Big things surprise us, little things frustrate us.

- Plautus (the most important comedy writer of ancient Rome)

In the end, to what extent did the morale of the Greek legions fluctuate and the hearts of the people were panicked? Doesn't Pylos dare not easily mobilize the Greek legions now, can't he prove something? In other words, Pylos had now lost control of the Greek legions; The entire Greek legion had gone from a whole legion to a group of fragmented, fragmented rangers.

As mentioned earlier, because of the geographical location, most of the Greeks who chose to join the Kingdom of Epirus and follow the king of Pyrus were from the city-state of Semon; It was precisely because of this large-scale loss of citizens that the city-state of Semon also recruited an elite mercenary army of 4,000 men from overseas, and recruited and trained 3,000 Greek heavy infantry from the mainland.

Later, the city-state of Semon had a verbal dispute with the border defenders of the Kingdom of Epirus over the interception of defecting citizens, and finally turned into a confrontation between the two countries; Then another problem is more prominent at this time. The Greek legions of the Kingdom of Epirus consisted of 20,000 Greek warriors who volunteered to follow Pyrrhus, of whom more than half were citizens of the city-state of Semon; The exact number is 13,000.

Before the Greek legion's morale fluctuates, one thing must be confirmed; That is, except for King Pyrus, who blindly listened to the fools of his generals, everyone else knew that the border conflict between the Kingdom of Epirus and the city-state of Semon was completely the first action of the defenders of the Kingdom of Epirus, and the city-state of Semon was only forced to fight back.

Of course, it is also possible that Pyrrhus himself understood this; The reason why he chose to ignore this fact and trust his generals was that he could use it as an excuse to attack the city-state of Semon in order to expand the sphere of influence of the kingdom of Epirus. After all, the current kingdom of Epirus is not the original kingdom of Epirus, and it is entirely possible that King Pyrus will have some new ambitions.

In fact, this is indeed true; Or maybe it's not entirely true. Because the original border conflict was simply provoked by Pyrus himself to the border defender generals of the Epirus Kingdom, in order to provoke a war between the Epirus Kingdom and the Semon city-state, so that the ambitious Pirus could lead a large army to annex the Semon city-state with confidence.

This was originally a seamless plan, how could two thousand border defenders of the Kingdom of Epirus be able to defeat the ten thousand elite army of the city-state of Semon? Coupled with the brutal behavior of the soldiers of the Semon Legion against the citizens of the Semon city-state, Pyrus was absolutely sure that he could firmly stand on the commanding heights of justice and lead a large army to sanction the brutal Semon city-state in the name of the righteous army.

Pyrrhus had taken into account all aspects of this plan, and the whole plan was known only to Pyrrhus and his henchmen; Even Pyrrhos, the younger brother of King Pyrrhus, did not know that his brother had such a plan. Unfortunately, there was a little mistake in the implementation of the plan; directly destroyed the situation that Pyrus had worked so hard to manage.

If the plan is followed, the first to draw their weapons should be the soldiers of the Semon Legion in the city-state of Semon; The brave and fearless soldiers of the kingdom of Epirus will stand up and use their bodies to raise the citizens of the Semon city-state to block the fierce and brutal swords of the soldiers of the Semon Legion, and finally pay the price with their own lives.

Once the legions of the city-state of Semon on the frontier were the first to go to war and deliver a devastating blow to the defenders of the kingdom of Epirus; Then King Pyrus naturally had a just reason to lead a large army to crusade against the Semon city-state and annihilate the fierce and brutal Semon army. After the fact, it was logical to bring the city-state of Semon, which had already been occupied by the army of the Kingdom of Epirus, into the rule of the Kingdom of Epirus.

The plan that had arranged everything went wrong in the end, and the first to draw weapons was not the soldiers of the Semon Legion that Pyrus expected, but the soldiers of the defenders of the Kingdom of Epirus; Thinking about it, the border defenders of the Kingdom of Epirus have Pirus and the powerful army in the country to rely on, so how dare the soldiers of the Semon Legion take the lead in pulling out their weapons?!

Thus, by mistake, the conflict on the border developed in another direction; The city-state of Semon became the victim that Pyrus wanted to be, and the defenders of the kingdom of Epirus became vicious villains. However, the situation has developed to this point, and it is far from evolving into what it is now; It was the next developments that pushed this matter and Pyrrhus himself to the forefront.

In other words, up to this time, the citizens of the city-state of Semon still had no hostility to the kingdom of Epirus, much less hatred of the great Greek hero Pyrrhus; In the eyes of those citizens of the Semon city-state, the conflict between the border defenders of the Kingdom of Epirus and the army of Semon was entirely caused by themselves, so how could they blame the defenders of the Kingdom of Epirus who had paid heavy casualties?

Here, however, there is a second deviation; That was the general of the border garrison of the Kingdom of Epirus, who deceived Pyrus as the executor of the plan as a confidant of Pyrrhus. He didn't expect such a big mistake in the execution of his plan, coupled with the promise he had promised in front of Pyrrhus; Admittedly, he was scared, he was afraid that Pyrrhus would blame him for it.

And he himself never felt that it was much of a fault to deceive Pyrrhus in this matter, after all, Pyrrhus was only concerned with whether a conflict broke out between the two sides, and whether the border defenders of the Kingdom of Epirus suffered heavy losses; It may not really matter who did it first. In fact, the general got the key point completely wrong there; And Pyrrhus also believed in his henchman general.

What followed was a very comic effect, and Pyrrhus, after getting the result he wanted, immediately gave a stern speech to all the citizens of the kingdom of Epirus; In his speech, Pyrrhus said that the Kingdom of Epirus must not allow such brutal acts of the Semon city-state to continue, and he himself must lead the elite army of the Epirus Kingdom to punish the Semon city-state!

Well, the soldiers and citizens of the Kingdom of Epirus didn't know what was going on, and many didn't even know what was going on; However, looking at King Pyrrhus's righteous and strict appearance, coupled with the general's exaggeration of the matter, everyone accepted the lie that the general had made up himself.

Unfortunately, a lie is a lie after all, and it can never become a reality; After Pyrrhus gave the order for a large army to march to the border of the city-state of Semon, the actual version of the border conflict had begun to circulate within the kingdom of Epirus. When Pyrus arrived at the border with his army of 32,000, even Pyrus himself learned the truth through the hostile eyes of the citizens of the city-state of Semon.

The citizens of the city-state of Semon, who originally wanted to take refuge in the kingdom of Epirus, only longed for the bravery shown by the kingdom of Epirus against the Roman invasion; The reason why Pirus was able to be hailed as a Greek hero by those of the Greek nation was only because he led his country to a great victory over the enemy.

Now, when King Pyrus, once regarded as a hero by the Greek people, is about to lead his elite army against his own compatriots, how will the Greek people view Pyrrhus? What the citizens of the other Greek city-states thought, the people of the Semon city-state did not know; But the citizens of the city-state of Semon did not do it at all.

When Pyrus arrived at the border with his elite army, they were greeted not by the singing and dancing of the citizens of the city-state of Semon, but by the people of Semon who spontaneously organized themselves to help the Sermon legions build a defensive line! Sensing that something was wrong, Pyrus immediately conducted a detailed investigation into the matter here, and soon Pyrus learned the truth of the matter.

At this time, it is useless for Pyrus to kill his henchman, so what can he do now? Thinking of the speech he made not long ago, Pyrus, who was unable to ride a tiger, had no choice but to take his army and camp on the border of Serbia and Mongolia; As for the attack on the city-state of Semon, Pyrus really didn't dare to risk the condemnation of the world!

Pyrrhus knew that as long as he led a large army to really invade the city-state of Semon; Then not only will his personal reputation be completely ruined in the entire Greek region, but the kingdom of Epirus may also cause hostility from all other city-states in the entire Greek region, and the Greek legions formed within the kingdom based mainly on the citizens of the city-states of Semon may also mutini in an instant.

As a result, Pyrus was embarrassed to lead his army and confront the Semon army on the opposite side; If it weren't for Pyrrhus's own difficult choice, do you think the 10,000-strong legion of the city-state of Semon would have been able to reach the combined attack of 30,000 hoplites and 2,000 ironclad cavalry under Pyrrhus? The city-state of Semon has long since become part of the kingdom of Epirus!

Even so, it caused a great upheaval in the Greek legions within the kingdom of Epirus; When the truth was circulating in the territory of the Kingdom of Epirus, the soldiers of the Greek legion naturally knew about it. The citizens of the Semon city-state in the Greek legions reacted immediately, and they resolutely chose their homeland between their homeland and the object of their worship!

Pylos was able to bring the Greek legion to Turbo, but it was impossible to get the Greek legion in order; As long as his brother Pyrrhus with an army of more than 30,000 remained on the borders of the city-state of Semon, there would be no true unity within the Greek legions. One can imagine how divided the Greek legion was at this time.

Not to mention the 2,000 elite Cretan archers in the city of Tulbo, the 20,000 Greek legions have been clearly divided into four parts; The first part is the army of two thousand of the city-states of Philosemon, who oppose the actions of Pyrus; The second part is the army of five thousand of the city-states of Philoseimon, who supported the actions of Pyrrhus.

the third part is the army of 11,000 of the city-state of Semon, who vigorously opposed the actions of Pyrrhus; The fourth army consisted of 2,000 men from the city-state of Semon, who were willing to sacrifice their homeland in order to follow King Pyrus and the kingdom of Epirus. With the division of these four parts, the combat effectiveness of the defenders in the city of Tulbo is completely finished! (To be continued.) )