Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Although Xenophon didn’t agree with Agirous’s attempt to protect the stupid general who was selfish and attempted to rob Athens, but this was Agirous, a king who valued the friendship of friends, so he had to comfort him Say: "Now Cliombrotus (another King of Sparta) has led the Allied forces in China and Greece has been fighting for several months and has not been able to make great progress. If the battle situation remains so stalemate, Dar is not good, some city states that were originally dissatisfied with Sparta will probably join the alliance of Athens and Thebes to strengthen the resistance against Sparta, and then the Spartans may think of you again. Here."

Agsilaus did not respond to Xenophon's remarks. On the one hand, he did not want to see Sparta in that dilemma. On the other hand, he did not want to judge the performance of another Spartan king in Central Greece. He has a narrow mind, so he turned the topic half-jokingly and said half-seriously: "Xenophon, you are an Athenian, do you want Athens to defeat?"

Xenophon seriously said: "I do not want the defeat of Athens, nor the defeat of Sparta. Athens and Sparta have their own strengths and complement each other. They should not be enemies. If the two city-states unite, Then the whole of Greece can unite and we can compete with other powerful forces in the Mediterranean."

"...Good idea." Agassius looked at Xenophon and finally said.

After sending off Xenophon, he went back to the house and saw the book on the table. Agsi Laos paused for a while. About "Sparta supported the fugitives against Apulia", he was right Xenophon did not tell the truth, because he did not object to the council of elders.

"More than 500 warships, 100,000 troops!..." Agsilaus murmured, still with a bit of consternation in his tone. He initially invested after the war broke out in the Kingdom of Dionia The strength (the same is true of the Carthage side), which really scared him. He seriously estimated that even if the city-states of Peloponnese, Central Greece, and Northern Greece were united, it would probably be able to Reluctant to make up this huge number, but Dionia can do it more easily, which makes him feel afraid, because he knows clearly: Although Sparta is still an alliance with the Kingdom of Dionysia, but The two sides are too close and ambitious, and there will inevitably be a war due to conflicts of interest one day, so his heart is looking forward to Carthage winning this war. Although it is an alien, Persia is also an alien. Is the cooperation good?After all, the situation in the Western Mediterranean is now different from the era when Dionysius dominated Sicily.

Thinking of this, Agsi Laos again felt the urgency of time: but as Xenophon said, Cliombrotus led the army to fight in Greece for so long, and there has not been much progress so far. Going down is very bad for Sparta. Should I take some action?!

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Due to the looting of Spartan generals and the subsequent acquittal, Athens led to the war against Sparta and formed an alliance with Thebes. ......The city-states joined this new alliance, and this new alliance was named the Second Athens Alliance (after all, the alliance was established mainly in Athens. The Delos League, established by Athens during the Lopenesa War, distinguished it. The alliance declared that the purpose of its alliance was to protect the independence of the Greek states and to resist the oppression of Sparta.

In order to convene and hire more soldiers to fight against Sparta, the Athens Citizen Assembly also passed a resolution to resume the collection of property taxes. In order to collect taxes more quickly and easily, the Athens government also reformed the collection method.

The new Thebes government concentrated all their energy on military affairs. They relied on solid city defenses to resist the first wave of Spartan coalition attacks.

With the advent of autumn, Spartan coalition soldiers returned to their respective city-states, preparing for the autumn harvest. Spartan King Cliombrotus had less than 3,000 Spartan soldiers, and he was unwilling The precious Spartan warriors were consumed in the siege, so they temporarily led their troops to retire to Platia.

The Thebes government seizes this precious truce time, mobilizes the people of the city, digs trenches, builds barriers around Thebes...Take all measures that can strengthen the city's defenses, in order to defend the Spartan coalition's next attack.At the same time, they also actively united with the neighboring Pioxia city-states that had become independent, and actively assisted them to strengthen their defenses in order to block Sparta from the territory of Thebes.

At the same time, the Spartan government also called the citizens of the city to conduct military training every day. The person in charge was Ipamiunda. His outstanding performance in the previous battles won the city’s citizens. Recognition and respect, everyone actively participated in the training plan he formulated, and no one questioned the plan.

And Ipamiunda was not satisfied with just keeping the city of Thebes. He realized that only by defeating the Spartans in the battle would it be possible to completely remove the threat of Sparta to Thebes, and then let Thebes Usher in a real rise.Therefore, while he focused on training citizens, he also made new suggestions to Pelopidas-that is, to build an elite heavy infantry company, so as to be able to compete with Sparta’s famous Greek King Guard, and even He also proposed that the army should be composed of gay couples according to the characteristics of more homosexuals among Thebes citizens. He believes that because of the close relationship between these couples, they can inspire and assist each other in battle. A total of life and death.

Although homosexuality is respected in the Greek mainland, the army formed by homosexuality has never appeared in the previous Greek states. If this proposal appears in other Greek city-states, even Athens may be questioned by many people, but The emerging Thebes government is composed of radicals led by Pelopidas. They are young, energetic, passionate, adventurous, and innovative. Therefore, they realized that Ipamunda’s plan helped to greatly improve the bottom. After the fighting power of the Bis civic soldiers, it was immediately passed and immediately implemented.

Pelopidas and Ipamiunda personally selected among the citizens of the city, and soon formed a 300-person heavy infantry company (150 couples). These soldiers were about 20 years old and were born in Thebes. Nobles, and basically have long-term training in wrestling schools, all tall and strong, agile movements.

Ipamiunda began to train them more severe heavy infantry.

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In Sicily, the army of Carthage officially began its attack on the territory of Dionysia.

Hasdrubal led 30,000 soldiers from Jera straight north and began to attack Hea.

At the same time, Marco led over 50,000 soldiers from the territory of Kamalina, entered the territory of Syracuse, and set up a camp in the northwest of his territory. His attack target was Para, not far from the camp Gonia.

And Siracusa also called more than 10,000 soldiers, led by General Falecus, through the Ixamen, and attacked Tonis, not far north.

The southern border of the Dionysian Sicily territory was attacked by the three-way army, but the cities and their allies of Dionysian Sicily who had already been prepared were not panicked. They defended in a methodical manner according to their previous deployment.

After Hasdruba led his army after trekking and arriving in Hena, he was a bit troubled, because the city of Hena was not only built on the hills, but also two large lakes on its north and south sides, which made it It was difficult for the Carthage army to surround it, and the army was unable to fully expand during the offensive, and the advantages of overpopulation were not fully utilized.

Moreover, at the beginning of the war, the Chief Executive of the Herna Krerou, at the suggestion of Leotizides, mobilized the people to use these two lakes to dig a wider moat under the hills. It also created obstacles for Carthage’s siege equipment to approach the city.

In addition, Leotizides sent 3,000 soldiers of the 8th Legion to Henna, plus the civic soldiers in the city of Henna, with a total of more than 5,000 troops.

After several days of careful preparations, Hasdrubal began to attack the city with all his strength. As a result, he fought for a day without even attacking the city. After a few days, the attack was also defeated. Due to the large number of casualties among soldiers, Haas Druba had to stop the attack and take a rest.

Marco’s army also encountered difficulties. For the past few months, the Dionysian soldiers who have stayed in Paragonia have been building defensive facilities with the help of the Katane people. They have arranged trap zones outside the village and built them outside the trap. Outposts, dig trenches outside the outposts, and traps outside the trenches... such a set of rings has been extended to the south for a few miles, holding the only one between the mountains on the south coast leading to the Catania Plain Flat lot.

In order to get through this road, Marco's army was tortured by traps and stalked by archer archers. After a few days passed, less than 13 roadblocks were cleared, but the morale of the soldiers was low.

After two days of rest, Marco finally decided to change the offensive route, cross the mountain and head to Leotini.

On the east coast, Siracusa’s army had already arrived under the town of Taunice, but it took them 5 days to build the camp. After the first siege failed, they stayed in the camp without any movement. .

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Satnikum, this unfortunate Walsi town has been under fire again this year since it was attacked and occupied by the Romans last year. It was under fire again this year and was besieged by the Dionysian army for nearly two months. The families of Roman citizens, under the guard of the Dionysian army, shouted to the soldiers in the city to persuade.