When Locred heard the news, he was shocked and felt a little awe. For decades, Locred had been unable to win against Crotone, but the newly established Dionia League was able to defeat Crotone twice in a row with fewer wins and more.

Of course, for Locre, what is more important is that Crotone suffered heavy losses and was in a tough battle with Dioria. This is a great opportunity! Locreley couldn't wait for news from the messenger Metlofinis, so he began to plan to attack the Crotone League. In order to defeat the mortal enemy in one fell swoop, they mobilized war in the alliance, while Dionysius's wife's brother, the chief general Demodokas, asked Syracuse for help. At this time, Syracuse had launched a war against Carthage, and the powerful army was conquering towns. Only the navy had not encountered the enemy for the time being. Except for some warships escorting the army along the coastline, the rest stayed in the port of Syracuse.

On the one hand, out of friendship with Locre and more to prepare for the future, Dionysius sent more than 20 three-layer oar warships to assist the Locre people.

With Syracuse as the backing, Locre couldn't wait to start the war.

Unexpectedly, Dionia ceased to fight with Crotone again, not only signed a treaty on defense alliance, but also released all the prisoners. The messenger Metlofinis felt fooled and returned to his country in anger.

The Lockley people were angry: Dionia repeatedly ignored Lockley's kindness and intentionally or unintentionally hindered Lockley's plan, but because she was currently trying her best to deal with her mortal enemy Crotone and did not want to cause trouble, she temporarily endured this to wait for the future to calculate. At the same time, Lockley began to be wary of Dionia.

Although the battle with Crotone was slightly defeated, the naval battle was greatly won by Syracuse's reinforcements. Crotone's army, which lost its naval protection, was insufficient in military strength. It was moved back and forth by the Locres, and was struggling and fell into a passive position.

Just when Locre saw hope for victory, news came: the messengers of the Crotone alliance gathered in Turiy and asked Dionia for reinforcements!

The Locre people were most worried about. Given that Metlofinis's performance was too unsatisfactory, they immediately sent Panticapes, who was the best eloquent, but his arrival not only failed to change his mind, but instead accelerated the establishment of the Southern Italian League.

When Panticapes left Turi, he said angrily to the senators of the Dionysian Senate: "Apollo can witness that we Locre people have always respected Dionys, but every time we offer olive branches, we get malicious deception and foolings from Dionys. From today on, Locre and Dionys will be enemies! Next time we come again, there will be no more messengers of peace, but Ares' rage and powerful army!"

The elders' faces changed slightly, and Davers said calmly: "Before the last time the Crotones launched a war, their messengers were standing where you are now, saying similar things, but what about now?"

Although Davers was relaxed, he knew that the Locres were now dominating the sea and that after the Deonia declared war, it was likely that the Crotone fleet had done the past to Deonia again. Therefore, he re-engaged Rides' cavalry and patrolled the coastline, while restarting the measures taken by Philicius to deal with the Crotone fleet raid, and the Senate suspended immigration to Asprestum and Crimesa.

But a few days later, nothing happened.

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When the First Legion arrived at the city of Asprestum, more than a thousand garrisons joined the army, increasing the number of people participating in the battle to more than 10,000.

Five days later, the army arrived at the city of Courenia, and the journey was smooth and there were no accidents. The reason why the arrival time was two days longer than the previous plan was that it was not expected enough to have a bad condition on the roads in southern Greece and the warm hospitality of the people there when they passed through Siliteng.

After the Dionian reinforcements arrived at the battlefield, the Caulenians were excited and prepared to wait for the Dionians to finish resting. They immediately launched an attack on the Locre camp in the south of the city. However, they did not expect that before this plan could be implemented, Locre sent a peace talks messenger...

A hundred years ago, Crotone defeated Subaris and quickly became a powerful state in Greece. He developed the ambition to dominate Nanyi and launched many attacks to the south. The most serious time, under its attack, Locre and the surrounding city-state troops retreated step by step. In the end, in order to avoid repeating Subaris' mistake, Locrete and Lijim joined forces and took advantage of Crotone's negligence to launch a counterattack, severely attacking Crotone's army.

Crotone lost a lot of strength and was unable to attack the south for a while. In order to prevent Crotone from regaining its strength, Locre and Lijim began a long-term counterattack against the Crotone Allies, and even joined forces with the indigenous Brutis in the north of the Crotone League. Crotone was trapped by the Brutis in the north for decades, and the threat of Locre and Lijim in the south was always exhausted and could no longer reproduce the power of the past. Therefore, when Athens wanted to establish the city of Turiyi in the Syrian Plain, it could only make concessions and signed an agreement.

However, the cooperation between Locre and Lijim is not intimate. Once the threat from Crotone weakens, the contradiction between the two begins to emerge. The biggest conflict is that the two city-states are coastal cities, very close to each other, and competition for port trade is inevitable. Because Lijim controls half of the Strait of Messina, he has the upper hand in maritime trade. Locre opens up a trade line on the road from Locre to Mederma and Hibernian (both of which are the west coast cities of Greece), allowing Greek merchants to reach the west coast through land trade roads without having to pay higher tariffs through the Strait of Messina, so he robs a lot of Lijim's profits as a transit port for the Western Mediterranean trade...

These contradictions gathered together and finally broke out a few years ago.

Dionysius, who had just become the fulfilment general of Syracuse, was killed by angry people in the previous power struggle. He was widowed and wanted to remarry. At the same time, it was also a political marriage for the tyrant to stabilize his power. Therefore, after marrying the daughter of a famous nobleman who supported him in the city of Syracuse, he wanted to marry another house. His eyes were aimed at Lijim, who was only one strait from Sicily. On the one hand, it was because Lijim's geographical location was too important, and on the other hand, there was a woman in Lijim's city.

But the Lijim people refused. They were full of vigilance against Dionysius, who became the tyrant of Syracuse. They did not forget that the covetousness of Lijim during the reign of Syracuse, and during the reign of Syracuse, the same tyrant of Syracuse, Tyrannosaurus, had to form an alliance with Carthage to protect themselves.

Dionysius had to propose to the Locre, and Locre agreed, which led to the complete breakdown of the alliance between Locre and Lijim.

As for why Dionysius didn't look for Crotone and Crotone? Because during the Peloponnese War, Crotone and Turiyi stood on the side of Athenians, and even provided assistance when the Athenian army attacked Syracuse; Tarantum was a son of the Spartans and had always been close to Sparta, which did not mean much to Dionysius.

Lijim's departure made it difficult for Locre to sing alone, and it was difficult for Crotone to cause trouble. It was not until Dionia severely damaged Crotone twice that it ignited hope again.

When Locred was mobilizing the war, he sent envoys to the Brutis. The Brutis, who had always been active in Locred's invitation, rejected Locred's request this time. The reason they gave was that last year the Brutis attacked Trina alone, but suffered heavy losses and needed rest.

But the Locky messenger discovered that the Bruti tribe, which was extremely close to Cosenza, seemed to be making some kind of change.

With the assistance of the Syracuse Navy, the Locres attacked the Crotone Alliance. It turns out that even though Crotone's strength was greatly damaged, the lean camel was still bigger than the horse. Although Locres had the upper hand, he could not win quickly.

Now that Dionia has joined the war, the situation has taken a sharp turn for Locre.

After the failure of diplomacy against Dionys, the Locres went to the Syracuse player as soon as possible. Dionysius met the Locres envoy who rushed over in the newly occupied city of Selinus.

After listening to the envoy's request, Dionysius frowned, thought for a moment, and then said bluntly: "The war between Syracuse and Carthage is at a critical moment. I have no reinforcements to send! Please ask for peace! When I pacify Sicily, I will help Locry get this account back!"

The messenger returned to Locre helplessly.

The Locredians are not fools. Without reinforcements, they have no chance of winning, and seeking sum is the only way out. It is common to fight and stop and stop in decades of entanglement with Crotone. Locred has become accustomed to not insisting on fighting without hope because of any honor.

Therefore, the First Legion of Dionia came in excitement, but no battle happened and he passedably became a mediator.

Fortunately, the Allied States of America had a great impression of the Dionian army that appeared in central South Italy for the first time, especially the Caulenians. They were surprised to find that the Dionian soldiers who built camps outside the city of Caulenia had been quietly staying in the camp during the negotiations without any disturbances, which was even better than the Crotones who had been an ally of Caulenia for decades.

When the Trina messenger who arrived in Corenia with the army, Siphorus returned to Trina after the negotiations and reported to the Council, he gave a more detailed and comprehensive comment on the Dionian army.

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