This is a leader who has close contact with Arconis. His questions make the anxious leaders focus their eager eyes on Arconis.

Arconis took the opportunity to take over the topic: "What should we do?! Of course, it is to call the soldiers, form a powerful force, declare war on Dionia, and take back everything we, the Sikels, have lost!"

The leaders were shocked again.

An old leader reminded: "Chief Arconis, don't forget that Dionysius, the powerful tyrant of Syracuse, ten years ago, was able to defeat the extremely powerful tyrant of Syracuse. The Kingdom of Dionyya will only be stronger now! Just how can we tribes fight against the powerful Kingdom of Dionyya!"

Some leaders were about to nod and agreed, and Arconis immediately said: "Who said we were fighting against Dionia alone! Behind us is the same powerful Carthage support!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the leaders were shocked.

However, Aconis held his head up, pulled out a letter from his arms, and handed it to a leader next to him. The other leaders came over without caring about their identities.

Ackles said loudly with some satisfaction: "The Carthaginians told us, 'As long as we rise up and resist Dionia, they will intervene in this war and fight for our Sikels'."

"The Carthaginians are just using us," said a leader.

"Carthy is using us, but we are using it too. Otherwise, Kefaroytion, how could it be so easy to be captured..." Arconis sneered.

Some leaders suddenly realized: It turned out that the Carthaginians had long been sponsoring the Tanikan tribe, otherwise this tribe that was almost abandoned by the Sikels had expanded into a powerful tribe in just a few years, making them feel scared.

"Okay, leaders, you all know the situation. Now it's time to take action!" Aconis looked around everyone and said in a stressful tone: "Go and call the soldiers of your tribe here to gather, and then we will attack Agilion together!"

Attack Agilion?! That is the largest town in Sikel, with many people and high walls, which is extremely difficult to attack! The leaders were all a little stunned.

But Arconis said respectfully to a middle-aged leader on the left side next to him: "Uncle Sicopus, do you think this is OK?"

"No problem. My tribe is ready. As long as your army attacks Agilion, they can cooperate with you immediately in the city."

Sicopus, the leader of the large tribe Trakle in the city of Agilion! Someone recognized him and his face changed slightly. Then he remembered: Aconis was the son of Agilis, the former king of Sicyel, and Agilion was the royal family of Sicyel at that time. Although Dionysius poisoned Agilis and destroyed the Kingdom of Sicyel, how could there be no supporters of Aconis in the city of Agilion!

"We will go back to the tribe immediately to summon the tribe members." The leaders with their own worries said one after another.

But Aconis said, "You don't have to go back and let your men go back to perform this task. I held a banquet in the city and invited all the leaders to attend."

The leaders' expressions changed: This is to coerce them to force them to take sides!

But when the fully armed soldiers rushed into the hall, most of the leaders obediently obediently. In the past few years, Aconis led his army to break through several towns and occupied many tribal settlements. The leaders who dared to resist died under his knife. Those who could live were cordyceps, helping him deceive Dionia. How dare he resist at this time?

At this moment, a guard hurried in and whispered a few words in Arconis's ear. He was still looking proudly at the embarrassment of the leaders, and he was stunned. It turned out that his subordinates told him: The Eighth Legion of Dionia suddenly entered Arguillion!

This sudden news disrupted his original plan, and he immediately discussed with Sicopus nervously.

Sicopus, who was a little arrogant just now, looked a little flustered, because at the same time, his confidant also reported to him that the city of Agilion was blocked and could not contact the tribes in the city.

After some intense discussions, Aconis immediately announced to the leaders: Let them send their subordinates back and speed up the summoning of the people. The troops must be brought to Kefaroy Tion tomorrow!

In order to appease the doubtful leaders, the banquet will continue.

But when the banquet lasted for several hours was about to end, the guard brought another bad news, which made the slightly drunk Aconis unable to control his emotions and broke the drinking pottery glass.

The news that "Dionia's Eighth Legion quickly captured Hena" made him confused and even more panicked the leaders. Several leaders from Hena cried bitterly, and the cheerful atmosphere of the whole banquet disappeared.

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Kerithops, who was already in his 50s, received a resolution from the Elders' Council, and then talked with Agsilous and rushed to the port of Gofian and took a passenger ship to Dionia.

The passenger ship drifted along the coast on the west side of the Peloponnese Peninsula for a night, and drove through the Adriatic Sea early the next morning, docking at the top of the "heel" of the Italian Peninsula. This is the city of Odrum, which belongs to the Kingdom of Dionia.

After a night of rest, Kelithops recovered his spirits and wandered around the port with leisure after getting ashore.

As a city-state of the Mesapi people, Odrum was rarely known to the Greeks, although he was lying on the Adriatic Sea, because the famous sea-trading cities of the Mesapi people were Brindisi and Mesani. Because the surrounding terrain was uneven and transportation was inconvenient, few Greek merchant ships were willing to stay here. It was not until after Dionia conquered the Mesapi area that the town gradually became famous.

Kelithops saw that there were many merchant ships moored in the port, and they were even crowded. The laborers were running back and forth on the docks and kept moving cargo. They seemed a little busy and sometimes made some mistakes. From time to time, the ship owners could be seen cursing next to them, and even caused some minor conflicts. So the patrol team kept maintaining order at the docks. Obviously, the Odrums had not fully adapted to such busy port affairs.

Kerithops also noticed that there were many Illyrians in the port. These unpopular barbaric races that were called "robbers" and "pirates" by the Greeks, which made Kerithops curious.

The city of Odrum is also quite lively. Gentiles, Cretans, Corinthians, Epiruses, and Kekiras can be seen everywhere on the streets... There are actually many merchants from the Peloponnese Peninsula here. However, Kerithops was not surprised. After all, the vast territory, a large population and a wealth of resources provided great business opportunities for Greek merchants. These greedy merchants flocked to them, and Odrum is the closest town of Dionys to Greece.

The most shops in the city are actually horse-drawn carriages. Kerithops understood it as soon as he thought about it: now Odrum has gradually formed a vague concept in the Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is the first town of Turiyi, the center of Dionia, or other places, and it is cheap to ride horse-drawn carriages here, probably because the Mesapi area is also rich in horses.

Kerithops hired one from the carriage house in the city and headed to Tarantum.

The coachman was a Mesapi man who stuttered Greek and was not very talkative, but he also gave a lot of information after Kerithops' intentional inquiry.

At first, when the Mesapis in Odrum was just annexed by Dionia, the Mesapis in Odrum resisted the rule of Dionia, and a relative of the coachman died in a riot. However, the sword spear of the Dionian soldiers made them suffer. The Odrum gradually changed their methods and chose to fight silently. Even if the Chief Executive of Odrum appointed by Dionia, Nico Marcus declared that "according to Dionia's decree, the tribes should be abolished and the Odrum's personal independence...", they were just skeptical, and were still waiting to see the jokes of the Dionians, because although the Odrum's people were few, according to the "Dionian Law" mentioned by Nico Marcus, if each person would be divided into five acres of land, the narrow and barren land of Odrum would be insufficient.

But the short-sighted Odrum people did not expect that the Chief Executive would really give them a share, and it was not the barren mountains, but the plain land not far from the Odrum people. Those lands used to belong to other city-states, but now under the governance of the unified Kingdom of Dionya, they belong to Odrum. The Odrum people felt the benefits of joining Dionya for the first time.

Then, the second benefit came one after another, "All Mesapi people who became citizens of Dionia will be exempted from tax for two consecutive years!" In addition, Chief Executive Nico Marcus also told them, "Don't worry about all those who cannot farm. The Ministry of Agriculture will send special personnel to teach them that if anyone has insufficient labor in their family, they can also go to the newly established Cristoya Bank in the city to go to Tarantum to buy slaves with experience in farmland cultivation."

Tarantum, that is the mortal enemy of the Mesapi people. When both sides meet, they can only kill to the death. Now they are under the rule of Dionia (the Mesapi people do not understand the meaning of "Free City" and think Tarantum has been completely incorporated into Dionia)!

The brave Odrum people really went to Kristoya Bank to get a loan, and then went to Tarantum. Although the Tarantum people glared at them and even cursed them, few people came forward to attack. The patrol team nervously protected their safety. In the end, these people successfully bought slaves. After the incident spread, the people in the whole town were sensational: That's Tarantum! The city that the Mesapi people have been trying to seize for a hundred years, so they easily let them go into the city for a walk?!!
Chapter completed!