Chapter 204 Changes in the Battle Situation

"A friendly negotiation? How?" Lysipus frowned and asked.

Suddenly, the door of the venue was pushed open, and Inspector Endius walked in.

The rotating chairman, Lucipus, shouted very dissatisfiedly: "This is the most sacred place in Sparta. As an inspector, don't you understand the procedures that outsiders must go through to enter this place!"

"I'm sorry, Honorable Elder Lysipus!" Endius bowed to apologise, his face still hard to hide his excitement: "Because the Council of Elders has always emphasized the need to keep abreast of the progress of the Corinth war, so I—"

"Looks like there's some good news." Lysipus looked at him and said slowly: "Speak up, young man, let's be happy too, there's been too much bad news during this time."

"The battle report of Corinth, King Agesilaus captured the port of Lycaion!" Endius said loudly.

"Lakeon Harbor!" The elders suddenly showed joy.

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As the isthmus city-state from the Peloponnese Peninsula to Central Greece, Corinth was the main battlefield for the fierce battle between the Spartan Alliance and the Anti-Spartan Alliance in this war.

Half a month ago, the fierce fighting that lasted for more than half a year caused heavy casualties and huge losses to the Corinthians. It also made the people in the city feel confused about the prospect of war. Some pro-Spartan citizens began to act, and they were ready to launch riots. , to overthrow the oligarchs in power and make Corinth surrender to Sparta. But their plans were revealed, and the establishment acted immediately, brutally killing the pro-Spartans.

The massacre weakened the strength of Corinth and shook the people, so the families of the deceased quietly opened the city gate, and Praxitas led a thousand hoplites into the outer city of Corinth.

The Corinthians hurriedly mobilized heavy troops to contain them, and their allies Argos and Thebes also sent reinforcements to fight. After many fierce battles, the two sides failed to completely repel the Spartans, but they did not allow the Spartans to gain more. The Spartans occupied parts of the outer city of Corinth and were at a stalemate with the Allies.

But the Spartan Council of Elders, fed up with Praxitas' long failure to make headway at Corinth, decided to replace him.

When the news reached Praxidas, he was very angry and had a headache because of the endless attacks of the enemy in the city. He simply retreated from the outer city of Corinth without taking any further offensive actions, giving the Corinthians a breather. The Athenians also led many carpenters and masons to arrive urgently, and took the opportunity to repair the repaired or destroyed city walls, and the morale of the Corinthian soldiers was restored.

Today, to the west of the southern end of the isthmus is the city of Collinsbourne.

On the east side is the subsidiary city-state Argolis, which is mainly guarded by the Argos. There is a long wall connecting the two cities, which completely blocks the land passage through the isthmus. To the north of the two cities are Thebes and Athens at any time. The reinforcements came to help through the isthmus road on the east and west sides.

When Agesilaus rushed to take over the army outside the city of Corinth, what he faced was the enemy whose morale was rising and the reinforced city defense. After he had a detailed understanding of the battlefield situation, he did not continue to use the former commander Praxileus to attack the front. Strategy.

He pretended to attack the city of Corinth by force, but let his younger brother Telutias quietly lead the fleet to cooperate closely, and led his elite soldiers to take a warship, bypassing Corinth, and suddenly landed in the port of Lykion, which is located north of Corinth and near the Corinth Canal.

The defenders of Lycheon were unprepared, and soon the Spartans took over the territory.

Just when the Spartan Council of Elders received this good news, Agesilaus had repeatedly repulsed the army sent by Corinth to retake the port, and then he commanded the army to capture the same port not far from Corinth. The port of the city of Sigion belonging to the anti-Spartan alliance.

A few days later, Agesilaus made persistent efforts and led his army and warships to capture a port farther north in Corinth, the port of Pileon, which was the only way for Corinth to connect with the Pioxia region. After the Spartans occupied it, Corinth was surrounded by the Spartans in all directions except that it could communicate with Argolis on the east side. More importantly, Agsilaus took this port as a stronghold and sent troops northward along the western side of the isthmus, and soon entered the Pioxia area, and successively captured Sidon, Clonmion and other city-states, causing the city-states of Pioxia. The shock, the other city-states sent messengers to the Agesilaus camp to seek peace, and even Thebes finally sent messengers under the appeal of the people.

Under this trend, even the Corinthians began to waver.

During this time, Agesilaus was shrouded in the aura of victory and seemed to be the arbiter of all Greece, washing away the shame of being "crippled" in the previous decades.

At this time, the Athenian general Ifikrates led the 3,000 mercenaries he personally trained, through the road on the east side of the isthmus, first entered the city of Argolis, and finally settled in the city of Corinth.

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Udie, the capital of the former Mesapi Kingdom, is located in the center of the southern region of Apulia. It is surrounded by flat fields and dense forests. Agriculture and animal husbandry are relatively developed. It is still the central town of the Mesapi people.

At this moment, in the noble council of Udière, there are consuls from the city-states of Messapi, such as Iglatia, Ugentum, Manduria, Mesagne, Odrum, etc. At the forefront and in the center of the audience is Pachymerus, the consul of Udière. This Messapi nobleman is tall and majestic. He is a distant relative of the former king of Messapi, Attas, but his political skills are far superior. His relative, after years of hard work, has basically controlled the Udier noble council, so that he can easily be elected as the consul every year. There are often rumors about him in the city: we sent away an old king, ushered in a new king.

"Pasimerus, let's not wait, it seems that our allies will not come." Uzentum consul Calmulus couldn't help but said.

"Be patient, I think the Puchetti will come, but they are the furthest away from here, and of course they will come later." Timograss, the consul of Iglatia, persuaded.

"Timograth, I heard that you, Igratia, have been in close contact with the Puchetti people in recent years. No wonder you speak for them. Igratia is almost becoming Puchetti's territory!" Brindi West's commander Tyust sneered. After Brindisi was recaptured, in view of the fact that the original residents of Messapi had been wiped out or sold into slaves by the Tarantums, the city-states voted and elected the tribes of the former great nobles of Udière, Tyust. Settled in Brindisi. According to the previous agreement between the two parties, his tribe and the Pucherti each occupy half of the urban area of ​​Brindisi. It is inevitable that the two sides will have conflicts of interest, especially in the management of the port. Ti people are more angry.

"Who said we Puchetti won't come!" A loud voice resounded outside the venue, King Pucherti's confidant Pullo pushed out of the room and strode into the venue: "If it weren't for you, you would attack Tarantum. The time has been delayed again and again, let us think that you are going to cancel this attack plan, we have come a long time ago!"

Pachymerus smiled slightly: "The wait is for a better time, and now the opportunity has come! Tarantum was hit hard by Dionia, most of the citizens were lost, and Dionia was in Croto. Nei has defeated Tarantum's ally Syracuse, and now the two sides are facing each other in the Celestial Court, this is the best time for us to attack Tarantum with confidence!"

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In the backyard of the great chief's mansion in Potentia City, Puamote was discussing with Vale.

The tribal leader said impatiently: "Big leader, Dionia has occupied Kopsa, my tribal territory is no longer in danger, and I can lead the tribe back to the territory... But you also know that the evil Samo The Nai burnt down my territory, and most of my tribe's warriors were killed and wounded, and now I don't have enough labor to rebuild my village, so you must give me some Samonei captives and enough food!"

Puamote showed embarrassment: "Although Davos gave us a lot of food when he left, but during this time, the tribes returned to the territory and took a lot away, so the food supply in the city is still a little tight. I can only give you a partial amount of food, if you want the tribe to survive this winter, you have to think about it yourself."

"Why only let me think of a way and not let other tribes think of a way?!" Waller felt unfair.

"Because your tribe is close to Kopsa," Puamote said softly.

As a leader, Waller is not a fool. He quickly understood the intention of the big leader: "What if Kopsa doesn't have enough food?"

"If Kopsa was also short of food, Paulette would have already asked me for help." Puamote said calmly: "Waller, Samonai captives are not ordinary slaves, your tribal warriors are too Can you tame them?"

"Don't worry, big chief. You forgot, which tribe in Potentia has the most experience in dealing with Samonai captives, is there anyone else besides our tribe!" Waller said proudly.

Puamt stopped talking. It is true that in the past, the settlement of the Vale tribe was adjacent to the Samonites. Whenever there was a conflict between the two sides, the captured prisoners were often handed over to his tribe to deal with, and most of his tribesmen could speak the Samonite language.

"If you hadn't let us free the former Greek slaves, I wouldn't have asked you to take prisoners in such a hurry." Waller complained again, seeing Puamote about to speak, he hurriedly said: "I know I know! Elijah is now our ally, and we want to have a good relationship with it! …”