ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 529
There was a burst of cheers on the roadside, and soon the cheers spread throughout the Subali Plain.

The people completely eliminated the last worries in their hearts and began to sing and dance to celebrate this hard-won victory.Some devout believers simply canceled their plans to go to the port and turned to the Temple of Hades in Thurii City to thank Hades for blessing Dionia...

When the news reached the Senate Hall, there was also joy.

"It seems that the decision we made before was correct! After Lord Davos became the king, victory came quickly and continuously. Hades responded to our prayers and really blessed the Dionia Alliance!" Pu Lesinas said loudly, pretending to be excited.

"Yes, thanks to our Senate's courage to make such an amazing decision, today's victory was achieved!" Mariji also responded.

At this time, most of the senators no longer felt angry when they were forced to elect Davos as king, and they were more grateful in their hearts. They agreed with what the two men said.

Kunogolata no longer had the usual aversion to the two men's singing. He withdrew his gaze from the two men and said loudly: "From the battle report brought back by the messenger, His Majesty Davos has led the army. The people of Syracuse are trapped in Xiliting, and the final victory is not too far away from us! But now the biggest problem for the alliance is food!"

"Lord Cunogorata is right. Although the existing food is enough to supply our troops fighting outside for two months, for the people of Dionia, especially the families of free people and reserve citizens, their The grain reserves have bottomed out. Now that the port is open, merchants who come to trade have raised the price of grain, making the people who have selflessly donated money and grain to the alliance spend higher prices to buy grain! I am afraid that before the war is over, Dai The people of Onia will use up all their savings, which is not conducive to our post-war recovery!" Cornelus said with a worried look.

"These businessmen are so abominable!" Stromboli said angrily: "The price of the grain they sell has tripled and is still rising... Marij, as a commercial officer, you should think of a solution. Vigorously punish these hateful businessmen!"

Mariji smiled bitterly: "We have taken some measures and have specially negotiated with the merchants who sell grain in Turiyi, so it is our best effort to keep the price within three times. . But there is an urgent shortage of food in the alliance, and the people have great demand for it. More and more people are buying food every day, and price increases are inevitable. We can't force merchants to sell food at a fixed price."

"Why not!" Stromboli said loudly: "We must first ensure the interests of the people now. We should immediately pass a plan to allow these merchants to sell grain at a fair price, otherwise they will not be allowed to sell goods in the alliance! "

"You can't do this!" Before Mariji could speak, Merses shouted first: "This is a stupid act that destroys the Greeks' tradition of free trade! In the future, who will dare to do business in Thurii? If the port continues to decline, , can we still receive business tax?”

"With such a huge territory and population in Dionia, I don't believe those greedy foreign merchants will not come to do business!" Stromboli sneered. As an Amendolara, he said Businessmen didn't have much favorable impressions.

"Even if we use coercion, those merchants can stop selling food in Thurii and sail to Heraclea or Crotone." Marij reminded the senators: "At that time, our people will be the same They will flock there to buy grain, and they will complain that we have caused them so much trouble! Rather than doing this, it is better to leave them in Thurii, at least we can take some measures to control the price a little. After all, Now that the war is not over, the alliance's food shortage will continue, and these merchants are taking risks to transport food. If they can't make huge profits here, I'm afraid no one will be willing to transport food here anymore!"

After saying this, the senators, including Stromboli, all looked sad: Yes, Dioria is short of food and must rely on these merchants!

"I wonder how Ansitanos went on his mission to Africa?" Cunogorata thought of Ansitanos, who had an important mission.

At this time, the door of the venue was pushed open, and the guard hurried in and whispered in the ear of the rotating chairman Kunogolata.

Kunogorata immediately became happy and said loudly to everyone: "Everyone, rest in peace, Master Ansitanos is back, and following him back are ten large cargo ships from Carthage, full of grain!"

The originally deserted venue burst into cheers again: "We have food! The people are saved! Ansitanos succeeded!..."

"Unexpectedly, Carthage, the 'enemy of Greece' that the Sicilians criticized, helped us!"

"Let me just say that Hades will not let those who believe in him suffer disaster. He has fulfilled his promise again!"

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Just as the senators of the Senate rushed to the port of Thurii to welcome the arrival of the Carthaginian envoys, 15000 Dionian-Legim coalition forces led by Hilos, Hieronymus, Feidun, and Ledes Soldiers set out from Trina and marched towards Hibernium.

When they arrived at the city, they found that the city gate was wide open and the Hibernians took the initiative to come out of the city to ask for surrender.Last night, the news of "the disastrous defeat of Lockery's army" had frightened the Hibernians, and Lockery's defeated troops refused to enter the city to participate in the defense and fled straight back to Medema, which made the Hibernians panic even more. , the Hibernians, who had only more than 1000 citizen soldiers in the city, urgently held a citizens' meeting, and finally made a painful decision... When they found out the next day that "tens of thousands of Dionian soldiers were coming towards Hibernian City" At that time, they surrendered without hesitation.

Before dividing the troops, Davos had discussed with Hilos how to deal with these Locri allies, so Hilos accepted Hibernian's surrender, but required that every household in the city must hand over a proton to guarantee their loyalty.

Facing the huge Dionian army, the Hibernians had to agree.

Under the low city, the Hibernian people cried and reluctantly bid farewell to their children. The scene was desolate and touching.

Hilos was unmoved and sent 1000 troops to escort these hundreds of children to Trina City.At the same time, he made a new request to the Hibernians: collect as much food as possible in the city and provide it to the Dionian troops as military food. Otherwise, the Dionian soldiers will starve and their children will be the first to die. Something to eat.

Now it is man for the knife and I for the fish, and the Hibernians have to submit again.

The Daley coalition was stationed outside Hibernian City. While assisting the Hibernian people in collecting food and fodder, they sent sentries south to reconnoiter the enemy's situation. At the same time, they asked the engineering battalion to lead the soldiers to build siege equipment for the next attack on Medema City. So well prepared.

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At the same time, Daves, who learned that "Colonia has returned to the South Italian League" wrote another letter and sent a horse to the city of Coronia. The letter wrote: "...I am very happy that Coronia has returned to the South Italian League." Nea made the right choice. Lysias, Sipulus and I were extremely happy after hearing the news! Now the Syracuse army is in Dionia, Crotone, Trina Under the heroic attack of the soldiers, its strength is constantly weakening, and it is believed that the day of its defeat is not far away.

Therefore, we hope that Colonia, as a member of the South Italian Alliance, will mobilize all the citizens in the city who can fight like us, pick up shields and spears, launch an invasion of Locri's territory, and let the culprit who caused this cruel war It has also experienced the pain of being ravaged by the flames of war, and it did not dare to send reinforcements to help the Syracuse people who were besieged by us in Xiliting because it was worried about your attack, so as to ensure that we can successfully retake Xiliting and annihilate these evil people. aggressor!Dionia, Crotone, Trina, and Lijim look forward to your actions! …”

This letter caused the Corunnia Council to convene an emergency meeting. Obviously the main purpose of Davos's letter was not to praise Corunnia for the right choice, but to urge them to take immediate action and not to sit idly by. , that last sentence is more like an implicit threat.

Of course, Corunnia, who was ready to take action, knew the serious consequences of rejecting Davos's request, so the citizens' assembly quickly passed a resolution to "attack Lochry".

Although Coronia had a thousand citizen soldiers trapped in Silitium, Coronia still suffered the least losses among the southern Italian city-states in this war.By the afternoon, Colonia quickly mobilized a force of 4000 citizen soldiers.

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The Coronian troops had just set out to go south. The main force was dispatched outside and the city was empty. Lockley had long been worried about Corunnia, his enemy for decades. He had been paying close attention to Coronia's movements. The reconnaissance cavalry quickly sent back Got the news.

At this time, Locle was shocked and overwhelmed by the bad news that came one after another. The Syracuse army was defeated, Locle's main force was defeated miserably, and the Hibernian city was in danger... Now that the Coronian army suddenly moved south, it was definitely not for Come to help Lokri, any rational Lokri person would make such a judgment.

The sharp turn in the war situation caused Demodokas, the chief general of Locri, to panic. He actually abandoned the almost dictatorial style of the past six months and held a rare meeting.

However, a strange scene appeared at the meeting, and Demodokas repeated the question several times: "The damn Coronians broke their promise and invaded our territory! The situation is urgent now. What can we do to deal with it?" !”

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