Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 530

[Chapter 197 Lijim’s Cooperation]

For a while, everyone remained silent, but no one responded.

Demodocus was secretly shocked: he knew that during this period of time, under the instigation of Dionysius, and relying on the support of the powerful army of Syracuse, he eliminated his opponents and attacked political enemies in the city of Locle. The bill was directly implemented without the votes of the council and the citizens’ assembly, and it was almost considered to have monopolized the power of Locley.

But now it seems that many people hold grudges and are ready to embarrass him when they find a chance!

Just when he secretly regretted that such a meeting should not be held, his confidant Panticapes finally stood up and said: “This matter is actually very simple, we can transfer the army stationed in Madma back, and repel Cullen. Nia!”

“It’s so easy to say, what about Madma?!” Metrophenis asked rhetorically.

“It is reported that Medema has more than 2,000 civilian soldiers, which can defend against the enemy’s attack. We don’t need to worry about it for the time being.” Panticapes responded with a pretended ease.

“Don’t worry?!” Metrofinis sneered: “Medma’s messenger reported earlier that there were more than 10,000 Dionians who defeated our army, plus Lijim from Taurina. People, I am afraid that the number of enemy soldiers exceeds 20,000! Will more than 2,000 Madame civic soldiers resist the attack of 20,000 people?! Dionia’s army is not an ordinary Greek army, but they have great power Ballista!…”

Metrophinis anxiously reminded everyone loudly: “Once Medmar falls, the huge army of Dionia and Lijim will be able to kill from the west, and then join the forces of Corenia. Army, we Locri is in danger!”

Metrophinis’s words were heard by everyone in the council, all of them were nervous, and some people couldn’t help shouting: “I think… we Locri is still with Dio. Nia, let’s make peace!”

As soon as these words came out, they were actually echoed by many people.

“Idiot!” Demodocas finally couldn’t help but scolded: “Crotone, Trina, and Corenia of the South-Italian Alliance have been our mortal enemies for decades, and they are in this war. They all suffered heavy losses, think with your pig heads, what price do we have to pay to calm the anger in their hearts?!”

“Such a clever chief general must have a way to repel the attack of the coalition forces of Corenia, Dionia, and Lijim!” Someone said angrily, which caused many people to snicker.

Demodocus’ face was ashen, if it was in the past, who would dare to talk to him like this!

The defeat of Syracuse has changed the minds of the members of the Loclery Council!

Demodocus felt a chill in his heart, and he reminded loudly: “Syracuse suffered a worse defeat than this in the war with Carthage, but the final victory still belongs to Syracuse! Even if Syracuse, which now owns more than half of Sicily, loses the battle,

it still has abundant resources, wealth, and sufficient population, which is far beyond what the city-states of Dionia, Crotone, and Trina can compare to. Yes, the final victor must be Syracuse! And we are here to make peace with the enemy alone. Think about it, will Dionysius forgive the betrayers after victory!”

Demodocus stared Looking at everyone, it is precisely because of the close relationship between Locle and Syracuse that Locle understands the horror of Dionysius better, even if what Demodocus said “Syracuse wins” is just an assumption , they did not dare to take risks because they were hypothetical, so they avoided the eyes of Demodocus.

The performance of the crowd made Demodocas temporarily relieved. He glanced at Metrophoenis a few more times and said firmly: “What we have to do now is to hold on! Hold on to Locle City! Until the final victory Come! At that time, the land of Corenia and even the land of Sirius will be owned by Loclery!” In the

end, the Loclery Council made a decision to “return Madma’s army and defend the territory”, reaching the German Modocas convened a council to share responsibility and avoided possible accusations of “abandoning allies” because he made the decision alone.

But the uncertain future of the battle also made Demodocus uneasy, and as a relative of Dionysius, he had to do more preparations.

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Just as Hiros led his army to Hibernian, the First Legion had already set foot on Sekelian’s fleet and headed south.

In the afternoon, the warship entered the port of Lijim and was again warmly welcomed by the Lijim people.

At the same time, Antonyus, the commander of the First Army, met Lijim’s ruler, Davos’ father-in-law Artili Cruz, and he brought a story about “the main force of the Locles in Hibernian because of the influence of Lijim – Dio The good news of the raid by the coalition forces in Nia, the good news made Atili Cruz and the members of the council present excited.

Many people repeatedly praised: “Well done Feidun!”, but they completely forgot that last night, when they learned that Feidun had taken most of Taurina’s troops and sailed north, they panicked and complained angrily: “Fidun’s unauthorized mobilization of troops has put Lijim in a dangerous situation, and he is bound to be taken back to Lijim for a severe trial!”

Then, Antonios presented Davos’ letter to Atili Cruz. , He looked happy after reading it, and actually read it out in public at the council meeting. The letter began with Davos’ respectful greetings to his father-in-law, and a talk about Agnes’ pregnancy.

Hearing this, the deputies began to congratulate Atili Cruz, and complimented him: “I found a good son-in-law!” This is actually the case. The strength of Rotone and Locri was greatly weakened, and even the army and navy that had been invaded by Syracuse were severely damaged. There will definitely be a bigger expansion of the power. I heard that Davos is now the king of Dionia again, so the father-in-law status of Atili Cruz is even more precious!

Because of this, how could the Lijim people pass up the opportunity to flatter.

Artily Cruz laughed hard, and he was glad that he had made an extremely correct decision to marry his daughter to the “upstart” Davos, who was from a lowly background.

In the letter, Davos went on to mention:…Although Dionia defeated Syracuse, the war was far from over. Syracuse possessed the rich resources of Sicily and could send new army reinforcements at any time. Therefore, in order to end the war as soon as possible, we must lead the war to Sicily, disrupt the order there, destroy the territory of Syracuse, and capture the allies of Syracuse, in order to better weaken the power of Syracuse and force it to take the initiative. surrender!

For this reason, Dionia hopes to get the full support of Lijim, the ally…

The councilors who were rushing to congratulate the chief general just heard this and stopped talking.

They admitted that Davos was right and that attacking Sicily was the best way to defeat Syracuse, but Lijim had to give his full support, and the merchant’s habit of paying attention to money made them have to think carefully: full support meant providing a fleet, Providing troops, providing material transportation, military rations… For Lijim, who is also supporting the troops to fight against Lokrie, this will be another huge payment!

And who knows when the upcoming Sicilian war will end!

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Atili Cruz laughed secretly as he watched the contrasting performance of the crowd, and he continued to read loudly: “… After the war with Syracuse, Dionia will surely capture Messina, And will co-manage it with Lijim! To manage an important strait gate city, Dionia has no experience and needs to rely on Lijim’s strong assistance…”

“I heard it right?! Dionia wants to work with us. Own Messina!”

“Don’t you understand?! We are mainly responsible for managing Messina, and we can finally get it, thus completely monopolizing the strait!”

… The

members were discussing excitedly.

“Everyone, regarding the fact that the ally Dionia needs our assistance…” When Atili Cruz mentioned this matter again, everyone did not hesitate any more and expressed their support.

“As long as Lord Davos fulfills his promise in Thaksin’s letter after the war, Lijim should fully support Dionia’s attack on Sicily!”

“To get Messina, Syracuse must be defeated! Therefore, we will support Dai Onia!”

“Now that the port is open and the shipping route is open, as long as the number of soldiers Dionia sends to Sicily is not too many, I think we should be able to supply rations for two or three months…”

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you at Artilicruz This scene can not help but sigh: when he was persuaded by his son, UU reading www.sonicmtl.

com gave up the idea of monopolizing Messina, and wrote a letter to persuade Davos to take Messina from Syracuse. Unexpectedly, Davos had a greater appetite, and exchanged Messina for Lijim. People’s support for Dionia’s foothold in Sicily!

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The next day, Dionysius of Celestia was angry at Davos’ unreasonable request, and while urging the craftsmen to speed up the forging of iron tools, he secretly sent someone to fix the iron tools. The body of the Numibian who was buried due to serious injuries and died in two days was dug out quietly, put his head down, and asked the messenger to take it to the Dionysian Camp to perfunctory Davos, so as to continue the negotiation with Davos on the peace talks. .

In Hibernian, the Dionysian-Ligim coalition set out to march towards Medmar.

The Madame people were angry and disturbed by the withdrawal of Loclery’s army, but Locley’s reminders and warnings made them disillusioned with the Syracuses, so they decided to stick to waiting for help.

After Hiros failed to persuade him to surrender, he negotiated with Feidun, Hieronymus, and Ryders and decided to storm the city of Medmar.

The troops began to build camps, and the engineering battalion continued to build siege equipment.