Chapter 170: Confronting Hot Spring Pass

Ifikrates nodded gratified, with Jason's statement, at least his efforts were not in vain.

He looked at the Thessaly military camp, where the fire was already blazing, and countless torches poured out of the camp gate and extended to the north, gradually forming a winding fire dragon...

Ifikrates silently prayed with a solemn expression: May Athena bless and the Thessaly's trip will go well!

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Due to the departure of Thessaly's army, the spirit of the army was fluctuating. In the following days, the Greek coalition forces were closed. At the same time, out of fear, they had to strengthen their defenses.

While Ifikrates was busy appeasing the generals and soldiers of the allied army, he sent people to inform the allies in the Peloponnese, and also warned them to strengthen their defenses.

As expected, Clotokatax, who had discovered the enemy's situation, at the suggestion of Printols, sent the First Army from Sparta to the north quickly and went straight to the part of Greece besieging Mandinia. The coalition forces, the Greek coalition forces that had been ordered by Ifikrates, voluntarily retreated, and Mandinia was temporarily able to escape.

The 1st Army, which failed to fight the Greek coalition, continued northwards, heading straight for Corinth on the Isthmus.

After receiving the news, Ifikrates did not lead the army to rescue, but let the main force of the coalition continue to stay in Camp Leprion, and at the same time put on a posture of attacking Camp Dionia in Messenia at any time, forcing Dionia did not dare to easily move away from the army in Messenia. Only the Greek coalition troops who had besieged Mandinia before followed the First Army, but once the First Army turned to attack it, they quickly avoided it. But their presence prevented the First Army from attacking the seemingly well-defended city of Corinth.

Two days later, the First Army, which failed to mobilize the main force of the Greek coalition, did not dare to stay in a completely unfamiliar enemy territory for a long time. In addition, the rations it carried had been consumed a lot, so it turned around again and returned to Lagonia. .

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Just when the fighting in the Peloponnesus subsided for a while and the two sides presented a strange confrontation, Jason had already led his army across the Gulf of Corinth, landed at Kleusis in Thebes, and quickly headed north, passing through Pio. Summer area, enter the Phokis area.

At this time, the Phokis no longer rejected the Thessaly as much as they did a few months ago. After all, the two sides are now allies, and the Phokis is facing the threat of the Dionysian army stationed in the north, and the Thessaly army is urgently needed. , so Thessaly's army was welcomed by the Phokis, and Greek reinforcement generals came to meet him.

After some negotiation,

Jason had a general understanding of the situation in the north: the Dionysian army occupied Heraclea, and at the same time captured the hot springs pass, and for a time continued south, besieging the city of Kittynion. Fortunately, the Athenians had arrived in time. Reinforcement, the Phokis repelled the attack of the Dionysian army several times. Yesterday, the Dionias may have found the news that the Thessaly army was returning to the division, and had already retreated from Kittynion.

After some deliberation, Jason decided to lead his army northward along the coast, first to capture the Hot Spring Pass, and then to enter the Lamia area. It is conducive to the march of the army, and the Dionysian army also occupied Heraklia, guarding the gateway to the north of the mountains. He has seen the defensive capabilities of the Dionysian army in the Peloponnesus. If it is not possible to capture Herak in time Leah, it is extremely dangerous to hold tens of thousands of troops in the mountains.

Jason knew very well that although Hot Springs Pass was known to Greece as being easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Greeks built this pass to defend against the barbarians (mainly Thessaly) in the north, so it was not against the north but not against the south, it was just a building. It is a one-sided pass, which is why the Persian army sent strange soldiers to bypass Wenquan Pass from the trail and could easily capture it. Therefore, the Thessaly army attacked directly from the south and should be able to capture the pass relatively easily.

But when Jason led his army to the hot coast, he was dumbfounded: a Dionian barracks stood in front, stuck between mountains and sea cliffs, and behind it was the familiar stone wall of Hot Springs ...

It turned out that the main force of Aifei Alt led the army to attack Wenquan Pass at the same time with both positive and odd sides. Although the guards of Wenquan Pass were also prepared for the mountain pass, they were too few in strength. After a day of fighting, the 12th army successfully occupied Wenquan Pass. close.

As a result, Effieart soon discovered the defect of this pass. The main task of the 12th Corps was to block the returning Thessaly army, but Hot Spring Pass could not defend the enemy from the south. However, it was difficult to love Feiart. After all, the terrain here at Wenquan Pass was narrow, and the superior forces could not be deployed, which was beneficial to defending more with less. The soldiers built a camp next to the Hot Spring Pass, and he himself led 3,000 soldiers from the coast to the inland, surveying the terrain along the way, and after discovering the city of Kinion, he quickly surrounded it.

At this time, the purpose of what he did was no longer to expand the results of the battle, but to attract the attention of the enemy and ensure the smooth construction of the camp.

Now, Jason looked at the Dionysian camp ahead and felt a headache. In the Peloponnesus, his army had suffered enough to attack the Dionysian camp, but at this moment he could not retreat, only to break through with all his strength. Only from this camp can we return to Thessaly.

After the order to attack was given, the Thessaly soldiers eager to return home were divided into small groups and continued to attack Camp Dionia along the narrow coast.

After the Hippo War a hundred years ago, a bloody battle broke out again near Wenquan Pass.

However, compared with the Spartan army that guarded here a hundred years ago, the Dionysian army, who was on the defensive side, had more advantages.

The first is that Dionia's defensive strength is not at an absolute disadvantage. The 12th Corps had 8,000 soldiers, and in order to prevent accidents, Effieart also forced Lamia, who had surrendered to Dionia, to recruit 1,000 citizens as a reserve force for the defense of Hot Springs Pass. In addition to the 1,000 Dionian Legionnaires stationed at the Acropolis of Lamia and Heraclea who could not be mobilized, 7,000 soldiers could be put into battle at Effiart, who would continuously pass through the thermal gates and enter the camp , take turns participating in defensive operations. At this time, the Thessaly army had been reduced from the initial 40,000 people to more than 36,000 after fighting in the Peloponnese during this period of time, and its strength was only more than four times that of the defenders, not like the Persian army back then. up to several hundred thousand.

Secondly, Effieart learned the lessons of the Spartan army, and built small defense facilities on several known mountain trails, guarded by Samonai soldiers who were good at mountain combat, to prevent the Thessaly from sneak attacks . Moreover, the 12th Corps has a variety of arms, and the heavy infantry, light armor, javelinmen, and archers are reasonably matched with each other. The defense in the narrow coastal camp can effectively curb the Thessaly's attack.

In addition, Effieart also asked the soldiers to move several ballistas in the legion to the head of Wenquanguan City, and the stone bullets fired could fly over the camp, giving the most damage to the intensively attacking Thessaly soldiers.

Therefore, the Thessaly army launched a fierce attack on the camp for several days, not only with little success, but also paid a lot of casualties.

Just when Jason in the rear was anxious because he could never break through the Dionian defense line, the Thessaly soldiers who were about to attack the camp again were stunned to see the wooden door of the camp suddenly open, and dozens of people came out. A Thessaly man in civilian clothes, they shouted that they were so-and-so from a city-state of Thessaly, and asked to meet the citizen soldiers of their city-state.

It turned out that when Jason led his army approaching the Hot Spring Pass, Effieart immediately sent a messenger to Thessaly to inform the commander-in-chief Patroclus that the main force of Thessaly had returned.

At this time, more than half a month had passed since the landing army captured Philae and forced the surrender of Pharsalus. Since the main powerful state of Thessaly had been controlled by the Dionysian army, the landing army continued to divide its troops and swept the land. The city-states of Surrey either surrendered or were conquered, so the Dionysian army basically conquered the southern and northern plains of Thessaly during this period.

The army is advancing vigorously, and the officials under the leadership of the chief executive of Thessaly, Hiros, are also working intensely. While promising to give benefits to civilians, it is also winning over celebrities in various city-states, plus they are all born in Thessaly, many people in Thessaly began to accept them, so there is a saying that soon in Thessaly It has spread: King Dionia is a Thessaly, a descendant of Hades, the king of Hades. Compared with the tyrant Jason, he is more capable of protecting Thessaly and is more suitable for the role of Thessaly Tagus ...

At the same time, the legend of "Davos's creation of the kingdom of Dionia and the rapid rise of the kingdom of Dionia" also began to spread among the people of Thessaly.

After receiving the news from Ephialt, Patroclus was well prepared. He immediately asked Hiros, who had been handling the entire Thessaly affairs at Philae, to help him, and summoned the various Thessaly who had returned to the Kingdom of Dionia. The famous council members of the city-state told them clearly: Jason was returning with his army, and Dionysus was going to gather the 100,000 army in Thessaly to defeat it completely.

There are many members of these Cesari city-states, but they have witnessed Dionysian's huge army and their terrifying combat effectiveness. Although there are many troops led by Jason, most of them do not think that Jason Finally able to win. They are very worried about this.

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