However, Contruk did not intend to lead the team away. He decided to follow the ancient tradition of the Samone tribe alliance and defend Beneventum with the Shilpini tribe and advance and retreat together.

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In the early summer, the soil is still moist, the trees are already lush, and the weeds are growing wildly. The summer cicadas have begun to sing their mouths. The scorching sunlight passes through the dense branches and leaves, casting a wisp of mottled light on the grass in the mountains.

Three Abenirum's spies were lying on the ground, slapped at the mosquitoes biting on their bodies while closely looking down at the winding mountain path below the mountain.

"Brother, look!" A spy pointed ahead and shouted in surprise.

I saw many birds flying between the mountains to the east, chirping and hovering in the air.

"Let's go and take a look!" The spy called the eldest brother also showed joy on his face. He stood up, moved his slightly sore thighs, and then led the two of them along the ridge and ran eastward.

Not long after, they lay on the mountain again and looked down: the mountain road more than 100 meters apart was filled with dense Samone warriors, they lined up in a long row, extending windingly to the east...

Although the outfits of the four tribes' warriors were roughly the same, and they were too far apart to see the flags clearly, the experienced spies Abenirum could still judge that this was Kauteni's army, because under the sunlight, the long dragon showed a lot of reflections, which meant that the team had a high armor rate. Among the four tribes, only Kauteni could do it, because they owned the eastern plains of Campania, which was the richest tribe, not to mention that the direction of this army was Kauteni.

"The leader of Gerny is right. The Kautenis have indeed evacuated from Beneventum. We have not waited for this day in vain!" The leading spy could not hide the joy on his face.

"But we haven't found where the Naconians are yet?"

"Of course I can't see clearly on this mountain, but I can roughly guess their location." The leading spy said confidently: "Since their army entered Beneventom, we have never seen the Naconians go out to fight, and they have not even been sent to patrol the city. It can be seen that the Kautini people are guarding against them. I think they must have walked in the middle of the team... There are 3,000 people, and it is easy to find them.

You rushed back immediately and told the leader of Gerny, and said that I, Seduni, have begun to implement the plan... and you, hurry up to the camp of Dionia in Lora, and tell their commanders that we have contacted the Naconian army..."

"Brother, you have to be careful!"

"Don't worry, it's easy for me to get in alone."

Seeduni was not a consolation word, because Samonet's army marched in the mountains like the Dionian army. When the mountains on both sides slowed down, Samonet's army would divide some soldiers to march on the hillsides on both sides. This not only shortened the length of the marching column and reduced the possibility of ambushing, but it was easy for Seeduni to infiltrate into this army.

After seeing off the two spies, he slapped off the dust on his body, carried a few javelins, and then dived down the mountain by the cover of trees, and then hid among the weeds.

After listening to the conversation between the marching soldiers at close range for a short time, he stood up decisively, dressed up as if he had just finished the small rift, and approached the team walking on the hillside. Because he was wearing the same yellow short-sleeved single clothes, and the marching column of Kautini was not as rigorous as the Dionians, but was rather scattered, he easily got into the team.

Then, through a traceless conversation with several Naconian soldiers around him, he decided to find the commander of Avangum, the second largest tribe in Naconia (the reason why he did not go to Quinduk's tribe was because this tribe had been completely broken up by Segovani, and his people were forcibly incorporated into the tribes of Lora and Cesara).

"You said you are from Abenirum?" Vasonic looked vigilantly at the person who tried to approach him quietly but was stopped by the guards, with a hint of excitement in his tone.

Sedoni also noticed his youth, and he looked just over 20 years old. According to Samone's tradition, it was impossible to lead a tribe's army to fight, but Segovani imprisoned the leaders of various tribes in Naconia and asked their young children to lead the tribe's warriors in order to better control.

"To prevent some people from seeing it, we'd better say while walking." Seidum suggested in a low voice.

Vasonk subconsciously looked around and nodded.

Seduni pretended to be Vasonk's escort and followed Vasonk's back with the other soldiers.

Vasonic couldn't wait to whisper, "What's going on in Naconia?! We heard rumors in Beneventum that the Dionians hated us for killing the Hades priests and Dionian merchants in the territory. After invading Naconia, they not only killed the evil wolves of Segovani, but also... also... all of our tribesmen... But the familiar Kauteni warriors quietly told us that your tribesmen often shouted outside Beneventum, saying that the Dionians formed an alliance with the tribesmen we left in the territory... and there are some other rumors, which one is true?!"

Seduni did not speak immediately, but took out something from his arms and handed it to Vasonk quietly.

Vasonk's eyes widened immediately, and he recognized that this was his favorite small wood sculpture when he was a child.

Seduni looked at his expression and felt a clear mind: "This is the token that your tribe elders asked me to bring to you. I also have the token that I brought to the leaders of the other tribes. The real situation is that the army of Dionys drove away the Kautem people stationed in Naconia, and formed an alliance with the elders of the tribes of Naconia to fight against the Samone coalition..."

After Seduni finished speaking, before Vasonk responded, the guards next to him were already excited. The Kautemites lured and killed Quinduk, imprisoned the leaders of various tribes, slaughtered the tribes of the territory, forcibly forced them to go out to fight, and regardless of their life or death, they always let them rush forward... The hearts of these Naconian soldiers had long been burning in their hearts, but due to the strength of the Samone coalition and the safety of the tribes of the territory, they had to bear humiliation. Now the opportunity is here!

Someone even whispered: "That's great!" The flames of revenge burst out from their eyes, and their eyes were staring at Vasonk.

Vasonic pinched the small wood carving in his hand and whispered: "When I arrive at Kautem, I will send someone to tell other Naconian generals..."

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On the day Segovani led his troops to retreat from Beneventum, Zantiparis, who was in the military camp outside Lora, had decided to launch an attack on Lora.

It has been four days since the siege. Why is he so urgent to attack the city? On the one hand, it is because he is worried about the return of the Samonet coalition forces, which has caused all his previous efforts to be wasted; on the other hand, his siege arrangement is almost completed.

When I first arrived at the city of Lora, Zantiparis carefully observed the plain town of Kautini: Although it is nearly seven meters high and is a stone city, the city wall is dilapidated and the stone wall is large. Some places even grow green grass. The trenches outside the city are not too wide. Although there are simply a Luzhai outside the trenches, there are no traps arranged...

Based on this, Zantiparis estimated that the Kautini town had never been attacked, so it had not been well maintained and repaired, which gave him confidence to break the city in the short term (in fact, last year the Kautini invaded Campania and was defeated by the reinforcements of the Dionian army, and the Third Legion entered Tesala, which had already made the towns of Lola, Cesala and other Cautini near Tesala feel dangerous. They put "strengthening the city defense" on the agenda, but not long after the full-scale war between the Samonets and Dionia broke out, and the young and middle-aged people of Lola were transferred, and the repair of the city wall was delayed).

Zantiparis considered that there were few defenders in Lora City, except for the enemy reinforcements that might come from the north, other areas were controlled by Dionia and his allies, so he discussed with the leader of the Campanian army, Earos and others, and decided to build a mountain of earth to approach the city wall.

The siege of the Tushan Mountain is a project of the Dionia Legion's usual military training. Zantiparis and the soldiers were familiar with it. After deciding to build the Tushan Mountain in the south of Lora City, the engineers set the starting location of the construction 40 meters away from the South City after surveying.

So Zantiparis ordered that most of the soldiers go to the mountains to cut down trees.

At the same time, after receiving help from Zantiparis, Adrianques, the Chief Executive of Enona, not only organized thousands of Enona people, but also sent some administrative officials, who brought three days of rations to the original business road through the original trade route and reached outside the city of Lora. After learning about the news, the Naconians also sent thousands of ethnic groups. Then the Campanian League also sent tens of thousands of people. In less than two days, the Diona coalition camp gathered more than 30,000 people (including 12,000 coalition soldiers).

Zantiparis made this plan for building the earthen mountain: he first left 2,000 Campanian heavy infantry to garrison the camp to prevent the enemy from leaving the city to attack. The other soldiers went to the forest to cut wood. The cut down part of the wood was made into five to six meters high wooden fences. Then two hundred soldiers erected the rows of wooden fences 30 meters away from the city wall in Lora, and discharged them to a length of 70 meters to resist the javelins and arrows shot by the enemy on the city. At the same time, there were 300 Dionian heavy infantry on both sides and behind the wooden fence to prevent the enemy from leaving the city from destruction.
Chapter completed!