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Chapter 223 The Battle of Lola (1)

Zantiparis' earnest words greatly touched the generals of the Campanian League. For example, Earos immediately thought of the predicament of Naples: there were too many refugees gathered in the city, and there was a lack of food and difficult to control the order. What I feared the most was the worry of the outbreak.

Generals like Herculaneum City and Ritrum City were eager to lead the people back to their homes, but their town was broken and once the Samones attacked again, they would be unable to defend themselves... Do they have to continue hiding in the city of Naples in the future? Not only the people could not bear it, but the citizens under their command would probably oppose it.

Seeing that the generals of the Campania Alliance were frowning, Zantiparis said, "Our soldiers were indeed a little tired after hard fighting, but at least they had time to rest, but aren't the Samones who came from afar?! They arrived here in Beneventom, and they arrived in the daytime. I'm afraid they didn't have much rest on the road, and they would only be more tired than our soldiers. Can they still run like the wind when fighting like before?!

Besides, our soldiers had just captured Lora City, and their confidence was boosted, and the Samonets were worried about Lora and were anxious, so they were not as good as our soldiers in fighting spirit. What's more, even if the Samonets had 10,000 reinforcements, our soldiers were still more than them. Don't forget that their team also included more than 2,000 Naconia soldiers. The spies from Abenirum had said before that they had sent people to quietly contact the commander of the Naconia army. Therefore, these more than 2,000 Naconian soldiers are not an alliance of the Samonet reinforcements, but a help to us at critical moments!"

Zantiparis said this and his emotions became high: "Everyone, we have so many advantages. We should seize this favorable opportunity in time, take the initiative to face the invading enemies, defeat them, and drive them out of the Campania plains, so that you can get peace and tranquility in the people of the Campania alliance!"

Zantiparis's words made most of the generals feel excited and doubts suddenly faded.

But some people also raised objections: "Can the words of the Abenirum be believed?!" The Samones fought with the Campanians for decades, and both sides regarded them as mortal enemies, so how could they easily believe them?

Zantiparis had not answered yet, and Earos said first: "The Abenirum people helped General Alexis defeat Samonet's army in the mountains, and are still besieging Beneventum. Why is it not trustworthy! Abenirum is an alliance of Dionia, and of course our friend! The same is true for the Naconians. Don't forget that we can conquer the city of Lora, and they have their contributions!"

In fact, the Naconian people in Lola did not have conflicts with the Campanians, but the Enona officials tried their best to separate their work and reduce contact. For example, the work of trimming tree trunks and digging was given to the Naconian people, and they did not allow them to participate in the construction of the earthen mountains. They were allowed to rest in the territory of Naconia further south at night. Of course, there was another reason for this to prevent the Lona defenders from seeing the Naconians and Diona in order to avoid causing disadvantage to the Enona soldiers who were still in the Samone coalition.

The general stopped talking.

Aaros looked at Zantiparis and asked solemnly: "If we lead the army to welcome the reinforcements of Samonet, can we win?"

Zantiparis also solemnly replied: "As long as we fight with all our might, we can win!"

Earos had concerns before: once the coalition forces were defeated, the slow-moving heavy infantry of the Campania would be difficult for them to escape the pursuit of the Samones, and the situation of the Campania alliance would become worse than before.

However, the Dionian army fought on the Campania Plain twice, and he personally participated in the assistance and was impressed by Dionia's powerful military capabilities. Therefore, Zantiparis's this must have given him confidence. So he faced the generals of the Campania Allied, and said loudly: "Everyone, with the full help of the Dionian Allied forces, we will definitely be able to defeat the Samones! Don't hesitate anymore, and immediately summon soldiers, go out of the city to face the enemy, and drive them out of the Campania Plain!"

This time no one expressed objection.

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When the Dionian coalition was lined up outside the city of Lola early in the morning, the Lola defenders felt something was wrong. They asked a team to sneak out of the city. After suffering many casualties, they rushed into the mountains from the hilly areas in the southeast, escaped the siege, and rushed to Beneventhom for help. At noon, they happened to be at the entrance of the mountain road leading to Beneventhom, and encountered Segovani's army returning to help.

When Segovani learned that the city of Lola was in danger, he issued an order to "accelerate the entire army" without hesitation, and also sent spies to quickly inform Sesala.

In this way, Kauteni's army left the mountains and entered Kauteni's territory. They did not enter the city to rest, but continued to march forward, crossing the wider pass between the mountains and reaching Abella. Here, they met with the 1,300 soldiers sent by Cesara, resulting in a total force of more than 9,000, which is the largest force that the Kauteni tribe can send today.

The army walked out of the pass, entered the Campania plain, walked around the mountains, headed south, and headed straight for the city of Lora.

Although there were all flat roads from Kautem to Lola, the day's march still made the running and physically energetic Mount Samone feel tired. Many tribal leaders asked Segovani: Let the soldiers rest for a while.

But he was rejected by Segovani. In the descriptions of several Lola messengers, he had realized the determination of the Dionia-Campanian coalition to capture Lola. He had to go for reinforcements as soon as possible to avoid the control of this town that was very important to the Kauteni tribe by the Dionians, because that meant that the southern part of the Kauteni territory would be cut off, which he could not allow.

About ten miles from Lora City, Segovani received a reward from the spy sent to Lora to investigate: "The enemy's army is coming out of Lora City and coming towards us, with a large number of soldiers!"

"Are you sure the enemy came out of Lora City??" Segovani looked in disbelief.

"Big leader, when we approached Lora City... the battle was over. I saw only many Campanians carrying bodies outside the city... The enemy did leave the city from the north gate of Lora. They were dressed neatly, unlike the battle that had just ended..." Spy Kauteni said sadly.

Segovani was shocked. Although he led a large army to help, he did not think that the Dionian coalition could capture the city of Lora, defended by thousands of Kauteni warriors in just a few days, but the situation now developed beyond his expectations.

But after only a moment of pondering, he said fiercely to the somewhat at a loss-willed leader: "Don't we keep complaining, 'If the Campanians had not been hiding in the city like turtles and not daring to fight with us, we would have occupied the entire Campanian Plain long ago!' Now the opportunity has come, and the timid Campanians dare to take the initiative to attack us. Do they really think that with the help of the Dionians, they can turn them from a group of rabbits into a wolf?! Their number is about the same as ours, and they have just ended the siege, so they came just right, and we can kill them completely. Not only can we regain Lora, but there will be no force to stop us on the entire Campanian Plain. The situation on the entire battlefield will be changed by our Kautinians!"

The leaders were aroused by Segovani and shouted that they would fight to the death with the enemy.

Therefore, the order "the entire army stopped advancing, rested on the spot, and began to arrange the array" was executed by the leaders.

Before, Vasonk was always anxious. He originally thought that this Kauteni army would rest in Kauteni City after walking the mountain road, but he did not expect that he would come straight to Lora, so he could only quietly send his subordinates to inform other leaders of Naconia about the news that "the Naconia people have left Segovani's control and have formed an alliance with Dionia."

Now I have received the news that "to fight with the Campanians, the entire army must start to line up", and Vasonk is even more anxious because Segovani also ordered that the troops of various tribes of Naconia must immediately disperse to designated positions in the military formation in accordance with the prescribed instructions, and must not be rejected or delayed!

The designated location Segovani mentioned is to place the troops of more than a dozen Naconia tribes extensively on the front or rear of the entire left, middle, and right wing, so that they cannot contact each other during battle, and cannot cooperate with each other.

In fact, the Naconian army is now a hot potato for Segovani. With what he did in his territory before and now Dionia has occupied Naconia again (he believes that Naconia is occupied by Dionia), if the Naconian army understands the truth, rebellion is certain.

With Segovani's idea, it would be better to completely break them up and force them into the army of other tribes. This will of course arouse the resistance of the Naconian army. Segovani did not fail to try at the beginning. Just when the Samone coalition was renowned in Beneventum, he made this suggestion to the leaders of several other tribes, hoping to suppress the resistance of the Naconian soldiers with the advantage of the coalition forces and take the opportunity to break them up.
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