After summoning Publius, Davers held a military meeting. After discussion with the generals, he determined the strategy of attacking the Latinum region with "first east and then west, and combining the fight and talk".

The city of Fidene is located on the upper reaches of the Tiber River, only about thirteen miles away from the city of Rome, but it is a town established by the Etruscans. It is not large in size but spans both sides of the Tiber River. During the period of Rome's gradual rise, it was the main bridge for the Etruscans to step on the southern bank of the Tiber River. In particular, the city of Ville is very close to Fidene, and has repeatedly invaded Rome through it.

For this reason, for decades, the Romans and Viagra repeatedly competed for this small town. In the end, the Romans turned Philipine into its colony and made it a front base for Roman attack Viagra. Viagra gradually became the defensive and was eventually occupied by Rome.

Because Philipine, who became a Roman colonial city, was too close to the city of Rome, most of its fertile riverside land was assigned to Rome, making the small city less inhabited than before.

When Rome was captured by the Dionys, the Roman people living in Philipine were extremely frightened, but for several days, there was no movement in the city of Rome. In addition, Camillus led the army back, which made the Philipines relieved. But soon the Roman army moved westward, and soon Viae suddenly fell, which made the Philipines terrified again.

A few days later, the Etruscan-Roman colonial coalition arrived, including the citizens who had been recruited by Philipine before. The people just breathed a sigh of relief, and the coalition forces crossing the river were defeated. The people of Philipine witnessed the large group of Dionian cavalry on the top of the city and chased the fugitive Roman soldiers along the river bank. Many people knelt on the ground and surrendered, and some jumped directly into the Tiber River and were swallowed by the river in a blink of an eye...

Although the winning army of Dionys did not take advantage of the situation to attack Philipina, and the surrounding areas of Philipina returned to peace in the following days, the Philipinas, who were frightened by the tragedy of that day, no longer thought they were safe. Many people strongly called for escape from this dangerous place, to escape to the Latin allies to the south, or to look for Camillus.

However, the hometown is hard to leave, and the whole city has been arguing for several days, but still cannot make a decision.

Early this morning, the sleepy sentry of the Fedinai climbed to the city, and they were stunned: dust and smoke were rolling in the distance, and a black crowd was rushing towards Fedinai...

"The enemy is coming! The Dionians are coming!!!..." The alarm bells in the city kept ringing, and the people panic.

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Early the morning after the military meeting ended, Davers sent a large army to attack Philipine.

Most of the Third Legion and the Roman Reserve advance east along the north bank of the Taibo River. The Second Legion, the Sixth Legion, the Lucanian Reserve, the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade, the First Cavalry Corps, and a 500-person engineering team advanced east along the south bank of the Taibo River, with a total of more than 30,000 people. They attacked the city of Fidena from both south and north at the same time.

The reason why Davers used such a huge force to attack a small city with less than a thousand troops in the defensive city was that he did not care whether he used a ox to kill the chicken. He hoped to use a rapid offensive to defeat more enemies in a short period of time, shock the Latin city-state, and create a more favorable situation for himself.

In order to stabilize the order in Rome, Davers did not lead the army personally, just like last time, but he appointed the interim commander-General, but this person was not expected by the generals - Printols, the staff officer of the Military Affairs Department.

When the candidate was announced, since the First Legion did not go to fight, the Third Legion Commander Lizaru and Printoles had a good relationship, and only the Second Legion Commander Matonis raised objections: "Printoles has never personally commanded the army to fight and has no experience as a commander..."

But under Davers' insistence, Matonis, who was accustomed to obeying Davers' orders, had to accept it reluctantly.

30,000 people attacked a small town with less than 1,000 defenders, and the terrain of this small town is flat, so it seems to be easy to capture it.

But in fact, this is not the case, because for decades, Philipine, as the strategic point of the competition between Rome and Viagra, has evolved into a small military fortress, with high and thick walls and moats, which are easy to defend but not conducive to attack. Moreover, according to the formulated offensive plan, the troops on the expedition must seize the city as quickly as possible, and cannot form a long stalemate.

In order to repay King Davers' trust and to prove himself, Printols carefully studied the situation of the city of Philipine and its surrounding terrain, he decided to adopt a tactic similar to that of His Majesty Davers's attack on Rome: he asked the engineering team to transform multiple carriages, carrying five fast ships, transported by many pack beasts and a large number of laborers. By land, he avoided the attention of the defenders, bypassed the city of Philipine, and came to the low level on the upper bank of the Tiber River...

Faced with the extortion of the Dionians, the Philippines neither agreed nor opposed, but only said that they should consider it.

How could Printols allow the other party to delay time? He immediately issued an order to siege the city.

With the order, the army of Dionia launched a strong attack on the city of Philipine from the south and north.

Just as the Philippine defenders were fully resistant to the siege of the Dionian soldiers, more than 200 mountain reconnaissance team members were fully armed, rowing five fast ships, rushed down from the upstream. When passing Philippine town, they were blocked by the floating bridge across the river and almost broke the floating bridge.

The water flowing upstream of the Tiber River east of Philipine was turbulent, not only could not swim, but it was also very difficult to drive a raft. In addition, the riverside towns along the river, except for the Crustuerium, which was a Roman colonial city, were all the Sabin people. This mountain race had never seen the sea, could not make ships, and even most people could not swim. Therefore, the Philipines had never encountered an enemy attack from the upper reaches of the Tiber River, but they never dreamed that the Dionians would have fantasy and spent a lot of manpower to transport ships from land to the upper reaches of the Tiber River, so they were completely unprepared.

When the soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance brigade climbed the floating bridge one after another and began to kill towards the south city of Fidene, the panicked flying Fidene was hurriedly squeezed out less than a hundred soldiers from the top of the city and rushed to the top of the bridge to intercept them.

When they arrived, some of the soldiers of the raided mountain reconnaissance brigade had already stepped onto the land of the southern city. They immediately launched a rapid attack on the Philipine soldiers who had arrived in a hurry, chasing the Philipine soldiers who were trying to arrange the array.

In the melee, how could the Philipine civilians be the opponent of the soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance brigade that had been trained all year round? Not long after they were defeated, the southern city was captured.

Soon, the alone and lonely Beicheng also surrendered.

It was only afternoon when the Dionian army occupied the entire city of Fedinai, and it lasted for less than four hours from the attack to the end. Printols' command ability was initially recognized by the generals and soldiers.

The Dionian army occupied Rome before, but now it has a passage to the upper reaches of the Tiber River, which completely cut off the connection between the Romans and the north bank of the Tiber River.

After resting in Phidine, the army of Dionia advanced east the next day, and their target was Crustuerium, the last colonial city in eastern Rome.

Crustaum was originally a town established by the Sabins, but its complex relationship with Rome was established shortly after the founding of Rome.

It is said that after Romulos founded Rome, most of his followers were single men, causing a lot of trouble. In order to solve their marriage problems, so that these energetic men could settle in Rome with peace of mind, Romulos thought of a solution, and he declared to the public that a celebration of the Sea God Festival would be held and surrounding forces would be invited to participate.

Some people of the Sabin tribe believed it and came to Rome with their wives and daughters. Romulos and his followers took away all the women of the Sabin tribe.

Half a year later, the Sabins who had lost their relatives gathered their troops to attack Rome. When the two sides were about to start a decisive battle, the Sabin women who had become Roman wives appeared. They knelt down and begged the two sides to cease the war. Inspired by family affection, the two sides reached a reconciliation. Romulos even invited these Sabin tribes to move to Rome, and the two sides were united into one.

The town where these Sabin tribes live is Krustaum.

Regardless of whether this legend heard from the Romans is true or false, but it is true that Crustaum became a Roman colony during the Roman royal period. Many Latin people were called by the Roman king to move to this town, but decades later it joined the Latin city-state's war against Rome. After being defeated, it became a Roman colony again, and soon became a frontier base for Rome to resist the Sabin invasion. The Romans defeated the Sabins several times here.

Kristaum is less than ten miles from Fidine, and is built on a hill near the banks of the Tiber River. Looking east, looking down at the narrow riverside flatland washed out by the mixed mud and sand of the Tiber River.

Printols led the army of Dionia soon arrived at the city of Kristaum, but he did not attack immediately, because Publius, who arrived later, said he was sure to convince the Kristaumians to surrender.

Sure enough, less than two hours after Publius entered the city, the Crustaum people opened the city gate.
Chapter completed!