Chapter 224 Mobilization to Declare War on Persia

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In the marathon, nearly half of the runners failed to finish the race, and many runners even fell into a coma midway and were sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, which made the audience sigh.

That night, the celebratory banquet held at the Palace of Dionia was the final arrangement for the Games, and it also adhered to the traditions of various games in Greece, but Dionia made it extra grand and not only invited the champions of all competitions to the event. and invited the important messengers of all the friendly city-states participating in the Games.

King Davos personally presided over the banquet, and the atmosphere was very warm.

At the banquet, he clinked glasses with Carla Listratus, Ifikrates, Ipamironda, Agesilaus, and others. Today, he is high above and holds the authority of the entire Greek world. He treats these historical celebrities in the past life like other people, that is, he is not too curious, and he does not talk too much with them, so as to avoid misunderstandings by the envoys of other city-states. It made Agesilaus's idea of ​​making some requests to King Davos, whom he finally met, in vain.

At the end of the banquet, Davos announced two things: First, in view of the success of this game, the Holy Kingdom of Dionysus will hold a game every 4 years in summer, and will try its best to make it a part of the entire Mediterranean world. The grandest celebration; secondly, tomorrow the Greek parliament will hold an important enlarged meeting, not only the envoys of the Greek city-states who participated in the games are invited to participate, but also the envoys of other allies to participate, and there are important matters to discuss with them.

Important event? ! ... The messengers returned to the hotel where they stayed with all kinds of speculation, and some people didn't even sleep well all night.

On the second day of the Greek Union meeting, Davos also attended and presided over the meeting.

Facing the numerous city-state envoys and parliamentarians, he solemnly put forward the proposal of "declaring war on Persia and forming a coalition to attack Asia Minor", which really surprised all the participants.

In fact, King Davos was not the first person to put forward this proposal in front of the envoys of the Greek city-states. As early as ten years ago, the Athenian orator Isocrates declared many times in the Greek Games and other public occasions that "the The city-states should stop all conflicts and internal conflicts, unite, and bravely attack the mortal enemy Persia in the east while defending against the threat of Dionia in the west. The Greeks got enough land to feed a larger population..."

Although Isocrates' speech was scorned by the high-level officials of the Greek city-states, it had a certain impact on the Greek people. After the Greek War, the initiator said, because of rumors in the city of Athens, "If there was no continuous incitement by Isocrates, Athens would not have joined the anti-Dionian alliance, and finally led to the current predicament"... Therefore A few years ago he was expelled by the citizens with pottery shards,

exile in Asia Minor.

Now, after King Davos made this proposal, he immediately announced: Regardless of whether the Greek conference agrees or not, the Dionysian Holy Kingdom will dispatch more than 100,000 troops to attack Persia!

This gave the messengers a great shock.

At the same time, Davos made a suggestion: as long as the allies send troops to form a coalition, after each victory in the battle, Dionia will share the spoils with it, and after the victory over Persia, according to the contribution of the allies in the whole war, Part of the conquered Persian territories was divided as the overseas possessions of the Allies in Asia Minor...

As we all know, Persia is a wealthy kingdom, and the king of Persia is the richest in the world. For a Greek city-state with a small country and a poor financial situation, it is of course a good thing to be able to earn wealth and nourish itself from Persia.

For the Greek powers such as Athens and Thebes, Dionia controls the Greek alliance, so they have no room to expand their power. If they can defeat Persia and gain the possession of Asia Minor, it will give them another development. The way of national strength... So most of the Dionysian allies were moved by Davos' proposal, not to mention that Dionysian has some staunch supporters in the Greek parliament, such as Mesenia, Arab Cardia, Zakinthus... So the decision to "declare war on Persia" was finally passed.

The next step is to carefully discuss the formation of the Greek coalition and the development of plans to attack Persia.

A few days later, news of "Dionia's declaration of war on Persia" spread throughout the kingdom, and the enthusiasm of the people, which had not yet completely faded because of the kingdom's successful games, was rekindled.

When the people were discussing this important matter of the kingdom in the streets and alleys of the towns, Davos summoned Leoticides in the office of the palace.

"Have you watched this sports meeting?"

"Because many games are held at the same time, I only watched part of it." Nuwa Library

"how do you feel?"

"Although the city-states of Greece have achieved some good results in traditional sports, in the competitions closely related to the military, almost all the champions and the second and third places are won by the athletes of our kingdom. It can be seen from this that Dionia The military qualities of the citizens are far superior to those of other allies."

"You! You!" Davers laughed dumbly: "Three words are inseparable from military affairs."

"Your Majesty, you came to me this time, didn't you just want to chat with me?" Leoticides asked calmly.

"I can hear it. There is resentment in your words. Isn't it because I transferred you from the First Corps to the Turii Barracks to serve as the chief instructor of the reserve army commanders?" Davos half-jokingly , said half seriously.

Leoticides was silent.

In the previous year, Davos issued new instructions to the Ministry of Military Affairs: to establish the post of commander above the legion commander. As the highest level of the front-line officer, the legion commander who has commanded multiple legions or joint forces and won many victories shall be appointed by the military. This position can be promoted after passing the Ministry’s inspection. It is not only a big improvement in the salary and position of the officers of the Kingdom of Dionia, but also has the honor of directly entering the Senate without selection. In the event of war, the kingdom can be promoted. Directly appoint these commanders as army commanders.

This is a great incentive for all kingdom officers, but Davos knew that if those generals with outstanding military achievements and high prestige were transferred out of the army in peacetime and held some idle positions, it would definitely make people like Leotic Des, the generals who don't care about the position and devote themselves to the army, are dissatisfied, but in order to maintain the stability of the royal family and the kingdom in the future, he must try his best to improve the system of the kingdom's army while he is still in power, and reduce the weight of Clotoccata. Burdens of Kess and his descendants.

Of course, Davos wouldn't say these secret thoughts at this time, he just coughed a few times, and then said in a gentle tone: "Have you heard the news that the kingdom officially declared war on Persia?"

"I already know, Your Majesty's coming to me this time is probably related to it." Leoticides said flatly.

Davos said slowly: "After discussing with the Ministry of Military Affairs, I think you are the best candidate to be the commander of the coalition that is about to be formed, but I don't know what your wishes are?"

Leoticides' face suddenly changed, and he immediately said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to take on this important task!"

A smile flashed across Davos' mouth. He picked up a booklet on the table and said, "In this case, you are the candidate for the commander-in-chief of the Greek coalition! This was initially determined by the Greek coalition meetings these days. Some matters, you should take a look first."

Leoticides immediately took it and looked at it carefully. Suddenly, his face changed slightly and he asked, "Your Majesty, why is there a separate line behind the line that Sparta sent 3,500 troops and 40 tons of wheat... ... Agesilaus sent 500 Spartans?!"

Davos looked at him and said meaningfully: "That was added after Agathiros negotiated with me alone, Agsilius will personally lead all the Spartan warriors in Laconia to participate. In this military operation, he hopes that after the complete defeat of Persia, the kingdom can give the real Spartans a separate and good territory in western Asia Minor..."

"Agasilaus wants all the people of Sparta to move out of Laconia and colonize Asia Minor?!" Leoticides, who was always calm, showed a bit of surprise.

"Yes." Davos nodded and said softly: "After Laconia formed a new government, the political situation was relatively stable at first, but when the original Helots gradually got used to the new citizenship, the After the fear of the Spartans, their hatred of the Spartans also increased day by day... Hey, this is also something I didn't think about carefully at the beginning! After all, the people who have been persecuted by the Spartans for so many years and died at their hands There are countless Black Roses, and this kind of hatred cannot be eliminated easily!

Although Heroth did not dare to clash in the open due to the rules of the kingdom, they could suppress the Spartans through citizen assembly or other political means. After all, their citizens accounted for more than half of Lagonia. , and the Periasians also have hatred for the Spartans, so for more than a year, the Spartans have had a hard time, and colonizing Asia Minor may be a better choice for them..."

In the past few years, Leoticides has deliberately blocked news from Sparta, not knowing that the Spartan people were living in embarrassment. After listening to Davos's words, he couldn't help feeling a little guilty, but at the same time. Also very disappointed: After all, Laconia is the homeland where the Spartans have lived for hundreds of years, so they just left? ...

After a while, he refocused his attention on the roster and asked his own question: "The Spartan warriors are very powerful, I have no problem with them sending troops alone, but why should Agesilaus lead the troops? He is almost 80, can he fight?"

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