Chapter 226: The End of the Samonai Tribe Coalition (1)

The center of the Avangum tribe blossomed, and the coalition soldiers slaughtered in the rear, and the Kautini warriors, who were caught off guard and flanked in front and rear, fled in panic, and some of the warriors shouted to the other tribes: "The Naconians have rebelled!" The Naconians have mutinied!! ……”

Mixed with the neat and loud shouts of the Avangums: "Nakonians revenge!!" ...... "Even if the sounds of fighting and screaming in this area are constant, these sounds can still reach distant areas and be heard by other tribal warriors, which makes the Kautini warriors vigilant and the other Naconian warriors aware of the situation, forcing them to take immediate action

As a result, one Naconian tribal warrior after another rebelled and attacked the surrounding Kautini warriors.

Originally, Segovani scattered the Naconian tribes in various parts of the military formation, in order to make them dare not rebel, and at the same time forced them to fight with all their strength to survive in the military formation, but they did not expect to shoot themselves in the foot, and the sudden rebellion of the warriors of the Naconian tribes made the entire military formation of the Kautini army chaotic.

Sensing the anomaly of the enemy formation, Zantiparis took the opportunity to inform the light armoured men at both ends to attack inward, and the attack of the coalition soldiers who caught up with him quickly transformed the original planned retreat into a complete rout.

Even some Kautini warriors, frightened by the constant news of the rebellion, became suspicious, swinging spears at their teammates who had no intention of approaching them. In the twilight of the sky, the Kautini warriors lost their fighting spirit, trampling on each other and killing each other on the way to escape, killing and wounding countless people.

By dark, when the Dionian coalition stopped their pursuit, only nearly 2,000 Caustini warriors had escaped, including the Grand Chieftain Segovani, who eventually fled into the city of Thesara. The coalition lost less than 500 men and was reinforced, with more than 2,000 Naconian warriors taking refuge

Early the next morning, after a night's rest, the Ionian coalition marched north in two directions, aiming at Thessara and Abela.

Towards noon, an army, mainly composed of Campania League soldiers, arrived at the city of Sessara only to find it empty.

It turned out that after the remnants of the Kautini army fled back to Cessala, Segovani, who had calmed down a little, in addition to cursing the rebellious Naconians in anger, also realized that he could not continue to stay in the city, because when the enemy was attacking, he only needed to divide part of his forces to surround Cessara, which was only garrisoned by 2,000 warriors, and then he could lead the main force to directly attack Abela, who was in the mountain pass and had no one to defend against, so as to directly attack Kautim, who was also defenseless, and in that case, Kautini would be completely finished.

So, Segovani mobilized the whole city to relocate that night.

Despite their reluctance, the Sesara did not want to repeat Lola's mistakes, so they retreated overnight towards Abella and Kautim, taking their belongings and supporting the old and the young.

So, when the combined Dionian forces, mainly Dionian and Naconian soldiers, reached the mountain pass, Segovani led only 2,000 warriors to garrison the small city of Abela and block the eastward passage of the coalition army.

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On the same day, some 10,000 soldiers of the 10th and 11th Legions led by Capuz captured the small city of Equeum after a day of hard fighting, echoing the coalition forces led by Alexis directly west of the Samonai Mountains, and there was a great tendency to completely encircle the territory of Hippine.

After the departure of the Kautini and Pentney tribal armies, the strength of the army in Benevenum was significantly weakened, in order to reduce unnecessary casualties, Lesguk had stopped the attack out of the city, but instead the Dionian coalition soldiers approached the city, but they did not come to attack the city, but by the leader of Abenirum Gherni and the people under the city to shout continuously.

Gherney counted the defeats suffered by Lesgouc since he waged war against Dionys, as well as the exact number of Hirpine's warriors killed and wounded and captured.

He also shouted to the city: "Fellow Hirpine, now that Aquilonia and Aqueum have been captured by the Dionian coalition, and the territory of Hirpini is already surrounded by the coalition army, so you should stop blindly following Lesguk and continue to fight against the Dioonian coalition army, otherwise the coalition army will send troops to capture your towns, destroy your settlements, capture your families, and completely destroy your tribe!" ……”

At the same time, he also made a promise: "As long as the tribal leaders and warriors submit to Dionia, it is better if you can capture Lesguk, not only will your previous trespasses against Dionya be forgiven, your territory and family will be preserved, but also the captured warriors will be released home, and the wounded warriors will be carefully treated by the Dionian doctors......"

Gherney's repeated shouting under the city had a great impact on the leaders and warriors of the Hilpinee tribe in the city.

Lesguk began to see the leaders of the Hilpinee tribes quietly gathering their own warriors and discussing something in secret, which made him secretly frightened.

Not long after, the news of the crushing defeat of the Cautini army in the Campania plain reached the city of Beneventum, which caused even more panic.

At this moment, under the repeated urging of Alexis, the leader of Aquilonia rushed to the coalition camp, and he also followed Geirny to shout under the city, and finally caused the Aquilonian warriors who were originally sent to Beneventum and followed Lesgouc to stand up and ask Lesgouc that they should respond to the leader's call to leave Benevenum and join Dionia.

Aquilonia, the third largest tribal union town of the Hirpini tribe, still has more than 700 warriors after several battles, which is a significant proportion of the Hirpini army, which now has just over 4,000 warriors. Aquilonia was followed by the warriors of Aquium, who also decided to submit to Dionia in order to save their captive families.

The tribes within the Hirpini tribe were equal in political status, and they elected a great leader and obeyed the orders of the great chief, but this was not a legal obligation, but based on the long tradition of the clan, but the tradition also stipulated that they could refuse to carry out the orders of the chief at any time according to their own circumstances, so whether it was the Hirpinei tribe or the other Samonei tribes, in fact they were still a loose political alliance within themselves.

Perhaps due to the nature of the hill people's race, the inconvenient transportation between tribes and tribes made it difficult to unify the jurisdiction, so they were more independent and free in political status, but this made it impossible for Lesguk to force them to stay by coercive means either politically or militarily (the combined number of Aquilonian and Ecuum warriors was 800, which also made Lesguk a rat trap).

In desperation, Lesguk had no choice but to make them swear in the name of the god Savoni that after surrendering to Dionia, they would not be enemies of all the Samonai tribes.

Aquilonia and the Equim warriors did so.

Therefore, Lesguk could only order: open the gates of the city and let the warriors of the two tribes leave.

Alexis and the coalition top brass welcomed them to surrender.

The other tribal leaders who witnessed the whole process at the head of the city finally did not hesitate and asked Lesguk to leave Benevenum and return to defend their homeland.

Lesguk knew that what these people were telling were all lies, and he was afraid that he would let them out of the city, and in the blink of an eye, they would all go to Dionia. He had anticipated this when he let the Aquilonian and Equim warriors leave, and the Hippinei warriors who had joined together to force the palace together numbered more than 1,000 people, and if they were not allowed to leave, it would cause even greater disaster if they were allowed to make trouble in the city.

Lesguk thought about it for a long time, and finally nodded in agreement.

The departure of the Hirpini tribe caused panic in the city of Beneventum and even affected Caracheni's army, and its leaders and warriors asked Contruk to leave Benevenum and return to their homeland.

Although Contruk was stubborn and conservative, he also knew that the defeat of the Samonai coalition was now a certainty, the enemy was outnumbered, and the fall of Beneventum was only a matter of time, and the Caracheni army continued to stay in the city, and was in danger of total annihilation.

Therefore, on the grounds that he was "persecuted by the leaders of the various tribes of Caracheni", and he was embarrassed not to go to see Lesguk in person, he sent one of his men to greet Lesguk, and he led the team out of the city directly from the north gate, crossed the river, and left Benevenum.

The reinforcements left one by one, so that the people in the city fell into a complete panic, the leaders of the tribes of Benevenum came to meet with Lesguk, hoping for Ai's request: The situation is now critical, Beneventum can not support alone, for the safety of the lives of the tribesmen in the city, I hope that Liesguk can lead the whole city to surrender to Dionia.

The gloomy expression of Liesiguk looked at the leaders who came to petition and the elders of his own tribe, his face was even more gloomy, he was silent for a long time, and under the repeated urging of the leaders, he said coldly: "Let me think about it......" After speaking, he asked the guards to drive everyone away.

Looking at the empty living room, Lesguk's heart was also empty, and he remembered what Segovani had scolded him before, "You are not worthy of being a big tribal leader, you are not decisive enough to do things, and your methods are not ruthless enough......"

Lesguk smiled miserably and whispered to himself, "Segovani, you're right...... However, I would love to know what you will do next to save Kautim, but unfortunately...... I can't see ......"

That night, Lesguk committed suicide in his mansion, and the people of the city were terrified, and the chiefs consulted urgently, and the next day sent messengers to the Dionian military camp.