Chapter 384: War Restarts

Chalcy Pempas knew something about Metiades, because it was he who took the letter written by Kephisophon and drove a pirate ship to several city-states in Greece to deliver the letter. Among the invited people, only the living The down-and-out Metiades accepted the invitation. Although this man looked sloppy and a little nervous, he did not dare to look down on him because Metiades was a well-known scholar in Alexandria and was very respected. But he never imagined that his children would eventually become his students.

In fact, in the past few years, since Carlsipempas spent more time in the iron mines and often traveled to the Nyx tribe, Maximus no longer asked Loginnisius to serve as a liaison.

For the sake of his son, he did not allow him to return to the mountains, and both parties tacitly ignored the matter, allowing Loginnisius, who was not a Nyxian, to stay in Ofidilia...

"Father, you came so late, you didn't just come to see me, did you? Did something happen to the tribe?" Loginnisius' question interrupted Calsipempas's thoughts.

After he calmed down, he told Rogimnisius that "due to the siege of the Romans, he could no longer continue plundering at sea, Budokaribas and others persuaded him to lead his people to move to the territory of Nyx", and asked: "Son, do you think I should follow their advice?"

Loginnisius thought for a while and did not answer directly. Instead, he asked: "Father, why did you become a pirate in the first place?"

"At that time, the tribesmen didn't even have enough to eat. I had to become a pirate to make their lives better." Carl Sipempas said without thinking.

"So by allowing the people to move to the territory of Nyx, will their lives become better? Or make them worse?" Rodimnisius then asked.

"I have visited the tribe of Budokaribas several times. The life of all his tribesmen is even better than before the Segestika people invaded the Kupa River. If I lead the tribe to move here, the situation should be Same thing." Carl Sipempas answered frankly, with a hint of excitement in his voice.

"Then why are you still hesitating!" General Rodimnisius said angrily: "Do you regard the power of the leader as more important than the improvement of the lives of the people?!"

"Fart!" Carlsipempas immediately scolded: "If I valued the position of leader, I wouldn't spend more than half of the year wandering on the sea! Not only would I have to risk being chased by Roman warships, but the ship would be destroyed by the storm. The danger, and because I haven’t been able to get news from you for a long time, I worry about whether there will be problems in the tribe from time to time——"

Kalsipempas suddenly closed his mouth, his brows relaxed, and those few words of venting broke through the barrier in his heart: Since he does not value the power of the leader, and he wants the lives of his tribe to become better, he moved to the tribe. The Knicks are the best choice!

"Good boy, thank you for your reminder. I will start handling the tribe's relocation after I go back!" Kalsipempas said with a firm expression.

"Father." Rodimnisius said with the same firm expression: "I want to join the Nyx tribe!"

Carl Sipenpas was not surprised. In the past few years, Rodimnisius had been staying in Nix and never asked to return to the tribe. Every time he got together with him, what his son talked about the most was his study and life in Nix. Pampas already knew what the child was thinking.

"If you want to join, then join!" Carl Sipempas looked at his second son: not only is he an adult, but he is also far smarter than himself, and he will definitely be better than himself in the future!

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In early September, the Knicks tribe had another bumper harvest, but the tribesmen did not celebrate. They hurriedly harvested the wheat fields, threshed the wheat, hurriedly paid the field tax to the Ministry of Commerce, and then began to devote all their energy to the next step. In the war to be fought.

At the end of September, the political hall issued a "military mobilization" order, and the heads of the military departments in each region of the Knicks tribe began to recruit soldiers according to the previous plan...

In early October, Maximus personally led the First, Third, and Fourth Legions and the Cavalry Brigade, a total of 20,000 men.

The crossbow troops showed their prowess in the last war with the Pannoni. Later, after Maximus discussed with the officers of the Ministry of War, he decided to add a crossbow unit to each legion, with a strength of 500 people. In addition, after years of accumulation, the number of war horses has increased a lot, and they are temporarily organized into a brigade of 500 people.

The army set out from the east village of Ofidilia and marched southward along the east bank of the Sava River.

At the same time, the two hundred warships of the Nyx fleet, led by the naval commander Amfertaas, also left the port of Ofidilia and headed south along the river.

Following the fleet were hundreds of ships organized by armaments officer Lebirus. The ships were loaded with not only military provisions and baggage, but also military auxiliary personnel, such as engineering battalions, and accessories for various siege equipment they carried.

On the same day, the Second Army and the Fourth Army assembled in Westney, led by the commander of the Army Tolerugo, marched downstream along the south bank of the Kupa River.

At the same time, twenty warships and hundreds of baggage ships also set out from the Snotia River Port and sailed downstream along the Kupa River.

This time, the Nix tribe formed a total of 30,000 troops (excluding auxiliary personnel), but the defense of the tribe was not empty after the army left. The number of tribesmen in the Kupa River area who were ready to fight could at least form a legion, and in the Ophidilla area, two more legions could be formed. If the tribal armies of Budokaribas and Cicelitses were included, protecting the security of the territory would not be a problem at all.

What's more, the Nix tribe maintained friendly relations with its surrounding neighbors. Even Desitiatae, which was located to the east of the Nix tribe and belonged to the Pannonian tribal alliance, signed a truce agreement with the Nix and had not harassed the territory for several years.

Like last time, Maximus asked Nesia to take his place at the center, and Volenus and other department heads of the Council of State handled tribal affairs together.

Without any worries, he led his army out of the territory. As soon as he entered the Gonam Lake area, Adatis brought the leaders of the tribes and tribesmen of the Gonam Lake to greet him and announced that they would join the Nix tribe together.

The mighty army and fleet of the Nix tribe completely extinguished the luck of a few people in Lake Gonam.

Lebirus incorporated the fleet and personnel provided by Adatis and other leaders into the logistics team, and sent a number of experienced veterans to serve as officers at all levels of this team for strict and consistent management.

In the autumn, the weather was dry and there was little rain. The soil on the east bank of Lake Gonam dried up, and the road became hard, making it easier to march on land. The Nix army left Lake Gonam smoothly and entered the territory of Brochi.

Not far to the south of Lake Gonam is the confluence of the Sava River and the Kupa River. The silt brought by the river from the upper reaches has formed a fertile plain here, and of course it has also caused a large area of ​​tidal flats. However, over the past decade, Brix has led the tribesmen to continuously transform and cultivate this area, making it a land of fish and rice in the territory of Brochi, with large and small villages densely distributed at the confluence of the two rivers.

However, when the Nix army set foot on this land, the villages here were all in ruins, and a large camp stood on the west bank where the two rivers meet.

It turned out that when Brix persuaded the Pannonian tribal alliance to form a large army in an attempt to destroy the newly rising Nix tribe, he suffered a disastrous defeat, especially the Brochi army lost more than 10,000 young and strong tribesmen in the battle of the Korana River Hills (either died in battle or were captured), and its strength was seriously damaged.

Then the Nix army destroyed Segestica, which made Brix even more frightened. He once wanted to disrupt the situation in the north, let the Nix people fall into chaos with the Segestica people, weaken their strength, and make them unable to distract themselves, but who knew that the Nix people quickly stabilized the order in the Segestica territory and easily defeated the team he sent to harass.

To make matters worse, the Pannonian coalition followed the Boii to fight the Dacians and suffered another defeat. The Boii resented the Pannoni for not contributing much in the war, believing that it was the Pannoni army's retreat without a fight that exposed the flank of the Boii coalition. The Pannoni were the culprits of the failure of the war and must pay compensation.

The compensation proposed by the Boii was that the Pannoni should give up the land north of the Drau River to the Boii people east of the Danube River whose homes were taken away by the Dacians because of the failure of the war.

The Pannoni tribal alliance certainly could not agree to this unreasonable request and flatly refused.

So the alliance between the two sides, which lasted less than a year, broke down, and then the war broke out.

In the past, the Boii and the Pannoni had been in constant conflict. The overall strength of the Boii was much stronger than that of the Pannoni, but they focused their main energy on expanding the land on the east bank of the Danube, while the Pannoni tribal alliance worked together to fight against them, so the two sides had always maintained a balance.

This time, the Boii's desire for the plains on the east bank of the Danube was completely crushed by the more powerful Dacians. In order to allow their compatriots who had lost their homes to successfully obtain new places to live, they turned to the war against the Pannoni and devoted all their efforts. However, the Pannoni tribal alliance suffered a great loss of strength in the previous war with Nix, and it was difficult to resist the offensive of the Boii.

In the end, the people of the three Pannoni tribes of Desitiatae, Disione, and Perustai, who lived on the east bank of the Drau River, reluctantly gave up their homes and fled back to the west bank in embarrassment. The Boii occupied all the land on the east bank of the Drau River.

But the story did not end there. Through this war, the Boii found that the strength of the Pannoni was far less than before, so they came up with a new idea: occupying the plains east of the Danube was no longer possible, but it seemed that they could attack southward, defeat the Pannoni, occupy the land south of the Drau River, and thus strengthen the strength of the race, so that they could fight the Dacians again in the future...