Hot Springs Seki.

The famous land of bitter battles, it was from here that the god king Xerxes landed, killed the king of Sparta and 300 warriors, but he lost more than 10,000 elite soldiers, although he was victorious.

is also a master of the art of war and strategy, Sun Bin is like the god king Xerxes back then, and he also selected the army to land from the hot spring valley, go directly to the rear of Sparta, and capture the thief first!

This is due to the unique geographical location of Sparta, a city that was an outlier even in Europe in the third century BC, the only city in Europe without a walled capital! In the eyes of the Spartans, the mountains, seas, and chests of the Spartan warriors that surrounded Sparta were the strongest defenses of Sparta.

Because Sparta is surrounded by mountains on three sides, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so if Sun Bin does not want to break through the blockade of the Peloponnesian League all the way and then climb the rugged and difficult mountain road to Sparta, he can only consider transporting a large army from the southeast sea and conquering the Thermothermal Valley after landing, although this battle will still be extremely difficult, but it is the only option.

In the spring of 347 B.C., when the first spring snow had melted completely, the Chinese and Athenian armies set out on their journey. The chief general of Athens led an elite army of 5,000 citizens and 12,000 freemen from Athens all the way south to begin his difficult war against the Peloponnesian League. In Sun Bin's opinion, his scarecrow army does not seek merit, as long as it can hold back those allied countries in Sparta, it will be considered a victory, and the real decisive battle is never here, but at Hot Springs!

The Chinese army of 50,000 men marched south from the sea and was to land on the coastline southwest of Sparta. This army was formed by the Chinese multinational coalition army. The core force is 10,000 Qin troops, 8,000 Wei troops, 5,000 Chu troops, 3,000 Qi armies and 3,000 Zhao armies, as well as 'miscellaneous armies' of Lu, Song, Han, Wei and other countries. Sparta is guilty of 'crimes against ~ humanity'. It was also the United Nations Security Council that issued the crusade order, and in the name of Zhou Tianzi, the chief of the Security Council, Qin had no reason to bear it independently, and Yingquliang and Bai Dong were also prepared to invest too many troops in the European theater, so it was the most appropriate way to let countries get a piece of the pie.

The climate of the Balkan Peninsula during the Spring Festival is humid and warm, and the northwest wind from the depths of the Mediterranean Sea has gradually turned into a warm southeast wind; Standing beside the 'Manfu Road' in front of the Hot Spring Pass, gazing at the endless ocean to the northeast, Cleonmini II took a deep breath of salty and moist air. There was some excitement and some apprehension, but this mixed mood was soon drowned out by his ambition.

"Spartans will always strive for victory, and victory will always belong to Spartans! Whether the enemy is the once powerful Persian god king Xerxes or the Chinese invaders from the east! All the Spartans had to do was defeat and destroy them completely! ”

Sparta today is in need of a great victory. After decades of fighting with Athens, Cleonmini II saw Athens decline step by step, and also saw Sparta gradually bid farewell to its former glory. From the middle of the last century to the present, the number of citizens of Sparta has dropped from 1,237 to less than 1,000 today, and if it continues, Sparta will be a slow suicide!

Sparta wanted a quick and complete conquest! Only in this way can you really become strong through war, and the tug-of-war with Athens that took place in these fifty or sixty years is like a huge quagmire. With the two largest Greek city-states in their arms dragged into endless wars, Athens was weakening and Sparta was declining step by step. If it goes on like this. It will only be cheaper for the ambitious Romans, and even the Gauls, the Iliads!

What Sparta needed was a quick victory, a decisive battle! Cleome II never doubted that Sparta would be victorious, even though he could already see thousands of Chinese warships on the eastern sea and the Chinese army that was like ants swarming and landing on the seashore, his decisive heart never wavered.

"Craty, is Archidamus still insisting on refusing to send troops to Hot Springs? What was the attitude of the Senate? ”

Born in the line of Archiades, like his ancestor Leonidas I, he had the confidence to win no matter how powerful the enemy he faced, and his canon only has the word 'enterprising'! On the contrary, Archidamus of the Euripontitid lineage was a typical ruler of the Conservative Order, and the two kings of Sparta had different opinions, and the attitude of the Senate was particularly important.

"My Majesty, the Senate and Archidamus are all nostrils out of the air, and they still think that Huaxia is nothing more than an outsider, and that Huaxia is like Persia in those days, and even if it can achieve a brief victory, it is doomed to defeat like Xerxes! And the Athenians were the real enemies of Sparta, so the king's guard of Archidamus would not come to our aid; Without the orders of the Senate, the army of the frontier people could not be used, and we, like His Majesty Leonidas, were left alone to face a strong enemy at Thermopylae. His guard captain Clarty said with a low mood, "What the hell! They don't want to think that Sparta had Athens and countless Greek city-states as allies back then, and today Athens is our enemy! These are a bunch of idiots whose eyes can only see the tip of their nose! ”

"Shut up, Craty, that's the Senate of Sparta and another king after all! Even if you are my most trusted captain of the guard, I don't have the right to criticize them like that. ”

Clionmini patted Craty on the shoulder: "We just need to tell the Senate with one victory after another, and we are right." Leonidas I had only 300 guards, but he held the Persian army for twenty-seven days! I have killed more than 10,000 enemies, and now I have 600 guards, will I not be able to compare to my ancestors? Let's use the blood of the Chinese people to dye the hot springs and wash the eyes of the senate! So, everything will be fine! ”

When did the Athenians qualify as enemies of the Spartans? Cleome actually agrees with Craty, who says that Archidamus and the Senate are short-sighted guys, but unlike Craty, who complains more and takes action more.

With the hot spring Guan Tian Insurance, he was confident that he would be able to stop the Huaxia army for at least two months. The Chinese army coming from the sea could not be delayed for two months in any case; And these two months will make the Athenians as they are, and let those guys in the Senate see clearly who is the real enemy of Sparta!

That's the idea! Cleomeny puffed out his chest, as if he had seen himself surpass the exploits of his ancestors and become another legend of Sparta! (To be continued.) )