Areus first ordered a small force of skirmishers to garrison the fort in Attike, which the Makedonians had left empty. This would make their retreat to Demetrias - or to the fort itself - harder. This ingenius action was a suggestion of the Spartan Council to their King.
Areus then proceedd to engage the Macedoians, under Alkyoneus Argeades, who were besieging Athenai.
The Macedonians retreated without fighting to where they could...
...to the north-east of the Attike Fort.
With Athenai no longer under siege, Areus stepped down from the command of the Alliance Army, and the new Strategos, Chremonides, took charge. Areus went back to Korinthos, where he was welcomed. His son had gone back to Sparte, where he intended to stay for his next 4 years in the position of Hegemon.
Chremonides persued the Macedonian army to the point it couldn't retreat anymore. His first battle as Strategos was about to start.
The Koinon Hellenon forces easily outnumbered the Macedonians, but Alkyoneus Argeades was a great general that could still cause trouble.
Alkyoneus Argeades died in the battle, and his army fell quickly without him.
Chremonides ordered the killing of all Macedonians who participated in the battle as a punishment for the siege of Athens.
Few Makedons survived that day.
Chremonides saw the complete obliteration of the Macedonian army as an opportunity to conquer Demetrias. He was confident in the current strength of the Alliance Army.
To the north, the Makedonian King gathered more forces in his capital.
He managed to do so, and sent them to break the siege of Demetrias. The Alliance Army outnumbered the Macedonians, but these had heavy cavalry, phalanxes and quality hoplites in their forces. They also had Kalos Argeades, a strong commander. Still, their forces were divided (the reinforcements and the garrison of Demetrias) and the Alliance Army was united.
Chremonides's plan was to attack the reinforcements quickly and rout them before the garrison of Demetrias arrived, fighting the 2 Macedonian armies one at a time.
The plan did not work. The Macedonian captain in charge of the reinforcements was strongly defended by heavy cavalry, and managed to keep his forces fighting as he waited for Kalos and the garrison of Demetrias.
The Koinon Hellenon Army was spread thin and started losing the battle in both flanks. The right flank eventually broke.
But in the center the Athenians and Spartans managed to get Kalos to "withdraw" (cowardly run away) from the battle, giving Chremonides the advantage.
The battle was bloody. By the end of it, all military tactics were abandoned and the exhausted men just tried to stab whoever wasn't wearing their colors.
Victory came to the League of Hellenes, and again the Macedonians were chased and killed.
Most of the garrison of Demetrias was killed in the battle, so Chremonides ordered the assault on the walls.
Demetrias was conquered.
Eudamidas, the second Spartan King (and current Polemarchos of the Koinon), advised Chremonides to enslave the population of the city, as was requested by the Spartan Council. Due to the valuable help the spartans had provided in the previous battles, and since the Athenian Council had given no order on this matter, he agreed with the suggestion.
After conquering Demetrias, Chremonides retreated to the Attike Fort with all the Alliance Army but a force of skirmishers, which was left in Demetrias to maintain order. He believed the Macedonians would siege Demetrias and the Alliance Army had been weakened and required reinforcements, which would be hard to recieve if they were stuck under siege in Demetrias.
The Macedonians did indeed siege the city soon after with a force that outnumbered the current Alliance Army.
And they had even more men in the north. For now, Chremonides was staying in the Attike Fort, waiting for reinforcements and orders from the Athenian Council.
Back at southern Hellas, public buildings and recruitments were made through this entire time. In Sparte the new military facilities were completed.
And work began on public health.
In Rhodos, the economy started being improved through the building of a mercantile port.
In Athenai, reinforcements were recruited for Chremonides.
And his son grew older, ready to enter public life.
Although the idea of him joining the Spartan Agoge seemed absurd to many, he didn't find the notion so absurd.
Doros was a hellene more than an Athenian, and had liked the other cities, including Sparta.
In Athenai, the building of new military facilities started as well.
Over at Asia, Sinope was conquered by Pontos. This city had once requested the help of the Koinon.
Once the public health constructions were finished in Sparte, economic improvements started being made to the city.
And in the north, Pella was the last stand of the Macedonian King, as his forces had failed to conquer Serdike. Unless, of course, he managed to conquer Demetrias back from the Koinon.
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