"Your Majesty, please call upon all nations to rescue Metonian!"
Before Xia Zhe could stand firm, the impatient Metonian envoy spoke loudly.
Then he knelt down with a plop and kowtowed three times to Xia Zhe.
"What are you doing? I'm not dead yet, I don't need you to be a filial son!"
Xia Zhe cursed in his heart, but did not say anything, just looked at the messenger.
"You should get up first! Now that the king is here, you might as well explain in detail what Methonian needs us to do and how to do it."
Seeing that the king did not express his opinion immediately, the prime minister chimed in and pulled the envoy up.
The messenger, who was not young at all, stood up tremblingly, touched the redness and swelling on his forehead, and began to convey King Methonian's intentions in detail.
When Metonian joined the Great Northern Alliance, it was actually just a formality to prevent being isolated.
King Metonian was very unhappy that a small town like Stobi became the leader of the alliance.
Therefore, he didn't pay much attention to this covenant later.
King Methionian felt that Macedonia was so powerful during Philip's time that no one dared to attack Methionian.
Now, he was the only one with the most power around Macedonia, and he wasn't the leader of the Great Northern Alliance. No matter how much trouble Alexander made, he couldn't cause any trouble!
However, I never expected it.
Macedonia is serious this time!
Not only did he gather an army of nearly 300,000 to attack with all his might.
They even managed to get some unknown ally in the south to send troops to encircle the enemy from the sea!
The unprepared Metonian border guards collapsed at the first blow!
Botaitia, the first seaport in the Great North, was also quickly captured!
With the confluence of the Macedonian navy and land forces, the military strength reached a terrifying number of nearly 500,000!
It was not until this moment that King Methionian realized helplessly that if he relied on himself alone, his country would be destroyed!
In desperation, he asked several small city-states in the surrounding area to send troops to help in the name of a member of the Great Northern Alliance.
However, Methionian was quite arrogant in his daily life, and none of the small city-states were willing to really help him. They only sent a symbolic one or two thousand people to deal with it.
The situation is extremely critical!
Before the city of Methoneum was surrounded by the Macedonian army, King Methoneum hurriedly sent envoys to Stobi.
Regardless of the cost, they only hope to get the leader of the alliance, Stobi, to come forward and raise his arms and shout! Call on all city-states to join forces to rescue!
Only this way.
The desperate defense of Metonian City is the only hope!
"Macedonia dispatched an army of 500,000?"
Upon hearing this, Xia Zhe and the Prime Minister's faces turned pale. Even Lillian, who was standing by, widened her eyes.
I heard that when Philip went south to fight Eubia, he only mobilized 400,000 troops. That was already the largest Macedonian force ever deployed at a time!
It is unbelievable that Alexander could mobilize an army larger than Philip's in the past just after he ascended the throne!
Macedonia, what a terrible enemy!
"My city does not border your Metonian. There is Macedonia in between! Even if we send troops, we can't save you!" The Prime Minister pondered.
"That's okay! As long as Stobi can mobilize hundreds of thousands of fresh troops from all the cities, we can capture Thessaloniki, the great city in eastern Macedonia, in three to five days. Then, we can threaten the Macedonian army's supply lines! That way, the 500,000 people besieging the city will run out of supplies and will have to return empty-handed!"
The Metonian messenger answered fluently, evidently having memorized this passage many times.
"Oh? Is it really as you said? I remember that the city of Thessaloniki in Macedonia is hundreds of kilometers away from my city and the border of Macedonia! There are mountains all along the way. How can we get there in three or five days? And even if we take Thessaloniki, how can we threaten the Macedonian army's supply line? From Thessaloniki to the south, it is boundless and there is not a single mountain. The Macedonian army can completely bypass Thessaloniki and directly supply the army besieging the city of Methoneum!" The Prime Minister was a little unconvinced when he heard such an assertion.
"He's not wrong. But the truth is not as easy as he said!" Xia Zhe suddenly spoke.
Playing simulated sandbox games in the garden every day, Xia Zhe has long been imprinted with the topography and landforms of the northern region in his mind.
You can indeed reach Thessaloniki quickly by going down the river from the Stobi Ferry without taking the mountain road.
It is a famous city in eastern Macedonia and the main grain producing area of ​​Macedonia.
Further south, it is close to the Aegean Sea.
The tidal flats and wetlands are crisscrossed and the roads are muddy, which does not meet the conditions for transporting large quantities of military supplies.
Moreover, although Macedonia has a long coastline, it does not have a large port.
Even if you want to use ships for transportation, there is no place to set sail!
therefore.
If Thessaloniki was really captured, it would have hit Macedonia's weak spot accurately.
The 500,000-strong army that was sent on the expedition to Methoneum had to turn around and retreat.
Otherwise, once there is a problem with logistics support, we will be defeated without a fight!
However, the Metonian envoys, whether out of ignorance or intentional, did not mention the various difficulties in conquering Thessalonica.
Even by sea, troops from Stobi would have to capture three cities before reaching Thessaloniki. One of these cities was Edomane, a city that was easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Given Macedonia's sedimentation, how could it be so easy to conquer it?
Not to mention Thessaloniki, a famous city in the east of Macedonia. It has a strong military force and solid defenses. A mere hundred thousand miscellaneous troops can't possibly take it!
The biggest trouble is yet to come!
Even if the coalition forces organized by Stobi successfully captured Thessaloniki, the real decisive battle had just begun!
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