At this time, Zantiparis's troops were reduced to 7,000, but this was three and a half times the number of troops led by Segovani.

For two consecutive days, the Kauteni warriors repelled the enemy's attack, but also suffered considerable casualties. The city of Abella became even more ruined, and Segovani had already developed the intention to retreat. At this time, he received bad news about "Beneventum's fall". He abandoned the Abella and Cesara people in the city that night and led his army to quietly retreat Kauteni.

The next day, the people in the city discovered that they were abandoned by Segovani. The few remaining Abella and the Sesalas soldiers decided to surrender to the coalition forces outside the city, but the Naconian soldiers who were full of hatred and suffered a lot of losses certainly opposed it. Zantiparis followed the flow and expressed his refusal. Because following the instructions of Davers, Abella, as a small town connecting Kautem and Beneventum in the eastern plains of Campania, was too important and must be completely controlled in the hands of the Kingdom of Dionia. In order to avoid future management troubles, Zantiparis felt that it was appropriate to occupy it directly.

The Dionian coalition launched an attack and immediately attacked the city and occupied Abella.

The Naconian soldiers took the captured Kauteni soldiers to the corpses of the former leaders of Naconian and sacrificed their blood.

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To the east, Alexis only took a day off at Beneventom and simply handled some affairs in the city, that is, he let Pollet distribute half of his troops to station in the city, and the other troops were led by him, marched westward and arrived at Kautem through the mountain road.

After Zantiparis captured Abella, he led his team to march eastward without stopping, successfully meeting with Alexis' troops in Kautem, with nearly 30,000 troops.

The Kautem defenders were less than 2,000, which made the tribes in the city feel very panic. Some leaders united with Segovani to suggest whether they could surrender to the Dionysian coalition to protect the people in the city.

Segovani refused without thinking.

The unwilling leaders argued with him eagerly, but unexpectedly this angered Segovani, who became more and more perverted due to successive defeats. He captured the leader, drove away the others, and threatened to fight the Dionian coalition to the end.

This crazy move made some tribes interfere with the Dionian coalition that night. There were many people who left the city to secretly communicate with the Dionian coalition.

How could Alexis miss such a good opportunity and immediately launched an siege the next day.

Kautem fell soon, and Segovani died in battle at the top of the city. At this point, the two most powerful tribes in the Samonet tribe alliance were completely conquered, and most of Kauten were conquered. The remaining Kautenian towns in the north, such as Kaputa and Calatia, were unable to support themselves, and it was a matter of time to be conquered.

Just as the Dionys coalition was meeting in Kautem, Contruk and Badani gathered the maximum force that the two tribes could gather - 5,000 soldiers, and wanted to launch a raid on the Dionys army in the east.

However, after occupying Equium, Cappus, who was cautious in his military operations, did not continue to go deep into the mountains. Instead, while stabilizing the local order, he continued to send reconnaissance teams to explore the surrounding terrain and environment in detail.

As a result, the movements of Samonet's army were discovered, and he immediately prepared for defense.

The raid between the two tribes of Samonet eventually turned into a frontal attack. After some casualties, they had to choose to retreat.

Subsequently, news of "Beneventum and Kautem's fall" came one after another. Contruk and Badani were shocked and had to lead their troops to retreat to tribal territory to prevent the upcoming attack of the Dionian coalition.

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"Your Majesty, good news! Zantiparis led his army not only to capture Lola, but also defeated the main force of Kauteni who came to rescue!..." Thormid rushed into the tent and said excitedly.

"Oh!" Davers hurriedly took the battle report. After carefully reading it, Zhan Yan smiled and said, "This is indeed good news! Kauteni's defeat, Naconians surrender, and Samonet's victory in the war has been decided! Zantiparis has made great contributions! This is the first time he has led his troops independently?"

"Yes, your Majesty. Zantiparis was about to retire from the army. The Ministry of Military Affairs temporarily recruited him to Lucania to form a reserve army. Because the war in Samone broke out, he led his team to participate in the war in Campania..." Thormid said so in detail, it was selfish. He had a good relationship with Zantiparis. He came to Greece together at that time, so he hoped that Zantiparis, who was over 60, would have a good development in the kingdom.

Of course, Davers knew that Thormid and Zantiparis were better, but he didn't care about the little thoughts he was hiding. Instead, he shot the battle report, half sighing and half regretful: "Whether it was to capture Lola or defeat Kauteni's main force, Zantiparis showed excellent military command ability! He shouldn't have been allowed to be a prosecutor of the military department at the beginning, wasted these years in vain! I still don't know enough about them!"

Thormid was tactful and didn't speak, but was happy for his friends.

Davers sighed for a while and praised loudly: "This time the strategic plan for Samonet designated by your Military Affairs Department is also very good! Alexis in the east, Zantiparis and Campania Allied forces in the west, Abenirum and Potendia in the middle, and the three armies cooperated closely and took turns to attack, which made the Samonets Gu Dong unable to take care of Xi, and Gu Xi could not take care of the victory. Failure was destined!"

"Yes, your majesty." Secretary Heniporis also smiled and said, "As you once said, although the Samones are a hungry wolf, we Dionia are a lion. Even if the evil wolf bites a few bites, it will not cause any major damage. But as long as the lion gives the hungry wolf a claw, its half life will be gone."

"We need to be more greedy, the whole life of this evil wolf is." Davers joked, and then said, "Henny, take out the map of the Samone region and put it on."

Henipolis responded. Then he went to the bookshelf full of documents and materials to look for it. Crotokataks also came to help him.

"Tormid," Davers continued: "About the letter from the Ministry of Military Affairs, 'The increase in the number of troops involved in the Samone war has led to a shortage of military rations', I considered that we will supply the military rations for the troops led by Alexis and Zantiparis in the future."

"Your Majesty, are you saying...... transporting military rations from Rome to Campania?" Tormid asked this question, out of courtesy, and in fact he was not surprised, because the food stockpiled in Rome was indeed very sufficient, not only the military rations seized by the army from Rome, but also the food collected from almost all the Roman nobles' residences, but also the food and grass collected from the captured Latin and Etruscan city-states, which were amazing, enough to supply the Dionian army in Latin and the people in the city of Rome for half a year.

"The young men in the General Staff have formulated a more detailed plan of food supply based on the situation of the army in Campania, as well as the food and transportation in Rome, and then handed it over to me for review and then sent it to Asistes, and let him be responsible for the arrangements." Davers instructed.

"Yes, your Majesty."

Davers touched his jaw, pondered for a while, and said, "It seems that we should send people to ask for military rations from the Etruscan allies and Latin allies..."

"Father, isn't Rome's food reserves still sufficient? And it will be harvested again in two months. Most of the farmland outside the city such as Rome, Viagra, Gabi and others have not been destroyed. They are now receiving good care from the Roman people. I believe that enough food will be harvested by then, which will not only be supplied to the army of Latinum and Campania, but also provide help to the army of Sicily. There is no need to ask for food from the newly joined allies, thereby deepening their dissatisfaction with us." Crotokatax persuaded a little worriedly.

Davers looked at him with a smile: "I am glad you were not idle in Rome and had a more detailed understanding of the areas we occupied. This is how I should do it! However, the reason I sent people to ask for food from these allies is not because we are short of food, but to solve their confusion."

"Solve their confusion?!" Crotokataks himself was confused.

Davers smiled and explained patiently to him: "In the past, when Rome fought every year, they often asked for food and soldiers from these allies, and they were used to it. Now these city-states have defected to us, Dionia, and we have been fighting alone and never asked them for any help. I am afraid they will be confused and even worry about whether we will turn to them after we wiped out Rome."

Crotokatax suddenly realized: "So asking them for food is to show them that Dionia really regards them as an ally."

Davers continued: "This is only one purpose. In addition, I will ask the messengers to make no strict regulations on their quantity while making demands for food to them. In this way, the amount of food provided by each allied state can make a rough judgment on how much they are sincere to Dionia!"

Crotokatax thoughtful.
Chapter completed!