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Chapter 872 Naconia Tribal Warrior
However, Kontruk did not intend to lead the team to leave. He was determined to follow the ancient tradition of the Samnite tribe alliance and defend Beneventum with the Shirpini tribe, advancing and retreating together.

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In the mountains in early summer, the soil is still moist, the trees are already lush, the weeds are growing wildly, and the summer cicadas have begun to chirp incessantly.The hot sunlight passes through the dense branches and leaves, casting wisps of mottled light on the mountain grass.

Three Abenirum spies were lying on the ground, swatting away the biting mosquitoes on their bodies while closely looking down at the winding mountain road down the mountain.

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

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

"Let's go and take a look!" The spy named Big Brother also showed joy on his face. He stood up, stretched his aching thighs, and then led the two of them and ran eastward along the ridge.

Not long after, they lay down on the mountain ridge again and looked down: the mountain road more than a hundred meters apart was crowded with densely packed Samnite warriors. They lined up in a long queue, stretching eastward...

Although the uniforms of the warriors from the four major tribes are roughly the same, and they are too far apart to see the flags clearly, the experienced Abenirum spies were still able to tell that this was Cavutini's army, because under the sunlight This long dragon has a lot of reflections, which shows that the rate of armor in the team is not low, and among the four major tribes, only the Cavutini can do it, because they own the eastern plains of Campania and are the richest tribe. What's more, the direction this army is heading towards is Kautim.

"Chief Garni is right. The Kautini people 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 discovered where the Narconians are yet?"

"Of course it's not clear from this mountain, but I can roughly guess their location." The leading spy said confidently: "We haven't seen Naconia since their army entered the city of Beneventom. People went out to fight in the city, and they were not even sent to patrol the city. This shows that the Kawutini people were prepared for them. I think they must be walking in the middle of the team... There are 3000 people there, and they can be found easily. Watching them.

You rush back immediately and tell Chief Gairni that I, Seduni, have begun to implement the plan... And you, rush to the Dionia camp in Lola and tell their commander that we have been contacted The Naconian army..."

"Brother, you have to be careful!"

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

What Seduni said was not a word of comfort, because the Samoni army did not always walk on the mountain road like the Dionian army when marching in the mountains. When the mountains on both sides slowed down, the Samoni army would Separating some soldiers to march on the mountainside on both sides, this not only shortened the length of the marching column, but also reduced the possibility of being ambushed, but it made it easy for Seduni to sneak into the army.

After seeing off the two spies, he dusted off his body, carried a few javelins, and used the cover of trees to sneak down the mountain, and then hid in the weeds.

After a short period of carefully listening to the conversation of the soldiers marching at a close distance, he stood up decisively, pretended to have just finished urinating, and approached the team walking on the hillside. Since he was wearing the same yellow short-sleeved singlet, plus The marching column of Kautini was not as rigorous as the Dionians, but rather scattered, so he easily blended into the team.

Then, through silent conversations with several Naconian warriors around him, he decided to go to the leader of the Afangum, the second largest tribe in Naconia (the reason why he did not go to Quinduque's tribe , because this tribe has been completely separated by Segovani, and its people have also been forcibly merged into the tribes of Lola and Sesala).

"You said you are from Abenirum?" Wasonk looked at the man with a straight face, warily looking at the man who tried to approach him quietly but was stopped by the guards, but there was a hint of excitement in his tone.

Seduni also noticed his youth. Judging from his appearance, he should be just over 20 years old. According to Samnite tradition, it is impossible to lead an army of tribes in battle, but Segovani imprisoned various tribes in Naconia. The leaders of the tribe let their young children lead the tribe's warriors for better control.

"In order to prevent being seen by some people, we'd better talk while walking." Seidum suggested in a low voice.

Vasong subconsciously looked around, then nodded.

Seduni pretended to be Wasonk's guard and followed Wasonk with other warriors.

Wasonk couldn't wait to whisper and asked: "What's going on in Nakonia?! We heard rumors in the city of Beneventum that the Dionians hated us for killing Hadi in their territory!" After the Si priests and Dionian merchants invaded the Naconian territory, they not only killed the wolves of Segovani, but also...also...killed all of our...our tribesmen...but The familiar Kautini warriors quietly told us that your tribe often shouted outside Beneventum, saying that the Dionians had formed an alliance with the tribesmen we stayed in the territory... and some others. Which rumor is true?!"

Seduni didn't speak immediately, but took out something from his bosom, and quietly handed it to Vasong.

Vasonke's eyes widened immediately, and he recognized that this was a small wooden sculpture that he had loved when he was a child.

Seduni looked at his expression and felt confident: "This is the token that your tribal elder asked me to bring to you. I also have tokens that I brought to several other tribal leaders. The real situation is that Dioni The Asian army drove away the Cavutim people stationed in the city of Naconia, and formed an alliance with the tribal elders of Naconia to jointly fight against the Samnite coalition..."

After Seduni finished speaking, Wasonk had not yet responded. The guards next to him were already looking excited. The Cavutim people trapped and killed Quinduk, imprisoned the tribal leaders, massacred the tribesmen in the territory, and forced them to go out to fight. , and regardless of their life or death, always let them rush to the front... There was a fire burning in the hearts of these Naconian warriors, but due to the strength of the Samnite coalition and the safety of the territorial tribesmen, they had to endure the humiliation and bear the heavy burden. , now the opportunity has come!

Some people even shouted in a low voice: "Great!" Their eyes burst out with the flames of revenge, staring directly at Vasonk.

Wasonk squeezed the small wooden sculpture in his hand tightly and whispered: "When we get to Kautim, I will quietly send someone to tell the other Naconian generals..."

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On the day that Segovani led the army to retreat from Beneventum, Zantiparis, who was in the military camp outside Lola City, had decided to launch an attack on Lola City.

Four days had passed since the siege. Why was he so eager to attack the city?On the one hand, it was because he was worried about the return of the Samnite coalition forces, which caused all previous efforts to be in vain; on the other hand, his siege layout was almost completed.

When he first arrived at Lola City, Zantiparis carefully observed this plain town in Kautini: Although it is nearly seven meters high and is a stone city, the walls are dilapidated and the gaps in the stone walls are large. Green grass even grew in the place, and the trench outside the city was not too wide. Although there was a simple deer camp outside the trench, no traps were laid...

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 the confidence to break the city in the short term (actually, last year Kautini The Udini invaded Campania and were defeated by Dionian reinforcements, and the Third Army entered Tesala, which has already made the towns of Cautini, such as Lola and Cesara, which are closer to Tesala feel Dangerous, they put "strengthening the city's defense" on the agenda, but it didn't take long for the full-scale war between the Samonites and Dionia to break out, Lola's young and middle-aged people were transferred, and the repair of the city wall was delayed).

Zantiparis considered that there were few defenders in the city of Lola, and except for enemy reinforcements that might come from the north, other areas were controlled by Dionia and its allies, so he and Aialos, the leader of the Campania army, After discussing with others, they decided to build a mountain of earth to approach the city wall.

Building an earth mountain to siege the city is a project of the Dionysian Army's daily military training. Zantiparis and the soldiers are familiar with it. After deciding to build the earth mountain to the south of Lola City and engineers surveying it, the starting point of the construction will be Set 40 meters away from Nancheng.

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

At the same time, Adriancus, the chief executive of Enona, received the help of Xantiparis, not only organized thousands of Enona citizens, but also sent some administrative officials. They took three days of rations and passed The original commercial road passed through the territory of Naconia and arrived outside the city of Lola.After the Naconians learned of the news, they also sent thousands of people.Subsequently, the Campania League also sent tens of thousands of people. In less than two days, more than 3 people (including 12000 coalition soldiers) gathered in the Dionian coalition camp.

Zantiparis made this plan for building Tushan: He first left 2000 Campania heavy infantry to garrison the camp to prevent the enemy from sneaking out of the city to attack. The other soldiers went to the mountains and forests to cut trees, and some of the cut wood was made into five pieces. , six-meter-high wooden fences, and then two hundred soldiers erected rows of wooden fences 30 meters away from the south wall of Lola, with a length of 70 meters, to resist javelins and arrows fired by enemies from the top of the city. At the same time, there are 300 Dionian heavy infantry on both sides and rear of the wooden fence at any time to prevent the enemy from leaving the city and destroying it.

(End of this chapter)