Chapter 110: Calm the chaos
"Sir Hilos, don't worry, I will make the people loyal to the alliance and satisfy you and the Senate!" The excited Vitotilu immediately expressed his opinion to Hilos.
"Vitotiru, you traitor!" Kadulk's eyes widened, wishing he could eat the old guy he had always trusted.
"You are the traitor, our traitor to Dionia! The tribesmen are happy to enjoy a stable life under the rule of the alliance, but you want to push us into war!" Vitotilu pointed at him and rebuked him.
"Clog his mouth!" At Hilos' reminder, the soldiers stuffed Kadulke's mouth with a rag, who was still trying to yell, making his anger and fear turn into that "wow" low hum...
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Hilos returned to the inner city of Cosenza and happened to see the cavalry team coming from Turiyi Xingye. They did not catch up with Petalu and the others, but they brought the order of the Senate. Hilos had taken action, and the fate of the Senate was equivalent to confirmation of the subsequent supplement.
Hilos approached the city hall, Adpigis came up and asked anxiously: "Have you caught someone?"
"Catch Kadulk." Hilos said gratefully: "Thanks to your life-threatening message!"
You should know that traveling at night in the Bruti area is a taboo, let alone riding horses in the dark, wrestling is second, and the most terrifying thing is the wild beasts wandering in the wilderness. Adpigis is well aware of this situation. In order to prevent accidents, he borrowed a horse from Bissinia, and rushed to Kosenza with one and two horses. Sure enough, he stepped down and sprained the front hoof in the middle of the journey. He immediately changed the horse and drove the injured horse out of the avenue (who knew that the injured horse would return to the edge of the avenue and was eaten by the wolf, which also made Petalu and the others more vigilant), and finally brought the news to Hilos.
After hearing Hilos' praise, Adpigis showed no slight pride. He was no longer the lowly slave he had ever been. As the intelligence officer arranged by Davers in the Bruty area, several chief executives of the Bruty town had to rely on his intelligence to understand the movements of the regional tribes in a timely manner and take measures in advance to ensure that there is no chaos in the area. Therefore, he was not afraid to underestimate him, not to mention that Davers was standing behind him.
"Is Hegesitus back?" asked Hilos.
"There is no news yet," Adepigis replied.
Hegesitus was the leader of the survivors of the Silu tribe. After Dionia conquered Bruti, Davers placed the Silu tribe near the city of Kosenza and made Hegesitus the surveillance officer of Kosenza (intermediate). In fact, because he knew the Bruti area very well, he was more like an assistant to the Chief Executive of Kosenza. Many measures that benefited the stability of the Bruti area were from his suggestions. When conflicts arose, he was the first to mediate, and he became the powerful arm of Chief Executive of Kosenza.
"It seems that what Kadulk's men told me may be true. Petalu did not come to Kosenza, but went directly to the south." Hilos strode into the city hall.
In the office room belonging to the Chief Executive, Hironimus was waiting anxiously. He came to Cosenza this afternoon and had not yet begun recruiting soldiers. As a result, he received a notice from Hiros in the evening: a rebellion may occur.
He was both surprised and excited, and felt that he could finally have a place to use it.
At this time, Hilos, who knew Hilonimus's character, did not make any politeness after entering the house and said bluntly: "Kadurk was caught. He admitted the fact that he was 'preparing for rebellion', but Burgam and Petalu were not caught!" Hilos said regretfully, and went straight to his desk, with a large map of the Bruti area hanging on the wall.
Hilos pointed to the lower left of the map and continued: "Burgam must have gone to the Ambalia area, where he has been a great leader for more than 20 years and has a high prestige. Although after Bruti merged into our alliance, he demolished the Ambalia city (Davs believed that Ambalia city is located in a remote place, with barren land and cannot accommodate too many people. Building a city is too wasteful of administrative resources and will increase the risk of rebellion, so after discussion by the Senate, it was demolished), and the tribes there were moved several times. Now Ambalia still has a population of about...uh--"
"There are about 5,000 people in the Ambalia area. Even if they are all convinced by Bergam, they can only gather more than a thousand soldiers." Adpigis, who then entered the house, immediately added.
After all, Hilos has just been to Bruti for only a month and has only a preliminary understanding of the situation here. Of course, he is not familiar with Adpigis, who has been rooted in Bruti for many years. He makes great moves away and indicates that Adpigis will give a detailed introduction.
"If Petalu doesn't come to Kosenza, then he will definitely go here-" Adpigis did not refuse, and went straight to the map and pointed to the left of the map: "There is a tribe under his jurisdiction, with a population of about 6,000. If you want to fight against rebellion, I suggest attacking here first. Although this tribe is farther from Kosenza, it is still located on the Kosenza Plateau, and there are other tribes around it. Once rebelled, it will have a great impact on the surrounding tribes. The key is that it is still close to Klapetia, and you can escape from Bruti through the mountain trail at any time and surrender to the Syracuse people, which will cause very bad results.
Most of the tribes of Ambalia are surrounded by Lake Cecita, and some tribes live in the mountains. It takes a lot of time to gather them together. We only need to block the road leading Ambalia to the Kosenza Plateau. Birjam can only risk over the mountains, enter the Kosenza Plateau, or go east along the rugged valley to reach the city of Asprestum." Adepigis faced the two senators, but expressed his views confidently.
"It's very good!" Hilos praised loudly: "I think we can follow what Adpigis said."
Hironimus nodded and then said, "How many people have you given me?"
He said it briefly, but Hilos understood what he meant: after all, he was Chief Executive of Cosenza and wanted to take charge of the central city of Bruti, and the task of strife could only be carried out by Hilonimus.
"Tomorrow, I can recruit 2,000 independent Bruti civilians from the city of Cosenza, and at the same time gather a thousand people from the tribes outside the city, and try to complete the assembly at noon. Apart from this, I cannot give you more troops, because I still need some soldiers to station in Cosenza to guard against other tribes being affected by this." Hilos said in a deep voice.
"3,000 people are enough." Hironimus replied simply, then pointed at Adpigis: "I want you to go with me."
"I am very happy, Lord Hironimus!" Adpigis replied happily.
"Tomorrow morning, I will send a messenger to Knapetia and Vig City, and inform the two lords, Asistes and Saru, so that while they are vigilant, they will also try their best to fight with you. In addition, I will send someone back to Turiy and find the Senate to inform the Lord Aggassia of Asprestum City, and beware of these traitors slipping away from the valley!" Finally, Hilos said his arrangements.
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The next day, Hironimus led the 3,000 prepared soldiers to march southwards...
Petalu's actions were already rapid enough. He persuaded more than half of the tribes to follow him and rebel against the Dionysian Alliance. He also sent people to the surrounding tribes to spread rumors such as "The Syracuse army invaded the Dionysian territory, and the Dionysian army was defeated and was about to perish!", which caused panic.
Some tribal leaders even came to ask him for advice in uneasy.
He took the opportunity to talk about the many discriminations he still suffered in Turiyi and his heart's aggrievance in his years as the leader of the Bruti tribe and the senate. He said that he was sad, even with tears in his eyes.
His words happened to hit the concerns of the leaders: the intentional and continuous bills of Dionia were accelerating the collapse of the tribe, and even Petalu, who became the elders of the Senate, was forced to do this, let alone them.
So some leaders began to consider whether to follow Petalu to resist the rule of Dionia.
Just as Petalu was delighted that the plan was successful, planning to establish a Bruti tribal alliance against Dionia. When the entire Kosenza Plateau launched a craze for rebellion against Dionia, Hironimus's army approached.
Petalu, who knew nothing about what happened to the Kadurke tribe last night, was shocked. In their vision, the Senate would have to confirm their disappearance at least today. He would probably send people to the tribe to search until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. By then, they had already prepared and could deal with the Dionys in Bruti while the troops in Dionys were empty. However, the Dionys army attacked so quickly, which was completely beyond his expectations. The little worry of last night really became a fact.
Petalu hurriedly sent someone out to argue with the generals of the army and to buy time for himself.
Unexpectedly, Hironimus ignored it at all and directly led his army into the tribal settlement and captured Petalu.
The panicked Petalu sent his tribe to stop him, but quietly rode his horse in an attempt to escape.
The hasty-formed troops were about to collapse by Hironimus, and then they stared at Petalu and chased after him.
In the end, Petalu's mount was shot by an arrow, throwing him off the horse and being captured by Hironimus.
Hironimus tied him and the rebellious tribe members with ropes, strung into several long rows, and drove them through the settlements of various tribes under the spears. All the tribe leaders who saw this scene were nervous and their legs trembled.
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