Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 97: Recognize

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"In addition, you have to send someone to notify Ticias, and let him lead those from Tindaris to persuade and mobilize as many Black Rollers as possible to help us unload the cargo ship..."

Mukru led the way.

Leotichides said to Adoris again: "You go and inform the soldiers of the First Legion not to chase the enemy anymore, and don't march north, immediately gather at the Spartan barracks and hurry up. Expand that camp. And... where did the Spartans escape into the mountains? Send two soldiers to take me to see."

Leotichides can roughly guess where the Spartan warrior might have escaped from, but he still needs to confirm it with his own eyes in order to make a defensive arrangement.

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Because of seeing the power of the Ballista of the Dionian army with his own eyes, Dolios realized that even if he retreated to the barracks, he would not be able to defend for long. The defense facilities of the barracks were inadequate and relatively crude), so he decisively issued two more orders: First, he transferred the command of the army to the adjutant, and asked him to lead the soldiers to the Laganda Pass in the Tagtos Mountains. He tried his best to save Spartan, an army of more than 400 people, mostly composed of real Spartans; secondly, he sent a messenger to Pylos on the west coast to inform the soldiers in the city, Dionia The army has landed in Messenia and ordered it to abandon the small city and retreat north as soon as possible.

But he himself decided to stay. Even if he died at the gate of the barracks, he would never escape, because he knew well: Even though the enemy is strong, out of the consideration of preserving strength, retreat is entirely natural. Excusable, but the loss of Messenia is absolutely a great thing for the Spartans. The resentment and rumors of the people will always surround him. As a member of the King’s Guard and a veteran for more than 20 years, he must Don't want your honor to be slandered.

Unfortunately, he only killed one Dionian soldier, and was stabbed in the thigh by a javelin thrown by the enemy, and became a prisoner, a despicable Dionian!

At this moment, he was held by two soldiers and taken into the big tent. Under the shining of candlelight in the tent, he saw a Dionian general in black armor sitting in front of him: He stayed He has very short hair and no beard on the lower jaw. I heard that Dionians have the weird habit of not storing beards and hair, but the appearance of this person is not less than 50 years old...Huh? what!

"Spartans, tell me, how many soldiers have you deployed in Messenia? How many are Spartans?" Leotichides asked coldly.

Dolios didn't answer, he just stared at Leotichides' face, and even couldn't help but walked a few steps forward.

The guards on both sides immediately grabbed him, and sternly shouted: "The commander is asking you something, please answer quickly!"

Dolios tried hard to break free from the control of the soldiers, and shouted excitedly: "Leotiches? You are Leotiches!"

Leotichides was taken aback. He thought he had left Sparta for so many years and he had changed a lot, and most of the Spartans who knew him at the time either passed away or were retired and could not be on the battlefield. He recognized him, but he didn't expect his identity to be revealed when he set foot on the land of Peloponnese.

Mukru next to him immediately yelled: "This is Lord Prosous, the commander of the Dionian army. He once led the army to defeat the Carthaginian army, capture Syracuse, and conquer Gaul... It’s the famous and victorious general of the Kingdom of Dionia! Spartans, don’t mess around and answer the general’s questions truthfully. If you perform well, we will consider returning you to Sparta!"

"He is really Leotichides, the son of our former King Acis of Sparta!" Dolios still stubbornly pointed to the officer Dionia in front of him, and said loudly:" I will never admit it! The scar on his chin was left behind by the wolf when we were sent by the instructor to hunt the wild wolf. If it weren't for me, he would have been killed by the wolf long ago! "

Dolios said that he had a nose and eyes, and the others in the tent looked towards Leotichides subconsciously: Indeed, Proseus did have a more obvious slender scar on his chin.

If Leotichides has a beard and long hair, or many Leotices are really not sure, but now Leotichides has more wrinkles on his face. It hasn't changed much from when I was young.

With the continuous reform of Sparta’s political system over the past few decades, the king’s power has almost been lost, but in addition to the power to command the troops, there is another right that has not been deprived of, that is, the princes do not have to participate in cruelty since childhood. Military training, otherwise babies born with foot problems like Agsilius would have been thrown into the valley slits long ago, but Leotichides is a rare royal family who applied to participate in Aggo training. The members naturally received the attention of other Spartan teenagers in the barracks, but because of his character, he rarely paid attention to other people. It was just that the wolf kiss that nearly died was too deep in his memory, so Even if the Spartan in front of him was disheveled and bloodied, he could roughly guess who the opponent was.

This world is so small! ...Leotisides sighed in his heart, and then said in a deep voice: "Leave this captive, you all retreat."

Mukru looked at Leotichides, saw that he was calm and determined, opened his mouth, and finally did not say anything, turned around and left the big tent.

The two guards hesitated: "My lord commander, it is too dangerous to leave this Spartan alone in the tent!"

"Will I be afraid of a wounded Spartan, go out!" Leotichides said without denying him.

The guard retired obediently, leaving only Leoticides and Dolios in the tent.

The two stared at each other. After a while, Leotichides broke the silence, pointed to the wooden stool next to him and said, "Sit down.

Dolios was also welcome, dragging his injured left leg and sitting on the stool.

"I didn't expect to meet you here, Dolios," Leotichides said slowly.

"Neither did I expect that the prince of Sparta would become the general of Dionia!" Dolios sneered in his sigh.

"What’s unexpected, Agsilius became king. If I don’t flee from Sparta, would I be willing to stay in Sparta and be accused of being a bastard, and then be like my mother...like me? Like a mother, are you wronged and hanged yourself?!" Leotichides’ voice was trembling, and his rare emotion was a bit agitated: "Except for Dionia, who dared to fight Sparta just after it was established, The other city-states are either Sparta’s allies or Sparta’s affiliates. I don’t have many choices... But now it seems that my choice is correct, so I’m here today."

"Your choice is right?!" When Dolios heard this, he became angry: "Dionia, without declaring war, raided the precious property left to us by our ancestors-Messene Ya, this is completely untrustworthy! Do you know how much difficulty the loss of Messenia will cause us to Sparta?! How many people will lose their share of Messenia? The noble status of a citizen is reduced to inferior?!...Just because you have an enmity with King Agsilius, you don’t hesitate to hurt all the Spartans, don’t forget that you are also a Spartan!"

Leotichides knocked on the table with his hand, and said calmly: "I am now a citizen of Dionia, and it is not up to me to decide to attack Messenia. It was made by His Majesty Daves. Order. Besides, it was Sparta who did not keep the credibility. It was you who ended the peace agreement ahead of schedule. Only then did Thebes have the opportunity to form an alliance with our Dionian. You violated the Kalias contract and once again led your troops to attack Thebe. S, Dionia, of course, must fulfill the covenant..."

"But Thebes has signed an armistice agreement with our Sparta!" Dolios roared.

"Dionia has indeed heard rumors in this regard, but Thebes did not send an emissary to inform us, and Dionia is so far from the mainland of Greece that it is impossible to determine whether such rumors are true or false. So the offensive plan has not changed.

In addition, there are some citizens in Dionia who were born in Messenia. His Majesty Daves promised to them, "To restore independence to Messenia," and today he has fulfilled his promise..." Leo Titchides said lightly.

"So Dionia has decided to become the enemy of Sparta?!" Dolios said cruelly: "Don't think that Dionia is the king and hegemony in the Western Mediterranean, and you think you have no rivals, just Because of your undeclared war and our lack of defense, you were lucky enough to succeed! But soon we Sparta will gather an army to retake Messenia, and I am afraid that it will be Dioni’s turn by then. A soldier has become a captive of Sparta!"

"If Sparta really sends an army to fight for Messenia, it would be better." Leotichides increased his tone, his eyes gleaming with a strange light, looking at Dolios. Said quite meaningfully: "In fact, even if you don’t say it, we are also very clear about the current situation in Sparta. There will be no more than 500 Spartan fighters stationed in Messenia, and all Spartan fighters add up. There are less than 2,000 people, so the council of these elders passed a resolution, granting some Beliasi and a handful of Black Laos citizens as Spartan citizens, but not giving them any land. In fact, their status is still Low, the desire to fight is not strong, and even contradicts the Spartan...

Also, many Spartans have been unable to supervise their own black labors due to their long-term uninterrupted battles, and thus cannot pay enough taxes. They are deprived of the qualifications for public meals. In fact, they have been reduced to the following Wait for someone, they must have deep resentment in their hearts. I think the situation in Sparta now is probably worse than when Kina Dun was killed..."