"Ah... I'm sorry!" Although Asuna apologized, her face still couldn't stop it from overflowing.

Cristoya, who was lying on the head of the bed, looked at her and couldn't help but be infected by her, and smiled: "I heard your laughter from afar. Tell me, what's the good thing?"

"Madam, Mrs. Agenice... Oh no, two princesses! Congratulations, the Senate has just announced that Lord Davers should be appointed King Dionys!" Asuna said the joy in her heart in one breath.

Cristoya's pretty face was also filled with joy, completely covering up the weakness after giving birth. At this moment, she suddenly remembered: After a love affair, Davers once said with great enthusiasm, "Little Cyrus is nothing great, I will make you a princess in the near future!"... Davers, he really did it!

Agenus is not as excited as Cristoya and Asuna. After all, Greece has been away from Wang Zheng for hundreds of years, so she doesn't feel much about it. She just feels happy for her husband.

"Two princesses, wait for Cynthia and Adoris to come back from school, and we hold a banquet to celebrate the good news. How about it?!" Asuna made a suggestion. Cristoya shook her head and said, "Now the people of the alliance are worried about the war and their relatives. We hold a banquet to celebrate at this time, which will be offensive and will damage Davers' reputation!"

"The princess is right." Asuna said quickly.

"Don't say the word 'Princess'. Things have not been completely confirmed yet. Don't be too proud!" Christoya reminded her again.

"Yes, I think it's better to be called before, which makes people feel friendly." Agent interjected: "Why don't we sacrifice to the gods at home tonight, thank them for their blessings to us, and hope they can protect Davers from coming back safely!"

"My sister's proposal is great! We should offer sacrifices to Hades and thank him for blessing our husbands! At the same time--" Christoya looked at Agents with a smile: "We also want to offer sacrifices to Hera, thank her for blessing me with a healthy Eunice, and hope she can bless you with a smooth baby!"

"Yeah!" Agentian gently stroked his slightly raised belly, showing a motherly smile.

"Wow! Wow! Wow!..." At this time, Eunice woke up in the cradle.

"Oh, my little princess!" Asuna hurriedly leaned over, lifted the diaper and looked at it: "She pulled it, there are still a lot!" As she said that, she skillfully changed the diaper...

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In the early morning, the people in Crotone were awakened by the constant sound of war trumpets outside the city.

"What happened?"

"I'm afraid the Syracuse people are going to attack the city!"

...

The people's door looked at the city where soldiers stood in a distance in panic.

Suddenly, a black dot passed by the city wall.

"Do not to escape!" The people reminded each other, and looked at the direction of the stone ejection and ran away in all directions. They were already familiar with the terrible weapon of Syracuse, and its attack on the inner city of Crotone has not stopped in the past few days.

But today's situation is obviously different from the previous two days. Stone bombs flew over the city one by one and hit the blocks near the city walls, which soon resulted in the ruins of houses and rubble everywhere. The people supported their injured relatives and fled in all directions...

The stone bombs bombed the city wall again and again, causing the stone skins to fall down one by one...

Lycias, who was watching all this at the top of the city, began to feel anxious: "Why did the Dionia's crossbows team not fight back and allow the enemy to fire stone bombs so unscrupulously?"

"Lord Lucias, the Dionians have no choice." Askamas, who had communicated with the crossbows team many times, explained: "The tower on our city wall is too narrow to not be able to put a crossbow. They can only put the crossbows under the city. But the city wall is too high, so the crossbows have to raise the elevation angle, so that the range will be shorter..."

"That is to say, they cannot attack the enemy's crossbows!" Lucias understood.

"Yes. So the Dionians made suggestions, don't expose us to have the ballast, and then give them a heavy blow when the enemy is relieved to attack." Although Astamas had no good impression of Dionia before, he was in front of the enemy and knew the importance of unity, so he said frankly: "I think this method is feasible."

Lucias thought for a while and reluctantly recognized the suggestions of the Dionia Birds Team: "But what should we do now? The number of Birds used by the enemy today is obviously more than the previous two days, and I am afraid that the city wall will be destroyed!"

"Don't worry, this won't happen for the time being." Askamas comforted him and said, "We can only wait for the enemy to attack and then hit them hard! I believe the Syracuses will take action soon!"

Askamas spoke, but his eyes were fixed on the wide earthen building that was built by the Syracuses dozens of meters away from the city, which was built by the Syracuses for several days. He believed that compared to the crossbows, this was the real threat to the defense of the city. Yesterday he sent soldiers to risk out of the city to destroy it, but he was defeated by the Syracuses who were already prepared. He had also thought of digging tunnels over, but the moat was surrounded by the moat. When the tunnel was dug below the moat, the soldiers were so scared that they retreated quickly, otherwise they might be drowned in the tunnel. Finally, the Dionians told him, "There is a way to destroy the earthen building." This made him feel relieved for the time being.

Askamas knew: Don’t look at the empty space on the earthen tower now, when the siege begins, there will be Siracuse archers standing on it and firing arrows at the soldiers on the top of the city...

"I'll go see the Trinas, and I'll leave it to you here!" Lucias said solemnly. The continuous roar made him feel very nervous, as if the city wall would collapse at any time, so he wanted to leave here quickly.

It just happened that today Siprous led the Trina soldiers to defend the North City. As the chief general of Crotone, of course it is necessary to give condolences. At the same time, he also had to give condolences to thousands of Siliteng soldiers who were defending the South City, which was also a force that could be relied upon. Because Syracuse slaughtered Siliteng City, the relatives and friends of these soldiers were either killed or sold as slaves and taken to a foreign land. The anger of Siliteng soldiers must be calmed with the blood of the Syracuse people, and they most hope that the Syracuse people will come to attack.

Just as Lucias was about to leave, the guards heard an urgent report: countless warships of Syracuses appeared outside the port and were about to break into the bay.

Crotone is somewhat similar to Tarantum. Their port and city themselves are integrated, but the port is built in a bay. Because the bay is large, the Crotone people cannot block it at all. Therefore, when the enemy fleet breaks in, it may land on the back of the Crotone city (that is, to the southeast of the city). Although there are also city walls there, while defending the city walls, you must also be alert to the enemy's rushing into the port and landing on the wharf. This requires high command and judgment of the generals, especially when Crotone does not have too many troops.

"We need an experienced general who commands few soldiers in the port area to prevent the enemy from attacking our rear!" Askamas said with a serious expression.

Lucias understood what he meant and said without hesitation: "I will send Miron."

Miron, former chief general of Crotone, was expelled by Crotone citizens since leading his army to defeat Dionia. He had to run to the Peloponnese Peninsula not far from Crotone, and lived in seclusion in the small coastal town of Corion in Elis.

It was not until the Syracuse army invaded Great Greece that Crotone decided to recall the exiled people in the past so that they could work together to fight the Syracuse people. As soon as Miron received the news, he immediately returned to Crotone, but at that time Crotone's army had set out for Silitun, so he stayed in the city as an ordinary citizen until today.

After hearing Lucias's words, Askamas smiled, but the smile disappeared quickly because the enemy began to attack...

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Hundreds of meters away, the Syracuse people were huge and loose, and the seemingly boundless battle formation was slowly approaching the city wall. Walking in the front were some strange-shaped engineering equipment pushed by the Syracuse people, such as siege hammers, and many wooden wheels with ceilings like siege hammers, hidden inside, and five or six meters long...

What worries Askamas the most were the three huge, movable wooden towers that were taller than the city walls. Although Askamas saw it in war for the first time, a word flashed through his mind - the Siege Tower. I had heard before that the Syracuse people used the Siege Tower to capture many cities in Carthage on Sicily. This time, he was so shocked when he saw the real thing.

The soldiers were also shocked and at a loss when they saw the huge engineering tower slowly pushing towards them.

"Come on!" Askamas shouted loudly, continuing to encourage the soldiers and also cheering himself up: "Don't look at the thing that is so big, it can't cross the moat!"

Yes, with a moat here, the monster couldn't get through! The soldiers relaxed for a while, and then they saw the enemy's siege column stop moving forward, and thousands of naked men walked out of them, carrying cloth bags, staggering towards the city wall, and behind them were fully armed Syracuse light infantry, pushing the shield cart to follow closely...

Could it be the slave of Syracuse, ready to fill our moat?! Kolebs and his companions around him held the same thoughts and held the javelins and bows in their hands.
Chapter completed!