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Compared with Tiberius's mobilization of the soldiers of the Brutus family, the king of the Spartan city-state did not say a word more to the soldiers of the Spartan city-state under his command; Just the phrase "thisissparta!" was enough for the warriors of the Spartan city-state, this is the Spartans, this is the Spartan army!

Today, Tiberius's unprecedented conditions have made every soldier of the Brutus family enthusiastic and their morale skyrocketed; Perhaps, three hundred gold coins is nothing in the eyes of most nobles and wealthy merchants, but for these soldiers from ordinary civilian backgrounds, three hundred gold coins is a real huge amount of money.

If the total income of an ordinary family living in this world can reach thirty gold coins a year, then the family can also live a happy life without worrying about food and clothing; If the thirty gold coins were still a net income, then everyone in the family would be able to go to the arena once in a while to watch an exhilarating gladiatorial performance.

Three hundred gold coins, that's enough to support a family to live a carefree life for ten years; Even if he dies in battle, his family can get 500 more gold coins, almost twice as many as 300 gold coins!

I have to admit that human beings are indeed a race that is easily seduced by interests; Tiberius only offered one such verbal promise in exchange for the belief that 35,000 soldiers would fight to the death to the victory, which was a good deal.

However, it will not be easy for Tiberius to fulfill this promise after the end of today's battle; There were 35,000 hoplites of the Brutus family present, even if it was 300 gold coins per person, the Brutus family would need to pay more than 10 million gold coins, and if one more army soldier was killed, then the Brutus family would need to pay more than 15 million gold coins.

With the strength of the Brutus family, can they come up with this huge amount of money? Needless to say, the Brutus family simply couldn't come up with this huge sum; If the Brutus family really had so many gold coins, why did Tiberius make a false accusation to the Sulla and Pompey families?

Of course, it was impossible for Tiberius to deceive the soldiers of the Brutus family with such a thing; Otherwise, if the Brutus family fails to fulfill its promise, how will the Brutus family gain the allegiance of these soldiers from now on?

For these soldiers to receive the reward promised by Tiberius, they had to win the battle; As long as the Brutus family can successfully defeat the last army of the Spartan city-state, then the entire Greek peninsula will be unified by the Brutus.

At that time, the Brutus family, which owned the most prosperous regions of Attica, Peloponnese, and Laconia on the Greek peninsula, could not come up with a mere fifteen million gold coins? The tax and trade benefits of these three regions alone in a year are far more than fifteen million gold coins, which are the capital that Tiberius has promised!

Tiberius's promise gave the Brutus soldiers a fierce fighting passion, and they quickly prepared for battle in regiments under the command of their respective legions; In the face of the slowly advancing phalanx of the Spartan city-states, the soldiers of the Brutus family no longer had fear in their eyes, nor did they retreat, but only a naked desire to fight!

The 35,000 hoplites of the Brutus family and the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Spartan city-state soon fought together, and the pikemen phalanx of the Spartan city-state army made it difficult for the Brutus hoplites to get within two meters of them; However, the army of the Brutus family relied on their numerical superiority to quickly surround the enemy on all sides.

Whether the army of the Brutus family surrounded the army of the Spartan city-state on all sides, or whether the army of the Spartan city-state wanted to use its own pikemen phalanx to bloom in the middle of the time, it would only depend on the outcome of the war; Having completed the encirclement of the army of the Spartan city-state, the commanders of the Brutus family immediately gave the order for an all-out attack.

Before the orders of the legion commanders were given, the soldiers of the Brutus family did not dare to act rashly, and Tiberius's order to kill them was still ringing in their ears; With the commander's order to attack, the hoplites of the Brutus family immediately launched a frenzied attack on the Spartan army in front of them.

Even if the robes in front of him were pierced by the enemy's spears, the hoplites behind still launched wave after wave of desperate charges against the enemy in front of them without hesitation; For these ordinary soldiers, since they are an ordinary soldier, it is inevitable that one day they will die on the battlefield, and it is better to fight for their families than to die in obscurity in battle.

An army with a firm purpose was always terrible, and even the king of the Spartan city-state was shocked by the madness of the hoplites of the Brutus family; He never thought that there would be such a crazy army in this world, and death was just a trivial matter for the soldiers of the Brutus family in this matter, and victory was their unswerving goal!

As the first hoplite rushed in front of the Spartan army, slashing and killing two Spartan hoplites with their short swords, countless Brutus hoplites successfully broke through the Spartan army's spear phalanx and slaughtered the Spartan army's battle array, turning the battle into a bloody hand-to-hand combat.

How could the soldiers of the Spartan army be afraid of the enemy's hand-to-hand combat, they also threw away their useless spears, drew their short swords at their waists, and fought with the Brutus hoplites who rushed to fight; An army that fights to protect the homeland behind it, an army that wants to give its family a better life, there is no right or wrong between the two sides, only to fight to the death!

After all, the Brutus family had an absolute advantage in numbers, and even if the Spartan army was unusually strong in combat, it could not change their absolute numerical inferiority; Every soldier of the Spartan army had to deal with the attack of more than three Brutus hoplites at the same time, and it was impossible to create a miracle in the proportion of casualties.

In addition to breaking through the pikemen phalanx of the Spartan army, the hoplites of the Brutus family paid the price of more than three thousand casualties; After entering the real hand-to-hand combat, the casualty ratio between the soldiers on both sides was quickly reduced to one to one.

In today's battle, the hoplites of the Brutus family burst out with a fighting force that Tiberius could not even imagine; You must know that the reason why Tiberius offered the price of the gold coin reward was just to stabilize the formation of his family's hoplites during the battle, but he didn't expect that these hoplites would burst out with terrifying combat effectiveness.

The Spartan army's 3,000 Guards Spartan hoplites and 7,000 pikemen, surrounded and strangled on all sides by the 35,000 hoplites of the Brutus family, lasted only three hours; During the three-hour battle, none of the hoplites of the Brutus family took a step back, and all of them went forward to attack desperately.

When the last of the Spartan warriors was pierced by the daggers of the hoplites, the king of the Spartan city-state was left on the battlefield except for the corpses that were scattered all over the battlefield; It is estimated that the only army in this world that can achieve the annihilation of the entire army and fight to the death is the Spartan city-state, but their supreme courage and firm belief are admirable.

It's a pity that they are still the losers of this war after all; The king of the Spartan city-state eventually collapsed on the way to the charge, and was nailed to death by a spear picked up by a hoplite on the ground, which was strewn to the ground covered with the corpses of Spartan warriors.

At the cost of fifteen thousand hoplites, the Brutus family completed the annihilation of the main army of the Spartan city-state; Such a casualty price was indeed a big surprise for Tiberius, who originally thought that he would have to pay at least 20,000 or more hoplites killed, after all, it was more than 10 million gold coins in exchange.

After two days for the victorious warriors to clean up the battlefield and regain their strength, Tiberius once again set out with his army in the direction of the Spartan city-state; This time, the army of the Brutus family was the last holy place of the Greeks, Sparta.

The 20,000 recruits in Sparta did not choose to surrender to the Brutus family, but chose to retreat to the royal palace in Sparta to block the attack of the Brutus army, and even the envoys sent by Tiberius to persuade them to surrender were driven out.

Tiberius, who was originally unwilling to start a battle in Sparta, had to order his soldiers to launch an attack on the royal palace in Sparta; It turned out that the recruits of these Spartan city-states were simply not comparable to those elite Spartan troops, and at the cost of only 2,000 casualties, the army of the Brutus family crushed the 20,000 recruits of the Spartan city-state.

After taking all the defeated enemies prisoner, the forces of the Brutus family officially took control of the Spartan city-state, which had never fallen; The Brutus family also became the second power in the history of the Greek Peninsula to unify the Greek Peninsula, and the last power to unify the Greek Peninsula was Alexander the Great and his empire of Alexander, who once ruled the world!

With the fall of Sparta and the conquest of Laconia by the Brutus family, Tiberius left two legions of troops to garrison Sparta, and he himself led the rest of the army back to Larissa in Thessaly, and began the Brutus family's rule over the entire Greek peninsula! (To be continued.) )