Vol 9 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 in the middle of the marathon and were sent to the hospital for emergency rescue, making the audience sigh.
That evening, the celebration banquet held at the Royal Palace of Dionian was the final arrangement of the games, and it also inherited the traditions of the various Greek games, but Dionian made it extraordinarily grand and not only invited the champions of all competitions to go. It also invited important envoys from all friendly city-states participating in the Games.
King Daves presided over the banquet in person, and the atmosphere was very warm.
At the banquet, he clinked glasses with Karalistratus, Ifekratus, Ipamirunda, Agsilius and others. Nowadays, he, who is aloof and in control of the entire Greek world, treats these historical celebrities in past lives just like other people, that is, he does not have much curiosity, and he does not talk too much with them, so as to avoid misunderstandings by other city-state envoys. This made Agsilius's desire to make some requests to King Davos, who had finally met, failed.
Towards the end of the banquet, Daves announced two things: First, given the success of this Games, the Holy Kingdom of Dionian will host a Games every 4 years in the summer, and will try to make it the entire Mediterranean world. The most grand celebration; secondly, the Greek Parliament will hold an important enlarged meeting tomorrow. Not only will the Greek city-state envoys participating in the Games be invited to participate, but also other allied envoys will be invited to participate, and important matters will be discussed with it.
Important event? ! ...The messengers returned to the hotel where they were staying with all kinds of speculations. Some people didn't even sleep well all night.
On the second day of the Greek League meeting, Daves also attended and presided over the meeting.
Facing the envoys and congressmen from various city states, 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 to put forward this proposal in front of the envoys of the Greek city-states. As early as ten years ago, the Athens orator Isocrates declared at the Greek Games and other public occasions that
the Greeks The city-states should stop all conflicts and internal conflicts, unite, and while defending against the threat of Dionian in the west, they bravely attacked Persia, the mortal enemy in the east, to completely eliminate the chief culprit that caused the continuous civil unrest in Greece. The Greeks got enough land to feed more people..."
Although Isocrates’ speech was scorned by the top of the Greek city-states, it had a certain impact on the Greek people. After the Greek War, this advocate was rumored in the city of Athens that
if Isocrates did not continue to instigate, Athens would not join the anti-Dionian alliance, which finally led to the current dilemma
... therefore A few years ago he was expelled by citizens using pottery plates and went into exile in Asia Minor.
Now, after King Davos put forward this proposal, he immediately announced: Regardless of whether the Greek Conference agrees or not, the Holy Kingdom of Dionia will dispatch more than 100,000 troops to attack Persia!
This gave the messengers a great shock.
At the same time, Daves made a suggestion: As long as the allies send their troops to form a coalition, Dionia will split the spoils with them every time they win the battle, and after the victory over Persia, it will be based on the contributions of the allies in the entire war. Part of the conquered Persian territories was divided into the overseas territories of the allies in Asia Minor...
As we all know, Persia is a wealthy kingdom, and the king of Persia is even richer in the world. For the Greek city-states, which are small and poor and financially distressed, it is of course a good thing to be able to earn wealth from Persia and nourish themselves.
As for the strong Greek states such as Athens and Thebes, Dionia controlled the Greek alliance, leaving them no room for further expansion. If they could defeat Persia and obtain the possession of Asia Minor, it would give them another development. The way of national power...So most of the Dionian allies were moved by Davos’ proposal, not to mention that Dionian had some unwavering fans in the Greek Parliament, such as Messiania and Azerbaijan. Kadia, Zakynthos... So the resolution to "declare war on Persia" was finally passed.
The next step is to carefully discuss the formation of the Greek coalition forces and the drawing up of plans to attack Persia.
A few days later, the news of "Dionia declared war on Persia" spread throughout the kingdom, and the people's enthusiasm that had not completely faded because of the kingdom's successful hosting of the Games was ignited again.
When the people were discussing this important kingdom event in the streets and alleys of various cities and towns, Daves summoned Leotichides in the palace office.
"Have you watched this sports meeting?"
"Because many games are held at the same time, so I only watched part of it." Nuwa Library
"how do you feel?"
"Although the Greek city-states have achieved some good results in traditional sports, in all competitions closely related to the military, the championship and the second and third places are almost all won by the athletes of our kingdom. This shows that Dionia The military quality of citizens is far superior to other allies."
"You! You!" Daves laughed blankly: "Three words are not from the military."
"Your Majesty, you are looking for me this time, don't you just want to chat with me?" Leotichides asked calmly.
"I can hear that there is a grievance in your words. It's not that you are still dissatisfied with the fact that I transferred you from the First Army to the Turiyi Barracks and served as the chief instructor of the reserve army?" Daves half-joked , Said semi-seriously.
Leotichides was silent.
In the previous year, Daves issued new instructions to the Ministry of Military Affairs: to establish the position of commander above the corps commander. As the highest level of frontline officers, the corps commander who has commanded multiple corps or joint forces has won many victories. You can be promoted to this post after passing the inspection of the Ministry. It is not only a big increase in the salary and position of the officers of the Kingdom of Dionian, but also has the honor of directly entering the Senate without selection. The kingdom can be promoted in the event of a war. Directly appoint these commanders as army commanders.
This is a great incentive for all kingdom officers, but Daves knows that removing those commanders with outstanding military exploits and high prestige from the army in peacetime and holding some idle positions will surely make people like Leottic. Dess, the generals who don’t care much about their position and devoted 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 relieve Crotokata. The burden of X and future generations.
Of course, Daves will not speak out these secret thoughts at this time, just coughing a few times, and then said in a gentle tone: "You heard the news that the kingdom officially declared war on Persia, right?"
"I already know it. I am afraid that your Majesty came to me this time because of it." Leotichides said flatly.
Davers said slowly: "After discussing with the Military Affairs Department, I think you are the best candidate for the commander of the coalition to be formed, but I don't know what your intentions are?"
Leotich Desmune's face suddenly changed, and he immediately said: "Your Majesty, I am willing to take on this important task!"
A smile flashed across Davers's mouth. He picked up a book on the table and said: "In this case, you are the candidate for the commander of the Greek coalition army! This is the preliminary decision of the Greek League meeting these days. Some things, you take a look first."
Leotichides immediately took it and looked through it carefully. Suddenly his face changed slightly and asked: "Your Majesty, why is there a separate item listed behind the line of 3,500 soldiers and 40 tons of wheat in Sparta... …Agsilius sent 500 Spartan soldiers?!"
Davos looked at him and said meaningfully: "That was added after Agsilaus had a discussion with me alone. Agsilaus will personally lead all the Spartans in Laconia to participate. In this military operation, he hopes that after the complete defeat of Persia, the kingdom can designate a good territory for the true Spartans in Western Asia Minor..."
"Agsilius wants all the Spartans to move out of Laconia and colonize Asia Minor?!" Leotichides, who was always calm, showed some surprise.
"Yes." Daves nodded and said softly: "After Laconia formed a new government, the political situation was relatively stable at the beginning, but when the original Black Rollers gradually got used to the new citizenship and eliminated After the fear of the Spartans, their hatred of Spartans has also increased day by day... Hey, this is what I thought was not very thoughtful! After all, the people who have been persecuted by the Spartans and died in their hands for so many years There are countless Black Rolls~EbookFREE.me~ This kind of hatred cannot be easily eliminated!
Although the Black Laos dared not clashed on the surface due to the rules of the kingdom, they could suppress the Spartans through a civic assembly or other political means. After all, their citizens accounted for more than half of Lagnia. , And the Beliasi also have hatreds against the Spartans, so for more than a year, the Spartans have had a hard time, and it might be a better choice for them to colonize Asia Minor..."
In the past few years, Leotichides deliberately blocked the news from Sparta. He didn't know that the lives of the Spartans were embarrassed. After listening to Davers, he couldn't help feeling a little guilty, but at the same time Also very surprised: After all, Laconia is the homeland where the Spartans have lived for hundreds of years, so they left? ...
After a while, he refocused his attention on the roster and raised his own question: "The Spartan fighters are very powerful. I don't have any objection to them sending troops alone, but why should Agsilius lead the troops? He is almost 80, can he fight?"
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