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Chapter 1165 Arcadia Alliance and Assassination
At this moment, hearing the number spit out by Printors and seeing the continuous march of the Dionian army in front, the Arcadian councilors felt: Even if the number mentioned by the other party is watery, there should be no difference. too much.

Therefore, the councilors' attention to Dionia has once again been raised to a higher level, and some even temporarily suppressed other thoughts in their hearts.

"General Clotokatax, let me introduce to you the members of our alliance." Lycomedes's voice broke the sudden silence.

"Great!" Crotokartax nodded with a smile.

"This one is Meletus of Mandinia..."

"Nice to meet you!"

……

Clotokatax had a sincere expression, sincere words and elegant manners, which left a good impression on the introduced MPs, and the whole atmosphere became friendly.

At this moment, there was a small commotion among the members, and then there was a complaint: "Hey, you two, don't rush forward in a hurry, I will introduce you later."

Lycomedes was stunned and quickly looked back, wondering who was so impolite and embarrassing the alliance.

Suddenly, a shout sounded in my ears: "Your Highness, be careful!"

Then, he saw the guards on the left and right sides of Commander Dionia in front of him suddenly rushing forward. At the same time, the two councilors beside him were violently pushed down, and he was also taken down. Someone came from behind. He jumped out and stepped on his hand when he landed, causing pain to his bones.

But he endured the severe pain and shouted urgently: "Be careful, there is an assassin!!"

The two people who rushed out from the crowd, holding bright daggers, rushed towards Crotokotkatax fiercely.

Two palace guards were already standing in front of him, unsheathing their swords and stabbing each other.

One of them was stabbed down immediately, and the other, a burly assassin, turned slightly sideways, avoiding the vital point, and endured the sword attack. Then, using the inertia of rushing forward, he knocked away the guard blocking the way.

At this moment, Printors from the side flew up and kicked him on the ankle where he was standing. He immediately fell forward. The dagger stuck on the sternum touched the ground and pierced the chest. The assassin immediately He lost his breath, and the dagger in his hand fell to the feet of Clotokatax.

Crotokatax has experienced several assassinations like this, but these ones are more dangerous. His expression is still calm, he picked up the dagger, looked at it, and then pushed away the long shield shielded by the guard. , thanking the guards and Printors who intercepted the assassin.

"When I was young, I was from the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade. It was rare that I had the opportunity to fight against the enemy in these years." Printols deliberately joked, trying to make him feel more relaxed.

Clotokatax hurriedly stepped forward to help Lycomedes up. In the process, the palace guards from behind rushed up, holding swords and shields, and killed dozens of panicked members of the Arcadian League. Surrounded.

After Lycomedes got up, he didn't have time to thank him, and regardless of the pain in his right hand, he ran towards the two assassins who fell on the ground, but was stopped by the guards.

"Let me see them! Let me see them quickly!" Lycomedes shouted eagerly.

Crotokatax nodded in agreement.

Lycomedes first looked at the assassin who was pierced by a sharp sword, and then went to look at the assassin whose neck was cut and bleeding profusely.

The assassin's mind had almost fallen into a coma, and he kept murmuring in his mouth.

Lycomedes ignored the blood soaked Bolton and listened closely: "Lord of the gods...Zeus above...the great and loving...Zeus protects...Lord of the gods...Zeus above..."

Since the assassin was already dying, he did not dare to ask loudly. Instead, he frowned and pondered for a while, then turned around and said to Clotokatax with a serious face: "Please believe us! Our Arcadian Alliance We will never just form an alliance and then send people to assassinate our allies at this critical moment!"

Clotokatax looked at the frightened Arcadian councillors, stepped forward without any hesitation, and said loudly and seriously: "I believe you-the allies of Dionia! This may be a little bit... The forces are afraid of seeing us form an alliance, so they adopt such despicable methods to make us, who have just formed an alliance, doubt each other!"

After speaking, he waved his hand, and the palace guards immediately put away their swords and shields and began to retreat, but there were still guards on guard on both sides of Crotokatax.

Lycomedes breathed a sigh of relief for a moment, then looked at the MPs and said loudly: "Agyrus, come here and see if you recognize these two assassins. I just listened to their accents and they sounded like You people to the west.”

"This is absolutely impossible!" Agilus walked out of the crowd and looked at Lycomedes angrily, but he still walked quickly to the two assassins and carefully identified them, then lay down on the ground and listened. Finally, he He stood up and said to Clotokatax very confidently: "These two assassins are definitely not the people of Okomenus! But I can roughly guess where they come from!"

"Where did you come from?" Lycomedes asked anxiously.

Aguilus said with a slightly complicated expression: "It should be near Olympia. The people there have a somewhat different honorific for the god Zeus..."

"Oh, you said that, I remembered it!" Lycomedes suddenly realized it. He hesitated for a moment, and then said to Clotocathax: "These two assassins were probably sent by the Pisa people. Because they are loyal allies of the Spartans, but it may also be the Olympians' own initiative..."

Although Lycomedes did not finish what he said, Clotokatax already understood the meaning of his words: because Dionia regards Hades as the protector of the kingdom, and also regards him as the leader of the Greek gods. Lord, this is obviously completely different from the Greek mainland's view of gods, especially for the people of Olympia, who have the most magnificent temple of Zeus, hold the most grand sports games dedicated to Zeus in Greece, and have the most devout Zeus believers in Greece. The belief of the Dionians is hatred to the bone!
Crotocatakes subconsciously looked at the Zeus Temple still under construction in the new city of Megalopolis, and originally wanted to take the opportunity to promote the Kingdom of Dionia's treatment of all beliefs and religions. It is not that he has never done such a thing in Rome, but after thinking about it, he gave up his mind and said instead: "Now that everything is clear, Pisa and Olympia sent people to assassinate me in an attempt to destroy Dio The alliance between Dionia and Arcadia prevents our Dionian army from reinforcing Arcadia, we must not let their plot succeed! Repel the invading Spartans as soon as possible, and then go back to Pisa People settle accounts!”

"That's right! Mandinia is now being besieged by the Spartans, and they are in urgent need of rescue!" a Mandinian councilor said eagerly.

Other members of Congress also rushed to echo, everyone wanted to get out of this weird and embarrassing atmosphere.

"What's the current situation in Mantinia?" Clotokatax looked at Lycomedes. He had negotiated an alliance agreement with the leader of Mantinia for two days before. I was impressed by his stability and foresight, so I was more willing to believe what he said.

Lycomedes looked at his Mantinian colleagues and said in a serious tone: "We Mantinians have learned the lesson from the last destroyed city. The new city we designed and built should be said to be very strong and not afraid of the enemy. A long siege, but... we did not expect that the number of soldiers hired by Sparta would be so large and well-equipped. If the Spartans continued to launch a fierce attack, we were very worried that the city of Mantinia would not be able to resist for a long time, and this kind of This situation is very likely to happen, because the Spartans now hate us Mandinia extremely! Once the city of Mandinia falls, I am afraid that the entire city will be massacred by the Spartans this time!"

Crotocathax nodded empathetically, and just as he was about to speak, Printoles next to him asked first: "How many people are there in the Spartan army that besieged Mantinia?"

"Based on the reports of messengers who took risks and escaped several times in the city to report the news, the number of Spartan army soldiers is about 2, and the number of heavy infantry is no less than 6000, and they also have more than 1000 cavalry..." Lycomede Si replied.

Printors compared what he said with the information detected by the mountain reconnaissance team, and he had a rough idea, and then gestured to Clotokatax with his eyes.

Clotokatax had calmed down at this time. Since he had almost made some impulsive promise just now, he felt a little guilty and made a please gesture.

Printors immediately asked again: "For the Spartan invasion, what kind of response plan does your Arcadia Alliance have?"

"After receiving the news of the Spartan invasion, our alliance has begun military mobilization across the entire region." Lycomedes said solemnly: "But the Spartan mercenaries came from the northeast of Arcadia. , the southeastern part of Arcadia is adjacent to Sparta, so citizens of the entire eastern city-state must defend their own cities first. It is estimated that the alliance can only gather more than 3000 troops, and it will require at least four or five It will take days to get together, and then we will lead this army to relieve Mandinia, but compared with the Spartan army, our number is too small... So in order to repel the Spartans, we urgently need Your help!”

"Not only is it a matter of rescuing Mandinia, but if Sparta's own army also attacks from the south, it may directly threaten this place! Then another congressman's words resonated with everyone.

Printors looked at these worried Arcadian Alliance MPs and said loudly: "The reinforcements from Dionia are moving eastward and are expected to arrive at the border of the Tegea region this afternoon (the area is connected to the Tegea region). (adjacent to the Spartan territory), we will build the camp there, and try to build the camp as far east as possible, blocking the access to Tegea.

(End of this chapter)