Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 55: The war potential of Dionia

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"Crottone, please say, let us hear how much Crotone has appetite and want to take advantage of our Dionia!" Amintas, Scombras, etc. Some elders began to yell, and the feelings of guilt just now suddenly became bitter with the enemy.

Lysias glanced at Daves: This young man should not be underestimated!

He cleared his throat and said with a normal look: "The League of Crotone and Crimea demanded that Dionian compensate Crimea with five hundred tarients, in order to compensate Crimea for this time. The huge losses suffered in the battle—"

"What! Five hundred talents!! You are crazy about money!!!" Melses shouted.

Lysias ignored them, looked around everyone, and continued: "Secondly, in order to prevent the aggressive Dionia from invading the neighboring city-states again, we ask Dionia to disband the alliance and allow Amendola, Niutum is independent and abolishes the alliance!"

"What?! Did I hear it wrong?! What right does Crotone have to tell us!"

"We will never agree, this is a humiliation to Dionia!"

"Get out! You dare to say such things in the Dionian Senate, are you crazy!"

"A fool would agree to such a request! Only a fool would make such a request!"

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The venue exploded, and the veterans yelled at them. The grumpy ones such as Amintas and Scombras even went up to beat Lucias, and were caught by Cunogolata and Corneiro. Si and others stopped and became a mess.

Lysias and Anta Auris looked at all this indifferently like outsiders, as if the chaos was not caused by them, until Daves stepped forward and said: "Have you heard! This is ours? Answer!"

He said loudly, word by word: "No—yes—yes!"

"That means war, because you broke the agreement first." Lycias said sternly.

"Then the war is good, isn't this the real intention of your coming here." Daves has already seen through their ways, and he doesn't bother to argue with him anymore. If you want to commit a crime, there is no reason to worry.

His understatement made Lycias not see the expected reaction, like punching an empty punch, and subconsciously said: "War! I'm talking about the relationship between Crotone and Dionia. War!"

Davers smiled slightly and turned around and said, "Are we afraid of a war with Crotone?"

"Great! Finally you can fight again!"

"I can't wait to beat Crotone a lot!"

"If we defeat Crotone once, we can defeat it a second time! This time we will burn the city of Crotone!"

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Faced with the high-spirited veterans, unexpectedly Lycias felt a little uneasy.

"Kunogolata, please write down Crotone's request just now, it will be used in the next negotiation." Daves said suddenly.

"Next negotiation?" Lycias was puzzled.

"Yes, after the war is over!"

Lysias's heart shuddered, he saw the fighting spirit burning in Daves' eyes...

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After sending off the messenger, the atmosphere on the venue was still warm. Compared with the former mercenary veterans with high fighting spirit, the veterans of Amendorara and Turri expressed more concern about the upcoming war.

Konogorata’s words are very representative: "My lord Archon, are we sure that we will fight Crotone? Crotone has been a great power in Great Greece for decades and has A powerful alliance, it can organize an army of thirty or forty thousand people! And it also has twenty-five three-layer paddle warships. We don’t even have a warship. Once war starts, Crotone can easily Block our port. This time, I am afraid that it will not make the mistake of underestimating the enemy again..."

Daves listened carefully and looked around at these people. He could feel their fear of Crotone, especially the Tury. It was the accumulation of three times Crotone’s destruction of the city in their hearts. Power. He thought for a while, and just about to answer, a voice came in abruptly: "I said a long time ago that I would drive away those **** mercenaries, you don't listen, now Crotone's revenge is ushering in! Some people should be held accountable for indulging them first!" It was Pollux who spoke.

Agarcia and they glared at him.

"Am I wrong!" Pollux glared back unwillingly.

"Now that the war has broken out, there is no point in arguing about this. All of us should unite and tide over the difficulties together, and not create differences and weaken our strength!" Burcos persuaded his friends.

"It is precisely because this incident led to the war that the problem should be investigated so as to prevent similar things from happening again in the future!" Pollux retorted stubbornly.

At this time, Antonios stood up and said, “As an inspector, many people have recently reported to me that when the city of Turri was rebuilt, the elders such as Burcos and Plycinus often went to the people’s home to give condolences. , To express their apologies, but some people, as the main assistants of Neonsis, were responsible for Turri’s burning, but they swaggered into the Senate every day and did not regret the Turri people. Yes, we are required to conduct a thorough investigation to prevent similar things from happening again..."

Polyxis's face changed drastically.

By the way, Daves asked: "Polyxis, do you think this question should be investigated?"

"I...I..." Pollux shivered slightly under Daves' sharp eyes.

"Antonius, just like what Burcos said, now we should unite to deal with this life-and-death war, and put aside other things for now." Daves' calm voice pierced into Pollux's ears. Like a pardon, he suddenly relaxed and slumped on the stone bench.

Antonius glanced at Pollux contemptuously, then turned around and said, "Okay, Archon."

Davers said with a relaxed look: "Sorry, I was interrupted just now. What I want to say is, sirs, you are all busy with your own affairs during this time. I know too much. Scombras, do you think the number of citizen soldiers in our alliance is still more than 5,000?"

The stubborn old man Scombras touched his beard, hehe smiled and said, "It's definitely more than that! Now the citizens of Amendorara alone, I'm saying that there are more than 6,000 people including the pre-citizens. , I don’t know much about the others, but there are definitely a lot."

"Let the military officer Felicius tell us exactly how many civilian soldiers there are." After Daves said, Felicius stood up: "My sires, the number I announce below is Turey. The number of people who participated in military training and enlisted into the army by Amendorara, Amendorara, and Niutum is lower than the total number counted by Master Raphaas’ household registration. This is because citizens over forty-five years old and some Citizens in special industries and under the key protection of city-states, such as doctors, engineers, scholars, etc., have not been added to the military training system of civic soldiers."

The elders nodded and turned their attention to Felicius.

"There are about 5,500 citizens of Amendorara who have participated in military training for more than three months. There are about 4,300 in Niutum, and Turei has the most, up to 14,800. A hundred people." Looking at the veterans with a surprised look, Felicius continued to explain in detail: "Among them, there are 7,000 official citizens, and the rest are all prepared citizens. At the end of last December, the consul I was ordered to carry out a preliminary reorganization of them, forming a total of three legions.

The First Corps is mainly composed of veterans and reserve citizens of Amendorara. It is the most powerful unit, and its commander is Capus.

The Second Corps is mainly composed of the citizens of Turei and the reserve citizens, and the commander of the legion is Drax.

The Third Army is mainly composed of citizens of Niutum and reserve citizens. The commander of the army is Hironimos, and the first commander is Bagul.

The number of regular combat soldiers in each legion is now 7,000, and the three legions total 21,000. In addition, there is a reserve team of 3,600 people, with a total of about 24,600 people. In addition, there is a cavalry squad of three hundred people, led by Leides..."

"Felisius did not mention the freedmen with household registration. In fact, we can organize 10,000 to 20,000 freedmen who have been trained to fight as light infantry. In addition, Laos can provide us with two thousand With 3,000 reinforcements, Castellon can provide few troops, but there are at least fifty cavalry..." Daves looked at everyone and said in a passionate voice: "If the whole army presses on, we At least nearly 50,000 troops can be sold! Considering that the ports of Niutum and Turri need to be guarded, the actual number of troops sent is definitely far less than this number, but it is not too different from Crotone's troop strength! My lord, please rest assured that since the establishment of the alliance, the situation of playing more with less will not happen again. We have the ability to compete with Crotone on land!" Daves' words invigorated the veterans. Mintas and the others are even more confident shouting: "When there were few people, we were not afraid of Crotone. Now Crotone is not our opponent!"

"As for the sea." Daves looked at Kunogolata and said, "We really can’t do anything about Crotone, but Crotone’s fleet can block our port. What to do. As long as it dares to enter the mouth of the Corati River, we will destroy it all! And our cavalry will always monitor the beach from Amendorara to Castellon to prevent the Crotones from landing quietly. I believe As long as the people of Crotone have a normal mind, they can’t do this kind of adventure. Dionia and Crotone are so close, they can only rely on land battle to decide the victory or defeat!"