Chapter 196 Good News Spreads Frequently

Suddenly there was cheers from the roadside, and soon the cheers spread all over the Xubari Plain.

The people completely eliminated their last worries and began to sing and dance to celebrate this hard-won victory. Some devout believers simply canceled the plan to go to the port and turned to the Temple of Hades in the city of Turii, thanking Hades for the blessing of Dionia...

When the news reached the Senate venue, it was also a jubilation.

"It seems that the decision we made before was correct! After Lord Davos became the king, victory came quickly and continuously. Hades responded to our prayers and really blessed the Dionysian Alliance!" Lysinas exclaimed loudly, pretending to be excited.

"Yeah, thanks to our Senate daring to make such an amazing decision, we have today's victory!" Mariji also responded accordingly.

At this time, most of the elders no longer felt the anger when they were forced to elect Davos as king.

Kunogolata was no longer disgusted with the singing and reconciliation of the two as usual, he took his eyes away from the two and said loudly: "From the battle report brought back by the messenger, His Majesty Davos has led the army to the general. The Syracuses are trapped in the Siridium, and the final victory is not too far away! But now for the Alliance, the biggest problem is food!"

"Lord Kunogolata is right, although the existing food supplies are enough to supply our troops fighting abroad for two months, but for the people of Dionia, especially the families of freedmen and pre-citizens, their The grain reserves have bottomed out. Now that the port is open, the merchants who come to trade are raising the price of grain, making the people who have selflessly donated and donated grain to the alliance spend a higher price to buy grain! I am afraid that before the war is over, Dai The people of Onia will use up all their savings, which is not conducive to our post-war recovery!" Cornerus said with a worried look.

"These merchants are so abominable!" Stromboli said angrily: "The price of the grain they sell has tripled, and it's still rising...Maligi, as a commercial officer, you should think about it carefully. Vigorously rectify these hateful businessmen!"

Mariji smiled bitterly: "We have already taken some measures, and we have also specially negotiated with these merchants who sell grain in Turei, so it is our best effort to keep the price within three times. However, there is an urgent shortage of food in the alliance, and the people have a great demand for this. The number of people buying food is increasing day by day, and the price increase is inevitable. We can’t force the merchants to sell food at a fixed price.”

"Why not!" Stromboli said loudly: "We must first ensure the interests of the people. We should immediately pass a plan to allow these merchants to sell grain at a fair price, otherwise they will not be allowed to sell goods in the alliance! "

"You can't do that!" Marigi didn't speak.

Mersis shouted first: "This is a stupid act of destroying the Greeks' tradition of free trade! In the future, who would dare to come to Turii to do business? If the port declines, will we still receive business taxes!"

"We have such a huge territory and such a population in Dionia, I don't believe that those greedy foreign merchants will not come to do business!" Stromboli sneered, as an Amendolara, he said The businessman didn't like it much.

"Even if we use coercion, those merchants can absolutely not sell food in Turii, but go to Heraklia or Crotone by boat." Marigi reminded the elders: "At that time, our people will be the same. Will flock there to buy grain, and they'll complain that we're causing them so much trouble! Rather than that, they'd better stay in Turii, at least we'll be able to do something to control the price a little bit. After all Now that the war is not over, the shortage of food in the alliance will continue. These businessmen are taking risks to bring food. If they can't make huge profits here, I am afraid that no one will be willing to bring food!"

After saying this, the elders, including Stromboli, looked sad: Yes, who said that Dioria was in short supply of food and had to rely on these merchants!

"I wonder what happened to Ancitanos' mission to Africa?" Kunogolata thought of Ancitanos, who was on an important mission.

At this time, the door of the venue was pushed open, and the guards hurried in, whispering in the ear of the rotating chairman Kuno Gorata.

Kunogolata immediately smiled and said loudly to the crowd: "Rest in peace, Lord Ancitanos has returned, and with him are ten large cargo ships from Carthage, full of grains!"

The originally sparse venue burst into cheers again: "We have food! The people are saved! Ancitanos has succeeded!  …"

"I didn't expect it to be the 'enemy of Greece' that the Sicilians attacked - Carthage helped us!"

"Let me just say, Hades will not let those who believe in him suffer, he has once again fulfilled his promise!"

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Just as the elders of the Senate rushed to the port of Turii to welcome the arrival of the Carthaginian messengers, the 15,000-strong Dionysian-Ligim coalition led by Hieros, Hieronymus, Phidon, and Ryders. Soldiers set out from Trina and marched towards Hibernian.

When they arrived at the bottom of the city, they found that the city gate was wide open, and the Hibernians took the initiative to go out of the city and asked to surrender. Last night, the news of the "fiasco of Locle's army" had terrified the Hibernians, and the performance of Locle's rout refusing to enter the city to participate in the defense and fleeing straight back to Madma made the Hibernians panic. The Hibernians, who only had more than 1,000 civic soldiers in the city, convened an urgent citizens' assembly, and finally made a painful decision... When the next day they found out that "tens of thousands of Dionysian soldiers were attacking the city of Hibernian." ', they surrendered without hesitation.

Before the division of troops, Davos had discussed with Hiros how to deal with these Locri's allies, so Hiros accepted Hibernian's surrender, but demanded: every family in the city must surrender protons to ensure their loyalty.

Faced with a large Dionian army, the Hibernians had to agree.

Under the low city, the Hibernian people wept and reluctantly bid farewell to their children. The scene was desolate and touching.

Unmoved, Hiros sent a thousand troops to escort the hundreds of children to Trina City. At the same time, he made a new request to the Hibernians: to collect as much food as possible in the city and provide it to the Dionysian troops as rations, otherwise the Dionysian soldiers would starve and their children would be without first. something to eat.

Now that man is the knife and I am the fish, the Hibernians have to submit again.

The Daly coalition was stationed outside Hibernian City, and while assisting the Hibernians in collecting grain, they sent sentries to scout the enemy's situation south. Well prepared.

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At the same time, Davos, who learned that "Colonia has returned to the South-Italian Alliance", wrote a letter again and sent a fast horse to the city of Coulonia. Nia made the right choice. Lycias, Cypros and I were overjoyed to hear the news! Now the Syracuse army is in Dionia, Crotone, Trina Under the heroic attack of the soldiers, the strength is constantly weakening, and it is believed that the day of its defeat is not far away.

Therefore, we hope that Coulonia, as a member of the South-Italian Alliance, will mobilize all the citizens who can fight in the city like us, pick up the shield and spear, and attack the territory of Lokrie, so that the culprit who caused this cruel war will be It also suffered from the pain of being ravaged by war, so that it was worried about your attack and did not dare to send reinforcements to help the Syracuses who were besieged by us in the Siracusa, so as to ensure that we successfully recapture the Siridium and annihilate these evil creatures. aggressor! Dionia, Crotone, Trina, Lijim look forward to your action! …”

This letter prompted the Coulonia Council to hold an emergency meeting. Obviously, the main purpose of Davos's letter was not to praise Coulonia for making the right choice, but to urge them to take immediate action and not stand idly by. , the last sentence is more of an implied threat.

Of course, Corenia, who was on the string, knew the possible serious consequences of refusing Davos's request, so the Citizens Assembly quickly passed a resolution to "attack Lokrie".

Although Coulonia had a thousand civic soldiers trapped in the Cilidia, Coulonia was the city-state in southern Italy that suffered the least losses in this war. By the afternoon, Coulonia quickly mobilized 4,000 civic troops.

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As soon as the Coulonia troops set off for the south, the main force was dispatched outside, and the city was empty. Locley had long been worried about the decades-old enemy Coulonia, and had been paying close attention to the movements of Coulonia, and the scout quickly returned. message.

At this time, Locley was overwhelmed by the bad news that followed. The Syracuse army was defeated, the main force of Loclery was defeated, and the city of Hibernian was in danger... Now the sudden southward movement of the Coronian army is definitely not for the sake of Come to help Lokri, any sensible Lokri will make such a judgment.

The sudden turn of the war situation made the chief general of Loclery, Demodocas, panic.

However, there was a strange sight at the council, and Demodocus asked several times: "The damned Corenians broke their promise and invaded our territory! Now the situation is urgent, what can we do? !"