Chapter 133 The Prince's Decision
At the same time, Adoris's former voice, appearance and smile continued to appear in Clotokatax's mind: "Cloto, I really didn't expect that my father would send you to Peloponnese. Don't worry, brother, I will protect you with all my strength!...
Oh, by the way, this is your first time commanding the army, don't worry, I will fully support you...
Croto, I am here to represent the entire team of soldiers. I want to ask if we have been building camps without going out to fight. Is there any special plan?
Cloto, you finally ordered us to fight. I will fight with all my might and bring you the first victory..."
"Brother!!" Crotokatax cried heartbrokenly, tears flowing unstoppable.
It took him a long time to stop crying because he was going to start cremating the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle.
Crotokatax looked at Adoris's body slowly coke in the burning fire...
At this time, Kitsus had the opportunity to tell him sorrow: "Your Highness, according to the memories of a third-tier soldier who was seriously injured, the phalanx of the team where Captain Adoris was attacked by the Spartans, in order to rescue his soldiers, he was stabbed by a spear on his front chest with blood, and was completely unable to stand... But even though he was lying on the ground, he still waved his sword and continued to kill the enemy. Finally, the angry Spartans pierced the spear..."
"The Spartans who should be cut into pieces!!" Crotokatakus cursed with gritting teeth, his fists tightly clenched, his fingernails pierced their skin, and blood was flowing out of the air.
"Your Highness, Captain Adoris's heroic performance did not insult the glory of the First Legion, nor did he insult the glory of Prince Dionia! He is the hero of the kingdom, and his soul will be favored by Hades, and go to the Elysees Land!" Printols comforted softly.
Crotokatax silently stroked Adoris's helmet as a relic, and after a long time he said sadly: "...How can I face my parents when I go back, face my sister-in-law and nephew!"
Printols and Kticus were shocked and looked at each other, and both thought of a question: If King Davers had known the news of Adoris' death, I wonder what would have happened?!
After the war, when he learned that the First Legion suffered heavy casualties, Kitsus kept blaming himself. At this moment, he resolutely said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, the First Legion has suffered heavy casualties, Captain Adoris died in battle... This is all my responsibility! If it weren't for my command error and my orders were too hesitant and failed to make the soldiers ready in time, it would be impossible-"
Although Crotokataks was so sad and his mind was still clear, he waved his hand and interrupted him: "Captain Kertisus, this is not your responsibility. If you want to blame, blame the enemy for being too treacherous and shameless! Lord Printols, we must not let go of the Spartan defeated soldiers who fled into the mountains!"
Crotokataks's words were full of hatred, and he seemed to never give up until he wiped out the enemy. It was in contrast to the gentle attitude he had shown before. Printols understood that this was Adoris' tragic death to fight, which gave the young prince a great excitement. He did not give any reminder, but said with the flow: "Don't worry, your highness, we have captured the camp of the Spartan army in the Sanctuary of Hercules, seized a large amount of supplies. The Spartan army fled into the mountains and had no food to eat, and the situation would only get worse and worse. Tomorrow we will send troops to the south quickly to block the Spartan border and will easily capture them."
"The plan to attack the Spartan territory cannot be delayed for too long!" Crotokataks said with a hatred: "When will the army complete the rest?"
"Your Highness, it doesn't take too long. We can send some troops into Spartan territory the day after tomorrow." Printols said affirmatively.
"Some armies? If they want to conquer Sparta, will they not have enough troops?"
"The Spartans are short of troops now, not to mention that we have the first fleet infantry to cooperate in the south."
"Okay, then follow what you said." Corinthal Kataks nodded, and was about to say something, but saw Mukrud hurriedly coming: "Master Commander, Tegeya sent an envoy to see you."
"Tega!" Crotokataks' face immediately sank, and his young face became a little distorted and hideous because of his resentment: "These shameless traitors have the face to see me! We came to save them, but they not only betrayed, but also used our trust to launch a sneak attack on our army! The Teega people were the culprit who caused heavy casualties in the First Legion and the death of my elder brother! I will never forgive them!"
Kitsus empathized with the anger of the young commander. If there were no sneak attacks from the rear by the Tiger army, it was just the Spartan army's deception tactic. He believed that with the combat effectiveness of the First Legion, he would not suffer too much loss when the formation was not intact. It was precisely because of the attacks from the front and back that he had to let the First Legion soldiers turn to defense on the spot, thus completely being completely beaten.
Therefore, he also said angrily: "My commander, after the defeat of the Spartan coalition, the Tigerian army was completely surrounded by us. Few soldiers escaped. There were nearly 2,500 soldiers captured alone. It would be better to execute all these prisoners to sacrifice the souls of the soldiers who died in battle, or turn them into slaves and sell them all.
I asked several Tega prisoners. The Tega Council sent all the citizens who could fight in their city, obviously with vicious thoughts, and wanted to completely destroy our army through this battle! But Hades blessed, Tega lost all its vitality, so we could easily capture the city.
Commander, our tradition of Dionia has always treated friends sincerely, but we will never give up on betrayal! We can completely destroy this city, thus shocking the entire Greece and let those city-states who want to be enemies with us consider the consequences!"
Kertesus's words were murderous. After hearing this, Crotokatax, who had been in grief and resentment, showed some hesitation and subconsciously looked at Printols next to him.
Printols did not directly express his advice, but calmly talked about a past incident: "I remember that in the Western Mediterranean War, His Majesty led his army to attack Rome. After capturing the city of Rome, he turned to attack the Latin allies of Rome. When attacking the city of Gabi, he was subjected to tenacious resistance. Not only did many soldiers suffer, but Gabi also joined forces with the coalition forces of Rome to implement a counter-encirclement of our siege troops.
In the end, His Majesty led his army to defeat them and captured the city of Gabi, and then ordered all the Gabi to be demoted to slaves. Since then, the Latinums have been afraid. After that, wherever our army has gone, they have opened their doors to surrender. When the commander of the Tigtinos led the Ninth Legion to capture Saros, the same method was adopted because of the great casualties. The conquest of the entire Sardinian Island was much smoother...
Although the kingdom is powerful, it has little impact on the Greek mainland. On the contrary, many Greek city-states treat us like barbarians, so there is a blatant betrayal of Tegea. Elis changed from the initial goodwill to the hostility... On the one hand, while we express our kindness to the Greek city-states, we also need to show them appropriately our powerful power. This will be more helpful for the kingdom to take root in the Greek mainland in the future. Therefore, destroying the city of Tegea - I think it is a good choice!"
At this time, Crotokataks suddenly remembered that the commander who conquered Gabi City and implemented this cruel practice was Printols, and of course he would not object to Citsus's suggestion.
Ktisuskatax frowned and fell into deep thought. After a while, he murmured: "If the Tegas are cleared, will we occupy this territory ourselves? If that happens, it will seriously affect our relationship with the Arcadia alliance!..."
Printols blinked without saying anything. He had never thought about this issue because he felt that this should belong to political and diplomatic affairs and not to the scope that military staff officers should consider.
Fortunately, Crotokatax didn't ask anymore, but continued to frown and ponder. After a while, he said, "Go and call Mantinianya's guide Karisenos."
Karisenos came to the young commander and felt very nervous. As a bystander, he witnessed the entire battle process. He not only saw the bodies of countless Spartan warriors lodging in the fields, but also saw hundreds of prisoners being escorted by the Dionys soldiers, among which some Spartan warriors with long braids... This shocked him greatly.
At the Battle of Liuketra, he was not on the scene, and he didn't know what the situation was. But this time the Spartans had nearly 30,000 troops and the full help of the Tegas were the ones. It can be said that Spartans had the most powerful force in the past few decades, but they were still defeated by the Dionys army, without the help of the Arcadian army, independently defeated them from the front.
After this battle, there is no doubt that Dionia will conquer Sparta, and the betrayal of the Tegaians put the Arcadias, who were allies, into an embarrassing and dangerous situation.
Sure enough, Crotokataks made him frightened: "Dionia fulfilled his covenant and worked hard to rescue Tegaya, but suffered their betrayal, which caused us to die and wound many soldiers... Tegaya must pay the price for this! We have decided to launch an attack on Tegaya City immediately. After capturing the city, all members of the Tactile Council and turn all the people in the city into slavery. From then on, there will be no Tegaya people on this land!"
Chapter completed!