At the same time, the Tyres discovered that King Davers personally led more than 100,000 troops, and there was a Greek coalition of 60,000 to 70,000 people in Asia Minor, with a powerful army of more than 200,000 people. They defeated the Persian army many times, and were in a mighty and unstoppable manner. The Persian army may have a larger number, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it seems that it is not the opponent of the mighty and uniform Dionian army. This is the feeling of General Tyre who fought with the Persian army many times.

More importantly, many Thiels became prisoners of Dionia during the Naval Battle of Cyprus and are still imprisoned in Cyprus.

Davers was very happy when Tyre's surrender. He immediately sent a messenger to ask the three legions that had landed in Cyprus to discuss with the First and Second Fleets of Dionia to draft a military plan to land in the Gulf of Syria and capture the city of Milian Drus as soon as possible.

At the same time, Tyer's surrender also had a huge impact on other Phoenician city-states. They were not as powerful as Tyer, nor did they have cities built in the sea to defend, and they did not dare to confront Dionia. So the city-states such as Sidon and Adulas also surrendered quickly, and the Dionian army successfully conquered the Phoenician region.

Davers did not immediately lead his army north. He waited for the Cyprus troops to successfully land on the Syrian Gulf before he issued an order to go north. However, the route of the march was no longer along the coast, because the Libanus Mountains became a barrier to the northern near-eastern coast from north to south. The more you go north, the more difficult it is to travel, especially for a large army like Dionia.

Davers did not choose to bypass the Libanus Mountain and walk the desert edge to the east. On the one hand, the distance was even longer, and on the other hand, the climate was hot, sparsely populated along the way, and it was difficult to replenish water. There were no big towns, except Damascus, which was very close to the Phoenician region, at its southern end.

Perhaps in the future historical development, Damascus will become a must-fight place for military strategists in the Near East, but at this time Daphs did not take it seriously. Although it was still a big town, it had no Persian garrison or showed hostility to the Dionys army. Instead, it sent an envoy to express its neutral intention to Daphs.

Therefore, Davers did not spend time to capture Damascus, but asked the mountain reconnaissance brigade to closely monitor the movements in Damascus, and led his army out of the Phoenician area and into the Libanus Mountains eastward.

The snow water in the Amanus Mountains in northern Syria gathers into a river, the Ojontis River, flows from north to south, through the Libanus Mountains, and finally into the northern Phoenician region. Therefore, a relatively wide narrow plain, the Amic Plain, was formed in the center of its mountain range. This is the march route for the Dionian army to the north.

Because of concern that the Persians would intercept heavily in the north, Daphns specially ordered the army in Cyprus to land in Syria first to ensure the smooth progress of the main force's northward journey.

But in fact, Davers was too worried. Not long ago, some of the garrisons in Syria had been transferred by the Persian king to Fanabazos in Asia Minor, which resulted in the empty troops here and was unable to stop the main forces of Dionia, and even could not provide enough defense to the region.

The Cypriot army easily landed on the Syrian coast and soon captured the city of Milian Drus, then quickly advanced eastward, surrounding the town of Sochi, which was at the entrance to the northern end of the Amic Plain.

By the time the main force of Dionia arrived near Sochi, the town had been conquered.

After Davers led his army through Sochi and entered the Syrian region, he stopped moving forward and began camping and resting.

The camp under construction starts from the foot of Mount Amanus in the north, ends at the foot of Mount Libanus in the south, close to the Eurontis River to the east, and backed by the bay to the west, occupying a good defensive terrain.

Davers also sent a large number of scouts to cross the Eurontis River and investigate the movements of the Persian army eastward.

At the same time, he sent some troops to attack the Syrian pass in the northwest. Once he occupied it, he continued to attack westward, attacked towns such as Isus, Castablum, and Pherotas in turn, opened up the coastal passage from Asia Minor, and responded to the Greek coalition as soon as possible. After the two armies met, they attacked eastward together. This was Davers' next plan.

But what Davers didn't know was that the Greek coalition, which had previously attacked quickly, was now in some trouble.

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After the Greek coalition was frustrated in attacking Hascanasus, in order not to waste time and to lose less troops, Leoticides decided to keep some of the troops around the city, and the main force of the army continued to advance eastward.

However, after passing through Caria and entering the Lysian region, the Greek coalition could no longer advance along the coast, because Lysia and the adjacent Pisidia region were mountainous areas, and the road was difficult to walk. The army could only bypass Lysia and Pisidia to the north, and then crossed the pass of the Taurus Mountains in the Cappadocia region and entered the rich Silesian region. Most of the roads they had to trek were straight roads built by the Persian court to rule the empire to the western part of Asia Minor. Although this road was easier to walk, it had to enter the inland of Asia Minor.

During this period, Fanabazos, the military commander of the Persian minor Asia, reorganized some of the defeated troops and received some reinforcements sent by the royal court (after Fanabazos's war report was sent to Artaxerxes, the Persian king believed what the letter said, "The reason why the battle failed was because of the sudden rebellion of Persian mercenaries", so he did not remove his post, but instead sent reinforcements, ordering him to do his best to block the Greek coalition in Asia Minor), and his strength was partially restored, but ironic that Fanabazos did not dare to fight the Greek coalition head-on this time, but decided to implement the suggestion of Jason, who was killed by him: to strengthen the wall and clear the fields, and at the same time, he sent a small group of troops to use the terrain to continuously raid the transportation lines of the Greek coalition.

The governors of Asia Minor, who have already tasted the Greek coalition's strong combat effectiveness, did not firmly oppose this time, which enabled this strategy to be implemented.

Because the Greek coalition failed to capture Halicarnasus, a major city with a large port, the Greek coalition's grain transport fleet could only land at the port of Milidu, and the supply line was lengthened. Fanabazos's defense tactics posed a huge threat to the long supply line. The Greek coalition entering the inner road was unable to collect food and grass on the spot, and had to send heavy troops to protect the supply line, which seriously slowed down the speed of the eastward advance.

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In September, the support troops sent by Davers captured Isus, captured Castablum, and even advanced west to Maras, only one of the Allan Plain from the rich Silesia.

But the Greek coalition had not even passed Pisidia to reach the Cappadocia region, and the two sides were far apart.

During this period, the scouts sent to the east to investigate were rewarded: they found a huge Persian military camp near the city of Taposacus (which is located on the bank of the Euphrates River, more than 200 miles from the Eujuntis River), and Persian troops continued to come from the east...

The Persian army was finally coming!... Both Davers and his generals were immediately cheered up. Not only did they order their soldiers to strengthen their camps and strengthen their defenses, but Davers also sent a messenger to the Alane Plain and informed the troops there to return immediately.

Not long after, many Persian cavalry appeared on the east bank of the Eujontis River, trying to cross the river to peek into the military camp of Dionia.

The Dionian cavalry drove it away and there were many small-scale fights, but one of the main forces of both sides stayed in Syria and the other was stationed near Taposacus. Both sides remained silent and confronted each other for more than a month.

On the evening of this day, a guest was welcomed in Davers's tent.

"Izam, you are finally back! I haven't received your message for so long. I thought you were nostalgic for your hometown and didn't want to go back to Dionia, hahaha..." Although Davers was joking, he was very excited. He strode forward and gave Izam a powerful hug.

"Your Majesty, to be honest, when I returned to Dukea, I saw my brothers saying familiar words, wearing familiar clothes, and eating familiar food... I always feel inexplicably scared-" Izam said with relief: "I was afraid that my decades of experience in Dionia were just a dream! Now when I see Your Majesty, I feel completely relieved!"

Then he said with a little guilt, "I found that I could no longer live without the prosperous life of Dionia and could not adapt to Dukeya's poverty..."

Davers comforted him and said, "When conditions permit, people are willing to enjoy happiness and will not take the initiative to endure pain. But Dukeya's poverty is mainly caused by the cruel persians. As long as we defeat Persia, I believe that the poor situation of the Dukeya will gradually improve! Oh, by the way, you have not had a meal after you rushed back, right?"

"Your Majesty, I went to see Lord Mariji before I came to see you, and I had already eaten something from him. This time, if Lord Mariji had not found a Persian caravan to provide cover for my actions, I would not have been able to get Dadukeya so smoothly!"

Davers looked at Marigi, who was calm next to Izam, and said with a smile: "You probably don't know yet. Marigi was the royal merchant of the Prince of Cyrus. He had a lot of connections among the merchants in western Persia. As early as after defeating Carthage more than ten years ago, considering that Persia would become the kingdom's biggest enemy, he quietly supported several trustworthy friends in Persia with the assistance of the intelligence department. These friends of the kingdom also secretly sold weapons and food prohibited by Persia to Dukea several times..."
Chapter completed!