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

From Tiberius' mighty march to the border with an army of seven legions, to Tiberius' menacing march to the Peloponnese with an army of five dissatisfied, to Tiberius' march to the Spartan city-state with seven legions with heavy casualties, the price paid by the Brutus family for this war is becoming more and more terrifying.

After conquering Corinth and the entire Peloponnese, Tiberius left behind a legion of decent casualties to garrison Corinth; Tiberius then led seven other legions to the region of Laconia, where the Spartan city-state was located.

Although Tiberius's army nominally had seven legions, the actual number of soldiers who could fight was only about 35,000; The army of the Brutus family attacking the Spartan city-state itself was even inferior in number to the army that the Brutus family had invested in the attack on Corinth.

The crux of the matter was that the Spartan city-state also had a relatively small total number of troops on its own soil; Before the Athenian and Spartan city-states formed an alliance and formed a Greek alliance, the elite army of the Spartan city-state consisted of 5,000 Spartan hoplites and 20,000 hoplites.

The 25,000 elite troops were the core of the entire Spartan city-state army, of which 5,000 Spartan hoplites and 10,000 hoplites were used by the Spartan city-states to form the Greek coalition; Due to the fierceness of the soldiers of the Spartan city-state, when a major war broke out in the border area, the armies of the other city-states were defeated on a large scale, and only the armies of the Spartan city-state were all killed in the border area.

Later, the Spartan city-state sent 3,000 Spartan hoplites and 10,000 pikemen to garrison Corinth; As a result, the city of Corinth fell after thirteen days of stubborn defense, and the thirteen,000 elite troops of the Spartan city-state were also wiped out.

Of course, if only in terms of the proportion of casualties between the enemy and the enemy, the thirteen,000 elite troops of the Spartan city-state can be regarded as a well-deserved death; With an army of more than 10,000 people (the combat effectiveness of those auxiliary armies is negligible), they held on for thirteen days under the attack of the 70,000 troops of the Brutus family, and caused the death of more than 30,000 soldiers to the Brutus family, which is a miracle!

Unfortunately, after paying the price of more than half of the casualties, the Brutus family could still form an army of 35,000 men to continue to attack the mainland of the Spartan city-state, and the army that the Spartan city-state could use to defend the mainland at this time was only 10,000 people.

The most elite trump card of the Spartan city-state has always been the prestigious Spartan heavy infantry, and even more elite and powerful than the Spartan heavy infantry is the Spartan heavy infantry of the guards, which directly belongs to the king of the Spartan city-state; In the entire Spartan city-state, the number of Spartan heavy infantry of the Guards was only 6,000 men, and this is still the number after nearly two years of expansion.

At the Battle of Corinth, the Spartan city-state lost 3,000 guards Spartan hoplites and 10,000 hoplites, and now the Spartan city-state has only 3,000 guards Spartan hoplites and 7,000 hoplites; As for those newly formed armies, how much combat effectiveness can they have in a month or so, and the role they can play on the battlefield is really minimal.

Then another very real problem comes, the Spartan city-state of 3,000 guards Spartan heavy infantry and 10,000 heavy pikemen can hold the city of Corinth for thirteen days, and finally inflict extremely heavy casualties on the Brutus family before the whole army is wiped out; And the Spartan city-state itself had almost the same strength as the Corinthian defenders, so why did Tiberius insist on attacking?

If the army of Spartan City, in the defense of Corinth, broke out with the strength of their fighting power; Then when defending their homeland, they will definitely burst out with two hundred percent strength, and isn't it more difficult for such an army of Spartan city-states to deal with? Why did Tiberius attack the Spartan city-state with far less army than he did against Corinth?

Even if the defenders of the Spartan city-state could not burst out with more powerful combat power, the 20,000 recruits that the Spartan city-state now had could play a role; With 10,000 elite divisions and 20,000 recruits, how could the Spartan city-state not be able to withstand the attack of the 35,000 hoplites of the Brutus family?

In fact, the reason for this question is very simple, that is, Tiberius had absolute confidence that he could defeat the native defenders of the Spartan city-state with 35,000 hoplites; It was not the army of the Brutus family that gave Tiberius such strength and confidence, but the pride and arrogance of the Spartan city-state in the past.

As the most militarily powerful of all the city-states in Greece, the city-state of Sparta naturally boasted a pride unimaginable to other city-states; The ancestors of the Spartan city-state came up with a very strange way to keep the warriors of the Spartan city-state out of the enemy, that is, the city of Sparta, where the city-state of Sparta is located, must never build walls!

Well, this may have been a good idea to the king of the Spartan city-state at the time, and the Spartan city-state did manage to keep the enemy out; Except for Alexander the Great's peaceful unification of the Greek peninsula, no hostile army in history could attack the city of Sparta, which is also a point that the people of the Spartan city-state can be proud of.

Why did the defenders of the Spartan city-state in Corinth inflict so heavy casualties on the army of the Brutus, and why did it take thirteen days for the Brutus army, which had an absolute superiority in numbers, to occupy the city of Corinth; The strength of the army of the Spartan city-state was one of the main factors, but more important was the strong and tall walls of Corinth, which were the main reason for the restraint of the army of the House of Brutus.

The city of Sparta, on the other hand, was a city without walls, not to mention the sturdy and tall stone walls in the civilized world, not even the wooden walls of Sparta, which the barbarian cities had; It turns out that the Spartans always have to pay for their arrogance, and the attack of the Brutus family is not long coming.

Although the Spartan city of Sparta did not have a defensive wall, the royal palace in Sparta had a strong palace wall, which was the last line of defense of the entire Spartan city-state, and it was also the strongest line of defense in Sparta.

Would the king of the Spartan city-state defend his palace? How could the proud Spartans sit in the royal palace? Just when the army of the Brutus family was slaughtering the Spartan city-state, the king of the Spartan city-state also personally led the Spartan city-state's 3,000 guards Spartan heavy infantry and 7,000 heavy pikemen to take the initiative to leave the Spartan city and embark on the journey of actively attacking the enemy!

The pride of the Spartans always makes people feel that they are arrogant, but also have to admire their supreme courage; 20,000 new recruits who had just been recruited for a month were left in Sparta to continue training, but the king of the Spartan city-state took the last army of the Spartan city-state to launch an active attack on the army of the Brutus family, this is Sparta, and it will always be the attacker.

Tiberius did not understand why the king of the Spartan city-state had made such a choice, but he immediately ordered his army to halt its march after receiving a report from the scouts; Since the kings of the Spartan city-states were going to leave the war out there, Tiberius would have better fight with them far from the Spartan city.

Whether it was the highly prosperous city of Sparta or the rich Laconia region, it would soon be an important ruling area for the Brutus family, and how could Tiberius hope that a battle would break out in those prosperous places; Therefore, Tiberius welcomed the initiative of the Spartan city-state.

The army of the Brutus family waited in place for two days, and the army of 10,000 of the Spartan city-state appeared in front of Tiberius with great momentum; Watching the army of the Spartan city-state with a calm and well-formed formation slowly advancing forward, Tiberius, as the enemy of the Spartan city-state, had to marvel at the strength of the army of the Spartan city-state, which was a real army of strong men!

No matter how admirable the armies of the Spartan city-states were, they were, after all, enemies of the Brutus; For Tiberius, only the dead enemies were the best enemies, and the task of the Brutus army was to send these enemies to their deaths.

The Brutus hoplites met the elite of the imposing Spartan city-state, and the battle between the two sides on this plain was a battle that would determine the fate of the entire Greek peninsula. If the Spartan city-states had won the battle, the Brutus' goal of unifying the Greek peninsula would have to be postponed for at least a year.

Once the army of the Brutus family is victorious, within three days the Greek peninsula will have a new master; For the victory of the Brutus family, Tiberius gave the most severe military orders to all his soldiers before the battle: those who flee from the battlefield, behead; Those who retreat from the battlefield, slash; Those who do not obey orders on the battlefield will be beheaded; Battlefield undead warriors, slash!

When the four successive beheadings were announced by Tiberius, all the soldiers of the Brutus family felt Tiberius's murderous aura, and those personal guards who were once again formed into the Overseers also became nightmarish beings in the eyes of the soldiers; Next, Tiberius also announced the reward for victory, five hundred gold coins for those who died in this battle, and three hundred gold for those who fought for this battle!

Tiberius's reward system was very simple, as long as the Brutus family defeated the 10,000 enemy troops in front of them, each soldier who participated in the battle could be rewarded with 300 gold coins; Even if you die on the battlefield, your family can also get a pension of 500 gold coins, which is the first pre-war mobilization of the Brutus family, and it is naked sticks and carrots! (To be continued.) )