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- Aristotle (one of the great philosophers, scientists, and educators in the ancient history of the world)

After the army of the Brutus family completed the conquest of the Athenian city-state, the whole region of Attica was under the control of the Brutus; With the fall of the city of Athens, the last of the two holy places in the minds of the Greeks was Sparta.

But what if Sparta still exists? In the hearts of the Greeks, the city-state of Sparta was a symbol of the heroism of the Greeks, and the city-state of Athens was the symbol of Greek civilization; Even the symbol of civilization of their own nation has been lost, do the Greeks still have the confidence to continue to resist? Or is there a need for the Greek nation to continue to resist?

Rome is strong because the city of Rome, a symbol of Roman civilization, has never been captured by any enemy; No city was more important to the Romans than the city of Rome, and no city could replace the city of Rome.

Perhaps, the city of Rome is not the most prosperous city in the world, nor is it the largest city in the world, not even the most civilized city in the world; But did these affect the status of the city of Rome in the minds of the Romans?

Why are the Romans called Romans because the Romans originated in the city of Rome; The reason why the Roman Republic is called the Roman Republic is because the Roman Republic originated in the city of Rome; The city of Rome is the core of the entire Roman Republic, and it is also the most sacred and important existence in the hearts of all Romans.

No matter how strong the enemy is, even if it is a strong enemy like Hannibal who slaughtered countless Romans, even if the Romans have lost countless times on the battlefield, as long as the city of Rome is still there, the Romans have the courage and faith to continue fighting; The city of Rome has never fallen, and the Romans will never admit defeat, which is the meaning of the existence of the city of Rome.

Why did Marius never attack the city of Rome when he had such a strong military superiority when he staged the coup d'état? Why did the Maxentius family prefer to break out of the city rather than take advantage of the countless young men in the city of Rome to defend it, is it really just a plan? Or is it necessarily more advantageous to have other options?

In fact, no other option is necessarily more effective than attacking the city of Rome directly, nor is it necessarily more secure than defending the city of Rome; It's just that whether it is the attacking side or the defending side, everyone is a Roman, and they all understand the meaning of the existence of the city of Rome, and no one wants the blood of the city of Rome to be the blood of the Romans for the first time.

Even if Marius launched the Bloody Night after entering the city of Rome, it was just a massacre against the nobles in the city of Rome, and it did not harm the ordinary people of Rome; Even without Marius's massacre, the battle in Rome would still have caused people to die every day, but the blood never stained the walls, did it?

From the day the Roman Republic was born, the Romans did not allow anyone to bring troops into the city of Rome; Marius also obeyed the rules of this Roman after the occupation of the city of Rome, which was not only a law, but also the obsession of the entire Roman nation!

No one can imagine what kind of mental state the Romans would be in if the city of Rome was captured by the enemy; Even, most Romans did not dare to imagine this problem, after all, the city of Rome had never been surrounded by enemy armies, and if that day came, all Romans would have taken up arms and fought the enemy to the end.

The meaning of the city of Rome to the Romans is what the city of Athens was to the Greeks; It's just that the Roman city of Rome has never been captured by the enemy, while the city of Athens of the Greeks has been ruled by Alexander the Great, which is also an eternal shame for the Greeks.

But now, the shame is finally over; Because Alexander the Great peacefully annexed the entire Greek peninsula, but the Brutus family has captured the city of Athens with an army today, which is the real shame of the Greeks.

It is a pity that the Greeks today do not have the national integrity of the Romans, let alone the generosity of living and dying with the city of Athens; In Tiberius's view, the difference between the Greeks and the Romans was that the Greeks never established a unified state, which is why the Greeks could not reach the heights of the Romans.

No matter how brilliant the civilization the Greeks have created, and no matter how many miracles the Greeks have done, the fact that the Greeks have never unified their own nation cannot be denied; A nation that has never been unified was doomed from the beginning to never be united and united, and selfishness was the true essence of the Greeks.

Tiberius was reluctant to say anything more about these things, nor did he care what the lost Greeks would think; Whether it was the Greeks of the Athenian city-state or the Greeks of the Spartan city-state, these people were the Greeks of their respective city-states, not the Greeks of the Greek nation, which is why the Greeks could not escape the fate of being ruled.

After leaving two legions to garrison the city of Athens, Tiberius led the remaining seven legions to continue the attack south; This time, the army of the Brutus family attacked the Peloponnese, the last barrier of the Spartan city-state.

As early as the third day after the Brutus army defeated the Greek coalition in the border area, 10,000 heavily armed pikemen of the Spartan city-state set out from the Spartan city-state and passed through the Peloponnese region to reinforce the Athenian city-state; As a result, no sooner had the army reached Corinth than it received news of the fall of the city of Athens and the fall of the city-state of Athens.

After receiving this dismal news, the soldiers of the Spartan city-state did not feel sorry for the demise of the Athenian city-state, but after giving up the reinforcement of the Athenian city-state, they stationed in Corinth, preparing to resist the army of the Brutus family in Corinth.

Many of the Greek coalition troops who had fled to the Peloponnese after a rout in the border region also made their way to Corinth, and all of these nearly 10,000 defeated troops were absorbed by the hoplites of the Spartan city-states and became auxiliary armies of the hoplites.

An army of nearly 20,000 men is almost the entire military strength of the entire Peloponnese; The Spartan city-states, which were actively recruiting troops for training, were unlikely to provide more troops to reinforce Corinth in a short period of time, but in order to boost the morale of the defenders in Corinth, the heir to the throne of His Majesty the King of the Spartan city-state came to Corinth with 3,000 Spartan heavy infantry.

These Spartan Guards Heavy Infantry are the Spartan Heavy Infantry in the most elite Guards Regiment of the King of Sparta, if the ordinary Spartan Heavy Infantry is one of the most elite infantry in the world, then these Guards Spartan Heavy Infantry are a whole grade stronger than the ordinary Spartan Heavy Infantry, and their terrifying combat effectiveness can be imagined.

In addition, the heir to the throne of the Spartan city-state is not something that ordinary people can do, even if you are the son of the king, you must have the fighting power to be the heir to the throne; Therefore, after the heir to the throne with three thousand Spartan heavy infantry of the Guards came to Corinth, he naturally became the supreme commander of the Corinthian garrison.

The seven legions of the Brutus family, although nominally the army of the seven legions, were in fact less than the actual strength of the five legions; In the previous battles, the casualties paid by the various legions of the Brutus family were not small, and if they were in the war, they had no time to replenish, and these legions were naturally not full.

However, with nearly 50,000 troops, against the city of Corinth, which was only defended by 20,000 men, it was still an advantage for the Brutus family; However, it was not so easy to take Corinth, which was defended by 3,000 Spartan heavy infantry, and it was impossible for the Brutus family not to pay enough blood.

Tiberius also knew that the war with the city-state of Sparta was destined to be a war of blood and human life; Before launching the attack on the Peloponnese, Tiberius had already sent his guards to reinforce the front line with three legions of leaders from the rear of the House of Brutus, and no matter how heavy the cost, Tiberius would complete the unification of the Greek peninsula!

The Brutus family, who will not give up until they reach their goal, meet the Spartan city-state that fights to the death, and this is a war that makes people smell blood before it has even begun; Since tragic battles and bloody battles are unavoidable, let's make everything more violent, victory always belongs to the strong who fight until the last moment!

After the army of the Brutus family arrived in Corinth City, they immediately launched a full-line attack on Corinth City with a ladder and a siege ladder, and the defenders of Corinth City, with 3,000 Spartan heavy infantry and 10,000 heavily armed pikemen as the core, were also strictly defended at all costs, and there was no intention of taking a step back at all, and even an inch of the city wall had to fight to the death with the army of the Brutus family.

Originally, Tiberius intended to capture Corinth in seven days, but after twelve days of fighting, there were still more than 3,000 defenders in Corinth; At this time, the 50,000 army of the Brutus family was less than 25,000, and every inch of the walls of Corinth City had turned into a sea of corpses and blood, but it was still firmly in the hands of the defenders of the Spartan city-state.

In twelve days of bloody battle, these warriors from the Spartan city-state killed at least 500 auxiliary troops who planned to flee from the city walls, forcing the Greek infantry who had been defeated on the battlefield to choose to fight to the death against the Brutus family; Unfortunately, twelve days is enough time for the Brutus family's reinforcements to arrive, and tomorrow the battle will finally be over! (To be continued.) )