Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 275: Southern Italy during the Hades Festival

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Especially, each team represents their own Dharma or town, which makes the audience have a tendency to watch the game and become more engaged. Although they don’t know much about the rules, it doesn’t affect it. They cheered for the teams in their region and even quarreled with spectators in other regions.

While the rugby game continued, a strange phenomenon continued to occur in Rome. The conflict between the original Romans and the newly relocated Dionian citizens decreased, even after the game. They hooked up their shoulders and shouted the names of the players they belonged to in their respective languages, but there were quarrels among the Democrats...

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When the Romans were caught in the celebration and carnival, the Dionian soldiers in the camp outside Sartnikum were quite depressed: in order to prevent the spread of the plague, they had to obey the order and stay as much as possible. In the tent, it is not allowed to gather in the camp, not to hold various competitive sports in the camp, and even to be checked by the doctors every day. This can be said to be the most boring Hades celebration day for them. The only luck is that King Davos would visit the soldiers from time to time in various tents. This is also the most direct contact with King Dionia by soldiers.

Doctors and nurses are relatively busy. They wear tightly wrapped clothes every day, rushing between camps, and are busy checking and treating, especially those who are sent to suffer from the plague. The medical staff in the Roman camps in China are even more at risk of being infected at all times, but even so, there are still many doctors rushing to go, because this is their rare opportunity to combine theory with practice.

Dionian medical staff carefully treated and cared for the wounded and infected Roman soldiers, treating them like relatives, and gradually moved and eliminated the hatred of the Roman soldiers against the Dionians.

The medical director, Stacey Cordas, often writes to Hippocrates who lives in Turei, asking him about the problems encountered during treatment.

Hippocrates, who was already in the sparse age, learned that there was a plague in Latham, and he insisted on going there by boat, but was repeatedly dissuaded by his students and failed to make the trip. However, his deeds of risking his life for the sake of medicine were spread, but it inspired countless Doctors Dionia.

The Hades celebrations and rugby games in Turei are much worse than in previous years. The towns in the Sicilian Territory are unable to send teams to participate because they are at war, and the best players in other cities are often the best. The soldiers, they were either on an expedition to Latinum with King Daves, or under the command of Alexis, among the mountains of Samona.

In addition, there has been an enemy situation in the Apulia area. A fleet of more than 500 soldiers landed on the coast near Palem. They held the flag of the former Kingdom of Puchetti and shouted "Get away With the slogan of “Dionians and Puchetti Freedom”, they rushed into nearby villages and looted them. People in neighboring towns hated their robbery and quickly gathered the citizens of the Army Reserve Corps in the city to form a 600-member army. The army, under the command of the Second Cavalry Regiment that came after hearing the news, launched an attack on the enemy entrenched in the village and defeated it in one fell swoop.

It was learned from the captives that in the next period of time, there may be several remnants of Apulia that will come to attack. The Senate made a decision: the cities and towns of Apulia do not need to send teams to the map. For Lee to participate in the competition, he must complete all matters of the autumn harvest as soon as possible and do his best to defend himself.

Also asked the Ministry of Military Affairs to notify the remaining Ninth Army and the Second Cavalry Corps to be stationed in Puchetti’s barracks, temporarily under the unified command of the Ninth Army Commander Taigetinos, sitting in the middle of the road, responsible for counterattack from Arp Enemies landed on the coasts of Leah.

The decision of the Senate has aroused opposition from the people of various cities and towns in Apulia, especially the Mesapi and Puchetti areas. They have sent people to the Turiyi Senate to express their feelings to the senators and express their views: They send a team to participate, and it will not affect their full defense against possible incoming enemies.

The Senate finally agreed to their request, but this incident aroused the resentment of the Apulian people towards the enemy,

As the Apulian people share the same hatred and hatred, the very few people who are secretly connected with the remnant forces dare not act rashly at all.

During the celebration, there was one thing that the people of Turiyi kept talking about.

Due to the absence of King Davos, it stands to reason that the person responsible for the ceremony of the main temple of Hades on the day of the ceremony should be replaced by Plessinus, the priest of the Kingdom Scepter, but Plessinus refused, and he insisted I think: On the day of Pluto's birthday, his descendants should be the presiding officer to please the dark night king with a gloomy personality and let him better protect the kingdom in this special year.

Most of the elders agree with this, but the actual situation is a bit troublesome. Not only is Daves not in Turie, even his only adult son, Croto Kataks, is not in Turie, other children Are still young...

After discussion, the elders finally decided that Princess Kristia would be responsible for presiding over the sacrifice.

In the eyes of the elders, although Christoya is not a descendant of Pluto, she is the wife of King Daves and a family. Hades would not have much opinion.

Why didn't you choose Agnes? The reason is simple, she is already the chief priest of the Temple of Hera, if she comes to preside over this grand ceremony, it will irritate the two gods, Hades and Hera. Of course, Christoya's own influence on the elders is also the reason why the elders did not express strong opposition.

So on the day of the celebration, the graceful princess Kristonia, dressed in a white robe, stood in front of the altar in the main temple of Hades, and solemnly recited the sacrificial words to Hades. She was beautiful. The noble face and crisp and beautiful voice became the most memorable picture of this celebration.

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While the Dionians in Great Greece celebrated to eliminate the haze caused by the war, the Dionians in the Sicilian Territory were gradually ushering in the most difficult moment of the war.

Margo led more than 50,000 soldiers across the mountains and entered the southern edge of the Catania Plain, and built a camp between Leottini and Paragonia in an attempt to break the connection between these towns , To isolate Paragonia.

Therefore, during the construction of the camp by the Carthaginians, the Paragonian garrison and the new barracks at Katane, not far north of Leonidi, sent troops many times to harass the Carthaginian army. Margo has been on guard and failed to achieve great results. On the contrary, under the interception of the Carthage cavalry, the army that had attacked from the new barracks failed to retreat in time and suffered a lot of casualties. This also made the Seventh Army Commander Breru more cautious in using his troops.

But the harassment of the Dionian army also caused the construction of the Carthage barracks to be roughly completed a few days later. During this period, Margot was not idle. He sent thousands of Numibian cavalry to break in. Go to the Catania Plain and attempt to plunder the people and supplies of Catane.

However, Cipros and Leotizides had anticipated this. They had already mobilized all the Dionis who lived outside the city when the Carthage army was advancing towards Paragonia. The Asian people temporarily moved into Katane City with supplies.

The Numibian cavalry who failed to gain anything turned to destroy villages, farmland and other facilities, so on the Catania Plain, there were piles of fires, and villages were melted in the fire. For the ashes, the only luck is that Paragonia successfully blocked the Carthage army for a few days before, so that the people on the Catania plain completed the autumn harvest in time.

The people hiding in the city of Katane were very anxious when they heard the news that their homes had been destroyed. They gathered together and went to the city hall to petition, hoping that the army could repel the alien cavalry that was raging on the plains.

Since Carthage’s main force was attacking from the south of the Catania Plain, Leotizides had led half of the Eighth Army to retreat from Agilion to the city of Catane.

In the past few days, Leotizides went to the front of the city to inspect the defenses during the day and listened to the scout's return. He stayed in the study at night, looking at the map and meditating.

When Cypros came to visit Leontizides, he didn't surprise him, the Sicilian commander still stayed in the study.

"Proseus, it's all over the world now, and you can still sit still!" Cipros said half-jokingly and half-seriously when he saw him.

Leotizides knew what he was talking about, and said coldly: "War is not fighting among children. If you are bullied, you must retaliate immediately. I don’t need to listen to some ignorant yelling. ."

Siplos listened, frowned slightly, and persuaded in a gentle tone: "You have to understand the pain of the people losing their homes. Although their anger is a bit irrational, they may infect your soldiers. , You must know that most of the soldiers of the Eighth Army and the Reserve are Katanes, and their houses and fields have also been destroyed. This will probably have a lot of impact on their morale, right?"

Leotizides looked away from the map, looked at Cipros, and asked, "Is there something abnormal?"

"I don't know this, but I think the soldiers will have some thoughts in their hearts." Cipros replied quietly.

"Do you think?" Leottizides raised his eyebrows slightly, considering that Cipros was the wartime governor of Sicily, and he needed his strong support to direct the battle himself, and the mocking words that he had to blurt out were caught by him. He swallowed it abruptly, barely suppressed his emotions, and said: "I will pay attention to the condition of the soldiers, but now the Carthaginians are hoping to lure our troops out of the city in order to take advantage of their large numbers to defeat us in the field. , To reduce the resistance to capture Katane in the future, so we must stay calm and not be fooled by the Carthaginians. Sir Cypros, is there anything important for you to come to me?"