Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Ferrosanus said at this time: Syracuse is willing to sign a peace agreement with Dionia.

In this regard, Davers prepared early, he simply said: "To sign a peace agreement with Dionia, Syracuse must agree to the following requirements.

First, the Syracuse people waged this war and caused serious damage to Dionia and Great Greece. Therefore, Syracuse must compensate Dionysia for two thousand Talente as Dionys The restoration of other city-states in Asia and Greater Greece;

Second, the Siracusa captured by the Dionysian army. As the aggressors of this war, their hands were covered with the blood of the big Greeks, and Dionysian could not be easily To release them, the ransom must be paid, and the price of the ransom is determined by the identity of the captive;

Third, Syracuse must dissolve the Sicilian League;

Fourth, Syracuse must recognize the fact that Taunis, Leotini, Katane, Siculi, Naxos, and Tauromenion joined the Dionysian League and must not violate the interests of these city-states ;

Fifth, Messina..."

The outspoken Ferrosanus was irritated by these harsh conditions for peace talks, but a sentence by Daveus made him press the urge to leave immediately: "You are not willing to accept these conditions, Dionia can Talk to Dionysius."

This is exactly what Horolis and others are most worried about. In order to prevent Dionysius who has been beaten from the bottom of the valley, Ferrosanus must not be different from Davis’s leader, led by Ansitanos. Dionysia officials negotiate.

By the next day, the news that "Dionysius assaulted Syracuse, if it were not for the assistance of the Dionysian army, would have almost succeeded" was passed back to Siriting, and after knowing it, Ferrosanus realized Herolis faced the risks, and the negotiation process was accelerated.

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At the same time, the news of "Siracusa's expeditionary army surrendering Dionia" has also been informed by the people of Lockley, and the people in the city suddenly panicked.

It was at this time that Silos led 10,000 soldiers, secretly marching from west to east, quickly passed the mountain road, approaching Lockley, and shattered the defensive camp temporarily built by the Rockley people at the exit of the mountain with a dozen ballistas. The rapid advance attack broke the block of some Lockley troops and invaded its territory.

This bad news made the Rockley city more panic.

At this time, rumors have spread from time to time in Lockley City, such as: "The main force led by Davos has gone south, and will arrive in Lockley in a day!" ... and other rumors, letting ordinary people, Still nobles and politicians can no longer keep calm.

Demodokas and his family believed that the situation was not good, and they took their families to the port and ran to the port in an attempt to escape from Greece by boat.

However, the political opponents who were previously suppressed by Demodokas took the opportunity to incite the people, proclaiming that only by capturing Demodokas and his close friends and dedicating them to the Dionysians can Dionysia’s anger towards Lockley be reduced. ...

As a result, the people of Lockley, who strictly abide by the laws of the city-state and usually have a temperament, attacked Demodokas and others.

The blood stained the sea water of the port of Lockley. Demodokas and some generals, members of the council and their families, including the elderly, women, and children, all fell to the pool of blood. None survived.

The tyranny shown by the docile Rockley people's anger made Demodokas's opposition secretly startled and everyone was in danger.In order not to follow in the footsteps of Demodokas and others, the Lockley Council finally decided to agree to the harsh conditions of Dionia and sent an emissary out of the city to approach Hilos.

At this point, the war in Great Greece has ended. Apart from Tarantum, the rest of the hostile Greek city-states have been conquered by Dionia.

The Tarantum people also learned of the news that "the Siracusa army surrendered to Dionia". At this time, they had shrunk in the city and were surrounded by the Mep United Army Corps. The reason why they can still understand the outside world. , Because the sea route has not been blocked, but that is the credit of Dionia.

Since the fleet of Dionynia resolutely prevented the Meppe joint fleet from entering the Gulf of Taranto, the Mesapi and Pucciti did not dare to provoke Dionysia at this moment, and had to order the fleet to retreat, so as Tarantum retained the sea channel and the outside world's communication channel and material access channel.

A large number of Tarantum citizens were imprisoned by Dionia, and they could only rely on the old, weak and sick to fight against the siege of the Mep Allied forces.In such a dangerous situation, the Tarantum people are still struggling to support and are unwilling to promise Dionysia’s request to become the Union’s “free city”, which is more important than the self-esteem of the once powerful state. It's because of Sparta.They looked forward to Sparta's ability to let the greedy Dionysians abandon the attempt to annex Tarantum and release their loved ones to save the precarious Tarantum.

At the beginning of March, the ship of Spartan messenger Kirithorpes crossed the edge of the Gulf of Taranto, bypassed the land headland of Crotone, and entered the port of Silitine.

Daveus has been sitting in Siliting for more than ten days, so many affairs, so that he is busy every day from morning to night.

The first is negotiations with the Syracuse rebels. Although he is not specifically involved in the negotiations, he should always pay attention to the negotiation process and control the general direction.

In the end, the peace agreement between the two parties was reached. Except for the amount of war reparations and the price of the captive ransom, some small terms were added and deleted, the agreement basically realized Davers’ attempt to weaken Syracuse’s strength and reduce it. The purpose of influence in Sicily and the protection of Dionia’s interests in the east coast of Sicily.

Ferrosanus hopes to return the Syracuse citizen soldiers immediately to defend the empty city of Syracuse.Daphes also hopes to send the newly surrendered captives as soon as possible. Otherwise, so many people will be stranded in Great Greece, which consumes a lot of food and sends heavy soldiers to look after them.

But the two sides have diverged on two issues.

The first disagreement was the thousands of mercenaries among the captives who surrendered to Siriting.

Ferrosanus believes that they are all faithful running dogs of Dionysius and is also the object that Herolis is preparing to clear. To prevent accidents, they do not want them to return.

But Daphes said: "Before the Syracuse army surrendered, he had made a promise and would not believe in it." In addition, Daves did not want to leave these long-term followers of Dionysius, already used to In addition to burning and looting mercenaries like robbers, even though Dionysia, whose territory is now rapidly expanding, desperately needs population filling, he is afraid to leave these mercenaries and destroy the good atmosphere of Dionysia.Now in Asia Minor, on the Peloponnesian peninsula, there is a fierce battle, full of Greek people in exile because of the war. Dionia will not lack Greek refugees who want to get land and want a peaceful life.

Therefore, he threatened Ferrosanus: even if they disagreed, he would send these mercenaries back, and he would be at his own risk.

Ferrosanus worries that the Dionysian willfulness will increase Herolis, who is already in control of the city of Syracuse, and they can only agree to pay ransom for these former mercenary citizens and mercenaries, but requires Dior Niah must obey his arrangements when transporting them away.

Davers only cares about fulfilling his promise. As for whether these captives return to Syracuse or become a slave or are executed, it is not his concern.

The second disagreement was that Ferrosanus wanted Dionia to release the Syracuses captured in the previous battle at the same time.

Daveus refused this. He said bluntly: "The war has severely damaged the Dionysian homeland and the population has shrunk... Dionysia needs these captives to work as labor to help the people rebuild their homes. One year later Before considering the possibility of release."

In fact, this is just a reason, and the more important reason is that Davis did not say it.He was even more worried about putting all the captives back to Syracuse, which would quickly restore Syracuse's strength, and thus give the newly appointed senior Syracuse a different mind.With these hostages in hand, within a year, Dionia can be more assured and gradually stabilize the rule of Great Greece and the eastern coast of Sicily.

Ferrosanus failed several times, and finally had to add a clause to the agreement: During the year, the prisoners’ health and safety must be guaranteed.

Of course, the contention between the two parties does not include the thousands of Syracuse captives sold by Dionysia to Carthage. Most of them are Syracuse civilian soldiers, not the poor in the port area serving as sailors.

In the course of negotiating matters with the Syracuse messenger, Davers also continued to meet people from Lockley and Hebronian to promote the benefits of joining the Dionysian Union and resolve their uneasiness.At the same time, they are observing the visitors and collecting some information for the elders in these two places.

In addition, Daveus will also discuss with the Senate the management of the new territories that have been occupied by the chief executives of Medema and Siliting.

At the same time, he will also discuss with your chief general and his father-in-law, Atelier Cruz, the issue of "joint dispatch of Messina" by letter.

Not only did Daphes not have a little time to rest, the clerk Henripolis also wrote letters and copied documents for Davos every day, and his hands were soft.

At this time, Kerry Thorps's boat entered the Siliting port.

The busyness of the port surprised Krisops. He saw that each pier was full of thin Syracuses wearing thin clothes, and was escorted by Dionysian soldiers and boarded a ship. Passenger ship.These passenger ships full of people drove carefully away from the port and sailed south under the guard of the Dionysian warship...

Seeing this, Kerry Thorps realized that the Great Greek War was over!