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Chapter 319 Annihilation of Picosis (please subscribe)

As a warrior as famous as Martonis, Martius is relatively calm, does not have too much ambition, and can be loyal to his duties, so Davers has always trusted him.Although the number of Archon Guards is full, they are also the guards in important places such as the Senate Chamber, the Temple of Hades, and the Arena. The vacant places can be filled by the leaders and tribes in the hall. Young people recommended by the nobles served.In order to integrate the Bisinians into the Dionian League as soon as possible, these young elites from Bisignia should join the Dionian League's political system, understand the Dionian system as soon as possible, and learn from The culture of Dionysia is accustomed to the life of Dionysia, and thus, as Baguilipi said, it is assimilated into the real Dionysia people, and then returns to influence the people of Bithynia.

He needs to go back and discuss this matter with the Senate, but for now he can agree to join the guard as a Bisignian volunteer.After Davos made up his mind, he immediately agreed.

Soon, the city of Bisignia gathered a convoy of more than 60 people.

Davos appointed Rodom as the captain of the escort team and announced that they would be responsible for keeping vigil for him tonight.

As soon as the order was issued, it was strongly opposed by Dracos, Capps and others.

But Davers persisted and declared: "Now Bithynia is Bithynia of Dionia, and Bithynia soldiers are also soldiers of Dionia! How can any commander not trust his soldiers?" of!"

In the end, Davos reached an agreement with Dracos, Capos, and the others, and Martius led the escort to guard the outside of the courtyard, while Bithynian soldiers guarded the inside.

After Rodom and the others received the news, they were greatly moved and vowed never to let Lord Davos, who trusted them, be frightened.

Originally, the anxious people of Bithynia were relieved by Daves' move.

In addition to the senior generals of the legion, those who are most afraid of accidents are the several leaders of Baguilipi and the tribal nobles. You must know that once something happens to Daves, there will be two thousand Dionian soldiers in the city and more than 1 soldiers outside the city. Their The anger will burn the city of Bithynia to ashes, so they repeatedly warned the tribesmen who would serve as guards tonight.

Have a safe night.

The next day, Davos, who had a peaceful sleep, Cappus, Dracos, the three Bithynia chiefs, and the commanders of the Allied Forces of Heraclea and Castron, who had not slept much all night The generals discussed together the march into the Cosenza plateau.

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Xinsinag waited for the reinforcements sent out to quickly defeat the Eleas, and then quickly returned.In fact, he didn't wait too long before he saw Gnainat fleeing back with hundreds of remaining soldiers covered in wounds.

"What did you say?! You were ambushed by the Dionians?!" Xinsinag looked in disbelief: "How could there be a Dionian army outside the city of Picosis?! Ge Lumentum City has always been under my surveillance, and they have not sent out a single troop!"

Gnainat shook his head and said feebly: "Aelia... I'm afraid they came from Aelia... I can see clearly that although they are all wearing Greek armor, most of them are as tall as The hair color...even the roaring voice is Lucanian..."

After being reminded by his son, Xinsinag's thoughts suddenly opened up: "You mean they are from Niutum... Why didn't our spies find it?!"

Gnainat had already thought about the matter clearly on the way back. He coughed and said anxiously: "They...cough...should have boarded the ship from Laos...maybe they didn't go along the coast... Ahem... Instead, we circled outwards... Our warships were unable to fight against the warships of Laos and Elia... so we could only cruise around the port... ahem... if they were not blocked. Not bad...they have about 4000 people...Father, what shall we do now?!"

"Go back! We must go back to Picosis immediately!" Xinsinag already had a premonition that something bad was going to happen: "Can your body still hold on?"

Gnainat nodded: "...cough...what about those tribes?"

"Let them go with us. We need more warriors now. If any tribe refuses to go with us -" Xinsinag had a sinister look on his face and said coldly: "We will just leave the group we had in Gru." Do Mentum’s thing again!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the spies hurried in: "Report to the big leader that a Dionian army appeared to the north of us, with about 4000 people!"

"Report! The tribe in the south has gathered about 5000 warriors and is approaching our camp!"

"Report, big boss! Grumentum's army has left the city! It has been confirmed that their general is Bagule!"

One piece of bad news came one after another, causing Xinsinag to break out in layers of cold sweat, making his whole body soaked to the skin.When he heard the news, he was shocked: "You said Bagule was not injured?!"

"It seems so, big boss."

Xinsinag was stunned.After a long while, he murmured: "Conspiracy! This is a conspiracy that the Dionians have designed long ago!"

He suddenly remembered something and said urgently: "Go and call the leaders of the Lourdes and Brina tribes over. If they don't want to come, we will force them to come!"

As soon as the guards left, a leader from Picosis stumbled in: "The big boss is in trouble! Lourdes and Brenna took the lead in the riot!"

"Pfft!" Xinsinag was so furious that he spurted a mouthful of blood onto the ground.

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Dionia attacked Picosis' camp from the north, east, and south. The camp was in chaos and could not organize an effective defense, so it was easily breached.

Gnainat died in the battle, Xinsinag took a few tribesmen and fled into the mountains to the west, while most of the others surrendered.

"Heronimus Legion Commander, what should we do with so many prisoners?" Bagule asked his superior for instructions.

"According to Lord Davos's order, all of them were demoted to city-state slaves and escorted back to Thurii to work as coolies in mining, building roads, and building temples..." Hieronymus said to himself, not paying attention at all. The expression on Bagule's face: "In addition, take out another thousand Picosis prisoners to accompany us when we attack the city of Picosis, so as to force the tribes in the city to surrender.

Then he ordered: "Bagule, you continue to guard Grumentum City, and at the same time do not relax your surveillance of Potentia in the north. If there is any abnormal situation, immediately send a messenger to notify me."

"Yes."

"Agacia, go and urge the soldiers to speed up the progress of cleaning the battlefield, otherwise we will not be able to rest at night."

"Don't worry, legion commander. I will keep an eye open like a shepherd guarding his sheep. If anyone dares to be lazy, I will spank him!" Agacia laughed.

The Third Legion carefully implemented the plan proposed by Davos and perfected by them together, and finally achieved a relatively perfect result.After Hieronymus finished assigning the task, he rarely showed a relaxed smile.

"Brother!" Asistes called to Bagulu, who was walking back with his head lowered: "Lord Davos once said, 'Don't be too merciful to surrendered enemies, because being too merciful will make the enemy forget them. The mistakes we make will lead to making them again, so we sometimes have to hold up the stick high to make the enemy fearful and remember the lesson. 'The adults call it the 'bread and stick' method..."

Asistes looked at the thoughtful Bagule and said seriously: "Our bill to appease the tribes in the north is good enough. Not only did we grant land, but we also selflessly allocated some cattle and sheep... But when When we were in danger, they did not stand with us to tide over the difficulties. Instead, they turned to the enemy and tried to destroy us and carve up more of our land! This severe punishment for them will, I believe, shock the people of this land. All Lucanian tribes, let them think carefully when making decisions related to us, should they choose to accept the bread or the stick?!"

Bagul looked at the soldiers who were busy on the battlefield. They dismantled the enemy's camp, picked up supplies on the ground, grabbed discarded weapons, removed armor from corpses... and put them on the loaded carts , then lifted up the enemy's corpse and threw it into the corpse piles burning with blazing flames...

The mountain wind blew, and ashes were floating everywhere in the air.

Bagule let out a long sigh and said, "I hope that after this battle, peace can truly be restored in the Lucania region!"

Bagule spit out the depression in his heart. He slapped Asistes on the shoulder and said loudly: "Anyway, we finally solved the problem of Xinsinag that gave us a headache. Let's celebrate it tonight!" , I’m going to your house as a guest, and I haven’t tasted my sister’s roasted mutton for a long time. We won’t come back until we get drunk!”

A month later, the Xinsinag tribesmen who fled into the mountains were tired of evading the pursuit of Dionian soldiers all day long. At the same time, they had to endure the difficult life in the mountains and the increasingly crazy insults and beatings of Xinsinag. They finally couldn't help it. He attacked and killed Xinsinaga while he was sleeping, then went down the mountain to the city of Grumentum to surrender. This is a story later.

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When Pianren led his army back to Cosenza, the rebellious tribes had long since fled.

In the following time, he led Petaru and Philotaru to keep busy appeasing the people in the city and meeting with other tribal leaders in the city...

While he was busy, Cnapetia's messenger arrived at Cosenza.

Pianlun was shocked when he received Pangelu's request for help. He never expected that the city of Knapetia, which was known as "easy to defend but difficult to attack", only defended it for more than ten days and was almost unable to hold on.Moreover, what shocked him even more were the two terrifying siege weapons possessed by Dionia introduced in Pangelu's letter.

(End of this chapter)