Because it was difficult to break through from the front, the coalition generals decided to find another way after discussion. They left their main force to continue attacking in the north to confuse and restrain the Dionians, and assigned more than 10,000 soldiers to go around the Agos.

This army was mainly drawn from the Thessali and Athenian troops, mainly composed of Illyria light shield soldiers and Thrace light shield soldiers, and was led by Iphicratus himself, preparing to cross the mountains from the northeastern border of Sparta, and then raid Tethia (not Tethia). After capturing it, it will serve as the relay base of the coalition forces and continue to attack south from here, and the situation will undoubtedly be much better.

However, the Greek coalition's secret mobilization did not escape the eyes of the mountain reconnaissance soldiers. Printols, who received the news, immediately guessed the Greeks' intentions. He suggested that Crotokatax quickly adjust his military deployment.

When Ifikratus led the light shield soldiers to cross mountains and ridges and arrived in Tethia panting, he suddenly found that the Dionia army had already been waiting here.

Ifikratus decisively ordered a retreat, but the Dionian army quickly launched a pursuit. Although the mountain people of Illyria and Thrace were good at running in the mountains, they were exhausted and were still caught by the light armored soldiers of Dionia. As a result, nearly 1,000 Greek coalition forces were captured before the battle, and even Ifikratus himself was frustrated.

The Greek coalition generals had to discuss again and finally decided to change the direction of the attack and concentrate their efforts to attack Mesenia, because the terrain in the north was relatively flat and wider than the northern border of Sparta.

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After Sparta was conquered, the 1st Fleet of Dionia soon received an order from the Ministry of Military Affairs: to stop the routine patrol in the Aegean Sea. In addition to some warships defending the southern Peloponnese waters, its main force should work with the 3rd Fleet to cooperate with the 9th and 10th Fleets to launch an attack on the four islands on the west coast of Greece. From north to south, they were Kekira, Lucas, Kelalonia, and Zakinsus.

Not long after Kekira became an allies in Athens, Lucas, Kelalonia and Zakinsus were all in the Peloponnese alliance. After the army of Dionia raided Mesenia, in order not to arouse the common hatred of the Greek city-state, although there were fleets carrying supplies to these three islands every day, they did not take any military action against them, but only sent the 3rd Fleet to patrol around them from time to time to deter them.

After learning that the Dionian army had captured Mesenia and declared war on Sparta, the people of these four islands were frightened every day and did not dare to make any hostile actions against Dionia, but they did not expect that what they were most worried about still happened.

Kekira had suffered many wars in the past two or three years, and like a fence-bearing man, he fell to Sparta and then to Athens. Faced with the more powerful army of Dionian, the Kekira people directly chose to surrender. The landing army of Dionian immediately confiscated the few dozen warships left, and strictly controlled the inlet and exit of several ports on the island.

Then the weak Lucas and Keralonia also chose to surrender one after another, and only the people of Zakinsus resisted. However, the two legions of Dionia and nearly 10,000 fleet infantrymen came to attack a small island, and they completely used a ox to kill chickens. In less than four days, they completely conquered Zakinsus.

The submission of the four islands of Kekira, Lucas, Keralonia and Zakinsus means that the west coast of Greece can be completely blocked by the Dionys fleet.

During this period, the Elis people opposite Zakinsus were very nervous and hurriedly transferred the troops attacking Mesenia back and deployed them on the coast to defend against the possible landing of the Dionian army, which also alleviated the defensive pressure in Mesenia.

Also during this period, Leotichides led his army to board the fleet provided by the Phoenician Allied, led by Carthage. Under the escort of the Second Fleet, he sailed east along the coast of Afilica. He encountered two storms along the way. Fortunately, the Phoenicians traveled on this channel all year round, were very familiar with the sea conditions, and went ashore in time to avoid it, so that the entire fleet and fleet did not suffer major losses.

Seven or eight days later, a huge fleet entered the waters near Egypt. In order to prevent accidents, Leoticides led his troops to quickly land on the beach near the western part of the Nile Delta.

In fact, there was no need for him to be so nervous. The Persian king Artaxerxes had just led the undead army to Phoenicia. Although thousands of Persian warships had gathered in Tel at this time, they came from various regions (including the Phrygian fleet led by Timothus) and lacked unified command. The appointment of the naval commander during the war will be made by Artaxerxes personally meeting the naval generals before making a decision.

Therefore, during this period, some Persian naval generals were busy running around in Tel, exploring news, and not much energy to manage the fleet. More than 100,000 sailors from various regions were crowded in various ports in Tel, and conflicts and conflicts were inevitable. The Tels and the generals of the Fleet were already very troubled just to maintain good order, and they had no intention of actively carrying out combat missions.

Only Timothus insisted on leading the Phrygian fleet to patrol the waters near Egypt once every four days, not only to detect the enemy situation, but also to familiarize themselves with the sea conditions. Even though this mission was relatively easy, the Phrygian crew still had a lot of resentment.

It just happened that the Phrygian fleet did not go on patrol. In fact, even if it went on patrol, facing the 2nd Fleet of Dionia, which was on guardian fleet, the Phrygian fleet, which had only dozens of warships, could not confront it.

Hundreds of thousands of Persia gathered in Phoenicia, and the momentum was so great. Egypt was separated from it by a small Canaan kingdom, and the sea was closer. Therefore, the news that "the Persian army is about to invade" had spread throughout Egypt. At this time, the arrival of nearly 40,000 Deonian troops undoubtedly gave the panicked Egyptian people a shot of a heart-warming shot.

The Dionian reinforcements were first warmly welcomed by the people of the city of Naukratis, which had Greek colonial traditions, and the Persian officials of the city tried their best to meet any requests made by Leoticides.

Moreover, after receiving the news, Pharaoh Tanis was overjoyed and personally took a boat to greet him, which was an unprecedented honor for the Dionian reinforcements.

For this reason, Leotichides agreed to the Pharaoh's request and let all the soldiers be fully armed and arranged in an orderly column, walking along the banks of the Nile River to Memphis, which was equivalent to an armed parade.

After hearing the news, the Egyptian people welcomed each other. The mighty image of the Dionian army greatly enhanced their confidence in fighting the Persians.

After completing the transportation mission, the 2nd Fleet and the Phoenician Fleet began to return westward, but when they arrived at the Cyreaniga waters, the 2nd Fleet did not continue to travel westward, but turned northward, passing through Crete, entering the Gulf of Lagnia, and converging with the 1st Fleet.

At the end of July, just when the Greek coalition was unable to break through the defense line established by the Dionysian army on the northern border of Mesenia and Sparta, the Holy Kingdom of Dionys suddenly became lively on all ports on the east and south coasts of the Italian Peninsula. Hundreds of cargo ships gathered at various ports, and the people of the towns all gathered at the ports with the elderly and young, sending off the army composed of their relatives on board the cargo ships, while praying that Hades would protect them from their reputations.

On this day, from Riminium in the north, to Sipentum in the east and central, to Brindisi and Odrum in the south, to Locre, Silitin, Crotone, Turiyi, Tarantum in the south... one ship after another full of soldiers sailed out of these port towns, gradually forming long sea dragons, they crossed the Adriatic Sea, passing through Kekira, Lukas, Kefalonia, Zakinsus, etc.

These islands are now fully controlled by Dionya, and the fleet can stay on any island to rest and replenish water. In addition, several fleets of Dionya have made full use of these islands to impose a relatively tight blockade on the western coast of Greece, leaving the Greek people, especially the Elisians, unaware that thousands of ships full of Olia soldiers were passing through the waters near them continuously.

These troop transport ships gathered in the Gulf of Mesenia and the Gulf of Lagnia, entered the port one after another, and landed on the dock.

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Due to the approaching of the Greek coalition, the Spartans were again restricted. Their adult men were restricted from living temporarily in the port of Hilles, while women and children were forced to return to the soldiers' training camps again, and thousands of already-divided lands were taken care of by the heavily armed Black Roxers.

Agsilous was very angry about this and once protested against Crotokatax, but the prince gave a very good reason: the Greek coalition declared war on Dionia, one of the important reasons was to save Sparta. For the safety of the Dionian army and to prevent some Spartans from doing wrong things, this measure was necessary to take.

Nowadays, people are the slaughter and I am the fish. Although Agsilous was angry, he was powerless and had to retreat in disappointment.

Once they turned over and became masters, the Black Roxers were very serious and strict in their former masters, which made the Spartan warriors feel very frustrated and a fire burned in their hearts.
Chapter completed!