"It's not just the troops, I want to withdraw all the people and supplies from Ostia and leave an empty city for the Romans." Davers said with a look of time: "Now the Roman army has continued to flee back to the Roman city, with the number of people reaching 4,000. But Camillus still led the army to attack Ostia endlessly because he thought Ostia was important to us. We should tell these Romans with facts that this is just their fantasy! After their fantasy was shattered, I really want to know whether they lost their homeland, suffered a lot of casualties and had few military rations, could they continue to fight?!"

Davers's words made everyone present think.

"Tapirus." Davers looked at the diplomat and continued, "We cannot just take on the attacks of the Romans alone, but also make our allies move! Go on the envoys of Wolsey and Hilniki and tell them that the city of Rome has been captured by us, and we are attracting the main force of Rome, and they can take the opportunity to attack Rome in an empty place and regain their territory!"

"Yes, your Majesty."

"And... the city-states of Latin... Decades ago, they were enemies with Rome, and I don't believe that they are now as good as brothers as Rome. I heard that a few years ago, the city-state of Latin Turstrom was rumored to betray Rome and were almost wiped out by Rome... You go back and study it carefully to see if you can win over several Latin city-states. I can make a promise that as long as they are willing to become the alliance of Dionia, our army will be indestructible to them and will also protect their safety, just like Campania and Volsey..."

"Yes, your majesty, I will do my best to complete the task you assigned!" Tapirus replied excitedly, thinking that he had a place to use it this time.

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After the meeting ended, everyone dispersed.

Davers called several Roman reserve officers led by Sextus and announced to them the order to "raid Viagra".

Compared to his excited colleague, Sextus, who was appointed as commander, was also a little excited, but he still plucked up the courage to ask: "Your Majesty, how should we deal with the people in the city after occupying Viagra?"

"Same as Rome."

Davers' answer made Sextus relieved.

Since the civilians in Viagra moved from Rome and Sextus knew many Viagra, he was actually very confident in the surprise attack plan proposed by Davers. Of course, he did not forget Davers' reminder.

After walking out of the Senate and summoning Roman civilian soldiers, Sextus had roughly conceived an offensive plan: he would select 120 Roman civilian soldiers who are most trustworthy and who are more familiar with Wei's lovers. As a vanguard, he would first trick the city gate. He personally led 2,000 soldiers behind him, resolutely preventing anyone from leaving the team privately. Once he saw the vanguard in front occupied the city gate, he would immediately lead a large army to raid, which would avoid the risk of someone rumoring and causing the failure of the operation.

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Priintols and Sextus, on the contrary, he didn't have to worry about the soldiers, because he was originally in the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade, and Izam valued him very much and once said that he was the pride of the team. Therefore, after learning that he was going to take an important combat mission for the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade, he was very happy and actively cooperated with his command to improve the plan of the night attack on Kesrera.

Printols was worried about two problems: First, the attack could only be at night, but Kesrera was more than 60 miles away from Rome. By land, you must start from now to get there in the evening. However, whether the mountain reconnaissance team, which consumed a lot of energy, still have the energy to climb the steep mountains, has become a problem. Fortunately, they can still take water routes, and the water route is both fast and labor-saving. Therefore, Printols decided to let the soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance brigade take cargo ships anchored in the new port of Rome, first arrive at Ostia Port, and then transport them to the coast near Kesrera in the evening.

Second, how to cross the mountains and the walls of Kesrera in the dark. This may be a big problem for the soldiers of the Dionian Legion, but it is not a big problem for the soldiers of the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade. When Davers established this brigade, he hoped that their role in the war was not only reconnaissance, but also for special operations. Therefore, Izam also formulated training programs according to this need in daily life and strictly trained the soldiers. In addition, the first word of the name of their brigade is "mountain". Crossing mountains and ridges is their focus of training, and of course it also includes climbing in the dark. Moreover, the careful Printols also drew the topographic map around Kesrera in the previous reconnaissance. Izam recruited the reconnaissance soldiers with the strongest climbing ability. Let's compare the map to discuss how to climb Kesrera.

When the plan was established, Izam immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare supplies and tools.

After noon, the Shanling Reconnaissance Brigade lined up to the new port of Rome and prepared to board the ship.

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In the early morning, Amintas was woken up by the guards, and his first words were asked: "The Romans started attacking again?!"

"The commander of the legion, no sergeant sent to inform the enemy's attack. It's already dawn and breakfast is ready."

"No attack?!" Amintas was surprised: You should know that these days, the Romans began to attack the city from dawn and fought until dusk. Their fierce attack made Amintas feel a little palpitations.

He rubbed his bearded and slag's face with his hands. He has been worried about war these days, lacking enough sleep, and always feels a little sleepy, but the guard's words made him feel a little relaxed.

While having breakfast, he was still wondering: The Romans did not launch an attack at this time as usual. Are they no longer able to support this intensity of attack?

Not long after breakfast, Amintas decided to hold a military meeting in his rare free time.

The fourth legion commander Olivers, the fifth legion commander Giorgris, and the chief executive of Ostia, Tellis (Tellis previously served as the military commander of Ostia, so he also had the right to participate in the military conference). The meeting was also Aristolos, the adjutant of Amintas, and his staff officer Croto Kataks.

The meeting began with the first report on the casualties of each unit yesterday. Since yesterday's battle ended, it was already evening, the soldiers were tired and the sky was dark, and it was impossible to accurately calculate the casualties, so it was postponed to today.

Aristolos, an adjutant of the First Legion, held the data just collected from the legions, stood up and said: "The First Legion died in battle yesterday, 293 people were injured, 537 people were injured, 558 people were injured in battle, 722 people were injured, 536 people were injured in battle, 891 people were injured, 1,021 people were killed in battle in battle, and 537 people were injured (three soldiers of the Turiyi Legion Preparatory Brigade were converted into formal legion soldiers, and they were supplemented with these three legions)....”

In the hall, both the military commanders and Crotokatax looked very heavy, because these cold numbers represent fresh lives.

"One day yesterday... our casualties reached 5,000, which exceeded the total number of casualties in the previous two days!" After hearing this, Amintas slammed the back of the chair with a painful expression.

Crotokatax looked at Amintas with anger. Thinking of the tragic battlefield he saw on the city these days, he couldn't help feeling sad. He even felt that the tasks his father gave him were a little unnecessary, because under the fierce attack of the Romans, even the city was a little difficult to defend, and there was no ability to go out of the city to fight.

He also said with lingering fear when he saw Oliverus, who was usually humorous, at this moment: "The reason why yesterday's casualties were great was that the Romans had built a turret one meter higher than our city wall in front of the trenches. They arranged a large number of light infantry on the earth, and focused on attacking the crossbows at the top of our city with javelins and arrows, which forced our crossbows to move down the city... After that, the Romans pushed their crossbows to the city for bombardment, which caused several sections of the city wall to collapse, further weakening our advantage of relying on the city wall defense. Moreover, they had the advantage of large numbers and launched attacks one after another...

Hades is on! This time, I really saw the small phalanx tactics of the Romans similar to ours. Therefore, when we were fighting with our soldiers on the front of the gap, their formation was almost not affected by the terrain. Moreover, the bravery of the Roman soldiers was not inferior to our soldiers, and even the desire to fight was stronger. I saw with my own eyes that several Roman soldiers were stabbed, and they hugged our soldiers' legs tightly, giving the soldiers next to them the opportunity... So I felt a little lucky to be able to penetrate through several gaps in the city wall and finally be able to repel them..."

"What luck! That's because in the melee, our soldiers are more capable, and the dagger also plays a strong killing role! Olivers, as a legion commander, you are the example of legion soldiers. You must always maintain courage and confidence so that your soldiers will be confident in victory!" Amintas immediately shouted loudly, and that tone was like the squadron leader of the mercenary army criticized Olivers, a small mercenary, twenty years ago.

After Olivers was stunned, he immediately woke up and apologized: "Sorry, everyone, I was a little out of control just now! The legion has been used to fighting with the wind in recent years. This is the first time that he has encountered such an enemy who is brave, organized, and very particular about combat skills. He has lost a lot of brothers! It seems that His Majesty is right, the Romans are indeed a strong enemy, we should abandon the fantasy of winning easily and defeat this enemy with all our might!"
Chapter completed!