Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 1216

[Chapter 165 The Brutal Polyfron]

The words of Agul Rios made the other generals ponder.

“But even if we don’t tell the Greek coalition, Thessaly will send a messenger to the Peloponnese to tell the tyrant, and the Phokis in the north…” Someone raised an objection.

“I think Agul Rios’s suggestion is very reasonable.” Kabrias first agreed: “We can first send a messenger to quietly inform Ifikrates and ask him to urge the Greek coalition to seize the time to increase The attack on Messenia and Sparta. As for the messengers sent by Thessaly, whether by sea or land, they must pass through the sphere of influence under our control. We only need to strengthen the patrols of the Salong Bay and the Isthmus. , Thessaly messenger can’t escape our palms, we just need-” Cabrias stretched out his right hand and made a slashing gesture, which everyone knew.

“As for the Phokis

, they are more afraid of Thessaly than Dionia. We just need to send an army to support them, and they will agree with us.”

Soon someone said: “I think Cabreus’ suggestion works, even if the tyrant will get the news in the end, but we have won time, and maybe during this time we have taken Sparta back. ”

I agree too.”

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The Athenian generals expressed their agreement, only Callistratus was a little hesitant, but the situation was settled.

His father Agul Rios calmly closed his eyes again.

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After the departure of the troops by boat this morning, Clotokataxes, Printoles, etc. were stationed in Peloponnes The generals of Sasha have been thinking about the important event of “Whether the landing in Thessaly can be successful”. It was not until late at night when the fleet returned one after another that they got the exact news and could finally celebrate the successful landing.

But this is just the beginning, because starting from tomorrow, the city-states of Thessaly, Central Greece, and even Peloponnesus may all know the news of the “Dionian army’s raid on Thessaly”, and they must Corresponding measures will be taken, and it is impossible for Dionia to often send such a large fleet to Thessaly to transport supplies. After all, the owner and crew are not soldiers and should not take such a big risk.

The nearly 100,000 troops in the Peloponnese consume a huge amount of rations every day. It is necessary to occupy Thessaly as soon as possible in order to obtain all the materials of Thessaly to support the continuous fighting of the army. Therefore, the next few days will be very important for both sides. is the key.

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After Polyfron killed his second brother Polydorus,

he immediately let his confidants surround the central army In the big tent, on the grounds that “Polidorus was assassinated by the Dionians and the Guards were derelict in duty”, they arrested all the soldiers of the Guards of Polydorus, and then notified the lieutenant general to come to the big tent urgently.

Before dawn, the generals of Thessaly gathered in the tent and were shocked to learn that “Polidorus was assassinated by the Dionysians”, and at the same time, they were inevitably puzzled.

But Polyfron did not give them more time to think, nor did he obey their dissuasion, and directly announced that all the “dereliction of duty” Guard soldiers would be pulled outside the tent and beheaded.

In an instant, the heads of people in the camp were rolling and screaming again and again.

This sight frightened the generals in the big tent. Facing the sharpening of the sharpening swords, they soon admitted that Polyphron would replace Polydorus as the temporary military commander of Thessaly. .

After taking over the command of the camp, Polyfron first completely blocked the camp, prohibiting anyone from going out, and then sent a messenger to the city of Philae. Military affairs have to discuss with the minister left behind Asidamas and others, and hope they can come to the camp for a while.”

Asidamas was worried about “the sudden landing of the Dionian army in Thessaly”. He didn’t sleep all night. After listening to the words of the Polyphron messenger, he thought that the battle situation in Thessaly had changed again. , Without thinking about it in a hurry, he hurriedly rushed to the military camp outside the city with several other ministers.

As a result, as soon as he entered the barracks, he was arrested by the soldiers sent by Polyfron.

Immediately afterwards, Polyphron sentenced Asidamas and others to death on the charge of “colluding with the Dionian army and intending to mutiny”.

The generals tried desperately to dissuade him, but Polyfron insisted not to listen and forcibly executed Asidamas and six others.

When the soldiers brought the heads of these six people into the tent, Polyfron pointed at Asidamas’s head and cursed. It turned out that he thought that Asidamas had always looked down on him, and Jason never gave him the responsibility alone. , that is, Asidamas et al.

Of course, killing people to vent his anger is only one of Polyfron’s goals. More importantly, he believes that: Asidamas and others hold the administrative power of the Thessaly City-State Alliance. With their existence, he wants to be free on this land. Action is bound to be thwarted.

At this time, it was just dawn, and Polyfron quickly gathered his troops and entered the city of Philae.

At the beginning, the people of Philae were excited, because the army was stationed, and their safety was more guaranteed.

Unexpectedly, after Polyflon gathered the officials of Philae, he asked them to mobilize the city, gather all the civic soldiers, and follow his army to repel the Dionysian army entrenched near Larissa. .

As soon as the officials heard it, they immediately refused on the grounds that “we only follow the orders of Lord Asidamas”.

Polyphron immediately raised the head of Asidamas, and also executed the two most vehemently opposed officials on the charge of “colluding with the Dionysians to rebel against them”.

The fierce threats of Polyfron frightened the officials of Philae, and they could only obey them tremblingly.

Before Jason mobilized the entire Thessaly, he recruited a large army to fight south. The more the city-states, the better, but he only recruited less than 1,000 soldiers for Philae City, because Philae City, where he made his fortune, needed it. There is enough power to stabilize the situation in Thessaly as the mainstay after his departure with his army.

Since the city of Philae was already in a state of combat readiness, more than 6,000 civic soldiers were summoned in just half a day. Including the 2,000 soldiers originally stationed in the city of Philae, the number of soldiers possessed by Polyflon was close to 30,000 people.

Even though he thought he had a strong army at this time, even though he had already received the report of the reconnaissance cavalry “Dionysian army captured the city of Larissa”, he was still confident that he could lead the army to repel the Dionysian army, so He did not listen to the dissuasion of Philae officials, and soon led his army out of the city and marched towards Larissa.

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Also on this early morning, Patroclus summoned the commander of the Eleventh Army, Effieart, and gave him an order: the Eleventh Army Guard Lamia and Heraclea, and capture Thermal Pass as quickly as possible, while blocking the Thessaly reinforcements from the south.

Accepting this order means that the Eleventh Army can no longer participate in the military operation to conquer Thessaly. After a little hesitation, Effieart accepts this order, but at the same time he also makes a request: if a fighter plane is found, the Eleventh Army Can it continue to attack the Greek towns south?

In view of the fact that Effieart is also a seasoned veteran and prudent in military use, Patroclus agreed to his request, but at the same time emphasized: No matter what kind of military action he takes, he must first ensure that Lamia, Herakli The safety of Asia and Hot Springs Pass.

After receiving the order, Effieart immediately began to prepare for the military operation to seize the hot springs pass. Although according to the confession of the Thessaly soldiers who were captured in Heraklia, the hot springs pass was only guarded by more than 200 mercenaries, but it was dangerous. The terrain and the legendary story still made Effieart take a cautious attitude. He left 2,000 soldiers in Lamia and 1,000 soldiers in Heraklia, and personally led 5,000 soldiers and engineering battalions. with several Lamia guides.

Although that legendary story showed the world how difficult it was to seize Wenquan Pass, it also told the world that “there are remote mountain roads that can go around to the south of Wenquan Pass”, so Aifeart decided to adopt “the main force to contain the hot springs from the front, and to send the odd soldiers.” “Detour from the mountain road” method to capture the hot spring pass, for this he took out the light armoured brigade and the light infantry brigade of the Samone soldiers to form a surprise army (the Eleventh Legion’s barracks was in Lucernia, and the soldiers came from the Downey area, In recent years, many Samone people have taken the initiative to come out of the mountains and voluntarily apply to become citizens of Dionia. Most of their residences are in the eastern plains of Campania and the Douni area), and they will be in Lamia. Under the leadership of the guide, he used his excellent mountain combat ability to complete the roundabout raid on Wenquan Pass.

Just as the Eleventh Legion was preparing to take action against Thermal Pass, Patroclus had already led the rest of the Legion and began to climb the mountains north of Lamia in order to enter the southern plains of Thessaly.

UU reading www.sonicmtl.com In order to prevent being intercepted by Thessaly army in the mountains, he divided the army into three parts, led by Lamia guide, through three routes respectively, advancing to the territory of Sessaly.

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Also on this morning, Hiros brought a large group of middle and low-level officials from various departments of the kingdom (these officials were all administered by the kingdom Hall carefully selected and ordered to govern the Thessaly region that was about to be conquered, more than half of them were originally Thessaly refugees), and came to Larissa.

Note: According to historical records, the first thing Polyfron did after he took over as Tagus was to arrest and execute the assistant Jason headed by Asidamas and the ruler of Thessaly without any reason. The 8 best executive ministers also exiled many officials, and then ruled Thessaly in a brutal way, causing great dissatisfaction among the people of Thessaly.

In less than a year, his general Alexander rebelled under the banner of “Avenging Polydorus”, killed him, and became the new Targus.

But the Alexander was also a tyrant, and under his rule Thessaly declined and eventually fell into turmoil, which was later conquered by a rising Macedonian.

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