Chapter 205: Arrival in Campania
Waller learned from Pollet's tone before and said helplessly: "Elia, a fragile hare that was often bullied by us, now relying on the Dionians, has become an ally with us..."
Seeing that he seemed a little uneasy, Puamot wanted to persuade him, but saw his confidant servant hurried into the hall.
After seeing him whispering a few words to Puamot, Puamot's face changed and hurriedly asked, "What happened?"
Puamot turned to look at him and said in a deep voice: "Dionia defeated Syracuse's army."
"Dionians really won?!" Valer's eyes widened in surprise and couldn't help but murmured: "Mr. Davers is indeed amazing! So, the Great Greece belongs to Diony?!"
"It's not just the Great Greece..." Puamot said lightly. When he heard the news, the only worry in his heart and the remaining luck were gone. He let out a sigh and said, "You go back to the territory and bring 20 sheep by the way, and offer a gift to Lord Alexis for me..."
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Out of his previous historical materials' impression of the Samones, Davers made Alexis lead his army to attack Sci-Pussa with caution.
In fact, Davers lured and wiped out the main force of the Penteney tribe and the Kauteni tribe in Poseidonia. Then the Samones encountered another camp in the camp of Potentiya, causing the warriors of the Hilpini tribe to suffer severe damage. In the cold and cold winter, the Samone soldiers were hungry and fled into the mountains, lost their direction, encountered wild animals, caught a cold, and ran into the Lucanian hunting team... The Samones defeated soldiers were like dogs with a family, and were in panic all day long.
Even though tribal leaders such as Lesguk gathered some of the Samone warriors and fled back to Kopsa, facing the subsequent fierce joint army of the Third Legion and Pottentiya, no leader thought that with this small town and these extremely low morale and extremely exhausted soldiers, they could block the high morale enemy, so the Samones fled north in a hurry.
The leaders of Kautini were anxious to lead the defeated troops back to Kautini, because the crushing defeat of the Samonets would surely shock central Italy, and they were worried that the Campanians who were close to Kautini's territory would have abnormal movements.
Lesguk was anxious to return to Beneventum. Although the four major tribes of Samonet were still harmonious in the past, the Hilpini tribe suffered such a crushing defeat. Once other tribes had bad ideas, Beneventum who approached Pentney and Kauteni would be in danger. He had to rush back as soon as possible to take charge.
Abenirum, another important town of the Hilpini tribe, died in battle by the great leader Vilani, and his son Gerny was captured. Other leaders who survived from death were eager to return and reselected a new leader.
The chaos in Abenithum is not as good as Pentney. Its entire tribe, from the great leader Tolek to the lower leaders, was almost either killed or captured. It may take a long time for the entire tribe and territory to stabilize again.
Dionia-Potentia coalition easily occupied Copsa, discussed the issue of "whether to continue to attack northward."
Pollet strongly demanded to continue the attack. He believed that the Samonets suffered heavy damage and their morale was low. Giving up Copsa is a typical proof. This opportunity should be taken to completely eradicate the threat of the Samonets in the north.
Printols expressed his opposition: First of all, the mountainous areas north of Copsa are getting higher and higher, and the terrain is more complex, and the Lucanian soldiers and Potentiya soldiers in the army are completely unfamiliar with this area. They go rashly and deeply, easily ambushing, and supply transportation is also quite difficult. Besides, the military focus of Dionia at this time is Syracuse, so it is not advisable to expand the war anymore, so as not to maintain the two sides of the alliance.
Alexis supports Printoles' view, but he also has his own unique idea: that is, to try to attack Irna.
Enona is the only harbor town of the Samones in the west. In fact, it was not built by the Samones, but a city-state established by the Greeks in Campania. However, it encountered the same fate as Poseidonia and was occupied by the Samones a hundred years ago. Before, the food that Syracuse supported Samone to build a large army was transported from the port of this town.
Enona is more than 40 miles north of Poseidonia. The terrain between the two cities is flat, with no mountains, only lush forests, and there are no cliffs, reefs, and soft beaches on the entire coast. If this were the land of the Greeks, they would have cut down trees to make ships, leveled the land as arable land, filled the mudflats to build towns and ports, but the Samones did not establish towns on this rare flat land obtained by their tribes. According to the exploration of the mountain forest reconnaissance team, the larger Samone tribe settlement is more than 20 miles away from the coast, and is on the edge of the mountainous area.
Enona had almost no fleet, so the supplies required by the Daibo coalition could be transported by sea, which was the greatest benefit for the army preparing to go north. How could Alexis give up this great opportunity? So after obtaining Pollet's consent, he quickly made a decision: to attack Enona.
Originally, Alexis decided to keep Potentiya's troops stationed in Copsa, but Polet insisted on participating in the attack on the Samones.
Alexis had no choice but to Liuxima led a brigade and some Potentiya soldiers to guard Kopsa, and led a Dabo coalition of about 5,000 troops to march north along the coast. The fleet full of baggage set out from Poseidonia and accompanied it.
The area where the army passed was originally the territory of Hilpini, but at this time, the Samones of the Hilpini tribe had no leader. In addition, in order to invade Pottentiya, the great leader Veroni almost took time out the young and middle-aged people of various tribes. Now the Samonet soldiers who were lucky enough to escape were either on the way to escape or just fled back home in a terrible state. When they heard that the army of Dionia was attacking, who dared to stop them! They took their families to escape to the mountains. Therefore, the coalition forces were not disturbed by any attack and successfully arrived at the city of Enona.
Enona was originally a medium city-state, but after being occupied by the Samones, most of the Samone tribes were unwilling to live on the beach. There were not many tribes moved here, but instead turned into a small city. However, the soldiers in the city were summoned to fight south and only fled back about one-third of the people. When they heard about the attack of the Dionian army, the whole city was frightened.
In the early days when the Samones occupied Enona, the troops of the Campanian League attacked many times, attempting to recapture Enona. The Samones in the city were defending the city while asking for help from the great leader of the Hilpini in the mountains, gathering troops to repel the Campanians. The Campanians returned many times because of this. As time went by, the Samones' power grew increasingly and threatened the core area of the Campanian League. The Campanian League headed by Napoli could not take care of itself, and there was no intention to regain the long-lost Enona. Therefore, the Enona territory had not been in war for decades, and they often crossed the mountains northward and raided the Campanians.
Now that Dionia's army is coming, the Enona people are uneasy to find that the city of Enona has not been repaired for many years, and the city defense is almost ruined. Samona's army suffered a crushing defeat and the mountains are in chaos. If you send people to the mountains for help, who can you find?!
The Enona people were panicked, and how could they give up their homeland that had been living for a hundred years? Just as they were hesitating, Alexis had arrived.
Instead of siegeing the city immediately, he calmly asked the troops to build camps and unloaded the baggage transported by the fleet moored on the nearby beaches.
Two days later, he inserted all the flags of the Samone tribe seized under the city of Enona, then concentrated crossbows, fired stone bullets together, knocked down a wooden whistle tower behind the city wall, causing a burst of exclamations in the city, and then sent people to shout under the city and ordered the other party to surrender.
After urgent consultation, the terrified Samonets said a senior elder's words were thought-provoking. He said: "For the people, the situation here has undergone tremendous changes. Abenirum, Beneventum, which has been severely damaged, will not be able to protect Enona outside the mountains for a long time. Enona, far from the mountains, is very susceptible to attack by the enemy. Even if the Dionians do not come to attack, the Campanians in the north and the Potentis in the south will come to take revenge when the tribes are declining. Enona will never have peace! It is better to take advantage of this war, which leads to a large reduction in the tribes in the mountains. When we move at this time, we can still have some good settlements for us to choose from..."
After fierce debate, his suggestion was finally recognized by most people, so the Enona soon sent an envoy out of the city to meet Alexis and said: The Enona are willing to sacrifice this city, as long as the Dionians can let the whole city leave safely.
Although Pollert had objections, Alexis accepted the proposal without hesitation. It was nothing to be able to obtain this highly strategic town without bloodshed, and to allow thousands of Samonets to leave with their belongings.
The Enona people passed through the heavily guarded coalition barracks with uneasy anxiety. The Third Corps strictly abides by the previous agreement and does not violate them, which makes Dionia's reputation of "keeping her promises" prove and spread again.
After the Third Legion successfully entered Enona, Alexis stopped military operations, but asked the mountain reconnaissance team to monitor the movements of the Rissamonet people in the mountains, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to seize the time to strengthen the city defense.
The war report of the army led by Davers defeating the Syracuse army in the battle came to Alexis even earlier than Puamot's news, after all, it was convenient to get the sea.
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