantum's army was very smooth, and they quickly advanced towards the square in the center of the city.

The sound of fighting was gradually becoming sparse when it reached Diomeras's ears.

"Let's go to the Acropolis!" Diomeras couldn't wait to pick the fruits of victory.

Diomeras got off the city, turned over and walked straight forward with his entourage. The bodies of Metapontum and the wounded who were struggling to help were everywhere on the streets. He ignored them: Since these descendants who were flowing with Tarantum's blood chose to betray, they would have dreamed of Tarantum's forgiveness again.

When Diomeras had just arrived at the square, his subordinates came to report the good news to him: "The Acropolis of Metapontum has been taken down!"

"It's so fast?" Although Diomeras was confident that Tarantum's soldiers' quality was much better than that of Metapontum, he did not expect that the defense of the Acropolis, the core fortress of a city-state, was so weak.

"Isalocas and the others persuaded the soldiers stationed in the Guardian City to surrender." The subordinate explained.

"So that's how it is." Diomeras relieved his doubts.

After all, Metapontum was once the sub-state of Tarantum. Although after hundreds of years of development, both sides have become weak in blood and tend to be independent in politics, they are in an alliance. They have been protected by Tarantum for many years. The people of Metapontum who are close to and admire Tarantum are everywhere. It is only because of Tarantum's wrong aggressive policies in the past few years that Metapontum suffered huge losses. However, Tarantum still insists on doing anything recklessly, which makes Metapontum humans turn to the Diony Alliance, a stronger neighbor than Tarantum, in order to avoid greater losses.

Dionyha's more tolerant policy towards the allies made Metapontum relieved, but this does not mean that Metapontum wants to completely cut off relations with Tarantum. On the contrary, once the crisis passes, the Metapontum people begin to miss their mother state again. In addition, with the intentional push of the pro-Tarantum faction led by Isalocas, the relationship between the two sides quickly resumes and the number of exchanges is increasing (of course there are conflicts). After all, Metapontum is closer to Tarantum, which can be seen from the similar number of elected pro-Tarantum factions among the consuls of Metapontum and members of the Senate every year.

At every Senate meeting, these two factions often argue fiercely and even conflict over which side the bill designed to favor Dionys and Tarantum is more biased. In fact, the pro-Dionian faction led by Tudepules is weaker than the pro-Tantum faction. After all, Dionys had been short of its time to become its alliance, but Dionys' rapid expansion gave them confidence, so that at every critical moment, Isalocas and others took the initiative to give in because they were afraid of angering Dionys.

The Senate of Dionia is also very clear about Metapontum's situation. Considering the relationship with Tarantum and the alliance treaty signed with Metapontum, it is difficult to interfere in its internal affairs. But they firmly believe that as Dionia's strength becomes stronger and stronger, Metapontum will naturally follow.
Chapter completed!