As the hero of Sparta who defeated Athens, Lysander once raised all the maritime allies of Athens into a puppet regime loyal to Sparta. Now that he had come to Asia Minor, the rulers of the city-states were vying to visit him, to follow him, to make all kinds of demands of him, as if he were the real king, and that Agosilaus was only a follower.

But soon, Lysander tasted the power of Agesilaus, and any request he made to Agesilaus, even if it was reasonable, was rejected by the Spartan king, and even Agesilaus secretly sent people out to publicize: Lysander was just an ordinary member of the Spartan "Military Council of 30" and had no power.

As a result, Lysander's promises to these people were ultimately unfulfilled, causing the rulers of these city-states to realize that the situation had changed and turn to curry favor with Agesilaus.

Agesilaus's estrangement from Lysander began to feel uneasy, and he finally realized that he had been blind, and that the new king was by no means a mediocre man to be manipulated.

At this moment, Lysander was no longer the glorious hero of Sparta a few years ago, and the failure of the plot to overthrow the Spartan system, and the wariness of the rest of the Council of Elders, had already stripped him of the real power he had, and finally he had to take the initiative to propose to Agesilaus that he was willing to go to the Strait of Hellespont and win over the city-states that had previously attached to Persia.

Agesilaus agreed to his request.

After rectifying the ambitious Lysander, Agosilaus began to show his military talents. He was more flexible than Derkyridas, moving back and forth between the territories of the two Persian governors, Tisaponis and Phanabazos, leaving the Persian army at a loss and inflicting heavy losses on Tisaponis in the Battle of Thadis in the spring of 395 BC.

As a result of this crushing defeat, Parusatis, the mother of Artaxerxes, the king of Persia, finally seized the opportunity to have his son remove Tisaphanis from his post and eventually execute him, thus avenging his younger son Cyrus the Younger.

When the news reached the army of Agosilaus, the mercenaries who had experienced the "Great Retreat of 10,000 People" were thunderous, and Xenophon wrote a letter to Davos in Turiil, expressing his joy and admiration for the Spartan king Agosilaus.

Agosilaus's military campaign in Asia Minor put a lot of pressure on Persia, and the Persian king had to mobilize troops from other regions to deal with the Spartan attack, which led to a void in the defenses of other regions. In the farthest province of Egypt from Persia proper, the Egyptians, who had been rebelling against Persian rule, finally seized this opportunity and rebelled under the leadership of Acoris, successfully driving out the Persians, achieving independence, rebuilding the kingdom of Egypt, and Acoris became the new pharaoh (this is the 29th dynasty in ancient Egyptian history).

In order to retake Egypt, Persia sent envoys to Agosilaus many times in 395 BC to propose peace, but Agosilaus rejected the Persians' request for peace, and the Persian king Artaxerxes saw that the Spartans had no intention of withdrawing troops from Asia Minor, on the contrary, Agosilaus's ultimate goal was himself, so he was angry and sent people to Greece at the suggestion of his minister, and began to bribe a lot of money to the generals and parliamentarians of the city-states that were not on good terms with Sparta, such as Thebes, Corinth, and Argos, There was only one condition, and that was that they had to go to war against the Spartans.

And the answer of these city-states was very similar: even without this money, they were eager to go to war, because the Spartans were too domineering, not only did not respect them, but also repeatedly harmed the interests of their city-states!

At the behest of the Persian envoys, these city-states began to quietly negotiate alliances, among which the Thebans were the most active in declaring war on Sparta, and they began to provoke their ally Rakis to clash with Sparta's ally, Phukis, and when the Phokis finally invaded Rocres, the Thebans declared that Phokis had invaded their allies, and in order to defend the allies, they declared war on Phukis.

As a result, Thebes gathered an army to invade the territory of Phokis, and the weak Phokis had no choice but to ask Sparta for help. Although Phokis was small, it was an important city-state close to the Delphi region, which was conducive to the Spartans' involvement in the religious affairs of Delphi, and the Spartans still remembered Thebes' contempt for and destruction of the temple sacrifices before their expedition to Persia, so they were very happy to find a reason to attack Thebes, and immediately decided to punish Thebes for their disdain to Sparta.

As a result, the Spartan army invaded Thebes in two ways. On one side, another Spartan king, Pausanias, led his army northward, while on the other hand, the Council of Elders sent Lysander, who had returned to Sparta, to Phukis to organize a local coalition to attack Thebes south. Lysander quickly completed his mission with great success, and also rebelled against the Ocomernus people in the Piosia region.

Faced with a formidable threat from Sparta, Thebes turned to Athens, the nearest powerful state, for help.

After the defeat of the Peloponnesian War, the dark reign of the "Thirty Tyrants", and the restoration of the democrats, the Athenians lost their arrogance in the past, and reconciled the differences between the democrats and the aristocracy with a moderate system at home, and treated their former allies equally externally. With its strength, Athens wanted to break free from Sparta's control and gain true military and commercial freedom.

So, after receiving a plea for help from Thebes, Athens convened a citizens' assembly. At the congress, the overwhelming majority of the citizens voted for an alliance with their former sworn enemy Thebes and a war against Sparta.

In the end, the democratic leader Thrasibulus, who had led the rebels in a hard battle, finally overthrew the rule of the "Thirty Tyrants" and reborn Athens, informed the Theban envoys of the Athenians' decision, and said in a firm tone: "...... Although the port of Piraeus is not yet walled, we Athenians will brave the danger and face the brutal Spartans side by side with you Thebans! ”

The Thebans were moved, and the two city-states, which had been feuding for decades, quickly entered into an alliance, declaring that Thebes and Athens would form an eternal alliance.

At this moment, the troops led by Lysander and Pausanias approached the area of Piosia from the south and the north, and they agreed to meet near the city of Halyatus, an ally south of Thebes.

However, when Lysander arrived, Pausanias's army was nowhere to be seen. Lysander tried to convince the Halyatus to defect from Thebes.

The Halyatus pretended to agree, secretly stalling for time. When the Theban reinforcements arrived, they suddenly went out of the city and attacked Lysander's troops in front and back with the Theban army.

As the founder of Sparta's hegemony, Lysander died unexpectedly in this sudden battle, but in the ensuing war, the Thebans failed to completely defeat the remnants of this leaderless army, but suffered heavy losses.

The next day, Pausanias arrived with his team.

The Thebans saw that the Spartans were outnumbered and the army was neat, and their morale was immediately low.

However, Pausanias did not immediately lead his army to attack, but instead set up camp nearby.

By the third day, Athenian reinforcements had arrived.

The Thebans were immediately more confident, and they joined the Athenians in formation to meet the Spartans.

Pausanias did not immediately lead his army to the coalition and did not accept the enemy's challenge, but gathered his officers to discuss: should the war be immediately or a truce? so that they could recover the bodies of Lysander and the other fallen soldiers.

In the end, the Spartans decided to make a truce.

After negotiations between the two sides, the Spartan army evacuated Piosia with the bodies of their comrades.

The ordinary citizens of Sparta were deeply saddened to see Lysander's corpse, and they recalled Lysander's great contribution to Sparta, turning their grief into anger, accusing the Spartan king of Paulias of deliberately delaying the meeting, killing Lessander, and his crime of retreating without a fight.

The elders of the Council of Elders did not fully defend the Spartan king, because the death of Lysander and the retreat of Sparta had a huge impact, which directly led to the formation of an anti-Spartan alliance between four important Greek city-states: Thebes, Athens, Corinth, and Argos.

As a result, the Spartan king Paulanias was convicted and exiled.

The Spartans, realizing that this anti-Spartan alliance was extremely harmful to Spartan hegemony, quickly gathered an army in an attempt to destroy it.

The anti-Spartan alliance also quickly gathered its army on the Isthmus of Corinth, hoping to resist the Spartan attack, and then counterattack into Spartan territory and completely burn the "hornet's nest".

Thus, the two sides began a protracted battle on the Isthmus of Corinth......

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Also in this year, there was a war in Sicily.

The fighting between the armies of Syracuse and Carthage on the north coast of Sicily had been going on for most of the year.

By the time the time came to 494 BC, the important countries and city-states of the Mediterranean were mired in war, while Great Greece had enjoyed more than three years of peace.

Early in the morning, Lycassus came to the clinic and began to clean and tidy up. As an apprentice physician, it is his job to prepare for the opening of the clinic every day, and he firmly believes that hard work can win the trust of his teachers and learn real medical skills, and today he is in a particularly good mood because he has to accompany his teachers on a long trip.

When the doctor Nick Stratus came to the clinic slowly, Lycasus had already finished the package, and Nicostratus, who had never liked to worry about trivial matters, only asked, "Have you brought everything?" ”

After receiving an affirmative answer from Lycasus, he nodded and said, "Let's go." ”