The battle to capture the Thermopus Pass lasted for five days and five nights, and the Romans stubbornly resisted the attack of the Tang army, but the strength of the Tang army was not something they could resist, so on the sixth day, as the last fortress was breached, the Thermosense Pass was declared.

Walking on the messy battlefield, Li Ang looked at the corpse of the Tang army on the ground that had no time to rein, and felt his powerlessness for the first time.

"Your Majesty, General Murong is back." After listening to the orders of the soldiers, Cui Hao, who had been following Li Ang, said loudly, before the fall of Hot Spring Pass, the Romans withdrew most of the main force, and only 50,000 of the 200,000 troops died in Hot Spring Pass.

"How's it going?" Li Ang turned around and said, his eyes were no longer sad, he was still the ruthless and murderous demon king.

"The Romans left the troops behind and resisted desperately, and General Murong just burned most of the military baggage that they didn't have time to transport, captured 5,000 people, and gained nothing for the rest." Cui Hao replied, with a look of regret that the terrain of Greece limited the mobility of the cavalry, otherwise, the losses of the Romans' withdrawn troops would be greater.

"The losses of our army in this battle have been counted." Li Ang nodded, and then asked, Murong's pursuit was within his expectations, after all, the terrain in Greece was not very suitable for cavalry movement.

"Our army lost 37,000 casualties, 7,000 seriously wounded and unable to fight, and 3,000 lightly wounded." Speaking of your own casualties. Cui Hao couldn't help but glance at Li Ang, he knew that for his world-famous martial arts monarch, such a victory was equivalent to defeat.

"Now it's only a war, and my army has gone to Yicheng, and it seems that the Romans are really a hard nut to crack." Leon laughed at himself, saying that he had made the mistake of underestimating the enemy and making the Romans too useless.

"The king's words are wrong, and the hot springs are a place that the Romans have painstakingly managed. Now my king has arrived. However, it was broken in the first day. Presumably, the morale of the Romans must have been greatly reduced, and it was the right time to use the technique of attacking the heart and asking the Greeks to surrender the city. Cui Hao Zhengse persuaded, now that the hot spring pass has been broken, it must have greatly touched the Greeks, not to mention that the Greeks were not willing to take refuge in the Romans, and the Romans did not control Greece for a long time. It is rare to win the hearts of the people, and now it only takes a few edicts and envoys to make the Greeks rebel, which can be described as a very good situation.

"You're right, do it quickly, you can't give the Romans a respite." After listening to what Cui Hao said, Li Ang thought it was true, so he appointed Cui Hao to be in charge of this matter.

As Cui Hao analyzed. Since the hot spring pass has been broken. After the Tang army entered the interior of Greece, the Greek cities under the control of the Romans had different intentions, and the Greeks were already friendly with the Han Chinese. A few years ago, the whole country surrendered, in the hearts of most Greeks thought that it was the representatives of the citizens' assembly who coveted wealth and power to submit to the Romans, and betrayed the country, they did not agree with the rule of the Romans, but because of the strong military strength of the Romans, they had to submit, and now Leon personally led the troops to the expedition, in the eyes of the Greeks, this is the same as the Great Qin Legion's westward expedition to liberate Greece from the tyranny of the Romans, they will regain their freedom, so some cities with sparse Roman garrisons do not wait for Cui Hao to send people to surrender, He first expelled the Roman army and sent someone to seek protection from Leon.

In less than half a month, within the reach of the Tang cavalry, most of the cities, villages and towns were surrendered upon hearing the news, and even some wealthy localities even took out money and grain to reward the army, and some politically minded Greek officials spared no effort to curry favor with the Tang Army, in order to gain the opportunity to be appreciated and continue to become local officials.

After a few days of repairs, Leon began to attack several large cities where the Romans were entrenched, due to the rebellion of the Greeks, the Romans had to shrink their forces so as not to be broken by each one, and the fall of Thermopylae made the Greeks think that the Romans were vulnerable in front of the Tang army, which made this rebellion more and more fierce, which made the Romans quite helpless.

Athens, the city where the Romans hoarded the most troops in southern Greece, if you count the Greek servant army, its strength is as high as 200,000 people, and it is not too much of a problem to resist the Tang army for a period of time with the Athenian city defense, but the hearts of the people have changed, for the Greeks in the city of Athens, they want the Tang army to come in as soon as possible and drive the Romans away, so that they can continue to live their original peaceful life.

And Leon, after experiencing the tragic battle of Hot Springs, was no longer willing to use the lives of soldiers to fill the Roman fortifications, so he adopted Cui Hao's strategy of attacking the heart, calling on the Greeks in the city of Athens to resist the Romans and cooperate with the Tang army to attack the city, otherwise, after the city is broken, they will be regarded as traitors and executed together with the Romans, and Athens will become a dead city, and no living beings will survive.

In this case, if someone else says, the city of Athens

The people of La may not believe it, but Li Ang is different, in his hands, there are thousands of people who call him the number one killing god in the past and present, and what he says is absolutely true to his word.

As if to confirm the name of Leon's murderous demon king, three days later, more than 8,000 Romans who were captured by the Tang army after the fall of Thermopaya Pass were cut off by Greek soldiers in the Tang army in front of the city of Athens, and built several human heads from their corpses.

Such a cold and bloody demonstration made the Greeks in the city of Athens shudder, and they knew that if they did not do what Leon said, then when the city of Athens was breached, they would be beheaded like the Romans in the city, and they would not even be able to rest their souls after death, so the undercurrent began to surge in the city of Athens.

In fact, when Leon ordered the massacre of the prisoners outside the city, the Roman generals knew Leon's intentions, and sent troops to guard all important places in the city early, especially the Greek servant army, which was the focus of their prevention, and the Romans began to disarm them after committing suicide and capturing them.

Things went well at first, and in the opinion of the Roman generals, as long as the threat of the Greeks was lifted, they would still be able to hold on to Athens, which was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and even if the Don army captured Athens, it would have to pay a lot of price.

On the third day of the Romans' disarming of the Greek servants, rumors suddenly began to spread in the city of Athens that the Romans planned to kill all those who posed a threat to them after disarming the Greek servants, and the Romans even intended to kill all the Greeks in the city.

No one knows where the rumors came from, but there is no doubt that the rumors caused an undercurrent to erupt in the city of Athens, and the remaining Greek servants rebelled before the Romans could react, and they engaged in a fierce battle with the Romans' well-trained army.

Although the Greeks had a large servant army, they were no match for the Romans in terms of combat effectiveness, and they were suppressed from the outset by the Romans, who were prepared for them.

At the beginning of the rebellion of the Greeks' servants, the civilians of Athens did not respond, after all, the threat of force from the Romans was the most direct to them, but despite this, the smell of gunpowder between the two sides was extremely strong, and the spirit of the Roman soldiers stationed in the streets was also in a state of tension, and in their eyes, every civilian could become a mob at any time.

In such a situation, it only takes a small friction and accident to make everything completely explode, so Cui Hao's secret agents who have long been placed in the city of Athens played their role at this time, although they can't get in touch with Cui Hao, but those who can be left in Athens as secret agents will not be general.

Disguised as civilians, these Greek agents attacked a Roman street outpost, killing the Roman soldiers in the most brutal manner and deliberately sparing one of the outlets. In this way, the balance that had been suppressed was broken, and the Romans stationed in the neighborhood began their revenge, and then the conflict broke out, and the civilians of Athens began to riot under the conscious guidance of the spies.

The Roman generals continued to receive reports of attacks on their troops, and at this time they could no longer maintain their calm, and the development of events did not allow them to hesitate, so the elite legions stationed at the city walls were transferred to the city to suppress, and then the massacre began, for the Roman soldiers, the massacre of civilians was not the first time they had done it, not to mention that the Greek civilians in Athens had become an out-and-out mob, and if they were not killed, they would be threatened.

The fire that lit up the city of Athens illuminated the night, and all this soon became known to the Tang army, and for most of the generals, the turmoil in Athens was suitable for them to attack, but Leon unexpectedly chose to stand still, suppressed the generals' request for battle, and waited until dawn.

No one can guess Li Ang's thoughts, except for Cui Hao, who offered his advice, only Cao Ziyun, who understood his duties from the battlefield, knew Li Ang's true intentions, his master was to use the hands of the Romans to slaughter the civilians in Athens, in order to intensify the national hatred between the Greeks and the Romans, and at the same time to take the opportunity to reduce the population of the Greeks, they did not come to liberate Greece, but to annex, so as the Greeks as native residents, the less the better, but the Greeks have always been in harmony with the Han people, The only way to find the Romans to make this butcher's knife is to find the Romans, although Cui Hao's strategy is vicious, but Li Ang did not hesitate to adopt it, for Cao Ziyun, this is the character that a superior person should have, everything is only for the interests of the country and the nation, and the rest can be killed or discarded.