"Not just the troops, I'm going to remove all the people and supplies from the city of Ostia, leaving the Romans with an empty city." Davers said with a gloomy gaze: "Now the Roman army continues to have civilian soldiers fleeing back to the city of Rome, the number has reached 4,000, but Camillus still leads the army to attack Ostia endlessly, because he thinks Ostia is important to us, and we have to tell these Romans with facts that this is just their fantasy!" After this disillusionment of theirs, I wonder if they will be able to continue fighting after losing their homes, suffering many casualties, and not having much military rations?! ”

Davers's words made everyone present thoughtful.

"Tapilus." Davers looked at the diplomat and continued: "We must not only bear the attack of the Romans alone, but also our allies! Go to Wolsey and Helniki and tell them that the city of Rome has been taken by us, and that we are attracting the main Roman army, and they can take the opportunity to attack the empty place of Roman defense and retake their territory! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"And ...... Latin city-states...... A few decades ago they were enemies with Rome, and I don't believe that they are like brothers to Rome now, and I heard that a few years ago the Latin city-state of Tuström was rumored to defect from Rome and was almost wiped out by Rome...... You go back and study it and see if you can win over a few Latin city-states. I can promise that as long as they are willing to become allies of Dionia, our army will do nothing against them, and that we will keep them safe, just as we did with Campania and Wolsey......"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will do my best to complete the task you have given me!" Tapyrus replied excitedly, he thought he had a role to use this time.

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When the meeting was over, the crowd dispersed.

Davers summoned several Roman reserve officers, led by Sextus, and announced to them the order for a "raid on Victoria".

Compared with his excited colleagues, although Sextus, who was appointed as the commander, was also a little excited, he still mustered up the courage to ask: "Your Majesty, after occupying the city of Weiai, how to deal with the people in the city?" ”

"Same as Rome."

Davers's answer relieved Sextus.

Since the civilians in the city of Viai had migrated from Rome, Sextus knew a lot of Vians, so he was actually very confident in Davers's surprise attack plan, and of course he did not forget Davers's reminder.

After leaving the Senate and gathering the Roman civilian soldiers, Sextus had already roughly conceived the plan of attack: he would select a squadron of 120 Roman civilian soldiers who were most trustworthy to him and who were more familiar with the Uighurs, and act as the vanguard to deceive the city gates. And he personally led 2,000 soldiers to the back, resolutely preventing anyone from leaving the team without permission, and once he saw the vanguard in front of him occupying the city gate, he immediately led a large army to raid, which avoided the danger of someone telling the truth and leading to the failure of the operation.

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Printors, on the contrary of Sextus, did not have to worry about the soldiers, because he had been in the Mountain Scout Brigade from the beginning, and Izzam valued him very much, and once said that he was the pride of the team, so after learning that he was going to have an important combat mission for the Mountain Scout Group, he was very happy and actively cooperated with his command to refine the plan for the night attack on Kesrela.

Printors was concerned about two things: first, the attack could only be carried out at night, but Casreira was more than 60 miles away from the city of Rome, and it was necessary to travel there by land from now on, so that it could be reached in the evening, but it became a problem whether the mountain scouts, who had consumed a lot of physical strength, would not have the strength to climb the steep mountains. Fortunately, they can also take the waterway, which is fast and labor-saving. Therefore, Printors decided to have the soldiers of the Mountain Scout Brigade arrive at the port of Ostia in batches on cargo ships anchored in the new port of Rome, and then in the evening they would be transported by ships to land on the coast near the city of Kesrela.

Second, how to climb over the mountains and the walls of Kesrera in the dark. This may have been a problem for the Ionian Legionmen, but it was not too much of a problem for the soldiers of the Mountain Scout Brigade. When Davers established this brigade, he hoped that their role in the war would not only be reconnaissance, but also special operations, so Izzam also formulated training programs according to this need in peacetime, and strictly trained the soldiers. In addition, the first word in the name of their brigade is "mountain", and climbing over mountains is their key training project, of course, including climbing in the dark. Moreover, the careful Printors also drew a topographical map of the city around Kesrela City during the previous reconnaissance, and Izzam recruited the scout soldiers with the strongest climbing ability, and everyone checked the map together to discuss how to climb the city of Kesrella.

As soon as the plan was established, Izzam ordered the soldiers to prepare supplies and tools.

After noon, the mountain reconnaissance brigade arrived in high spirits to the new port of Rome, ready to board the ship and set off.

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Early in the morning, Amintas was woken up by the guards, and his first words were to ask: "The Romans are attacking again?!" ”

"Commander, there are no heralds to inform the enemy of the attack, and now it is dawn and breakfast has been prepared."

"No offense?!" Amintas was surprised: in the past few days, the Romans had been attacking the city since dawn and had been fighting until dusk, and their ferocious attack had made Amintas feel some palpitations.

He rubbed his bearded face with his hands, he had been worrying about the war for the past few days, he had not had enough sleep, and he always felt a little sleepy, but the guard's words made him feel a little relaxed.

While eating breakfast, he was still wondering: did the Romans not attack at this time, as usual, could they no longer support an attack of this intensity?

Not long after breakfast, taking advantage of the rare free time, Amintas decided to convene a military meeting.

Olivers, the commander of the Fourth Legion, Giogris, the commander of the Fifth Legion, and Thelis, the administrator of Ostia (who had previously served as the military governor of Ostia and therefore had the right to participate in the military council), were joined by Aristolos, the lieutenant of Amintas, and his personal staff, Crotocatax.

The meeting began with a report on yesterday's casualties among the troops. It was postponed to today because it was late afternoon at the end of yesterday's fighting, and the soldiers were tired and the sky was too dark to accurately count the casualties.

Aristolos, the adjutant of the 1st Legion, stood up and said, holding the data that had just been collected from the various legions, and said: "The 1st Legion lost 293 killed and 537 wounded yesterday, the 4th Legion killed 558 and 722 wounded, the 5th Legion killed 536 and 891 wounded, and the Ostia Reserve 1021 killed and 537 wounded (the soldiers of the three Turii Legion Reserve Brigades were converted to full-fledged legionnaires and added to these three legions)......"

In the hall, the expressions of several military commanders and Crotocaratus were very heavy, because these cold numbers represented fresh lives.

"Yesterday day...... Our casualties alone reached 5,000, which is already more than the total number of casualties in the previous two days! When Amintas heard this, he slammed his fist on the back of his chair with a painful expression.

Crotocatacuses looked at Amintas, who looked indignant, thinking about the tragic battlefield he had seen in the city in the past few days, and his heart couldn't help but be gloomy, and he even felt that the task given to him by his father was a bit redundant, because under the fierce attack of the Romans now, even the defense in the city was a little difficult, where was the ability to go out of the city to fight.

He saw that Oliver, who usually spoke wittily, also said with palpitation at this moment: "The reason why yesterday's casualties were large was because the Romans had built an earthen rampart in front of the trench that was one meter higher than our city wall, and they placed a large number of light infantry on the earthen ramparts, and focused on attacking the ballistae at the head of our city with javelins and arrows, which forced our ballistae to move to the bottom of the city...... Later, the Romans pushed their ballistae in front of the city to bombard, causing several sections of the city wall to collapse, further weakening our advantage of relying on the walls for defense. And they have the advantage of being outnumbered, and they are constantly attacking in waves......

Hades is on top! This time, I really saw the small phalanx tactics similar to the Romans and us, so when fighting our soldiers head-to-head in the gap, their formation was almost not affected by the terrain obstacles, and the courage of the Roman soldiers was not inferior to our soldiers, and even the desire to fight was stronger, I saw several Roman soldiers after being stabbed down, and they still hugged our soldiers' legs, providing opportunities for the soldiers next to them...... So I was a bit lucky that they were able to break through a few openings in the wall and eventually be able to repel them......"

"What a fluke! That's because in the melee, our soldiers are more capable, and the dagger also plays a very lethal role! Olivers, as a legionnaire, you are a role model for the legionnaires, and you must always be brave and confident so that your soldiers will be confident in victory! Amyntas immediately shouted at him, in the same tone as he had criticized Oliver as a small mercenary twenty years ago as a squadron leader of a mercenary.

And Oliver was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, and immediately apologized: "I'm sorry, everyone, I was a little out of shape just now!" Over the years, the legion has been accustomed to fighting with the wind, and this is the first time that we have encountered such a brave, well-organized, and skillful enemy, and we have lost a lot of brothers! It seems that Your Majesty is right, the Romans are indeed a fierce enemy, and we should abandon the illusion of an easy victory and go all out to defeat this enemy! ”

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