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Chapter 1119 Victory in the First Battle
After listening to Crotokatax's words, Asistes was silent for a while, his expression softened slightly, but he still said uneasily: "I still have to respond to Your Majesty about the current status of the coalition forces. I hope he can send reinforcements as soon as possible."

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Patroclus wanted to be fully prepared while obtaining more information about the Gauls and waiting for the best fighter to appear.

But there was a sudden change in Etruria.A few days after the fall of Florentia, the city of Aretium, an area that had not been affected by the war and that many people even thought would not be attacked by the Gauls, was also raided by the Gauls.

The territory where Aretium is located does not actually border the Gauls, but the Umbria. It has always been peaceful before, but it has only begun to be harassed by the Gauls in the past two years.According to their understanding, the northern part of the Umbrian people also began to be invaded by the Gauls. Some Gallic tribes fled through the border areas of Umbria to plunder the territory of Aretium. After all, Aretium Mumbo was much richer than the Umbrians.

Originally, the Dionysian Ministry of Military Affairs did not plan to build a military camp in this area, because the Gallic activities here were not rampant, but Aretium was one of the twelve Etruscan city-states and an Etruscan city-state. The central town in the eastern region of the Trulia Alliance, under the active activities of the Aretium people (actively allocating a lot of land to Dionia), the Dionia Ministry of Military Affairs finally decided to A military camp was built not far to the northwest of Mu's territory.

Of course, this was not entirely convinced by the Aretium people, but after careful consideration, Davos believed that he could use the opportunity of defending against the Gauls to obtain the land here, thereby strengthening the Umbrian people in the east. It is good for the Kingdom of Dionia to contact and enhance friendship.

In fact, over the past year or so, the Dionysian border troops stationed here have cooperated with the Umbrians across the border many times, repelling the Gauls who came to harass them, and won the favor of the Umbrians .But what they never expected was that the Gauls would detach a large army, pass through Umbria from the southernmost part of the territory, and raid Aretium in the rear.

Although the Dionysian military camp urgently sent a messenger to notify the Aretium people, because it has been protected by the Dionysian military camp for a long time, it has not been attacked by the Gauls for more than a year. The attack by the Gauls on the city-state of Trulia did not make the Aretium people more vigilant, so they faced an unexpected surprise attack by the Gauls, but the performance of the Aretium people was better than that of Florentia. Unfortunately, the city fell quickly, and no one in the city could escape.

After the Gallic army captured Aretium, they took advantage of the situation to attack south, successively surrounding Curtun and Clevsin, and the forward reached Velzna, which is about [-] meters away from the Kingdom of Dionia. The northernmost towns of Keslela and Weai are not far away.

People in Rome began to panic.

Of course, Patroclus could no longer remain indifferent. He quickly gathered more than 5 coalition soldiers, crossed the Roman Vertebrae Bridge, and arrived at Viai that night.

On the second day, the messenger from Thurii had arrived in Rome, and Asistes received an order signed by King Davos: Asistes, the administrator of the Roman region, was required to notify the alliances as soon as possible according to the order. The Covenant sent troops and gathered in Rome to form a coalition army. Patroclus, commander of the No. 2 legion, served as the overall commander and led the coalition forces to resist the invasion of the Gauls.While ensuring the safety of the kingdom's territory first, try your best to help the Etruscans.Since the enemy's situation was unclear, the Ministry of Military Affairs did not give specific instructions, and Patroclus made his own decisions based on changes in the enemy's situation.And the Ministry of Military Affairs has notified the No. 14 Legion in the eastern region of Campania (the military camp is in Abella) to rush to Rome immediately and come under the command of Patroclus.At the same time, Asisters was also asked to do a good job in logistical support for the coalition forces, and to report changes in the battle situation to the palace at any time.

Asistes read the letter with mixed emotions, handed the order back to the messenger, and said in a deep voice: "Please tell your majesty that I will resolutely implement his instructions! Lord Patroclus has led his army to the north, you If we set off now, we should be able to see him in Weiai."

When the messenger heard this, he bid farewell to Asistes and immediately rode north to pursue him.When he arrived at Viai, Patroclus had already led his army to set off again.

The northern Dionian coalition forces arrived at Novi (novi, a small Etruscan city) at dusk, which was less than twenty miles away from Volsena. The Gauls who were besieging Volsena learned that The enemy's reinforcements suddenly appeared, which really shocked them. They quickly withdrew the siege and sent out sentries to investigate. They reported back: "The enemy's reinforcements are large in number and have built countless camps."

The Gallic army that served as the vanguard was relatively small in number. Seeing that the opponent had a large number of people, it did not dare to launch an attack blindly. Instead, it retreated northward.

On the second day, the Volsena people, who learned that reinforcements had arrived and the threat was lifted, came to Lowe with a large amount of labor supplies, expressed their gratitude to the coalition forces, and invited the coalition forces to station near Volsena.

After inspecting the surrounding terrain, Patroclus firmly refused and ordered the army to build a military camp near the city of Lovi.

One day later, the Gaulish army appeared again in the territory of Volsena, and by the next day the number increased to more than 2 people, and the city was surrounded again.

There was no movement from the Dionysian coalition stationed to the south. Instead, the Gallic army took the initiative to come to the Dionysian coalition camp and launched an attack on it.

Although the camp was not completely built, Patroclus' command was firm, and the coalition soldiers had the advantage of defense. In addition, they were more numerous than the opponent. Therefore, although the Gallic soldiers fought bravely, they fought hard until dusk and were repulsed. , which gave the Dionian coalition soldiers, especially the allied soldiers, a little more confidence.

Although the Dionia coalition won a small victory, they quietly retreated early the next morning, leaving only an empty camp that had been initially built with great difficulty.

After the Gauls were sure that the enemy had retreated, they began to think that the enemy had gotten away with it yesterday, and had actually been frightened by their attack, and had given up reinforcements to Volsena out of fear.

In the next few days, the Gauls set up a posture to attack the city of Volsena, but the sentinels they sent out found no trace of Dionian reinforcements nearby.

Gradually, the Gauls became more certain of their previous thoughts: the Dionysian army seemed to be large in number, but timid and timid, and had probably hid back in the city of Rome.

As a result, they began to attack Volsena with all their strength and boldness.

Several days of attacks made the city of Volsena crumbling, and it was about to be broken. The Volsena people cursed the untrustworthy Dionians and prayed for the blessing of the gods.

Perhaps prayer had an effect. In the early morning of the fifth day, the Dionian coalition forces that had disappeared suddenly reappeared and quickly approached the Gauls camp.

At this time, most of the Gallic warriors were too tired from days of siege and were sleeping soundly in their tents. When they learned that the Dionysian coalition suddenly attacked, the camp was in chaos.

Patroclus used 20 crossbows to blast away the wooden fence, the barrier set up by the Gauls for the simple camp. The heavy infantry of the No. 14 Legion and the No. 12 Legion (just arrived from Campania) were the main offensive force. The Dionian Allied Forces quickly crossed the not-so-wide trench and started a fierce battle with the Gauls in the camp.

Although the Gauls fought bravely and were quite threatening when wielding the swords in their hands, their lineup was fragmented and disorganized, and they posed little threat to the Dionian army, which was heavily armored, covered each other, and cooperated tacitly.

On the contrary, the main force of the Dionian coalition was like an iron wall, slowly advancing, while constantly killing the Gauls, it also put a lot of psychological pressure on them.

In addition, the strength of the Dionian coalition at this time was almost twice that of the Gauls, but Patroclus did not send allied troops up from the beginning, but waited until the two legions and reserve soldiers attracted them from the front. After living in the Gauls, the Allied soldiers were ordered to break in from both sides of the barracks and attack the Gauls.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the Dionian coalition forces almost formed a siege on the Gauls in the camp, and the Gauls had to turn around and flee, desperately fighting a bloody road.

Patroclus immediately ordered the allied cavalry, light infantry, and light armor, which had been recharging their strength, to pursue them with all their strength.

The coalition forces pursued and fought fiercely until dark before withdrawing their troops, killing, wounding, and capturing countless Gauls.

On the second day, the Volsenanes who learned that the Gauls had been defeated were ecstatic, and immediately put aside their previous resentment towards the Dionians, and brought a large amount of labor supplies to the coalition camp again. Knowing that Patroclus has led the army to leave.

The defeated Gauls were divided into two parts: one fled to Aretium in the northeast, and the other fled to the northwest.

Patroclus detached 1 reserve soldiers to pursue the Gauls who fled to Aretium, and he personally led nearly 5 allied soldiers to the northwest.

During the period when he was stationed at Camp Lovi, in addition to fortifying the camp, Patroclus also sent out mountain reconnaissance teams and reconnaissance teams to conduct detailed surveys of Gauls' activities throughout the Etruscan region.

Therefore, after defeating Volsena's Gallic army, Patroclus immediately led the main force and went straight to the territory of Forfruna, because the main force of the Gauls was entrenched here.

Forfruna was the richest city-state in northwestern Etruria, so it became the focus of the incoming Gauls' attack.However, because the Fofruna people learned of their tragic experience from the fled Florentia population, and learned a lesson from it, they closed the city gate early and strengthened their defenses.In addition, the city of Fufruna has a special location. It is built on a promontory and is only connected to the land by a narrow isthmus.

(End of this chapter)