Katemantaros's words were recognized by everyone. After discussion, everyone decided to send 10,000 people to assist the Hilnikis in defending the city of Firentirum.

Ten thousand soldiers - this is the largest force that the Volseys can send. After these 10,000 people left, Volsey's territory must be empty in defense, so they entrusted the important task of defending Volsey's territory to Amintas, which shows that the bloody battle before the First Legion of Dionia had won the full trust of the Volseys.

The Hilniki messenger, who was hinted by the Volsi, found Amintas in private, hoping to form an alliance with Dionia and obtain support from this southern power.

Tapirus, who has been authorized by King Davers, took over the negotiations.

Under the pressure of the situation, the Helniki people quickly drafted a draft alliance with Dionia. However, Tapirus reminded the other party: Due to food shortage, Dionia could not send troops to support Henniki in a short period of time.

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The news that "Carthage's army landed in Sicily and attacked the Territory of Dionia" also reached the Samone Mountains, and the Samone Tribal Alliance was also very energetic.

Although Lesguk believes that the war in Sicily has just begun and the situation is still unclear, we should wait and see...

However, the leaders of several other tribes could no longer wait, and finally passed the decision to "send troops to Dionia" at the meeting, but some disputes arose in the direction of the attack.

The Usibik leader who represented Kauteni at the meeting insisted that the Campania region should be attacked, attacked the weaker Campania Alliance, and rescued the captured 2,000 more than 2,000 Kauteni soldiers, thereby enhancing the strength of the Samone coalition.

Lesguk expressed his opposition to this. He believed that the Samonet tribe alliance sent troops this time was a declaration of war on Dionia. Therefore, Samonet's biggest enemy was the Kingdom of Dionia. How to attack the Dionians to the greatest extent, weaken Dionia's strength, and make it fail in this huge war and unable to fight back against the Samonets is the primary issue that the great leaders should consider.

Then, facing Usipik's angry gaze, Lesguk said loudly: "My suggestion is to attack the Doni region!"

After saying that, he analyzed calmly: "First of all, the Doni area is adjacent to Kauteni and Pentney's tribes, which makes it easier for us to send troops. You must know that this time we will never have few soldiers. Food consumption will be a big problem. The close distance means less consumption on the road. The large area bordering Doni and us means that we will attack more places, which will make the people of Dionia unable to defend..."

The Grand Chief of Pentney Badani and the Grand Chief of Caracheni Contruk nodded thoughtfully.

"Secondly, the Dooni area is an area that the Dionians had just occupied two years ago. As far as I know, the Dooni has not completely joined the Dionia, and the Dionian army in the Doori area has just been formed, so our offense will be easier and may even cause chaos in this area.

Moreover, now the Dionians are fighting with the Romans because the Volsi are fighting, and as the war between the two sides expands, Dionia is likely to send additional reinforcements. If we attack Campania, it is very convenient for Dionia to mobilize troops nearby, and when we attack Doni, Dionia faces the difficulty of choosing: Should we rescue the Volsi or Doni?"

"Is that needless to say, the Dionians will definitely send a large army to rescue Doni! We are helping Rome, but we have attracted a large army for ourselves!" Usipic questioned angrily.

"What does that matter? Let's go back to the mountains. It's very convenient anyway." Lesguk said with a smile: "But for the Dionians, it's inconvenient to mobilize the army back and forth. This will provide the Romans with more time to destroy the Wolseys. When the Romans completely conquered the Latinum region, we can even make way for them to facilitate their attack on Campania..."

"Will the Romans listen to you like this?" Usipic sneered.

"As long as the Romans do not want to be retaliated by Dionys in the future, they must take advantage of the current attack. I heard that the newly elected dictator Camillus is a smart man." The martyr customer said patiently: "Once Dionys' army is transferred to deal with the Romans and Carthaginians, we can attack Doni again, and even attack Pucheti to the south, and—"

Lesguk looked at Usipik and said seriously: "We should capture as many prisoners as possible in Dorni, and then ask the Dionians for exchange of the captured Kautini warriors."

Usipic's eyes lit up and he asked anxiously: "Will the Dionians agree?!"

"Based on Davers' past treatment of his people, he would probably agree! And if he wants to get the complete support of the Dornis, he must also agree!" Lesguk said affirmatively.

At this time, Contruk asked: "Why don't you attack the Potendia area first to regain the land you Hilpini lost (referring to Capsa)?"

Lesguk was prepared for it. He said: "The mountain roads in the Potendia region are rugged. It will take longer to completely capture it. It is enough for the Dionians to mobilize the army to counterattack. The failure of the old leader Veroni was a lesson. What's more, before Abenirum stood in the Potendia region, our army had to pass through it, which would inevitably cause a strong reaction from Gerny and would likely trigger a war, which would violate the ancient traditions of the Samonets!"

Lesguk made the conservative Contruk nodded repeatedly. He finally said: "Originally this was a matter within your Shilpini tribe, but now Gelny has become an important issue that seriously affects the survival of our entire Samonets. So I suggest that when this war is over, the entire alliance will do its best to force the tribes of Abenirum to expel Gelny, and you will send a new leader. If the tribes of Abenirum refuse to execute, we will pray to the god Samonets and announce that they will not recognize the Abenirum as the Samonets and launch a war against them!"

"I agree with this proposal too!" Usipic immediately agreed.

Immediately, Badani nodded in agreement.

Lesguk hurriedly expressed his gratitude and breathed a sigh of relief: the thorn in his throat was finally about to be removed.

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In the military conference room of the Dionia Palace, Davers and several major military officers have studied the ongoing war here for several days.

Chief of Staff Phyllissius stood in the middle of the conference room, leaning against the huge topographic map of the Italian Peninsula and Sicily, and used a wooden stick to hold Minoa's position. He explained: "Your Majesty, Sicily Commander Prosous wrote a letter to say that he will lead 15,000 soldiers, joining the civilians of friendly city-states, take the initiative to attack Minoa and face the main forces of Carthage. After our analysis, he has a high chance of winning."

"Prosous is very brave and determined, so let him let it go." Davers nodded in appreciation. He had already understood the situation and said jokingly: "I'm afraid the actions of the Eighth Legion have stimulated Seclian."

"Yes, your Majesty. First and Second Fleet's Clippers have explored the south and north coasts of Sicily many times, but they have not found any trace of the enemy fleet, which has made Lord Seclian's desire to fight the Carthage fleet fail to come true." Phyllisius replied.

Davers frowned, bent down to look down at the entire map, and said in contemplation: "The strength of Carthage's naval forces is not much different from ours, and we have never fought with us. According to the principle, it is impossible to avoid war... Be careful, the Carthage's navy bypasses Sicily and raids the coast of Italy!"

"Our General Staff also has this consideration. It has notified the Third and Fourth Fleets to be vigilant, and the merchant ships traveling from various ports have not reported that there have been traces of the Carthage Fleet." Thormid said.

"Continue to investigate carefully and don't relax your vigilance. Also remind Seclian not to be too aggressive. First, ensure the victory of the battle between the Eighth Legion and the Carthage Army!" Davers warned.

"Okay, your majesty, I will send the Clippers to notify Secorian immediately." Phyllisius responded.

Davers turned to look at the quarantine chief Alpuens: "Can the food supply to the Sicilian fleet still be able to cope with?"

"Your Majesty, if there is the food transported by Egypt, Katanai also bears part of it...it can barely last for about 20 days." Alpuens answered seriously word by word.

The original commander of the 11th Army was Cappus, but due to the new construction of the 11th Army in the Doony area, and the bad relationship between the Dionia and the Samonets this year, the Doony area urgently needed a general with high prestige, rich battlefield experience and strong administrative capabilities to sit in the formation. Davers thought about it and finally chose Cappus to temporarily serve as the commander of the 11th Army. He was renamed from the commander of the 11th Army. In fact, he was demoted. Therefore, Davers did not let him get rid of the position of the commander of the 20th Army. But now during the war, the position of the commander of the 20th Army was crucial. Not only did someone do this job, but he also had to do it well. So Cappus recommended his assistant Alpuens to act as an agent.

As a senior team officer who also followed Davers back from Persia, Alpunes, compared with his other colleagues, was always in the Senate or in the Legion. After the Southern Italian War, after he was transferred to the Military Affairs Department as the captain of the light infantry, he quickly gained a foothold with his diligent and down-to-earth work style and won the attention of several chief officials.
Chapter completed!