"The reason why Asikulodoyax failed was because he led his army to attack Laus. Because of the unfamiliar terrain, he was ambushed by the enemy on the mountain road. If it were a face-to-face confrontation on the plains of Turiyi, the poorly equipped and loosely organized Lucanian mountaineers would be the opponent of the Greek heavy infantry? Even if the number was small, it would not be a problem." Kunogorata retorted.

"Peris, we cannot afford to delay this war. If we hide in the city, let the enemy trample on our farmland again, burn our villages, fishing grounds and mines, and every month we have to convene a citizen meeting to discuss whether to impose war taxes. I think the citizens will not agree!" Neonsis also stepped forward and said.

"Citizens certainly won't agree! Feiris, the citizens elected you as the chief general, thinking that you have the ability to quickly turn the situation around, drive away the Lucanians, and ensure the safety of Turiyi. Just like you did when you first came to power, I immediately sent Bulcos to recruit soldiers and sent envoys to ask Tarantum for help. Now that the powerful reinforcements have arrived, you can no longer hesitate to watch the citizens' property be destroyed and Turiyi's treasury collapsed. You must make a decision as soon as possible and not let the expectations of the people!" Polyxis, who had been silent before, also spoke.

Burkos did not expect Polyxis to join the ranks of urging Phiris. When he was anxious, Kunogorata saw him retreating into the corner and remembered something. He asked the guards to invite Burkos out of the city hall on the grounds that "the important military meeting involves city-state secrets, and irrelevant people should take the initiative to avoid it."

Bulcos stood on the steps of the town hall and was stunned for a while: from a rational point of view, he felt that he should believe in Pharis' judgment. After all, compared with other generals who had not had any war experience due to peace, Pharis, who was over 60, participated in the war with Tarantum when he was young, and served as the military position of the heavy infantry squadron leader and the captain of the squadron, and had rich combat experience; but emotionally, he also hoped to defeat the terrible Lucanians quickly, because every Turiyi hoped that this group of robbers would stay away from the land of their homes, and at the same time, Davers's troops also gave him confidence.

Under the influence of this contradictory mentality, he subconsciously walked towards the port. After walking for a while, he stopped. Although the generals of the city hall accepted the agreement he signed, they still had frequent contacts with Davers' team, which might be criticized. He sighed and turned home...

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Of course, Davers would not know about the dispute against them in the Turiy City Hall. Although he was surprised that Burkos, who had promised him to report the situation to Turiy's generals, never showed up, his main thoughts were betting on the construction of the camp.

In the past few days, all the soldiers worked together, and the Turiy camp took shape. At this time, Bulkos sent his men to send four horses, saying that they were borrowing them to use.

Davers had noticed the intentional alienation between the senior executives of Burkos and Turiyi, but did not take it seriously. After all, when the team passed through many Greek city-states along the Eukxing Sea, those city-states treated mercenaries the same attitude, which was the helplessness of mercenaries.

He asked Burkos's men to convey his gratitude to Burkos, and then let Phelisius stay in the camp to handle military affairs. He took Ascesters, Ledes and a confidant slave of Burkos as a guide, rode a horse to look around Turiyi to understand the terrain.

The flat and fertile Subari Plain (some Tulii people call it the Tuli Plain) is full of grass and birds flying in the spring of April, and the scenery is pleasant.

Davers and his group were riding happily, and what kept leaping into their eyes were green farmlands and canals, as well as hard-working slaves and farmers. The wide dirt road seemed muddy due to the frequent spring rain. From time to time, the slaves of the caravan could be seen pushing the trucks trapped in the mud...

A thought flashed through Davers' mind: This situation is also common in the Greek city-states of the Euksea. The Greeks who were good at doing business were not very interested in the construction of roads that could promote trade circulation. Their energy seemed to be on maritime trade and ships, but the Romans who rose after them created the most complex and advanced Mediterranean road network of this era.

After walking west along the Krati River for about twenty miles, I saw a big city standing on the north bank of the river.

At this time, the guide said, "That is Turiyi! When choosing the address for the city building, the Athenians found that the intersection of the River Krati and the Koseni River was a good city building. Because the river surface is very wide and the water flows smoothly, it can build a dock and accommodate enough merchant ships. When they were about to build the city here, they found that there was a large natural fountain here, which the locals called it Turiyi, so they called this new city Turiyi..."

"It's a very interesting story." Davers said in response, looking up: the Clarty River is too many ships in the river, and it is impossible to even see the other side.

"It would be better to rebuild the old city of Sobaris. Isn't it better to build a port directly by the sea!" Ascesters said in confusion.

Davers had already learned about this from Burkos, so he didn't want to say anything more, and pointed his hand ahead and said, "Let's go around the city."

Because Turiyi was built at the intersection of the two rivers, it was divided into three parts by the river: the South City, the North City, and the delta protrusion at the intersection of the two rivers, and the main body of the city is in the North City.

Daves and his group walked about a mile along the moat outside the walls of the north city of Turiyi, and finally reached the bank of the Koseni River. In their eyes, Turiyi's wall was made of large stripes of rocks, and the gaps between the stones were closely connected, with a wall height of at least ten meters high, and a moat of five meters wide twenty meters away from the wall. It connected to the Krati River. It must be of great depth, and all this was enough to make every siegeman feel the headache. The sentry patroling the three and four teams on the city made them feel the approaching atmosphere of war.

The young Ascesters even waved to the sentries jokingly.

Going north along the north bank of the Kosenei River, I soon saw the pontoon bridge on the river. Davers noticed that the delta between the two rivers was not flat, but had a hilly landform. The guide said: These uneven and undulating hills became the heroes to prevent the river from soaring in spring and turn the land between the two rivers into swamps.

After traveling for about twenty miles, the terrain began to rise gradually, and the ground began to turn from pure soil to mix sand and soil, fortunately the river bank was quite flat.

Dafus and his group walked a few miles forward, and the upper reaches of the Koseni River turned from west to southwest, while a river rushed down from west to west and flowed into the Koseni River here.

"This is the Tino River, a tributary of the Koseni River, a river that the Turi's people hate." said the guide.

"Why?" Ascesters asked curiously.

"Because there are many hot springs upstream." The guide answered the question irrelevantly.

"Hot spring?!" Davers became interested when he heard this.

They speeded up, but when they arrived, they were all dumbfounded: The Tino River has become a small river several meters wide here. There are indeed a pool of steaming pools on the south bank of the river, but countless streams flow out from the cracks at the foot of the mountain, turning this area where rocks and grasses intertwined into swamps.

"In spring, because the snow on the mountains has turned into small streams and hot springs, and finally they all flow into the Tino River. If it encounters rainy seasons, the Tino River water will surge, and instead overflow the river bank and flow back to the hot spring swamp on the south bank and the north bank—" The guide pointed forward: "The big river beach."

Davers looked forward and saw that the river bank in front seemed to have been bitten off, sunken down, forming a half-large bowl-shaped shape. Below is the river beach and surrounded by a higher gentle slope.
Chapter completed!