ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 164 Spy
When Alsinis saw Felicius outside the atrium, he hurriedly shouted respectfully: "Lord Felicius!"

"This is at home, just call me uncle!" Felicius said kindly.

"Uncle Felicius!" Alsinis shouted obediently.

"Father," Melisander whispered.Compared to before, he was able to call out "father", but he was still a little uncomfortable with it.

Felicius didn't care about this. He comforted Melisander: "My child, I just watched your battle with Alsinis. Your strength and speed are not inferior to your good friends, but you still lack experience." , especially battlefield experience, you will understand after you go to the battlefield a few times."

"But, I can't go to the battlefield until I'm old enough! Father, why don't you talk to Lord Davos-" Melisandre said eagerly.

"Haven't you already tried it several times? Master Davos attaches great importance to military law and will not take the lead to set a precedent for you." Felicius said solemnly.

Melisandre punched the pillar in frustration.

Felicius ignored him and turned to ask Alsinis: "The battle is about to begin tomorrow. Are you ready?"

"Uncle, I can't wait to defeat the Lucanians and occupy their town under the command of Lord Davos!" Alsinis said excitedly.

Felicius looked at him with a half-smile and said: "Tomorrow, Master Davos will not lead the army to go out. He will sit in Thurii, handle alliance affairs, and at the same time warn the Crotones!"

"Then who will lead us to attack Niutum tomorrow?" Alsinis asked urgently.

Felicius smiled.

"Uncle, is it you?!" Alsinis exclaimed.

"Is it true?! Father, you became an army commander?!" Melisander looked surprised, and shouted "Father" so loudly.

At that moment, Felicius was full of pride, and the tension in his heart was swept away: he would win the battle and make the children proud of him!
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On the third day, when it was dawn and most of the Alliance people were still sleeping, a total of about 4000 people from the [-]nd, [-]rd, [-]th Brigade and the Lucania Brigade were gearing up outside the northern city of Turii.

As the founder of this army, Davos did not personally command the battle for the first time, and the soldiers also fought without the command of Davos for the first time. Both sides were more or less uneasy.Therefore, Davers rode on horseback to review all the soldiers who were going out. Every time he passed a detachment, he glanced at the soldiers with trusting eyes and told them: "Brothers, I am waiting for news of your victory! When you come back, Tuliyi The city’s triumphal arch should have been built, and I will hold a triumphal ceremony for you so that the people of the entire alliance will be proud of you!”

Because of the regulations in advance, the soldiers who went on the expedition could not cheer loudly, but their morale was high and their fighting spirit was ignited.

The officers of the First Brigade also came to see him off. Their way of seeing him off was different from that of Davos. They made various jokes to Drax, Sesta, Hieronymus, Epithenis and other officers of the expedition. , the general meaning of what they said is: "If our large team had not shouldered the important task of defending the alliance, otherwise why would it have been your turn to capture Niutum! I heard that a triumphal ceremony will be held for you! Damn it, you are really Good luck. If you don't win this battle, you will be sorry for the regimental commander's care for you, and for the courtesy of our first brigade! Just don't come back!" There was deep jealousy in the words, but also excitement. Drax, Helorimus, Epithenis and other team officers became more competitive.

Finally, Davos came to the front of the Lucaria brigade. He didn’t say much. He first gave a solemn military salute, and then said loudly: "Congratulations, brothers of Lucaria! You are about to become the leader of the Tua Alliance." Citizens, from today on we are a family!”

The Lucarian soldiers often played rugby games with the Alliance soldiers for several months. Later on the training day, Davos even allowed them to stop building roads and participate in military training, so they could perform Alliance military salutes uniformly.

Seeing this scene, Davos was very happy. He took a new military flag from the guard captain Martius, then raised it high and showed it in front of the Lucanian warriors: This is a beautiful flag. The flag of the brigade is the same bronze statue of Death with a bright red surface, but the words embroidered on it are different. The red star below represents that the team participated in the battle with Crotone and won.

Most of the Lucarian soldiers have begun to learn to speak Greek, but they can't read Greek characters yet. However, this military flag that belongs to them is no different from other military flags, which makes them happy.And Bagule saw the words on the flag clearly: Fourth Brigade of the First Army!

We are really a family!Bagule excitedly took over the military flag, and then said: "Don't worry, Commander, the Fourth Brigade will successfully complete the mission and guide the Lucanians to join our alliance!"

"Okay!" Davos turned his full expectation into a fist and punched him hard on the chest...

After exiting the team, Davos came to Felicius, the commander of this military operation: "Everything depends on you!"

Felicius suppressed the nervousness in his heart and responded with a powerful military salute: "Don't worry, legion commander!"

"Let's go!" Davos nodded.

Under the guidance of the Pluto Legion flag, the team quietly headed west...

Davos stared at the long queue that was winding forward, and stood there for a long time...

Some of the reserve citizens and slaves who had risen early to work the fields west of Tulii were so surprised that they forgot to work when they saw the Union troops advancing on the road beside the fields.

Of course, the military actions of the Tua alliance cannot escape the eyes of those who are interested.

Since Crotone suffered a big loss due to Amendolara's sneak attack last time, in order to keep track of the Tua Alliance's movements, they sent several landless citizens to sneak into the port of Turii as free citizens, collecting Intelligence, Stratus is one of them.

Since the Tua Alliance elders frequently went to Amendolara for meetings in the past two days, it caught his attention. He had an intuition that something big was going on in the Tua Alliance, so he paid close attention to the city of Turiyi.It happened that today he discovered that Turiyi's army was dispatched. He squatted in the grass, determined the approximate number of the army, and then pretended to be leisurely and slowly walked to the port.

What he didn't know was that there were people watching him not far behind him. Of course, he didn't know that he was making arbitrary decisions in an attempt to drive a wedge between the Turii people, the Amendolara people and the former mercenaries in the Tua Alliance. The relationship aroused Davos' vigilance, thus exposing himself.

"Brother, this person is collecting important information about our alliance again. We should go forward and catch him immediately to avoid leaking the information about our sending troops to fight!"

"No, brother, Asistes once told us, 'Don't alarm them first'. We'd better go and tell Asistes first."

When the two of them rushed back to the city and arrived at Asistes' residence, they were told by the slave who opened the door that Asistes was not there. He once again served as the adjutant of the fourth group and was already on the expedition.

The two of them were in a daze: The person in charge of them is not here, what should they do?
At this time, Asistes' slave asked: "Is there anyone among you named Aristelas?"

"I am." One of them replied.

The slave looked at him curiously, and then said: "The goddess of fate has favored you! Master asked you to go directly to see Lord Davos if you have something to do!"

The two were very excited after hearing this, and came to Davos's mansion without a moment's hesitation. As expected, they were easily received by Davos.

After listening to the reports of the two people, Davos was not surprised. Instead, he looked at the two of them with interest: the short man seemed a little nervous and anxious, while the tall and thin man was much calmer. Davos was looking at him, and he also looked at him. Looking at Davos.

"Do you know why I didn't catch this Crotone spy?" Davos suddenly asked.

The short man didn't know what to say, but the tall and thin man said calmly: "I believe you must have your own plan. This spy may be able to play a certain role, and you are not afraid that Crotone will know about our sending troops!"

Davos's eyes lit up, he looked at him and said, "Your name is Aristelas?"

"Yes, sir." The tall and thin man nodded.

Davos turned to another person: "Your name is Antrapolis?"

"Yes! Yes! Antrapolis is me!" the short man replied excitedly.

"Thank you very much for your efforts for the city-state! Asistes once introduced you carefully to me. He said, 'You are brothers, from Catanai in Sicily. You have now applied to become preparatory citizens of the Tua League... ', Asistes also specifically mentioned you Aristiras, saying that you used your wisdom to quickly find this Crotone spy, and you did a great job!" Davers praised.

Hearing the personal praise from Davos, the lifelong governor of the Tua Alliance, a military genius, and the "God's Favorite", the calm Aristelas also showed a hint of pride.

"Are you well educated?" Davos asked again.

"Yes. Our family was relatively wealthy in Catanai. When we were young, our parents hired tutors for us..." Aristelas' calm words were mixed with a bit of pain.

"The evil Dionysius not only captured Catanai, but also turned most of the people who had not escaped into slaves. A small number of them were forcibly moved to the city of Syracuse, where they were occupied by the bandits of Syracuse. Our land!..." Antrapolis said angrily.

"Hey, Sicily is now a volcano that is about to erupt!" Davos sighed, remembering the information he had learned these days.Then the topic changed: "Do you think this Crotonian was sent to collect information, and he wanted to spread rumors, thus exposing himself, isn't it a bit stupid?"

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