8. The army marched

The morning sun was rising, and the first rays of sunlight shone softly in the city of Sparta. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, most of the Spartans got up to start the day's work, and there was no such thing as laziness. On the streets of Spartan City, a group of Spartan warriors was hurrying towards Sheron's residence.

The group, led by King Leonidas, was on their way to the residence of Sheron in search of the Persian gold coins that Li Yue had mentioned.

Leonida now regards Li Yue as a god, and what the gods say is called an oracle, and the oracle can only be executed, whether it is right or wrong.

So as soon as he returned to Sparta from the temple, Leonidas hurriedly gathered his guards and headed towards Sheron.

Big things need to go through the council or the temple, but it is the right of a king to arrest or convict a person in his own country, and if this is not done, then the king is meaningless.

Xie Long lives near the parliament, he is the number two person in the parliament, but he has privately attracted many members, resulting in a strong voice in the parliament. Leonida had always hated this councillor who did everything against him.

Sheron had just left the house, and was about to attend today's council, when he saw the Spartan soldiers who had been waiting outside for a long time.

"What are you doing standing here? His Majesty the King. ”

Leonida stepped forward and chuckled, "King? No need, I am the king of the Spartans, but not the king of Persia, you don't have to call me Your Majesty. ”

What the? What does this Leonida mean? What did he know?

Xie Long was extremely flustered in his heart, but years of disguise had already allowed him to practice his acting skills, it can be said that every cold hair of his was a play, and he was very calm in dealing with Leonida's questions.

"King! What do you mean? The Persians are our enemies, but what does this have to do with me? ”

Leonida snorted coldly and gestured to the guards beside him, and then the soldiers pushed away Xie Long, who was blocking the entrance, and broke directly into Xie Long's house, her wife had not yet gotten up, pulling the quilt and staring angrily at the soldiers who broke in.

Several of them directly grabbed Xie Long and began to search his body, without giving Xie Long any face.

No matter what he found, Sheron couldn't do anything in the future, although the king's actual rights were restricted, it was still the faith of the Spartan people, and anyone who opposed the king would no longer be welcomed by the Spartan people, let alone a position like a councillor that needed popular support.

Leonida will not be punished for this mistake, and the sacrifices killed by Li Yue in the temple are mysterious, which is a means that only gods can do. Leonidas followed the oracle, and no matter how ridiculous it was, there would be people who applauded it insincerely.

This is like the disgusting things that those sacrifices do, everyone knows what is going on, but it has lasted for a hundred years.

This is the power of the gods of the old society.

Of course, Li Yue is familiar with the plot, and what he said is much more correct than those ethereal oracles, he said that Xie Long took bribes, then he must have taken bribes, not just because Xie Long was bribed in the movie.

You must know that Li Yue happened to be present when Xie Long was bribed, how could what he witnessed with his own eyes be fake.

In less than a minute, the Spartan soldiers found a bag from Sheron's waist, and when they opened it, it was full of gold coins bearing the portrait of the Persian king Cersis.

Leonida took the bag and slammed it to the ground, the bag of gold coins bursting open, and countless glittering gold coins scattered in all directions, shining brightly in the sun.

"Sheron! You shameful traitor! Leonida shouted.

When Xie Long saw that the matter was revealed, he no longer pretended, and laughed and said, "Those temple fools must have told you, right?" But it doesn't matter, Leonidas, you think about it, what will be the consequences of the Spartan Congress in the event of a war with Persia. ”

Leonidas said, "What will be the consequences of killing all the Persians? The survival of the Spartans was at stake, and they should have worked together, and you are dragging me back, shameful traitor, you do not deserve to die under my sword. ”

"Wrong, you're wrong. The Persian army of five million will turn the entire city of Sparta into hell, and no one in Greece or Athens will be able to stop the iron hooves of the Persians. They have an army of ghosts, and mortals can't kill them no matter what, and defeat is a foregone conclusion. Leonidas, it was you who ruined Sparta's future. ”

"Ghosts? With God's help, can we still be afraid of what those people will become when they die? Hmph, take him to the council. ”

Leonidas wanted to take advantage of today's incident to directly solve the problem of sending troops, and when the time came, the 10,000 Spartan army would be gathered at Thermopay, even if Persia really had an army of five million, it would be impossible to break through the Spartan defense line.

Ten thousand versus five million may seem like a huge disparity, but in fact Leonidas is 100% confident.

It's not 10,000 fighters against 5 million fighters. The Persian army was at best a farmer and a slave with weapons, so what combat power did it have?

In the movie, 300 men kill 20,000 Persians, which is even more unbelievable than 10,000 versus 5 million.

Although most of the people in the council are related to Sheron, no one wants to help a traitor of a race, after all, patriotism is something that everyone has, and no one wants the country to be ruined.

Leonida successfully led an army of 10,000 men, not just 300 people in the movie.

Li Yue was also looking forward to the outcome of this battle, so even if the watch was strong enough to return to Earth, Li Yue did not go back, but followed the army to Hot Spring Pass, wanting to have a good look at the battle scene of the ancient cold weapon army.

All modern movies or TV series are conjectures, no one has really seen what is going on with tens of thousands of battles, tens of thousands of people, basically boundless, how to fight in an orderly manner, no one can say that their conjectures must be right.

It took many years of war in China to invent such a thing as war drums, which was not available in Europe during this period.

Without the command of the commanding flag, the Spartan soldiers still did the order and forbidden, their orders all depended on the voice of the commander and the military quality of the soldiers, Li Yue felt that when it was really time to fight, the Spartans estimated that they did not have a completely unified brain, and they could only rely on their own small groups to fight.

Ten people are a group, and they have a captain, usually the captain who orders his own team members.

Although the Spartans have strong combat effectiveness, they have a big command problem, if they are allowed to fight against famous generals like Wei Qing or Huo Quzhi, they can block them for half a day, even if they are powerful.

The Persian army was still crossing the sea at this time, and countless large ships were floating on the sea, and due to the quality of the ships, a small number of ships were sunk to the bottom of the sea before they reached Europe.

The Persian attack on Greece led a total of 500,000 troops, claimed to be 5 million people, more than 1,000 warships, the early stage was good, all the way south, approaching the Demobili Pass, Sersis could not only send a letter of persuasion to the small Greek states, hoping that these countries would surrender without a fight, including Sparta.

The Demobili Pass had a natural defense, but it was demolished because it was too obstructive, and now Leonidas's plan is to re-block the pass, so that the Persian army can only enter Greece through the Thermopylae, which is not conducive to the formation of the army.

And small-scale battles happen to be the place where combat effectiveness is important, and at this point the Spartans were not afraid of any enemy.