The news that "Dionia defeated Carthage and forced it to sign an armistice agreement" spread throughout the Kingdom of Diony, and the people everywhere were filled with joy.

Not long after, the news also spread to Greece, shocking many city-states, especially Sparta.

When Dionia was once in the dangerous situation of siege by multiple forces, Sparta secretly made trouble and instigated the fugitive forces in the Apulia region to regain their former territory. Now Dionia, with his own strength, cleanly eliminated Rome, surrendered Samonet, defeated Carthage, and became the most powerful force in the Western Mediterranean.

Sparta is now trapped in the quagmire of war. In Central Greece, the guilty Spartan elders were worried that their actions could not be hidden from the knowledgeable people in the Kingdom of Dionia. If Dionia suddenly turned against him and wanted to seek justice from Sparta, the situation would undoubtedly make the situation worse.

Therefore, Sparta hurriedly sent an envoy to Turi, congratulating Dionia on winning the war with Carthage in the name of a friendly country, and also tentatively making a request: I hope that Dionia can provide some assistance to Sparta in the war.

Davers had seen through the Spartans' purpose. He neither broke up with the Spartans, accused them of the dirty things they did during the Western Mediterranean War, nor agreed to the Spartans' request. Instead, he made a tactful statement: Dionia won the war, but after the war, he rebuilt his homeland, rectified order, appeased the people, resumed trade, and other difficult matters, such as the kingdom, and the kingdom work together to gradually restore pre-war prosperity, so he did not have the energy and time to care about the affairs of other countries.

Sparta was relieved for the time being.

Davers responded to the Athenian messenger who came to ask for help in similar words.

As for the Thebes, they were still under the siege of the Spartan army at this time, exhausted from dealing with various attacks, and were not very clear about the major events that happened in the Western Mediterranean, and had no energy to understand.

Although Davers gave Sparta a reassurance, the Spartan Elders Council still felt the urgency of the situation. They were dissatisfied with the long-term battle of Sparta King Cleombrotus, but failed to make progress. They finally decided to once again use more Agesilos, who was good at making decisions, as the commander of the entire army.

Agsilous accepted it with gale, and declared: Since the elders and the people think he is the best candidate, he must do his best!

He led his army to the border of Sparta to sacrifice and showed it to the soldiers as a good omen, so the whole army was very motivated.

Because the mountains on the southern edge of the Piosha area adjacent to the Isthmus of Corinth have heavy troops from Thebes, and Athens joined forces with Thebes, it was not only difficult to walk on the road from the Isthmus of Corinth to enter the Piosha area, but also full of dangers.

Agsilous led his army to accelerate the march, and arrived at the port of Sicion, not far from the west of Corinth, and took a boat across the Bay of Corinth and landed on the beach in the Piosha area. Since he had sent people to inform a Spartan army stationed in the area that had seized a mountain pass not far from the landing site, the entire army climbed over the mountains without any obstacles and entered the plains of the Piosha area, and quickly joined forces with the Tespia, which supported Sparta (the city is located to the west of Thebes, only 20 miles apart).

Originally, Agsilus believed that his quick military operations would disrupt the defense deployment of the Thebes, but he found that the Thebes and their allies had built fences and earthen turrets on all the strategic areas around Thebes city, built trenches, and laid deer villages...

If the Spartan army wanted to approach the city of Thebes, they had to conquer these important places, and the Thebes army would not let them do it. Wherever Agesilous led the army to attack, Thebes would send heavy troops to guard it.

Since Thebes is an inside battle, it is more flexible and fast to mobilize troops. Moreover, the Thebes army will not just defend the dead, but will also attack in time to attack Spartan soldiers who have left the large army or are resting in the meal... This series of defensive strategies are mainly made by Ipaminunda, which makes Agsilous deeply troubled, and the battle in half a year has not made breakthrough progress.

In the autumn, the soldiers of the Spartan allies returned to their hometowns, and Agsilous also wanted to lead the Spartan soldiers back to their country. So he appointed Phoebidas to lead the mercenaries to stay in the Terespia area and wait for an opportunity to attack Thebes.

Phoebidas, who was extremely hated by the Thebes, adopted a more vicious strategy. He sent several small troops to bypass the defensive land of the Thebes, kill the Thebes people hiding behind them, and constantly destroy their fields...

The Thebes were extremely angry about this. They ignored Ipaminunda's dissuasion and rashly dispatched their troops to attack Thespia.

As a result, Phoebedas was prepared for a long time. He arranged a targeted array and repelled the attack of the Thebes army in the battle. In order to expand the results of the war and weaken the strength of the Thebes, he personally led his army to chase the defeated soldiers. As a result, the cavalry of the Thebes and some infantrymen were in a panic and fled to an unpassable canyon.

The desperate Thebes defeated soldiers gathered together and decided to fight to the death. At this time, due to the rapid pursuit, the heavy infantry of Thespia fell far behind, and only Phoebidas and hundreds of Thracian light shield soldiers stood in front of the Thebes cavalry.

Things happened too suddenly. Phoebidas had just asked these Thracian mercenaries to set up their formation, and the Thebesian cavalry launched a charge from the front regardless of everything. The momentum produced by the running of hundreds of war horses was undoubtedly terrifying.

After a long distance running, the already exhausted Thracians were afraid. Before the Thebesian cavalry rushed to the front, the Thracians had already begun to retreat.

Thebes army took advantage of the situation to attack fiercely, and Thrace's mercenaries retreated on their entire front, and Phoebidas mixed in the defeated troops, trying to escape.

But how could the Thebes cavalry let him escape? They kept staring at him, and soon surrounded him and stabbed him to death. Then they drove away the defeated soldiers and rushed over torture the Thespian heavy infantry, and the Spartan coalition was defeated.

Thebes army chased after it was dark before it withdrew its troops back to the camp.

In this battle, the Thebes lost first and then won, not only killed their most hated enemy, Phoebidas, but also weakened the strength of Thespia, the people of Thebes cheered and excited the other people in the city-state of Piosha who were controlled by Sparta.
Chapter completed!