Chapter 172 The Plight of the Greek Coalition

Ipamironda's words came true. If the thousands of soldiers sent by Athens did not go to reinforce the Greek coalition in the Peloponnese, but went to Phokis, only to make the Thebes suspicious, then a few days later Thessaly's army broke away The Greek coalition forces, hurriedly landed in the port of Kleusis, and rushed northward desperately, thoroughly proved that the news they had heard from the Phokis population was true-Dionia sent troops to land in Thessaly!

This is indeed beyond the expectations of Ipamironda. In his imagination, Dionia may use the defensive exhausted Greek coalition first, and then increase troops to the Peloponnese to regain the disadvantage. He really did not expect that Dionia would send a huge fleet around the Greek mainland and land tens of thousands of soldiers in Thessaly, far away from the battlefield. This is an extremely wonderful military operation, how grand it is Courage!

When Ipamironda heard the news, he couldn't help but be amazed and fascinated, but he was also very clear: Dare to formulate such an extraordinary military plan and put it into action, there is a strong national and military strength behind it, The Pioxia League, led by Thebes, simply couldn't do it.

However, even if Dionia sent troops to raid Thessaly, the top executives of Thebes did not dare to conclude that Dionia had an absolute advantage in this regard. After all, the Thessaly area is vast and has a large population. Jason is returning with his army, and if the Dionysian landing army is negligent, there is a danger of defeat.

The concern of the top officials of Thebes for the Dionysian landing troops did not last long, and Jason's troops retreated from the north and fled into Athens in a panic.

Dionia landed an army of 100,000 troops and conquered Thessaly in more than half a month. Thessaly's army collapsed without a fight, and Jason was seriously wounded... The news from the mercenaries shocked everyone. The brains of the high-level Thebes made them stunned, including Ipamironda, who was once again shocked by the vigor of King Dionia and the strong strength of Dionia.

At this time, every Thebes executive realized that the landing army of Dionia would soon go south, and the defeat of the Greek coalition had been decided. In the face of such a general trend, Thebes could no longer remain neutral, and a decision must be made as soon as possible. , in order to ensure the safety of the Pioxia Union and win benefits for Thebes before this war is over.

Therefore, when the Dionysian cavalry corps rushed to the city of Thebes, the Thebes council had passed a resolution and agreed without hesitation to all the demands of the Dionysian army: First, allow Dionysian The army passed through the Pioxia area safely and smoothly, and could be stationed anywhere in the country; second, urgently lent some rations to the Dionysian army (the soldiers of the army led by Patroclus only carried 5 days of rations and entered the middle After Greece, the rapid southward advance made military supplies temporarily unavailable); third, the port of Dion was opened to the Dionysian fleet (Dion is a city-state on the northeast coast of the Pioxia region and is part of the Pioxia Union. One of the few port towns not far from Oropus, which had taken refuge in Athens, and once it opened to Oria, grain ships from Philae could pass directly across the sea between Euboea and Central Greece. The waterway, to Drian to unload the port, the supply of food for the Dionysian army has become extremely convenient).

Even Thebes also proposed: willing to immediately take back the port of Cleusis, which was occupied by the Greek alliance, and hand it over to Dionia for use free of charge. And Thebes is willing to fulfill the military alliance treaty signed with Dionysian, and send troops to fight side by side with the Dionysian army.

After Patroclus learned that the Thebes not only readily agreed to his request, but also willing to actively cooperate with the battle, although he despised this opportunistic practice of the Thebes, the benefits of being delivered to the door should not be in vain. , he readily agreed to Thebes' request.

So on the fourth day of entering Central Greece, 40,000 Dionian troops joined with 5,000 Thebes soldiers urgently formed near Thebes.

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Athens learned that "the Dionysian landing army is about to go south" was not first reported by Jason's mercenaries who fled to Athens. After learning that the Dionysian army had landed in Thessaly, in order to be prepared, Athens sent some merchant ships to the Gulf of Mariakos every day to investigate the enemy's situation.

Why choose only Mariacos Gulf? This is because the Gulf of Pagasa, which belongs to Thessaly alone, is too closed and can easily be discovered by the cruising Dionysian warships, while there are many ships near the Gulf of Mariacos, mainly from the Euboean city-state, Phoki. Athenian merchant ships were mixed among the city-states of Athens, the city-states of Locris, and those of Lamia (after Lamia surrendered to Dionia, the Dionysian army allowed it to reopen the port), and the Athenian merchant ships were mixed among them, which was convenient for concealment.

After Patroclus led the army into the Lamia area, the merchant ships sent by Athens discovered this situation, and they quickly reported the news to the general executive committee. The Thessaly army led by A Song is still working hard to break through the defense line of Hot Spring Pass, but the Dionysians have sent more troops to the Lamia area. Does this mean that they have conquered Thessaly? Although unlikely, Athens must also be prepared.

Therefore, the General Executive Committee soon sent a messenger, ready to inform Ifikrates in the Peloponnese to lead the army back to Attica as soon as possible.

This action by Athens preceded the entry of Dionysian troops into Central Greece two days earlier.

After the departure of Thessaly's army, the Greek coalition remained in Camp Leprion for the first few days, even as the Dionysian army (1st Legion) stormed into Arcadia to clear Mandinia and even head north Threatening Corinth, Ifikrates was unmoved, and has been busy in the camp to appease the generals of the city-states and stabilize the military.

It was not until he felt that the situation had improved, and he began to lead his army to approach Camp Dionia on the northern border of Messenia, but only made some tentative attacks and no longer fought tragically.

Ifikrates knew very well in his heart: the departure of Thessaly's army made the Greek coalition no longer have an advantage, and the Dionysians were focused on defense. But he couldn't stop fighting, or lead the army to leave, because that would mean admitting defeat, and I'm afraid that some city-state generals who had complained would lead their troops to leave, and the entire Greek coalition would face disintegration. If you want to gather again, Undoubtedly, it was even more difficult, not to mention that there was a Dionian army that was eyeing him.

Through this period of battle, Ifikrates has realized that Dionia is an extremely difficult opponent, and that this powerful opponent who has been defending has not used his full strength so far, he is very uneasy, but now it is difficult to ride a tiger. , had to try to maintain the integrity of the Greek coalition. On the one hand, he hoped in his heart that Jason would successfully drive out the landing army of Dionia, and lead the army to return to the Peloponnese as soon as possible to join the coalition; Of course, there is still a vague idea in his mind, that is, to make peace with Dionia while the Greek coalition still has an advantage.

However, Athens finally got out of the shadow of the defeat of the Peloponnesian, and its national strength gradually recovered. Now Sparta is declining, and many Greek city-states (including those in the Peloponnesus) have joined the Greek alliance headed by Athens. Athens welcomes It is the best time to become the hegemon of Greece again. If you make peace with Dionia at this time, with Dionia's strength, Athens will definitely lose some benefits. This will not only cause dissatisfaction with other Greek city-states, but also lead to the Greek alliance. The disintegration of the company will also trigger protests from the people, so Ifikrates can only think about it in his heart.

Just when he was encouraging to maintain the integrity of the Greek coalition, he received the news from Athens and immediately magnified the uneasiness in his heart. Unlike Callistratus and the others who were in the back, he was on the battlefield. Has a sharper intuition: Although it is unlikely that the Dionian army will conquer Thessaly in such a short time, if they dare to increase their troops to Lamia, it is because they really conquered Thessaly. ? ! Then Jason's army is in danger of collapsing quickly. Without his army blocking it in the north, Dionysian's landing army will quickly move south, and Athens is in danger!

And the Athenian messenger who rushed to the barracks also told a piece of news: when he was passing through the isthmus, he saw the battleship of Dionia appearing in the Gulf of Corinth.

Ifecrates was surprised again, because since the Dionysian army invaded Peloponnese, no warships had been sent into the Gulf of Corinth, so ifecrates dared to suggest that Jason take the The ship went north, and now it seems that the Dionysians are most likely expecting Jason to lead his army to return as soon as possible. This is a conspiracy!

Thinking of this, Ifikrates broke out in a cold sweat, he immediately sent his men to convey an order to the Greek coalition: gather the entire army and retreat to Corinth!

As soon as this order came out, it immediately attracted many questions from the generals of the Greek city-states.

No matter who came to ask, Ifikrates answered: Jason's Thessaly army was in a bad situation in Lamia, the landing force north of Dionia was likely to go south, and the Greek coalition needed to return. Anti-isthmus, in order to take into account the security of Central Greece.

What Ifikrates said was reasonable and reasonable, but many city-state generals did not think so. They repeatedly persuaded and saw that Ifikrates still insisted, the commander-in-chief from Alice expressed angrily that they would part ways. Because once the army has withdrawn to Corinth in the northeast corner of the Peloponnese, it will be far away from Elis in the northwest corner, and there are continuous mountains in the middle, and now the main force of the Dionian army in the south is in the United States. The northern border of Senia is very close to the Elis area. If it attacks Elis, the Greek coalition forces far away in Corinth may not be able to rescue them.

Not only the generals of Alice, but the generals of the city-states of the Arcadia Alliance also expressed similar wishes, but the words were more euphemistic. After all, the Arcadia region is also adjacent to Messenia and Lagonia controlled by Dionia. Once the Greek coalition forces leave and Dionia counterattacks, the first to suffer are the city-states of the Arcadia Alliance. What's more, the Arcadia Alliance betrayed the covenant before, and will definitely be revenge by Dionia.

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