Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 5: The expansion of Rome

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In the Latin area of ​​central Italy, Camilos, whom Daves followed, received an order from the Roman Senate: let him be the leader of the army and lead the army remaining in Rome to repel the Wolsi coalition.

Although he repeatedly refused to say that he was old and weak and unsuitable to lead soldiers, and hoped to give this task to a more suitable candidate, the Romans strongly demanded him to do it, because they actually did not expect him to be able to take the lead. The enemy line, but strongly trust his actual combat experience and military skills, I believe he will bring a brilliant victory to Rome.

Camillos had to accept.

Considering that Camilos could not go to battle to kill the enemy, the Senate also assigned him a young military and political officer named Lucius Frius as his partner.

The two led the two remaining legions in the city, a total of 12,000 Roman citizen soldiers, and thousands of soldiers from the Allied States, and then led the army to the southeast, and soon rushed to the territory of Prenister .

I was about to encounter the Wolsey coalition forces, but Camilos ordered the army to stop and camp. He wanted to delay the battle with the enemy first. On the one hand, he did not want to fight with the morale of the enemy at this moment, and wanted to wait for the enemy to slack off, or force the enemy to take the initiative to attack their camp; on the other hand, one of the reasons why he had delayed the appointment of the Senate was that he was I have a cold, still have a fever, and my body is weak. I want to wait for my body to get better before I compete with the enemy.

Who knows that another young military officer, Frius, was eager for his merits and was eager to fight with the enemy. Camilos was unable to fight because of his illness, which happened to allow him to dominate the battle.

So he tried privately to encourage the officers in the army to make everyone unanimously appeal to Camilos for war and petition. Camilos saw the consensus of the public and did not want others to think that he was out of jealousy and did not want to be young. People won merits and honors, so he reluctantly agreed: Let Lucius Frius lead the army to fight, and lead a small number of soldiers to stay in the camp.

Out of worries about the war, he sent someone to inquire about the progress of the battle and report to him at any time. While he was lying on the hospital bed, he could not sleep.

When he learned that because the Roman army formation was not yet complete, Frius launched an offensive rashly, and was defeated by the enemy in one fell swoop. The remaining soldiers quickly prepared for defense.

He personally ran to the gate of the camp and kept loudly advising the soldiers who had ripped back from the battlefield to take up their weapons again and repel the enemies that followed them.

The defeated soldiers saw the prestigious, gray-haired veteran nailed to the gate like a rock and didn’t step back. They couldn’t help feeling ashamed. They turned to fight and cooperated with the defenders in the camp. Finally Drive away the enemy.

After this tossing, Camilos was in a cold sweat, and the cold was more than half healed. He couldn't help but repeatedly thank Minerva for his blessing.

Fryus, a depressed and guilty military officer, came to plead with Camilos.

Camillos did not severely criticize this reckless young general, but patiently asked him about the entire course of the battle.

After thinking about it, he said to Frius: "Tomorrow we will lead the army out of the camp and fight the enemy!"

Frius thought he had heard it wrong: "We just experienced the defeat of the battle..."

"It is precisely because of this failure that the honorable Roman citizens urgently need a victory to wash away this shame!" Camillos said firmly.

Inspired, Frius nodded in agreement.

Soon, the news of "Tomorrow's Battle" spread throughout the camp.

The soldiers heard that the respected leader Camilos will lead them out of the camp tomorrow morning to wash away the shame of this defeat. Suddenly all of them no longer bowed their heads and frustrated, but geared up, vowing to the gods to take revenge and shame.

The next day, Camilos led his army out of the camp for a mile, then stopped advancing and quickly began to line up.

The Wolsey Allied Forces heard that the Romans who had lost the battle yesterday stepped out of the solid camp. They were pleasantly surprised and hurriedly led their troops.

Before they fully deployed their formation, Camilos ordered: The whole army to attack!

The Roman soldiers, eager for revenge, launched a fierce attack on the Wolsey coalition forces, and Camilos focused his attack on the weaker Helniki.

After a fierce battle, the chaotic formation of the Wolsey Allied forces was completely at a disadvantage. The Helniki were first defeated, and then the entire army was defeated.

Camillos ordered: The whole army continues to chase, don't relax!

The Roman army took the opportunity to occupy the enemy’s camp. Most of the soldiers of the Wolsey Alliance were either killed or captured. The Roman soldiers celebrated the victory.

But after a day’s rest, news came that another Latin alliance in Rome, Bolae, was captured by the Helnikians.

Camillos immediately made a decision, first sent the heavy infantry back to Rome, and then led the light infantry, marching all the way to Bernay, and launched an assault on the Helniki.

The Helnikians who had just occupied the town were defenseless and were soon defeated, and most of the soldiers were killed.

Camillos returned to Rome with a large number of spoils and prisoners.

The people of Rome cheered him.

At his suggestion, the Roman Senate made the Roman army that had returned from the north to conquer the Etruscans turn to the Aques, Helniki and other forces in the east to launch an offensive.

Two months later, the Aqué, Helniki, and Masi, who had suffered heavy losses in the previous war, were unable to resist and chose to surrender after repeated blows.

After the Romans clarified the main enemies in the east and southeast, they began to look at the Wolsi in the south.

The Volsi are an ancient race in Italy. They lived in the Upper Ligus River valley in northeastern Italy hundreds of years ago. However, as the Celts continued to invade southward, they could not compete with the Volsi. The Ersi people were forced to continue to migrate to the southwest of Italy. They eventually settled on the fertile land south of Latium, and they reproduced peacefully here for hundreds of years. However, because of the rise and expansion of the Romans, the Wall The Westerners had to start constant armed conflicts with the forces that had become their northern neighbors.

In the past 100 years, there have been many wars between the two sides. In the beginning, the Wolsey still had the upper hand. However, as Rome conquered the surrounding Latin city-states and established the Latin League, its strength greatly increased, and the Volsi people gradually found it difficult to attack Rome.

And in 358 years of the founding of Rome (that is, 396 BC), the Roman general Camilos led his army to take down the powerful Etruscan state-Viai, located in the northern region of the upper reaches of the Tiber. This One conquest not only completely occupied the surrounding land in the Taipei River Basin, but also shocked the surrounding races and forces.

So the Wolseys signed a peace agreement with Rome.

Four years later, the Celtics captured the city of Rome, and Rome's strength declined, leading to the dissolution of the Latin League. The Volsi took the opportunity to tear up the agreement and unite with the surrounding forces of Rome to continue to invade Rome’s territories and allies until this point. Once completely defeated by the army led by Camilos.

Before the heavy losses of the Wolsi were able to catch their breath from the defeat, the Roman army invaded the Wolsi's territory in a big way and encircled the powerful state in the northwest of Wall--Vyssey. Litre (velitrae).

Wolsi gathered their troops for rescue while considering requesting assistance from other forces. It is because the Romans have become more and more powerful after the military reform in recent years. Both wars ended in failure, and they feared the Romans.

In fact, the Samonaites are the closest and stronger force to Wolsey. Unfortunately, this powerful mountain race is always extremely aggressive towards the surrounding forces. In the past years, Wolsey and the Samoneites have also fought many wars. Several towns near the mountains of Wolsey, such as Sora and Cepeatae, have also been attacked by Samoan. Under the occupation of the Nai people, how dare the Wolsey ask for help from this violent hostile force.

Therefore, after discussion, the Wolsey Alliance agreed that only the powerful southern kingdom-Dionia is the most suitable target for assistance, but Wolsey had no formal diplomatic contact with Dionia before, and was afraid of suffering. When he refused, the Wolsey thought of a way.

The Wolsey League sent envoys to go south by boat and came to the Campania area. There is a Campania League that the Wolsey people seem to be more powerful in the Campania area. It has a relationship with Wolsey. Not bad, the two sides often have trade exchanges.

The Campania League was originally just an alliance formed by the Greek colonial city-states in this area. Its purpose was to protect the city-states and jointly resist foreign enemies. Its main enemy was the Samonais in the mountains to the east. Later, some Etruscan city-states in the eastern part of the Campania Plain, which were also invaded by the Samona, also joined.

The Etruscans were once the most powerful force in Italy, occupying the northern and most central parts of Italy. Later, due to the Celtic invasion, their power was greatly weakened, and many territories were constantly being Other races invaded and their forces began to retreat to the north. However, in the eastern part of the Campania Plain, there are still several Etruscan city-states headed by Capua and Suessla.

After joining the Campania League, Capua had also competed with Naples for the dominance of the league. However, after the Samoneites captured Capua 20 years ago, the league has always regarded Naples as the leader. Lord.

Therefore, the envoy of Wolsey came directly to Naples, submitted Wolsey’s request for help to its council, and euphemistically reminded the Napoli that the Romans were aggressive, and once Wolsey was conquered by him , Campania, which is not far from Wolsey and has fertile land, may be its next target.