The Persian Immortal Army, also known as the Immortal Army, was an important military force in the ancient Persian Empire. This legion has maintained a number of 10,000 for a long time, and if there is a reduction in personnel, it will only be replaced, otherwise it will never be added, making it look like the team members will not die.

The Immortals rose to prominence by assisting Cambyses II, Darius I, and Xerxes I in their conquests of much of the Persian Empire, from Western Asia Minor to Eastern Europe and the Aegean Sea, ruling over 44% of the world's population at the time. Although Persia was the defeated side in the Greco-Persian Wars, all the city-states saw the terrifying combat power of the Persian Immortals.

"The enemy is speedy, and the war is urgent. Are you sure? Zhou Yu glanced down at Xerxes's legs, which were still wrapped in sackcloth.

"Chief, this is the last time I'll call you that." Xerxes stood on the tower of the city, looking at the mountains and wilderness in the distance, and the aura of the king was awe-inspiring.

"Oh? What will you call me after that? Simon or Corporal James? Xerxes closed his eyes slightly, and did not answer him. Let the breeze mixed with the smell of earth after the rain blow on my cheeks, and I enjoyed it very much. Zhou Yu saw him like this, and he didn't interrupt, and let him go.

"Since you and I are both from that mysterious place, why don't we call each other brothers?"

"No, I'm not worthy to be your brother, really!"

"After so many ups and downs, I've long forgotten about those things." Xerxes sighed, and Zhou Yu read the loneliness and loneliness in his eyes.

"Hey, they are both fallen people at the end of the world, why should we have known each other when we meet."

"I used to think I was on top of the world, overlooking the vicissitudes of life and the ants. At that time, I was sometimes magnanimous, sometimes tyrannical, and it was difficult to fathom, and I thought this was the art of kingship. I can make everyone prostrate at my feet, and no one can enjoy safety and dignity. ”

"The Prime Minister is my slave, and I can casually execute him; The queen was my slave, and I drunkenly ordered her to strip naked in front of a crowd of drunkards to show off her beauty; The Jews throughout the empire are my slaves, trembling and waiting for grace or annihilation. ”

"Finally, because of my tyranny and extravagance, which led to a palace coup, my most trusted prime minister, Albanda, murdered me, and I fell to the bottom of hell." Hearing him say this, Zhou Yu began to be interested.

"What does the bottom of hell look like?"

"Hell is like a funnel wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with a total of nine levels, gradually shrinking from top to bottom, and the deeper the sins of the soul controlled by the lower the earth, up to the center of the earth. My sins were so great that I was imprisoned and severely tortured at the lowest level, where the Demon King Luchifero was in charge. Climb over his tail every day, reverently atonement and prostration. ”

"Demon King Phiro? Are you talking about Big Ronaldo? ”

"Haha, I see that your kid is impatient, I am the first person to dare to call Lucifero like that. I like it, though! "After getting along with Ran Min, Gao Yang and others for a long time, Zhou Yu found that emperors have a characteristic, that is, they all like people with reverse scales, maybe only the dead emperor is.

"The lowest level of hell is terrible, you have never seen it. The souls there are constantly attacked by monsters, and rain, snow and hail hit them from time to time. To alleviate the pain, they writheed desperately. But the pain never ends. ”

"Every day crawls over the tail of the demon king, and hears him roar there: enter the city of pain through me; Through me into the pit of eternal misery; Through me into the doomed crowd. ”

"Finally, we could no longer endure this torture, and we could not see the end of salvation, and we chose to riot, destroy, and escape. Again and again I plotted and failed again and again, but despite this, more and more people joined in. The entire ninth layer of hell was turned upside down by us, and the demon king was in a hurry. ”

"Oh? And then he let you go? ”

"How can it be that simple, later the Demon King reported the situation there to Hades, the Hades King. Hades was furious and drove us into this space. When I first arrived, I traveled around spreading the faith and persuading people to believe in Mithra. You know, people who don't worship fire are heretics. ”

"Oh, okay, okay, I'm okay, right? If I don't worship fire, I'll live in vain. Zhou Yu hurriedly held his palm upward, meaning to let him continue to speak.

"Who knows that the people here believe in cults everywhere, and they are what kind of rain god religion. Fire and water are incompatible, my dignified Zoroaster's "Avesta"... ”

"Okay, and then you yourself were treated as an infidels and imprisoned in this water prison for half a year?" Zhou Yu didn't want to listen to his preaching, so he was busy diverting the topic.

"Actually, I worked in another slave camp for three years before I was put in a water prison. Later, he took the opportunity to escape, fled in all directions, and was captured by the lord of this place, Bruno, and left here to soak day and night, saying that as long as I confessed that the rain god was the only god, he would let me out. ”

"Wait, who are you referring to when you said that the Western Hell was tossed by you into a miasma?"

"I'm talking about the earth-shaking and burnt-up, not the miasma of smoke and the head of the rat." Xerxes looked at the Grand Governor earnestly and said clearly.

"Oh, I'll go, you're special!" Zhou Yuqi's hands pulled out his hair.

"Almost all the people imprisoned in the ninth layer of hell have joined, otherwise how could the Demon King and the Hades make up their minds to send us here to eradicate us in one fell swoop?"

"So, is there any Gilgamesh?" Zhou Yu's eyes widened.

"Yes!"

"Huh? Is there really him? ”

"What's wrong? Did you see him? Where is it? This time it was Xerxes' turn to be shocked.

"Well, he, he's building the Great Wall under me!"

"Build the Great Wall? What the hell is that? What about the others? ”

"Don't drag, huh? You let go, I want to ask you about the others! I didn't see anything else. ”

"Oh!" Xerxes's eyes gradually turned from light to dark, and it was obvious that there was no more news for him to make his chances of a counterattack even more slim.

"I said Lao Xue, have you ever thought about going back?" Zhou Yu leaned on the stone railing with his elbows, leaned down and looked ahead and asked.

"Go back? I won't go back to the ninth layer of hell if I am killed. In the past few years, life as a slave has been a thousand times better than there. I used to be high up, my left hand was born and my right hand died, and now I can finally understand the pain of slaves. Obviously, a few years of inhuman life have transformed Xerxes and subverted his three views.

"Then don't go back, you don't want to go back, and you don't want to be a slave. I'll show you the way to your future, right? Zhou Yu wondered if he was saying that he should raise turtles or train aircraft carriers in the pond.

"Minglu?"

"Go ahead and rebel, don't you hate the infidels? Kill those rulers who are high above, overthrow the rule of the infidels, and deng the death messenger of the water king Li? What do you think? ”

"Damn, you kid?" Xerxes held his chin in his hand, and his eyes stared at him with a look of incredulity. He learned to use the subtlety of the word "" in one day.

"What's wrong with me? Are you afraid? ”

"Just what I want!"

Haha, two men, one tall and one short, stood on the city tower and hooked their shoulders and backs, and the loud laughter shook a flock of birds flying in the forest next to them, flapping their wings. The slave soldiers below didn't know what was going on with the two of them, and they stared at each other with big eyes. Who would have expected that the first meeting for the liberation of Thorasia would determine the direction, clarify the route, standardize the organization, and establish contacts in such a small city building.

Next, Zhou Yu organized the slaves to dig a trench, filled the trench with sharp wooden sticks that had been sharpened before, and used hemp rope to repeatedly rub and dye green in the barley and then pull it into a tripwire. A trench with a stumbling rope is about fifty meters long. Then stagger and dig another layer of trenches on both sides to create a tripline.

"Governor, what are you doing?" Xerxes was a little puzzled, Zhou Yu had just made it clear to him that his name was Xerxes Lao Xue, and he was the same as Lao Jiamei, and Xerxes called him the Metropolitan Governor. The current old Xue is bold and careful, and he doesn't care what this title means.

"It turns out that in Kuzsia, I have never seen such a creature as a horse, and the vast yellow sand is indeed not suitable for horses to live. When he arrived at Thoraxia, he found that the horse had been mass-produced as a cavalry mount. Zhou Yu didn't reply to him directly, but talked about the problem of horses.

"Well, why are these trenches and triphorses built in a staggered manner?"

"You think, the first cavalry fell from their horses, and there was an obstruction. What about the second batch? Only to avoid moving forward on both sides, so the trenches are staggered. Only in this way can their cavalry be wiped out. ”

"I see, I didn't think that the Metropolitan Governor was also a good fighter. The light of the sun god will shine and favor you! ”

"Marsha! By my orders, all archers are to be on guard against the towers and towers around the clock. The arrows are soaked in liquid from that pool in the basement. Zhou Yu said.

"Yes!" These slaves who followed Zhou Yu to raise troops now decided to resolutely obey him, not asking who obeyed the best, but seeking the fastest.

Xerxes is no idle man. He gathered 3,000 slave soldiers, and according to the structure of the Immortal Army, Mashha, Kazik, and Bambul were appointed as commanders of thousands, and each of them set up ten centurions, accurate to the establishment of groups of ten, and was led by the commanders.

Because Bruno's lair had just been served, the army had replenished a large number of weapons and armor, and Xerxes had also improved the weapons of the slaves with reference to the methods of his previous life. There are three types of troops: cavalry, archers, and heavy infantry. The archers were in the center of the ranks, and the flanks were cavalry, interspersed with heavy infantry for protection.

The reason why the Immortal Army has won many battles and conquered all of them is that their biggest weapon is their weapons. First of all, their arrows are shorter and lighter than the conventional ones, although the range is less than 100 meters, but the light weight of the arrows makes the speed of operation faster, and the other armies shoot two arrows in the time it takes for the Changsheng army to shoot three shots. Therefore, Xerxes demanded that all the arrows be cut in half and the cluster of arrows should be reattached.

Secondly, there is their shield, which is mainly made of wood. Although not as durable as a metal shield, this shield is portable and does not cause additional burden. Even more ingeniously, their shields had a circular hole in the side, from which the spears could be pierced, and the attack and defense were suitable for both attack and defense, without delaying each other.

Finally, there's the spear. Others are sharp at one end and handle at the other; The tip of the Immortal's spear is the same as that of a human, but the handle is a round ball made of metal, with various commanders in the shape of apples and ordinary soldiers in the shape of pomegranates. This orb can be used as a hammer in melee combat or destruction, which is an ingenious invention.

Fortunately, these improvements are not complicated. It only took Xerxes half a day to lead the team to rush out of work, saving a lot of time to practice skills.

"Come, come, centurion and above." Xerxes shouted from the center of the castle square.

"Look, look at it, the tip of the spear is at such an angle, and the back side is supported on the ground, and it is strong. No, no, bend your legs down so that you can use your strength. ”

"Huh? No, if the shield is to be raised like this, you can't hold it like that, and the horse's hooves will kick you away with the shield. ”

"Remember, the spear is not meant to kill, but to keep the enemy out. Resist their onslaught with a spear and slow them down. The real killer is the archers behind you. Remember? Archers! Xerxes reprimanded with a serious face.

"Remember!" The crowd drank together.

"Bang Bang!" Zhou Yu applauded and praised Lao Xue.

"I said, Old Xue! It's really worry-free for me to have you, this group of slave soldiers is in your hands, and I think it's difficult to defeat the battle. ”

"Most of the governors are too modest, and the Immortal Army was originally a slave soldier. Forming an army with them as the main body is exactly what I want. It's the Metropolitan Governor, who will do everything to win, and the method of assembling poison-soaked arrow clusters may not be thought of by others, and the ambition of the Metropolitan Governor is not only in this small corner of peace, right? Xerxes narrowed his eyes and said with a smirk.

"Huh? Haha, the bird's ambition is known. One another, one another! The two of them hooked shoulders again.