Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Polydurus had a gentle and stable personality and a kind attitude towards soldiers. The citizen soldiers agreed with him as the commander. His death was very strange, which made the soldiers suspicious.The six ministers including Asidamas were all famous people in the big city-states of Thessaly. They were specially selected by Jason to help him integrate the entire Thessaly area as a right-hand man. However, they were defeated. Livron was killed on an unreasonable charge. How could this not make the citizen soldiers from various city-states feel angry, but feared Polifuron's lewdness and temporarily endured it.

When the swift and swift offensive of the Dionia soldiers led to the unfavorable situation of the battle, the lowly motivated Thessaly soldiers quickly gave up fighting and chose to flee. There were even Philae citizens who were dissatisfied with what Polifuron did. Killed Polifuron, who was also fleeing.

The entire army of Thessaly was defeated, and the soldiers were no longer restrained. They each wanted to escape to their home country. They fled in all directions, causing the entire area to be full of ruined troops, which seemed to be disadvantageous to the post-war pursuit of the Dionia army.

Matonis and Lizaru did not expect that Thessaly army would be defeated so quickly, but they both thought that the victory of this battle would help them as soon as possible to capture the city of Philae, which may have been completely defensive, and completely solve Dio. The issue of the supply of rations for the Nia’s army was originally their purpose of marching east, so the two ordered the light armoured, light infantry brigade and cavalry corps not to provide much effort in the battle, but to hurry up instead. To Philae.

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When Matonis, Lizaru’s army and Thessaly’s army were fighting in the northern plains, Patroclus had led the army over the mountains and entered the same flat southern plains of Thessaly. The soldiers ignored Tired, he continued to march towards the hilly area in the northeast, and reached the center of the southern plain—Fasalus in the afternoon.

Before the Dionian army landed in Mariakos Bay, the Lamians once sent messengers to ask Fasalus for help. Therefore, the Fasaluss were prepared for the arrival of the Dionian army. They even He also sent a messenger to Philae for help, but when the messenger arrived at Philae, Polifuron had already led his army to Larissa, and what he got turned out to be "Assi, whom the Fasalus people respect." The news that Damas was killed had not had time to transmit the news back to the city-state.

The Fasalusians did not expect that the Dionian army would come so fast, and the number was so large. The citizen soldiers looked down from the city and could only see the endless black surging, which was frightening. .

The city of Fasalus was built on a hill. It was prepared in advance and it was not early. In addition, the Dionian soldiers marched for a long time and lacked physical strength. So Patroclus ordered the army to be at a distance. The city of Salus is less than one mile away for camping and rest.The two sides are so close, it is easy to be attacked, but Patroclus, relying on his dominant force, not only does not worry, but is happy to see it happen.

But just when the soldiers began to dig trenches and build camps, he received a return from the scouts: There were a lot of Thessaly's broken soldiers in the north.

After thinking about it for a while, Patroclus immediately issued an order: let some troops who were building the camp immediately surround the city of Fasalus to prevent any routs from escaping into the city.At the same time, the cavalry corps and light infantry and light armoured troops were sent to hunt down the defeated Sesali.

These Thessaly soldiers who had been running for a few hours thought they had escaped the pursuit of the Dionian army, but they did not expect to ran into another huge Dionian army head-on. They were extremely tired. It was a big blow, and many of them simply chose to surrender.

Before dusk, the hunt was coming to an end. The Dionian army captured more than 2,000 Thessali soldiers, most of whom were Fasalus.

Through their interrogation, Patroclus learned about the general actions of Matonis and Lizaru’s troops in the north in the past few days, not only for them to attack Peleus, Larissa, and defeat the main force of Thessari. He was pleased with the results, and at the same time reminded himself to speed up military operations to avoid waiting for the rendezvous of the two armies to reduce his prestige due to too little combat achievements, even though he took the initiative to land on the most difficult southern coast.

Therefore, Patroclus selected 5 high-ranking and prestigious prisoners from the captured Fasalus soldiers. First, they assembled the army and let these prisoners follow him to review the tens of thousands of high-spirited prisoners. The soldiers of Lamia then called to Lamia’s guide to explain to him, "The fact that the Dionian army has occupied Lamia, Heraclea, and Hot Spring Pass in the south.

After that, Patroclus officially talked to them again, telling them clearly: Dionia has sent an army of 100,000 to attack Thessaly, and the main force of his army is far away in Thessaly in the Peloponnese. The city-state is definitely hard to resist, but as long as Fasalus surrenders to Dionian, he can swear in the name of'Hades, the protector of the kingdom of Dionian, that the Dionian army will not harm Fasalus. The people do not plunder their property at will.But if Fasalus still refuses to surrender before dawn, he will execute the more than 2,000 prisoners of Fasalus, and then lead the army to attack the city of Fasalus. After the city is captured, all Fasalus will Become a slave to Dionia.

Soon, Patroclus let these prisoners serving as messengers into the city of Fasalus.

The captives hurried to the Fasalus council, conveyed the Dionian's request to the parliamentarians who had not left, and at the same time told them what had happened in Thessaly these days.

After hearing this, the Fasalus lawmakers were shocked: The Dionians sent 100,000 troops to conquer Thessaly (although the prisoners based on the Dionian troops they saw in the southern and northern plains of Thessaly The number of people has made an affirmative answer, but the lawmakers still have some doubts about such a large number), they have already captured Peleus, Larissa, Lamia, Heraclea, and Hot Spring Pass ( This information is less doubtful).On the side of the Thessaly Alliance, not only was the interim commander Polydurus murdered, but the only defensive army in Thessaly had just suffered a crushing defeat in the battle. What made the Fasalus annoyed was their backbone. ——The respected Asidamas was actually executed by Polifuron as a traitor...

The invasion of the Dionian army is irresistible, and the Jason family is not trustworthy. What should Fasalus do?

At dusk, the bells in the city of Fasalus rang, and the parliamentarians urgently convened a citizens’ assembly. As one of the strongest states in Thessaly, there were less than 2,000 citizens and less than 500 young and middle-aged citizens. Most of them Citizens either became prisoners of Dionia or were still in the army led by Jason.

In fact, the citizens of Fasalus have been stunned by the huge Dionian army outside the city, and now they know that the enemy’s strength is stronger than they have seen, and that they are already isolated and helpless. The vast majority of citizens agreed to surrender to Dionia.

The Citizens Assembly quickly passed a resolution. They declared that the reason for the resolution was to preserve the lives of compatriots outside the city, and to prevent the destruction of Fasalus (after all, the Taigya betrayed the covenant and were eventually taken by Dioni The tragedy of the complete destruction of Asia and becoming an empty city has spread throughout Greece with the efforts of those who are interested, and the Fasalus people do not want to repeat the same mistakes).

That night, Fasalus sent an envoy to go out of the city to discuss surrender with the Dionian army.

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Among the powers of Thessaly, Philae is relatively special, surrounded by undulating hills. Due to the topography, its urban area is small and there is no flat and fertile land in its territory. The reason why it is rich, Relying on maritime trade, especially after Jason became the tyrant of Philae, he vigorously expanded the port, making the area of ​​the port area almost half of the entire city, so it is difficult to completely separate it from the main city. .

A dozen cargo ships were moored at a pier in the port. A fat middle-aged man staggered towards the pier. He hiccuped while greeted the owner of a nearby merchant ship until he approached. When the one of the dozen cargo ships was the most leaner, he stopped and assumed a posture of getting drunk, but after taking the opportunity to scan around quietly, he didn't notice anything abnormal, he staggered. On board the ship, dangling into the cabin.

Compared with the sleepy crew on the deck, three people sitting in the small cabin are discussing something in a low voice.

"Captain, I'm back!" the sailor who jumped onto the boat whispered.

The man known as the captain is about 40 years old. He has an unusually large physique. There are several conspicuous scars on his face and body. There is a Hitman's aura between his gestures. He is the mountain of the Holy Kingdom of Dionia. The current captain of the reconnaissance brigade-Tagus.

Why did Tagus, who was supposed to fight with Cloto Kataks in the Peloponnese, appeared in the port of Philae?

Originally, the Ministry of Military Affairs formulated the military plan for the landing raid on Sessaly. The Zhongshanling Reconnaissance Brigade was an important part. Since the landing army must capture Sesali as soon as possible to alleviate the problem of tight food supplies, how to successfully capture Sessa Philae, the center of Lee, has become a top priority.Sending a small group of troops to infiltrate in advance and cooperate with the main siege forces inside and outside is an important method for the Dionian army to conquer the city in previous wars, and the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade happens to be the most adept at this kind of tactics. After the second battle, he was assigned to be responsible for sneaking into Philae.