Camelus was very sad when he learned that Rome had fallen. He summoned the Romans who had fled to Adi, formed an army, and at the same time persuaded the Adi people to join in, and then seized the opportunity to attack the careless Celtic tribes who came to collect grain at night, and won a great victory.
The news of the victory spread quickly throughout Latium, and Camelus became famous. The Latium people who hated the Celtic aggression came to him, and the Romans in the city of Viai also demanded to accept his command. .
After risking his appointment as a military dictator by the Roman senators who were still holding the Capitoline Acropolis, Camillous assembled an ever-increasing force while attacking the Celtic grains that were infesting the towns of Caladium. team.
The situation of the Celts became more and more difficult as time went on, for lack of food and for fear of attack by the army of Camelus, they did not dare to plunder everywhere. A large number of corpses were piled up in the city of Rome, and no one was able to deal with them or bury them, which caused an epidemic. In addition, the Celts fell ill and died in battle, and morale was extremely low.
The Celtic king Brennus, who had been in Rome for half a year, could not resist the persuasion of many tribal leaders and decided to make peace with the Romans. However, the Romans defending Mount Capitoli quietly learned that "Camillous is leading a large number of troops to the city of Rome", so they refused to negotiate peace.
Although Brunnus was angry, he was helpless, but he was not willing to leave empty-handed. Just when he hesitated, he heard that Camelus led a huge army to come to the rescue. In view of the low morale of the Celtics now, Brennus dared not lead his team to confront them and was forced to order a retreat.
However, less than ten miles from its withdrawal from Rome, the morale of the Latium coalition led by Camillous caught up, and the two sides fought fiercely.
In the end, the Celts suffered a crushing defeat, most of them were surrounded and wiped out by the chasing troops, and a small number of people scattered and fled everywhere. As a result, all the people in the neighboring towns and villages were dispatched to search for them, and they were almost slaughtered, leaving only Brennus. Dozens of people, including their cronies, fled back.
This battle severely damaged the Celts in the upper reaches of the Po River Basin and greatly reduced their strength.
Although the Romans suffered losses in this war with the Celts, it eased the conflict between the nobles and the commoners. The people who had migrated to Weiai returned to Rome and worked together to rebuild the city of Rome. The Senate also promulgated some bills that were conducive to the reconciliation of nobles and commoners, and took the initiative to absorb many exiles who lost their homes in this war with the Celts as Roman citizens.
In view of the lessons of his failure at the Battle of the Aria, and his previous combat experience, Camillous reformed the Roman army after gaining the support of the Senate. At the same time, Rome unexpectedly received strong support from a powerful country in the Western Mediterranean. Therefore, in the second year after the war with the Celts, Rome began to regain its vitality and began to attack the surrounding Latinum city-states that had left the Latin League and betrayed Rome because of the war. After several years of hard fighting, they have Brings most of the Latin cities back under his control and re-establishes the Latin Confederation.
During this period, the Etruscans in the north took advantage of the favorable opportunity when the Roman army was contained in the Latinum area, and dispatched a large army to surround the important Etruscans that Rome took many years to capture more than ten years ago. The city-state, now entirely a Roman colony, Viais, tried to force it to surrender.
The Romans defended the fortified city, refused to surrender, repulsed the enemy's attack many times, and crossed the river many times to ask for help.
Immediately after the end of the Latin War, Camillos led the Roman army to attack the Etruscan army that was besieging Viai on the north bank of the Taipei River.
The Etruscans, who had been ravaged by the Celts before, had not yet recovered their strength, while the Roman army, which had implemented the reformed military system of Camillous, had strong morale. The two sides fought several times, and Rome was victorious.
After repelling the Etruscan army, the Romans did not rest on their laurels, but after realizing the weakness of the Etruscans through war, they seized the opportunity and continued to attack the Etruscans that had been threatening Rome for hundreds of years. The human territory was attacked.
Within a few years, with the successive capture of important Etruscan city-states such as Tarchna, Velch, Novi, Volsinii, etc., Rome He also brought most of the southern part of Etruria into his control.
During this period, the Volsci and Herniki in the south of Rome were afraid of the rise of a powerful Rome that would threaten the security of their territories, and from time to time they joined forces with other forces around Rome to invade the territories of Rome and its allies, and this time It should be the largest one in this decade.
Davos stared at Rome and its colonial cities on the map, as well as the allies that had surrendered to him, which was already a large area.
He didn't know how much trouble it would cause Dionysus to let Rome grow up, but Dionia has devoted a lot of manpower and material resources to integrating and unifying southern Italy and eastern Sicily for more than ten years. There is really no extra force to interfere in Rome, which is far away in central Italy. It is an unfamiliar area to the Dionysians. Sending a large army is too expensive for the Kingdom of Dionia, and sending a small army is also very expensive. easily destroyed.
He hoped that this time the Volsci's all-out attack could pose a threat to Rome. It is a pity that his previous knowledge of Roman history started from the Punic War, and he knew very little about the history of the early rise of Rome. The only thing he knew was Camelus. After reading the information collected by the intelligence department and combining it with the knowledge he had learned in his previous life, he realized that Camelus, who was very famous in the Latinum area at this time, was the one who was called "the father of Rome" in his previous life. Mulhouse.
"Where is Camelus now?" he asked immediately.
Aristillas was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that what Davos was talking about was exactly the person he had made them pay attention to: "Before, Camelus didn't take part in the expedition to Etruria on the grounds that he was old and weak. Commander. He has been in the city of Rome, and there is no new news."
"It seems that this time the Romans will let him serve as the commander against the Volsi coalition." Davos sighed lightly: "Watch this war closely and report to me at any time."
"Yes, Your Majesty," replied Aristillas.
Davos pondered for a while, then remembered one more thing, and said to his clerk, Henepolis, "Herny, you immediately give Catane, Naxos, Sikuli, Herbie in Sicily. Towers, Hera... The chief executives of these cities wrote letters. Let them try their best to persuade the people to sell the surplus grain to the city hall at a proper price after the autumn harvest, so as to provide relief to the people in the Nanyi area of Jinan... "
"Okay, Your Majesty. I will finish writing the letter immediately and give it to you for review." After Henepolis finished speaking, he immediately prepared to write the letter.
Davos looked down at the icon of Rome on the map again, and sighed inwardly: This drought has come at a bad time...
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Two days later, Davos met again in the palace, the priest of Delphi, Cretimene, who had arrived in a hurry.
For Delphi's invitation, Davers did not show joy. On the contrary, he just politely expressed his gratitude to Delphi, but proposed: unless Delphi publicly invites the kingdom of Dionia to join the Holy Alliance, Dionia will take action, otherwise Dionia should take the initiative to apply It is absolutely impossible!
Cretimene was stunned. He thought Dionia would be grateful for Delphi's favor, but he didn't expect Davos to be so indifferent and arrogant.
In fact, if Cretimene had a deep understanding of Dionia's national conditions, he would have understood why Davos did this.
Because Davos is not only the king of the kingdom of Dionia, he is also the high priest of the Temple of Hades and the descendant of Hades. The realms were different, and he felt unable to explain to the priests of Hades and the wider community of believers. But if the other party took the initiative to invite, Davers would find it easier to accept. On the surface, this is just a question of the attitude of the master and not taking the initiative, but in fact it is an important issue to decide who is the master of the two gods in Dionia.
The two sides are deadlocked at this critical point, and neither can give in.
Cretimene had to turn the conversation on to something else—inviting Dionysus to the next Pythian Games, which would take place two years later (in the summer of 379 BC).
Davos once again thanked the other party for the invitation, but reminded the other party: "Dionia is a multi-racial kingdom, as long as the Pythian Games allows Dionysian citizens of different races to participate, Dionia will definitely form a team to participate. ."
This condition is precisely what Delphi could not agree to independently. Such an unconventional move must be approved by the members of the Holy Alliance. Likewise, Delphi certainly couldn't risk angering Sparta by openly inviting Dionia to join the Holy Alliance.
Cretimone thought he had come with sincerity, but because of Davos' arrogance, he got nothing, and finally he left angrily, and the matter of Dionia joining the Holy Alliance was put on hold.
However, when Cretimene returned, he spread the rumor that "King Dionia was arrogant and rude to Delphi" in the Delphi area.
Davos disapproved of the angry departure of the priests of Delphi, and he did not think it was time to intervene in the affairs of Greece. As for Delphi's willingness to promote Dionia in Greece, Davos also smiled: In the past ten years, Dionia has been continuously attracting Greek freemen from the vast Greek city-state territory of the Eastern Mediterranean, and has already formed many A stable channel without the help of Delphi.