Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Dionysius's conditions for surrender to Silitine were fairly forgiving: Kaurnia provided support and troops to fight with the Syracuse army. In exchange, Syracuse would not enter the city of Kaurenia.

Of course what the Coronians did not know was that for their surrender, Dionysius also wrote specifically to his great uncle, Chief General Lockley Demodokas.

Because Lockley fully supported Dionysius' invasion of Great Greece, he also made a request: hope that Dionysius will hand over the city of Colenia after they defeated the South Italian Alliance.Dionysius agreed.

To this end, Dionysius had to reassure the Locles: now, the disposal of Colenia is only temporary, everything is to expedite the defeat of Crotone and Dionysia as soon as possible, the expediency made Plan.After truly conquering these city-states, Kaurenia will also be handed over to Lockley as promised.

The Locles accepted Dionysius's explanation.

The Colognesians certainly did not know that their destiny was already doomed. They thought they had escaped the disaster and were anxious to express their obedience to Dionysius. Soon they dispatched 5,000 soldiers and a large number of soldiers to the Silitian.

The surrender of Kaurenia freed the Lockley troops who had originally besieged Kaurenia. They quickly turned around south, and then crossed the mountain road.

Although Feidun was wary of the east side because the person who sent the newspaper had not returned, he sent a small force to guard the entrance of the mountain road for the sake of insurance.But after the news from the north was completely blocked by the Syracuse, he completely wiped out his eyes. He never expected that the situation in Great Greece had changed dramatically in just a few days.

The Lokri who attacked so fast were so many (15,000 people), and so fast that the less than 1,000 Lijim troops defended by Yamaguchi were quickly defeated.

Feidun was leading his army to siege Madma. When he got the news, he was shocked. He had no time to organize the troops to face the battle. Then he was rushed into the camp by the surging Lockley forces...

When the Philippine soldiers and countless defeated soldiers fled across the Maro River and fled into the city of Taurina, there were less than 7,000 troops in the original 10,000 troops.

Dionysius was overjoyed when he learned that Kaurenia had surrendered and Lijim was defeated, because at this time, except for Lijim, the southern part of Great Greece had been settled. Lockley alone is enough to deal with, without him having to worry.

So he ordered Leptignes: In addition to leaving a few warships stationed in the port of Trina, continue to cut off the maritime ties between Dionia and Lijim on the west coast, all the other warships participating in the war turned to the port of Siriting.

He also asked all troops to complete the rest as soon as possible, preparing to advance north.

The war between the South Italian League and Syracuse is not only a matter between the great Greek and Sicilian Greek city-states, it also attracts the attention of many forces throughout the Mediterranean.

Not long after the Battle of the Ramato River, the news of Syracuse's victory spread quickly throughout the Western Mediterranean, and the city-states and forces related to it were pondering the impact of the war on themselves, and even started to fight. abacus……

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On this day, the Dionysian Senate is having a regular meeting, which mainly discusses two topics: one is that the Sixth Army Corps just arrived in Crimea increased the logistical pressure on the military department, resulting in insufficient personnel to transport food; the other It was the proposal transmitted by Naval Commander Seclion that asked Hironimos. The departure of the Sixth Army led to a shortage of combat soldiers on the warship. He requested that a new army be formed.At the same time, the sailors of the Dionysian joint fleet are just enough. Once there is a loss in the naval battle, it is difficult to get supplements. He hopes to call the sailors from the allies as a backup.

"I think... It is simple to solve the problem of the shortage of personnel in the transportation department of the Ministry of Military Affairs." Turui Chief Executive Kunogolata said: "Since the sea route was hit by the Syracuse Navy, the merchant ship Significantly reduced, the port’s porters, warehouse managers, ship repairers, carriagemen and many other labors have not worked hard, and have been doing nothing all day, but have caused a lot of trouble for the public security. The Ministry of Military Affairs can completely recruit some workers in the port, even There is no need to pay, as long as their food supply is guaranteed, they will do a good job and reduce the pressure on the port patrol..."

"This is indeed a good way!" Mariji praised, and reminded: "However, even if food is used as a reward, we must pay attention to controlling the supply. As the war progresses, the grain will only be more than Drachma. precious."

Hironimos nodded, expressing his understanding.

At this time, Kunogolata asked: "I don't understand why Sekelian had to call the sailors of the Confederate?! Our port has so many free manpower, why not use it?!"

Seckrian is not a veteran and is not in the venue. He can only be answered by the only left-over chief of the military department, Hironimus, although he is not good at these: "Um...now the time is tight...Um...Siraku The Zha’s fleet will come at any time. Seckrian needs skilled sailors, so he doesn’t need to spend too much time training...”

"The fleet in charge of Seclion takes up a lot of manpower in Turui, but he is always hiding in the Krati River. What the hell is he doing?! The fleet should be led to drive out the overwhelming Siracusa wars in the Gulf of Taranto Ship, even if we can restore the route for a day or two!" Mariji complained.

"I don't know much about the navy, but I know Lord Davis asked him to do this."

As soon as Shironimus had finished speaking, Marigi immediately laughed twice and said, "Since Master Davers has already arranged, it seems that we do not have to worry too much about the Syracuse fleet."

In the Senate, blind believers such as Marigi were not few, but after the defeat of the Southern Italian Allied Forces in the Siri Court, Petaru, who had been in a trance for two days, felt that Marigi’s flattering face made him sick .

He chuckled a few times inwardly, and then turned his gaze to Kadurk, who was also absent-minded.

"Well, let's send someone to discuss with Castron and Heraclea and recruit some sailors..." Cornelius stood up and just said his suggestion, the door of the venue was suddenly opened.

The captain of the guard responsible for the defense work of the Senate rushed in.

The rotating chairman Kunogolata saw him in a panic and asked, "What happened?"

"Adults, just received an urgent letter that Metapontum was captured by Tarantum!"

"what?!!"

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Tarantum Archon Daiomiras stood in the city of Metapontom, proudly overlooking Tarantum soldiers pouring into the gates that had already been opened, strangling in various blocks of the city still trying The resistance of the people of Metapontum...

The attack of the Tarantum army was very smooth, and they quickly advanced to the central square of the city.

The sound of fighting reached Diomelas's ears, which had gradually become sparse.

"Go, go to the Acropolis!" Diomelas can't wait to pick the fruits of victory.

Diomeras got out of the city, turned his horse, and led his entourage straight ahead. The corpses of the Metapontum people and the wounded who were struggling to call for help were everywhere. Since the descendants of the Ma blood have chosen to betray, they will deliberately be forgiven by Tarantum again.

When Diomeras arrived at the square, his men came to report the good news to him: "The Acropolis of Metapontum has been won!"

"It's so fast?!" Although Diomilas is confident that the quality of Tarantum's soldiers is much better than that of Metapontum, he did not expect a fortress that is the core of the city-state-the defense of the Acropolis is actually the same. weak.

"Isalocas they persuaded the soldiers stationed in the guard city." The men explained.

"It turns out that way." Diomelas relieved his doubts.

After all, Metapuntum was a sub-state of Tarantum. Although after hundreds of years of development, the blood of the two sides has been weak and the politics tends to be independent, they are in an alliance and have been sheltered by Tarantum for many years. The people of Metapuntum who are close and admired to Tarantum are everywhere, but because of the wrong aggressive policies of Tarantum in previous years, Metapuntum suffered huge losses, but Tarantum also wanted Perseverance led the Metapuntum people to avoid a greater loss and to invest in a stronger neighbour than Tarantum, the Union of Dionia.

Dionysia’s more tolerant policy towards the Allies reassured Metapuntum, but this does not mean that Metapuntum will be completely cut off from Tarantum.On the contrary, once the crisis passed, the Metapontum people began to miss their motherland again, coupled with the intentional promotion of the pro-Tarantum faction led by Isalokas, the relationship between the two sides Rapid recovery and increased contacts (and of course conflicts).After all, Metapontum is closer to Tarantum. From the number of Metapontum consuls and members of the senate, the number of pro-Dionysians and pro-Tarantums is similar, you can see come out.

In every meeting of the Senate, these two factions often have heated disputes over which side of the bill designed to design Dionysia and Tarantum is more inclined, and there may even be conflicts.In fact, the pro-Dionysias led by Todd Pleas are weaker than the pro-Tarantum. After all, Dionysia’s time to become an alliance is short, but Dionysia is rapidly expanding. Their strength gave them confidence, so that when it was critical, Isalokas took the initiative to retreat because they were afraid to anger Dionia.

The Senate of Dionysia is also very aware of Metapontum, considering the relationship with Tarantum and the alliance treaty with Metapontum, it is not easy to intervene in its internal affairs.But they firmly believe that as Dionia becomes stronger and stronger, Metapontum will naturally follow more and more closely.