Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 196: Good news comes frequently

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There was a cheer on the side of the road, and soon the cheers spread all over the Plain of Xbari.

The people completely eliminated the last worry in their hearts and began to sing and dance to celebrate this hard-won victory. Some devout believers simply cancelled their plan to go to the port and turned to the Temple of Hades in the city of Turiyi, thanking the king for the blessing of Dionia...

The news spread to the hall of the Senate, and it was also full of joy.

"It seems that the decision we made before was correct! After Master Davos became king, victory came soon and again. Hades responded to our prayers and really blessed the Alliance of Dionia !" Plessinus said loudly, pretending to be excited.

"Yes, thanks to our Senate's daring to make such an amazing decision, we have today's victory!" Mariji also responded.

At this time, most of the elders no longer had the irritation they had when they were forced to elect Daves as the king. They were more fortunate in their hearts, and they agreed with what they said.

Kunogolata didn’t have the usual aversion to the two people’s singing and one harmony. He withdrew his gaze from the two of them, and said loudly: "From the battle report brought back by the messenger, Your Majesty Daves has already Leading the army to trap the Syracuse in Siriting, the final victory is not too far away from us! But now for the Alliance, the biggest problem is food!"

"Master Kuno Gorata is right. Although the existing food is sufficient to supply our troops fighting outside for two months, for the people of Dionia, especially the free citizens and the families of prepared citizens , Their food reserves have bottomed out. Now that the port is open, merchants who come to trade have raised the price of grain, making the people who have already selflessly donated and donated food to the alliance to spend a higher price to buy food! I am afraid that it will not wait for war. After the end, the Dionian people will consume all their savings, which is not conducive to our post-war recovery!" Cornelus said worriedly.

"These merchants are absolutely damn!" Stromboli said angrily: "The price of their grains has doubled and is still rising...Marigi, as a commercial officer, you should think about it. Find a way to vigorously rectify these nasty businessmen!"

Maliji smiled bitterly: "We have already taken some measures, and we have also negotiated with these merchants who went to Turiyi to sell food, so we can keep the price within three times. I tried my best. But now there is a shortage of food in the alliance, and the people have a great demand for it. There are more and more people buying food every day, and price increases are inevitable. We can't force the merchants to sell food at a fixed price. ."

"Why not!" Stromboli said loudly: "We must first guarantee the interests of the people. We should immediately adopt a plan to allow these merchants to sell grain at a fair price, otherwise they will not be allowed to continue in the alliance. Sell ​​goods!"

"You can't do this!" Before Mariji could speak, Melsis called out: "This is a stupid act that undermines the Greeks' free trade tradition! In the future, who else would dare to come to Turii for business, the port? If the decline continues, can we still receive business tax!"

"We Dionia has such a huge territory and such a large population, I don't believe that greedy foreign merchants will not come to do business!" Stromboli sneered, as an Amendorara , He doesn't have a lot of favors with businessmen.

"Even if we use coercive methods, those merchants can not sell food in Turei, but sail to Heraclea or Crotone." Mariji reminded the elders: "At that time we will People like to flock there to buy grains, and they will complain that we have added so much trouble to them! Instead of this, it is better to keep them in Turíy, at least we can take some measures to control it a little Price. After all, the war is not over now, and the alliance’s food shortage will continue. These merchants took risks to transport food. If they can’t make a huge profit here, I’m afraid no one is willing to transport food anymore!"

After saying this, the elders including Stromboli all looked sad: Yes, who told Dioria to be in short supply for food and must rely on these merchants!

"I don't know what happened to Ansitanos's mission to Africa?" Kunogolata thought of Ansitanos with an important mission.

At this moment, the gate of the venue was pushed open, and the guard hurried in, whispering in the ear of the rotating chairman Kunogolata.

Kunogolata immediately beamed with joy, and said loudly to everyone: "Everyone, rest in peace, Master Ansitanos is back, and with him there are ten big cargo ships from Carthage, full of grain! "

Cheers broke out again from the originally sparse venue: "We have food! The people are saved! Ansitanos succeeded!..."

"Unexpectedly, it was the ‘enemy of Greece’ attacked by the Sicilians—Carthage helped us!"

"Let me just say, Hades will not let those who believe in him suffer disaster, he has fulfilled his promise again!"

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As the senators of the Senate rushed to the port of Turri to welcome the arrival of Carthage’s messengers, Hilos, Hironimos, Fidun, and Leides led Dionia-Lijim 15,000 coalition soldiers set out from Trina and marched towards Hibernian.

When he arrived under the city, he found that the city gate was wide open, and the Hibernians took the initiative to leave the city and ask to come down. Last night, the news of "Lorry’s army fiasco" has scared the Hibernians, and Lorry’s defeat of the soldiers refused to enter the city to participate in the defense and fled back to Medema. The performance made the Hibernians panic. In the city, the Hibernians, who had only more than 1,000 civic soldiers in the city, urgently convened a citizens’ assembly, and finally made a painful decision... When the next day they discovered that "tens of thousands of Dionian soldiers were slaying towards the city of Hibernian." "When they surrendered without hesitation.

Before the division of forces, Daves discussed with Hiros how to deal with these Locky allies, so Hiros accepted Hibernian’s surrender, but required: every family in the city must surrender protons to Guarantee their loyalty.

Faced with the huge Dionian army, the Hibernians had to agree.

Under the low city, the Hibernian people weeping and reluctantly bid farewell to their children. The scene was bleak and moving.

Silos remained unmoved and sent a force of a thousand men to **** these hundreds of children to Trina City. At the same time, he put forward a new request to the Hibernians: Collect food in the city as much as possible and provide it to the Dionian troops as rations, otherwise the Dionian soldiers will starve, and their children will first have no children. Something to eat.

Now it is the man who is the knife and I is the fish, and the Hibernians have to succumb again.

The Daly coalition was stationed outside the city of Hibernian. While assisting the Hibernians to collect food, they sent out sentries to detect the enemy's situation and made the engineering battalion lead soldiers to build siege equipment for the next attack on Med Macheng is fully prepared.

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At the same time, Daves, who learned of "Corenia's return to the Southern Italian League", wrote another letter and sent it to the city of Corenia. The letter wrote: "...very I am glad that Corenia made the right choice. Lycias and Cipros and I were very happy after hearing the news! Now the Syracuse army is in Dionia, Crotone, Under the heroic attack of Trina’s soldiers, the strength is constantly weakening. I believe it is not far from the day of its defeat.

Therefore, we hope that Corenia, as a member of the Southern Italian League, will mobilize all the citizens who can fight in the city like us, pick up the shield and spear, and launch an attack on the territory of Lokri, and let this cause this cruel war. The culprit also suffered from the pain of being ravaged by the war, so that it was afraid of sending reinforcements to help the Syracuses who were besieged by us in Siriti because of worrying about your offensive, so as to ensure that we successfully retake Siriti and annihilate it. These evil invaders! Dionia, Crotone, Trina, Lijim look forward to your actions! ……"

This letter prompted the Council of Corenia to convene an urgent meeting. Obviously, the main purpose of Daves’s letter was not to praise Corenia for making the right choice, but to urge them to take immediate action. , Can't stand idly by, the last sentence is more like an implicit threat.

Corenia, who is on the bow, certainly knows the serious consequences of rejecting Davers's request, so the Citizens' Assembly quickly passed the resolution of "attacking Lorrie".

Although there are a thousand civic soldiers trapped in Cirene in Corenia, Corenia is still the least lost in this war in the southern Italian city-state. In the afternoon, Corenia quickly mobilized 4,000 civic troops.

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Corenia’s troops just set off to the south, and the main forces are dispatched outside and the city is empty. Lockley has long been worried about Corenia, the enemy for decades, and has been paying close attention to Corenia’s movements and scouts. The news was sent back quickly.

At this time, Lockley was shocked and overwhelmed by the bad news that followed. Syracuse’s army was defeated, the main force of Lockley was defeated, and the city of Hibernian was in danger... Now the Correnian army suddenly moved south. It was definitely not to help Lockley, any sane Lockley would make such a judgment.

The sudden turn of the battle made Lorry Chief General Demodocus panicked. He actually abandoned the almost dictatorship that had been in the past six months and convened a rare meeting.

However, there was a strange sight in the council. Demodocus repeatedly asked several times: "The **** Correnians broke their promise and invaded our territory! Now the situation is urgent, what can we do? Can you deal with it?!"