This is because although Misia is a relatively wealthy region in western Asia Minor, it has the fertile plain of Alisby, and it has the shipping trade of the Hellespont, and has enough money and materials to form a strong army to resist the invasion of the Dionian army, but Theopemps, who has been in office for more than a year, has obviously not integrated the entire region, and many towns do not respond to his orders at all, so that he only gathered less than 6,000 soldiers four days after the landing of the Dionian army.

Even though Theopampus learned from the information he received that the number of soldiers who landed in Dionya was greater than his army, as a nobleman from the central region of Persia, he did not hesitate to lead his army westward, and a few days later approached the camp built by the Tenth Army near the coast in the face of the "Greeks" whom they regarded as barbarians (Persia and Dioonia had been officially at war for more than five years, but many Persian nobles still disdained to know Dionya and even regarded it as part of Greece).

He was soon surprised to find that the camp built by the Ionian landing army in just a few days did not look very easy to capture, and he was hesitating whether to camp on the spot first and then make plans, when the entire army of the Tenth Ionian Legion, which had been prepared for a long time, suddenly rushed out of the camp.

A small battle ensued between the two sides, and the battle lasted half an hour before the winner was decided.

Because the advance attack of the light infantry brigade of the 10th legion disrupted the long-range attack of the Persian archers, there were no casualties to the Dionian legionnaires, and the Persian infantry array without heavy infantry could not stop the onslaught of the Dionian legionnaires at all, and the Persian cavalry who attacked from both flanks were javelin-fired by the two heavy infantry brigades placed on the flanks by Stepfast, and suffered heavy casualties, and finally the Persian army was defeated.

After Theopampus fled back to Zerea, the capital of the Mycia region, he did not dare to act rashly, and while strengthening the city's defenses, he sent messengers for help.

Ever since Dionya officially declared war on Persia, Dionia's intelligence agents have been preaching among the Greek city-states of Asia Minor: the great King Davers will carry out the oracle of Hattis to return to Persia the centuries-old Persian bullying of the Greeks, and to free the compatriots of Asia Minor from Persian rule and regain their right to freedom and independence!

Many of the Greek city-states in Asia Minor were unhappy because of the Persians' breach of the treaty, and although this rumor made them excited, they were also uneasy, because Agosilaus's conquest in western Asia Minor had brought turmoil and war to these Greek city-states for several years, so even if the Dionian army was victorious in this small battle, these city-states still took a wait-and-see posture and did not take the initiative to approach the Dionian army, which had established itself in Mycia.

Stephorus had sent emissaries to visit the nearest to the camp, Ilion and Apydos (both of which were located on the eastern shore of the Hellespont), but they were closed.

Instead of being annoyed by this, Stephorus sent an army to attack the city or destroy the villages and towns outside the city, but instead he held a grand sacrifice ceremony on the beach near the city of Ilion according to the instructions of King Davos, and the objects of sacrifice were not only Agamemnon and Achilles, but also Hector and Paris. It has caused a lot of heated discussions.

Davers's goal was accomplished, and it was through these Greeks in Asia Minor that he wanted to spread the message to the Greek city-states of the entire western part of Asia Minor: Dionyas treated the Greek city-states on the east and west shores of the Aegean Sea equally.

But why was the sacrifice chosen to be held near the city of Ilion? Legend has it that the city of Ilion was built on the ruins of Troy.

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The messengers of the Mycias arrived in Babylon, and Artaxerxes was nervous when he heard the news that "the vanguard of the Greek coalition had landed in Asia Minor."

At the same time, the Courier's reference to the suspicion of rebellion against the local forces in Misia was also brought to his attention, and Tribasus suggested to him that Phanabazos, the son-in-law of the King of Persia and the former governor of Phrygia, be appointed as the temporary military commander of Western Asia Minor, and that with his former prestige, he might be able to consolidate the military forces of western Asia Minor and repel the invading Greek coalition.

The king of Persia hesitated for several days, and after learning the news that "Theopembus had suffered a defeat in the battle", he finally issued a decree: Phanabazos, who had been transferred to Babylon with great difficulty more than ten years earlier, to the western part of Asia Minor.

After learning of the crisis facing western Asia Minor, the veteran Fanabazos, who was already in his 60s, rushed to western Asia Minor day and night, and at the same time he sent a messenger in the name of the military commander of western Asia Minor, asking the governors of the regions of western Asia Minor to lead their troops as soon as possible to meet in Gerdium, the capital of Phrygia.

Fanabazus, who was well acquainted with the situation in Asia Minor, also wrote to the Greek city-states on the western coast of Asia Minor, in which he argued that the king of Persia was very angry that some of the governors of western Asia Minor had not fulfilled the promises he had made to the Greek city-states, and that one of the main tasks of sending him to Asia Minor was to urge them to fulfill the promises made by the king of Persia.

At the end of the letter, he also begins with Ahula. The name of the god of Mazda is sworn by.

Fanabazos's fame in western Asia Minor made his letter work, and some of the city-states dissatisfied with the new satrap's approach were shaken, and some of the city-states that were already deeply connected with Persia were firmly supportive of Persia against the strange kingdom of Dionya from the western Mediterranean, which eventually led to the formation of the "Combined Fleet of Persian Asia Minor" advocated by Fanabazos, which had about 400 ships and nearly 60,000 sailors.

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After the successful landing of the 10th Dionian Army in Asia Minor and the defeat of the Persian army in Misia, Leoticides decided to send troops to Misia after fear that the defeat of this small battle would provoke the Persians to step up reinforcements to Misia, and that the landing force would not be able to sustain itself for a long time with only one legion, and that in the event of defeat, the Greek coalition would lose a favorable landing site, so he decided to send troops to land in Misia one after another.

Thus, when the harvest in September was over and the Greek city-states began to assemble their armies, Leoticides himself led the Eleventh, Twentieth and Thessaly Cavalry Legions to Misia by boat to join the Tenth Legion.

By this time, he had become keenly aware of the further alienation of the Ionian army from the nearby city-states of Ilion, Apodos, and Tenidos, such as refusing to allow the Dionian army's ships to use their ports to load and unload supplies, and forbidding their merchants to sell supplies to the Dionian army...... Wait a minute.

In order to reduce the pressure on logistics and allow the Greek coalition to land more smoothly, he decided to change the strategy formulated by the previous kingdom, when the envoy of the Dionian army once again asked Ilion to open the port and was refused, Leoticides brazenly led his army to surround Ilion and demand that it submit to Dionia, but was refused, so he gave the order: Siege!

In the legend, the city of Troy hundreds of years ago was thick and the Greek coalition failed to capture it for 10 years, but Troy at that time was not only a big city, but also one of the overlords of western Asia Minor, supported by many allies, so it could be defended for so long; Today's Ilion is a medium-sized town, but it is nowhere near as good as its predecessor, Troy.

Leoticides had three infantry legions and one cavalry legion under his command, totaling twenty-six or seven thousand men, and a fourth fleet temporarily under his command, which surrounded the city of Ilion from sea to land. What's more, the siege skills of the Dionian army were far from being comparable to the Greek coalition forces hundreds of years ago, so on the fifth day after the siege, the Ilions could not bear it and had to surrender to the Dionian army.

Leoticides accepted their surrender and sent part of his army into the city of Ilion, thus taking control of this important hub in the Hellespont.

The news of the capture of the city of Ilion soon spread throughout the surrounding area, terrifying the neighboring Greek city-states, who had to send emissaries to show goodwill to the Dionian army.

Leoticides took the opportunity to offer them a certain amount of military rations and supplies in exchange for a promise to secure their city-state, which was agreed.

At the same time, Leoticides also sent troops deep into the interior of Misia, surveying the terrain and understanding the enemy's situation, while grabbing wheat fields and increasing grain reserves.

The governor of Misia, Theopemps, was unable to stop the Dionian army and had to send messengers to Fanabazos several times for help.

At this time, Fanabazos, who was staying in Gerdium, was still waiting for the convergence of the armies of the various regions of Asia Minor, and could only send orders to the combined fleet of Asia Minor, which had been formed, in the hope that they would take action to attack or harass the support fleet of the Dionian army in order to relieve the pressure on the land.

Before Leoticides landed in Asia Minor, he sent a messenger to inform the allies of the Greek mainland, asking them not to lead their troops to Thessaly to join the army, but to go directly to the landing place opened up by the Dionian army in Misia, so from the end of September, the armies formed by the Greek mainland city-states have been going to Asia Minor by boat, so every few days there is a convoy of troop transports across the Aegean Sea, not to mention that there is a fleet of ships transporting supplies between the two continents every day.