Chapter 74 Undercurrent when Meeting

Davos thought about it, and the boat did not sail to the northwest with the fleet, but went straight ahead, passed the second water gate, and sailed towards the real port of Tarantum.

Although it was during the war, the port of Tarantum was still very busy, even more than usual, because the continuation of the war increased the demand for various materials in Tarantum City, so despite the full assistance of the port personnel, Davos The ship still took a long time to dock.

Davos was not in a hurry. He carefully observed the port and compared it with the port of Turii...

When they got ashore, Davos and his party, especially the fully-armed guards led by Martius, attracted the attention of many Tarantum people. They stopped what they were doing, watched curiously, and knew the inside story. People guessed that this might be the Dionysian reinforcements, but no one expressed a welcome, let alone the usual cheers in the port of Turii, they just watched indifferently, and some even showed sadness in their eyes. Davos noticed that many women wore black cloths on their heads, and the shadow of the defeat of the war had shrouded the people of Tarantum.

A group of people from the Tarantum Senate did not go to the port to meet them, but waited at the city gate because of the reserved power of the old powers.

"They're here!" With this shout, everyone cheered up and looked forward.

A young man approached him with a calm expression and steady steps. His whole body showed a steadiness that was far different from that of ordinary young people, but as a consul of a city-state alliance, he was indeed too young.

Eumacus touched Diomelas, who was still thinking, and prepared to remind him.

Diomilas understood what he meant, and said first: "Don't say it, I understand, who told us to ask for help."

After speaking, he strode forward to meet him: "Welcome, young Archon of Dionia. Like dry fields waiting for rain, we wait for the arrival of reinforcements from our close ally Dionia. Thank the gods, you have finally coming!"

Eumacas frowned, worried that Davos would be unhappy when he heard this.

Who knew that Davos immediately said apologetically: "I'm really sorry! I believe you all know that the Dionysian Alliance was established less than two years ago, and it sent nearly 20,000 reinforcements for the first time. Two-thirds of the citizens of Turiyi are in the autumn harvest season, and it is the first time to transport so many soldiers across the sea. The affairs are too complicated, and we have no experience, so we are here today. I hope there is no major delay. "

"It's not too late! It's not too late! You're here just in time!" Eumacas said hurriedly: "I really didn't expect that Dionysus would send such a large team, this really helped us a lot! Lord Davos , we Tarantum thank you so much for your generosity!"

At this time, Polydorus had the opportunity to interject to introduce: "Lord Davos, this is our Tarantum Archon Eumacas."

Judging from what he said just now, the consul had at least a good impression of Dionia, and Davos saluted seriously.

"This is Diomelas, the Tarantum consul." Polydorus continued to introduce.

And this... Davos glanced at him: narrow eyes, thin nose, thin lips, serious expression, a mean look, obviously prejudice against Dionysus, according to Aristillas' intelligence, There are many such people in the Tarantum Senate, but Davos still salutes him earnestly.

Next, I greeted the elders of the Tarantum Senate in turn. The Tarantum Senate came from the Spartan Council of Elders, but compared with the Spartan Council of Elders, which only had 30 places, the elders of Tarantum But there are many more, and the seats of elders in the Senate of Tarantum, like the consuls, are elected by all citizens every year.

"This is—" Before Polydorus finished speaking, the old man in front of him raised his eyebrows, pointed at Davos and cursed: "You still have the face to come to Tarantum, when you swore that To promote our school in Amendolara, we sent apprentices to Amendolara to help you. Who knows that you not only let them betray the school,

And let them use money to lure more apprentices out of Tarantum! Because my son still regards you as a friend, is this how you repaid the selfless help of the Pythagoreans to Dionia! I tell you, you are not welcome in Tarantum! "

Davos didn't expect to meet someone from the Pythagoreans school here.

"Archita's father, Histiavis," answered Polydorus.

Davos was moved, he stepped forward, no matter how unhappy the old man was, he bowed respectfully: "Archita is my good friend, I will definitely avenge him, repel the Messapien, and welcome him back. I hope you can mourn, uncle!"

"Without Dionia's help, we Tarantum can defeat the Mesapis and take back my son's body!" Histiavis had tears in his eyes, but he was still stubborn.

At this moment, a cavalryman came flying, shouting repeatedly: "The fleet is back! The fleet is back!  …"

The elders of the Senate who heard the news did not say a word, and immediately abandoned Davos and his party, and ran to the port one after another.

Polydorus hurriedly explained to him, Davos expressed his understanding after listening, and offered to go see the situation together.

Standing high outside the port, looking down at the beach: at the most crowded central pier in the port of Tarantum, warships are lining up to slowly enter...

Polydorus opened his eyes and counted the number of ships. The more he counted, the more flustered he became. In the end, his voice trembled: "Only... only 19 warships, 25 passenger ships..."

If Davos hadn't supported him in time, he might have collapsed to the ground.

Davos also frowned, according to Glass Dorus: When the Tarantum fleet left the port, it had 80 warships, 100 troop carriers, and 4,000 soldiers, but now it is only 1/4 The loss of Tarantum can be described as huge, not only the warships and soldiers, but also the sailors. A three-tier oared warship needs nearly 200 sailors when it is full. It can be imagined that this pair of manpower in the port of Tarantus. What a loss...

This also gives Davos a warning: Before gaining absolute control of the sea, you must be cautious when using ships to transport soldiers across the sea!

Everyone in the port was in great grief. Even after such a distance, Davos could still hear the deafening cries, which made him, who was used to life and death, moved a little.

Polydorus was still craned his neck and looked forward, expecting that there were still backward warships that did not enter the port in time. In the end, he finally gave up, held Davos' hands tightly, and said repeatedly: "Dave Sir, Tarantum really needs Dionia's full help!"

Davos nodded, thinking to himself: Counting this naval battle, the war between Tarantum and Messapi may have resulted in tens of thousands of casualties among Tarantum soldiers, and they have indeed broken their bones.

The upcoming joint operations meeting had to be postponed as the Senate of Tarantum was busy dealing with the aftermath.

Davos didn't care, just in time to go back and build a camp with the soldiers.

…………………………

The failure of a major naval battle will have various effects. Compensation for casualties is only the most basic, as well as repairing the remaining warships, speeding up the rebuilding of new fleets, appeasing the merchants in the port, and making sure that the sea trade route has not been cut off by the enemy... Wait, these complicated aftermath affairs are not It can be solved in a day or two, but the urgent war situation forced Tarantum to temporarily put it aside the next day, and a joint operations meeting was needed immediately to launch a land counterattack against the Maple coalition as soon as possible. , to mitigate the enemy's threat to Tarantum City.

Considering that the consul of Dionia had been snubbed by an emergency yesterday, Eumacas decided to invite him in person.

Eumacas rode to the northwest corner of the bay. The sight in front of him surprised him. In front of him stood a huge military camp, with trenches, fences, camp gates, outposts, tents...all of which should be available. After just one day, the Dionysians built a "city" in this relatively sparsely populated area. This is too efficient!

Of course, Eumacas didn’t know that Dionia paid attention to the construction of camps during combat. Under the initiative of Davos, army engineers had standardized some camp facilities, such as camp gates and outposts, after research and trial and error. The materials needed for the building were all made in Turei in advance, and were transported by the cargo camp on the ship. After arriving at the destination, they were assembled according to the actual situation, which saved time and effort, and took them away when the camp was pulled out. Of course, the premise is to have a strong logistics transportation capacity and better road conditions.

While Yumachus was in shock, he heard someone calling him. Upon closer inspection, it was Timias, a theater owner in Tarantum City. He couldn't help but ask a little strangely, "Why are you here?"

"Of course it's business." Timias pointed to a few coquettishly dressed women around him, and said helplessly: "The war with Messapi failed, and the citizens have no time to watch the show, nor to accompany the girls. Playing, I have been without income for two months now. I heard that Dionia's reinforcements came to nearly 20,000 people, and they came to see if there was any opportunity to make money, but the guards here didn't let us in!"

Hearing this, Yumachus felt a little embarrassed. Timias's theater mainly made money by playing some vulgar and vulgar plays to attract people to make money. At the same time, he also provided prostitutes and male prostitutes for the rich, because most of them were actors. High quality and more popular, but I didn't expect him to pimp to Dionysian camp. So, he advised: "The war is about to start, you don't want to disturb the rest of the Dionysians here."