Chapter 54 Trouble with Mercenaries

Crotone's mobilization of troops to reinforce Crimea was known to the spies Aristillas had placed at Crotone's pier.

In the early morning of the next day, when the messenger of the mercenaries arrived at the Davos mansion, Davos had already received the news of Crotone reinforcements from Aristillas, and he immediately judged that the Timasson mercenaries had this time. It's bad luck.

Therefore, when the messenger of the mercenaries, Picoles, asked Davos: "Lord Davos, the mercenaries led by the leader of Timazon have captured Crimea, we hope to join the Dionysian Alliance, and Hope to get Dionia's addition immediately!"

Davos told the former comrade-in-arms who used to serve as a translator in Menon's barracks, and later he was his subordinate, but chose to leave in Byzantium: "Pickles, you are late, I just got the news, 'At noon yesterday, Crotone's troops of nearly 10,000 sailed from the port.' They should be able to reach Crimea in the afternoon. I don't think Timasone and the others can hold Crimea..."

"Ten thousand people?!" Pickles was stunned on the spot when he heard the news.

"I have sent someone to inquire about the news, and I believe that the specific situation of Crimissa will be available by noon." Davos continued.

"Maybe... Maybe Timasson and the others are still holding on..." Picoles came back to his senses and pleaded with a fluke: "Davos... The leader looks at us for the sake of fighting side by side together. , I beg you... I beg you to send an army, rush to Crimea immediately, and rescue them!! Otherwise, it will be too late when you get the news!!..."

Picoles' "leader" made Davos's mood fluctuate slightly, but he still shook his head and said: "Alas... I can't send troops immediately if I want to. This requires the consent of most members of the Senate, and They won't agree without definite news! Because if the Crimeans retake the city and Dionysian's army enters the Crimea territory, it is a breach of the agreement, which means war! With Crowe Tone's War!!"

Davos's patient explanation was obviously not listened to by the impatient Picoles, he shouted almost frantically: "Anyway, if you want to rescue the brothers, you will definitely fight with Crotone! What are you afraid of! You are the only life-long consul of Dionia, you have the final say here! Send your troops, please, Chief Davos! The lives of Timasson, Crianno, and all of our mercenary brothers are on the line Waiting for your rescue!!…”

Davos shook his head, feeling that it was not clear to him: "You go down to rest first, and I will notify you when there is news." After that, he motioned the servant to take him down.

Picoles pushed it away and shouted: "Davos, if it wasn't for the help of Tima Song and his brothers, you would have died in Persia! But look at how you treated your former comrades in arms! When we got here, not only did we not provide any help, but we suffered a lot of grievances. Now Tima Song and the others are threatened with their lives. They asked you for help, but you didn't lend a helping hand, and even found a reason to say, "Need the senate." approve'……"

Pickles scolded Davos for being ungrateful, and Davos was very angry when he heard this, thinking: You pretended to go to Syracuse, but in fact you went to capture Crimea, when did you talk to me candidly! It's not that I want to use me and Agarcia and the others to make Dionia take the blame for you, but I never thought of doing this, making Dionia and myself fall into such a passive position! Now that I failed, I came to ask myself, but I didn't even apologize at all. Who is ungrateful? Do you really think I am so good at talking!

In his current status, he didn't need to argue with a simple-minded mercenary, and simply let the guards drive Picols out of the mansion.

There was a lot of noise in the living room. With the help of Asuna, Cristoia came down from the second floor with a big belly and asked with concern, "I heard a quarrel downstairs, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Davers squeezed out a smile and rebuked softly, "You're about to give birth,

Not resting well, and walking around. "

Kristoya stopped asking, clutching her bulging belly and said, "The child kept kicking me just now and woke me up."

"Baby, be good, let your mother have a good rest!" Davos said softly, putting his face on Cristoia's belly.

"Oh, he kicked me again!" Cristoya said in surprise.

"Ma'am, he is so naughty, he must be a boy!" Asuna said with a smile.

"Naughty little guy!" Davos patted his stomach and said softly, "Christoya, I'll accompany you to take a walk in the yard."

At this moment, he and Christoya both had happy smiles on their faces.

………………

Picoles was kicked out of the Davers mansion and immediately regretted it. The door of Davos's house was closed, and he couldn't open it no matter how much he knocked, so he had to go to Felixius and the others.

Unexpectedly, Felixius, Capps, and Antonios were either hiding or seeing each other, and they all apologized to Picoles and could not help him.

In the end, Agarcia told him: "Because the mercenaries have caused trouble in the alliance during this period of time, Lord Davos and them have been under a lot of pressure in the Senate, especially this time Timasone and the others are hiding from Dio. Dia, attacked Crimea rashly, causing Polyxis and several other Turii elders to directly name and criticize Davos at the meeting, saying that he used the Dionysian alliance for the mercenaries' personal gain! Lord Firth has faced such severe criticism and humiliation for the first time since he became a consul! Under such circumstances, it is impossible for Davos to use troops without authorization!"

Pickles listened half-understood, and realized that they were overthinking things.

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By noon, news from Crimisa came back: the mercenaries were wiped out.

Davos sat silently alone, and after a long time, he let out a sigh.

The affair seemed to come to an end, but Davers realized it was far from over.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, a passenger ship from Crotone sailed into the pier in the city of Turii, and two people got off the passenger ship: Crotone's general Lycias and Crimea's chief general Antao. Reese.

what does that mean? The faces of the elders who were in charge of welcoming them all changed slightly.

Two corpses were also carried off the boat: Timasson and Crianno.

This made Felixius, Agarcia and other mercenary veterans sad.

So today's Senate meeting was very tense and solemn at the beginning.

The chief general of Crimea, Antaoris, spoke first. He tearfully accused the mercenaries of the crimes committed in Crimea yesterday and the suffering of the people of Crimea. Then he wept bitterly: "Why did the Crimean people live peacefully for decades, but recently they were sacked by wars one after another?! Did we accidentally offend Ares and let him vent his anger on the people of Crimea?! …”

Lysias looked around the venue and found that some of Dionia's elders looked unnatural, while the consul Davos in the front row was listening intently, nodding occasionally, with a look of empathy. He sneered in his heart, stood up, walked to the center of the venue, hugged Antaoris, and then saluted the elders of Dionia: "My esteemed consul and all the lords of the Dionysian Alliance Senate, as Ke Messenger of Rotone, I would say that yesterday Crotone sent reinforcements in time to save Crimesa from being overrun by a group of robbers! During the post-war interrogation of the captives, we learned that the robbers were Mercenaries from Asia Minor, who had fought together with Lord Davos and some of the elders present in Persia for more than a year, were invited by you to come to Greater Greece, and registered in your alliance, ready to become Dio Citizen of Nia, is this true?!"

"That's right." Davers nodded and admitted without shyness.

Lysias didn't expect his answer to be so straightforward, he was stunned for a moment, and then he increased his voice and said loudly: "According to the prisoner's confession, 'They were instructed by the Dionysian Alliance to raid Crimea, and they were going to take the Rimisa becomes an ally of Dionia—"

"Bullshit!"

"fart!"

"This is a false accusation!"

...

Amyntas, Drakes, Agarcia and others stood up and cursed.

"Whether you admit it or not, the facts are the facts! The bodies of the two robber leaders are still lying on the pier, and some of you shed tears just now." Lysias pointed his finger in front of him, with a serious expression, and shouted loudly: "Dai Onians, you broke the armistice with Crotone, and you want to deny it!"

Antaoris was stunned, pointed at Davos and they scolded: "Since you foreigners came to Great Greece, Great Greece has not had a day of peace! No, it's not Cremisa who angered Ares. , it is you who are expanding and aggressive, bringing wars to the various city-states of Greater Greece! The grievances of thousands of dead people in Crimea must be appealed, and Dionia must be punished!"

There was an uproar in the venue.

Davos stood up, walked in front of Anta Oris, sneered, and said, "I originally wanted to express Dionia's apology to Crimisa, and I was even willing to make some compensation, although Dionia and It doesn't matter."

Antaoris opened his mouth to refute, Davos looked at him and roared, "Shut up!"

Startled him.

"But I can see now that the generals of the two city-states you two came here together, not to find out the truth, but to join forces to suppress us Dionia! Say it, say the conditions that you have prepared for a long time. , let's hear how harsh it is!" Davos saw through the intention of the two of them, and Lysias was stunned by the anti-customer-oriented words, and also reminded the elders who were still confused.