Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 165: Cruel Polifuron
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The words of Agur Rios made the other generals ponder.
"But even if we don't tell the Greek coalition forces, Thessaly will send a messenger to Peloponnese to tell the tyrant, and the Phokes to the north will also..." Someone raised objections.
"I think Agul Rios's suggestion is very reasonable." Kabrias first agreed: "We can send a messenger to inform Iphikratus quietly, and let him urge the Greek coalition forces to hurry. Time to increase the attack on Messenia and Sparta. As for the messengers sent by Thessaly, whether by sea or land, they will inevitably pass through the sphere of influence under our control. On the patrol of the isthmus, the Courier Thessari can't escape our palms. We just need to—" Kabrias stretched out his right hand and made a slashing gesture, 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 our approach."
After Cabrias finished speaking, there was a moment of silence around him, and soon someone said: "I think Cabrias’s suggestion is feasible. Even if the tyrant will get the news in the end, we won the time. Maybe during this time, we have retaken Sparta."
"I agree too."
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The generals of Athens expressed their agreement. Only Kallistatus hesitated, but the general situation was settled.
His father Agul Rios closed his eyes calmly again.
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After the army set off by ship this morning, the generals stationed in Peloponnese, such as Cloto Catacs and Printoles, have been thinking about whether the landing in Sessaly will be successful. This is an important event. They waited until late at night when the fleet returned one after another before they got the definitive news, and they could finally celebrate the successful landing.
But this is only the beginning, because from tomorrow, whether it is Thessaly, Central Greece, or even the city-states of the Peloponnese, the news of the "Dionian army raid on Thessaly" may be known. , They will inevitably come up with corresponding measures, and Dionia can't often send such a large fleet to Thessaly to transport supplies. After all, the shipowner and crew are not soldiers and shouldn't take such a big risk anymore. The nearly 100,000 army in the Peloponnese consumes a huge amount of armaments every day. It is necessary to occupy Thessaly as soon as possible to obtain all the supplies of Thessaly to support the continuous fighting of the army. Therefore, the next few days will be both for both parties. Is the key.
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Polyfuron killed his second brother Polydurus, and immediately let his squad encircle the Chinese army’s big tent, saying "Polytorus was assassinated by the Dionians On the grounds of "Dereliction of Duty by the Guards", all soldiers of the Guards of Polidorus were arrested, and then the lieutenant generals were notified to come to discuss matters urgently.
Before dawn, the generals of Thessaly gathered to the big tent and were shocked to learn that "Polytorus was assassinated by the Dionians", and at the same time, they were unavoidably puzzled.
However, Polifuron did not give them more time to think, and did not listen to their dissuasion, and directly announced that all the soldiers of the "dereliction of duty" guards would be taken out of the account and beheaded for public display.
In an instant, people in the camp screamed and screamed.
This scene frightened the generals in the big tent. They faced the sharpened Polyfuron’s stomach team. They soon admitted that Polyfuron would succeed Polytorus and become Cesarri’s Temporary military commander.
After taking control of the camp, Polyfuron first completely blocked the camp, prohibiting anyone from going out, and then sent a messenger to Philae, in the name of Polydurus, calling it " There are important military affairs to discuss with the left-behind Minister Asidamas and others, and I hope they can come to the camp for a while."
Asidamas was worrying about the "Sudden Landing of Dionian Army in Thessaly". He did not fall asleep all night. After hearing the words of the Polifuron messenger, he thought that the battle in Thessaly was again With the changes, I hurriedly rushed to the military camp outside the city with other ministers without thinking about it.
As a result, as soon as he entered the camp, he was arrested by soldiers sent by Polifuron.
Immediately afterwards, Polifuron sentenced Asidamas and others to death for "collaborating with the Dionian army and attempting to rebel". The generals desperately tried to persuade him, but Polifuron insisted not to listen and forcibly executed Asidamas and other 6 people.
When the soldiers brought the heads of these six people into the big tent, Polifuron pointed at Asidamas's head and cursed. It turned out that he thought Asidamas had always looked down on him, and Jason was never alone. Entrusted to him is the task of Asidamas and others.
Of course, killing people and venting their anger is only one of Polifron’s goals. More importantly, he believes: Asidamas and others hold the administrative power of the Thessaly City-State Alliance. They exist, and he wants to be in this area. Freedom on the land will inevitably be hindered.
At this moment, the sky was just getting bright, and Polifuron quickly assembled his army and entered Philae.
At first, the Philae people were still excited, because their safety was more guaranteed with the presence of the army.
Who knows, after Polifron summoned Philae officials, he asked them to carry out military mobilization in the city, gather all the citizen soldiers, and follow his army to repel Dio who was entrenched near Larissa. Niagara army.
As soon as the officials heard this, they immediately rejected the excuse that "we only obey Lord Asidamas' orders."
Polifuron immediately raised the head of Asidamas, and the two officials who opposed the most fiercely were also executed on the spot for "collaborating with the Dionians in order to rebel".
Polifuron’s fierce threats frightened Philae’s officials, and they could only follow and execute them tremblingly.
Before, Jason mobilized the whole of Thessaly and called up the army to go south to fight. The other city-states are the more the better, but only less than 1,000 soldiers were enlisted in Philae, because the Philippines, the place where he made his fortune, Lai needs to have enough strength to serve as a mainstay to stabilize Thessaly's situation after he leads his army away.
Because Philae was originally in a state of combat readiness, more than 6000 citizen soldiers were gathered in just half a day. In addition to the 2000 soldiers who were stationed in Philae, what Polifuron had The number of soldiers is close to 30,000.
Thinking that he has a strong army, even at this time he has received the scout's return that "the Dionian army has captured Larissa", he still confidently believes that he can lead the army to repel Dionian. The army, therefore, 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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In the early morning of the same day, Patroclus summoned Eleventh Corps commander Efiart and gave him an order: The 11th Corps should garrison Lamia and Heraclia and seize the hot springs as soon as possible. Also block the Sesali reinforcements coming from the south.
Accepting this order meant that the Eleventh Army could no longer participate in the military operations to conquer Thessaly. After a little hesitation, Effiart accepted this order, but at the same time he also made a request: if a fighter is found, the first Can the Eleventh Army continue to attack Greek towns south?
Since Efiart is also a battle-tested veteran and a heavy-handed soldier, Patroclus agreed to his request, but at the same time emphasized that no matter what military action he takes, he must first ensure that Lamia, Safety at Heraclea and Hot Springs.
After accepting the order, Effiart immediately began to prepare for the military operation to capture Wenquan Pass. Although according to the confession of the Sesari soldiers captured in Heraclea, there were only more than 200 mercenaries stationed at Wenquan Pass. Its steep terrain and the legendary story still made Efiart take a prudent attitude. He left 2,000 soldiers to garrison Lamia and 1,000 soldiers to Heraclea, personally led 5,000 soldiers and engineering battalions, and at the same time A few Lamia guides were also brought along.
Although the legendary story showed the world the difficulty of seizing Wenquan Pass, it also told the world that "there are remote mountain roads that can go to the south of Wenquan Pass", so Effiart decided to adopt "main force to contain the hot spring pass." , Sent a surprise soldier from the mountain road to seize Wenquan Pass. For this reason, he drew out the Samonaite soldiers from the light armoured brigade and the light infantry brigade to form a magical force (the 11th Army Barracks is in Lucenia, and the soldiers come from the road. In Nepal, many Samonais came out of the mountains in recent years and voluntarily applied to become Dionian citizens. Most of their places of residence are in the eastern plains of Campania and the Dawny region). Led by the Lamia guide, he used his excellent mountain combat ability to complete the roundabout raid on Wenquan Pass.
At the same time that the Eleventh Army was preparing to take military action against Hot Springs Pass, Patroclus had already led the other corps to climb the mountains north of Lamia in order to enter the southern plains of Thessaly. In order to prevent the army from being intercepted by the Sesali army in the mountains, he divided the army into three parts, led by Lamia guides, and advanced into Sesali territory through three routes respectively.
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In the morning of the same day, Shiros brought a large group of middle and low-level officials from various departments of the kingdom (these officials were carefully selected by the Kingdom Administration Office and were ordered to govern the region of Thessaly that was about to be conquered. More than half of them were originally from Thessaly refugees) and came to Larissa.
Note: According to historical records, after Polifron took over as Targus, the first thing he did was to arrest and execute the auxiliary Jason, headed by Asidamas, and govern the Serbia without any reason. Sali’s eight best administrative ministers also banished many officials, and then ruled Thessaly in a brutal manner, which caused great dissatisfaction among the people of Thessaly.
In less than a year, his general Alexander, holding the banner of "Vengeance for Polydurus", rebelled, killed him, and became the new Targus. But this Alexander was also a tyrant. Under his rule, Thessaly's national power was declining and eventually fell into turmoil, and was later conquered by the rise of Macedonia.