ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 505 Hilos’s Decision
"Let's go quickly, Lord Xiros, or we will be delayed again!" Henipolis urged proudly, leading the guards to walk quickly towards the trestle.

Hilos had no choice but to accept the fact that Henipolis was going out with the army, and once again solemnly paid a military salute to Bagule: "Laos will be left to you."

A somewhat guilty Bagule responded with the same solemnity: "Don't worry, may Hades protect you and go to the south to defeat the enemy and attack the city!"

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As soon as Daves crossed the Neto River, he received a report from the herald Tormid: "Your Majesty, a group of Syracuse's scouts appeared in front, and our cavalry is pursuing them."

"The Cavalry Legion of Laides has been scattered a long time ago, why didn't they find out, and let them break into our army." Davos's calm tone was majestic.

The kind-hearted Tormid hurriedly explained: "It is reported that these enemy cavalry were hidden behind the ruins of Crotone City and were not discovered. Now Ledes has reorganized his troops and is preparing to conduct a thorough investigation. The ruins of Crotone.”

"Dionysius is very careful in order to find out the movements of our army!" Davos mocked. He sat high on the horse and looked ahead. His field of vision was full of Dai Vos forming a small phalanx. The Onian soldier's expression began to turn solemn: "I'm afraid my worst assumptions are becoming reality... Tormid!"

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"Inform all legionnaires to put on their weapons and equipment and march south at normal speed! Tell Ledes not to distract his cavalry to explore the city of Crotone. I want his cavalry to follow the army of Syracuse closely. Report the enemy's movements at all times, and at the same time cover up our army's movements with all your strength! Let the mountain reconnaissance brigade do the investigation of Crotone City."

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Tormid asked softly again: "Do we need to inform the Crotones in the Acropolis that we have crossed the river?"

Davos pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "Send someone to tell Lysias... Well, just say that we are leading the army to rescue them. There may be a fierce battle with the Syracuse army, and ask them to send as many troops as possible. The troops are coming to join us!”

"Understood, Your Majesty!" Tormid immediately turned around and gave orders to the messengers.

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"My lord, my men are back." Axilita rode her horse and rushed to Dionysius: "We sent out ten men, but only two came back, and they were all wounded. Although they were highly skilled in riding, But to get through the encirclement of so many enemy cavalry——"

"I understand, you have made a great contribution, and the rewards will be great in the future!" Dionysius interrupted his complaint impatiently: "Tell me, how is the situation?"

"The Dionian army has crossed the river, and there are many, many people..." The level of civilization of the Numibians is far lower than that of Carthage and Greece. After the number reaches tens of thousands, most of them cannot count them clearly.

Dionysius listened to Axirita's exaggerated words, his original worries dissipated, and a smile appeared on his face.Talking about retreating because the rear was attacked, it was all an illusion to lure the enemy across the river. He had only one goal in mind - to defeat the Dionia army, and only by achieving this goal could he completely get rid of the Syracuse army. The dilemma, Dionysius was very clear from the beginning to the end.

His eyes glanced at Phoebidus beside him, who nodded vigorously at him.

Dionysius gave a decisive order: "Order the entire army to stop advancing, turn around immediately, cross the Tachinadi River, and march north quickly!"

At this moment, his army had already passed the south bank of the Tachinadi River. The whole army was about ten miles away from the Neto River. It would take more than two hours to reach it by normal march. Therefore, he had to move quickly to avoid the enemy finding out that he had been deceived. Escape back to the north bank of the Neto River.However, the time required for an army of tens of thousands to cross Netohe should probably be more than a few hours. He has enough time...

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Near noon, the fleet entered the port of Knapetia.

The port of Krapetia is not large. Although it was expanded by two administrators after it was merged into the Dionysian Alliance, the port's congenital conditions are not good, and its capacity to accommodate ships has not been significantly improved. Therefore, the troop transport ships can slowly line up to enter the port one after another...

"Master Hilos, welcome to your arrival! I haven't seen you for more than two years. This time I heard that you were coming, so I went to the dock early to wait for you!"

Asistes gave Hilos a warm hug as he just got off the boat, and then said: "Your Majesty is really cruel. In the past few years, he has either let me stay in Lucania or sent me to this remote place. You came to the Bruti region and didn’t give me any free time to hang out with you old brothers. The last time you were appointed as the administrator of Cosenza, I originally wanted to go to Cosenza to give you Congratulations, I didn’t expect the war to break out so soon..."

Asistes talked excitedly as soon as he came up, but Hilos only replied: "Your Majesty is also doing this for your own good."

"Of course. Your Majesty treats me like a brother. He won't blame me if I complain a few times." Asistes joked shamelessly.

"Hello, Lord Asistes!" Henipolis stepped forward to greet him.

When Henipolis went to Tulii to study, Asistes had already gone to Niutum. He only saw Henipolis a few times when he returned to Tulii to report to Davos. , but he had a deep memory of the only young man who stayed in the Davos Mansion.

"Lord Henipolis, nice to see you!" Asistes immediately returned the greeting warmly, then he remembered something and looked confused: "The fact that you are here means that Laos has taken it back. Aren’t you supposed to be in Laos to sort out the affairs of the city-state that just went through the war?!”

In fact, these words contained a bit of a lesson, but Henipolis did not pay attention to it. He said calmly: "There is Lord Bagulu in Laos City now. He is doing a good job, and I am I want to fulfill the promise I made to His Majesty to serve as his army secretary, so I came with Lord Hilos. I heard that Lord Asistes is your Majesty's first secretary, and I want to ask you for more advice. Give me some experience in serving as His Majesty’s clerk.”

Asistes laughed, but glanced at Hilos, seeing Hilos nod to him, and said: "No problem, we can communicate together, I think you must do better than me, because I don't have With your excellent writing ability, I received a lot of criticism from His Majesty..."

Just as Asistes was humbly encouraging Henipolis, a man behind him stood up: "Lord Hilos, we have been waiting for you for a long time!"

"Who are you?" Hilos looked at the stranger who spoke.

"Let me introduce you." Asistes said hurriedly: "This is Trina's general - Bromaras. After the Allied forces in South Italy failed in the battle, he led the people in the city to retreat to Knappe Tia, avoided the tragic fate of Siliting."

Bromaras solemnly said: "Lord Hilos, the citizens of Trina will fight with you to take back our home!"

"Your wish will come true soon!" Hilos promised confidently.

"And this one -" Asistes pointed to another man next to him and introduced to Hilos: "The trireme captain of the Dionysian fleet, Fralios, was commissioned by the navy. Commander Sekerian’s order has been waiting for you in Knapetia for a day.”

Fralios took a step forward and gave a military salute: "Lord Hilos, our fleet is currently anchored at the port of Taurina. General Sekerian ordered me to discuss with you to get the time for you to attack Trina. After that, I will return immediately and tell General Sekerian. He will lead a fleet, loaded with 4000 soldiers of Lijim, to land on the coast of Hibernian and cut off Locri's reinforcement route..."

After hearing this, Hilos couldn't help but sigh: "Now that our navy is stronger, it will be even more helpful for the army's offensive!"

He turned to look at the dock. There were only a few hundred soldiers ashore, and the troop transport ships were lined up one after another, extending all the way to the outside of the port.

He looked back at Bromaras. General Trina was looking at him expectantly.

"General Bromaras, how many soldiers do you have?" Hilos asked suddenly.

"500 people." Seeing Xilos frown slightly, Bromaras added: "Including older citizens, I can lead 900 people to fight with you."

"How many soldiers can Cnapetia spare?" Hieros asked Asistes again.

"Knapetia has 1500 reserve citizen soldiers, and I can send 1000 people to support you." Asistes said without thinking.

"How many enemies are there in Trina?" Xiros asked again.

"Hmm...according to our investigation these days, there may be 4000 people, but more than half are citizen soldiers from Hibernian and Medema." Bromaras replied.

Xiros lowered his head and pondered for a while, made up his mind, and immediately said in a deep voice: "I will return to the ship now, lead the fleet to land on the coast of the Euphemia Plain, and march to Trina."

"What?!" Asistes was shocked and hurriedly persuaded: "The soldiers have been bumping on the sea for several hours. They should be allowed to go ashore to rest. It is not too late to set off tomorrow. Not to mention -" Back then, Asistes fought side by side with Hieros in Persia. He knew that once Hieros had an idea, it would be difficult to change him, so he pointed at Flalios and said: "You haven't done a good job with our fleet yet." Contact. Cyklian hopes that the Ligim army will attack Hibernian first and lure the enemies of Trina back to defend, so that you can easily capture Trina when you attack it."

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