The terror of the Dionys army made them realize that once Rome is completely destroyed, Dionys will be able to free up his hands and concentrate on dealing with Carthage! And now the Senate is still in a quarrel, wasting precious time in vain!

So they gathered together and strongly called on the Senate: While the main force of Dionia is still in Latinum, they should immediately send large troops to land in Sicily, defeat Dionia's army, and completely occupy the entire Sicily, thereby gaining the advantage of the entire battle situation.

With the excitement of the crowd, Hannover did not dare to obstruct him anymore. The Senate finally made the decision to "conscript no less than 60,000 troops in Carthage and its surrounding areas as soon as possible and hand them over to Carthage's military commander Mago."

Mago, far away in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula, also realized the urgency of the war and was stepping up the convening and forming new troops.

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In fact, Tapirus didn't need to urge Volsey and the Helniki, and they had already begun to take action just after the Roman army left the Tullerus Valley.

The tribes of Helniki who had escaped into the mountains gathered and began to attack the Roman soldiers in the occupied land. The focus of their attack was the city of Frentirum. This central town of the Helniki people was built in the mountains, which brought great difficulties to the Roman siege. In order to quickly end the war in Helniki, Camillus had to remove a large number of young and middle-aged citizens from Rome and allies, resulting in the empty defense of Rome and surrounding areas. Only then was Davers seized this favorable opportunity, which eventually led to the reversal of the entire situation in the Latin American region.

The army led by Camillus retreated in a hurry, but considering the difficulty of capturing Frentirum and the importance of its position, 2,000 Roman soldiers were left to garrison.

However, the Roman army had repeatedly attacked the city, and the battle was very fierce, resulting in ruins everywhere in the city walls. Before the Roman soldiers left behind had time to repair it, the attack of the Herniki people had already arrived.

Most of them used the cover of mountains and trees to approach the city walls at night and early morning, and even sneaked into the city quietly and launched a sudden attack. Once the Romans gathered their troops and wanted to fight with them head-on, they immediately fled the city. The Roman army, who was not good at fighting in the mountains, would follow and pursue them, and would be ambushed by the Hilnikis.

After suffering several losses, the Romans could only defend the city, but the attacks of the Helniki people did not diminish. Although the casualties caused to the Romans each time were not large, it put a lot of pressure on the Roman soldiers, making them unable to get enough rest.

After the Roman defenders continued to defend, the Helniki shifted the focus of the attack to the Roman baggage team that transported material to the city of Frentirum. Since the main Roman forces had evacuated the area, there were not many left-behind troops and did not have enough troops to protect them, the baggage team was repeatedly attacked by the Helniki and could not be delivered to the city of Frentirum.

The food was decreasing, the weapons were not replenished, and the Roman defenders, who were always attacked by the Hilniki, lost their confidence in sticking to the situation when they were reluctant to get reinforcements. On the day when the Roman army was forced to disband, the Roman defenders also chose to evacuate the city of Frontirum.

After starting to retreat, the Roman soldiers discovered that not only Frentirum was attacked by the Helniki people, but other occupied Helniki towns were also attacked to varying degrees, especially those small military camps built along the river. Due to their small military strength and weak defense, they became the key targets of the Helniki people's attacks.

During the retreat, the Roman army had seen several burned barracks, and other surviving barracks and nearby town guards merged into the retreating team.

The army retreated northward and finally retreated to the city of Hignia near the Latin ally Tolerium, and gave up most of the land of Helniki that he had finally occupied.

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However, after the Volsians attacked the city of Rome, the Roman troops stationed in the southwest went to rescue, they began to summon soldiers to regain the territory occupied by the Romans. However, unlike the experience of the Helnikis, Rome had already colonized Antium, Sartneycomm, and Villitre, three towns that originally belonged to the Volsians and their surrounding territories. The Roman people who had just become new residents will naturally resist with all their strength.

After many wars, the Volsie people, whose strength was severely weakened, had only more than 6,000 soldiers to concentrate, and lacked the weapons to attack the city of Antium several times, and were all repelled and unable to regain their own town. After learning that the Roman army was stationed in Satnikum again, they had to retreat in disappointment.

Therefore, when Volsi's senior executives met Tapirus, they demanded strong support from the allies Dionia.

Tapirus made a promise to them: as long as Wolsey works with all his strength according to His Majesty King Davers' plan, Dionia will definitely help Wolsey regain all his territory.

So, the Volsie people followed Tapirus' advice and changed their offensive strategy. They no longer launched an attack head-on against Antium and Sartneycomb's territory, but instead retreated from Asturra, which was very close to Antium, to Setia, and waited for an opportunity to move.

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Gabii, the most important Latin city-state in the eastern part of Latinum, is about 30 miles southeast of Rome, not far from the west bank of the Ario, a tributary of the Tiber River. It became a ally of Rome decades ago and had never been betrayed, but this time its loyalty to Rome was tested.

As the messenger of Dionia, Publius came to Gabi, hoping that he could break away from the Latin alliance of Rome and form an alliance with the Kingdom of Dionia.

The Gabi Senate debated about this matter for a day. In the end, because Dionia's way of dealing with the Roman nobles made the Gabi nobles worried, so he refused Dionia's request and drove Publius out of the city. At the same time, he sent people to the west to ask Camillus for help.

Sure enough, on the next day, Dionia's army appeared at the city of Gabi, and was still commanded by Printols. It still had four brigades of the Second Corps, the Sixth Corps, the Lucanian Reserve Corps, the Roman Reserve Corps, the First Cavalry Corps, and a 500-person engineering team, totaling more than 30,000 people.

The Gabi people closed their four gates, and all the young and middle-aged citizens in the city wore armor and spears, and went up to the top of the city, ready to resist the siege of the Dionians.

However, instead of immediately ordering an attack, Printols ordered the soldiers to start building the camp.

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In the early morning of the next day, the 12,000 Roman soldiers led by Camillus, who received the news, rushed to Tusteron.

Tustro is located north of Lake Albaronga, on the edge of Mount Tustro, about 40 miles south of the city of Rome. Since Albaronga was destroyed by Rome, it has become the most important big city in the central Latin region.

Most Latin city-states and tribes in the eastern, central and western Latin regions also responded to Camillus' call and sent troops to gather in Tusteron, thus increasing the strength of Camillus's hands to 21,000.

In the Roman camp outside the city of Tustro, the Roman generals were gathering in the tent to discuss the current situation of the war and the subsequent military plans.

At this time, the Roman dictator Camillus was different from the energetic image when he first conquered Ferentinum. His face was sallow and his face was saggy, and his whole body was slumped on the wooden chair. There was a slave standing on each side of the wooden chair, ready to support him at any time.

He closed his eyes and listened to the report on the enemy situation: "These days, the Dionian army has been building camps and has not attacked Gabi City, but they are constantly bombarding Gabi City walls with crossbows... The Gabi people sent messengers again to ask us for help..."

"Derbertarian, the army of Dionys has not siege the city for several consecutive days, but has been building a camp, and the camp is built to the west of Gabi City, which is obviously guarding us." Meggus said in a deep voice.

"We led our army to Tustro, which was too powerful and could not hide it from the Dionians. It was normal for them to be prepared. According to the report of the detective, there were tens of thousands of Dionian troops outside Gabi, and we should also note that there were Dionian troops in Roman city--"

Before Lisinius finished speaking, he heard Quintus shouting angrily: "Is it because there are many people in the Dionians, because they do not attack, and we will even retreat? Well! Lisinius, are you afraid?! You should not stay here, but should surrender to the Dionians like those Roman civilians-"

"Enough, Quentus, pay attention to your words! Lord dictator reminded us repeatedly that we are in a difficult situation now and we must unite closely to defeat the Dionians and regain Rome!" Olus reminded loudly.

Quintus snorted, staring at Lisinius with his eyes, but he stopped talking.

Lisinius simply turned around and looked outside the tent.

At this time, Camillus opened his eyes. Compared with his weak voice, his eyes seemed much more dynamic: "I sent someone to inform the troops left behind in Higniya to come here to meet us. How is the matter going?"

"...They are already on the way to come." Lucius said in a trembling voice.
Chapter completed!