Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 576

[Chapter 243 The Great Greek War Is Over]

Ferrosanus said at this time: Syracuse is willing to sign a peace agreement with Dionia.

In this regard, Davos was well prepared, and he said simply: “To sign a peace agreement with Dionia, Syracuse must agree to the following requirements.

First, the Syracuses launched this A war caused serious damage to Dionia and Great Greece, so Syracuse must compensate Dionia two thousand talents for

the

restoration of Dionia and other city-states of Great Greece;

Second, the Syracuses captured by the Dionysian army, each as the invaders of this war, their hands are covered with the blood of the great Greeks, Dionia cannot easily To release them, a ransom must be paid, and the price of the ransom is determined by the identity of the captive;

third, Syracuse must dissolve the Sicilian League;

fourth, Syracuse must recognize Taunis, Leotine, Catane, The fact that Sikuli, Naxos, and Tauromenion joined the Dionysian League must not violate the interests of these city-states;

fifth, Messina…”

Pherothanus, who was outspoken, was criticized by these harsh The terms of the peace talks were irritated, but Davos’ words made him suppress the urge to leave immediately: “You are not willing to accept

these

terms, Dionysius can talk to Dionysius.”

It was what Horolis and others were most worried about. In order to prevent Dionysius, who had been knocked down to the bottom of the valley, from recovering, Pherothanus had to work with Davos’s subordinates, led by Ancitanos. Onia officials negotiate.

By the next day, the news that “Dionysius’ raid on Syracuse, if it wasn’t for the help of the Dionysian army, would have almost succeeded” came back to Sirius, and Philothanus realized that after learning it. Haroris and the risks they faced, so the negotiation process accelerated.

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At the same time, the news of the “Syracuse Expeditionary Army surrendering to Dionia” has also been learned by the people of Lokrie, and the people in the city were suddenly panicked.

At this time, Hiros led 10,000 soldiers to secretly march from west to east, quickly passed the mountain road, approached Locle, and blasted the defense camp temporarily built by the Locles at the exit of the mountain with a dozen ballistas. The rapid advance attack broke the block of part of Locle’s army and invaded its territory.

This bad news made the city of Lockley panic even more.

At this time, rumors spread from time to time in Lokrie City, such as: “The main army led by Davos has gone south,

and will reach Lokrie in a day!” … and other rumors, let the ordinary people in Lokrie City, whether it be ordinary people, Neither the aristocracy nor the politicians could remain calm any longer.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Demodocus and his cronies ran to the port with their families and tried to escape from Greater Greece by boat.

However, the political opponents who had been suppressed by Demodocus in the past took the opportunity to incite the public, claiming that only by capturing Demodocus and his cronies and dedicating them to the Dionysians would Dionysian’s anger at Locle be lessened. …

So, the people of Lokri, who usually strictly abide by the laws of the city-state and have a docile personality, launched an attack on Demodocus and others.

Blood stained the sea water in the port of Loclery, and more than 200 people, including some generals, members of the council and their families, including elderly people, women, and children, all fell into the pool of blood, and no one survived.

The tyranny displayed by the docile Rockley people after the anger made the opponents of Demodocus secretly panic, and everyone was in danger.

In order not to follow in the footsteps of Demodocus and others, the Lokri Council finally decided to agree to Dionia’s harsh conditions, and sent messengers out of the city to contact Hiros.

So far, the war in Greater Greece has ended, and all the hostile Greek city-states except Tarantum have been conquered by Dionia.

The Tarantum people also learned the news of the “Syracuse army surrendering to Dionia”. At this time, they had already huddled in the city and were surrounded by the Maple Legion. The reason why they were able to understand the outside world. , because the sea route has not been blocked, but it is Dionia’s credit.

Since Dionia’s fleet resolutely prevented Maple’s combined fleet from entering the Gulf of Taranto, the Mesapi and Puchetti did not dare to provoke Dionia at this moment, and had to order the fleet to retreat, so as to protect the Tarantum retains the communication channel between the sea and the outside world and the passage of materials in and out.

A large number of Tarantum citizens were imprisoned by Dionia, and they could only rely on the old and the sick to desperately resist the siege of the Maple coalition.

In such a dangerous situation, the reason why the Tarantum people are still struggling and unwilling to agree to Dionia’s request to become the “free city” of the alliance is more important than the self-respect of the former powerful state. It’s because of Sparta.

They hoped that Sparta would get the greedy Dionians to give up their attempt to annex Tarantum and free their loved ones to save the precarious Tarantum.

In early March, the ship of the Spartan messenger Cleethorpes sailed straight across the edge of the Gulf of Taranto, rounded the land headland of Crotone, and entered the port of Siriting.

Davos has been sitting in Sirius for more than ten days, and there are so many affairs that he is busy from morning to night every day.

The first is the negotiation with the Syracuse rebels. Although he is not specifically involved in the negotiation, he must always pay attention to the negotiation process and control the general direction.

In the end, the two sides reached a peace agreement, except that the amount of war reparations, the price of prisoner ransoms were changed, and some small clauses were added and deleted. The agreement basically realized Davos’ attempt to weaken the strength of Syracuse and reduce it Influence in Sicily and the purpose of safeguarding Dionia’s interests on the east-central coast of Sicily.

Ferrosanus hoped to be able to immediately return the Siracusa civic soldiers to defend the empty city of Syracuse.

Davos also hopes to send the newly surrendered prisoners away as soon as possible, otherwise so many people will be stranded in Greater Greece, which will not only consume a lot of food, but also send heavy troops to guard them.

But the two sides disagreed on two issues.

The first disagreement was the thousands of mercenaries among the captives of Siriting who surrendered.

Pherothanus believed that they were all loyal lackeys of Dionysius, and they were also the targets that Herolis and the others were going to remove. In order to prevent accidents, they did not want them to return.

But Davos said: “Before the Syracuse army surrendered, he made a promise and was unwilling to break it.” In addition, Davos did not want to leave these people who had been with Dionysius for a long time and had become accustomed to it. In order to burn, kill, loot, and robber-like mercenaries, even if Dionia, whose territory has expanded rapidly, is in urgent need of population, he is afraid to keep these mercenaries and ruin Dionia’s good atmosphere.

Now in Asia Minor and the Peloponnesian Peninsula, there is a fierce battle, and there are Greek people exiled due to the war everywhere. Dionia will have no shortage of Greek refugees who want to acquire land and live in peace.

Therefore, he threatened Pherothanus: even if they did not agree, he would send these mercenaries back at his own risk.

Ferrosanus was worried that the willfulness of the Dionians would make Herolis, who had already controlled the city of Syracuse, increase the variables, and could only agree to pay the ransom for these former mercenary citizens and mercenaries, but demanded that Dio Nia had to follow his orders in transporting them away.

Davos only cares that he has fulfilled his promise. As for whether these captives return to Syracuse to become slaves or to be executed, it is not his concern.

The second disagreement was that Ferrosanus wanted Dionia to release the Syracuses captured in the previous battle at the same time.

Davos rejected this, saying bluntly: “The war has severely damaged the homeland of the Dionysians and their population has plummeted… Dionysus needed these captives as laborers to help the people rebuild their homes, and a year later Only considering the possibility of release.”

In fact, this is just a reason, and the more important reason Davers did not say.

He is even more worried that releasing all the prisoners back to Syracuse will quickly restore Syracuse’s strength, thus causing the newly appointed senior officials of Syracuse to have other thoughts.

With these hostages in hand, within a year, Dionysus could gradually stabilize his rule in Greater Greece and the east-central coast of Sicily.

After several unsuccessful disputes, Ferrosanus finally had to add a clause to the agreement: During the year, the health and safety of the prisoners must be guaranteed.

Of course, the content of the contention between the two sides did not include the thousands of Syracuse prisoners that Dionia sold to Carthage. Most of them were Syracuse civic soldiers, not the port area poor who served as sailors.

During the negotiation with the envoys of Syracuse, Davos also continuously met with people from Locri and Hibernian, preached to them the benefits of joining the Dionysian League, and resolved their anxiety.

At the same time, he is also observing visitors and gathering some information for the future senate to select the elders of these two places.

In addition, UU reading www.sonicmtl.

com Davers also consulted with the Senate through letters to discuss the management of the new territories already occupied by the candidates for the administrators of Madma and Siri Court.

At the same time, he will also consult by letter with your chief general, his father-in-law Atili Cruz, about the “joint dispatch of troops to Messina”.

Not only did Davos have no free time to rest, but the clerk Henepolis also helped Davos to write letters and copy documents every day.

It was at this time that Kerethorpes’ ship entered the port of Celestine.

The hustle and bustle of the port took Cleethorpes by surprise. He saw that every pier was full of Syracuses in thin clothes and empty hands, escorted by Dionian soldiers, and boarded a ship. passenger ship.

These passenger ships loaded with people carefully left the port, and under the escort of the Dionysian warship, sailed south…

Seeing this, Kerisopes realized that the Great Greek War is over!

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