Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 91: Forward the Peloponnese

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This wave even spread to Argos. In fact, the Spartans never controlled the city-state of Argos, but due to its strength, a group of pro-Spartans gradually emerged in Argos’ politics. Congressman Tat, most of these wealthy congressmen have been beaten to death with clubs by angry civilians.

In such a wave, the Thebes are undoubtedly the most beneficiaries. As the victors of the battle, Thebes' influence on the mainland of Greece has greatly increased, not only making the remaining Piosia city-states take the initiative to Thebes. Spartan moved closer and accelerated the progress of its unification of Piosha. Even the Phokes and Locris (non-Dionian Lokri) who are friendly with Sparta, are located in Central Greece. They are divided into two parts, respectively. Located in the southwest and northwest of the Piorcia region), even the Euboea people are showing their favor to Thebes and wanting to form an alliance with it.

The reason was because they saw the weakness of the Spartan power and wanted the military support of a new power to help them resist the threat. The Phokis and Locris worry about Thessaly, while the Euboea worry about Athens.

The Thebans have mixed good and bad news about this. The happy thing is that their power has been greatly strengthened. The worry is that the threat of Sparta has not been lifted. They may have to add a few more powerful enemies: Needless to say, Athens, both sides There is already a rift; although Thessaly is an ally, Jason’s previous performance has already demonstrated his ambitions. At this time, he is recruiting troops from the north. When he leads his army south, I am afraid that the two sides will meet each other. Time.

Under the strong suggestion of Peropidas and Ipamirunda (the Battle of Leuktra made Ipamirunda the most prestigious person in Thebes), the Thebes government decided to The Phokes, Lokris, and Euboea formed an alliance to strengthen themselves as soon as possible to meet the challenges that followed.

Since then, except for the Attica region (Athens), almost all Central Greece has been under the influence of Thebes.

But Thebes is not the biggest threat to Sparta now. The biggest threat comes from Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

Acadia is located in the center of the Peloponnese Peninsula. Geographically, the Laconia region where Sparta is located is separated by towering mountains on the east and west sides, and the sea to the south, only with The northern part of the Arcadia area is relatively low and gentle, and army access is more convenient. Therefore, since the rise of Sparta, it has been interfering in the affairs of Arcadia's city-states, trying to put it under its own control.

Because of the long-term suppression of Sparta, compared with other areas in Greece, Arcadia has never had a city-state that can have a certain influence in the Greek mainland, even before the Corinthian War due to Mandinia. The disobedient (Mandinia is located in the northeast of Arcadia), aggressively invaded its territory and used water attacks to completely destroy its city. The ferocity of Sparta did temporarily deter the Arcadians, but it also made the Arcadians more vigilant and uneasy.

For more than ten years, when Sparta frequently fought in Thebes and was unable to take care of others, the exiled Mandinians returned to their homeland one after another and began to work hard to rebuild their homeland. This aroused the vigilance of the Spartans, and soon sent emissaries to warn the Mandinians: let them get out of this land immediately, or Spartans will send troops to expel them.

But within a few days, other city-states in Arcadia sent envoys to Sparta to intercede for the Mandinians.

At this time, Sparta was short of manpower and materials due to years of fighting, and it relied more on the allies. The Arcadians contributed a lot in it. Sparta had to reluctantly agreed to their request. Of course, Mandini Yaren also had to promise: to re-emerge Sparta as the leader and send citizens to help it fight.

The problem seems to be solved, but it is not. The Mandinians began to step up building walls and rebuilding the city. In order to prevent it from being flooded again, they even dug a new river, changing the direction of the Orpheus River. The newly designed city was more solid and unique and difficult to conquer.

While the Mandinians are building the city, they are also doing another important thing in secret. During the years of exile, one of their leaders, Lukemedes, gradually realized that the Arcadian city-states must unite and establish an alliance to be able to have the confidence to say no to Spartan’s unreasonable demands. Able to defend the safety of the Arcadians.

Therefore, Lukemedes worked tirelessly to persuade the other city-states of Arcadia. Things went very smoothly, because these city-states have been suffering from Spartan for a long time, and they have been led by Lukemedes. Except for a few city-states, everyone agreed to form a pan-Acadia alliance.

However, there was another dispute over which city-state to choose as the capital of the alliance: because the strengths of the Arcadian city-states are not too different, there is not a particularly strong city-state that can overwhelm others; but if you are free Choosing any city-state may allow its strength to grow rapidly after the establishment of the alliance, which other city-states do not want to see.

It was Lukemedes who made a suggestion: Use the power of the alliance to build a new city as the capital of the alliance.

In the end, his proposal was unanimously approved by everyone. After many discussions, the address of the new city was selected, and a more detailed discussion was carried out on the political structure of the entire alliance...

In short, in 371 BC (the 23rd year of the Kingdom of Dionian), the preparations for the Pan Arcadian Alliance were basically completed, and the implementation began intensively.

Sparta learned about "Acadia is preparing to build an alliance", but at this time its war against Thebes is at a critical stage, and there is really no way to stop it, and Arcadia is The city-state has been sending troops and food to help it fight, so the Spartans pretended not to see them and wanted to wait until the Thebes problem was solved before they came back to deal with the matter.

But I did not expect that the Battle of Leuktra suddenly changed the situation in Greece, and the remaining Arcadian city-states were also shaken by this, so under the active persuasion of Lycomides, they also began to take the initiative. Request to join the Pan Arcadia Alliance.

These city-states include Tygia. Tygia is located in the southeast of Arcadia. It has always been regarded by Sparta as a firm ally and a strong gateway to the northern frontier. Now Tygia Actually reverted, which finally made the Spartans intolerable, so the prosecutors sent envoys to threaten the Arcadian city-states, demanding that they must disband the alliance immediately, otherwise they will be angry with the Spartan army.

Of course, the Arcadians will not succumb, but they also know that the Spartans are so powerful that they can't fight against them with their own power alone, so they have to seek the support of external forces. The first target they thought of for help was Athens.

After the Battle of Leuctra, Athens was happy about the decline of Sparta’s power, but also worried about the rise of its neighbor Thebes, so it took an action to invite its maritime alliance city-states and the Peloponnese. On behalf of Athens, the city-state renewed the oath of the previous king's contract, and solemnly proposed: when the enemy is attacked, the members of the oath should help each other.

It seems that Athens’s action is a continuation of the Kalias contract previously signed in Sparta, and a support for Sparta and its allies, which were defeated on the battlefield, but in fact Athens was an attempt Expanding its influence on the Peloponnesian Peninsula, wanting to usurp Sparta's leadership position, but also wanting to draw Persia over.

Mandynia and Arcadia's many city-states also participated in this oath. According to the agreement, Athens was obliged to provide assistance, so the Arcadians sent envoys to Athens.

On the way from Arcadia’s envoy to Athens, a huge fleet of ships is sailing across the Adriatic Sea towards the Peloponnesian Peninsula. It is the Dionian Expedition. Bada's army.

According to the mobilization speed of the army of the Holy Kingdom of Dionia, after the order of the expedition is issued, the areas are generally within four or five days (the area is relatively large and densely mountainous such as Lucania, the military camp informs It takes a lot of time for the citizens of various towns and towns to join the military barracks) to complete the assembly. Even if King Daves wants to discuss with the Ministry of Military Affairs to make some military preparations, the time required will not exceed 15 sky.

The reason why the army was ordered to go out two months later was because of the subsequent truce in Thebes and Sparta, and a series of anti-Spartan waves in the Peloponnese that caused Dioni The high-level sub-level attention paid special attention to the suspension of military operations in order to wait and see the development of the situation. It was not restarted until two months later.

In order to prevent the news of the expedition from being detected by the Spartans in advance, Dionia declared to the outside world that “it was to crusade against the Lusitania who repeatedly attacked and harassed southern Iberia.” Therefore, the place where the army boarded the ship was not determined. In Brindisi, but in Crotone.

The 4th Army Barracks was originally located in Crotone. The 1st and 6th Army Corps were in the north and the other in the south. The distance between them was not too far. The three regiments were ready to ride in Crotone’s harbor soon. The good fleet, under the **** of the 1st fleet, headed east.

The huge fleet passed the heels of Italy, rested in Odrum for one night, sailed across the Adriatic Sea on the second day, and headed south along the west coast of mainland Greece.

Where the fleet passes by, all city-states, villages and towns are panicked, such as Corfu Island. The people of Greece have never seen such a huge fleet. It has more than 300 troop carriers, more than 500 cargo ships carrying heavy weights, and 550 warships. There are more than 1,200 ships in total laid out on the sea. , A full length of five or six miles fore and aft. This is because the entire fleet has chosen to set off in a few days with better sea conditions, and the arrangement of ships is denser.