After crossing the Salachino River, Davers clearly felt that the terrain was rising, and the mountains and coasts were parallel to the north, but the distance between them was shortened a lot. The narrow space increased the safety of Davers' trip, but he did not take it lightly, allowing Asisters and Rides to serve as the scouts on the left wing of the team, closely monitoring the situation in the mountains, preventing the enemy from detouring from the mountains, and tracing their retreat.

On the way down the road, Davers did not see the coast with soft beaches. Instead, they were steep rock walls and rugged reefs. The sea water beat the coast rhythmically, and the momentum was quite amazing.

It seems that there is no port for Amendolar. Davers thought to himself, and a sense of loss arose from the bottom of his heart.

At this time, the guide shouted, "Look, that's Amendolar."

Following the direction of his finger, a city in the distance appeared and appeared in a flash.

Davers was excited and squeezed the horse's belly hard, rushed forward for a while, and then the soldiers quickly caught up.

Now he saw clearly: Amendorara is actually a mountain city, which is inconsistent with the Greek tradition! It was built on a mountain and looks quite high, facing the east, overlooking the Bay of Taranto. The morning mist in the forest filled it around it, looking faintly.

To see more clearly, Davers continued to move forward.

The guide followed closely because the city of Amendolar was less than a mile away. Although he had never seen the Lucanians before, it did not mean that when he arrived at his doorstep, the Lucanians would not come out to "welcome"!

At this time, another river blocked the way. The width of the river surface was less than ten meters. The clear river water could see the bottom of the river clearly, and there was no problem with the steps.

"This is the Sisno River. There is a river called the Burano River not far north. Amendorara is between the two rivers. Let's get here, we can't cross the river anymore." The guide begged.

Davers couldn't help but sigh: The water resources on the Apennine Peninsula are so rich! No wonder the citizens of Greater Greece are more nourishing than the native Greeks. The snow in the Apennines melted and eventually formed a river. The river washed the soil and rocks on the mountains to the lowlands. Year after year, can the land not be fertile? Compared with the gravel land in Greece, one is the sky and the other is the earth! The plain area is too narrow.

During the war, mountain cities were generally easy to defend and difficult to attack, but they needed to solve two problems, food and water. Since Amendolar was surrounded by rivers, it would be no problem to come...Davs thought while observing the city of Amendolar not far away: The city looked small, at least more than 100 meters above the ground, but the slope was gentle, and there was a stone wall surrounding the outer edge of the city...

Seeing that Davers was neither far from the river, he did not leave, he stood by the river and looked at Amendorala repeatedly. He was a little anxious and was about to urge him again.

Davers asked, "What is the relationship between Amendorala and Turiy? The city built by Turiy's immigrants?"

This guide is not an ordinary slave. As a slave of his family, he has been with Burkos since he was a child and has been studying and playing together. When he grew up, he followed Burkos around and doing business. As an important assistant to Burkos, he was knowledgeable. In fact, Bulkos was able to send him as a guide because of his guilt in breaking his promise. Therefore, he thought about Davers's very profound historical issue and answered: "It is said that the city of Amendorala was built by the indigenous people here for a long time. Later, the people of Xubaris occupied it. After Crotone destroyed Hubaris, he did not capture it... After Turiy was established, it took the initiative to form an alliance with Turiy, and once with Turiy to resist the attack of Tarantum in the north..."

Alliance? Looking at the small city of Amendorala and thinking about the size of Turiyi, it is obvious that the two are not the same size. It is probably difficult to get equal dialogue, that is, the nominal alliance and the actual vassal. However, as long as it is not Turiyi's colonial city, Davers breathed a sigh of relief.

He has been in this era for more than half a year and has specially learned a lot about the actual situation of Greek city-states, completely reversing the concept that the city-state was just a city in his previous life. After the Greeks established a city, they would try their best to expand outward, establish villages and towns, and incorporate the surrounding land under control. When the land exceeds the direct control of the city due to distance, they would establish colonial cities or capture other people's cities, one to continue to maintain the expansion momentum, and the other to provide protection for the surroundings of the main city.

At the beginning, this kind of colonial city followed the orders of the mother state. After all, the citizens of the colonial city moved from the mother state, and even the consuls might be assigned by the mother state. Over time, the Greeks' nature of loving independence and freedom came into effect. In addition, the Greek city-state politics was a closed political management model, which naturally refused to unify, so they became independent one after another. However, due to geographical proximity and blood closeness, as long as the mother state still maintains the advantage of strength and does not overpower these neighbors, they will form a natural alliance with the mother state dominated by the mother state. However, if the colonial city and the mother state are separated by the ocean or too far away, decades have passed, due to the alienation of relations, it is very likely that they will become two different city states from the mother state, and may even be enemies of each other, such as Corinth and Kokira.

Obviously, Amendorara was a colonial city of Sobaris, and for Turiy it was just an affiliated ally, so the land here did not belong to Turiy... Davers thought to himself and asked again: "How did the Lucanians conquer this city?"

"I don't know much about this. It seems that few Amendorala citizens escaped... At that time, Turiyi was in the tragic defeat of the entire army and countless citizens were killed. He was busy defending against the Lucanian attacks, ignoring the Amendorala citizens' request for help. Later, I don't know where they went?..." The guide said indifferently, but Davers kept it seriously in his heart.

At this time, Ascesters shouted: "Chief, someone has come out of the city!"

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Vesba, the leader of the Lucanians in Amendorara, had been a little annoyed during this period because the city of Grummentum sent an envoy to lead the tribe to participate in the second attack on Turiyi that was about to begin in the Lucanian tribe alliance.

The tribe to which Vespa belonged originally lived on the upper reaches of the Agri River in the southeast of Grummentum. There were many tribal settlements there. Vespa's tribe is the largest, and has been living by grazing and simple agricultural planting. For decades, it has been peaceful with the surrounding tribes. But the previous year, since the marriage and alliance between Grummentum and Picoses, the already powerful Grumtum has become stronger. They no longer care about the checks and balances of the same powerful city of Potendia in the northwest.

It began to expand greatly, attack and incorporate the settlements and villages of small tribes around it. Under the pressure of Grummentum's army, the Weisba tribe was unwilling to be annexed, so it had to flee southeast and hide in the forest at the junction of Amendolar and the western mountainous areas of Heraclia. Due to hunger and disease, tribesmen continued to die, including Vesba's two sons. Just when Vesba could hardly hold on and wanted to surrender to Grummentum in order to survive, he heard a news.

Since its expansion, Grummentum's population has increased significantly and its military strength has increased sharply, but at the same time it brought a problem - food. Originally, the Lucanian mountainous areas were not abundant, and they rely more on grazing, and grazing also depended on the weather for food. The winter of the previous year was much colder than in previous years, and a large number of livestock froze to death, which made food a major problem for whether Grummentum could maintain his hegemony in southern Lukaria. So, last winter, Grummentum joined forces with Pikosis and led a large army to join forces from tribal cities such as Niutum, Rauss, who recognized his status as leader, and prepared to attack Turiyi.

Weisba started to think about it. He wanted to take advantage of the war between the two sides to take advantage of the chaos so that the tribe could get rid of the danger of destruction. So he mobilized the entire tribe to build rafts, store food, and prepare to go east to rob.

Just then, he heard good news: Turiyi launched a 10,000 army to attack Laus, but the entire army was wiped out.

Vespa was overjoyed and thought that the opportunity had come, so he immediately ordered the whole clan to take a raft, go down the river, cross the dangerous shoals, and finally enter the territory of Amendorala.

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Chapter completed!