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Chapter 311: Lucania’s Changes (Please subscribe)

In the Carthage Senate, the offensive faction headed by the Magonides family, which received strong support from the people, vigorously criticized the conservatives headed by Hanno. They proposed attacking Syracuse and reestablishing security in the north for Carthage. The barrier proposal was eventually passed.

So the Carthage Senate once again appointed Himilco, the patriarch of the Magonides family and one of the Carthaginian Sufits (similar to the consuls, there are two), as commander-in-chief, and began to recall the people who had just been sent to open up the Iberian Peninsula. The army was led by Himilko's younger brother Mago. At the same time, he also began to prepare rations for the army.

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A big event happened in Grumentum a day ago. Two small tribes in the north, Lourdes and Brina, had a conflict over territorial issues and even fought with each other. The city administrator, Bagule, personally went to mediate. As a result, he was suddenly attacked. When he was besieged by his tribe's warriors, Bagule was defenseless. Thanks to his bodyguards who fought desperately to break through the siege, he escaped back to Grumentum City. Soon, news spread in the city that Bagule was seriously injured and in critical condition. At the same time, The gates of the city were closed tightly, and the city was heavily guarded, but no troops were sent to attack the two tribes that blatantly raised their flags.

For a time, outside the city, the tribes under Grumentum's jurisdiction were panicked and rumors spread.

News soon reached Picosis and Potentia.

"Son, the old fox Puamote has finally taken action! We can't wait any longer, we must send troops immediately to attack Grumentum!" Xinsinaga said excitedly and anxiously.

"Father, didn't you say before that we would wait until Potentia sends troops before we send troops!" Seeing Xinsinag being so excited, Gnainat asked in confusion.

"The situation now is different from before! Although Potentia has not sent out troops, they have already taken action. Didn't you just hear that 'the Lord of Grumentum was ambushed and seriously injured'? This is definitely It was Puamot and the others who secretly instigated the Grumentum tribe adjacent to Potentia to do good deeds! Logically speaking, the Dionysians should send troops to carry out bloody revenge on those tribes, but the Dionysias People didn’t, but they locked the city gate tightly, what does this mean?!”

Xinsinag waved his arms and said excitedly: "It means that the Dionians have no extra troops to suppress the rebellious tribes. Their soldiers have been deployed to attack Bruti. Bruti who came yesterday Why was the envoy not as nervous as when he begged us to join last time? He had made it very clear, 'Dionia sent nearly 2 troops to attack the Bruti Mountains from the north, but was still unable to attack Wege. They still had 1 people attacking Kenapetia from the south, and they were also blocked from the mountains, unable to move forward.' Dionia is in the predicament of fighting the Brutians, so The Dionians here just want to defend the city of Grumentum. Now, the tribes of Grumentum are like calves who have lost their mothers. In front, immediately send troops to the territory of Grumentum, and those tribes will inevitably surrender one after another, and our team will grow rapidly. By the time Puamot arrives, it will be too late, Grumentum Let us Pixis have the final say!" Thinking of his pride, Cincinnagu couldn't help but chatter.

"Father, I'm going to gather the soldiers right now!" Gnainat was so excited by his father's words that he immediately strode out of the living room, and behind him came Xinsinag's hateful voice: "Cunning Dionia Anyone who dares to take away my Grumentum, I have finally waited for this day of revenge! God Asinu, I, Xinsinaga, will sacrifice the blood of Greeks to you, hoping to get your blessing! "

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"Brother, what are you still hesitating about?" Pollet shouted anxiously: "The Picosis have already made the first move. It must be the cunning Cincinna who has attracted the tribes of Grumentum and designed to inflict heavy damage. Bagule of Dionysia! Now, the Pikosis army must have set off. If we don't send troops again, Grumentum will belong to Pikosis!"

Compared to the impetuous Paulette, Puamote, the leader of Potentia who was over fifty years old, sat on a wooden chair. Hearing these words, his eyebrows did not even move, and he slowly Said: "I still say the same thing - wait."

"Brother, if you don't want to take risks, why don't I take some soldiers to Grumentum first?" Paulet was so anxious that he wanted to say more, but Puamote's expression became serious. He looked at his brother and said coldly. He said loudly: "I still have the final say in Potentia. If you want to give orders, wait until I am dead."

Pollet did not dare to speak anymore. He and Puamotte were nearly 20 years apart, and his father died early. He was actually raised by his elder brother, so although he was a brother, he was more like a father and son.

"Polet." Puamote's tone became milder: "Don't forget how we lost Grumentum."

Paulette said nothing, but his expression was clearly unconvinced.

Puamote sighed, and his face became a little more solemn: "I know that you have been complaining that I have been too cautious in doing things these years and did not intervene in the internal disputes in Lucania. He refuses to do anything about the fat of Grumentum... But you have to know that our Potentia is different from Pixis and Grumentum. They are surrounded by Lucanians, And there are terrible Samnite people in the north of us, don't forget what our ancestors told us all the time, 'we were driven from the north to this mountainous area by these Samnite', don't look at it now These Samnite tribes did not fight us because we had enough warriors, and they had to deal with the Greeks in the west, so they lived in peace. But if our strength weakened, you think those hungry wolves will Let Pochengtia go!"

Pollet's expression moved slightly.

"At the beginning of the year, I did not resist your repeated requests and sent troops to Grumentum. In the end, you and the soldiers were captured by the Dionians... Do you know... During that time, the Samnites sent envoys to I expressed my willingness to lend troops to help me defeat the Dionians."

Now Pollett was moved, and he couldn't help asking anxiously: "There is such a thing?! You agree?!"

"Agree?" Puamote sneered: "If I agreed, the city of Potentia should have belonged to Samona long ago. Fortunately, we made peace with Dionia in time and put you back. I breathed a sigh of relief. Now, the situation in Grumentum is complicated, and I don’t know what the war between Dionia and Bruti will look like in the end. I can’t see clearly... If you can’t see clearly, don’t send troops easily. Cincinna If Ge wants to rob Grumentum, then let him rob it, the Dionians are not that easy to deal with."

After listening to this, Pollet was silent for a while, and then asked a little unwillingly: "If that's the case, brother, why did you agree to form an alliance with Bruti?"

A glimmer of light flashed through Puamote's cloudy eyes: "The alliance is also for one more way out, Asinu's blessing! If a good opportunity arises... So we have to calm down now and wait slowly..."

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Pianren hurried back to Cosenza, just in time to intercept Nikuru who was hurriedly returning from Knapetia with his troops, and finally persuaded him to stay in Cosenza and attack Bisignia together after gathering the army. .

But it didn't take long for the scouts to report that the Greeks were building a fortress on the road leading to the plateau from Bithynia.

Pianlon could no longer sit still. If the Greeks were allowed to repair the fortress, it would undoubtedly make it more difficult to recapture Bithynia.He had no choice but to let Nikuru lead his warriors to stop him, and added a thousand warriors from other tribes to him, and repeatedly told him not to fight head-on with the Greeks.

After Nikuru anxiously led his troops and marched for three hours, he could vaguely see the Greeks in front, and his eyes suddenly widened: they had turned the exit of the mountain road into a large construction site, digging holes, driving piles, moving wood... ...It was a lively scene, and a wooden wall three meters high and dozens of meters long stood there impressively. It had city gates, crenels, trenches, and deer villages. All the facilities that a fortress should have were basically complete.

Nikuru's actions were considered fast, but it had already been a day and a half since the Second Legion occupied Bithynia. Legion Commander Drakos seized the favorable opportunity of this day and a half and divided his 7000 soldiers into three teams, regardless of division. The construction of the fortress was intensified day and night.The soldiers also knew that time was tight, and they worked hard. Together with some simple defense facilities assembled by engineering operations, the fortress had already begun to take shape when Nikuru arrived.

After the scattered scouts found the Brutian team, they immediately rushed to report back. The bugle sounded in the fortress, and the working soldiers retreated leisurely.

Although Nikuru was surprised by the speed at which the Dionian soldiers built the fortress, knowing that it took seven or eight days for Bisignia to dismantle the fortress facing Cosenza, he was even more angry that the Greeks were doing whatever they wanted in his territory.

"Kill those Greeks outside the city!" He gave an order, and the trumpet sounded. His soldiers hated the enemy for taking away their hometown, and like ferocious wolves, they rushed towards the unarmored and unarmed people. Dionians.

Under the command of the team officer, the Dionian soldiers did not panic, passed through the city gate in an orderly manner, and retreated into the wall. The soldiers at the end of the team even turned their heads and looked back at leisure, hoping that something good would happen.

Fifty meters away from the city wall, the charging Bisinian warriors suddenly screamed and screamed. They all fell to the ground. When they pulled out their feet, they were all bloody. They were not stabbed by sharp wooden stakes buried in the grass. Wearing footboards means getting bloody gashes from meat hooks, and the narrow foot pits can break ankles...

　I had a high fever some time ago, and then my mandibular lymph nodes swelled. After it subsided, I thought I was fine. Unexpectedly, starting this week, my lower back started to feel sore, swollen and numb, so I will update in advance today. I want to have a good sleep.

　　
　
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