After hearing this, Pollert turned his head and asked Alexis: "It seems that the Beneventumus are ready. Do we need to start camping here?"

"It is too far from Beneventum City to oppress them." Alexis focused on observing the terrain ahead.

Then, he pointed to the long row of continuous hills on the west side, which seemed to be about a hundred meters high, and asked, "How far is the mountain road connecting Kautem and Beneventum?"

"It's hard to say, there are several mountains in the middle." Gerney thought for a while, shook his head, unable to say the specific numbers.

Alexis pointed to the lower hills on the east side and asked, "Flip them, the terrain on the east side should be flatter, right?"

"Yes, General Alexis, you remember very clearly that from this hill to the east to the Voltuno River, although there are some small hills, the terrain is flattering," replied Gerney.

Alexis asked the adjutant to bring a simple map of Samone drawn based on the information provided by Gerny and others. While consulting Gerny, he compared the real landform with the map.

He thought for a while before he made up his mind and said, "After we march three miles further, we will start building the camp. Leader Gerny, you lead your soldiers to camp in this valley and protect our food transport channel."

After hearing this, Gelny breathed a sigh of relief and immediately expressed his opinion: "Don't worry, we will firmly guard this place, even if it's an enemy, don't try to slip through here!"

For the Abenirum soldiers, the banks of the Sabato River are not only a food transport channel, but also the only way to Beneventum to their homeland. Now that the Abenirum territory is empty, the troops mentioned by Gerny will of course put in 200% of their energy to guard this place.

This is exactly what Alexis intended, and then he pointed to the map and said, "Big Chief Pollet, your army's camp will extend here from the south bank of the Voltuno River, and our Dionia's camp is in the middle of your two camps."

Alexis arranged this way because: Abenirum and Potendia had a grudge more than ten years ago, and it was the first time to fight together, and there was still a lack of cooperation between each other. Zantiparis had previously reminded him that Abenirum had few soldiers and Potendia soldiers lacked combat experience. The Dionia camp is located in the middle and can take care of both left and right. At the same time, after the camp was built, it occupied two rivers, which not only facilitated drinking water, but also caused great oppression to the city of Beneventum.

"I have no objection, but I hope the general can send someone to guide us in building the camp." Pollert participated in the military training in Dionia. He knew very well that the Dionia army had a deep study on building the camp. In order to ensure the safety of the soldiers' camping, he made a shameless request.

Before Alexis could respond, Gelny, who was reminded, immediately said: "We also hope that the general can send someone to help build the camp."

Although Gerny had not participated in Dioria's military training, he had visited Turiyi's military camp many times and watched the training of Dioria's citizens, and he also knew about it. Moreover, considering that Abenirum had the smallest number of soldiers, he had to build camps and guard against enemy raids, and in fact he needed the help of his allies.

"Of course there is no problem with this, I will definitely help you!" Alexis was very happy that the two of them had such a request, because it would be convenient for him to unify the planning of the entire camp and reasonably allocate personnel.

After the three reached an agreement, Gerney led the army straight north, while Alexis and Pollett led their troops across the hills to the east and headed northeast.

Last evening, after receiving the news that "Dionian troops have entered the territory of Abenirum", the Samonet coalition camp was worried about the safety of Beneventum, Lesguk could not wait for other tribal troops to withdraw from the camp. That night, he led more than 3,000 Hilpini soldiers to retreat to Abela regardless of their fatigue, and set out in the early morning of the next day, marched quickly, and entered Beneventum city at noon.

There were 1,000 soldiers stationed in Beneventum City, originally to guard against the Abenirum people in the south. After Lesguk led his team back, the total number of soldiers in the city reached more than 4,000. He also heard that warriors from other tribes would come later, and the people's confidence suddenly increased.

Lesguk was not satisfied with just waiting for defense. After understanding the enemy's movements through the spies sent out, he immediately led the 1,000 soldiers originally stationed in the city (other soldiers needed to rest to recover due to continuous marching) and quietly walked into the mountains to the east and raided the Abenirum people three miles south of Beneventum.

As the commander of the Dionian coalition, Alexis led his army in a strange mountainous area. Of course, he would not lose his vigilance, but would be more cautious. He repeatedly demanded that no matter Abenirum or Potentia's army, they must draw half of their troops to defend the camp under construction.

Therefore, Lesguk's raid failed and soon evolved into a battle between Bereventum and Abenirum warriors. The two sides first threw javelins at each other and then fought with spears. Although Lesguk led a few warriors, they were physically energetic and had some advantages.

But as 1,000 Dionian light infantry rushed to reinforce from the east, Lesguk had to retreat.

But he did not give up. He sent 2,000 soldiers who were repairing the city to attack the Potanthians from the east. While attracting the attention of the Dionian army, he once again personally led 2,000 soldiers to go directly to the Sabato Valley and attack the Abenirum people.

However, the number of defenders used by the Dionian coalition was more than twice the number of soldiers in Beneventum City. After Alexis found that the Abenirum side seemed to have become the target of the enemy's focus on attacks, he simply let a light infantry brigade stationed in front of the Abenirum camp.

Beneventum's attack failed to cause great trouble to the Abenirum army, but instead increased some casualties. For Beneventum, who lacked troops, the life of every soldier was very precious, and Lesguk could only lead the team back in disappointment.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he returned to the city, he received an urgent report from his subordinates: thousands of enemies were approaching Beneventum from the east.

This made Lesguk feel nervous, and he immediately gathered the soldiers in the city and led them to the city to defend.

Alexis led a heavy infantry squad and 3,000 Potantia soldiers to approach the city of Beneventum.

Looking at the stone walls more than seven meters away, Alexis recalled some information about the city provided by Gerney: "More than ten years ago, Beneventum was just a wooden city, and the simple wooden fences on its periphery were mostly damaged. It was only used to prevent wild animals, not to prevent enemies. Because there were few civil wars between the tribes of Samone, and foreign enemies never threatened the mountains, they never worried about the safety of their homes.

However, after the rise of the powerful Kingdom of Dionys in the south, the situation changed. The Samonet tribe coalition was defeated and surrendered to it in shame. Even the Dionys interfered in the internal affairs of the Samonets, causing the confrontation between Beneventum and Abenirum. Therefore, the deeply uneasy leader Lesguk repeatedly called for the reconstruction of a solid city of Beneventum to resist possible foreign invasions. The same uneasy leaders of the Beneventum tribes finally agreed to his suggestion.

The Hilpini people had no experience in building a stone city, so Lesguk specially borrowed many Campanian slaves from Kautem, who could build a city. Not only did they complete the planning of the new city, but they also found good stones for building the city on the north bank of the Voltuno River, which is very close to the address of the new city. After 6 years, with the joint efforts of the tribes and peoples of Beneventum, Beneventum New City was finally built. Lesguk quickly invited the priests of the Samonet Tribe Alliance to hold a sacrificial ceremony in Beneventum in the name of celebrating the new city, which triggered a series of events that followed..."

Of course, in Gerny's narrative, there was nothing good about Lesguk and other tribes of Beneventum, and he also accused Lesguk, who proposed to build a new city, for having planned to oppose Diony. At the same time, he also mentioned a detail: "The concept of acropolis in the city drawings designed by the Campanian slaves was very interested in the Beneventum people. They simply included the end of the hills in the east parallel to the Sabato River, which accounted for half of the area of ​​Beneventum City, and an inner city was built on the top of the mountain."

Since then, the Voltuno River in the north of Beneventum City is used as a barrier, the Sabato River in the west flows through the city, and the hills in the south serve as a barrier, and only the east is relatively flat... This is why Alexis led the team to attack from here.

Alexis's eyes crossed the seven-meter-high stone wall, and looked at the hill that raised from south to north in the city and blocked his sight. It was at least thirty meters high, with no lush trees on it, only dense houses, and another stone wall on the top of the mountain... This is one of the reasons why he did not give a rash order, allowing the 20,000 coalition soldiers who arrived here to immediately attack the city after a difficult journey.

"Mr. Commander, the crossbows have been arranged."

"Start." Alexis gave the order, and a moment later, ten whistling bullets hit the city wall, and the loud noise made the warrior Hilpini scream.

The deterrence of the army led by Alexis against Beneventum caused Lesguk to lead the main force to confront him in the city, and reduced the harassment of the troops that the Dionian coalition forces were building camps.
Chapter completed!