Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 437

[Chapter 104 Bad News II]

Dionysius’s surrender conditions to Sirius were fairly lenient: Coulonia provided supplies and troops, and fought with Syracuse’s army. In exchange, Syracuse would not be stationed in Coulonia.

Of course, what the Coronians didn’t know was that, for their surrender, Dionysius also wrote to his brother-in-law, Demodocus, the chief general of Lochry.

Because Locley fully supported Dionysius in the invasion of Great Greece, he once put forward a request: he hoped that Dionysius would hand over the city of Coulonia to them after defeating the South Italian Alliance.

Dionysius agreed.

For this reason, Dionysius had to reassure the Lokri: now, the disposition of Corenia is only temporary, and everything is an expedient made to defeat Crotone and Dionia as soon as possible. plan.

After these city-states are truly conquered, Corenia will be handed over to Lokri as promised.

The Locrites accepted Dionysius’ explanation.

Of course, the Corenians did not know that their fate had already been decided. They thought they had escaped the catastrophe, and eager to show their obedience to Dionysius, they soon sent 5,000 soldiers and a large number of baggage to the Siri Court.

The surrender of Coulonia freed the troops of the Lochry who had besieged Coulonia, and they quickly turned south and crossed the mountain pass.

Although Feidun had been wary of the east because the people he sent out to report the letter had never returned, for the sake of safety, he sent a small army to guard the entrance of the mountain road.

However, after the news from the north was completely blocked by the Syracuses, he was completely smeared in his eyes. He never imagined that the situation in southern Greece had changed drastically in just a few days.

The number of the Lokri (15,000 men) came so fast and so fast that the Lijim army, which was less than a thousand men, was quickly defeated by Yamaguchi’s defense.

Feidun was leading his army to besiege Madma. He was shocked when he got the news. He didn’t have time to organize troops to fight, and was rushed into the camp by the surging Lochry troops…

When Feidun fled across the Maro River and into the city of Taorena with the countless defeated soldiers, there were only less than 7,000 troops left in the original 10,000-strong army.

Dionysius was overjoyed when he learned that Columbus surrendered and Lijim was defeated, because at this time, except Lijim, the southern part of Great Greece had all been pacified, and he could rest assured to attack the north with all his strength, while Lijim, who was still alive, was overjoyed. Lochry alone is enough to deal with, and he doesn’t need to worry about it.

So he ordered Leptines: Except for a few warships to be stationed in Trina port, and to continue to cut off the sea connection between Dionia and Lijim on the west coast, the rest of the warships participating in this war turned to the port of Siridin to concentrate.

He also asked the troops to complete their rest as soon as possible and

prepare to advance north.

The war between the South Italian Alliance and Syracuse was not only a matter between Greater Greece and the Greek city-states of Sicily, it also attracted the attention of many forces throughout the Mediterranean.

Not long after the Battle of the Ramato River, the news of Syracuse’s victory quickly spread throughout the Western Mediterranean, and the city-states and forces related to it were pondering the impact of the war on themselves, and even began to fight small Abacus

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On this day, the Dionysian Senate is having a regular meeting, mainly discussing two topics: one is that the Sixth Legion that just went to Crimea will add to the Ministry of Military Affairs The logistical pressure caused the shortage of personnel to transport food and baggage; the other was a proposal forwarded by Admiral Cykrian to Hironimus. new legion.

At the same time, the sailors of the Dionysian Combined Fleet are just enough. Once there is a loss in the naval battle, it is difficult to be replenished. He hopes to call sailors from the allies as a backup.

“I think…it is very simple to solve the problem of insufficient personnel for the transportation of goods in the Ministry of Military Affairs.” Kunogolata, the governor of Turii, said thinking: “Since the sea route was attacked by the Syracuse Navy, the merchant ships Significantly reduced, port porters, warehouse managers, ship repairers, coachmen and many other laborers have no work to do, and they have nothing to do all day, which has added a lot of trouble to the security. The Ministry of Military Affairs can completely recruit some laborers at the port, and even There is no need for salary, as long as their food supply is guaranteed, they will do a good job, and it will also reduce the pressure on the port patrol…”

“This is indeed a good way!” Mariji praised, and reminded: “However, even if you use food as a reward, you must pay attention to controlling the supply. As the war progresses, the grain will only be more precious than the drachma.” Hieronymus

nodded, indicating that he understood.

At this time, Kunogorata asked: “I do n’t

understand why Sekelian has to call the sailors of the allies?! There are so many spare manpower in our port, why not use it?!”

At the venue, Hieronymus, the only remaining commander of the Ministry of Military Affairs, could only answer, although he was not good at this: “Well…time is tight…um…Syracuse’s fleet will come at any time. , what Sekelian needs are skilled sailors who can train without spending too much time…”

“The fleet in charge of Sekerian takes up a lot of manpower in Turii, but it always hides in the Krati River. What is he doing? What?! We should lead the fleet to drive away the Syracuse warships that are rampant in the Gulf of Taranto, even if we restore our route for a day or two!” Marigi complained.

“I don’t know much about the navy, but I know that Lord Davos asked him to do it.”

As soon as Hironimos finished speaking, Marigi laughed dryly and said, “Since Lord Davos It seems that we don’t have to worry too much about the Syracuse fleet.”

In the Senate, there are not a few elders like Marighi who blindly believe in Davos, but after getting the South Italian coalition forces to suffer in the Silitium After the fiasco, Petaru, who had been in a trance for the past two days, felt that Marigi’s flattering face made him sick.

He sneered a few times inwardly, then turned his eyes to Kadulke, who was also absent-minded.

“Well, let’s send someone to discuss with Castellon and Heraclea, and recruit some sailors to come here…” Cornerus stood up and just said his suggestion, the door of the venue was suddenly pushed open.

The captain of the guard in charge of the defense of the Senate rushed in.

Seeing his panicked expression, the rotating chairman Kunogolata hurriedly asked, “What happened?”

“My lords, I received an urgent letter just now that Metapontum was captured by Tarantum!”

“What?! !”

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Tarantum consul Diomilas stood at the head of Metapontum, proudly overlooking Tarantum’s soldiers pouring in The gates that have been opened, strangle the people of Metapontum who are still trying to resist…

The attack of the Tarantum army is very smooth, and they quickly advance to the square in the center of the city.

The sound of fighting reached Diomilas’ ears, and it gradually became sparse.

“Go, go to the Acropolis!” Diomilas couldn’t wait to pick the fruits of victory.

Diomilas came down from the city, got on his horse, and went straight ahead with his entourage. The corpses of the Metapontums and the wounded struggling for help were everywhere in the streets, and he ignored them: these flowing tarantu Since the descendants of Mu blood have chosen to betray, they will no longer want to get Tarantum’s forgiveness.

When Diomilas just walked to the square, his subordinates came to report the good news to him: “The Metapontum Acropolis has been won!”

“So fast?!” Although Diomilas I am confident that the quality of the soldiers of Tarantum is far better than that of the Metapontums, but I did not expect that the defense of the Acropolis, the core of the city-state, is so weak.

“Italokas and the others persuaded the soldiers stationed in the defending city to surrender.” The subordinate explained.

“So it is.” Diomilas released his doubts.

After all, Metapontum was once a sub-state of Tarantum. Although after hundreds of years of development, the blood of the two sides has become weak and the politics tend to be independent, but they are in an alliance and have been sheltered by Tarantum for many years. There are many people in Metapontum who are close and envious of Tarantum, just because Tarantum’s wrong and aggressive policy in the past few years has caused Metapontum to suffer huge losses, but Tarantum is even more Instinctively, the Metapontums turned to a more powerful neighbor than Tarantum, the Dionysian Alliance, in order to avoid greater losses.

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Dionia’s more tolerant policy towards allies has reassured Meta Pontum, but it does not mean that Meta Pontum has to cut off relations with Tarantum completely.

On the contrary, once the crisis was over, the Metapontums began to miss their home state again, and with the deliberate promotion of the pro-Tarantum faction headed by Issalokas, the relationship between the two parties resumed. There is a rapid recovery and more contacts (of course there are conflicts).

After all, Metapontum is closer to Tarantum, and it can be seen from the fact that the number of pro-Dionian and pro-Tarantum factions elected each year among Metapontum consuls and members of the Senate is similar. come out.

At every meeting of the Senate, the two factions often argue fiercely, or even conflict, over which side of the bill is designed to favor Dionia and Tarantum.

In fact, the pro-Dionysian faction headed by Toudeples is weaker than the pro-Tarantum faction. After all, Dionysian has been an ally for a short time, but Dionysian is rapidly expanding. The strength of his power gave them the confidence, so that every critical moment, Italokas and the others voluntarily gave in because they were afraid of angering Dionia.

The Dionysian Senate is also very aware of Metapontum’s situation. Considering the relationship with Tarantum and the alliance treaty signed with Metapontum, it is not easy to interfere in its internal affairs.

But they firmly believe that as Dionia grows stronger, Metapontum will naturally follow.