Chapter 59 The Plan Can't Keep Up With Changes

Ancitanos said his inference without hesitation: "Maybe in their eyes, Dionia's chances of winning are not great. In fact, Carthage doesn't pay much attention to our Dionia, and the ruler Han Nuo didn't even meet me..."

Davos really did not expect that Carthage, who could compete with Rome in the previous life history, would be so cowardly, but think that it was a hundred years later when Carthage and Rome competed for hegemony, and the development of Carthage after a hundred years is naturally not at this time. it can be compared. Thinking of Carthage (mainly due to Hannibal's influence) who had a good impression on him in his previous life, he actually looked down on Dionia, which made him a little depressed, and said in his heart: "One day, you will regret that you once treated Dionia. slack!"

"Lord Ancitanos, do you think the Samone invasion of Portentia was instigated by Dionysius?" Davos wanted to reconfirm his judgment.

"I heard the news as soon as I came back." Ancitanos took a sip of the syrup and said in a deep voice, "Well... I think it's very possible. You know that Syracuse and Campania are in Dillon. The relationship between the times has been close, the two sides have frequent trade exchanges, and Syracuse has also sent troops several times to help the Greek city-state of Campania defend against the attacks of the Samones... It is said that most of Dionysius' mercenaries came from Campani. Ya, so Dionysius should be more familiar with the Samonites in the mountains of Campania. As long as he is willing to pay the price, it is not impossible to persuade the Samonites. Moreover, the Samonites may have always been Worrying about Dionia's strength."

After being reminded by Ancitanos, Davos suddenly remembered: Since Potentia joined the Dionysian League, the Samonais' invasion of Lucania has never occurred again. Ya is very apprehensive...

Davos secretly regretted that he had been patronizing and stabilizing the country in recent years, and devoted too little energy to the surrounding situation and the situation of the entire Mediterranean.

This is a lesson! He warned himself in his heart, and then humbly asked Ancitanos for advice: "Where else do you think Dionysius might have used a conspiracy similar to the Samonaites against Dionysius?"

Ancitanos heard the words, stroked his gray beard, and began to ponder. After a long time, he suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Tarantum! Tarantum is very likely!"

Davos was shocked: Yes, Tarantum is very likely! Although Syracuse has little contact with Tarantum, Sparta, an ally of Syracuse, is the mother state of Tarantum. Onia took Heraklia and Metapontum from Tarantum, (as many Tarantums thought), and the relationship between the two parties became somewhat stagnant. Despite the alliance agreement, there are small frictions from time to time. This time, since Dionia declared war on Lokri, Tarantum, as an ally, has not expressed support or opposition as before, there is no movement, it is too calm, this is not normal!

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The next day, at the request of Davos, the Dionysian Senate immediately sent an envoy to Tarantum.

The Tarantum Senate showed a very impatient attitude to the Dionysian messengers asking them for their opinions on the matter of "declaring war on Locri", and they all said: Dionysian and whoever went to war has nothing to do with Tarantum. , Tarantum needs to recuperate to recover from the wounds of the last war.

The messenger returned to Turii and reported Tarantum's attitude to the Senate in detail. Most of the elders were relieved, but Davos still did not let down his guard. He sent someone to remind Metapontum and Herac. Leah's consul raises his defenses against Tarantum, and at the same time makes Aristiras pay more attention to Tarantum... that's all he can do, after all Tarantum hasn't had any unusual behavior.

At this time, Davos put more attention on the Lucania region to the north.

The next day, the urgent report of the 3rd Corps was sent to Turii.

Compared with the spies of Potentia, the scouts of the Third Legion were much more powerful.

They are all trained strictly in Izam's reconnaissance brigade. Under the suggestion of Davos, Izam has worked out a relatively complete set of reconnaissance training methods based on his own experience in reconnaissance operations in the past few years, such as mountain climbing and wading, ambush, camouflage, reconnaissance and many other aspects of training. Projects, especially in judging the enemy's strength, the reconnaissance brigade has many methods, such as: inferring according to the size of the enemy's camp, the number of tents, and the amount of baggage, of course, the most direct method is to count the number of people, so most of the reconnaissance brigade's Soldiers are all from citizens engaged in accounting, banking, trade and other industries that require strong computing power.

In the military reform of the previous year, Davos selected personnel from Izam's reconnaissance brigade and equipped each legion with a 100-person reconnaissance team, so that the "eyes and ears" of each legion were more complete. After all, Italy is mountainous. In areas, scout riding is often useless.

This military report of the 3rd Corps describes the Samonites in more detail: . . . Integrating the intelligence of the reconnaissance soldiers, the Samonite army assembled in Kopsa may be composed of the entire Shilpini, Pentene and It is composed of some Kautini warriors, and the current strength has reached more than 40,000. In view of the fact that the camps of the Samonites have not continued to expand in the past few days, and at the same time, the number of Samonites entering the city of Kopsa from the north has decreased significantly. Monet's attack is in these two or three days! The situation is urgent, and the Third Corps requires the exercise of "emergency command" (that is, in a state of emergency, the battle situation is complex and changing rapidly, and every major military operation must repeatedly request the Senate of Dionysium, which will only delay the fighters, and even put the The Legion was in danger, so after the expansion of the Dionian territory, Davos realized that he could not take care of the entire Dionian Alliance territory at any time, so he formulated this important military rule to give The legion commander in the battlefield has the autonomy of military operations to avoid slow and rigid command, stifling the desire and enthusiasm of the legion commander and the soldiers)! And urge the Senate to send more reinforcements! - Signature: Alexis, commander of the Third Legion.

Forty thousand people? ! The elders of the Senate were shocked by the strength of the Samonaites, but they still quarreled about "whether to send more reinforcements", but Davos finally made up his mind, he stood up and said in a firm tone: "My lords, Potentia's military situation is urgent, and we cannot allow us to delay any more time! The huge force of the Samonites, which exceeds 40,000, cannot be resisted by the army of the Third Legion and Puamote! The people defeated them, occupied Potentia, and took advantage of the situation to enter our Lucania territory. I decided to lead the first and second legions to reinforce Potentia, and try to repel the enemy in the shortest time possible!"

"I support the decision of Lord Consul!" As soon as Davos finished speaking, Weisba jumped up and down with joy, and Hermon also expressed his support loudly, but the others fell silent for a while.

Of course, Davos' identity did not allow the elders to remain silent for too long, and soon Cornelus got up and asked, "Is the attack on Locle still going?"

"Temporarily stop! The fourth and fifth legions returned to the station to stand by, and at the same time sent messengers to explain to the allied city-states such as Crotone and Siriting, I believe they can understand our situation, but—" Davos hasn't finished speaking , Kunogolata interjected anxiously: "But Syracuse may attack Greater Greece while our main force is heading north!"

Kunogolata's words set off a discussion among the elders.

Amyntas shouted: "It's better that the Syracuses come, we don't have to go to Sicily anymore, and beat them directly in Great Greece!"

"But when they come, you, Lord Amyntas, and the bravest and strongest citizens of Dionia may still be playing hide-and-seek with the Samones in the mountains of Lucania!" Russ retorted immediately.

"We will soon defeat the Samonites and return soon!" Armintas argued loudly.

"It's hard to say. In the mountains, we Greeks can't catch up with those Samonais who are good at climbing mountains. You can't catch up with them, how can you repel them?!" Scambras retorted not to be outdone .

"Old man, you have to understand that the Samonais are attacking us, we don't need to chase them at all, they will take the initiative to fight us!" Amyntas was a little anxious.

"Okay, lords, please be quiet!" Davos said loudly: "The situation is obvious now. If we don't act, the Syracuses will only be watching in Sicily, waiting for the opportunity, then the disadvantage is still. We, because the threat of the Samonais is right in front of us, if we sit back and watch, the situation in Lucania may be unimaginable..." Davos paused for a while, giving the elders a time to think, and then continued: " Therefore, we can only seize every minute and every second, and concentrate our troops to strike the enemy that can be hit first! No matter how the enemy comes from, we must concentrate our troops to attack one place, so as to ensure the greatest victory! "

The elders whispered again.

Kunogolata asked the elders again: "Lord Consul, what should we do if Syracuse really attacks Great Greece after you leave?!"

Davos was well prepared for this, he calmed down and slowly told the elders about his speculation and plans: "With our Dionysus in Great Greece, if Syracuse wants to attack Great Greece, there is no With more than 50,000 or 60,000 people, Dionysius doesn't even think about the idea of ​​​​big Greece! But it will take a long time for such a huge force and materials to safely land on the land of Great Greece..."