Before the Crotone's messenger arrived, Miron had already received news from the warships cruising the Crimesa coast: the Dionians invaded the Croton Plain!

Miron was shocked and cried: I was fooled by the Dionians, no wonder they never attacked the city. It turned out that they just attracted my attention. The Dionians in the camp south had already gone south!

But he was hesitant to attack the southern camp of Dionia: After all, Dionia's army was eyeing the city. Once he mobilized his army, they could see clearly on the platform. If he took the opportunity to attack, he would lose Crimesa and the trouble would be even greater!

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Asprestum's siege was in full swing. Fagris did not expect that the Dionians would attack fiercely as soon as they came up and were fearless of death.

The ladder was overturned by the push rod and quickly got on. The soldiers climbed up the ladder one by one, one by one, one was smashed down, and the other accelerated up without hesitation. The light infantry brigade approached the city without fear of arrows, and also shot javelins and arrows at the defenders on the city...

The fierce offensive of the Dionians quickly achieved results. The defense of the city wall was broken through many times. The Dionian soldiers got on the top of the city. The defenders discovered that these Dionian soldiers wearing Greek armor were tall, strong in shape, long hair shawls, and strange roars, and obviously were not Greeks. They fought fiercely and had extremely powerful strength. To kill or drive away one of them, the defenders had to pay the lives of several soldiers.

Fagris had to send a reserve team many times to help the front-line defenders to drive down the enemy on the top of the city, especially the section of the city wall on the far right, which was the most violent attack of the Dionians.

Fargris, a general who had some experience in defending the city, knew that the Dionians could not always maintain such a fierce offensive momentum. As long as they withstand this time, the Dionians would be powerless. Therefore, while sending all the reserves, he shouted loudly to the soldiers, encouraging them to bravely persist in fighting.

But he didn't know that at the most stumbled moment of the battle, at the command of the third army leader Hironimus, his personal guards lined up in a row and collectively shook the round shield towards the left city head.

The defenders on the far left of the city were concentrating on defending against the enemy's attack, and suddenly a shout came from behind: "Attack!!!"

The "Crotones" they regarded as their comrades stabbed them with swords and guns, and easily solved these defenders. Without waiting for the soldiers of the Third Legion to come up, these dozens of reconnaissance soldiers immediately launched an attack on the neighboring defenders...

When Fagris, who was still commanding the battle at the right city, received the news, the soldiers of the Dionian had already captured the city on the left. A large number of soldiers quickly climbed up the battlements, flipped into the aisle, and rushed towards the middle section with great momentum...

When those Crotones, who were already not very morale, saw that the situation was not good, they immediately threw down their shield and ran into the city desperately.

This run immediately triggered the domino effect. Under the fierce attack of the Dionian soldiers in front and side, the defenders finally collapsed. They rushed to escape from the city, but instead blocked the corridors of the city. The panicked defenders actually jumped directly from the seven-meter-high city wall into the city, broke their legs and feet, and fell to their heads, and they all lay on the ground and wailed.

The people in the city were also in horror, shouting in horror: "The enemy has entered the city! The enemy has come in!..."

They helped the elderly and the young, hurriedly wanted to escape from the south gate and fled to Crotone.

The Crotone reinforcements, halfway through the journey, happened to run head-on by the people who were fleeing in a hurry. When they learned that Asprestum had fallen, they were shocked and did not dare to move forward. They immediately turned around and ran back.

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The Crotone messenger rushed to Crimesa and brought the offensive orders from the Council.

Miron, who was no longer the chief general, was guilty, finally ended his hesitation and sent 7,000 soldiers, including more than 2,000 infantrymen, to launch an attack on the Dionia camp on the south bank of the Wembley River.

Davers, who observed the enemy's movements on the high platform, immediately asked Adrianx, the first captain of the Second Army, to lead 2,000 heavy infantry and 500 light infantry to cross the river to reinforce and replace the Third Army. The 2,000 soldiers led by Captain Matonis, the first regiment stationed in the South Camp. With a strong camp and the reinforcements from the North Camp at any time, Matonis was confident of repelling these invading enemies with numerous invading people.

However, Crotone's attack was loud and the rain was small. After ate some "spikes" and "hooked meat hooks" in front of the camp, he immediately retreated back to the city. Of course, Miron would not use Crotone's only combat-capable team to confront the camp where Dionia was heavily guarded, and the soldiers also lacked the courage to attack. As soon as he found that the enemy in the camp was tightly defended, he blew the horn of retreat.

The envoy of Crotone was angry at the easy retreat of the troops and forced Miron to continue the attack, otherwise he would threaten to remove Miron from his leadership position. However, the soldiers expressed their support for Miron. The envoy was alone and had no choice but to leave Crimesa and return to the Crotone Council to file a complaint.

However, at this time, the Crotone Council was in chaos. The shocking news that "Dionia captured Asprostum" was like a thunderbolt, which made all the members of the Council stunned. The people outside the Council gathered in the square, shouting that the Council would quickly come up with a solution to the crisis.

This time, the call for peace talks is far better than before. Some people even said that the conditions in Dionia can be accepted, as long as the northern plains of Croton are restored to peace.

Just as the Council was still arguing about the peace talks, two consecutive events prompted them to make a decision: first, 500 soldiers of the Third Legion of Dionia crossed the Tachinati River, entered the core area of ​​the Croton Plain, and once approached the city of Croton. Although they quickly retreated to Asprestum. However, this shocking glance still shocked the defenders and people in the city. Just as the whole city was in panic, a passenger ship from Coorenia entered the port of Croton. The envoy of Coorenia who came down from the ship brought greater bad news - Locre declared war on Coorenia! The army had already advanced to Coorenia, and the envoy was here to ask for help from Crotone.

The thing that Crotone's council was most worried about finally happened: his mortal enemy Locre took advantage of Crotone's quagmire to attack Crotone's allies while Crotone was trapped in the quagmire of war. As the leader of the alliance, it was unavoidable to send reinforcements. However, just dealing with Dioria's attack had already made Crotone's manpower unscrupulous, and there was no extra force to aid Caurenia. Without Crotone's support, Corenya would not be able to block the attack of the Lockley coalition. This means that Crotone will face the worst war situation of being attacked from both sides, and Crotone will be in danger of destruction!

All members of the Council immediately stopped the quarrel and quickly reached an agreement: to reach peace talks with Dionia as soon as possible!

Lucias had to set off north again. In order to prevent his attitude from being too tough and the negotiations failed, another messenger, Sisprotis, a member of the Council (the one who said before that "no matter what conditions Dionia raises, as long as the tranquility of the Croton Plain can be restored, he should agree."

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At this moment, there was a joyful atmosphere in the tent of the central army in the camp of Dionia. The news that "the Third Legion captured the city of Asprestum" excited every general.

"Mr. Commander, we should take advantage of the good opportunity to seize Asprostum and the Crotones panic. We will launch an attack on Crimesa and will definitely be able to successfully take it!" Drax said anxiously. As the commander of the Second Legion, his army's record cannot fall behind the Third Legion.

"Asprestum City is already owned by us. It doesn't make much sense for the Crotones to stick to Crimesa anymore. I'm afraid they will give up Crimesa City soon. We can get it easily, and there is no need to sacrifice the lives of soldiers to attack." Capps said cautiously.

"However, allowing more than 10,000 Crotones to retreat will only increase the difficulty of our attack on Crotones!" Drax retorted loudly.

Cappus was speechless for a moment. Indeed, Crotone was a big city. Not only was the city vast and had a large population, but the city walls were ten meters high and the moat was six meters wide. According to the conventional style of play, it was destined to be a protracted siege. But the ocean was not under the control of Dionia and could not completely block Crotone. Then there was only a strong attack. But how many soldiers' lives would be paid in the face of such a strong city? Can it be captured? Almost all the generals were beating in their hearts. If the troops defending the city were strengthened, the chances of victory would be even more slim.

Daves looked calm and turned his head and asked, "Sir Avinogis, what do you think we should do next?"

After entering the military tent, in addition to congratulating Davers on his victory again, Avinogis, who had been observing silently, faced Dracos, Capps focused his eyes and did not refuse. He directly said: "Why must we attack Crotone? Since we have such a big advantage now, why can't we force Crotone to negotiate with us?"

"The Crotones are almost out of reach. Wouldn't it be too cheap to negotiate with them?" Drax immediately expressed his objection.

Capps fell into deep thought.

A smile appeared on the corner of Davers' mouth: the consul's perspective on the problem is different from that of a simple general!

Just as he was about to speak, the captain of the guard Martius asked for instructions to enter and brought two letters.

One letter came from Phelisius. After reading the letter, Davers frowned and thoughtful. Then he looked at the second letter with a special mark - this was a letter written by Aristillas, and his eyebrows were stretched out soon.
Chapter completed!