Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

The Lockreys were a little awed when they heard the news.For decades, Lockley was unavailable for Crotone, but the newly formed Dionysian League was able to defeat Crotone twice with fewer wins and more.

Of course, for Lockley, what is more important is that Crotone suffered heavy losses and is still in a bitter battle with Dioria. This is an excellent time!Lockley couldn't wait for the news of the messenger Meteorphoenix, he began planning an attack on the Crotone alliance. In order to defeat the dead enemy in one fell swoop, they carried out war mobilization in the alliance. - Chief General Demodokas of Lockley appealed to Syracuse.At this time, Syracuse had launched a war against Carthage. The powerful army was capturing towns and towns. Only the navy did not meet the enemy temporarily. Except for some ships escorting the army along the coastline, the rest stayed in Xi Stand by in the big port of Rakuza.

On the one hand, out of friendship with Lockley, and more to prepare for the future, Dionysius sent more than 20 three-tier paddle warships to assist the Lockley.

With Syracuse as a backing, Lockley could not wait to start the war.

Unexpectedly, Dionia had a truce with Crotone again, not only signed a defensive alliance treaty, but also released all the captives. The messenger Meteorphoenix felt fooled and returned to his country.

The Lockley people are angry: Dionysia has repeatedly and repeatedly ignored Lockley’s good intentions, intentionally or unintentionally obstructing Lockley’s plan, only because he has to deal with the dead enemy Crotone, and he does not want to live outside. With a sigh of relief, I will count it later.At the same time, Lockley began to be alert to Dionia.

Although the battle with Crotone suffered a small setback, the naval battle was won by Siracusa’s reinforcements. The Crotone army, which had lost the protection of the navy, was underpowered and was pulled back by the Lockreys. , Fall into the passive.

Just when Lockley saw hope of victory, news came that the envoys of the Crotone Alliance gathered in Turiri and asked Dionia for reinforcements!

The most worrying thing about the Rockley happened.In view of the unsatisfactory performance of Meteorphonis before, they immediately sent the best eloquence Pantica Pez, but his arrival not only failed to make Dionia change his mind, but accelerated to promote South Italy The establishment of the League.

When Panticapes left Turrii, he said angrily to the veterans of the Dionysian House: "Apollo can testify that we, the Lockreys, have always paid tribute to Dionia, but every time we The olive branch offered is in exchange for Dionia’s malicious deception and fools. From today, Lockley and Dionia will be enemies! The next time we come again, there will no longer be a messenger of peace, but Ares' anger and powerful army!"

The veterans' faces changed slightly, and Daveus said calmly: "Before the Crotonians waged the war last time, their messengers also stood in the position where you are standing and said something similar, but now?"

Although Daveus acted relaxedly, he knew that the Rockleys now dominate the sea. After the declaration of Dionyssia, it is likely to repeat the old things that the Crotone fleet did to Dionysia.As a result, he recruited Riders’ cavalry and patrolled along the coast, while restarting the measures taken by Philius in response to the Crotone fleet raid, and the Senate was suspended from Asproth. Immigration work in Thum and Crimea.

But a few days later, nothing happened.

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The first legion reached Asprostoum, and more than 1,000 garrisons joined the army, increasing the number of people participating in the battle to more than 10,000.

Five days later, the army arrived in the city of Kaunnia. The journey was smooth and no accidents occurred. The reason why the arrival time is two days longer than the previous plan is that the bad conditions of the roads in southern Greece are not enough. The people there were warmly entertained during the Siliting.

After the Dionysian reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, the Colognesians rejoiced and were ready to wait for the Dionysians to rest and immediately launched an attack on the Lockley camp in the south of the city, but did not expect that the plan had not yet been implemented. Just sent a messenger of peace talks...

Hundreds of years ago, Crotone defeated Subaris and quickly became a great power in Great Greece. He had the ambition to dominate the South, and launched many attacks on the South.The most serious one, under its attack, Lockley and the surrounding city-state army retreated, and finally in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Subaris, Lockley and Lijim united and took advantage of Crotone's carelessness. Opportunity, launched a counterattack, hit the Crotone army.

Crotone's strength was greatly damaged, and he was unable to attack the south for a while. In order to prevent Crotone from recovering his strength, Lockley and Li Jim began a long-term counterattack against the Crotone alliance, and even they were also north of the Crotone alliance. Aboriginal Bruti joint.Crotone's threats from the Bruti, trapped in the north, Lockley and Lijim in the south for decades have been exhausted to cope with the threat of the year.Therefore, when Athens wanted to establish the city of Turiri on the Sybaris Plain, it could only make concessions and sign an agreement.

However, the cooperation between Lockley and Lijim was not intimate. Once Crotone's threat weakened, the contradiction between the two began to appear.The biggest conflict is that the two city-states are coastal cities and are close to each other, and competition in port trade is inevitable.Lijim has the upper hand in maritime trade because it controls half of the Messina Strait, and Lockley has opened up from Lockley to Medema and Heberian (both are the west coast cities of Greater Greece) The trade route on the road allows Greek merchants to reach the west coast through the land trade route without paying higher tariffs through the Strait of Messina, so they robbed a lot of profits of Lijim as a transit port for Western Mediterranean trade...

The accumulation of these contradictions finally broke out a few years ago.

Dionysius, who had just become the general general of Syracuse, was killed by angry people in the previous power struggle. The widowed man will remarry. At the same time, this is also a political marriage for the tyrant. His power.So he married the daughter of a famous nobleman who supported him in Syracuse, and then wanted to marry another room. His eyes were on Ligim, which is only one strait away from Sicily.On the one hand, it is because the location of Lijim is too important, on the other hand, there is a woman in Lijim City who is famous.

But the Ligims refused. They were full of vigilance against Dionysius who was the Syracuse tyrant. They did not forget the covetation of Lijim who was also the Syracuse tyrant Sieleon decades ago. Lijim had to ally with Carthage to protect himself.

Dionysius had to propose to the Lockley, and Lockley agreed, which led to the complete breakdown of the alliance between Lockley and Liggim.

As for Dionysius, why not look for Crotone, Crotone?Because during the Peloponnesian War, Crotone and Turui were on the side of Athens, and even provided assistance when the Athens army attacked Syracuse; and Tarantum was Sparta The sub-state of man has always been intimate with Sparta, and has little meaning to Dionysius.

Lijim's departure made Lokley lonely, making it harder for Crotone.It wasn't until Dionia hit Crotone twice that it hoped again.

During the war mobilization, Lockley also sent an emissary to the Bruti. The Bruti who had been active in the invitation of Lockley before rejected this time. The reasons they gave were: Last year, the Bruti attacked Trina alone, and suffered heavy losses and needed rest.

But the Lockley messenger found that the Bruti tribe in and around Cosenza seemed to be making some changes.

The Lokri attacked the Crotone Alliance with the assistance of the Syracuse Navy.Facts have proved that even if Crotone's strength is greatly damaged, the thin dead camel is still bigger than the horse.Although Lockley prevailed, he could not win quickly.

Now that Dionysia has joined the war, the situation has turned sharply for Lockley.

After the failure of Dionysia's diplomacy, the Locles went to Syracuse for help for the first time. Dionysius received the hastily rushed Loker envoys in the newly occupied city of Serinus.

After listening to the request of the messenger, Dionysius frowned, and after only a moment of thinking, he said straightforwardly: "The war between Syracuse and Carthage is at a critical time, and I have no reinforcements to send! Come on! When I settled Sicily, I'll get Locle back from this account!"

The messenger returned to Lockle helplessly.

The Lockleys are not fools. Without reinforcements, they have no chance to win. Summing is the only way out.It is common to stop, stop, and stop in the decades of entanglement with Crotone. Lockley is used to not insisting on a hopeless battle because of any honor.

Therefore, the First Legion of Dionysia rushed out, and as a result, no battle took place, passively becoming a mediator.

Fortunately, the Confederate States of South Italy were very fond of the Dionysian army that first appeared in the central part of South Italy, especially the Coronians. They were surprised to find the Dionysian camp outside the city of Coronia. The soldiers stayed quietly in the camp during the negotiations, without any disturbance of the people. This was even better than the Crotonenes who had been allies in Cologne for decades.

The Trina messenger Ciplos, who arrived in Kaurenia with the army, returned to Trina after the negotiations and reported to the council, which gave a more detailed and comprehensive comment on the Dionysian army.