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Chapter 1299 Conquering Canaan and Tire

Before the Dionian army fully surrounded Jerusalem, the Jewish high priest took the initiative to go to the Dionian camp and humbly expressed to King Daves that "the Jews are willing to surrender to the Dionian Kingdom."

Davos was more cautious about this special race in the Mediterranean world that believed in the only god. He quickly accepted the surrender of the Jews, and also made promises and warnings: "As long as the Jews are loyal to the sacred kingdom of Dionia, then the Jews can They have the right to live according to their own laws and religions, but at the same time, Jews cannot affect the life rights of other races under the rule of the Holy Kingdom of Dionia because of their own customs, otherwise Dionia will definitely intervene!"

The next day, King Davos was greeted by the high priest wearing a purple robe and thousands of Jerusalemites led by him at the gate of Jerusalem. Commitments and warnings are read out in public.

The people cheered, and at the same time, the Jewish priests also bound Nehemiah, the governor of Canaan appointed by Artaxerxes, who worked hard for the reconstruction of the Canaan region, and his subordinates, and pushed them to Davos and handed them over to him.

Davos did not severely punish the Persian governor, who was also a Jew, in public. On the contrary, after he brought him back to the camp, he asked Nehemiah in a friendly manner: If he is willing to serve the Kingdom of Dionysia, he will wait until he gets familiar with Dionysia. After establishing Asia's political system and legal system, he will be sent to govern the Canaan region again.

The Jews have a lively character and are not conservative and stubborn. Nehemiah obviously inherited this characteristic. Surrendering to Dionia would not only survive, but also fulfill his long-cherished wish to rebuild Jerusalem and seek revenge on the Jewish priests who betrayed him, so he He happily knelt down in front of Davos.

With Nehemiah as a guide, the Dionian army quickly conquered the entire Canaan region, and then under his leadership, successfully invaded the Samaria region east of Jerusalem, quickly captured many towns, and also captured the Sanballat, the regional governor, gave Nehemiah a big sigh of relief.

Canaan and Samaria were successively conquered by Dionia, making Gaza an isolated Persian enclave.

The Persian defenders panicked, and they desperately wanted to leave this dangerous place and return to their hometown.

Under the strong request of the soldiers, the defender general had to ask the soldiers to bring enough water, quietly leave Gaza City, and march northeast, trying to bypass the area occupied by the Dionian army and pass through the east Trade road on the edge of the desert, heading to Damascus.

Unexpectedly, the Dionian army had been paying close attention to the movements of Gaza City, and soon discovered the intentions of the Persian defenders.

On the second day, the four cavalry legions of Dionia and the Numibian light cavalry corps caught up with the marching Persian defenders. The light cavalry corps harassed with bows and javelins. The Gaza defenders were defeated, and Gaza City successfully fell under the control of the Dionian army.

After completely stabilizing the rear, Davers led the army to continue northward and soon entered the Phoenician area.

It can be said that among the areas affiliated with Persia, the earliest enemies of Dionia were the Phoenicians. When the Phoenicians made the decision to send a fleet thousands of miles away to support Carthage, I am afraid they never thought of it. One day the Dionian army will approach the city, and the first city that the Dionian army will attack is the initiator of the year - Tire.

After Phoenicia surrendered to Persia, the successive kings of Persia promised to allow the Phoenicians to live in their original way as long as Phoenicia paid a certain share of gold and silver every year and their fleet was at their disposal at any time.

For hundreds of years, the Persian kings rarely interfered in the administrative affairs of the Phoenicians. One of the important reasons was that the mountains in Lebanon separated Phoenicia from inland Persia, making land transportation very inconvenient, and this terrain It also had a great impact on Phoenicia. They did not have vast and fertile cultivated land and could not support a larger population. They could only devote all their efforts to developing on the sea, and thus became rich and prosperous because of maritime trade.However, due to certain conflicts in the commercial interests of various Phoenician city-states, although they established a Phoenician city-state alliance very early, they were never able to form a unified country.

Therefore, the king of Persia was quite satisfied with the independent state of the Phoenician city-states, and the Phoenician city-states also took advantage of Persia's long-standing good treatment of them and made a lot of profits from trade with the interior. Therefore, they had great influence on Persia. Still relatively loyal.

Tire was the most powerful of the Phoenician city-states, and its city was built on a small island about eight miles away from the coast, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.King Alexander of Macedonia, who had a successful attack on Persia in his previous life, encountered setbacks here and spent more than half a year.It is precisely because of this memory that Davos was very cautious when he led his army to Tire. He planned to lead the generals to take warships to carefully survey the defense situation of Tire City, and then consider whether to attack the city directly or through a long-term siege. Force him to surrender.

But before he set out, the messenger from Tire arrived first.

The emissary of Tire was still an acquaintance - the former Carthaginian Sufi Tepanlaco.

After meeting Davos, not only did he not show his previous arrogance and hostility towards Dionia, he was even a little flattering, so the atmosphere of the entire meeting was relatively relaxed.

Davos asked about the current situation of Hanno and others, and Tai Panlaco's expression became a little heavy.

It turned out that after Dionia forced Carthage to expel the Hannoists, most people chose to settle in Tire, the former mother state, and Tire also accepted them. However, the overwhelming power of Hanno and others in Carthage was not only unable to reappeared, and Tyr's senior officials also intentionally suppressed it, making it difficult for them to gain some power.The people of Tyre used to be extremely envious of Carthage's wealth and power, but now they often despise these homeless dogs. Although they have no worries about food and clothing (Occleton, who took refuge in Dionysia, persuaded the Carthaginian parliament to allow them to bring them with him out of guilt. He took away part of his property), but his life was relatively depressing, especially for Hanno. He who once responded to everything could not stand such loneliness, and died of depression within a few years.

But since Dionia declared war on Persia, Tyr's senior officials began to pay attention to Tepanlaco and the others. Not only did they often ask them about the situation in Dionia, they also elected Taipanlaco and several others to become members of the parliament. Let’s discuss how to deal with the attack of the Dionian army.

The reason why Tai Panlaco was sent as an envoy was because he was familiar with the Dionians and was more easily accepted by the Dionians.

The purpose of Taipanlaco's mission was to surrender to Dionia on behalf of Tire.

Davos did not appear happy about this good news, but was a little cautious, because in his memory, when Alexander led his army to Tire, the Tire people also took the initiative to surrender, but when Alexander proposed to go to Tire city, When they worshiped Heracles in the Temple of Melce, Tyre immediately refused. It turned out that they just chose to surrender in the face of military pressure and wanted to wait for the final battle between Alexander's army and the Persian army before making the final decision. choice.

So Davos made the same request, and Tai Panlaco said that he could not make a decision and needed to ask the Tyr Council for its opinion before he could reply.

After he left by boat, Davos immediately reminded the generals: Be prepared for battle and don't be fooled by the Tyrians' surrender.

Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, Typanlaco came to the Dionia camp again and sincerely expressed to Davos: The Tire Parliament is ready to welcome the visit of King Davos at any time.

Davos did not refuse, and led a group of elite troops to the island the next day, and was greeted respectfully by the Tyrians.

Heracles is one of the most popular gods in the Sacred Kingdom of Dionia, so Davos worshiped its statue here in a more solemn manner. The Tyrians were always calm during the entire sacrificial process. , which made Davos believe in their sincerity.

Based on what he observed in the city of Tyre, Davos analyzed the reason why the people of Tyre made the opposite choice from the history of the previous life.

That's because in the history of the previous life, although Alexander won consecutive victories in land battles, his navy was very weak. He even disbanded his already weak fleet at one point, causing the Persian fleet to harass the rear he conquered many times and create wars for him. After a lot of trouble, Alexander can only finally gain the dominance of the Eastern Mediterranean by successively capturing the Persian towns along the Mediterranean coast. This is no way.It is also because of this that the Tyrians bullied him that he does not have a navy, and it is difficult to conquer their city in the sea, so they dared to delay the time by swindling surrender.In fact, Alexander did encounter great difficulties when attacking Tyre because of the lack of a navy. Even though the surrender of Cyprus later provided him with a fleet, it took him more than 7 months to capture Tyre. Time, time consuming and laborious.

But the Holy Kingdom of Dionia is different. It has a powerful navy, and it defeated the Persian fleet twice in Samos and Cyprus. It not only established absolute superiority at sea, but also completely controlled the Near East waters.Not long ago, the troops that landed in Cyprus have conquered the entire island. The First and Second Fleets have stationed in the Cyprus military port, which is very close to Tire. They can block and attack Tire at any time, posing a great threat to the city of Tire.

In addition, although the Macedonian army in the previous life was very powerful, its number was only 4 to 5. Compared with the Persian army, it seemed too disparate, so the Tyrians had little confidence in Macedonia's final victory over Persia.

(End of this chapter)