Chapter 69 The Romans and the Samonais in Action

After some scramble, Capps transferred him to the quarters department as an adjutant of the quarters. He has undertaken a lot of work in recent years, and it has also relieved a lot of burdens for Capps. Since serving as the acting quartermaster, Alpence has performed as smoothly as usual without any mistakes, which completely reassured Davos.

At this time, Davos comforted him and said: "You don't have to worry, the food problem will be greatly improved soon. Lijim merchants bought a large amount of grain in the Eoke Sea and Egypt, which will be shipped soon. In addition, the second batch of grain provided by the Egyptian pharaoh will also be shipped soon, and these grains will be used as military supplies ."

"That's great!" Alpins finally showed a smile.

"What do you think of Rome's attack on the Herniki people?" Davos turned to look at the Minister of War, Hiros.

Hieros glanced at Hieronymus, Philisius, and Alpins, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, after consultation with our military department, we feel that although Rome is an enemy, this time, they have changed their attack. The direction, shrinking the defense line on the sea side, and attacking the Herniki people inland is indeed a good strategy, it makes our 3rd fleet unable to function. At the same time, the Romans are still on the sea side. There were a lot of soldiers stationed in this town, which made our coalition with the Volsci people dare not attack it, because that would lead to more casualties for the coalition forces with few troops. Humans can attack the weak Herniki with all their strength. Even with the help of the Volsci, we don't think they can resist the Romans' attack. Unless the Eques and the Masi come to the rescue, the Heni will not be able to resist. The bases are in danger. So Amintas wrote to ask for more reinforcements."

"Your Majesty, we have just signed an alliance agreement with the Helniki people." Philisius interjected.

Davos nodded, staring at the area on the map where the Helniki people lived, without speaking for a while.

The others also kept quiet, waiting for Davos to make a decision.

At this time, the herald Aristillas hurriedly pushed the door and walked into the conference room: "Your Majesty, the battle report from the Latinum region."

Davos took a look, his eyelids jumped, and he turned his hand and handed the scroll of papyrus to Shiros next to him.

Hiros hurriedly took it, and after reading it, he was shocked: "More than 10,000 coalition forces organized by the Equi and the Masi people attacked the Latin city-state of Bolae, trying to attract the Roman army who attacked Herniki to return to help. , was attacked by more than 20,000 Roman troops that quickly set out from the city of Rome, and suffered a crushing defeat!"

"How come the Romans have more than 20,000 troops?!" Others present heard the words,

The same surprised look on his face.

Aristillas replied calmly: "It is estimated that it may be the army from the Roman colonial city and the Etruscan allies north of the Tiber River."

"It seems that the Romans had a plan this time!" Davos said with a sigh: "Camillous's trick of 'baiting the enemy' is good."

The rest of the people present are veterans of the battle and understand what Davos meant: Camelus put the Roman army on the front line, and the rear was deliberately empty. In fact, he had already hidden the army in the city of Rome. Due to their relatively small strength, the allied army of the Masi people did not dare to confront the Roman army head-on. Instead, they adopted a sneak attack in the rear in an attempt to force the Roman army to return to the aid. As a result, they were raided by the prepared Romans. After all, Rome was only 50 meters away from the city of Bonnet. Just a few miles away.

Philisius leaned over the map again, observed it carefully, and frowned, "Your Majesty, after this fiasco, the Eques and the Masi people may no longer be able to rescue Helniki. Man, the Romans can attack them with confidence, here—"

Philisius pointed to the camp of the Roman army, and said in a deep voice: "There were already more than 40,000 Roman soldiers, plus the new 20,000 people, it is far from Heniki and people. The Volsci reinforcements will be able to withstand it, and I believe the Romans will soon be able to eliminate the Helniki power, and then attack the Volsci towns to the east, or--" Philisius used the long wood The stick tugs on the lowlands between Lepiny and Ausoni, with a worried look on his face: "Let's go west again, and attack the Volseys in the coastal plain from the east, and by then, Even the First Legion could not stop so many Roman soldiers. If the defenders of these Roman colonial towns in the southwest also take advantage of the situation to attack, I believe that the Volsci will soon be wiped out, and the Romans will Completely conquer the Latium region!"

Hiros also interjected at the moment: "Your Majesty, you used to let us pay attention to Rome. To be honest, we didn't take it too seriously, but now it seems that its war potential is too amazing! Look, it attacked Herni. There were more than 40,000 Ki people, more than 20,000 coalition forces that defeated the Eques and Masai, and nearly 10,000 guards in each of the three cities of Antium, Vilitre, and Satnicum. Army, this is an army of nearly 100,000 people, which means that it can organize a huge army of at least 100,000 people. Assuming that these armies do not have the same combat effectiveness as the Roman army that opposed the first army, it will also give us Cause a lot of trouble!"

Several other military ministers also echoed Hiros' words.

"Roman's huge army is indeed a big problem." Davos looked around at them and said in a deep voice, "But the biggest problem is their dictator Camelus! Although Carthage is powerful, they are in power. Hanno obviously had no experience of war, and he did not understand the meaning of this war. The generals and troops he sent were like playing games, but Camelus obviously knew that the war with us was related to the life and death of Rome. All out from the start.

I got information that he even proposed and passed the proposal in the Roman Senate to 'use the newly conquered land to distribute the landless poor, and actively absorb the refugees from the Latinum and Etruscan regions as Roman citizens'...etc. In this way, it will not only alleviate the fierce conflicts between nobles and commoners in the Roman city-state, but also rapidly increase the number of Roman soldiers that can be summoned. Ladies and gentlemen, Rome is not causing us a lot of trouble, but a real threat to our kingdom of Dionia! "

Davos' remarks made everyone's face gloomy, and even Hieronymus, who usually doesn't like to talk, couldn't help scolding at this time: "This Rome! Not only steals from our military system, but also plagiarizes our political system. Dionia!"

Whether the military system of Rome was created by itself or learned from Dionia is a topic that officials of the Ministry of Military Affairs occasionally talk about in their spare time, but everyone present at the moment obviously does not have the heart to discuss this issue any more. Next to this three-dimensional map, I stared cautiously at this familiar and unfamiliar city-state on the banks of the middle reaches of the Tiber River.

Suddenly, Thormid said: "Your Majesty, I have an opinion, the Romans have destroyed Herniki, and if they capture the towns in the mountains east of Volsi, their sphere of influence will already be bordered by the Samonais. Now, with the habits of the Samonais, will they live in peace with such a tough new neighbor?! As long as we think of a way, maybe we can make these two forces clash violently, and then—"

"The Samonais can't be that stupid." Philisius questioned: "They just ended a war with us, and now the Romans are at war with us again, don't they know that the enemy of the enemy is a friend ?!"

"Of course the leaders of Samona knew, but those Samonaite tribal warriors and tribes living on the Roman border might not obey for their own interests, and once the conflict broke out, it was beyond the control of the leaders. "..." Thormed defended.

As he was talking, Aristillas, who had just left, entered the conference room again, and he said to Davos with a hurried expression: "Your Majesty, urgent military information from the Downey area!"

Davos took a look, then raised his head solemnly to face the curious eyes of everyone, and said slowly: "There is no need to discuss the possible conflict between the Samone and Rome. This morning, the Samone invaded our country. Downey Area!"

"What?!!" Everyone's face changed greatly.

Hiros was busy taking the battle report from Davos, and several people rushed to watch it.

"The Samonites successively raided the cities of Ausculum, Vibinum, and Gerunum in the Downey region, and only the city of Gerunum was located in Fren The frontier of Thani, for lack of precaution, was taken because the Florentanis have always been friendly and friendly with us Dionia, and the citizens of the other two cities have repelled the enemy's raids, but are now under siege. Your Majesty, The Samonites have declared war on us!" Philisius said in a voiceless voice while reading the battle report.

"Isn't that just right, to save us from worrying every day when the Samone people will betray the kingdom, since they will be so stupid that they will leave the mountainous areas that give us headaches and fight on the plains, which just gives us the opportunity to completely remove the big Samonei. Trouble!" Davos's composure was not pretending, the attack of the Samonaites more than ten years ago would have made him nervous, but now the strong national strength of the Kingdom of Dionia has given him enough confidence, even in the event of a drought, he There is also enough confidence to completely defeat the evil wolf that was blocking Dionia's northward expansion path. It can even be said that the betrayal of the Samonais was the result of his deliberate manipulation.

Davers' relaxed attitude and confident words were like drinking a glass of cool water for several people in the room, calming their nervous mood.