Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

As it was difficult to break through from the front, the coalition generals decided to find another way after discussing it.They kept the main force and continued to attack in the north to confuse and contain the Dionians, and they sent more than 10,000 soldiers to Argos.

This army is mainly drawn from the Sesali and Athenian troops. It is mainly composed of the Illyrian and Thracian light shields, and is personally led by Iphikratus to prepare to move from the northeast border of Sparta. Cross over the mountains, and then raid Taitia (not Taigeya). After capturing it, as a relay base for the coalition forces, continue to attack south from here, and the situation will undoubtedly be much better.

However, the secret mobilization of the Greek coalition forces did not escape the eyes of the mountain scout soldiers. After receiving the news, Plintors immediately guessed the intentions of the Greeks, and he suggested that Croto Kataks quickly adjust the military deployment.

When Ifekrates led the light shield soldiers over the mountains and arrived at Taitia out of breath, they suddenly found that the Dionian army had been waiting here.

Ifekrates decisively ordered the retreat, but the Dionian army quickly launched a pursuit. Although the mountain people of Illyria and Thrace are good at running in the mountains, many of them are exhausted. After being overtaken by the well-reserved Dionia's light armour, nearly 1,000 of the Greek coalition forces were captured before the battle, and even Ifekratus himself was frustrated.

The generals of the Greek coalition forces had to negotiate again, and finally decided to shift the direction of attack and concentrate their forces on the attack on Messenia, because the terrain in the north was relatively flat and wide compared to the northern border of Sparta.

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After the conquest of Sparta, the Dionian 1st Fleet quickly received an order from the Ministry of Military Affairs: to stop routine patrols in the Aegean Sea, except for some warships to defend the waters south of the Peloponnese. In addition, its main force must work with the 3rd Fleet and cooperate with the already assembled Ninth Army and Tenth Army to attack the four islands on the west coast of the mainland of Greece. They are Corfu, Lucas, and Kay from north to south. Laronia, Zakynthos,

Not long after Corfu became an ally of Athens, Lucas, Kailaronia, and Zakynthos belonged to the Peloponnesian League. Before, after the Dionian army raided Messenia, it was not radical. In response to the grievances of the same enemies of the Greek city-states, even though there are fleets carrying supplies through the three islands every day, no military actions have been taken against them, but the 3rd fleet is sent to patrol the surrounding areas from time to time to deter them.

After learning that the Dionian army had captured Messenia and declared war on Sparta, the people on these four islands were frightened every day and did not dare to take any hostile actions against Dionian, but they did not expect What they worry about the most is to happen.

Corfu has suffered many wars in the past two or three years, and, like a wall of grass, fell to Sparta and Athens again, facing the attack by the more powerful Dionian army. I directly chose to surrender.The Dionian Landing Army immediately confiscated its few remaining dozen warships and strictly controlled the entry and exit of ships in several ports on the island.

Subsequently, the weaker Lucas and Kailaronia also chose to surrender. Only the people of Zakynthos resisted.However, the two armies of Dionia and nearly 10,000 fleet infantrymen attacked a small island with a sledgehammer. In less than four days, Zakynthos was completely conquered.

The surrender of the four islands of Corfu, Lucas, Kailaronia, and Zakynthos means that the west coast of the Greek mainland can be completely blocked by the Dionian fleet.

During this period, the Ellis people across from Zakynthos were very nervous, and they hurriedly transferred the army that had attacked Messenia back and deployed them on the coast to defend against the possible landing of the Dionian army, which was a relief. The defensive pressure of Messenia.

Also during this period of time, Leotichides led the army and boarded the fleet provided by the Phoenician allies headed by Carthage. Under the escort of the second fleet, along the coast of Africa, sailed eastward. During the trip, there were two storms on the way. Fortunately, the Phoenicians were very familiar with the sea conditions on this channel for many years, and they went ashore in time to escape, so that the entire fleet and fleet did not suffer major losses.

Seven or eight days later, the huge fleet entered the waters near Egypt. In order to prevent accidents, Leotichides led the army to quickly land on the beach near the western Nile Delta.

In fact, he did not need to be so nervous. The Persian king Artaxerxes had just arrived in Phoenicia with the undead army. At this time, although thousands of Persian warships had gathered in Tyre, they came from various regions ( Including the Phrygian fleet led by Timothy), lacking a unified command, the appointment of the naval commander in wartime will be decided after Artaxerxes personally receives the admirals.

Therefore, during this period, some Persian navy generals were busy in Tyre, listening to news, did not have much energy to manage the fleet, hundreds of thousands of sailors from various regions crowded in the various ports of Tyre idly. Avoid conflicts and contradictions.The Tyrians and the fleet commanders just want to maintain order, which is already a headache, where there is still the mind to actively perform combat tasks.

Only Timothy insisted on leading the Phrygia fleet to patrol the waters near Egypt once every four days, not only to detect the enemy, but also to familiarize himself with the sea conditions. Even though the task was relatively easy, the Phrygia crew still had a lot of grievances.

On this day, the Phrygia Fleet did not make a patrol. In fact, even if it did a patrol, facing the 2nd Dionian Fleet, which had the task of guarding the fleet, it was impossible for the Phrygia Fleet with only a few dozen ships Confront it.

Hundreds of thousands of Persian troops gathered in Phoenician, and the momentum is so great. Egypt is separated from the small Canaan Kingdom and the sea is closer. Therefore, the news of "the Persian army is about to invade" has spread throughout Egypt. The arrival of the 40,000 Dionian army undoubtedly gave the panicked Egyptian people a shot.

The Dionian reinforcements first received a warm welcome from the people of Naukratis, a city with a Greek colonial tradition. The Persian officials in the city did their best to satisfy any request made by Leotichides.

And after Pharaoh Tanis got the news, he was overjoyed and went to meet him in person by boat. This is an unprecedented honor for the Dionia reinforcements.

For this reason, Leotichides agreed to the Pharaoh's request, so that all the soldiers were fully armed, arranged in neat columns, and walked along the banks of the Nile to Memphis, which was equivalent to an armed parade.

After hearing the news, the Egyptian people welcomed them. The mighty image of the Dionian army greatly enhanced their confidence in fighting the Persians.

After completing the transportation mission, the 2nd Fleet and the Phoenician Fleet began to return to the west, but when they reached the waters of Cyrenaica, the 2nd Fleet did not continue westward, but turned around and headed north, passing through Crete. , Enter the Gulf of Lagnia and join the First Fleet.

At the end of July, when the Greek coalition forces had been unable to break through the line of defense established by the Dionian army on the northern border of Messenia and Sparta, the Holy Kingdom of Dionian was in all ports on the east and south coasts of the Italian peninsula. The town suddenly became lively. Hundreds of cargo ships gathered in various ports. The people of the town also helped the old and the young to gather to the port. While sending off the army of their relatives aboard the cargo ship, they prayed for Hardy. Si blessed them to return in honor.

On this day, from Rimini in the north, to Sipentum in the east and middle, to Brindisi and Odrum in the southeast, to Lokri, Sirition, and Crotone in the south. , Turiyi, Tarantom... One after another ships full of soldiers sailed out of these port towns and gradually formed long sea dragons. They crossed the Adriatic Sea and passed through Corfu and Ryukka. Sri Lanka, Kefalonia, Zakynthos, etc.

These islands are now completely controlled by Dionia, and the fleet can stop and rest on any island to replenish fresh water.Moreover, several fleets of Dionia also made full use of these islands to carry out a relatively strict blockade on the western coast of the mainland of Greece, so that the Greek people, especially the Elliss, did not know that there were thousands of ships loaded with Oriya soldiers. Ships are continuously passing by the sea near them.

These troop carriers converged to the Gulf of Messenia and the Gulf of Lagnia, entered the port one after another, and landed.

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Due to the approach of the Greek coalition forces, the Spartans were once again restricted. Their adult men were restricted to temporarily live in the Port of Hilles, while the women and children were forced to return to the warrior training camp. The black lords who were allocated the land and were fully armed were in charge of guarding.

Agcilius was very angry about this and once protested to Cloto Kataks, but the prince gave very good reasons: the Greek coalition declared war on Dionia, and one of the important reasons was to save Sparta. Da, for the safety of the Dionian army, and to prevent certain Spartans from doing something wrong, and putting the entire Spartan people into an extremely bad predicament, such measures had to be taken.

Nowadays, I am a knife and I am a fish, and even though he is angry, Agcilius has nothing to do and has to retreat in despair.

Once turned over and became the master, the Black Rollers were very serious and strict in taking care of the former master, which made the Spartans feel very aggrieved, and a fire burned in their hearts.

However, today, they are surprised to see that the Gulf of Lagnia is filled with densely packed ships, and heavily armed Dionian soldiers are constantly coming down from the ships. The entire coast of Sparta is full of people. How many people are there? Soldier?!