At the beginning, after the Thessalian army left, Iphicratus still led the Greek coalition with a somewhat unstable morale to suppress the camp of Dionia. This was one of the reasons. What he was worried about now did happen. But at this moment, he could not take care of many things, and the orders were still not changed and they had to be implemented.

Of course, it is impossible for Iphicratus to retreat immediately, because the logistics supply of the Greek coalition was different from that of the Dionian army. According to regulations, each city-state army was responsible for its own military ration supply. Therefore, it did not establish a special logistics department to manage it. Instead, a market was set up near Leprion, allowing merchants from each city-state to sell food and other materials, and the army of each city-state went to the market to purchase military rations. Some merchants even followed the city-state army when they set off.

Different from the army of Thessali. With Persian aid, Jason integrated the city-states of Thessali and had enough financial and material resources to form a baggage battalion to meet the supply of military rations for the soldiers. Therefore, on the morning of the day when Patrocros led his army into Central Greece, the outside of the small town of Reprion in the Peloponnese was extremely lively and noisy. In addition to the soldiers of the army of each city-state who were pulling out the camp tents, merchants from each city-state were also packing their own goods and arranging the pack teams to leave... The whole scene was very chaotic.

In order to worry about an accident, Efikratus ordered nearly 20,000 Athenian soldiers who had gathered together to defend themselves, and their tents and items were completely handed over to the baggage team to clean up.

The army of Dionia did not appear, but the entire process of deconstructing the camp took a lot of time. It was not until the afternoon that the entire army began to march eastward.

During this period, the Iris army and the Arcadia city-state troops left the coalition forces one after another, reducing the number of troops led by Iphicratus to less than 30,000, which made the soldiers feel a little uneasy.

Iphicratus kept urging the coalition forces to speed up the marches. Even at dusk, he did not let the army stop and rest until the night fell and the coalition forces reached the junction of Megalopolis and Tegaia, that he issued an order to rest.

There happened to be a camp built by the Dionian army here before. Later, when the Greek coalition attacked Lagnia, it used it in a short period of time, so it could be directly stationed in the camp.

When the soldiers who had been working hard for a day soon fell asleep, Iphiclatus was still frowning in the military tent, because the Greek coalition forces were very smooth since they retreated and were not attacked or pursued by the Dionian army, and the sent-out sent back to him: no abnormalities were found in the Dionian camp on the northern border of Mesenia.

Although the Dionian army has always been unable to defend itself, the movements of the Greek coalition forces when they retreat today are so great. Don't they want to take revenge?!... Iphiclatus is confused.

On the second day, Efikratus suddenly asked the coalition forces to change their marching route, first turn back to the city of Megalopolis, and then go directly north through the mountains, which is equivalent to bypassing the Tegaya-Mantinian Plain and then marching towards Corinth.

This convenient way of marching that chooses to detour without walking is immediately opposed by the Agos, because the west of the Tegia Plain is next to the Agos. The Agos militia have been out for more than two months. They originally wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to march and go home. However, Iphicratus suddenly changed the marching route but their wishes were not fulfilled. The Agos immediately expressed their rejection.

Since the Agos are a powerful state in the Greek alliance, the army sent out was 7,000, second only to Thessali and Athens, and they had considerable weight in this new alliance. Iphicratus had to persuade, such as "he was worried that there might be intercepting the army of the Dionian army in the Tegaya region" and other reasons. However, the Agos have the same stubborn and conservative personality as the Spartans. Once they make a decision, they are unwilling to repent easily, otherwise they would have surrendered for the past century when Spartans dominated.

Seeing that he could not convince the Agos, Ephiclatus thought about it and immediately proposed the plan to "marche into the Agos army and the Greek coalition, and meet in Corinth", and the Agos agreed.

Iphicratus's idea was: the strength of the Greek coalition has been greatly weakened now. If the Dionian army, which had been very calm before, dared to appear in the Tegea area to intercept, it would be sure to win. The Greek coalition was in danger of being wiped out. It would be better to let the Agos go to test it. If there was a Dionian army in the Tegea area, the Agos could attract the attention of the Dionian army and win time for the Greek coalition, which was dominated by Athenian soldiers, to escape smoothly; if not, the Greek coalition would just take a long way, and everyone was happy in the end.

Ifitlax certainly hoped that the result would be the latter, but unfortunately his intuition was not wrong.

When Patroclus gathered troops to prepare for southwards in Thessali, he asked the First Fleet warships to convey the news to Crotokataks in Mesenia. After discussing with Printols, he believed that the Greek coalition would retreat soon, so he decided to quietly withdraw the army troops stationed on the northern border of Mesenia to Lagnia, and the defense of the camp was replaced by the newly formed Mesenia reserve team.

Since the Greek coalition did not conduct any decent attacks on the camp in Dionia these days, Iphiclatus did not find any abnormalities.

Crotokatax also sent mountain reconnaissance soldiers to closely monitor the movements of the camp in Leprion. As soon as the Greek coalition retreated, the provocateurs rushed back to Lagnia and reported the news to Crotokatax. So when the Greek coalition entered the former camp in Megalopolis, the first and the seventh legion had quietly entered the territory of Tega.

Printols planned to: wait until tomorrow the Greek coalition marched to Tegaia, and the First and Seventh Corps and the newly formed Lagnian brigade lined up in front of it to intercept it. When the enemy had to stop preparing for the battle, Commander Crotokataks led the Fourth and Sixth Corps and the First Cavalry Corps, which had long been hidden in the northern border of Lagnia, quickly rushed to the battlefield, attacked front and back, and completely defeated the Greek coalition.

But what Printols expected was that this carefully arranged large net only caught the small fish of the Agos army, which was not big or small, and it delayed the Dionian army for most of the day.

Not only did Ephicratus lead the main force of the Greek coalition to escape and jump out of the siege, he also ordered the troops to throw down the merchants and packs of the army and accelerate their advance. Finally, he entered the city of Corinth before the Dionian army.

The main force of the Greek coalition led by Iphicratus and the troops that had previously surrounded Mantiniya merged here, and their forces were restored to more than 30,000 again, but he soon learned about the news that "Thessalian army was defeated and the landing army landed north of Dionia had invaded the Attica area." Without taking a rest in Corinth, he was anxious to lead the army to Attica and guard Athens.

But at this time, the Greek coalition forces split again: Corinth refused to let the civilians of his city-state follow him because it was also threatened by the army of Dionia from the south; the civilians of Fokis and Lochris were worried about the safety of their city-state. No matter how Ephicratus dissuaded him, he insisted on risking his journey through the Piosha League that had declared war on the Greek coalition and returning to his mother state.

In this way, the entire Greek coalition was actually only left with more than 10,000 troops from Athens and its maritime alliance, and the Greek coalition was already dead in name only.

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After the army led by Patroclus merged with the army of Thebes, the first target of the attack was not any town in Athens, but Oropus, the city-state in the easternmost part of Piosha.

Although Oropus belonged to the Piosha area, he had always been dependent on Athens and refused to join the Piosha League. The Thebes had long disliked it, but they were worried about Athenian interference, so they never attacked it. Patroclus chose it as the first target and expressed Dionia's kindness to Thebes.

More than 40,000 Dionian coalition forces quickly surrounded Oropus, and the reinforcements from Athens did not even appear. Thousands of Thebes soldiers launched a strong attack on Oropus City.

After a fierce battle, although he failed to conquer the city, the Oropus people had already suffered a lot of casualties. The enemy was strong and he lost strong support. The desperate Olopus people had to open the city early on the fourth day.

The morale of the Dionian coalition turned to the Athenian border.

There are continuous mountains between the Attica region and the Piosha region in Athens as a natural border division line. After learning that "Thessalian army was defeated and the Dionian army went south", Athens carried out an emergency military mobilization, quickly formed an army of 10,000 people and nearly 8,000 mercenaries of Jason who were in charge, and rushed to the border to defend.

The Panisa Mountain is used as the defense center to arrange the defense line, and the West Salon Mountain is used as the defense center to arrange the defense line. Considering that the Pratia controlled by the Dibes are not far from the West Salon Mountain and has a lot of convenience for attack, Athens deployed more mercenaries in the southern mountains because their combat effectiveness is stronger.

Paltrox seemed to be preparing to break through the southern mountains, because he led more than half of the troops into Platia. But in fact, the north was the center of attack of the Dionian coalition. The Gaul Reserve, the 12th Legion and the Third Legion were all arranged in the north, led by Lizaru, and first launched an attack on the defense line.

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