When he was approaching the Persian cavalry, Phellisius told Davers that the Persians at the front were Arilius, Artauzus, and Mithradat, who were the most trusted subordinates of Cyrus the Younger. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Another Persian in the center, whom Davers knew, was the former Persian messenger Sist.

When the officers came to a distance of about twenty meters from the Persian cavalry, they stopped.

"Please come closer!" Arirous pointed to his horse.

The officers didn't move.

Silce couldn't help but sarcastically: "Are the Greeks so timid? ”

"Because the Persians have broken their promises again and again, we no longer dare to trust the Persians!" Xenophon retorted.

"Yes, the Persians are shameless villains, even the gods can deceive!" Cleano scolded angrily, his words resonating with the other officers, and the scolding erupted.

"Please be quiet! Listen carefully to the king's orders!! Arirous shouted.

"That's your king, not ours, if you want to say it, just say it, if you don't say it, we'll go back!" Davers shouted too.

"We Greeks are free, unlike the Persians, who are all slaves of your king!" Timasong roared, half proud, half mocking.

Aririus was so angry that his nose was crooked, he turned his head to look at Sist, who nodded at him, and then he helplessly unfolded the papyrus in his hand and read aloud: "Greeks, I, Artaxerxes, Lord of the Persians, King of all peoples, declare that Clearchus has broken his oath and broken the truce, and the gods have punished him. Proxinus, Menon, Achilles, and Socrates, the four chiefs, are being treated with great courtesy by my governor Tisaponis for denunciating his plot! To prevent such a terrible betrayal from happening on the way, and for the sake of safety—" Ariros said solemnly, "Ask all the Greek soldiers to surrender your weapons, for the money for their purchase comes from the rebellious Cyrus the Younger, and his money comes from the Persian treasury, which should have belonged to me!" Hand over your weapons, and I swear to Mazda, the Most High God, that you will reach Ionia without any problems! ”

"Hahaha!! ......" Davers laughed, "The wolf tricked the deer into being friends and ate them." The wolf who tasted the benefits also tried to trick all the deer into breaking their horns themselves, so that the wolves could enjoy their meat with confidence and boldness! Hahaha...... How stupid would this have to be for someone like this again, or is your king having a broken head?!! ”

"Bold!!" Arilius angrily pointed at Davers: "Insult the king, and be burned!" ”

"Enough, Arilius, you shameless villain! And a few of your closest comrades-in-arms of Cyrus the Younger, don't you feel ashamed in front of the gods! Pointing at Arilius, Artauzus, and Mithradhat, Cleano angrily rebuked: "You swore with us to be allies to the gods against the Persian king, and now you have betrayed us, and have collaborated with that inhuman scoundrel of Tisaponis, not only to deceive Clarchus, but also to betray us who are left!" Even in hell, if Cyrus the Younger, knows what you have done, he will curse you! ”

Arilius shrunk his neck unnaturally, and subconsciously glanced at Sister next to him, who looked like he had nothing to do with me, so he had to say again: "The king really wants to send you home safely, because the rebel, Cyrus the Younger, has been punished in the most just way, and you have only been deceived by him!" The Great King is merciful and does not want to let the land of Persia suffer another senseless war! However, after Proxinus and their report, Clearchus had begun a plot against Lord Tisaphanes and the Persian army more than ten days ago, and had spread rumors in an attempt to drive a wedge between the Greeks and the Persians, and we had to take action against him! ”

"Since you said that Proxinus and they have been rewarded by you for exposing Clearcus, then please let them come here, so that the suspicions between us can be resolved, and as the chiefs, they can make better suggestions for the reconciliation between our two sides!" Xenophon was still working to free Proxinus.

"That's right, let our leader come here, and we'll trust you!!" The officers clamored loudly.

"Uh...... Proxinus and they received a feast from Lord Tisaponis...... Already drunk...... So......" said Arirous, who was already a little impatient, and said in a loud voice, "the king has an order to hand over your weapons at once, so that you can return home safely, or we will not help you again!" ”

"Ares is on top, and the Greek warriors will never abandon their weapons and let them be slaughtered!!" Timasong struck the brass shield with a spear and shouted.

"Whoever wants to take away our weapons, we will fight with him!" Criano shouted angrily.

"Proxinus, they can't come, it's not that they're drunk, they've been killed by you, right?!" Xenophon also said angrily that he wanted to force Arilius to tell the truth, but he did not expect it to arouse the anger of the officers.

"The Persians want to kill us all!"

"Avenge the leaders!"

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Enraged, the officers gathered around Arirous and them, and Sist, seeing that the situation was not good, turned his horse and ran, and then Ariros and the others ran back. After running for a while, Siste turned around, saw that he had distanced himself from the Greeks, and remembered that he was a dignified Persian nobleman and a relative of the imperial family, and he was scared away by a group of Greek barbarians, and he was ashamed and angry, so he shouted sharply: "Greeks, you have missed the best opportunity, and soon you will regret it!" ”

"I don't know who will regret it when the time comes!" Xenophon replied forcefully.

Watching the Persian cavalry leave, everyone was worried, it was certain that the fate of several mercenary leaders would not be too good, and the Persians had already torn their faces, now what should they do?

Surrender to the Persians? Even the king of Persia's own brother, Cyrus the Younger, had his head cut off and his hands cut off brutally, and most of the officers didn't think they would be better off if they surrendered! Either they are killed, or they may become slaves. For this choice, the officers are unacceptable and impossible to accept.

Otherwise, they had no choice but to go to war with the Persians again in this strange land! Now they were leading the Persians on a route they had never traveled before, thousands of miles away from their homeland, and without the help of the Persians, they could only grope their way forward, not knowing how many races and villages they would have to face hostile to them, and to guard against the attacks of the Persian army. The most distressing thing is that the Persians cannot fight against them head-on, but they cannot catch up with the Persians, and if they fail, they may be completely annihilated. Because of these difficulties, everyone is frustrated and doesn't know what to do. When they left the camp, the soldiers were still in some spirits, and when they returned to the camp, they all sighed and looked sad.

Back at the barracks, when the officers in charge of each battalion reunited, Davers naturally followed Pherisius and participated in the discussion. Of course, as a newcomer, he rarely spoke, but more observed the officers, who were more likely to reveal their personalities in heated arguments: the grumpy Timason, the shrewd Criano, the cautious Zantiparis, and Agacia, who had a good relationship with the other officers......

Xenophon was much more active, and not only did he argue fiercely with others many times, but he also exclaimed excitedly: "Ladies and gentlemen, Clearcus and they have been captured by the Persians, and we must at once elect a new leader of each battalion to replace them, and then convene a general meeting of the whole army, and regain the determination of the soldiers to fight the Persians, and the confidence that we must rely on ourselves to return home, or we will be all finished before the Persians attack!" ”

Davos thinks Xenophon is right, although he is still a beginner in military affairs, but in his previous life he was a village official, a supervisor of a high-tech development zone, and managed far more than 10,000 soldiers, so he knew the importance of unity of thought and confidence in a group.

Timason, who seemed to be a little disgusted by Xenophon's over-ostentation, did not look at Xenophon at all, turned to the others and said, "Don't worry, Chrysopus will be back soon!" ”