Chapter 384: Using Local People to Check and Balance Each Other

Border between the regions of Campania and Lazio.

Athenian soldiers' barracks.

Roy welcomes two special guests - Brutus, the leader of the Sicur Senate, and the consuls.

“You want your families to take over the Latin villages in Campania and the Sabine villages in Basilicata?”

After listening to Brutus and the consul's request, Roy did not refuse directly.

Because Roy knew that if the Athenian Empire wanted to conquer the Apennine Peninsula with 6,000 soldiers, it would have to make good use of the hatred between the four major ethnic groups of the Apennine Peninsula, the Sicurs, Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans. .

As long as the Sicurs, Latins, Sabines and Etruscans check each other, Roy can achieve his goal of ruling the Apennine Peninsula.

"I can agree to your request and let your family members become the managers of the Campania and Basilicata regions. But I will not let them become the new chiefs and elders. I can only let them serve for a maximum of two years. The village chief for ten years. You can exploit the Sabines and Latins, but after the Sabines and Latins swore to the goddess Persephone and became subjects of the Athenian Empire, the village chief must treat them equally. Because after the Sicurs, Latins, and Sabines joined the Athenian Empire, they were all subjects of the Athenian Empire and enjoyed the legal protection of the Athenian Empire. Only the Sabines and Latins who refused to join the Athenian Empire had their personal property and persons. Safety is without any protection.”

Now that Athenian soldiers have easily swept through the Campania and Basilicata regions, regaining the 24,000 square kilometers of living space lost by the Sicurs, the consuls and Brutus will certainly not refuse Loy's request.

After all, the Latins and Sabines will definitely form a coalition to fight back next, and the Sicurs still need Athenian soldiers to stop the Latins and Sabines.

After the consuls and Brutus left, Roy immediately had heralds convey his orders in Campania and Basilicata.

Isernia Village.

After the messengers left, the Athenian soldiers began to knock on the door and register the villagers here.

The Sicurs, who were originally oppressed by the Latins, naturally would not refuse to join the Athenian Empire.

If the Latins refused to join the Athenian Empire, Athenian soldiers would tell the Latins that the village of Isernia would soon be governed by a Sicur as its mayor.

If Latins swore an oath to join the Athenian Empire, they would be protected by the laws of the Athenian Empire.

If the Latins refused to join the Athenian Empire, they would not receive any legal protection. Even if the Sicurs robbed their wives, daughters, property, or even their lives, they would not be punished in any way.

Under this threat, the Latins had to swear an oath to join the Athenian Empire whether they wanted to or not.

Because the Sikuers and Latins really have a deep hatred.

Without the legal protection of the Athenian Empire, any kind of revenge by the Sicurs against the Latins was possible.

This situation is happening not only in the village of Isernia, but also in the Latin tribe villages in the Campania region and the Sabine tribe villages in the Basilicata region.

If the Latins and Sabines wanted to avoid the revenge of the Sicurs, they could only seek the protection of the Athenian Empire and become supporters of the Athenian Empire.

Next, Roy can use the Latins and Sabines to check the Sikulls.

Athenian soldiers not only registered Latin and Sabine tribal villages, but also implemented a policy of allocating fields and recruited soldiers from Latins and Sabines.

The Latins and Sabines cultivated more fields so that the Athenian empire could obtain more food.

The Latins and Sabines became soldiers of the Athenian Empire, so that Roy could have more soldiers to conquer more territories.

Five days later.

Roy's eight thousand soldiers in Campania and Basilicata not only suffered no losses, but also added five thousand new soldiers.

It is a pity that the newly added Latin soldiers and Sabine soldiers are not only new soldiers, but also can only use wooden spears or stone spears as weapons.

In the army of the Athenian Empire, such recruits could only stay in the local area to maintain law and order.

Although these five thousand recruits cannot become a combat force, with these five thousand recruits to maintain law and order, Roy can mobilize 3,000 iron spearmen and 2,000 soldiers with bronze spears to fight in the Campania region. Caesar is in Brazil The Licata area can also mobilize two thousand iron spearmen and one thousand soldiers with bronze war spears to fight.

at this time--

Tullenus in the Lazio region has gathered an army of 10,000 from various Latin tribes in the Lazio region and is ready to attack Loy.

Just before the war broke out between Loy and the Latin coalition, the envoy of Metius, the leader of the Sabines, came to Loy escorted by a group of Athenian soldiers.

"Your leader Metius said he wanted to live in peace with our Athenian Empire——"

After Metius's envoy stated his intention, Roy said with a smile.

"Although I am also a lover of peace, I must take back the territory that has belonged to the Sicurs since ancient times. Because after the Sicurs joined the Athenian Empire, the territories that used to belong to the Sicurs now all belong to the Athens Empire."

After listening to Roy's words, Metius's messenger frowned and said.

"The Sicurs claim that they once lived in the central Apennine Peninsula. Do you, the Athenian Empire, want to take away all the Puglia and Abruzzo regions where we Sabines live?"

Roy immediately shook his head and said.

"As long as you Sabines swear to join the Athenian Empire, you can continue to live in Apulia and Abruzzo. If Metius refuses my reasonable request, then war can only break out between us."

After Metius's envoy left with Roy's reply, Roy also began to prepare for war with Tulenus.

Although the enemy had twice as many soldiers as Roy, Roy did not think that his soldiers would lose to a group of tribesmen armed with wooden or stone spears.

the next day.

Loy led 5,000 Athenian soldiers to confront the 10,000 Latin coalition forces led by Tullenus.

Before the battle, Turrenus and the Latin chiefs built an altar to worship their patron god Mars.

Loy and the Athenian soldiers all couldn't help laughing when they saw the Latins praying to Mars, the farmer among the gods, who was in charge of reproduction, plants, and protection of livestock, farmland, and farmers.

"Fellow Athenian soldiers!"

Roy also said to his soldiers.

"Just like Mars, the patron saint of the Latins, is a farmer, the Latin coalition in front of us is also a group of farmers holding wooden spears and stone spears. The victory of this war will undoubtedly belong to you, what I ask of you Just be careful, be careful, be careful, and don’t let yourself be beaten to death by farmers with wooden or stone spears because of your carelessness. I don’t want to waste the pension on idiots who are beaten to death by farmers.”

After saying that, before Tulenus and others could complete the sacrifice, Roy led the Athenian soldiers to attack.

Seeing the Athenians destroying the sacred sacrificial ceremony, the Latins all started to curse.

Although the sacrificial ceremony was not completed, Mars, the patron god of the Latin people, still came to the battlefield in the form of a thousand-meter-tall god.