When the people of Lockley heard the news, they were shocked and a little in awe. For decades, Lockrie had sought a win over Crotone, while the newly formed Dionian League was able to defeat Crotone twice in a row with fewer wins and more wins.

Of course, what is more important for Lockrie is that Crotone has suffered heavy losses and is also locked in a bitter battle with Theoria, which is a perfect time! Unable to wait for news from the messenger Metrophines, Lockry began to plan an attack on the Crotone League, and in order to defeat the sworn enemy in one fell swoop, they mobilized for war in the alliance, and at the same time, the elder brother of Dionysius's wife, the chief general of Lockry, Demordocas, asked for help from Syracuse. At this time, Syracuse had already launched a war against Carthage, and the powerful army was capturing towns one after another, only the navy had not encountered the enemy for the time being, except for some warships along the coastline to escort the army, the rest stayed in the port of Syracuse to standby.

On the one hand, out of friendship with Locke, and more to prepare for the future, Dionysius sent more than 20 three-layer oared warships to aid the Lockleys.

With Syracuse as his backing, Lockley couldn't wait to start the war.

Ionia once again ceased war with Crotone, signed a treaty of defense alliance, and released all the prisoners, and the messenger Metrofinis felt fooled and returned home in anger.

The people of Lockley were furious: Dionia repeatedly ignored Lockley's good intentions, intentionally or unintentionally obstructed Lockley's plan, but because he was currently trying his best to deal with his sworn enemy Crotone, he didn't want to make any trouble, so he put up with it for the time being, and waited for the future. At the same time, Lockry became wary of Dionia.

Although the ensuing battle with Crotone was a small setback, the naval battle was won by Syracuse's reinforcements, and the Crotone army, which had lost its naval protection, was under-manned and was overstretched by the Locklees, who were overstretched and fell into passivity.

Just when Lockley saw the hope of victory, news came: the emissaries of the Crotone League gathered in Tourii to ask for reinforcements from Dionia!

The Rockrie's worst fears have happened. In view of the previous unsatisfactory performance of Metrofinis, they immediately sent the most eloquent Panticapes, but his arrival not only failed to make Dionia change his mind, but instead hastened the formation of the Southern Italian Alliance.

When Panticapes left Turiyi, he angrily said to the senators of the Dionian Senate: "Apollo can testify that we Lockley people have always had a great respect for Dionia, but every time we offer an olive branch, we are rewarded with Dionia's malicious deception and foolishness. From this day forward, Lockley and Dioonia will be enemies! The next time we return, there will be no more messengers of peace, but the wrath of Ares and a mighty army! ”

The patriarchs' faces changed slightly, and Davers said calmly: "Before the last time the Crotone people started a war, their envoy was also standing in the position where you are standing now, and said something similar, and now? ”

Although Davers behaved with ease, he knew that now that the Rockleys were dominant at sea, after Dionya declared war, it was likely that the old things that Crotone's fleet had done to Dionia would be repeated. As a result, he regrouped Ledes' cavalry and patrolled the coastline, while resuming the measures taken by Filicius in response to the raids of Crotone's fleet, while the Senate suspended emigration to Asprarustum and Crimesa.

But days passed, and nothing happened.

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The 1st Army arrived in the city of Sprustum, and more than 1,000 more garrisons joined the army, bringing the number of people involved in the battle to more than 10,000.

Five days later, the army arrived in the city of Corennia without incident, and the reason why it took two days longer than had been planned was because of the lack of anticipation of the terrible state of the roads in southern Greece and the hospitality of the people there as they passed through the Cilitin.

After the Dionian reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, the Coronians rejoiced and prepared to wait for the Dionians to finish their rest and immediately attack the Lockley camp in the south of the city, but before this plan could be implemented, Lockley sent an envoy for peace talks......

A hundred years ago, Crotone defeated Cybaris and quickly became a powerful state in Greater Greece, with the ambition of dominating southern Italy, and launched many invasions to the south. In the worst case, Lockrie and the surrounding city-states were defeated by its attack, and in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Barris, Lockley and Ligem joined forces and took advantage of Crotone's negligence to launch a counterattack, inflicting heavy losses on Crotone's army.

In order to prevent Crotone from regaining its strength, Lockrie and Ligem began a long-term counterattack against the Crotone Alliance, and even united with the indigenous Brutis north of the Crotone Alliance. Crotone has been plagued for decades by the Brutis to the north and Lockley and Ligem to the south, and has never been able to regain his former formality. Therefore, when Athens wanted to establish the city of Turii on the plain of Syria, it could only make concessions and sign an agreement.

However, the collaboration between Lockrie and Lijim was not intimate, and once Crotone's threat waned, the contradictions between the two began to emerge. The biggest conflict was that the two city-states were both seaside cities and close to each other, and competition for port trade was inevitable. Ligim had the upper hand in maritime trade because he controlled half of the Strait of Messina, and Lockley opened up a trade route from Lockley to Medmar and Hibernian (both of which were cities on the west coast of Greater Greece), allowing Greek merchants to reach the west coast by land trade routes without having to pay higher customs duties through the Strait of Messina, thus robbing Ligim of a lot of profits as a transshipment port for trade in the western Mediterranean......

These contradictions cumulated, and finally erupted a few years ago.

Dionysius, who had just become the plenipotentiary general of Syracuse, was widowed because his wife had been killed by angry people in a previous power struggle, and it was also a political marriage for the tyrant to consolidate his power. So after marrying the daughter of a famous nobleman who supported him in the city of Syracuse, and then wanting to marry again, he set his sights on Lijim, which was only separated from Sicily by a strait. On the one hand, it is because the geographical location of Lijim is too important, and on the other hand, there is a woman in Lijim City who is famous all over the place.

But the Ligems refused, they were wary of Dionysius, who became the tyrant of Syracuse, and they did not forget that decades earlier, when the same tyrant of Syracusea was in power, Hieron, had coveted Ligem, and Ligem had to ally with Carthage to protect himself.

Dionysius had no choice but to propose to the Lockleys, and Lockley agreed, which led to the complete breakdown of Lockrie's alliance with Ligem.

As for Dionysius, why didn't he look for Crotone, Crotone? Because during the Peloponnesian War, Crotone and Turiyi were on the side of Athens, and even provided assistance when the Athenian army attacked Syracuse; And Tarantum was a sub-state of the Spartans, and had always been close to Sparta, so it didn't mean much to Dionysius.

Lijim's departure has left Lockrie alone and difficult to cause problems for Crotone. It wasn't until Dionia hit Crotone twice that it rekindled hope.

Lockry also sent emissaries to the Brutis during the war mobilization, but the Brutis, who had always been active in Lockry's invitation, refused Lockry's request this time, and the reason they gave was that the Brutis had attacked Trina alone last year, and as a result, they had suffered heavy losses and needed to recuperate.

However, the Lockley emissary noticed that the Bruti tribe near Cosenza seemed to be doing some kind of change.

The Lokry, aided by the Syracuse navy, attacked the Crotone League. It turned out that even with the loss of Crotone's strength, the emaciated camel was still bigger than the horse. Although Lockrie had the upper hand, he could not win quickly.

Now that Dionia has joined the war, the tide has taken a turn for the worse for Lockrie.

After the failure of diplomacy against Dionia, the Lokli immediately went to the Syracuse players, and Dionysius received the hurried Lockry emissaries in the newly captured city of Selinus.

After listening to the envoy's request, Dionysius frowned, thought for only a moment, and then said bluntly: "The war between Syracuse and Carthage is at a critical time, and I have no reinforcements to send!" Make peace. When I pacify Sicily, I'll help Lockry get it back!" ”

The messenger reluctantly returned to Locke.

The Lokley people are not fools, in the absence of reinforcements, it has no chance of victory, and summing is the only way out. Decades of entanglement with Crotone were common, and Lockrie was used to not insisting on a hopeless battle for the sake of honor.

Therefore, the First Legion of Dionyas rushed in, but as a result, not a single battle took place, and passively became a mediator.

Fortunately, the allies of South Italy were very fond of the Dionian army that first appeared in central South Italy, especially the Coronians, and they were surprised to find that the Dionian soldiers who had camped outside Coronia had been quietly in the camp during the negotiations, without any disturbances, which was even better than the Crotone, who had been allies of Coronia for decades.

And Sipros, the envoy of Trina who had arrived in Corenia with the army, returned to Trina after the negotiations and reported to the council, giving a more detailed and comprehensive account of the Dionian army.