Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 197: Li Jim’s cooperation
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For a while, everyone remained silent, but no one responded.
Demodocus was secretly alarmed: He knew that during this time he was instigated by Dionysius and relied on Syracuse’s powerful army as support to eliminate aliens and attack in Lokri. Political enemies, many bills were directly implemented without the vote of the council and the citizens' assembly, and they were almost exclusively in control of Lockley. But now it seems that many people are holding grudges and are ready to embarrass him when they find an opportunity!
Just when he secretly regretted that such a meeting should not be held, his confidant Panticapace finally stood up and said: "This matter is actually very simple. Quit the Corenians!"
"It's so easy to say, what about Medema?!" Metrophini asked rhetorically.
"It is reported that there are more than two thousand citizen soldiers in Medema, which can defend against the enemy's attack, so we don't need to worry about it for the time being." Panticapace pretended to respond with ease.
"Don't worry?!" Metrophenis sneered: "Medma's messenger reported back that the Dionians who defeated our army had more than 10,000 soldiers, plus Taurena The Lijim, I am afraid that the number of enemy soldiers exceeds 20,000! More than 2,000 Medema citizens want to withstand the attack of 20,000 people?! Dionian’s army is not an ordinary Greek army, but they have A powerful ballista!..."
Metrofinis anxiously reminded everyone: "Once Medmar is lost, the large army of Dionia and Lijim will be able to kill from the west, and then join the army of Corenia, we Lockley is dangerous!"
Metrofinis's words were heard by everyone in the council, and all of them looked nervous, and some couldn't help shouting: "I think...Lorry, let's negotiate a peace with Dionia!"
As soon as these words came out, they were echoed by many people.
"Idiot!" Demodocas finally couldn't help but yelled out: "Crotone, Trina, and Corenia of the Southern Italian League are our mortal enemies for decades. They are here this time. They suffered heavy losses in their wars. Use your pig heads to think about it. 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 coalition attack of Corenia, Dionia, and Lijim!" Someone said strangely, causing many people to snicker.
Demodocus' complexion was pale, if 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 Lockley Council!
Demodocus felt a chill in his heart, and he reminded loudly: "Syracuse also suffered a more terrible defeat in the war with Carthage, but the final victory still belongs to Sila. Cuzha! Now that Syracuse, which owns more than half of Sicily, even if the battle fails, it still has abundant resources and wealth, and a sufficient population. This is far from the city-states of Dionia, Crotone, and Trina. In comparison, the final winner will be Syracuse! And we are here alone to negotiate with the enemy, think about it, after the victory, Dionysius will forgive the betrayers!"
Demodocus stared at everyone. It is precisely because Lockrie and Syracuse were close to each other that Lockrie knew more about the horror of Dionysius, even if Demodocus said "Tin "Racuza won" is just a hypothesis, and they dare not take risks just because it is an hypothesis, so they avoided Demodocas's gaze.
The performance of the crowd gave Demodocus a sigh of relief. He glanced at Metrophenis a few more times, and said firmly: "What we have to do now is to hold on! Hold on to Rocky City! The final victory is coming! At that time, the land of Corenia and even Silitian will be owned by Lokri!"
In the end, the Lorry Council made the decision to "return to Madama’s army and defensive territory", achieving the purpose of Demodocas’s meeting to share the responsibilities and avoiding the possibility that he could make it alone. Decided and suffered the censure of "abandoning the allies." But the uncertain future of the battle also made Demodocus feel uneasy. As a relative of Dionysius, he had to make more preparations.
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Just as Hiros led his army towards Hibernian, the First Legion had already set foot on Sekrian's fleet and headed south.
In the afternoon, the warship entered the Lijim port and was once again warmly welcomed by the Lijim people.
At the same time, the commander of the First Army, Antonios, met Lijim’s ruler and Daves’ father-in-law Atili Cruz, and he brought a message about "The main force of Lockley was in Hibernian because Lijim— —The good news that the Allied forces of Dionia took a heavy hit” excited Attili Cruise and the members of the council present.
Many people even claimed to praise: "Fei Dun did a good job!", but they completely forgot last night, when they learned that Feidun had taken most of Tao Rena's troops and went northward by boat, they were panicked and angry. The accusation: "Fei Dun mobilized troops without authorization, which put Li Jim in a dangerous situation, and he is bound to be taken back to Li Jim for a severe trial!"
Next, Antonios delivered a letter from Daves to Atilly Cruise. After reading it, his face was happy, and he read it out in public at the council. The beginning of the letter was Daves’ Respectful greetings from father-in-law, and talked about Aegness’s pregnancy.
Hearing this, the lawmakers began to congratulate Atili Cruz and compliment him: "I found a good son-in-law!" In fact, the same is true. As the war continues, the two powers of Great Greece ——The strength of Crotone and Lokri was greatly weakened. Even the army and navy that Syracuse had invaded were also hit hard. The Lijim suddenly realized: If there were no major accidents, Dio after the war The power of Nia is bound to have a greater expansion. I heard that Daves is now the king of Dionia, so the father-in-law identity of Attili Cruise is even more precious!
Because of this, how can Lijim let go of flattering opportunities.
Attilly Cruise laughed from ear to ear. He was glad that he had made an extremely correct decision to marry his daughter to the "upstart" Daves, who was a humble background.
In the letter, Daves went on to mention:...Although Dionia defeated Syracuse, the war is far from over. Syracuse has the abundant resources of Sicily and may send new ones at any time. Army reinforcements. Therefore, if you want to end the war as soon as possible, you must direct 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. Force it to surrender! For this reason, Dionia hopes to get the full support of allies Lijim...
The congressmen who were rushing to congratulate the chief general just now stopped talking. They admit that Daves is right, attacking Sicily is the best way to defeat Syracuse, but they want Li Jim to fully support, and the merchant’s habit makes them have to think carefully: full support means providing fleet, Providing the army, providing material transportation, rations... For Lijim, who is also supporting the army to fight against Lockley, this will surely be another huge contribution! And who knows when the upcoming Sicilian war will end! ...
Attilly Cruise looked at the contrasting performance of the crowd and laughed in his heart. He continued to read loudly: "...After the war with Syracuse is over, Dionia will surely seize Messina. , And will co-manage with Lijim! Dionia has no experience in managing an important Strait checkpoint city, and he needs to rely on Lijim's great assistance..."
"I heard you right?! Dionia wants to own Messina with us!"
"Don't you understand me?! It is mainly for us to manage Messina, we can finally get it, and thus completely monopolize the Strait!"
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The members are talking excitedly.
"Everyone, regarding the fact that the allied state Dionia needs our assistance..." When Attili Cruise mentioned this matter again, everyone did not hesitate anymore and expressed their support.
"As long as Master Daves 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! So we will support Dionia!"
"Now the port is open and the shipping route is open. As long as the number of soldiers sent by Dionian to Sicily is not too many, I think we should be able to supply two or three months of rations..."
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Seeing this scene, Atili Cruz couldn’t help but sigh: He was persuaded by his son to give up the idea of monopolizing Messina, and wrote to persuade Daves to take Messina from Syracuse. After winning it, Daves had a bigger appetite, and he used Messina in exchange for Lijim's support for Dionia to establish a foothold in Sicily!
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The next day, Dionysius of Siritin was angry at Davers's unreasonable request. While urging the craftsmen to speed up the construction of ironware, he secretly sent someone to bury the man who was seriously injured and killed in the past two days. The body of the Numibian was dug up quietly, put aside the first level, and asked the messenger to take it to the Dionian camp, to perfuse Daves, and continue to negotiate with Daves on the peace talks.
In Hibernian, the Dionian-Lijim Allied Forces set off to march towards Medmar.
The Medmarians were angry and upset because of the withdrawal of Lorry’s army, but Lorry’s reminders and warnings made them have illusions about the Syracuses, so they decided to stand by and wait for help.
After failing to persuade him to surrender, Hiros negotiated with Fidon, Hironimos, and Ledes, and decided to attack the city of Medema.
The troops began to build camps, and the engineering battalions continued to build siege equipment.