Chapter 36 The Opening Ceremony of the Dionysian Rugby Finals (3)
Since entering the city of Turiyi, these Samonet players have begun to restrain their usual rough style, because this huge and prosperous city shocked them. After entering the arena, the cheers of tens of thousands of spectators were an invisible pressure, which made them feel helpless and even their walking posture became restrained.
"Look, that's the Chief Gelny!" Meoni discovered the Chief Abenirum who was standing in the audience waving his arms and shouting, and he was immediately surprised.
The players immediately responded enthusiastically, which made them feel a lot more relaxed.
When they passed by the rostrum, they received another surprise.
"Father, look! What I passed by is the team of the Samones I was responsible for receiving before!" Crotokataks pointed to the team walking on the track and shouted excitedly.
Before Davers could speak, Cristoya next to him opened her eyes wide and then interrupted, "Your father always says that Samonet is not easy to mess with, and I don't think they have anything special."
Indeed, the Samone players who entered the arena for the first time seemed to be frustrated in the face of thousands of spectators.
"Abenirum!..." Davers was very clear about the origin of this team. He said slowly: "Isn't this a good thing?"
Cristoya is not an ordinary woman. She quickly understood what her husband meant, so she said, "It's a pity that there is only one Abenirum."
"This is a good start!" Davers smiled slightly.
Agents didn't care what her husband and Cristoya were saying. She was the only family who was not very interested in rugby games. The reason why she attended the opening ceremony was the needs of the people of the Dionians and the children's demands. The people wanted to see the King's family attending the most important celebration of the Kingdom. This was almost a common practice. The harmony of the King's family is the example of the civic family. The children liked the lively atmosphere of watching the game together, including her introverted and shy daughter, Avia.
"My mother is right. The Samonets are like clumsy kingdom slaves, nothing scary. It's our Zerias the most dazzling. He will definitely get many touchdowns in this finals!" Briantes said loudly. Zerias is the main wide receiver of the offensive team of Turi's team. He is famous for his superb ball-catching skills and wind-like speed in the finals.
"I think quarterback Sado Casius is the most powerful. It's because of his calm mind, clever formation and accurate passes that can make Zerias get so many touchdowns."
Apox's words made his younger brother unsatisfied, and the two began to argue.
Cynthia took a photo of her two younger brothers' heads and reminded her: "Stop quarreling, you have influenced others to watch the opening ceremony, hurry up and calm down!"
The elder sister's words really worked. The two of them stared at each other, but quietly sat back to their original position.
"If Brother Adoris was still in Turiyi, he would definitely be the team's substitute and appear there." Eunice pointed to Turiyi's team who was already standing in the stadium and said.
Little Aviya nodded repeatedly, but Cynthia was stunned, and then a trace of worry appeared on her pretty face.
Davers laughed and said, "You don't know your brother Adoris, he wants to appear in triumph more than appearing in Hades Arena."
"I also hope to become a hero in triumph when I grow up!" Briantes shouted immediately.
"Father." Crotokatakus glanced at Cynthia and asked, "How is the war between us and the Donis going?"
"Since defeating Doney's main force in the decisive battle of the Ofanto River, our troops have never encountered strong resistance from the enemy. Don't worry, you can see your elder brother again within two months!" Davers said with a relaxed expression, and his words also restored Cynthia's smile.
Behind the side and back of the Davers family, several veterans of Lucania sat. When they saw the Samonet team passing by the rostrum, Vesba, who was already in an old state, couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that even the Samonet people who were as fierce as wolves would be tamed by our kingdom!"
Polet, the great leader of Pottentiya next to him, smiled and said, "It's not so easy to tame the evil wolf! It's just Abenirum, a town that is about to be abandoned by the Samones!"
"Abenirum was abandoned by the Samones, why?" Hemon asked curiously.
Pollet subconsciously touched the cheeks covered with his whiskers with his hand. There was a long scar on it, which brought his thoughts back to the past: "Ten years ago, the Samones invaded Pottentier on a large scale. If His Majesty had not led his army to rescue him in time, Pottentier might have stopped being overwhelmed..."
Pohlert's favor for the Dionys was doubled in the process of fighting against the Samonets side by side with the soldiers of the Dionysian Legion. After the Southern Italian War, he visited Turiy many times, and persuaded Puamot to incorporate Pottenti into Dionys, becoming the "free city" of his kingdom. Three years ago, Puamot even gave up the position of the great leader to Pohlert, who had a close relationship with Dionysians on the grounds of "injury of good health". After taking over the affairs of the territory, Pohlert also had a better understanding of the situation of this evil neighbor in the north.
"The Samonets suffered a crushing defeat, nearly 10,000 soldiers were captured, and the troops of more than 40,000 people finally escaped a few thousand. As the initiator of this war, the great leader of Hilpini, the controller of Abenirum, Veroni, of course, had to bear responsibility for this failure. Although the Samonets who fled back at that time did not know that Vilpini had died in battle, the Hilpini people who lost their relatives and hated Vilpini quickly held a tribal meeting, dismissed the position of Vilpini's great leader and elected Lesguk of Beneventum as the new Hilpini..."
Speaking of this, Pollet sighed and said regretfully: "At that time, it was said that the number of soldiers pieced together by the four major tribes of the Samonets was less than 10,000, and they were unable to fight again. Moreover, the Samonets heard that Dionia captured many Samonet soldiers, so they demanded a truce to negotiate peace. Alas... In fact, we had to be tougher at that time and continue to attack the northern mountainous areas. Hilpini would definitely be exterminated, and Penteney and Kauteni would never have a good time!"
"There is no other way. At that time, we were resisting the invasion of the Syracuse army. After defeating Dionysius, the gold, silver and food in the treasury were almost exhausted, and it was impossible to organize another army to launch an attack on the Samone Mountains." Vespa explained, and he had another reason not to say: after the victory of the Southern Italian War, Greater Greece and Sicily had enough land and wealth waiting for the citizens of Dionys to divide it up. They even thought that the population was too small to occupy more spare land, so how could they covet the barren mountainous areas of Samonet? What's more, once they attacked the Samones' lair, even if it had been weakened a lot, the intensity of resistance and casualties encountered by the Dionys' legion would definitely rise sharply, which was not what the Senate and the people expected.
Pollet probably realized this. He just complained casually and continued: "After the Dionys signed the alliance agreement with Hilpini, Penteney, and Kauteni, they began to release the captives of Samonet one after another. You should know that Gerny, the son of the former leader of Hilpini, was also captured by us. The tribe he was in was originally the large tribe of Hilpini, and there were quite a few captured tribe warriors. His Majesty was the last one to release them. As a result, guess what happened?"
"I remember it seemed that there was a fierce conflict in Abenirum. That Gelny even asked us Dionia for help, and His Majesty supported him..." Hemon recalled.
"Severe conflict?!" Pollet smiled and said, "As the initiator of that war, Veroni, in order to set an example, sent almost all the men who could fight in the entire Abenirum area to the battlefield. Of course, his soldiers were the most casualties. After Lesguk became the leader of Shirpini, he saw that most of the Abenirum territory were old, young, women and children, lacking labor, and Abenirum was closest to Pottentiya, so he let a tribe in the south of Beneventum move to Abenirum, and the leader of this tribe became the leader of Abenirum territory. At that time, the Abenirum people did not strongly oppose it in order to survive.
But two years later, when Gelny returned to his hometown with the once captured Abenirum warriors, he saw that his land was occupied by other tribesmen, his wife remarried, and his children recognized others as fathers, and naturally conflict broke out. In order to safeguard his authority and the interests of his tribe, the new leader of Abenirum made a wrong decision, and wanted to expel Gelny and his relatives from Abenirum on the grounds that "the Veroni and his son started wars randomly, bringing disaster to the tribe." This aroused the anger of the released Abenirum warriors, because during the two years of serving in the kingdom, they had completely regarded Gelny as the leader.
Seeing that Abenirum was in danger of fighting, the new leader had to ask for the support of the great leader of Hilpini, Lesguk. Lesguk quickly led thousands of soldiers to arrive and stayed in Dionia for two years. Gelny, who had a good relationship with us, immediately felt that the situation was not good and turned to us for help. His Majesty decisively sent an envoy to intervene in the dispute in Abenirum, which led Lesguk to hold a national assembly and decide whether to expel Gelny. On the contrary, the proposal made by our envoy to make Abenirum re-elect the leader was implemented, and Gelny became the leader of Abenirum..."
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