"What should I do with Siliting and Trina?" Kunogorata, who looked bad, asked loudly.

"I think Syracuse will restore independence to these two city-states. After all, Syracuse is in Sicily, not in Greater Greece." Kerithops said without hesitation.

"Independence?!" Scombras sneered: "Let Syracuse support the 'ten-man dictatorship' governments as you Sparta did in the Greek city-state of Asia Minor?!"

Kerithops's face changed slightly.

At this time, Davers spoke: "Do you want to hear about our conditions?"

"You said." Kerithops felt a little nervous.

"As long as Syracuse withdraws from Greece--" Davers's words made Kerithops happy. He was about to answer the conversation, but he heard Davers' stressed tone say: "And let Messina, Catanai, Naxos, and Tauromenián all be independent one by one. To dissolve the Sicilian alliance, the most important thing is to exile Dionysius. This is my condition and cannot be changed! If Syracuse agrees, we will agree to a truce!"

Kerithops thought Davers was telling a joke, but when he looked firm, the others were excited after Davers said this.

The conference hall was quiet for a while, and Kerithops looked disappointed: "The Syracuse people cannot accept the conditions you have put forward. It seems that you, Dionia, intends to continue this war of great consumption and numerous casualties!"

"This war was initiated by the Syracuse people. Dionysius led his army to invade the Great Greece, occupy the land of the Dionysian allies, and kill the Great Greeks. It was like a wolf breaking into our homeland, eating and drinking, and leaving safely is not that easy!" Davers suddenly stood up and said firmly: "I have made a promise to the people, 'I will kill all the Syracuse people who invaded the Great Greece!' For this reason, all our citizens of Dionys have made up their minds to fight to the death with the Syracuse people! Hades is on the way and will protect us not only to annihilate the invading Syracuse army and restore our allies! We will also fight to Sicily, save the Greek city-states oppressed by Syracuse, completely remove the fangs and sharp teeth of the evil wolf, so that it will never oppress any Greek city-state!"

What Davers said not only shocked Krethops, but also surprised the elders here. It was the first time they heard Davers talk about his successor idea for this war.

"Davs." Kerithops was anxious and reminded by his name: "I can understand your eagerness to revenge, but Syracuse is not a wolve, but a lion! You missed this opportunity for peace, for fear that you would not be able to kill the lion, but instead they were thrown into the house and bit everyone to death!"

There was obvious threat in Kelithops's words, but Davers just replied indifferently: "It will take you a complete fight to know who is the lion?"

Kerithops heard Davers' determination to fight Syracuse to the death, and wanted to persuade him again.

Davers had already said loudly: "When you were in Persia, you fought side by side with me. This time you came, I should have treated you well, but unfortunately... Now is the war period, and you and I are enemies, not friends. I am sorry, I can only let you leave! When this war is over, we will meet again when you come again!"

Keritopus knew that his mission had failed, so he said leisurely: "I'm afraid we won't have a chance to meet again..."

Davers smiled faintly: "I believe you will come again!"

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After leaving the barracks, Kerithops looked serious and silent.

When he entered the port, got on the boat, and left the dock, without his instructions, the captain didn't know where to go, and had to ask loudly: "Kelitops, let's go to Silit next?"

Kerithops came back from his contemplation and said decisively: "No, go back to Sparta."

"Go back?!" The captain was puzzled. He vaguely remembered that the inspector's mission had caused the truce between Dionia and Syracuse, and he had just gone to Dionia.

"The Dionians were arrogant, refused to truce, and wanted to defeat the Syracuse people. I think this city-confederate alliance that had not been established for a long time will soon perish!" the follower said loudly.

"Maybe, it seems that we Sparta can only rely on ourselves during this period." Keritops said, and what always came to his mind was the face of Davers' firm and confident. This similar expression had appeared before the Canyon Annihilation Battle in Persia, before the Battle of the Kentrit River... It had appeared many times in the Expeditionary Forces and at the meetings for military discussions. Davers used this expression to persuade the leaders to adopt his suggestions and help the mercenaries get out of the predicament. And this time, although Syracuse had obvious advantages on land, he was always uneasy...

Kerithops stood at the stern of the boat, looking at the port of Turiyi gradually moving away from his sight...

He knew in his heart that the young man who humbly asked him for advice and admired him has gone forever. Davers is now the King of Dionia and has become Syracuse's mortal enemy, and naturally Sparta's enemy...

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Davers led the Senate's elders to prepare military rations, train the army, and supplement the army (the first and second legions suffered some losses after these battles). Dioria's fleet was also busy recruiting sailors, training new warships, and training formations. The entire Turiyi took action.

And to the south of Dionia, Syracuse launched the second large-scale siege of Crotone.

While siegeing the city, Dionysius left 10,000 people to defend against the possible raids of Asprestum's Dionysian army in the northwest of the camp. At the same time, he allowed all the cavalry and mercenary cavalry of Syracuse to be dispatched to move in the north of the Croton Plain, and even reached the swamp plains of Crimesa. One was to observe the movements of Turiyi in the north, and the other was to harass Crimesa and prevent his garrison troops from sending troops to aid Crotone.

Although the pontoon bridge on the Neto River has been burned and the entire river is under the control of the Syracuse Navy, and the Dionysian army cannot cross the river in a short time, the cautious Dionysian still needs to make more preparations. On the sea outside the port of Crotone, Leptines led more than 200 warships (including the squadron that came from Messina) and was on high alert. Dionysians ordered him to fight to the death to block the reinforcements of the Dionysian fleet to the Crotone city.

When everything was ready, the warlocks kept ringing and drums vibrated. As hundreds of stone bombs fired by the crossbows hit the city walls, more than 70,000 soldiers from Syracuse pushed more than a dozen large siege towers, dozens of siege cars, various large siege equipment, and countless long special ladders approaching the city walls from the north, west and south.

In addition, Dionysius also ordered the army to escort and drive away more than 4,000 non-Crotone prisoners. While the Crotones were busy preparing for the attack and had no time to take care of them, they no longer built a platform for observation and long-range archery like before, but urgently built an inclined ramp that went straight to the cone butterfly on the city from outside the moat.

The Crotones also realized the urgent situation. Not only did all the soldiers go to the top of the city, but Dionia's crossbows were also on guard. All the people who could wield the shield were organized by Lucias and were ready to reinforce at any time.

A large-scale and extremely tragic siege war began...

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At the residence of the Chief Executive in Asprestum, Epigenis, as the commander of the Fourth Legion, asked anxiously: "Perisius, are we really not going to help Crotone?! The brothers of the Legion were all angry and wanted to avenge Dracos and the dead brothers! According to the spies' return, the Syracuse people made sufficient preparations this time, and almost the entire army was dispatched. Without our help, the Crotone people would probably have difficulty coping!"

Phelis pointed to the south calmly and said, "Although the Syracuses went to attack Crotone, Dionysius did not forget us. The road to Crotone to the south was tightly sealed by the camps they built, and they were guarded by heavy troops. Do you want both of our legions to be lost? And we also received orders!"

Epitensis was speechless, and he paced back and forth in the living room, and then said irritably: "I don't understand, Lord Davers--"

Agarcia, who was standing aside, interrupted him and reminded: "It's His Majesty Davers now!"

"Okay, His Majesty Davers." Epitens shrugged, looking disapproving. In his opinion, the lifelong consul was not much different from the king: "His Majesty Davers, why should we let the mountain reconnaissance team send us an order, requiring 'We should defend the city of Asprestum and not attack rashly'! We have obviously won the naval battle, and we can immediately let the fleet go south and repel the fleet of Syracuse again. In this way, our army can set up a pontoon bridge on the Neto River and deter Syracuse from the north, so that they dare not attack Crotone with all their strength!"

"After a war, the general army will have to rest for at least four or five days before taking further action. I think the fleet should be like this." Phelicus defended Davers based on his consistent experience: "So our current task is to guard Asprestum, appease the soldiers, wait for His Majesty to lead the army to join him. Since even the Syracuse Navy, which we think is impossible to defeat, was defeated by His Majesty's fleet, and then the Syracuse's army was even more impossible to defeat the legion commanded by His Majesty!"

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