Chapter 73 Dionia's Counterattack Plan (Continued)

Cypros also said: "Your Majesty, we sent a large army into the Po River plain and fought fierce battles in the territory of the Gauls, which will inevitably arouse the unease of the Ligurians and Venetians, in order to avoid some accidents. , we can send envoys to these two races while sending troops. Tell them that the kingdom of Dionia was attacked by the Gauls, so it sent troops to counterattack, and invited them to attack the Gauls together. territory, even if they refuse to join, it will reduce the unease they feel about our sudden presence on the Po plain..."

Davers nodded, feeling reasonable.

"Your Majesty." At this time, Sedorum asked: "After our army conquers the Gauls, what should we do with them?"

This question of Sedorum made Davos fall into contemplation, precisely because he did not plan to attack the Gaul in the mountains at this stage in advance, and naturally he did not draw up a detailed plan for the placement of the surrendered Gauls after the war. What came to his mind was Caesar's war against Gaul beyond the mountains in the previous life history, the bloody conquest of the aborigines from the north of the Mount Alps to the land of England in the 8-year long campaign, and the continuous He paid a high price in the battle, slaughtered countless Gauls, and finally got their surrender. As for the Gaul in the mountains, it seems that after Rome became stronger, they obeyed and there was no major war. Of course, when Hannibal led the army to cross the Alps and attacked Rome, these Gauls in the mountains joined in one after another. His subordinates rebelled against the Romans...

Davos looked at Alexis and Printoles, his eyes flashed coldly, and he said in a tough tone: "The Gauls are a fierce race, we don't have any sympathy for their battles, as long as they are still alive. Resist, the soldiers will not stop fighting and killing, only if we are more vicious than them, they will fear and surrender!

If any Gallic tribe wants to surrender, you can tell them, 'Surrender is ok, but we must unconditionally accept our resettlement of their lands, and must also obey some of the kingdom's decisions on surrendering Gauls. ’… These resolutions… After I have had a special discussion with everyone, I will submit them to the Senate for approval…

But no matter whether the Gauls surrender or not, some important towns in the Gallic territory must be captured and firmly in our hands, such as Arimium, if we occupy it, our military supplies can be relatively fast and smooth. Transport to the army. And Boloma, the central town of the Zenones, where our army from Etruscans crossed the hills and into the Po plain, was safe; and Medeolan, the central town of the Salvis. , only by occupying it will we be able to prevent more Gauls from crossing the Alps and into the Po plain..."

"Understood, Your Majesty." Sedorum, Alexis, and Plintos responded one after another.

"Your Majesty, although the Gauls have suffered heavy losses, only attacking from the sea is also convenient for the Gauls to defend. It is better to wait for the army to attack Arimium and attract the main force of the Gauls, and let the original Etruscan The army led by Patroclus and Hasdrubal in the territory also launched an attack on the Gaul territory... If you are worried about the difficulty of fighting in the mountains,

The Third Army can be its vanguard..." Hermon also put forward his own suggestion in a timely manner.

Davos heard this, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help joking: "Hermon, this suggestion you put forward is a good supplement to Alexis and their attack plan. It’s a lot of research, isn’t it a bit too subservient for you to be just a rotating chairman?”

"Your Majesty, Lord Hermon's main purpose is to let the Third Legion join the war and make some military exploits. As for being said to be a good military proposal, it's just a crooked fight." Antaoris was half-joking. said seriously.

"What is going wrong? I racked my brains to come up with this, taking into account the characteristics of the Third Corps' good at mountain combat... Just because I was thinking about this all the way, I was almost knocked down by pedestrians." Hermon Without looking at Antaoris, while complaining, he touched his knees with both hands, showing a lingering fear, as if something really happened.

Everyone laughed for a while, and the atmosphere in the room relaxed a little, and Hermon cleverly covered up the embarrassment that Antaoris secretly said that he was being selfish.

Davos actually didn't care much about this matter. He looked at the thin figure on the opposite side and asked, "Haka, what do you think about this?"

"Your Majesty." Haka said without hesitation: "Now Carthage has surrendered to the kingdom, and the eastern and western Numibians have also submitted to us. The southern part of Iberia is under the iron-fisted rule of the Chief Executive Bagule. The order has been greatly improved. The commander of Legion Sextus led the Eighteenth Legion and the Frontier Legion to join forces to defeat the indigenous people who came to invade several times over the past year, and also took the initiative to slaughter one. The predatory Lusitania tribe has even more shocked the surrounding indigenous people... Now everything is stable within the kingdom's sphere of influence, and the country's financial and material resources are relatively rich.

And to our east, the war between Sparta and Thebes and Athens is still going on, which will not affect us for the time being. We should take advantage of such a great opportunity to concentrate our forces and completely remove the kingdom's biggest trouble on the Italian peninsula - the Gauls, to clear the way for our complete domination of the Western Mediterranean! "

"Well said!" Davos said with a smile and approvingly: "Now is indeed the best time to conquer the Gauls! So I agree with the offensive plan formulated by the Ministry of Military Affairs! But only the first and second are sent. , The fourth and fifth legions are not enough. The entire Apulia region is on the Adriatic side, and it is more convenient to go to the Po River plain by sea, so I decided to put the ninth, tenth, and The eleventh and three corps, as well as the first and second cavalry corps, also joined the attacking team, a total of 7 infantry corps, plus two cavalry corps, while the first fleet was used as transport and Support, attack the Gallic territories from the side of Arimium!"

Without waiting for Alexis and the others to respond, Davos continued: "Let Prosous be the commander of the commander. In addition... the Third Legion will be transferred to the Etruscan region to assist the north. The coalition forces wiped out the remaining Gallic enemies in its territory as soon as possible, and then ordered Patroclus as commander to lead the Third Army, the Twelfth Army, the Fourteenth Army, and the Frontier Army. The territory of the Lu people!"

"Yes!" After listening to the doctor's orders, Alexis, Printols, Alpuins and other ministers of the military affairs department were more or less excited: 100,000 troops! Another massive war! But compared with the Western Mediterranean War a few years ago, the Dionysian Kingdom is now more powerful and can easily send 100,000 troops to fight (mainly short-distance wars at the doorstep).

Davos saw their excitement and shouted to the door, "Go and call the herald."

Soon, Aristillas entered the council chamber.

"You immediately inform the chief officials of the various departments that the palace will urgently convene an important administrative meeting of the kingdom, and ask them to come to participate immediately."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After Aristillas left, Davos turned to look at the rotating chairmen and said with a smile: "Everyone take a break, and when everyone is here, we will discuss how to ensure the smooth progress of this war, and How to settle the surrendered Gauls after the war, make a more detailed plan."

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Mountain Gaul is a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic race that adopts a tribal system and lives in groups. Their way of life determines that they are relatively closed, and their surrounding environment just aggravates this isolation.

The large-scale southern invasion 20 years ago broadened the horizons of the Gauls (mainly Senones), but also deepened their blind confidence in their own force, they did not think they were defeated by the Romans, because The city of Rome was occupied by them for half a year, and the Romans trapped on the mountain even wanted to bribe them with gold and silver, begging them to retreat...

The Zenones believed that the reason why they failed in the end was because they captured too many places, and the number of soldiers was insufficient, and they had to divide their troops to garrison. War weariness; and the damned plague...if these lessons are learned, the weak Etruscans, Romans, Latins are destined to be their slaves...these ideas are common in fleeing back to Ceno. In the hearts of the tribal leaders and warriors of Ness, when their strength recovered, this strong unwillingness was transformed into the driving force for them to continue to invade the Etruscan territory.

Of course, they also learned from the captured Etruscan people that Rome and some nearby city-states have been occupied by the Dionysian Kingdom.

In the past few years, the Senones also heard the term "Dionia Kingdom" from the merchants who came to Arimium to trade, and heard that it was a powerful kingdom in the south of this land.

Speaking of power, aren't the Etruscans powerful? It once occupied a large area of ​​​​the north, but it was also beaten by us and desperately fled south! The Roman and other Latin city-states occupied by the Kingdom of Dionysus were easily occupied by us 20 years ago... There are many Zenonians who have this idea, so they did not take Dionysian Ya in the eyes.

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