Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 224: The mobilization to declare war on Persia

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In the marathon, nearly half of the runners failed to finish the race, and many runners even fell into a coma in the middle of the marathon and were sent to the hospital for emergency rescue, making the audience sigh.

That evening, the celebration banquet held at the Royal Palace of Dionia was the final arrangement of the games, and it also inherited the traditions of the various Greek games, but Dionia made it extraordinarily grand and not only invited all competitions. The champion of China attended the event and also invited important envoys from all friendly city-states participating in the Games.

King Daves personally presided over the banquet, and the atmosphere was very warm.

At the banquet, he clinked glasses with Karalistratus, Ifekrates, Ipamirunda, Agsilius and others. Nowadays, he, who is aloof and in control of the entire Greek world, treats these historical celebrities in past lives just like other people, that is, he does not have much curiosity, and he does not talk too much with them, so as to avoid misunderstandings by other city-state envoys. This made Agsilius's desire to make some requests to King Davos, who had finally seen him, failed.

At the end of the banquet, Daves announced two things: First, in view of the success of this Games, the Holy Kingdom of Dionian will host a Games every 4 years in the summer, and will try to make it a The most grand celebration in the entire Mediterranean world; secondly, the Greek Parliament will hold an important enlarged meeting tomorrow. Not only will the Greek city-state envoys participating in the Games be invited to participate, but also other allied envoys will be invited to participate, and important matters will be discussed with it.

An important event? ! ...The messengers returned to the hotel where they were staying with all kinds of speculations, and some people didn't even sleep well all night.

On the second day of the Greek League meeting, Daves also attended in person and presided over the meeting.

Faced with the envoys and congressmen from various cities and states, he solemnly put forward the proposal of "declaring war on Persia and forming a coalition to attack Asia Minor", which really surprised all the participants.

In fact, King Davos was not the first to make this proposal in front of the envoys of the Greek city-states. As early as ten years ago, the Athenian orator Isocrates declared repeatedly at the Greek Games and other public occasions. "The Greek city-states should stop all conflicts and internal conflicts and unite. While defending against the threat of Dionian in the west, they bravely attacked Persia, the mortal enemy in the east, and completely wiped out the chief culprit who caused the continuous civil unrest in Greece. The culprit is to obtain enough land for the Greeks to feed more people..."

Although Isocrates’ speech was scorned by the top of the Greek city-states, it had a certain impact on the Greek people. After the war in Greece, this advocate was rumored in the city of Athens that “if Isocrates had not continued to instigate, Athens would not join the anti-Dionian alliance, which finally led to the current dilemma.” A few years ago he was expelled by the citizens with pottery pieces and went into exile in Asia Minor.

Now, after King Davos made this proposal, he immediately announced: Regardless of whether the Greek Conference agrees or not, the Holy Kingdom of Dionia will dispatch more than 100,000 troops to attack Persia!

This gave the messengers a great shock.

At the same time, Daves made a suggestion: As long as the allies send troops to form coalition forces, after each victory in the battle, Dionia will share the spoils with them, and after the victory over Persia, it will also be based on the allies’ How much contribution was made, and a part of the conquered Persian territory was divided into the overseas territories of the allies in Asia Minor...

As we all know, Persia is a wealthy kingdom, and the king of Persia is even richer in the world. For the Greek city-states that are poor and financially distressed, it is of course a good thing to be able to earn wealth from Persia and nourish themselves. .

As for the strong Greek states such as Athens and Thebes, Dionians control the Greek alliance, so that they have no room to expand their power. If they can defeat Persia and obtain the possessions of Asia Minor, they will be given to them. Another way to develop national power...So most of the Dionian allies were moved by Davos’ proposal, not to mention that Dionian has some unwavering fans in the Greek Parliament, such as Messene. Asia, Arcadia, Zakynthos... So the resolution to "declare war on Persia" was finally passed.

The next step is to carefully discuss the formation of the Greek coalition forces and the plan to attack Persia.

A few days later, the news of "Dionia declared war on Persia" spread throughout the kingdom, and the people's enthusiasm that had not yet completely faded because of the kingdom's successful hosting of the Games was ignited again.

Daves summoned Leotichides in the palace office when the people were discussing this important kingdom event in the streets and alleys of various cities and towns.

"Have you watched this sports meeting?"

"Because many games are held at the same time, I only watched part of it."

"What do you think?"

"Although the Greek city-states have achieved some good results in traditional sports, in all competitions closely related to the military, the championship and the second and third places are almost all won by the athletes of our kingdom. This shows that Dai The military qualities of the citizens of Onia are far superior to those of other allies."

"You! You!" Daves laughed blankly: "Three words are not to leave the military."

"Your Majesty, you came to me this time, don't you just want to chat with me?" Leotichides asked calmly.

"I heard that there is a grievance in your words. It's not that you are still dissatisfied with my transfer of you from the First Army to the Turiyi Barracks as the chief instructor of the reserve army commanders, right?" Dave Si said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Leotichides was silent.

In the previous year, Daves issued new instructions to the Ministry of Military Affairs: to establish the position of commander above the corps commander. As the highest level of frontline officers, he has commanded multiple corps or combined forces that have won many victories. After passing the inspection by the Ministry of Military Affairs, you can be promoted to this post. It is not only a big increase in the salary and position of the officers of the Kingdom of Dionian, but also has the honor of directly entering the Senate without being elected. In the event of a war The kingdom can directly appoint these commanders as army commanders.

This is a great encouragement for all kingdom officers, but Daves knows: Transferring those commanders with outstanding military exploits and high prestige from the army in peacetime and holding some idle positions will surely make you like a column. The generals who don’t care about their position and devote themselves to the army are dissatisfied with Otchides, but in order to maintain the stability of the royal family and the kingdom in the future, he must try his best to improve the system of the kingdom’s army while he is still in power, and relieve Chloe. The burden of Tocatax and later generations.

Of course, Daves will not speak out these secret thoughts at this time. He just coughed a few times, and then said in a gentle tone: "You heard the news that the kingdom has officially declared war on Persia, right?"

"I already know it. I'm afraid your Majesty came to me this time because of it." Leotichides said flatly.

Davers said slowly: "After discussing with the Military Affairs Department, I think you are the best candidate for the commander of the coalition to be formed, but I don't know what you want?"

Leotich Desmner's face changed suddenly, and he immediately said: "Your Majesty, I am willing to take on this important task!"

A smile flashed across Davers's mouth. He picked up a book on the table and said, "In this case, you are the candidate for the commander of the Greek coalition army! This is the preliminary meeting of the Greek League these days. You should take a look at some items that have been determined."

Leotichides immediately took it, looked carefully, and suddenly his face changed slightly, and asked: "Your Majesty, why is there a separate line behind the Spartan line with 3,500 troops and 40 tons of wheat? There is one...Agsilius sent 500 Spartan soldiers?!"

Davos looked at him and said meaningfully: "That was added after Agsilaus discussed with me alone. Agsilaus will personally lead all the Spartans on the land of Laconia. The Darfur fighters participated in this military operation. He hoped that after the complete defeat of Persia, the kingdom could establish a good territory for the true Spartans in the western part of Asia Minor..."

"Agcilius wants all the Spartans to move out of Laconia and colonize Asia Minor?!" Leotichides, who was always calm, showed some surprise.

"Yes." Daves nodded and said softly: "After Laconia formed a new government, the political situation was relatively stable at the beginning, but when the original Black Rollers gradually got used to the new citizenship After eliminating the fear of the Spartans, their hatred of Spartans is also increasing day by day... Hey, this is what I thought was not very thoughtful at the beginning! After all, the persecution and death of the Spartans for so many years There are countless black rolls in their hands, and this kind of hatred cannot be easily eliminated!

Although Black Laoshi is afraid of conflicts on the surface due to the rules of the kingdom, they can suppress the Spartans through a civic assembly or other political means. After all, the number of their citizens is occupied in Lagnia. Most of the time, and the Piriasi people also have hatreds against the Spartans, so for more than a year, the Spartans have had a hard time, and it might be a better choice for them to colonize Asia Minor... "

In the past few years, Leotichides has deliberately blocked news from Sparta. He didn’t know that the lives of the Spartans were embarrassed. After listening to Davers’s words, he couldn’t help feeling a little guilty. , But at the same time very sad: After all, Laconia is the homeland where the Spartans have lived for hundreds of years, so they left like this? ...

After a while, he refocused his attention on the roster and raised his own question: "The Spartan fighters are very powerful. I don’t have any opinion on how they want to send troops alone, but why should Agsilius come? Leader? He is almost 80, can he fight?"