Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 73: Dionia’s counterattack plan (continued)

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Cipoulos also said: "Your Majesty, we send a large army into the Po River Plain to fight fiercely in the Gaul territory, which will inevitably cause anxiety among the Ligurians and Vinetti, in order to avoid some When the accident happened, while sending troops, we could also send envoys to these two races. Tell them that the Kingdom of Dionian was invaded by the Gauls, so it sent troops to counterattack and invited them to attack together. The Gaul territory, even if they refuse to join, will reduce their anxiety about our sudden appearance in the Po Plain..."

Davers nodded, feeling reasonable.

"Your Majesty." At this time, Sedorum asked: "After our army has conquered the Gauls, what should we do with them?"

Sedorum’s question caused Daves to fall into contemplation, because he did not plan to attack Yamauchi Gaul at this stage in advance, and naturally did not plan to settle the surrendered Gaul after the war. In the detailed plan, what came to his mind was Caesar’s war against Gaul outside the mountain in the history of the past. During the eight-year long march, he carried out a **** conquest of the aborigines from the north of Mount Alps to the island of England. In the continuous battle, he paid a high price, killed countless Gauls, and finally exchanged their surrender. As for Yamanei Gaul, it seems that after Rome became stronger, they obeyed. There was no major war. Of course, when Hannibal led an army across the Alps and attacked Rome, these Yamanei Gauls joined in one after another. His subordinates resisted the Romans...

Daves looked at Alexis and Priintoles, with a cold light in his eyes, and said in a strong tone: "Gauls are a fierce race. We don’t have any mercy for their battles, as long as They are still resisting. The soldiers' fighting and killing must not stop. Only if we are more fierce than them will they be afraid and surrender!

If there are Gaul tribes who want to surrender, they can tell them, ‘surrender is okay, but we must unconditionally accept our resettlement of their territory, and must also abide by some of the Kingdom’s resolutions for the surrendered Gaul. "...These resolutions...After I have a special discussion with you, I will submit them to the Senate for approval...

But regardless of whether the Gauls surrender or not, some important towns in the Gaul territory must be captured and firmly controlled in our hands. For example, Arimium. Occupy it so that our military supplies can be compared. Fast and smooth transportation to the army. There is also Boloma, the central town of the Senonis. Our troops will be able to cross the mountains from Etrunia and enter the Po Plain. There is also Medeolan, the central town of the Salvis. , Only by occupying it, we can prevent more Gauls from crossing the Alps and entering the Po Plain..."

"Understood, Your Majesty." Sedorum, Alexis, and Plintors responded one after another.

"Your Majesty, although the Gauls have been hit hard, they can only attack from the sea, which is also convenient for the Gauls to defend. The troops led by Patroclus and Hasdruba in Luria also attacked the Gaul territory... If you are worried about the difficulty of fighting in the mountains, you can let the Third Army take the lead..." Hermon is also timely Put forward their own suggestions.

Daves' eyes lit up when he heard this, and he couldn't help but jokingly said: "Hermon, this suggestion you made is a good supplement to Alexis and their offensive plan. I didn't see you. I still have a lot of research on the military. Isn’t it a bit too talented for you to be just a rotating chairman?"

"Your Majesty, Lord Hermon's main purpose is to let the Third Army join the war and make some achievements. As for being said to be a good military proposal, it is just a crooked fight." Anta Oris Said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"What a crooked fight, this is what I thought about it, considering the characteristics of the Third Army that is good at mountain warfare... just because I was thinking about this all the way, and I was almost knocked down by pedestrians. "Hermon didn't look at Anta Auris, and while complaining, he touched his knees with both hands, showing a lingering fear, as if something really happened.

Everyone laughed, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little more relaxed, and Hermon also cleverly covered the embarrassment of Anta Auris's secretly saying that he was selfish.

Daves didn't really care about this. He looked at the thin figure opposite and asked, "Haka, what do you think of this?"

"Your Majesty." Hakkar said without hesitation: "Now Carthage has returned to the kingdom, and the East and West Numibians have also obeyed us. The southern Iberian region is the chief executive of Bagul with an iron fist. Under the governance, the order has been greatly improved. The Eighteenth Army and the Border Army, led by the commander of Sextus Corps, have defeated the invading natives several times this year, and have also taken the initiative to attack. The slaughter of a predatory Lusitania tribe also shocked the surrounding indigenous people... Now everything is stable within the kingdom’s sphere of influence, and the country’s financial and material resources are relatively rich.

To the east of us, the war between Sparta and Thebes and Athens is still going on, and it will not have any impact on us for the time being. We should take advantage of such a great opportunity to concentrate our efforts to completely clear the kingdom's biggest trouble on the Italian peninsula-the Gauls, and clear the obstacles for our complete rule of the Western Mediterranean! "

"Good point!" Daves smiled and said approvingly: "Now is indeed the best time to conquer the Gauls! So the offensive plan formulated by the Military Department, I agree! But only to send the first The four legions, the second, the fourth, and the fifth, are not enough. The entire Aprilia region is on the side of the Adriatic Sea. It is also convenient to go to the Po Plain by sea, so I decided to add the ninth, The tenth and eleventh regiments, as well as the first and second two cavalry regiments, also joined the offensive team. A total of 7 infantry regiments, plus two cavalry regiments, also allowed the first fleet As a transportation and support, attacked the Gaul territory from the side of Alimium!"

Without waiting for Alexis and the others to respond, Daves continued: "The candidate for the commander will be Prosous. In addition...the Third Army will be transferred to the Etruscan region. , Assisting the northern coalition forces to eliminate the remnants of Gaul in its territory as soon as possible, and then let Patroclus as the commander, leading the 3rd Army, the 12th Army, the 14th Army, and the Border Army, a total of four army groups over the mountains, from Attack the Gaul territory from the south!"

"Yes!" After listening to the doctor's orders, several military ministers including Alexis, Plintors, Alpunes, etc. were more or less excited: 100,000 troops! It's another large-scale war! However, compared with the Western Mediterranean War a few years ago, the Dionian Kingdom is now more powerful and can easily dispatch 100,000 troops to fight (mainly short-distance wars at home).

Davos took their excitement in his eyes and shouted to the door: "Go and call the messenger."

Soon, Aristotle walked into the chamber.

"You should immediately notify the chief officials of the various departments that the palace will urgently convene an important kingdom executive meeting, so that they can come and participate immediately."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After Aris Tiras left, Daves turned around and looked at the rotating chairmen, and said with a smile: "Everyone takes a break. When everyone is here, we will discuss how to ensure the smooth progress of this war. And how to settle the surrendered Gaul after the war, and make a more detailed plan."

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Sannai Gaul is a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic race. It still adopts a tribal system and lives in groups. Their lifestyle determines that they are relatively closed, and the surrounding environment they live in has just increased this closedness. .

The large-scale southern invasion 20 years ago broadened the horizons of the Gauls (mainly Senonis), but it also deepened their blind confidence in their own force. They did not think they were defeated by the Romans. Yes, because the city of Rome was occupied by them for half a year, the Romans trapped on the mountain even wanted to bribe them with gold and silver, begging them to retreat...

The Senonius people believe that they finally failed because they captured too many places, and the number of soldiers was insufficient, and they had to divide their troops and garrison them. They were too scattered and easily attacked by the enemy; they went out to fight for too long. The soldiers began to wear war; and the **** plague... If these lessons can be learned, those weak Etruscans, Romans, and Latins are destined to become their slaves... These ideas are common in the escape In the hearts of the leaders and warriors of the various tribes who returned to Senones, after their strength was restored, this strong unwillingness transformed into their motivation to continue to invade the Etruscan territory.

Of course, they also learned from the captured Etruscans that Rome and some nearby city-states had been occupied by the Kingdom of Dionian.

In the past few years, the Zenonius people have only heard the term "Dionia Kingdom" from merchants who came to trade in Arimium. I heard that it is a powerful southern part of this land. kingdom.

Speaking of being strong, aren’t Etruscans strong? Once occupying a large area of ​​the northern part of the land, we are not also beaten desperately to flee south! The Roman and other Latin city states occupied by the Kingdom of Dionia were easily occupied by us 20 years ago... There are many Senonis people with this idea, so they did not consider Diony Ya put it in sight.