Giogris brought four heavy infantry brigades, a light infantry brigade. He allowed 4,000 heavy infantrymen to quickly form an arc of defense line in the gap in the city wall, like a tough fishing net to cover the Roman soldiers rushing into the gap.

As more and more Roman soldiers rushed into the defense circle, the space was squeezed, and the number of people became increasingly dense, which was conducive to the attack of the defenders on the city.

Especially when cans of asphalt were smashed down, many Roman soldiers struggled in the flames. A day ago, the tragic phenomenon at the gap in the western city wall of Rome reappeared again, but this time the roles were exchanged.

In addition, there was a powerful attack from the Fifth Legion soldiers on the front, the organization was chaotic and extremely tired Roman soldiers were finally overwhelmed by fear and they were defeated.

After receiving the news from his subordinates, Titus felt extremely unwilling and painful, he still issued an order to retreat to avoid being attacked by the enemy along the city wall, which would lead to heavier losses.

In fact, the soldiers of the Fifth Legion rushed out of the city wall and continued to pursue, but were counterattacked by the Etruscan coalition forces arranged in military formations.

Although he was intercepted, the attacks of the Etrusian soldiers were not strong and did not cause any damage to the soldiers of the Fifth Legion. After receiving the news, the cautious Giocles immediately ordered the troops to stop pursuing. Because the situation outside the city in the darkness was unknown, he was afraid of being ambushed by the Romans again, especially the prince Crotokataks in the team. Although this young man with a noble identity was very sensible and always obeyed the orders, he always fought behind the team and did not cause trouble for Giocles, but he was not afraid of ten thousand, but he was afraid that if, Giocles eventually withdrew the pursuing troops back to the city.

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Not long after the battle of Ostia ended, the next morning came. The town hall of Rome held a gathering of people in the square according to Davers' proposal.

Davers commended the bravery of Roman civilian soldiers led by Sextus for leaving the Roman army and surrendering to Dionia, especially using more places to reward them, which aroused the enthusiasm of the people to join Dionia and wanted to make contributions to Dionia, and of course, deepened the resentment of the noble family towards the Roman civilians.

During the rally, Davers received a report from the defenders on the city: there were abnormal movements in the Roman camp outside the city, and there seemed to be signs of withdrawal.

Although the movements of the Roman army outside the city were a key issue for Davers, he believed that it was more important to accelerate the return of the civilians in the city of Rome, so he insisted on holding the rally before reaching the south city.

It was noon at this time. Most of the camps built by the Roman army yesterday had been demolished, and there were almost no figures walking around.

According to the soldiers' reports, there were always noises in the camp ahead throughout the morning, and even fighting sounds were heard.

According to the news sent back by the detective cavalry, the Roman army was divided into several routes and slowly marched to the west.

Amintas, Matonis and several other legion commanders demanded that the enemy should take advantage of the situation of retreating and people's hearts being flustered, and even force the enemy to promote the guild war.

After careful consideration, Davers did not adopt this proposal because he did not think that Camillus would be careless when the army retreated, and he did not want the various legions that had just experienced the war to fight against the Roman army, which had been divided into many troops and had greatly weakened. After all, the Romans, as the mourning soldiers, were likely to burst out with strong combat power, causing huge losses to the Dionian army.

However, Davers recruited Sextus, the new captain of the Roman reserve team, and asked him to select Roman soldiers with good riding skills, ride horses collected from the city, and follow the cavalry army out of the city to perform special tasks.

After this order was issued, Davers needed to hold an urgent military meeting to discuss the issue of "large-scale reinforcements of Ostia" with Tornides, Printols, and the commanders of the Legion, because from the direction of the Roman army's march, their target was undoubtedly the small town at the mouth of the Tiber River.

At the same time, not far from the west of the city of Rome, two cavalry corps caught up with the moving Roman army, luring more than 1,000 Roman cavalry responsible for flanking protection, and then Sextus led dozens of civilians who were eager to make new contributions to the vicinity of the Roman army.

Then, the Roman soldiers were surprised to see these enemies dressed in Roman soldiers, and rode their horses within twenty or thirty meters away from them, and then began to shout: "Citizens of Rome, I am Sextus (I am ###), who used to be a Roman civilian, but now he has joined the Kingdom of Dionia, why should he join them?! Because the Kingdom of Dionia allocated me more, better Roman land, more luxurious and spacious residences, and more equal rights, and these were originally belonged to the Roman nobles, and now all belong to us!

Civilian soldiers, don’t hesitate, hurry up and leave this army without hope, join us! Join Dionia! You will get everything you longed for before! You will also reunite with your family smoothly! Don’t hesitate! Leave quickly..."

Sextus's shouts stirred up trouble among the Roman soldiers...

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In the residence of the leader of Abenirum, Gerny sat in the living room. His expression was calm, but he no longer had the worries of the previous few days, and his eyes were staring outside the door with bright eyes.

Not long after, several subordinates he trusted arrived one after another.

"I have decided to send envoys to the Hilpini tribes in other regions in accordance with the request of the Dionian messenger!"

Hearing this, everyone else understood that Gelny said he was sending an envoy, but in fact he sent people to sneak into other areas of Hilpini to spread the words of accusation that "Lesguk, disregarding his faith, rashly tore up the covenant and launching a war against Dionia without authorization, resulting in heavy losses from the tribes and demanding that they be punished for it." At the same time, he publicized the "Gelny leader of Abenirum can help the tribes redeem their captured people from Dionia."

After all, according to the previous decision of the Hillpini Tribal Alliance meeting, Abenirum has been excluded from the Hilpini Tribal Alliance, and any Hillpini tribe is prohibited from interacting with them.

"Great, leader! We have been waiting for you to make this decision!" Tatoni shouted excitedly: "We have been frustrated for this period. The Kauteni, Penteni, and the Kalacheni tribe frequently send envoys to warn us not to mess around during the war! Bah, now it's time for these guys who oppress us to taste the anger of the Abeniroma!"

"Chief, we should not wait quietly for the end of this war. Although the Samone priests sent people several times to say, 'As long as we support Lesguk, we will not pursue any previous mistakes'. However, everyone understands that as long as they win in this war, without the obstruction of the Dionians, Lesguk will definitely use force against us! For our safety, we must seize the favorable opportunity now and give them a blow first!" Meoni also expressed support for Geerny's decision.

"I certainly understand Lesguk's conspiracy and our current sinister situation." Gelny sighed: "The reason I hesitated before was to consider that if we did this, we might not only have a war with Lesguk, but also worsen our relations with other tribes and priests, and trigger a greater war."

Tatoni shouted again: "Are we good relations with other tribes and priests now?! Leader, do you remember that you were almost united by them to demand sanctions at the tribal priesthood conference a few years ago? If a war broke out, they could be wiped out, and then... Then you will be the first big leader of the entire Samonet!"

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the people in the living room changed.

Gelny glared at him: "Don't talk nonsense! With our strength, it's difficult to defeat Lesguk, let alone other tribes. All we have to do now is to provide help to Dionia in order to repay Dionia's help to us!" To be honest, Gelny envies Tatoni for doing things directly and having the style of his youth, but since he became the leader, he has suffered many setbacks and has many problems to consider for the better survival of the people. It is impossible to do whatever he wants.

Gerney's eyes swept across the faces of everyone in the hall, and they all showed a resurgence that burst out after being suppressed. He took a deep breath and said loudly: "Since you all agree with me, then we need to reconsider the relationship between Abenirum and Dionia. You all know that King Davers once suggested to me a few years ago, 'Let Abenirum become a free city like Potendia', and I did not agree at the time.

And now, if we carry out the plan of Dionia, it means we will be enemies with Beneventum and other Samonet tribes, which will be an extremely difficult war! We need to get the full support of Dionia to win, so I decided to let Abenirum join Dionia and become the free city in this kingdom!”

As he said that, the hall became silent.

This aggravated Gelny's concerns. He coughed dryly and said hurriedly: "If you don't agree-"

"Ha! Ha! Ha!..." Tatoni laughed: "Chief, you finally made this decision, and we are relieved! When I participated in the Rugby Finals in Dionia last year, the Gera players who played against us asked me strangely, 'You Abenirum and Potendia are both free cities in Dionia. Why can Potendia players speak Greek, but most of you don't know?' Now some city-states and forces regard us as part of Dionia, and they are quite envious of us, but this often makes us feel embarrassed because we are not, and we can finally feel relieved now!"
Chapter completed!