Agurrios's words made the other generals think.

"But even if we don't tell the Greek coalition thee Sasseli will send a messenger to Peloponnese and tell the tyrant, and the Fokis in the north, too..." Someone raised objections.

"I think Agurrios' suggestion makes sense." Cabrias first expressed his agreement: "We can send a messenger to quietly inform Iphicratus, asking him to urge the Greek coalition to seize the time to increase the attack on Mesenia and Sparta. As for the messengers sent by Thessali, whether by sea or by land, they must pass through the sphere of influence we control. We only need to strengthen patrols of Saron Bay and the isthmus. The messenger of Thessali cannot escape our palms. We only need--" Cabrias stretched out his right hand and made a chopping gesture, and everyone knew it.

"As for the Fokis, they were afraid that the Thessals were more than Dionia, we just needed to send troops to support them, and they would agree with our approach."

After Cabrias finished speaking, the surroundings were silent for a moment, and soon someone said, "I think Cabrias's advice is feasible. Even if the tyrant ends up getting the news, we have won time. Maybe in this time, we have taken back Sparta."

"I agree, too."

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The Athenian generals expressed their agreement, only Calistratus was still hesitant, but the general situation was decided.

His father Agurrios calmly closed his eyes again to rest.

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After the army set off on a boat this morning, Crotokataks, Printols and other generals stationed in Peloponnese were always concerned about the important event of "whether landing in Thessali can be successful?" and waited until late at night, and the fleet returned one after another, and they received the exact news and could finally celebrate the successful landing.

But this is just the beginning, because from tomorrow, whether it is Thessali, Central Greece, or even the Peloponnese city-states may know the news that the "Dionian army raided Thessali". They will inevitably take corresponding measures, and Dionia cannot often send such a large fleet to Thessali to transport supplies. After all, the owners and crew are not soldiers and should not bear such a great risk anymore. The nearly 100,000 troops in the Peloponnese consume huge military rations every day. They must occupy Thessali as soon as possible to obtain all the supplies of Thessali to support the army in continuous combat. Therefore, the next few days will be crucial for both sides.

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After killing his second brother Polyphron immediately let the confidant troops under his command surrounded the central army's tent, and arrested all the soldiers of Polyphorus's personal guards on the grounds that "Polyphorus was assassinated by the Dionians and the pro-guard was malfeased." Then he notified the generals of the army to come to the tent to discuss matters urgently.

Before dawn, the generals of Thessali gathered in the tent and were shocked to learn that "Polydorus was assassinated by the Dionians", and they were also inevitably confused.

But Polyfron did not give them more time to think, nor did he obey their dissuasion, and directly announced that all the soldiers of the guard who had "debunked their duties" would be taken outside the tent to be beheaded and displayed.

In an instant, people rolled in the camp and screamed in pain.

This scene scared the generals in the tent. Facing the sharpened Polyfron's confidant troops, they quickly admitted that Polyfron would replace Polydorus and become the interim military commander of Thessali.

After taking control of the camp, Polyfron first blocked the camp, forbidden anyone from going out, and then sent a messenger to rush to the city of Philae. In the name of Polydorus, he said "there are important military affairs to discuss with the left-behind minister Asidamas and others, hoping that they can go to the camp."

Asidamas was worried about the incident of "Dionian army suddenly landing in Thessali". He did not fall asleep all night. After hearing the words of the Polyfron Courier, he thought that the battle situation in Thessali had changed again. Without thinking about it, he hurried to the barracks outside the city with several other ministers.

As soon as he entered the barracks, he was arrested by soldiers sent by Polyfron.

Immediately afterwards, Polyfron sentenced Asidamas and others to death for "colluding with the army of Deonia and intending to rebel". The generals tried their best to dissuade them, but Polyfron insisted on not listening and forcibly executed Asidamas and six others.

When the soldiers brought the heads of the six people into the tent, Polyfron pointed at Asidamas' head and cursed. It turned out that he thought Asidamas had always looked down on him, and Jason never gave him the heavy responsibilities alone, but Asidamas and others were responsible for it.

Of course, killing people and venting anger is only one of Polyfron's purpose. More importantly, he believes that Asidamas and others hold the administrative power of the Thessaly Confederate Union. With them, his intention to act freely on this land will inevitably be obstructed.

At this time, it was just dawn, and Polyfron quickly gathered his troops and entered the city of Phila.

At first, the people of Philae were excited because the army was invaded, and their safety was more secure.

Unexpectedly, after Polyfron summoned the officials of Philare, he asked them to mobilize the city, gather all the civilians, and follow his army to repel the army of Dionia entrenched near Larissa.

When the officials heard this, they immediately refused on the grounds that "we only obey Lord Asidamas' orders."

Polyfron immediately raised Asidamas' head and also executed the two most fiercely opposed officials on the spot on charges of "collusion with the Deonians in an attempt to rebel."

Polyfron's vengeance terrified the Philare officials, and they could only follow the action with fear.

Previously, Jason mobilized the entire Thessali and summoned a large army to fight south. Other city-states were the better, but they only recruited less than 1,000 soldiers for the City of Phila, because the City of Phila, which was the place where he made his fortune, needed enough strength to serve as the mainstay to stabilize the situation in Thessali after he led his army away.

Since Philare City was originally in combat readiness, more than 6,000 civilians were summoned in just half a day. Including the 2,000 soldiers who were originally stationed in Philare City, the number of soldiers Polifron possessed was close to 30,000.

Even though he had received a reward from the scout at this time, "Dionian army captured Larissa City", he still confidently believed that he could lead his army to repel the Deonia army. Therefore, he did not listen to the dissuasion of the Phila officials and soon led his army out of the city and marched towards Larissa.

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Also early in the morning of this day, Paltros invited the commander of the 11th Legion, Afialte, and issued an order to him: the 11th Legion guarded Lamia and Heraclia, and seized the Hot Spring Pass as soon as possible, and at the same time blocked the reinforcements of Thessali from the south.

Accepting this order means that the 11th Legion could no longer participate in the military operation to conquer Thessali. After hesitating, Efialt accepted the order, but at the same time he also made a request: If fighter jets were found, can the 11th Legion continue to attack Greek towns to the south?

Given that Efialte is a long-standing general and has been steadfast in his military service, Patrocros agreed to his request, but also emphasized that no matter what military action he takes, the first thing to do is to ensure the safety of Lamia, Herakria and the hot springs.

After accepting the order, Efialte immediately began to prepare for the military operation to seize the Hot Spring Pass. Although according to the confession of the Thessali soldiers captured in Heraclia, there were only more than 200 mercenaries stationed in the Hot Spring Pass, its steep terrain and the legendary story still made Efialte take a cautious attitude. He left 2,000 soldiers to station Lamia, 1,000 soldiers to stay in Hercules, personally led 5,000 soldiers and engineering battalions, and also brought several Lamia guides.

Although the legendary story showed the world the difficulty of seizing the hot spring pass, it also told the world that "there are remote mountain roads that can circumference to the south of the hot spring pass". Therefore, Efialte decided to adopt the method of "the main force restrains the front and sends surprise soldiers to detour from the mountain pass". For this reason, he removed the Samonet soldiers from the Light Armored Brigade and the Light Infantry Brigade to form surprise soldiers (the 11th Army camp is in Lusenia, and the soldiers are from the Doni region. In recent years, many Samonets took the initiative to come out of the mountainous areas and voluntarily applied to become citizens of Dionia. Most of their residences are in the eastern plains and Doni region of Campania). Under the leadership of the Ramia guide, they will use their outstanding mountain combat capabilities to complete the roundabout raid on the hot spring pass.

While the 11th Legion was preparing to take military action against the Hot Spring Pass, Paltrocross had led other legions to cross the mountains north of Ramia to enter the southern plains of Thessali. In order to prevent being intercepted by the Thessali army in the mountains, he divided the army into three parts, led by the Lamia guide, and advanced into the territory of Sesali through three routes.

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Also on the morning of this day, Hilos came to Larissa with a large group of middle and low-level officials from various departments of the Kingdom (these officials were carefully selected by the Kingdom Administrative Office and ordered to govern the soon-to-be conquered Thessali region. More than half of them were originally Thessali refugees).

Note: According to historical records, the first thing Polifron did after taking over Tagus was to arrest and execute Jason, the assistant headed by Asidamas, the eight best executive ministers who governed Thessali, exiled many officials, and then ruled Thesali in a brutal way, which aroused great dissatisfaction among the people of Thesali.

Less than a year, his general Alexander rebelled under the banner of "revenge of Polydorus", killed him, and then became the new Tagus. But Alexander was also a tyrant. Under his rule, Thessali's national strength declined and eventually fell into turmoil, and was later conquered by the rising Macedonia.

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