Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 244

[Chapter 42 The Peace of Southern Italy under the Domination of Dionia]

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When the Locles heard the news, they were shocked and a little bit in awe.

For decades, Locle sought a win against Crotone, but the newly formed Dionian League was able to defeat Crotone twice in a row.

Of course, more importantly for Locle, Crotone suffered heavy losses and was caught in a hard battle with Dioria, which was a perfect timing!

Locle couldn’t wait for the news of the messenger Metrophenis, and began to plan an attack on the Crotone Alliance. In order to defeat the mortal enemy in one fell swoop, they mobilized the war within the alliance, and was also led by the brother of Dionysius’ wife. – Demodocus, the chief general of Lokri, asks Syracuse for help.

At this time, Syracuse had launched a war against Carthage, and the powerful army was capturing towns and cities. Only the navy had not encountered the enemy for the time being. Except for some warships that escorted the army along the coastline, the rest stayed in Siracusa. Standby in the port of La Cuzza.

On the one hand, out of his friendship with the Locles, and more to prepare for the future, Dionysius sent more than 20 three-tiered oars to aid the Locles.

With Syracuse as the backing, Locri couldn’t wait to start the war.

Unexpectedly, Dionia and Crotone stopped the war again, not only signed a defensive alliance treaty, but also released all the prisoners. The messenger Metrofinis felt fooled and returned home in anger.

The Rockley people were angry: Dionia ignored Locle’s good intentions again and again, and obstructed Locle’s plan intentionally or unintentionally, just because he had to deal with the mortal enemy Crotone with all his strength, he didn’t want to make extra troubles, and temporarily endured it. I took this breath and waited for it to be counted later.

At the same time, Locley became wary of Dionia.

The next battle with Crotone was a small setback, but the naval battle was won by the reinforcements of Syracuse. The Crotone army, which had lost the protection of the navy, was insufficient in strength and was called back and forth by the Locris, which was stretched thin. , fall into passive.

Just when Locri saw the hope of victory, news came: the messengers of the Crotone Alliance gathered in Turii and asked Dionia for reinforcements!

The thing that the Locles feared most happened.

In view of the unsatisfactory performance of Metrofinis before, they immediately dispatched the most eloquent Panticapes, but his arrival not only failed to change Dionia’s mind, but accelerated the promotion of Nanyi The formation of the alliance.

When Panticapes left Turii, he said angrily to the elders of the Dionysian Senate: “Apollo can testify that we Locris have always respected Dionia, but every time we The olive branch offered is in exchange for the malicious deception and deception of Dionia. From today, Locri and Dionia will be enemies! Next time we come again, there will be no messengers of peace, but Ares’ anger and powerful army!” The

elders’ faces changed slightly, and Davos said calmly: “Before the last time the Crotones started a war,

their messengers were also standing where you are now. Said something similar, and now?”

Although Davos acted very lightly, he knew that the Lokri were now ruling the roost at sea, and after Dionia declared war, it was likely to repeat the previous Crotone fleet against Dio. Old things Nia did.

So he regrouped Ryders’ cavalry to patrol the coast, while restarting the measures taken by Felixus in response to the Crotone fleet’s raid, and the Senate suspended the attack on Asporus Immigration work in Tum and Crimesa.

But a few days passed and nothing happened.

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The First Corps arrived at Asprostum, and more than 1,000 garrisoned troops joined the army, increasing the number of people involved in the battle to more than 10,000.

Five days later, the army arrived at the city of Corenia, and the journey went smoothly without any accident. The reason why the arrival time was two days longer than the previous plan was that the bad conditions of the southern part of Great Greece were not expected enough, and the way The warm hospitality of the people there.

After the Dionysian reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, the Collenians rejoiced and were ready to wait for the Dionysians to rest and immediately attacked the Lochry camp in the south of the city. The messenger for peace talks was sent…

A hundred years ago, Crotone defeated Sybaris and quickly became a powerful state in Greater Greece. With the ambition to dominate the southern Italy, it launched several invasions to the south.

The most serious one, under its attack, Locri and the surrounding city-state army retreated steadily. In the end, in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Hyperbaris, Locle and Lijim joined together to take advantage of Crotone’s negligence. The machine launched a counterattack, which severely damaged the Crotone army.

Crotone’s strength was greatly damaged, and it was temporarily unable to attack the south. In order to prevent Crotone from recovering its strength, Lokrie and Lijim began a long-term counterattack against the Crotone allies, and even they even joined the Crotone alliance to the north. of the indigenous Brutians.

For decades, Crotone has been trapped by the Brutians to the north, Locri and Lijim to the south, and has always been exhausted, and can never regain its former power.

Therefore, when Athens wanted to establish the city of Turii on the Plain of Cybaris, it could only make concessions and signed an agreement.

However, the cooperation between Locley and Lijim is not intimate, and once the threat of Crotone subsides, the contradiction between the two begins to appear.

The biggest conflict is that the two city-states are both seaside cities and are very close to each other, so the competition of port trade is inevitable.

Lijim has the upper hand in maritime trade because he controls half of the Strait of Messina, while Locley has opened up from Loclery to Medmar, Hibernian (both are the west coast cities of Greater Greece) The on-the-road trade route allows Greek merchants to reach the west coast through land trade routes without paying higher tariffs through the Strait of Messina, thus robbing a lot of the profits of Lijim as a transit port for trade in the Western Mediterranean…

These contradictions add up , which finally broke out a few years ago.

Dionysius, who had just become the plenipotentiary general of Syracuse, wanted to remarry because his wife was killed by the angry people in the previous power struggle. his power.

Therefore, after he married the daughter of a famous nobleman who supported him in Syracuse, and then wanted to marry another house, he set his sights on Lijim, which was only separated from Sicily by a strait.

On the one hand, it is because the geographical location of Lijim is too important, and on the other hand, there is a woman who is famous in Lijim city.

But the Lijim people refused. They were wary of Dionysius, who became the tyrant of Syracuse. They did not forget the coveting of Lijim when the same tyrant of Syracuse, Hieron, was in power decades ago. Lijim had to form an alliance with Carthage to protect himself.

Dionysius had to propose to the Locles, and Locles agreed, which led to the complete breakdown of the alliance between Locles and Lijim.

As for why Dionysius didn’t look for Crotone and Crotone?

Because during the Peloponnesian War, Crotone and Turii were on the side of Athens, and even provided assistance when the Athenian army attacked Syracuse; and Tarantum was Sparta. The sons of man, always close to Sparta, meant little to Dionysius.

Lijim’s departure makes it difficult for Locri to make trouble for Crotone.

It wasn’t until Dionia hit Crotone twice that it rekindled hope.

When Locley was mobilizing for war, he also sent messengers to the Brutians. The Brutes, who had always been positive to Locley’s invitation before, rejected Locley’s request this time. The reasons they gave were: Last year, the Brutians attacked Trina alone, with heavy losses and a need to rest.

But the Lokrie emissaries found that Cosenza and the nearby Bruti tribes seemed to be making some kind of change.

The Locris, aided by the Syracuse navy, attacked the Crotone League.

Facts have proved that even if Crotone’s strength is greatly reduced, the skinny camel is still bigger than the horse.

Although Lockley had the upper hand, he couldn’t win quickly.

Now that Dionysus has joined the war, things have taken a turn for the worse for Locri.

After the diplomatic failure of Dionia, the Locris went to the Syracuse players for the first time, and Dionysius received the hurried Locri envoys in the just-occupied city of Serinus.

After listening to the envoy’s request, Dionysius frowned, and after only thinking for a moment, he said bluntly: “The war between Syracuse and Carthage is at a critical time, and I have no reinforcements to send! Let’s make peace! When I settle Sicily, I will help Locri to get this debt back!” The

messenger returned to Locri helplessly.

The Locles are not fools. Without reinforcements, they have no chance of winning. Summoning is the only way out.

After decades of entanglement with Crotone was a common occurrence, Locri was used to not insisting on a hopeless fight for any honor.

Therefore, the Dionysian First Army came excitedly, but as a result, a battle did not happen, and it passively became a mediator.

Fortunately, the southern Italian allies were very fond of the Dionysian army who first appeared in the central part of southern Italy, especially the Coulonias, who were surprised to find Dionias camping outside Coulonia. The soldiers stayed in the camp quietly during the negotiations without any disturbance to the people, which was even better than the Crotones who had been allies of Coulonia for decades.

The Trina envoy Cypros, who accompanied the army to Coulonia, returned to Trina after the negotiation and reported to the council. He had a more detailed and comprehensive comment on the Dionysian army.

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