Chapter 375: Attack
Li Mu has watched the movie The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta more than once, and when he watched it, he didn't understand how Sparta defeated Xerxes in internal and external troubles at that time.
From the inside, some of the Spartan parliamentarians and most of the clergy were bought off by Xerxes, and the issue of sending troops could not be passed anywhere in the parliament. King Leonidas had no choice but to take his guards to the Thermopylae.
In this way, King Leonidas also refused to come to help Fisati (hunchback) who volunteered to help, causing Fisyati to throw away his shield and spear of Sparta with a grudge and take refuge in Xerxes, leading people from the ancient shepherd's path to the back of the spa and breaking through Leonidas's defenses.
Second, from the outside, Xerxes has hundreds of thousands of troops, and there are a lot of advanced equipment - war elephants, rhinos, grenades, a large number of cavalry, a large number of archers, and thousands of elite troops in full armor undead legions, and even a stitching monster (the monster that executes the generals who are unfavorable in battle). The Spartans, on the other hand, numbered only three hundred, and were armed only with a bronze shield, a spear, and a long knife, and even no armor, only a red cloak and a pair of leather shorts...... It was such an army that held off Xerxes for two days...... It's incredible, isn't it? The wave of human life has also been pushed over.
Later, Li Mu didn't understand that there was still a kind of protagonist aura in the world until he grew up, anyway, as long as he had this aura, no matter how the protagonist died, he would turn evil into good fortune.
Just as Li Mu was meditating, a pair of gentle hands gently supported Li Mu's shoulders and gently kneaded them, "Childe, don't think about it if you can't figure it out, anyway, it's good to take it step by step, if that Ares shrunken turtle doesn't come out, we'll go and demolish his temple to see if he can still sit still." ”
"Well, I hope so," Li Mu nodded, there is really no good way to do it now, so he can only act like this. Just when Li Mu wanted to say something, the ship suddenly shook violently, the room went up and down, and many furnishings fell to the ground, Li Mu opened the porthole and looked outside, at this time it was already raining heavily, the wind howled and rolled up the raindrops and slapped on people's faces, and the sea also formed a turbulent wave, the huge waves lifted the battleship high and fell quickly, and many battleships fell into pieces on the sea.
Li Mu looked at this scene and felt similar to the scene of the sea goddess Kolybusso attacking him, "It seems that there are really gods secretly helping the Spartans, so that the Spartans can resist Xerxes's attack, which can be explained......" Just thinking about it, a battleship was overturned by a huge wave, and the huge mast smashed straight down towards Li Mu.
"Hmph, you still want to kill me with such inferior means, if you don't give you some color tomorrow, I really think I'm a bully." Li Mu smashed the upside-down mast into pieces with a magic light cannon, and then jumped out of the cabin with Shuang'er. At this time, the fleet was not far from the shore, and many troops had already landed, but Xerxes's palace had not been built, so Xerxes had been staying at sea.
Seeing this, Li Mu flew directly towards the shore with Shuang'er. Anyway, your god of the sea can't go ashore if he's powerful. The account of the god of the sea is to be recorded in the ledger for the time being, and there will be a chance to ask for it together.
The storm lasted all night, and the huge storm and waves destroyed many of Xerxes's warships, and many of the servant troops were killed in the sea, but this casualty was insignificant to Xerxes, he had hundreds of thousands of troops, and tens of thousands of casualties were nothing at all, and they were all the armies of the client states, a group of cannon fodder that would be consumed sooner or later. However, the storm upset Xerxes, and he ordered his army to attack as soon as they had breakfast.
The terrain of Onsen Pass is very narrow, with steep cliffs on both sides, and only a narrow passage can be passed in between. There is a big turn ahead, and below the turn is the sea. It is not conducive to the deployment of large corps, and can only use refueling tactics to wear down the defenders.
"Attack." One of Xerxes' generals led the attack. He led thousands of troops towards the Spartans. Li Mu found that these people under his command were dressed very messily, some wore leather armor all over their bodies, some wore oil paint on their bare bodies, and some wore the bones of wild beasts on their heads, wearing wooden armor on their bodies, and their weapons were also varied, from wooden clubs, animal thigh bones to swords and spears, almost becoming a complete collection of human weapons from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Li Mu even saw a few people with strange hats carrying baskets of earthen grenades walking forward.
This earthen grenade is very similar to the cannonballs of the classical period, except that it is much smaller, round and black, and has a long arquebus on the outside.
"It's really black technology. Why can't you knock down such a place with this thing? Li Muhu looked at the battlefield suspiciously.
"Spartans, lay down your weapons, or you will be killed." The leader of the group rode slowly to the front of the line on a tall horse, and he was answered by a spear flying out of the opposite phalanx.
The spear swept through the general's body with the sound of the wind. The general shook his body and fell from his horse to the ground.
"Rush!" Seeing this, the rest of the men rushed towards the opposite phalanx of Spartans. According to the rules of Xerxes's army, the lord will die, and his subordinates will be buried because of poor care, and only by making military merits can they make up for their mistakes. So these soldiers rushed forward frantically, trying to break through the opposite phalanx to make up for it.
"Line up!" The Spartans on the opposite side formed a three-column line of steam, their long spears aimed at the rushing enemy. Each of them protected their bodies with huge copper shields.
Boom, the two teams of men and horses collided together, and the troops that rushed up looked a little disorganized, some frantically pushing the Spartans' copper shields, and some brandished weapons to break the copper shield's defenses, which seemed extremely chaotic for a while.
On the Spartan side, on the other hand, under the command of Leonidas, they were uniform, and everyone stabbed the spears in their hands while raising their shields to defend, killing the enemies who rushed up layer by layer, and the movements were uniform, just like a machine.
Li Mu watched this battle from afar and commented, "It is worthy of being the nation that gave birth to the God Killer (Kratos), and it really has a talent for fighting. ”