"The Spartans will be defeated by us!" Ipamironda's strong self-confidence infected the generals around him, and they soon led their troops to start arranging in front of the camp according to Ipamironda's plan.

Due to the small number of Piosian troops, their entire array was shorter in length than the Spartan coalition array, and its thickness was also thin. Only the left flank was excepted, for at the forefront was the Theban Sacred Legion led by Pelopidas, followed by the Theban heavy infantry led by Ipamironda, whose column was up to 50 columns thick.

Moreover, Ipamilonda deliberately waited until the right flank and the middle were lined up before starting to deploy the left flank. As soon as the left flank was arrayed, he gave the order to blow the trumpet of the attack, so that the Spartans did not have time to adjust their formation, even if they felt that something was wrong.

The trumpet sounded, and the Holy Squad led by Pelopidas led the entire left flank to advance rapidly, while the troops in the center and right flank, under the prior instructions of Ipamironda, deliberately slowed down, so that the left flank soon burst into front, and the entire infantry formation was like a hammer that was swinging hard, and the hammer head was the left flank.

However, it was the cavalry that were the first to start the battle. Ipamironda had concentrated his cavalry in front of the middle in advance, and the Spartan king Cleombrotus naturally concentrated his cavalry in front of the middle in order to confront it.

When the trumpets sounded and the infantry on both sides were still advancing, the cavalry of both sides were already fighting together. The cavalry of the Piosian coalition, with the Thessalian cavalry as the main force, was significantly stronger than the Spartan cavalry, and it was quickly routed.

Deliberately driven by the cavalry of the Piosian coalition, the Spartan cavalry had to retreat in the direction of the center and the left flank, which hindered the advance of the infantry formations of these two parts, and gradually separated from the Spartan phalanx on the right flank.

The king of Sparta in the formation could not see that the array had been disjointed, but he could see that the cavalry in front of the flanks had been defeated, but for the Spartans, the cavalry was never the main force of battle, and they relied on the Spartan warriors who had received military training since childhood and had undergone countless battles in Greece over the years, and at the forefront were the king's guards, they were the elite of the elite, and they could win the admiration of the Spartan people if they became one of them (the establishment of the Spartan king's guard was 300 people, However, after years of war, the population of Sparta has decreased sharply, and it is no longer possible to maintain this number, and there are only 100 people in the array at this time), so the king of Sparta, like the Spartan warriors around him, was not moved by the rout of the cavalry, and still firmly believed that the victory would ultimately belong to them.

When they saw that the Thebans in front of them were not far away, the Spartans roared and began to charge.

At the same time, the Thebes Saints also charged under the leadership of Pelopidas. The weapons and equipment of the Holy Squad soldiers are no different from the heavy infantry behind them, but in recent years, they have either been training or fighting, and have defeated Spartan soldiers in skirmishes many times, they are far superior to other Theban citizen soldiers in terms of combat skills and spiritual fighting spirit, not to mention that they think that fighting side by side with their lovers is a spiritual sublimation and blending of emotions, so with the acceleration of the charge, their fighting spirit is also climbing sharply.

So, when the heavy infantry at the forefront of the two sides slammed into each other, the Theban holy team actually fought on a par with the Spartan king's guard in a contest of strength and skill.

But when the follow-up forces of the two sides pressed, the gap gradually appeared, compared with the column of 50 people and the column of 15 people, the difference in strength was obvious, this gap was reflected in the battle when the two sides pushed, the Spartan side with few people could only retreat step by step under strong pressure, and the originally dense array gradually became loose.

The soldiers of the Theban Legion bravely squeezed into the gap, trying to widen the gap and destroy the shield, they were not afraid of the Spartans' constant bayonets, because they wanted to show their bravery to their lovers, and the defeat of the Spartans was undoubtedly enough to boast of for a lifetime, and they believed that even if they attacked with all their strength and reduced their defenses, their lovers would resist everything for them.

The brave attack of the Theban Saints and the powerful squeeze of the super-thick columns caused the Spartan soldiers to be wounded and collapsed, and the array began to fall apart, and worst of all, their king was in trouble.

Cleombrotus, who had been in the battle, had just poked his bayonet into the chest of the Theban Templar soldier who rushed in front of him, but the soldier was spitting blood from his mouth, but he was holding on to the barrel of his gun and shouting the name of a man.

Immediately afterward, another Theban Saint soldier beside the soldier rushed up with tears in his eyes, ignoring the bayonet spears of the king's guard beside him, and pounced on him, knocking Cleombrotus to the ground.

The king of Sparta, whose helmet rolled to the side, watched as the soldier bit his throat with a hideous face, even though he had been pierced in the back by several stabbing spears......

The king is dead! The Spartans established their country by force, except for the battle of Hot Springs, where the disparity in strength was too great, there had never been a king who died in other battles, but today this tragedy happened, and it is unimaginable how much damage to the fighting spirit of the Spartan warriors was. What's more, now they were facing the Thebans who were as terrible as madness, and the number of people in the head-on confrontation was smaller than the opponent's, and the Spartan warriors of Greece, who were known for their bravery, were timid, first the Helotan soldiers began to flee, then the Piriasians, and finally the real Spartans also threw away their shield spears and turned and fled......

The Spartan phalanx on the right flank was defeated, and the soldiers desperately fled back to their camp on the hill.

At this time, the mid-lank and left flank had already made contact with the enemy and had the upper hand in the battle, but the Spartan coalition had always had the Spartans as the core, and now that the Spartans were defeated, the allied armies had no mind to fight and retreated in a hurry.

Although the Theban army defeated the Spartans, the soldiers tried their best and were very tired, and the Spartan allies were almost unharmed, still outnumbered the Theban coalition army, so Epamironda did not dare to continue the attack on the Spartan coalition camp and returned to the camp.

The Battle of Leuctra ended, in which there were about 1,000 Rassidian warriors, including 400 Spartan warriors, and the Theban Holy Corps soldiers also suffered 200 casualties, accounting for 2/3 of its establishment.

Even many of the Thebans who had been in the field could not believe that they had won, and when they returned to the camp, they cheered and marched around the camp for a week under the leadership of Pelopidas, as a sign of joy and gratitude.

The Spartan camp was overshadowed by the gloom of defeat, although they were still outnumbered by the Theban coalition, but the Spartan king was killed in battle, the army was leaderless, and although some Spartans were not reconciled, they had to send messengers to the Theban camp according to traditional practice, asking for a temporary truce in order to bury the dead, which was actually an admission of defeat.

After burying the dead, both sides sent messengers.

The messengers of the Spartan coalition were to rush back to Sparta as soon as possible, report the defeat to the Council of Elders, and ask them to appoint a new commander and send reinforcements in order to save them from Piosia. Although the fallen king, Cleombrotus, had left them a safe place to retreat, the port of Chrysis, the demoralized army did not dare to retreat alone for fear of being attacked by the Thebans, and remained in the camp on the hill.

The Thebans sent three messengers, one to Athens, one to Thessaly, and one to Dionia.

The messenger was the first to arrive in Athens, as it was the closest to Thebes, and when the messenger with a flower crown on his head loudly proclaimed to the Athenian council: "The army of Thebes has defeated the army of Sparta and killed King Cleombrotus of Sparta!" ……”

This astonishing news caused the entire venue to fall silent, and for these Athenian elites, the victory of Thebes made them even more jealous of Thebes.

Calistratus did not expect the Bis to defeat Sparta, so he and Iphicrates inquired about the messenger in detail, and although the messenger answered briefly, they also felt that although Thebes won, the results were not too great, and according to the Spartans' character, they would inevitably retaliate frantically, and the intensity of the war would increase.

This made Calistratus secretly happy, but he also feared that it would redraw Athens into the quagmire of war.

The second place to arrive at the Theban messenger was Philae, after all, the port north of the Piosia region could be reached directly by boat, and it was not too far away.

When Iason got the news, he danced with his hands. He immediately gathered his cavalry and infantry, and declared that he would help his ally Thebes.

Two days later, he led 8,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry to the south by land and went straight to Hot Spring Pass.

Originally, he thought that there would be a fierce battle at Thermopuest, but when the Spartan coalition led by Cleombrotus attacked the Piosia region in a big way, he had called for the garrisons in Central Greece to come to rendezvous, and the Spartan garrison at Thermopylae sent most of them, and after learning the news of the defeat of the battle, the soldiers who stayed behind felt lonely and in danger, and retreated on their own initiative.

Iason easily occupied this very important strategic point, leaving 500 soldiers to garrison it, and then led the cavalry escort, and without waiting for the advance of the large army, quickly passed through the territory of the Phörkis, who were not on the same page.