Rome must fall.

Chapter 347 The Rage of the Boyi

There was also news from the Temple of Danu: The high priest Maximus would come to the temple in the days before the arrival of spring to worship the goddess and pray for her to bless the newlyweds in the tribe to have children smoothly!
As a result, the staff in charge of marriage registration in the Ministry of Justice became even busier, and countless newlyweds were looking forward to the arrival of the Spring Festival hosted by Maximus.

Compared to the joyous atmosphere in the territory of the Nix tribe, the heart of the Brochi chief Bricks was cold. His carefully planned harassment of the Nix people not only failed, but both teams were almost wiped out. In particular, the two leaders Prikas and Iberus had not escaped yet and their lives or deaths were unknown. This was a big blow to Bricks, because without the two of them, it would be difficult for anyone else to reorganize the exiled Segestica people and the people of Lake Gonammi to continue to cause trouble for the Nix people.

Bricks is very regretful now: he should not have launched the attack on the Knicks so hastily. In fact, as long as these two leaders exist, they will provide considerable help to Brock in his fight against the Knicks in the future.

At the same time, Bricks was also worried that this harassment would anger the Nyx people, and they would take the opportunity to attack the Gonam Lake area and even threaten Brochi... So in the next few days, he was anxiously following the situation in the Gonam Lake area, but instead of waiting for the Nyx army, he waited for the messenger of the tribal alliance.

It turned out that the Boii envoy arrived at the headquarters of the Pannonian tribal alliance and met with the Mazii leader Metilis. He told him clearly that the Boii leaders were very dissatisfied with the Pannonian tribal alliance. Since both sides decided to jointly deal with the Dacians and formed a military alliance for this purpose, they should focus on this aspect instead of using this alliance to launch other wars.

The Boii did not care about the defeats suffered by the Pannonians in their battles with other tribes, but only cared whether the Pannonians could fulfill their covenant, because the Boii were about to launch a war against the Dacians. If the Pannonians could not send reinforcements to participate in the war, then the Boii would regard the Pannonians as violating the covenant and would naturally "repay" them in the future...

Obviously, the response given by the Boii to the Pannoni envoy who had intended to go to Boii for help was angry and tough, and even threatening...

For such a major event concerning the life and death of the Pannoni tribe, Metilis did not dare to make a decision alone, so he had to send messengers to the major tribes to request an urgent tribal alliance meeting.

Unlike previous tribal alliance meetings, only six great chiefs attended this meeting because the great chief of Segestica had died in battle and there was no new successor. Originally, people like Pricas and Iberus could attend as temporary representatives, but these two people went to harass the Nixes and have not returned since then. Given the current situation of the Segestica tribe, they could not find any suitable people to attend the meeting, so they had to give up.

When the six great chiefs sat in the tribal alliance meeting hall and saw the empty chair, they couldn't help feeling sad.

As soon as the meeting began, a heated dispute broke out among everyone about whether to send troops to participate in the war launched by the Boii against the Dacians.

Brix firmly opposed the dispatch of troops, on the grounds that the alliance had suffered heavy losses in the previous war with the Nyx, and was unable to send troops to fight again in a short period of time. Moreover, the Dacians were less threatening to the Pannonian Alliance, while the Nyx had become the biggest threat to the alliance. If the alliance drew away the few warriors of the tribes, then the Nyx entrenched in the territory of Segestica would suddenly lead an army to attack, and who would resist...

Metilis, who had always been able to consider the overall situation, also expressed his opposition to sending troops this time. This was because Mazii had suffered heavy losses in the war with the Nyx, and even though there were mountains and swamps between them, Mazii was not far from the territory of Segestica occupied by the Nyx, so the threat it faced was not small.

The attitude of the chieftain of the Deisitiatai, Temagis, was more ambiguous.

On the one hand, Deisitiatai also suffered heavy losses in the war with the Nix, and on the other hand, there were also heavy losses in the battle in the temporary camp last year. Temajis fled back to the main village alone and was unanimously criticized by the tribal elders. Even the tribesmen were dissatisfied with him. It would undoubtedly become very difficult to recruit the tribesmen to fight outside again.

But on the other hand, the Nixes are a threat to the Desitiates, and the Boii are a greater threat to the Desitiates. The fertile land of the Desitiates on the north bank of the Drao River borders the Boii. Once the alliance breaks down, the Boii and the Desitiates will go to war again. With the current strength of the Desitiates, they will be no match at all...

The two great leaders, Demikas and Pachilas, were also facing the same problem. Their territories to the north were adjacent to the Boyi, and the threats in the words of the Boyi envoys were very obvious. Their strength had been damaged and they did not want to go to war with the Boyi again.

Compared to Deisitiatai, Mazii and Brochi, they suffered less losses in the previous war, and they did not border the newly occupied Segestica territory of Nix. It was obvious what choice they would make.

The great leader of the Antizeti, Antosius, welcomed the idea of ​​sending troops to join the Boii's war against the Dacians.

Andizeti has never been able to defeat the remnants of the Scodisci over the years because they have the support of the Dacians behind them. If the Boyi coalition can completely defeat the Dacians this time, then the problem that has troubled Andizeti for many years will be solved.

In the end, the Pannonian tribal alliance meeting passed the decision to "continue to implement the alliance agreement with the Boii and send troops to participate in the war" with Antosius, Demicus and Pagylas in favor, Brix and Metilis against, and Temagis also voted in favor at the last moment. However, after the meeting, Brix made it clear that because the tribe suffered heavy losses, it would be difficult for him to send troops to participate in the next war.

Metilis and Temagis also pointed out that the situation of their tribes was also very bad and they could only send a small number of warriors to participate in the war.

The other leaders were reluctant to force it.

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There are many Bulo tribes and races living in the middle and lower reaches of the Danube River. The most powerful race is called Dacia.

Dacia was the name given to this race by Rome, the overlord of the Mediterranean, and before that the Greeks called it Geta.

In fact, this race is a branch of the Thracians. They migrated in large numbers from northern Greece to the lower reaches of the Danube a long time ago, then moved up the river, crossed the Carpathian Mountains, entered the middle Danube plain, and began to settle in its eastern part.

As time went on, by the time the Romans began to build their cities, the Geta-Dacians had become the largest ethnic group in Northern Thracian.

During the Greco-Persian Wars, the Dacians first appeared in the vision of Mediterranean civilized people. At that time, the Persian King Darius led a huge army across the Hellespont, attempting to conquer the whole of Greece. Of course, the first thing to do was to conquer the Thracians who were widely distributed in northern Greece.

At that time, many Thracian tribes chose to surrender under the oppression of the powerful Persian army. Only the Dacians resisted bravely. Although they were eventually defeated, they won the respect of their Thracian compatriots and Greeks. The famous scholar Herodotus called the Dacians "the bravest and most upright Thracians."

After the Eastern Dacians were conquered by Persia, they never stopped resisting. The Dacian governor sent by the Persian Emperor Darius to control them gave rise to several Dacian tribal alliances in the constant battles to suppress the rebellion, and then there were military commanders who were in charge of these tribal alliances. The Dacians called them "kings" or "Persian kings."

In the following centuries, these elected kings led their tribal alliances to resist foreign enemies while also fighting each other. They had fought against Alexander the Great and several monarchs of the subsequent Macedonian Kingdom.

As the Macedonian kingdom declined, a more powerful enemy arrived.

The Romans were obviously more dangerous than the Macedonians. Greece surrendered, Macedonia surrendered, northern Greece surrendered, Asia Minor surrendered, Bithynia surrendered, and Pontus, which refused to surrender, was suffering a blow... The powerful Roman army could move north from northern Greece at any time, or invade the land of Dacia in the east by boat from the Black Sea.

The powerful external threat forced the tribes in Eastern Dacia to stop fighting and form a more unified tribal alliance in order to resist foreign enemies and safeguard the security of their territory.

Most tribes turned their attention to southern Transylvania and the Orasdi Mountains, where two outstanding Dacian leaders, Olores and Rubbobostes, emerged. Under their leadership, the tribal alliance under their jurisdiction had become the most powerful force in eastern Dacia.

The current leader of the tribe is named Burebista. Although he succeeded to the throne at a very young age, he is more capable and ambitious. From the day he became the leader, he was determined to unify the tribes of Eastern Dacia (82 BC).

Through the combined use of war and politics, Burebista unified Eastern Dacia into a tribal alliance 10 years later and became the sole king. In 72 BC, he led the alliance army to repel a Roman army (mainly Thracian auxiliary troops) that penetrated deep into Dobruja, making his reputation resound throughout the middle and lower reaches of the Danube.

Due to the barrier of the Carpathian Mountains, the area where the Dacians lived was divided into two parts, the East and the West. At first, the tribes on both sides had close contacts, but as time went on, due to different environments, they developed differently, and gradually the contacts between the East and the West became rare. If this continued, they might become like the Pannoni and the Ardae, not only strangers, but also fighting each other for interests.

(End of this chapter)