Chapter 223 The Battle of Lola (1)

Zantiparis' earnest words greatly touched the generals of the Campania League. Like Aeos, he immediately thought of the plight of Naples: too many refugees were concentrated in the city, food was lacking, order was difficult to control, and most The fear is the fear of the outbreak of the disease.

And the generals like Herculaneum and Litroom were eager to lead the people back to their homes, but their towns were broken, and once the Samonais harassed them again, it would be difficult for them to defend at all... Do they have to do it in the future? Continue to hide in Naples? Not only is it unbearable for the people, but the civic soldiers under them will probably also object.

Zantiparis saw the generals of the Campania Alliance frowning and thought, so he said: "Our soldiers are indeed a little tired after the hard battle, but they have time to rest, but the Samonites who came from afar are not Are you tired?! They arrived here in one day from Beneventom. I'm afraid they didn't get much rest on the road. They would only be more tired than our soldiers. They could still run like before when they were fighting. Is it wind?!

Besides, our soldiers have just captured the city of Lora, their confidence has been boosted, and the Samonais are worried about Lora and anxious, so their fighting spirit is not as good as our soldiers; what's more, even if the Samonais reinforcements There are 10,000 soldiers, and our soldiers are still more than them. Don't forget that their team also includes more than 2,000 soldiers from Nakonia. The spies of Abenerum have already said that they have already They sent someone to contact the commander of the Nakonia army quietly, so these more than 2,000 Nakonia soldiers are not allies of the Samonai reinforcements, but help us at a critical time! "

When Zantiparis said this, his emotions also became high: "Everyone, we have so many advantages, we should seize this favorable opportunity in time, take the initiative to meet the incoming enemies, defeat them, and completely drive them away. Go out of the Campania plains, and let the people of your Campania allies find peace and tranquility!"

Zantiparis said these words, and most of the generals were filled with excitement and doubts.

But some people also raised objections: "Can the words of the Abenirum people be believed?!" The Samone people and the Campania people have been fighting for decades. Both sides regard them as mortal enemies, so how can they easily believe it.

Before Zantiparis could answer, Aeos said first: "The Abenerum assisted General Alexis in defeating Samone's army in the mountains, and now they are besieging Beneventum, why not Trustworthy! Abenerum is an ally of Dionia, and of course our friend! The same goes for the Nakonians, don't forget, we were able to capture the city of Lora, and they also took credit!"

In fact, it is not that the Nakonian people did not have conflicts with the Campania people in Lola, but the officials of Enona tried to separate their work and reduce contact. For example, the work of trimming tree trunks and digging soil was handed over to To the people of Nakonia, they are not allowed to participate in the construction of earthen hills, and they are allowed to rest in Nakonia further south at night. Of course, there is another reason for this to be done so that the defenders of Lola do not see the Nakonians and Nakonia. Dionysus was in close contact so as not to bring disadvantage to the Enona warriors who were still in the Samone coalition.

The general did not speak.

Aeos looked at Zantiparis and asked solemnly: "If we lead the army to meet the Samone reinforcements as you said, can we win?"

Zantiparis also solemnly replied: "As long as we fight with all our strength, we can win!"

Aeos had concerns before: once the coalition was defeated, it would be difficult for the slow-moving Campania heavy infantry to escape the pursuit of the Samones, and the situation of the Campania alliance would become even worse than before. Oops.

However, the Dionysian army fought twice on the Campania plain, and he personally participated in assisting, and was impressed by Dionia's strong military capabilities, so this affirmation of Zantiparis gave him confidence, So he faced the generals of the Campania Alliance and said loudly: "Everyone, with the full help of the Dionysian allies, we will definitely be able to defeat the Samonais! Don't hesitate any more, go and gather your soldiers immediately, Go out to meet the enemy and drive them out of the Campania plain!"

This time no one objected.

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When the Dionysian coalition forces formed an array outside the city of Lola early in the morning, the defenders of Lola felt bad. They let a small team sneak out of the city, and after paying many casualties, they entered from the hilly area in the southeast. Hill, escaped the siege, and rushed to Beneventom for help. At noon, just at the entrance of the mountain road leading to Beneventum, Cautem met the army of Segovani returning to help.

Segovani learned that Lola City was in danger, and without hesitation, issued the order to "speed up the entire army", and at the same time sent spies to inform Cesara quickly.

In this way, Cautini's army went out of the mountains and entered Cautim's territory. They did not enter the city to rest at all, but continued to march forward, passing through the wider pass between the mountains and reaching Abela () . Here, with the 1,300 warriors sent by Cesara, the total force has reached more than 9,000, which is already the largest force that the Kautini tribe can send today.

The army went out of the pass, entered the plains of Campania, rounded the mountains, turned south, and came straight to the city of Lora.

Although the road from Kautim to Lola is all smooth, but the day's march still made the Samonei mountain people who are good at running and physically tired, and many tribal leaders asked Segovani: Let the warriors rest for a bit.

But he was rejected by Segovani. In the descriptions of several Lola messengers, he has realized the determination of the Dionysian-Campania coalition to capture Lola, and he must go as soon as possible. Reinforcement to avoid the Dionian control of the town, which was very important to the Kautini clan, because that would mean the southern part of Kautini's domain would be cut off, which he could not allow.

About ten miles away from Lola City, Segovani received a report from the spies sent to Lola to explore: "The enemy's army is coming out of Lola City and coming towards us. There are many soldiers!"

"Are you sure the enemy came from Lola City??!" Segovani looked incredulous.

"Chief, when we approached the city of Lola... the battle was over, only to see a lot of Campanias carrying corpses outside the city... The enemy really came out of the city through the north gate of Lola, they were neatly dressed, It's not like the battle that just ended..." Kautini spy said with a sad expression.

Segovani was shocked. Although he led the army to come to the rescue in a hurry, he did not think that the Dionysian coalition would be able to capture the city of Lola, which was defended by thousands of Kautini warriors in just a few days. Now the situation has developed beyond his expectations.

But he only pondered for a while, and then said fiercely to the somewhat bewildered chiefs: "Let's not complain all the time, 'If the Campanias didn't hide in the city like turtles and dare not fight us, we would The entire Campania plain has been occupied long ago!' Now the opportunity has come. Those timid Campanias dared to take the initiative to attack us. They really thought that with the help of the Dionysians, they would be able to make them From a pack of rabbits to wolves?! They are about the same number as us, and they just finished the siege, so they came just right, we can completely kill them, not only to take back Lola, but the whole of Campania There will never be another force standing in our way on the plains, and the situation of the entire battlefield will be changed by us Kautinis!"

The leaders were aroused by Segovani, and they all shouted that they would fight to the death with the enemy.

As a result, the order that "the entire army should stop advancing, rest on the spot, and start forming a formation" was executed by the leaders.

Before, Vasunk had been anxious in his heart. He originally thought that the Kautini army would rest in Kautim City after walking the mountain road, but he did not expect to go straight to Lola, so he could only quietly Send his men to inform the other Nakonian leaders that "the Nakonians have left Segovani's control and are allied with Dionysus".

Now that he got the news that "the battle with the Campanians is going to take place, the whole army will start to form", Vasunk is even more anxious, because Segovani also ordered tyrannically: the troops of the various tribes of Nakonia must immediately According to the prescribed instructions, disperse to the designated positions in the army formation, without refusal and delay!

The designated position mentioned by Segovani is to place the troops of more than a dozen tribes of Nakonia widely in the front or rear of the left, center and right flanks of the entire army formation, so that they cannot communicate with each other during battle. , and cannot cooperate with each other.

In fact, the Nakonian army is now a hot potato for Segovani, given what he had done in his domain and now that Dionysus has taken Nakonia (he thinks Naco Nia was occupied by Dionia), if the Nakonian army knew the truth, a rebellion was a sure thing.

In Segovani's opinion, it would be better to break them up completely and force them into the armies of other tribes, which would of course provoke a resistance from the Nakonian army. It was not that Segovani did not try at first. When the Samona coalition forces were meeting in Beneventoum, he made this suggestion to several other tribal chiefs, and wanted to use the advantage of the coalition forces to suppress Nathan The resistance of the Konya warriors took the opportunity to break them up.

But the proposal was opposed by Badani and Contruk, especially Contruk, who sharply denounced the practice, arguing that it was Quinduk's fault to collude with foreign enemies, and that he and his tribe had already suffered was punished, and the other Nakonian tribal warriors were so valiant in battle (the Nakonian army, driven by the Segovani, always charged forward), made up for their past wrongs, and the tribal leaders Leading one's tribe into battle is a Samonite military tradition, and breaking this tradition would only terrify other tribes.

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