For a moment, everyone remained silent, but no one responded.

Demodokas was secretly shocked: he knew that during this period, under the instigation of Dionysius, he relied on the support of Syracuse's powerful army to eliminate differences in the city of Locre and attack political enemies. Many bills were directly implemented without the vote of the Citizens' Congress, which was almost considered to have the power of Locre. But now it seems that many people hold grudges and are ready to embarrass him when they find an opportunity!

Just when he secretly regretted not having such a meeting, his confidant Panticapes finally stood up and said, "This is actually very simple. We can transfer the troops stationed in Medmar back and fight back the Coulenians!"

"What should I do if I say so easily?!" Metlofinis asked back.

"It is reported that Medmar has more than 2,000 civilians who can defend against the enemy's attack. We don't have to worry about it for the time being." Panticapes responded casually.

"Don't worry?!" Metlofinis sneered: "Medma's messenger had previously reported that the Dionians who defeated our army had more than 10,000 soldiers, and with the Lijim people in Torina, I'm afraid the enemy's soldiers will exceed 20,000! If more than 2,000 Metma's militia want to withstand the attack of 20,000 people?! Dionian's army is not an ordinary Greek army, they have powerful crossbows!..."

Metlofinis anxiously reminded everyone: "Once Medma is lost, the huge army of Dionia and Lijim can come from the west, and then join the army of Colenia, our Locred will be in danger!"

Metlofinis's words made everyone in the council hear it, and everyone looked nervous. Someone couldn't help but shout: "I think... let's settle peace with Dionia!"

As soon as this was said, it received many echoes.

"Idiot!" Demodokas finally couldn't help but curse: "Crotone, Trina, and Colenia of the Southern Italian League are our mortal enemies for decades. They have suffered heavy losses in this war. Use your pig heads to think about it, what price should we pay to calm the anger in their hearts?!"

"Then the smart chief general must have a way to repel the coalition of Colenya, Dionia and Lijim!" Someone said sarcastically, which caused many people to chuckle in a low voice.

Demodokas's face turned pale. If it were in the past, who would dare to talk to him like this! Syracuse's defeat changed the minds of the members of the Locre Parliament!

Demodokas felt a chill in his heart, and he loudly reminded: "Syracuse had suffered a more powerful defeat in the war with Carthage, but the final victory still belongs to Syracuse! Now that Syracuse, which has most of Sicily, still has rich resources and wealth and sufficient population, this is far from what the city-states of Dionysia, Crotone, and Trina can compare. The final winner will definitely be Syracuse! And we are here to discuss peace with the enemy alone. Think about it, will Dionysus forgive the betrayer after the victory!"

Demodocas stared at everyone. It was precisely because Locre and Syracuse had close contact with him that Locre people knew more about Dionysius's horror. Even if Demodocas said that "Syracuse's victory" was just a hypothesis, they did not dare to take risks because it was an assumption, so they avoided Demodocas's gaze.

Demodokas breathed a sigh of relief for a while. He looked at Metlofinis for a few more glances and said firmly: "What we have to do now is to stick to it! Hold on to the city of Rocky! Until the final victory comes! By then, the land of Courenia and even Silitun will be owned by Rocky!"

In the end, the Locre Counsel made the decision to "revert back to Medema's army and defend the territory", achieving the purpose of Demodocas convening a council to share responsibilities, avoiding the possible criticism of "abandoning allies" because of his decision alone. However, the uncertain future also made Demodocas feel uneasy. As a relative of Dionysius, he had to make more preparations.

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Just as Hilos led his army to march towards Hibernian, the First Legion had already stepped on Secrean's fleet and headed south.

In the afternoon, the warship entered Lijim Harbor and was once again warmly welcomed by Lijim people.

At the same time, the First Legion Commander Antonios met Lijim's ruler, Davers' father-in-law Atelic Russ. The good news he brought about "Locre's main force suffered a severe blow in Hebernian because of the raid from Lijim-Dionian coalition forces" made Atelic Russ and the members of the council present excited.

Many people repeatedly praised: "Fidun did a good job!" but they completely forgot that last night, when they learned that Feidun took most of Tao Ruina's troops and headed north by boat, they were panicked and angrily accused: "Fidun mobilized the troops without authorization, which caused Li Jim to be in a dangerous situation. They must take him back to Li Jim to undergo a severe trial!"

Then, Antonios presented a letter from Davers to Atelic Cruise. After reading it, he looked happy and read it in public at the meeting. The letter began with Davers' respectful greetings to his father-in-law and talking about Agenice's pregnancy.

Hearing this, the members of the parliament began to congratulate Attily Cruz and complimented him: "I found a good son-in-law!" In fact, the same is true. As the war continued, the strength of the two powerful states of Greece - Crotone and Locre, was greatly weakened, and even the invading army and navy of Syracuse were severely damaged. The Lijim people suddenly realized: If there were no major accidents, the power of Dionya would have been greater after the war. I heard that Davers has now become the king of Dionya, so the identity of Attily Cruz's father-in-law would be even more precious!

Because of this, how could the Lijim people miss the opportunity to flatter.

Atili Cruise smiled from ear to ear. He was glad that he made an extremely correct decision and married his daughter to Davers, a "nova" from a low-brother.

In the letter, Davers continued to mention:... Although Dionya defeated Syracuse, the war was far from over. Syracuse has rich resources in Sicily and may send new troops to reinforce at any time. Therefore, if you want to end the war as soon as possible, you must lead the war to Sicily, disrupt the order there, destroy the territory of Syracuse, and capture the allies of Syracuse so as to better weaken Syracuse's power and force it to surrender voluntarily! For this reason, Dionya hopes to get the full support of the allies of Lijim...

The members who had just rushed to congratulate the chief general stopped talking after hearing this. They admitted that Davers was right that attacking Sicily was the best way to defeat Syracuse, but to have Lijim fully support, their complacent businessmen habits forced them to think carefully: full support means providing fleets, providing army, providing material transportation, and supply of military rations... For Lijim, who is also supporting the troops to fight against Locre, this will surely be another huge effort! And who knows when the upcoming Sicily War will end!

Attily Cruise looked at the crowd's performance, laughed in his heart, and continued to recite loudly: "...After the war with Syracuse, Dionyya will surely capture Messina and will jointly manage it with Lijim! Managing an important strait checkpoint city, Dionyya has no experience and needs to rely on Lijim's strong assistance..."

"I heard it right?! Dionia wants to share Messina with us!"

"Don't you understand?! It's mainly that we manage Messina, and we can finally get it, thus completely monopolizing the strait!"

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The members of the parliament were talking excitedly.

"Everyone, regarding the allies Dionia needing our assistance..." When Atelicruis mentioned this again, everyone did not hesitate and expressed their support.

"As long as Lord Davers fulfills his promise in his letter after the war, Lijim should fully support Dionyya's attack on Sicily!"

"To get Messina, Syracuse must be defeated! So we will support Dionia!"

"Now the port is open and the shipping routes are open. As long as the number of soldiers sent to Sicily is not too large, I think we should be able to supply military rations for two or three months..."

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Seeing this, Atili Cruise couldn't help but sigh: He was persuaded by his son, and gave up the idea of ​​monopolizing Messina and wrote a letter to persuade Davers to snatch Messina from Syracuse. Unexpectedly, Davers had a bigger appetite and used Messina to exchange for the support of the Lijim people for Dionyya's foothold in Sicily!

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The next day, Dionysius of Silit was angry at Daphn's unreasonable request. While urging the craftsmen to speed up the construction of iron tools, he secretly sent people to secretly dig out the bodies of the Numibians who were buried in the past two days due to serious injuries, put them down, and asked the messenger to take them to the camp of Diony, perfunctorily deal with Daphn, so as to continue negotiating with Daphn on the peace talks.

In Hebernian, Dionya-Lejim's coalition set out and marched towards Medema.

The Medemas were angry and uneasy because of the evacuation of the Locree army. However, Locree's reminders and warnings made them illusory about the Syracuse people, so they decided to stick to the aid.

After failing to persuade surrender, Hilos decided to attack Medema City after discussion with Feidun, Hironimus and Ledes.

The troops began to build camps, and the engineering camp continued to build siege equipment.
Chapter completed!