"I will never give in to the Spartans, even to death!" Pelopidas' face was full of grief and indignation.

Ipaminonda remained calm, and gently persuaded again: "Calm down, my dear friend, your sacrifice will not do Thebes any good, and the best thing you should do now is to hurry to find the anti-Spartan citizens who have not yet been captured, and lead them out of Thebes." ”

"You let me run away as a coward?!" Pelopidas looked at Ipaminonda in disbelief, as if he didn't know him.

Epaminonda looked earnest and said in a deep voice: "During the reign of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens, Thrasibros fled from Athens, and later he led the rebels to attack many times, and finally liberated Athens...... I want you to be like him! ”

You must know that Thrasibulus led the exiles to take refuge in Thebes, and it was the Thebans who provided them with refuge and support, so his deeds are widely known in Thebes.

Pelopidas fell into deep thought, and Charon and other friends came to persuade him.

Pelopidas finally made up his mind: "Okay, I'll go to Athens!" ”

His friends said goodbye to him, and Charon gave him a package of gold and silver.

Pelopidas hurriedly set out on his way to escape, but he swore to the gods: he would return to Thebes, just after the Spartans!

After Pelopidas left, all eyes were on Ipaminonda. In the midst of the bad news and the panic of everyone, Ipaminonda was able to keep his calm and persuade the stubborn Pelopidas away, so that Charon and the others were impressed by the ordinary-looking man and insisted on keeping him at home.

It was not until the riots in the city subsided that Ipamironda immediately took his leave.

Walking in the city, which was once extremely lively for festivals, but now there are few pedestrians, from time to time he sees shocking pools of blood on the streets, and is also questioned by the rude-speaking and arrogant Spartan patrols......

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On this day, the Spartan raid on Thebes went perfectly, and Phoebedas took complete control of the city of Thebes.

This incident also quickly shook the other city-states of Greece proper, and "Sparta's rash seizure of a city-state that was not hostile to it without declaring war" was a clear violation of Greek tradition and a violation of the royal contract, and made them extremely uneasy. The city-states of Athens, Corinth, Megara, and Argos sent emissaries to Sparta to question them and demand that they withdraw their troops from the city of Thebes.

The Council of Spartan Elders was once passive, and some of the elders scolded Phoebidas for the chaos, but many more elders were very satisfied with the success of Phoebes' raid on Thebes, especially Agocilaus, who declared: Phoebidas' establishment of a pro-Spartan government in Thebes is a great victory! Even during and after the Peloponnesian War, Lysander could not make Thebes completely fall to Sparta, but Phoebidas did, and he was amazing!

But in order to perfunctory the other city-states and appease their anger, superficial efforts still have to be done. As a result, the Council of Elders made a decision: Phoebidas was fined 100,000 drachmas for misconduct (in fact, the money was not paid by Phoebidas at all), and transferred back to Sparta for introspection. However, Phoebidas attacked the city of Thebes because another of Thebes' military consuls, Ismailias, had been accused of secretly conspiring with Persia.

As one of the leaders of the anti-Spartan Thebes, Ismailias was captured by the Spartans on the day the city was broken, so Sparta placed this charge on his head and declared that he would organize a jury with the other city-states to try the matter.

The Spartans were going to try a Theban consul for the crime of secretly communicating with Persia?! It's ridiculous! Isn't Sparta the biggest lackey of Persia!!

The native Greek people who secretly scolded "Sparta is too domineering" took a look at the composition of this jury: except that the Spartans were the citizens of Sparta's allies in the Peloponnese, how could there be any justice, it was completely Sparta who had the final say!

In the end, Sparta executed Ismailias for "collaborating with the enemy" and then transferred back to Phoebedas, but sent another general to take over the defense of the Acropolis of Thebes, where Sparta's army of 1,500 men was still stationed.

The Spartans were cheeky, in the face of the accusations of other city-states, and did not make any changes to hold the results of Phoebidas firmly in their hands, while the city-states of Athens, Corinth, and Argos only protested in the face of this result, and did not make stronger moves, the peace of the king weakened their power, and the strength of Sparta also made them have to hide their dissatisfaction, but Athens began to support the Thebans who continued to flee to its territory.

Phoebidas was recalled, but the task of suppressing the Carchidic League in Northern Greece could continue, so the Council of Elders appointed Tyleutias, the brother of Agosilaus, who had distinguished himself in the Corinthian War, as the general of the expeditionary force.

At the same time, the Council of Elders also decided to restore the city of Platia, which had been destroyed by Sparta 50 years earlier, and that the city in the south of Thebes, which held a passage from the Isthmus of Corinth to Piosia, and that Sparta was about to begin to expand its influence in Central Greece......

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"Brothers, get up, there's a mission!" The squad leader burrowed into the tent. Shouted.

The soldiers, who were resting on their beds, immediately rolled over and sat up.

"Captain, what is the mission?!" Adorys asked first.

"Commander Alexis sent our Fourth Army to attack Sipontum." The squad leader replied.

"Just one of us?"

"Of course, just one of our legions, other legions also have their own missions, such as the First Legion going to attack Vieste......"

"Vest, that's a rather troublesome task." Adoris's casual words aroused the curiosity of his comrades: "Adoris, is it difficult to attack West?" ”

"Not really." Compared to these comrades-in-arms, who knew nothing about the Dauni region, Adoris had learned more about the situation in the Daoni region from his father before the start of the Dauni War: "West is a small town, it is said that there are less than 10,000 people, but it is located at the top of the Lara Peninsula, and it is at least 150 miles from Lusenia to West, and half of it is a mountain road, and if the First Army marches along the coast for safety, the road will be even farther......"

"How far are we from West Pentum?" Another soldier asked.

Adores thought for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be more than 50 miles." ”

"That's great!" The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't rejoice too soon, the warriors of the Dorney tribe may attack us at any time on the way, so Captain Oliver has asked us to march fully armed!"

The squad leader's reminder did not make the soldiers dissatisfied, from the beginning of the war to the present, although the casualties of the Dionian army were not large, but the recruits who had experienced many wars had lost their initial enthusiasm and longing, and felt the cruelty and ruthlessness of the war, including Adoris.

"Hurry up and put on your armor, grab your weapons, and gather outside. If you're late, you'll experience the power of Captain Oliver! ”

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Although Dionia's army captured Luthenia, the central city of the Daoni, Alexis only allowed the First Legion to enter the city to maintain order, and the other legions remained in their original barracks outside the city. After all, the Daoni will soon become the people of Dionia, too many soldiers enter the city, it is difficult to manage, and it will inevitably cause conflicts and disputes, in case the Daoni people's extreme antipathy towards the Dionians leads to a riot, I am afraid that it will not be easy to govern in the future, King Davers may not praise Alexis for conquering Daoni, but will blame him for the mistakes he made.

After the Fourth Army had assembled in the camp, it left the camp and marched eastward.

I didn't walk long before I saw the ruined walls of Lusenia City standing not far to the north, quietly telling the tragedy of the siege the day before.

Adoris still remembers vividly:

"That morning, the city of Luthenia was surrounded by a large army, with several thousand cavalry paraphants and the Tenth Army as a reserve force to detect and defend against the arrival of reinforcements from Daoni.

His Fourth Army was responsible for attacking the west. On their side alone were equipped with 20 ballistae and four large siege towers.

Commander Oliver gave an order.

The ballistas were fired, the siege towers moved forward, and the soldiers carried ladders and shouted the name of Hades, rushing towards the city walls, the grandeur and fierceness of the scene made Adoris more excited than the previous battle at the Ofanto River, because this time his brigade, as the second echelon of the siege, was not immediately engaged in battle, so standing in the rear could see the entire battlefield more clearly.

He didn't know if it was because of him that Oliver had his brigade as a backup, but he never stopped worrying about the siege and the other soldiers falling from the city from time to time.

However, when a company attacked the city, the commander of Oliver's regiment ordered the reserve troops to enter the battle, and Adoris and his comrades rushed up the wooden ladder of the siege tower with high morale and swift speed to storm the already panicked defenders......

The resistance of the Daoni did not last long and ended, when they were excited about the victory and were sent by the legion commander to clean up the battlefield, they saw the wounded and moaning comrades under the city, and many brothers who had died in battle, and Adoris, who was on the rise, was like being poured a jar of cold water, and he experienced the cruelty of war at that moment......"

"You said that when this war is over and we return to Turiyi, will we still be able to see the rugby finals?" A teammate next to him interrupted Adoris' thoughts. (https:)

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