A few days later.
The meeting hall of the royal palace in Stobi City.
The new capital city construction meeting is being held.
The topic this time is the construction steps.
As requested by the Prime Minister, the craftsmen have come up with a blueprint for the new capital, Botaitia.
This is a grand blueprint for a large city, nearly twice as large as Thessaloniki, the largest city currently in Stobi's possession.
According to Xia Zhe, the royal city is close to the harbor, making it convenient to take a boat out to sea at any time.
There is no longer any objection to the blueprint, and what everyone is discussing now is the construction sequence.
All the ministers felt that the new royal city was magnificent and should be built first, and then other places could be built.
Only Xia Zhe disagreed, insisting on building harbor defenses first and demanding that a large number of Greek fire be deployed around the harbor.
Greek fire guarding the harbor?
When the ministers heard the king's proposal, they were quite puzzled.
Although the Great Northern Region is vast, among the civilized city-states, there is only one large seaport, Botaitia!
The others are all far away in the Thracian barbarian region in the east.
Macedonia was a country where land warfare was king and it had almost no navy.
It is a complete waste to build so many Greek fires around the new capital's harbor.
"Waste? I won't tell you the real reason!"
After listening to the ministers' discussions, Xia Zhe smiled secretly in his heart.
Xia Zhe insisted on installing the Greek fire, not to defend against enemies from the sea!
He just wanted to delay the fall of the port as much as possible when the Macedonian army attacked on land!
However, it's really not nice to think about escaping before the new capital has even started construction.
That's why Xia Zhe used the name of coastal defense.
Secretly, he had consulted the Prime Minister and the city defense officer many times, confirming that the Greek Fire facing the sea could turn 180 degrees and fire inland.
"Coastal defense is very important! You have to have a long-term vision! I, Stoby, must have ideals! Sooner or later, I will leave the Great Northern Region!" Xia Zhe explained sincerely.
Xia Zhe's words were not empty promises, but were truly from the heart.
If Macedonia attacks me in the future, I will definitely escape by boat!
By then, Macedonia would probably be about to unify the North, so I would definitely have to run away!
Of course, the ministers did not understand the king's subtext.
They just felt their blood boiling!
Very good!
The king’s ideals are so lofty!
Becoming the overlord of the Great Northern Region is not the king’s ultimate goal!
In that case, what else is there to say?
Just do it!
After the meeting, without any delay, the Prime Minister immediately led everyone to start preparations.
Ajax mobilized 100,000 workers and immediately rushed to the vicinity of Botaitia Harbor to begin building the foundation.
The Prime Minister also sent tens of thousands of craftsmen to begin laying Greek fire under the personal guidance of Archimedes.
Shortly after construction began, the Prime Minister received another message from Xia Zhe, demanding that the number of Greek fires at the port be no less than the number deployed on the city walls of Stobi.
Xia Zhe felt that only with such a distance could he effectively defend against the Macedonian attacks.
The Prime Minister was quite surprised to receive the king's request.
According to Wang, the Greek Fire was too densely planted! There was almost one every ten steps.
Of course, in fact, this is a mistake in Xia Zhe's expression.
His original intention was to require equal spacing, not the same total number.
On the blueprint, Xia Zhe discovered that the size of Botaitia Harbor was about the same as that of Stobi City.
So he casually asked for the same amount of Greek fire.
But Xia Zhe didn't notice that the defense of a port and a city are actually different.
The city has four sides, and the harbor has only one side facing the sea.
The same amount of Greek fire was deployed, and the actual density was four times that of the Stobi city wall!
However, if no one reminded him, Xia Zhe would not run all the way to see it.
This mistake was faithfully implemented by the Prime Minister!
On the Aegean Sea.
The dark fleet stretches as far as the eye can see!
Standing on the deck of the flagship, King Ramza of Eubia is in high spirits!
This time it’s definitely a big deal!
Taking advantage of the season without storms at sea, he led an army of four million to expedition to the Great North!
Once they land, even if Philip were still alive, he would probably be drowned by his own army!
"May I ask my king, where shall we choose to land?" asked Hippias beside him.
"Where to land? Is there any need to ask? Of course it's the port of Botaitia! I have nearly 10,000 warships. Where else can I go except Botaitia? Do I have to go to the distant heartland of the Thracian barbarians to land, and then travel thousands of kilometers to the west?" Ramza refuted.
"But. I heard that Botaitia was just captured by Aristotle's Holy Army not long ago! Now a city-state called Stobi has captured it. Will it be willing to strengthen its coastal defense?" Hippias reminded.
"Strengthen coastal defense? Haha, nonsense!" Ramza laughed when he heard that.
Hippias was just a general and could not obtain so much intelligence.
According to his own intelligence, after the Battle of Thessaloniki last month, the defeated Antigonus escaped from the port of Botaitia!
In order to prevent himself from being hunted down by the coalition forces of the small city-states, Antigonus deliberately destroyed Botaitia before leaving!
Now, let alone strengthening the coastal defense there, it would be good enough if it could be restored to the state before the attack by Aristotle's Sacred Army!
How much trouble could it be to land from there?
"Brother, you're being too cautious! Our army is so powerful. Even if that Stoby strengthens his coastal defenses, he'll still be crushed!"
Hippias' brother Hipparchus spoke out, supporting Ramtha's statement.
Hearing this, Hippias opened his mouth but said nothing more.
Thousands of mighty warships set sail and continued to rush towards Botaitia at full speed!
At the same time, at the north entrance of Mount Olympus.
Another attack that was much ado about nothing ended.
Watching the Eubian mercenary corps retreat like a tide, Alexander and Seleucus, who were in command, started chatting.
"Don't you think that this massive attack from Eubia always seems so strange!" said Alexander.
Hearing that the powerful southern nation of Eubia was taking advantage of Macedonia's defeat and attacking from the north, Alexander was terrified and hurriedly gathered his main forces to defend the mountain pass.
However, after arriving, they found that the Eubia army was not as large as they had imagined.
What was even more bizarre was that the enemy had no intention of continuing the fight. Every time they attacked, they would immediately retreat after encountering a little difficulty.
How could this be considered a forced breakthrough at the northern entrance of Mount Olympus and then sweeping across the North?
Yubia, what on earth are you doing?
"My king, I think Eubia's posture seems to be a feint to the east and attack in the west. I wonder if there are other passages to the north on Mount Olympus? Will the Eubia army launch a sneak attack from other passages to the north?" Seleucus reminded.
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