Agul Ríos's words left the other generals in thought.

"But even if we don't tell the Greek coalition, Thessaly will send a messenger to the Peloponnese to tell the tyrant, and that the Phorgis in the north will too......" Someone objected.

"I think Agul Ríos's suggestion makes a lot of sense." Cabrias first agreed: "We can first send a messenger to quietly inform Iphiclates that he will urge the Greek coalition to hurry up the attack on Messenia and Sparta." As for the messengers sent by Thessaly, whether by sea or by land, they must pass through the spheres of influence under our control, and we only need to intensify our patrols on the Gulf of Sarong and the Isthmus, and the Thessaly messengers cannot escape from our hands, we only need to—" Cabrias stretched out his right hand and made a downward slashing gesture, and everyone knew it.

"As for the Phokis, they fear the Thessalian more than the Dionia, we just need to send troops to support them, and they will agree to our approach."

After Cabrias finished speaking, there was silence for a moment, and soon someone said: "I think Cabrias's suggestion is feasible, even if the tyrant will still get the news in the end, we have gained time, and perhaps it is during this time that we have recaptured Sparta." ”

"I agree."

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The Athenian generals agreed, only Callistratus was still hesitant, but the general situation was set.

His father, Agul Ríos, closed his eyes again calmly.

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After the departure of the army by ship this morning, the generals stationed in the Peloponnese, such as Klotocatax and Printols, had been thinking about the important event of "whether the landing in Thessaly would be successful", and it was not until late at night that the fleet returned one after another, and they received definite news that they could finally celebrate the successful landing.

But this is only the beginning, because from tomorrow, whether it is Thessaly, Central Greece, or even the Peloponnesian city-states, they may know the news of the "Ionian army raiding Thessaly", they will definitely take corresponding measures, and Dionia will not be able to send such a large fleet to Thessaly to transport supplies very often, after all, the shipowner and crew are not soldiers, and should not take such a big risk. The Peloponnese's nearly 100,000 troops consumed a huge amount of food every day, and it was necessary to occupy Thessaly as soon as possible in order to obtain all the supplies of Thessaly to support the army's continued fighting, so the next few days were crucial for both sides.

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After killing his second brother Polydorus, Polyphron immediately asked his henchmen to surround the Great Horde of the Chinese Army, arresting all the soldiers of Polydorus's Personal Guard on the grounds that "Polydorus was assassinated by the Dioonians and the pro-guard was derelict in their duties", and then notified the general of the army to come to the Great Horde urgently.

Before dawn, the Thessalian generals gathered at the Great Tent and were shocked to learn that "Polydorus had been assassinated by the Dionians", and at the same time they were inevitably puzzled.

But Polyflon did not give them more time to think, nor did he listen to their dissuasion, and directly announced that all the "derelict duty" soldiers of the pro-guard would be dragged outside the tent and beheaded for public display.

In an instant, the camp was full of people and screaming.

This frightened the generals in the Great Tent, and they quickly admitted that Polyfron would succeed Polydorus as Thessaly's provisional military governor in the face of the sharpening of their swords.

After taking command of the camp, Polyflon first imposed a complete blockade of the camp, forbidding anyone to go out, and then sent messengers to the city of Philae, falsely claiming that "there is an important military business to discuss with the remaining minister Asidamas and others, hoping that they will come to the camp."

Asidamas, who was worried about the sudden landing of the Dionian army in Thessaly, did not sleep all night, and after listening to the messenger of Polyflon, and thinking that the situation of Thessaly had changed again, he hurried to the barracks outside the city with several other ministers without thinking about it.

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

Immediately afterwards, Polyflon sentenced Asidamas and others to death on charges of "colluding with the Dionian army and attempting to defect". The generals tried their best to dissuade them, but Polyflon insisted on not listening and forcibly executed Asiddamas and 6 others.

When the soldiers brought the heads of these six people into the big tent, Polyfron pointed to the head of Assidamas and cursed, because he thought that Assidamas had always looked down on him, and Iason had never given him a heavy responsibility alone, and Assidamas and others were responsible for it.

Of course, killing people to vent his anger was only one of Porifron's purposes, but more importantly, he believed that Asidamas and others held the administrative power of the Thessaly city-state alliance, and with their existence, his desire to act freely in this land would inevitably be blocked.

At this time, it was just dawn, and Polyflon quickly gathered his army and entered the city of Philae.

At first, the people of Philae were excited, because the presence of troops would make their safety more secure.

After gathering the officials of Philae, Porifron asked them to mobilize the city militarily, gather all the citizen soldiers, and follow his army to repel the Dionian army entrenched near Larissa.

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

Polyfron immediately raised the head of Asidamas, and executed the two most vehemently opposed officials on the spot on charges of "colluding with the Dionians in order to rebel."

Poliflon's ferocity frightened the officials of Philae, and they complied with it with trepidation.

Before, Iason's military mobilization of the whole of Thessaly and the conscription of large armies to fight in the south, the more the other city-states were the better, but only recruited less than 1,000 soldiers for the city of Philae, because the city of Philae, which was the place where he made his fortune, needed to have enough strength to serve as the mainstay to stabilize the situation in Thessaly after he led the army away.

Because the city of Philae was already in a state of combat readiness, more than 6,000 citizen soldiers were gathered in just half a day, and counting the 2,000 soldiers who were originally stationed in the city of Philae, the number of soldiers that Polyflon had was close to 30,000.

Believing that he had a strong army, he was confident that he could lead his army to repel the Dionian army, so he did not listen to the persuasion of the Philaean officials, and soon led his army out of the city and marched towards Larissa.

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Also early in the morning, Patroclus summoned the commander of the Eleventh Army, Ephiart, and gave him orders that the Eleventh Army should be stationed in Lamia and Heraclia and take Thermopylae as soon as possible, while also blocking the Thessalian reinforcements from the south.

After a little hesitation, Ephiarte accepted this order, but at the same time he made a request: if the fighters were found, could the Eleventh Army continue to attack the Greek towns south?

In view of the fact that Ephiarte was also a seasoned veteran and a strong soldier, Patroclus agreed to his request, but at the same time insisted that no matter what kind of military action he undertook, the safety of Lamia, Heracria, and Thermopae must be ensured first.

Although according to the confessions of the Thessalian soldiers captured in Heracles, there were only more than 200 mercenaries stationed at Thermopyla, but its steep terrain and the legendary story made Epiarte take a cautious attitude, leaving 2,000 soldiers in Lamia and 1,000 soldiers in Heraclea, personally leading 5,000 soldiers and an engineering battalion, as well as several Lamian guides.

Although the legend showed the world the difficulty of capturing the Thermopus Pass, it also told the world that "there is a remote mountain road that can go around to the south of the Thermopus Pass", so Ephiarte decided to take the method of "the main force is pinned down from the front and the strange soldiers are sent to take a detour from the mountain road" to seize the Thermosen Pass, for which he drew out the Samonai soldiers in the light armor brigade and the light infantry brigade to form a surprise army (the 11th Army camp is in Lusenia, the soldiers come from the Dauni region, and many Samonai people have taken the initiative to come out of the mountains in recent years, Voluntarily apply to become Dionian citizens, most of whom live in the eastern plains of Campania and the Dauni region), they will be guided by Lamia's guides, using their excellent mountain combat skills to complete a roundabout raid on Thermopylae.

At the same time that the Eleventh Army was preparing for military action against Thermopyla, Patroclus had already begun to climb the mountains north of Lamia in order to enter the southern plains of Thessaly. In order to prevent being intercepted by the Thessalian army in the mountains, he divided the army into three parts, led by Lamian guides, and advanced through three routes to the territory of Seshali.

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Also on the morning of that day, Shiros arrived in Larissa with a large group of middle- and low-ranking officials from various kingdom departments (all of whom had been carefully selected by the Kingdom Administration Office and ordered to govern the soon-to-be-conquered Thessaly region, more than half of whom had been exiles in Thessaly).

Note: According to historical records, the first thing Porifron did after taking over from Tagus was to arrest and execute the eight best ministers of Thessaly, led by Asidamas, who assisted Iazon and governed Thessaly, without any reason, and exiled many officials, and then ruled Thessaly in a brutal manner, causing great dissatisfaction among the people of Thessaly.

Within a year, his general, Alexander, rebelled under the banner of "avenging Polydorus", killed him, and then became the new Tagus. But this Alexander was also a tyrant, and under his rule Thessaly was weakened and eventually in turmoil, and was later conquered by the rising Macedonia.