Chapter 4 Rome Now

Camelus was very sad when he learned that Rome had fallen. He summoned the Romans who had fled to Adi, formed an army, and at the same time persuaded the Adi people to join in, and then seized the opportunity to attack the careless Celtic tribes who came to collect grain at night, and won a great victory.

The news of the victory spread quickly throughout Latium, and Camelus became famous. The Latium people who hated the Celtic aggression came to him, and the Romans in the city of Viai also demanded to accept his command. .

After risking his appointment as a military dictator by the Roman senators who were still holding the Capitoline Acropolis, Camillous assembled an ever-increasing force while attacking the Celtic grains that were infesting the towns of Caladium. team.

The situation of the Celts became more and more difficult as time went on, for lack of food and for fear of attack by the army of Camelus, they did not dare to plunder everywhere. A large number of corpses were piled up in the city of Rome, and no one was able to deal with them or bury them, which caused an epidemic. In addition, the Celts fell ill and died in battle, and morale was extremely low.

The Celtic king Brennus, who had been in Rome for half a year, could not resist the persuasion of many tribal leaders and decided to make peace with the Romans. However, the Romans defending Capitoline Hill quietly learned that "Camillous is leading a large number of troops to the city of Rome", so they refused to negotiate peace.

Although Brunnus was angry, he was helpless, but he was unwilling to leave empty-handed. Just when he hesitated, he heard that Camelus led a huge army to come to the rescue. In view of the low morale of the Celtics now, Brennus dared not lead his team to confront them and was forced to order a retreat.

However, less than ten miles from its withdrawal from Rome, the morale of the Latium coalition led by Camillous caught up, and the two sides fought fiercely.

In the end, the Celts suffered a crushing defeat, most of them were surrounded and wiped out by the chasing troops, and a small number of people scattered and fled everywhere. As a result, all the people in the neighboring towns and villages were dispatched to search for them, and they were almost slaughtered, leaving only Brennus. Dozens of people, including their cronies, fled back.

This battle caused the Celts in the upper reaches of the Po River to suffer heavy losses and their strength was greatly reduced.

Although the Romans suffered losses in this war with the Celts, it eased the conflict between the nobles and the commoners. The people who had migrated to Weiai returned to Rome and worked together to rebuild the city of Rome. The Senate also promulgated some bills that were conducive to the reconciliation of nobles and commoners, and at the same time took the initiative to absorb many exiles who lost their homes in this war with the Celts as Roman citizens.

In view of the lessons of his failure at the Battle of the Alia River, and based on his previous combat experience, Camillous reformed the Roman army after gaining the support of the Senate. At the same time, Rome also unexpectedly received strong support from a powerful country in the Western Mediterranean. Therefore, in the second year after the war with the Celts, Rome began to regain its vitality and began to attack the surrounding Latinum city-states that had left the Latin Union and betrayed Rome because of the war,

After several years of hard fighting, most of the Latin cities have been brought back under their control and the Latin Confederation has been rebuilt.

During this period, the Etruscans in the north took advantage of the favorable opportunity when the Roman army was contained in the Latinum area, and dispatched a large army to surround the important Etruscans that Rome took many years to capture more than ten years ago. The city-state, now completely a Roman colonial city, Viais, tried to force it to surrender.

The Romans defended the fortified city, refused to surrender, repulsed the enemy's attack many times, and crossed the river many times for help.

Immediately after the end of the Latin War, Camillous led the Roman army to launch an attack on the Etruscan army that was besieging Viai on the north bank of the Taipei River.

The Etruscans, who had been ravaged by the Celts before, had not yet recovered their strength, while the Roman army, which had implemented the reformed military system of Camillous, had strong morale. The two sides fought several times, and Rome was victorious.

After repelling the Etruscan army, the Romans did not rest on their laurels, but after realizing the weakness of the Etruscans through war, they seized the opportunity and continued to attack the Etruscans that had been threatening Rome for hundreds of years. Human territory has launched an attack.

Within a few years, with the successive capture of important Etruscan city-states such as Tarchna, Velch, Novi, Volsinii, etc., Rome He also brought most of the southern part of Etruria into his control.

During this period, the Volsci people and Herniki people in the south of Rome were afraid that a powerful Rome would rise and threaten the security of their own territories, and from time to time they would unite with other forces around Rome to invade the territories of Rome and its allies, and this time It should be the largest one in this decade.

Davos stared at Rome and its colonial cities on the map, as well as the allies that had surrendered to him, which was already a large area.

He didn't know how much trouble it would cause Dionysus to let Rome grow up, but Dionia has devoted a lot of manpower and material resources to integrating and unifying southern Italy and eastern Sicily for more than ten years. There is really no extra force to interfere with Rome, which is far away in central Italy. It is an unfamiliar area to the Dionysians. Sending a large force is too expensive for the Kingdom of Dionia, and sending a small force is also very expensive. easily destroyed.

He hoped that this time the Volsci's all-out attack could pose a threat to Rome. It is a pity that his previous life's knowledge of Roman history started from the Punic War, and he knew very little about the history of the early rise of Rome. The only thing he knew was Camillous. After reading the information collected by the intelligence department and combining it with the knowledge he had learned in his previous life, he realized that Camelus, who was very famous in the Latinum area at this time, was the one who was called "the father of Rome" in his previous life. Mulhouse.

"Where is Camelus now?" he asked immediately.

Aristillas was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that what Davos was talking about was exactly the person he had made them pay attention to: "Before, Camelus didn't take part in the expedition to Etruria on the grounds that he was old and weak. Commander. He has been in the city of Rome, and there is no new news."

"It seems that this time the Romans will make him the commander against the Volsi coalition." Davos sighed lightly: "Watch this war closely and report to me at any time."

"Yes, Your Majesty," replied Aristillas.

Davos pondered for a while, then remembered one more thing, and said to his clerk, Henepolis, "Herny, you immediately give Catane, Naxos, Sikuli, Herbie in Sicily. Tower, Hera... The chief executives of these cities wrote letters. Let them try their best to persuade the people to sell the surplus grain to the city hall at a proper price after the autumn harvest, and use it to help the people in the Jinan area..."

"Okay, Your Majesty. I will finish writing the letter immediately and give it to you for review." After Henepolis finished speaking, he immediately prepared to write the letter.

Davos looked down at the Rome icon on the map again, and sighed inwardly: This drought has come at a bad time...

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Two days later, Davos met the Delphic priest Cretimene in the palace.

For Delphi's invitation, Davers did not show joy. On the contrary, he just politely expressed his gratitude to Delphi, but proposed that Dionia would take action unless Delphi publicly invited the kingdom of Dionia to join the Holy Alliance, otherwise Dionia would take the initiative to apply. It is absolutely impossible!

Cretimone was stunned. He thought Dionia would be grateful for Delphi's favor, but he didn't expect Davos to be so indifferent and arrogant.

In fact, if Cretimene had a deep understanding of Dionia's national conditions, he would have understood why Davos did it.

Because Davos is not only the king of the kingdom of Dionia, he is also the high priest of the Temple of Hades and the descendant of Hades. The realms were different, and he also felt unable to explain to the priests of Hades and the majority of believers. But if the other party took the initiative to invite, Davers would find it easier to accept. On the surface, this is just a question of the attitude of the master and not taking the initiative, but in fact it is an important issue to decide who is the master of the two gods in Dionia.

The two sides are deadlocked at this critical point, and neither can give in.

Cretimene had to turn the conversation on to something else—inviting Dionysus to the next Pythian Games, which would take place two years later (in the summer of 379 BC).

Davos once again thanked the other party for the invitation, but reminded the other party: "Dionia is a multi-racial kingdom, as long as the Pythian Games allows Dionysian citizens of different races to participate, Dionia will definitely form a team to participate. ."

This condition is precisely what Delphi could not agree to independently. Such a violation of tradition must be approved by the members of the Holy Alliance. Likewise, Delphi certainly could not have risked angering Sparta by openly inviting Dionia to join the Holy Alliance.

Cretimone thought he had come with sincerity, but because of Davos' arrogance, he got nothing, and finally he left angrily, and the matter of Dionia joining the Holy Alliance was put on hold.

However, when Cretimenes returned, he spread the rumor that "King Dionia was arrogant and rude to Delphi" in the Delphi area.

Davos disapproved of the angry departure of the priests of Delphi, and he did not think it was time to intervene in the affairs of Greece. As for Delphi's willingness to promote Dionia in the Greek mainland, Davos also smiled: In the past ten years, Dionia has been continuously attracting Greek free people from the vast Greek city-state territory of the Eastern Mediterranean, and has formed many A stable channel without the help of Delphi.