Chapter 256 Brix's Ambition

Quintus actually guessed the advance route of Pannoni's main coalition army! ...This made the generals admired and at the same time completely relieved and continued to implement the new plan.

At night, the Knick soldiers blew their trumpets and shouted. Pretending to attack the stronghold at night, the Segostika people in the stronghold were frightened so that they did not dare to relax their vigilance. The Nyx army could continue to make noise in batches, but Amrotas and his tribe could not sleep well all night. …

Early the next morning, a small number of Knicks soldiers continued to pretend to attack the stockade, and a few soldiers continued to guard the pontoon bridge. The fleet was cruising on the river, but most of the soldiers entered the military tent of the camp to rest after roughly setting up the camp, but from time to time The soldiers walking out of their tents and wandering around the camp and the countless smoke rising up when the time came made the Segostika warriors standing on the wooden wall to explore still feel the presence of this Nix army...

At night, the Nix soldiers were still noisy outside the stronghold, and the Segestika people were gnashing their teeth inside the stronghold, but there was nothing they could do...

Late at night, the Segostikas, who were exhausted after two consecutive days of tossing, finally couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep. At this moment, the main force of the Knicks army began to quietly evacuate under the bright moonlight. Camp…

On the third day, the feint attack on the stockade, the garrison of the pontoon bridge, the water and land blockade, the soldiers wandering around the camp, countless rising smoke, the hustle and bustle at night... everything was as usual.

Amrotas and his tribe didn't notice anything strange, but their hatred of Kabdus was getting stronger day by day...

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A long dragon whose head and tail could not be seen meandered along the river bank... Bricks, who was standing on a hill next to him on horseback and watching all this, felt very satisfied.

This year, it was Blix's turn to be the host of the Tribal Alliance. He quickly issued an invitation to convene a tribal alliance meeting, and proposed at the meeting to "form a coalition army and eliminate the new Knicks as soon as possible to eliminate the future." "Disaster against the Dacians" proposal, and through his efforts, the proposal was passed.

At that time, other big leaders were surprised that Bricks rarely showed such a strong aggressiveness. After he explained the reason, everyone expressed their understanding: the Knicks actually broke into Broch's territory. They looted wantonly and incited Skodisci slaves to flee in large numbers. This still happens from time to time. If you sit back and do nothing, it is likely to spread to the territories of other large tribes and undermine the stability of the entire Pannoni Alliance... This is also the main reason why other tribal leaders agreed to this proposal.

It's just that they didn't realize that Blix had another reason for launching this war - to expand Broch's territory.

In fact, Brix is ​​not as despised by Andres, who only knows how to live a comfortable life and does not want to make progress.

Brix had no choice but to adopt such a posture in the past. After all, his territory was surrounded by other Pannoni tribes on the south, north, and east sides. Only the west side seemed to be open to expansion, but it was mostly mountains and hills. , and the Aldi people are entrenched. He did not want to take too many risks, so he first focused on managing the territory. After all, it had only been a few years since he defeated the Skodisci and regained the lost territory. This resulted in the fact that all other tribes (except Macchii) were later on. Attacking everywhere, just pretending that he is in the territory.

It wasn't until Segostika inflicted heavy losses on the Ardie people that Brix saw the right opportunity and marched westward, defeating the army of the Ardie tribe living in the west, sweeping across the entire hilly area, and even once Attacked the east bank of the Korana River.

However, due to the poor supply of military food, the discomfort of most ethnic groups to mountain life, and the harassment of their rear areas by the Aldi people, who were worried about suffering greater losses, Brix had to reluctantly retreat and gave up what he had just done. Occupied a large area of ​​hilly and mountainous land.

But he did not stop there. He began to divide the land outside the western border for some nobles of the tribe, and persuaded them to lead their tribesmen to settle there. He wanted them to gradually get used to the life of the mountains and hills, and slowly devour them westward until they advanced. To the banks of the Korana River…

It's a pity that this plan was only implemented for a year or two before it was completely ruined by a raid by the Knicks.

In anger, Brix realized that the Knicks were a serious problem. At the same time, he also felt that even though it was blocked by hills and mountains, Broch's western border was still a bit unsafe, so he said that it was "more conducive to the march of large troops." On the grounds of "better defeating the Knicks", a two-pronged attack military plan was proposed, which was approved by most of the leaders.

So, naturally, he became the main force along the way. Led by his tribal army, he led an army of more than 40,000 people directly to the Korana River. When the time came, he took advantage of the situation to clear out the Al who lived on the Korana River. The Dee tribe once again inflicted heavy losses on the Ardeii people, and then he could let the already arranged and trustworthy Broch nobles lead the people to occupy the many villages left by the Ardeii people on the banks of the Cordona River and settle down there. , thus pushing the western border line to the Korana River at once, and the huge hills and mountains in the middle will be slowly filled by the tribesmen. In the future, the Korana River can be used as a springboard to continue to capture the Aldi people's Mu Ryznica River...

Of course, for this plan to come true, the most important thing is to defeat the Knicks.

Because he knew this, Brix did not argue with Kabudez's proposal that "his own army must fight the Knicks first."

From the western border of Brochi to the banks of the Korana River, the biggest problem with this offensive route is the supply of military rations. The route is remote, transportation is inconvenient, and the army is large in number. It is very likely that the attack will be forced to retreat halfway due to food shortages.

Bricks had suffered losses in this regard before. He was unwilling to give up and was not idle in the years after his retreat. He had personally led people to sneak into the hills and mountains many times and had already explored the best marching route.

Since there was nearly two months of preparation time for this expedition, he ordered his men to lead the tribesmen to quietly enter this area, build several camps on the predetermined marching route, transport the collected food to the camps in advance for storage, and send a few soldiers to garrison. Since these camps were far away from the mountains in the north, Nix's scouts did not notice them at all, let alone the Ardi people who shrank on the banks of the Korana River and dared not move east.

Due to sufficient preparation in advance, the Pannoni army where Bricks was marched smoothly. After leaving the Kupa River, it only took half a day to reach another small river.

The river meanders westward and eventually merges into the Korana River. The terrain on both sides of the river is relatively flat. Several Ardi tribes once built camps here. Now several temporary camps built by Brix are also distributed along the river from east to west.

Three days later, the Pannonian army approached the Korana River.

Because Maximus did not inform the Ardi people in advance that "the Pannonian might attack in a big way", it was not until a few days ago that the news of the departure of the two Pannonian armies was really confirmed, that Pigris informed the other party.

The senior officials of Ardi were very shocked when they heard the news. On the one hand, they asked Nix for help, and on the other hand, they urgently summoned the elders to discuss countermeasures.

Pigris responded to the other party without hesitation: Chief Maximus will summon all soldiers to rescue the allies, but I hope that before he leads the army to arrive, you can hold on to the camp on the banks of the Korana River and not let the enemy pass smoothly.

Aristakas, who acted as the chief, promised.

However, at the Ardei tribal meeting, the tribal leaders in the south of Ardei, led by Ambrasinos, agreed that the Pannonians were coming aggressively and their army was huge. Even if the tribe summoned all its troops, it would be difficult to resist. In order to avoid suffering too much loss, it is better to evacuate temporarily to preserve strength and let the Nixen fight the Pannonian army alone. After all, this was done several times before, so that the tribe can observe the situation of the two sides before responding.

Aristakas was very unhappy. He was about to become the great leader and was unwilling to destroy his credit. He also wanted to show his bravery. However, except for a few elders such as Cleobrotus and Budokaribas who expressed opposition, other leaders chose to retreat (due to the urgent time, most of the tribal leaders in the north and west could hardly arrive in a short time).

Aristakas could only reluctantly agree to the proposal of Ambrasinos and others.

But the Ardi people of the Corana River have lived here for generations. In fact, they can evacuate immediately if they are told to. Just when the leaders tried their best to persuade the people, the Pannoni people surged to the north bank of the Corana River like a tide. Facing the Ardi people who were unwilling to fight, they easily broke through villages one by one, and even waded to the south bank and swept the Ardi villages settled on the south bank.

This caused panic in the entire Ardi tribe, because the Pannoni troops were getting closer and closer to the main village of the Ardi people.

Acoupagos, who was already terminally ill, heard the bad news and kicked his legs in fear and died.

The senior officials of Ardi had no time to handle his funeral. While they were carrying out emergency military mobilization, they kept sending people to Nix for help.

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“Madam, Capito wants to see you.” Nessya walked into the hall of the main house and said respectfully to Nessia.

Before Maximus led his army away, he appointed Capito as the temporary lord of Snotia, responsible for the governance of the entire city. As the first lady of the Nix tribe, Nessia had to represent him in the main house. If there were important matters, Capito had to inform her and get her consent before executing them.