Chapter 22 Prince Adoris

"A... Opol." Elems gestured, said in blunt Greek.

The young man took out a drachma from the purse he was carrying, threw it to Ellems, then squatted down and held up a wooden cylinder, which was made by hollowing out the center of a fist-thick tree trunk, sanding, and painting it. The simple wooden cup, the cup is full of milky white pulp, and it is heavy in the hand. The young man did not dislike its simplicity. He first took a small sip, and after tasting it, his face was surprised: "It tastes very good, you have mixed goat milk and grape juice in the syrup, and you should have added honey, but this goat milk is There is no smell of mutton, how did you do it?"

The young man who spoke was Adoris, the adopted son of King Davos of Dionia, who was 18 years old and had participated in this war against Downey for the first time as a legionnaire. Although he has no interest in cooking a dish, he has some experience in this aspect by tasting food at home all year round.

Ellems pretended not to understand and looked down for change.

Adoris didn't ask any more questions. He took out another drachma and threw it to him: "Don't look for it anymore, bring me ten cups of water." He looked around and said, "Brothers have been training hard, I Please drink some syrup to quench your thirst."

His teammates immediately cheered: "Thank you Adoris! Generous Adoris!  …"

Erams and his wife hurriedly filled each wooden cup with water and handed it to the thirsty soldiers.

"I said prince, don't just invite your teammates to drink the water, and we too! We are also very thirsty!" A soldier shouted loudly not far from the entrance of the market.

prince? ! Elems looked at the young man in front of him curiously. In his memory, the one with the title of "Prince" was Vadarka, the son of Tremoni, the former King of Puchetti. Because Tremoni died in the Battle of Brindisi, and his tribal warriors were almost completely lost. As a result, after the war, due to the great loss of the royal family's strength, Puchetti was in chaos, and there was no "Prince" in Vadarka. ”, but because he was not supported by any big tribe, he could not become the new king. After the Dionian invasion, Vadarka and his family fled to Epirus across the Adriatic by boat.

The young man in front of him was tall and burly, with big eyes and thick eyebrows, but unfortunately the remaining childishness on his face concealed his might, and Elems did not know whether the title "Prince" was true or not.

Adonis turned around and scolded: "Anphias, you shout again, believe it or not, I will make you unable to drink water today!"

The soldier was not afraid, he responded with a smile: "As long as you treat me, I won't shout."

Adoris glared at him, but couldn't do anything about him. After the South Italian War, Dionia almost completely occupied Greater Greece, and Crotone was forced by the situation.

At the same time, they had to completely rely on Dionia to rebuild the new city and restore the prosperity of the past, so the people finally chose to merge into the kingdom of Dionia. Elected to become Elder Dionysus, Amphias, son of Lycias, followed his father to Turii and became a classmate of Adoris at Turii school. When Adoris became an adult, in order not to take too much care, he specially asked Davos to serve as a legionnaire in the Fourth Legion centered on Crotone, thinking that no one would know him. Who knew that they met Anfias in the Fourth Army. It turned out that this guy did not set his household registration in Turii when he became an adult, but chose Crotone, the birthplace, and the identity of Adoris was leaked.

Adoris understood Anphias' stern personality. He looked around the market, turned around and pointed to the clay pot beside the stall, and asked, "How much is this pot of water for you?"

Ellems' heart beat faster, and he replied quickly, "Two drachmas."

"You still have 15 cans here, and I bought them all. For every comrade who comes here, you can give him a glass of water to drink. Can you do that?!" Adoris said simply, while taking out the purse Count 30 drachmas.

"Alright! Alright!..." Elems nodded again and again.

There was a louder cheer in the market, "Prince Adoris wins!" The cheers were mixed with an abrupt shout.

Damn Amphias! Adoris was so angry that he immediately shouted loudly: "Brothers, Amphias just told me that today I will invite you to drink water, and when the victory is over and return to Turii, he will invite you to drink beer. !"

"How can I—" Anphias was about to argue when the soldiers shouted excitedly: "Amphias, I didn't expect you to be more generous than Adoris!"

"Amphias, we can't wait to go to the field, win and go home and drink your beer!"

...

The market was full of laughter.

While busy delivering water to these young soldiers, Ellems lamented that these young soldiers were fearless and unaware of the cruelty of war, which reminded him of his own youth.

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In the central tent of Dionysian Barracks, Alexis, the army commander who was in charge of attacking Downey this time, was puzzled by a letter written by King Davos, because at the end of the letter, Davos wrote: "...On the north bank of the Ovanto River, where a glorious battle has taken place in history, I look forward to your victory as well as your predecessors!  …"

Alexis thought about it carefully, but couldn't remember any major battles that had happened in the vicinity, so he asked the adjutant who graduated with honors from the Turii School: "Eu Matthews, do you know Ofan? Has there been any fierce battle before near the Tor River?"

Eumatius, the eldest son of Bagule, thought for a moment, and immediately answered simply, "I don't know."

Could it be that the battle that took place here a long, long time ago has not been recorded, and His Majesty, as a favored one, was able to know it through Hades' enlightenment... Alexis can only think like this, Davos The encouragement in the letter made an ambition rise in his chest.

Of course he wouldn't know that the "splendid battle" mentioned in Davers' letter did not happen in the past, but in the history of the previous life: about ten miles east of the Dionysian Barracks, there is a place called Canny, The Carthaginian army was stationed there. The great commander Hannibal led 50,000 troops to cross the river and fought with 80,000 Roman troops. One of the most glorious battles in the history of ancient Western warfare. This also made Davos have the urge to rush over to direct the war in person, and have a short battle with Hannibal. In the end, he gave up. After all, Downey was too different from Rome in his previous life, and it was not worth it at all. He did it himself.

Davos, who was not very knowledgeable in history, did not know that in the following decades in the history of the previous life, another battle took place south of the city of Ausculum on the northwest bank of the Ovanto River. Famous - Battle of Ascurum, King Pyrus of Epirus led his army to fight the Romans for the second time. Although he eventually won, he suffered heavy losses, which made Pyrus not want to fight with the Romans again. With the mind of fighting, he eventually led his army out of Italy and went to Sicily.

"The Armintas Legion is here!...The Olivers Legion is here!...The Giorgris Legion is here!...The Ryders Legion is here!..." The guards outside the tent kept calling out loudly.

After several legion commanders entered the tent, they sat down with Alexis after the military salute.

"Commanders." Alexis sat on the main seat and solemnly said to them: "We have been stationed here for seven days, and the legions and auxiliary units, as well as military provisions and supplies have all arrived, and Downey People were also gathering on the other side, so I decided to cross the river tomorrow and attack the enemy."

"It's long overdue to attack! Staying here for so long has almost suffocated our soldiers!" Amintas immediately raised his hands in approval.

"Lord Amintas, I think it's you who is suffocated." Olivers next to him laughed.

"Good you Olivers, dare to make fun of me, come to a football game in the afternoon, the first army VS the fourth army, you and I are the quarterbacks, whoever loses, who will jump around the training ground, dare you ?!" Amyntas called out loudly.

"It's not that I don't dare." Olivers politely refused: "We are going to go out tomorrow, and we have to assign tasks to the legion in the afternoon to prepare the soldiers. There is no time to compete."

"Find a reason!" Amyntas whispered, he also knew that Olivers was right and didn't bother.

"Lord Commander, will the Downeys come out to intercept us when we cross the river tomorrow?" Giorgris asked cautiously.

"It's very possible!" Alexis replied simply: "According to the information from the north, although King Downey is reluctant to go out of the city to fight, Askurum, Sipontum, Hedonia (Herdoniae)... The big chiefs of many towns and other towns insisted on keeping us out of Downey's territory, so they encouraged their kings to finally gather their troops on the other side of the Ovanto River, and their troops were smaller than ours. , relying on the river to fight can increase their advantage, they should not easily let go of this advantage, so it is likely to form an array on the opposite bank to prevent us from crossing the river."

"In this case, we will leave the camp early tomorrow morning and cross the river at the fastest speed. I believe that the Downey Army is not as fast as our Dionysian Army. When they arrive on the other side, we will be early. Crossed the river." Olivers offered his advice.

"If that's the case, the Downeys are likely to huddle in the city of Hedonia on the opposite bank and not come out to fight us in the field, which will undoubtedly be detrimental to our annihilation of the main force of the Downeys, and will delay our conquest of the entire Downey. The time in the region, increase the casualties of the soldiers." Alexis shook his head.