Chapter 112 Doubts About Laos

"Got it." Henepolis happily went out.

Davers smiled and watched him leave. Henepolis has lived in his home for a few years. Although he has an eccentric personality, he is outspoken and not delicate. He is very popular with the Davos family, and Davos also treats him as a younger brother, so the next step He didn't want Heneapolis to know about it.

The team officer in charge of defending the La River fortress was called in.

"I remember your name is Tagle, right?" Davos said genially.

The originally nervous company captain did not expect that the life-long consul of Dionia and the army commander Davos, respected by the soldiers, still remembered the name he said when he saluted and reported to him for the first time at the Dara River Fort ten days ago. .

"Yes, Lord Commander!" he replied excitedly.

"I remember you are from Grummentum, belong to the tribe or independent?" Davos continued to ask, and motioned him to sit down.

"Already independent, I just need to work hard for my family." Taglu straightened his chest and replied in more fluent Greek. In the last year, there has been a popular perception in the Lucania region: independent Lucania is the real Dionysian citizen and has real freedom! In the last war, many tribes were destroyed and weakened in the Lucania region (except Potentia and Carraguso), so the remaining tribes were alone and heavily dependent on the alliance. The tribes who have left the tribe can only let it go, far less strongly than the leaders of Bruti.

"It seems that you have a family, do you have any children? How is your life?" Davers and him started to talk about home.

Although this made Tagluo a little surprised, he felt kind: "Blessed by Asinu, I already have two children, both boys, and they are all healthy! ... At the beginning, Lord Bagul gave me five acres. The land, but it is all mountainous, is not suitable for growing wheat. The farm officer suggested that I plant apple trees, and I did. The trees have grown this year, and they said they will bear fruit next year, and then I can sell the apples to the city. Go, they also say that the price of apples in Turii is higher, but it's a few days' walk to Turii...

The year before last, I also took out a loan from a bank in the city and bought 20 lambs and two cows, and now the number has doubled. In the summer, I sold six sheep and a cow to restaurants in the city, and not only paid off the loan, but also added 30 drachmas. I decided to buy some more cattle and sheep next year, and strive to drive hundreds of cattle and sheep up the mountain every day... Sir, I'm not afraid of your jokes, this is my dream, before there were so many cattle and sheep only in the tribe..."

"Haha, your ambition is very big!" Davers rubbed his palms and laughed, and then asked with concern: "You are on a mission in Lahe Fortress, what about your family affairs?"

"My wife is a capable woman,

Able to take good care of children and fruit trees. And I also took out a bank loan to buy a Thracian slave to help me herd cattle and sheep. When busy, the neighbors will come to help. My lord, a village has been built where I live..."

After listening to Davos, he said seriously: "Staffing the Lahe Fortress, far away from the city and home, not only the daily life is very monotonous, but also unable to go home to take care of the family for a long time... Originally this most difficult task was to be registered, The training of freedmen and reserve citizens is an important task to shorten the period for them to become citizens. But before the war broke out, I proposed to replace them with real citizen soldiers, stationed here, do you have some complaints? "

"My lord... Well, to be honest, there is a little bit." Tagle hesitated for a moment and said truthfully.

"Because you have received stricter training, you are citizens of Dionia, and when you are in danger, you will defend this fortress desperately to ensure that your homeland is not trampled! And the La River Fortress is the only connection to Lucca. The land passage between Nia and Turii, and the space here is small, and the troops cannot be deployed. Once occupied by the enemy, it will cut off the connection between Turii and Lukania, which is very dangerous!" Dai! Firth said solemnly.

"Sir, you mean... someone will attack this place?!" Tagle's eyes widened in surprise.

You must know that the Rahe Fortress is now within the hinterland of the Dionysian Alliance. Usually, there is nothing else to do except to check the passing merchants and travelers and provide them with simple accommodation. Some elders once put forward a proposal in the meeting to "remove the La River Fortress and change it into a post station", which was finally rejected by Davos.

"During the war, there are dangers at any time, and the dangers often come from the dark... From now on, you must be vigilant and not allow any caravan or tourists to stay or stay in the fortress or outside the fortress, nor allow any Troops without a warrant from the Ministry of Military Affairs enter or pass through the La River Fortress, do you understand?!" Davos solemnly warned again.

"As ordered, Lord Commander!" Tagle stood up and saluted.

"Tagru, you're not an official legionnaire, are you?"

"My lord, I'm just a reserve soldier. My tribe joined the alliance too late, and there are too many Lucanians who signed up for the Third Army." Tagle said with a little frustration.

"I hope that after this war, I can see your name in the achievement book of the Third Army Map!" Davos encouraged him earnestly: "In addition, once the enemy attacks the Lahe Fortress, you should not fight alone, but Go and inform Lord Hermon of Niutum in time to get his assistance, understand?"

"Yes, my lord!" Tagle saluted excitedly again, although he didn't know where the enemy would come from, he was no longer frustrated by being sent to such a wilderness, and he made a loud promise: "Sir , you can rest assured, I will definitely defend the Lahe Fortress until the end of the war!"

Davers nodded. After Tagloo left, he got up and walked to the south-facing window, looking out.

It is impossible to see the city of Laos, where the Ra River estuaries into the sea, so Davos can only guess what Arobmas, who is not in the name of a consul but is a consul, is doing at the moment?

Since Arobmas was uncharacteristically twice, he did not take the initiative to come to the fortress of the river to meet the Dionian army, and the army he sent to Henepolis was all loyal to Avinogis, plus Davos. Received a tip-off from the intelligence service in Niutum that "it seems to have found traces of the Syracuses in the city of Laos". Davos had a bit of a bad hunch in his heart: when Dionia was at a disadvantage and was in danger, the man who had gone alone and united with Turii back then helped Avinogis to retake Raja in one fell swoop. What choice will the men of Russia make?

Although Davos could only wait quietly, he took Henepolis away and made preparations.

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Just when Davos led his army from the fortress of La River into the mountains and set off on the way back to Turii, Dionysius had already led 90,000 troops to reach the Tachinadi River (this army included Dionysius). The more than 70,000 Sicilian troops of Sri Lanka, as well as Locri, Hibernian and the Coronian troops who had just joined the side of Syracuse), set up camps on both sides of the Tacinadi River.

The camp stretched for dozens of miles, and thousands of military tents covered the southern Croton Plain and the lower Tachinadi River area. The engineers of Syracuse also commanded more than 4,000 Columbus soldiers and slaves from the Silitine to build a simple wharf at the mouth of the Tacinadi River, so that food and luggage could be transported to the camp by sea for logistical purposes. Supplies provide greater convenience.

While the army was busy building the camp, Dionysius led his generals to Crotone to see its defenses.

At this time, Crotone City, under the suggestion of the Dionian Ballista Team Officer, set up deer villages on both sides of the moat, and began to lay traps, but it was not completed because the army of Syracuse came too fast. This is the second time the city of Crotone has been attacked by troops in five years. The people of Crotone are even more terrified than the last time, because standing on the top of the city and looking westward, they can see the west is very far away. The endless whiteness formed by the continuous military tents blends with the skyline.

After hearing the news, Lysias, Thesprotis, Askamas, and all the members of the Council of Crotone and the soldiers at the top of the city watched intently and watched the city surrounded by hundreds of cavalry. The brutal Sicilian tyrant in the center had a bit of fear mixed in his angry eyes.

Dionysius, however, regarded the people above the city as air. He walked and watched like a stroll in the garden, and exchanged views with the people around him from time to time.

"Look at the city walls of Crotone, which are ten meters high, and they are all made of large stones. There are moats and deer villages outside the city. The whole city is so big. They have enough people to defend them. It is very difficult to capture this city!" Phoebe Das said without any scruples, which discouraged his allies. To tell the truth, the Spartans were terrifying in field battles, but they made little achievements in siege. In the past Peloponnesian War, after decades of fighting, the Allied forces led by Sparta were stationed outside the city of Athens for many years, and the Attica Peninsula was ruined. Attack the walls of Athens. So after the war was won, one of the first things they had to do was to have the Athenians tear down the walls.

"You can't even capture the inner city of Crotone, and the city of Asprostum is narrow, not conducive to the deployment of the troops, and even more impossible to capture. Why are we leading the army here?! Is it just to besiege them?! ' said Astagras sarcastically, disliking the arrogant Spartan.