Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Before the Dionysian army could lay siege to Jerusalem, the high priest of Judaism took the initiative to go to the Dionysian camp and humbly expressed to King Davos "the willingness of the Jews to submit to the Kingdom of Dionysia.

He quickly accepted the surrender of the Jews with a promise and an admonition: "The Jews may have the right to live according to their own laws and religion as long as they remain loyal to the Holy Kingdom of Deionia, but at the same time the Jews must not let their own customs and habits influence Deionia's decision to return. The right of other races to live under the rule of the Sacred Kingdom of Oonia, or Deionia will intervene!"

The next day King Davos was greeted at the gates of Jerusalem by the high priest in his purple robe and thousands of Jerusalemites under his leadership, as Davos, in imitation of Cyrus, once again read his promises and admonitions to the public.

While the people cheered, the Jewish priests bound Nehemiah, the governor of Canaan appointed by Artaxerxes, who had worked so hard for the reconstruction of the region, and his subordinates, and put them before Devers, to be dealt with by him.

Instead of punishing the governor of Persia, who was also a Jew, Davos took him back to his camp and asked Nehemiah amiably if he was willing to serve the kingdom of Deionia and would send him again to govern Canaan after he had familiarized himself with the Deionian system of government and law.

Nehemiah apparently inherited this characteristic of the Jews as well. Surrendering to Deionia would not only save his life, but also fulfill his long-cherished dream of rebuilding Jerusalem and seeking revenge on the Jewish priests who had betrayed him, so he gladly fell on his knees before Davos.

With Nehemiah as their guide, Deionian army quickly conquered the entire Canaan region, and then under his leadership successfully invaded the Samaria region to the east of Jerusalem, quickly captured many towns, and also captured the governor of the region, Sanballat, which was also a great relief to Nehemiah.

Canaan and Samaria were successively conquered by Dionysia, making Gaza an isolated Persian enclave.

The Persian garrison panicked, desperate to leave this dangerous place and return to their homeland.

At the strong request of the soldiers, the garrison commander had to ask his soldiers to take plenty of water with them and quietly leave the city of Gaza, marching northeastward in an attempt to bypass the area occupied by the Dionysian army and head for Damascus through the trade routes on the eastern edge of the desert.

Little did they know that the Dionysian army had been keeping a close eye on Gaza City and soon discovered the Persian garrison's intentions.

On the second day, four cavalry legions of Dionysian cavalry and Numibian light cavalry caught up with the Persian defenders on the march. The light cavalry legions attacked with bows and javelins, and the cavalry legions struck, quickly routing the Gaza defenders and bringing the city under the control of the Dionysian army.

After completely stabilizing the rear, Davos led his army northward and soon entered the Phoenician region.

When the Phoenicians decided to send a fleet to support Carthage, they did not expect that the Dionysian army would come to the city, and the first city that the Dionysian army would attack was Tyre, the advocate of the Dionysian army.

After Phoenicia was returned to Persia, the Persian kings promised to allow the Phoenicians to live in the same way as before, as long as Phoenicia paid a certain amount of gold and silver every year and their fleet was at their disposal.

It is true that the Persian kings did not interfere in the administrative affairs of the Phoenicians for a hundred years. One of the main reasons was that the high mountains of Lebanon separated Phoenicia from the landlocked Persia and made land transportation difficult. The Phoenician city-states were rich and prosperous. However, due to the conflicting commercial interests of the Phoenician city-states, although they had established a Phoenician city-state alliance long ago, they could not form a unified state.

Therefore, the king of Persia was satisfied with the fragmented state of the Phoenician city-states, and the Phoenician city-states also took advantage of the favorable treatment they had received from Persia and made a lot of profit from their trade with the interior, so they were still loyal to Persia.

Tyre was the strongest of the Phoenician city-states, and its city was built on an island about eight miles off the coast, making it difficult to defend. The Macedonian king Alexander, who had successfully attacked Persia in a previous history, suffered a setback here and spent more than half a year in the city. Because of this memory, Devers approached Tyre with great caution, preparing to lead his generals in ships to survey the defenses of Tyre before considering whether to attack the city directly or to force its surrender through a long siege.

But before he could set out, Tyre's ambassador arrived first.

The messenger of Tyre was an acquaintance - the former Carthaginian Sufi Tepanlaco.

After meeting Devers, he not only did not show the arrogance and hostility he once had toward Dionysian, but he was even somewhat flattering, so the whole atmosphere of the meeting was quite relaxed.

When Davos asked about Hanno and others in passing, Tepanlaco's look became somewhat heavy.

It turned out that after Dionysia forced Carthage to expel the Hannonites, most of them chose to settle in Tyre, their former mother state, and Tyre accepted them, but the power that Hanno and others had in Carthage could not only be recreated, but the Tyre hierarchy also intentionally suppressed them, making it difficult for them to gain some power. The people of Tyre, once envious of Carthage's wealth and power, now often despised these miserable dogs, and although they were well fed and clothed (Ochraton, who had defected to Dionysia, persuaded the Carthaginian council to allow them to take some of his possessions out of guilt), they lived a depressing life, especially Hanno, who, once a man of many voices, could not endure such loneliness and died of depression within a few years.

But after Dionysia declared war on Persia, the Tyrian leaders began to pay attention to Tepanlaco and his men, not only asking them about the situation in Dionysia, but also electing Tepanlaco and several others as members of the council to discuss how to deal with the attack of the Dionysian army.

Tepanlaco was also sent as an emissary because he was familiar with the Dionysians and was more easily accepted by them.

The purpose of Tepanlaco's mission was to surrender to the Dionysians on behalf of Tyre.

But when Alexander offered to go to Tyre to worship Hercules at the temple of Melchisedec in Tyre, Tyre immediately refused, and it turned out that they were only under military pressure and chose to surrender, waiting for Alexander's army to make a final decision after a final contest with the Persian army.

So Davos made the same request, and Tepanlaco claimed that he could not make a decision and needed to ask the council of Tyre for its opinion before responding.

Immediately after his departure by ship, Davos reminded the generals to be ready to fight and not to be fooled by the Tyrrhenians' surrender.

In the afternoon, Tepanlaco came back to the camp of Dionysia and told Davos that the council was ready to welcome King Davos at any time.

Davos did not excuse himself, and on the second day led an elite army onto the island, where the Terrans greeted him respectfully.

Hercules was one of the most popular gods in the sacred kingdom of Dionysia, so Davos worshipped its statue here with some dignity, and the Thals remained peaceful throughout the ritual, which convinced Davos of their sincerity.

Based on what he observed in Tyre, Davos analyzed why the Tyrells made the opposite choice from their previous history.

The reason was that although Alexander in the previous history had won a lot of battles on land, his navy was very weak, and he even disbanded his fleet at one point, which caused him a lot of trouble as the Persian fleet harassed the rear of his conquests. way. Because of this, the Tyreans bullied him into not having a navy and it was difficult to capture their city in the middle of the sea, so they dared to stall for time by surrendering fraudulently. In fact, Alexandria had great difficulty in taking Tyre because of its lack of a navy, and even though the surrender of Cyprus provided him with a fleet, it took him more than seven long months to take Tyre, which was time-consuming and laborious.

But unlike the Holy Kingdom of Dionysia, which itself had a strong navy and had defeated the Persian fleet twice, at Samos and Cyprus, it had not only established absolute superiority at sea, but also complete control of the Near Eastern seas. Not long ago, the army that landed in Cyprus had already conquered the whole island, and the First and Second Fleets had been stationed in the Cypriot military port, very close to Tyre, and could blockade and attack Tyre at any time, posing a great threat to the city of Tyre.

In addition, although the Macedonian army in former times was very powerful, its number was only 40-50,000, which was too disparate compared to the Persian army, so the people of Tyre had little confidence that Macedonia could eventually defeat Persia.