This is really cruel......

Although Li Liguo was in the back row, many people couldn't see the battle in front clearly, but the screams and the smell of blood could still be clearly felt, and you can imagine how fierce the battle in front was!

Athenian soldier "Alleeee! The screams were deafening, but they were far inferior to the sound of thousands of shields crashing against each other, and at the sound of the crashing shields, the tight Greek phalanx came into full range of attack. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In a shuddering moment, the hoplites rushed into the lightly protected Persian camp and shook their defensive lines, the wicker shield was trampled underfoot, and the first row of Persian infantry fell in an instant, and since the Persian soldiers did not have armor in the strict sense of the word, the vast majority of Athenian spears were not broken.

This is extremely unusual for a hoplite battle! Again and again, the Athenian warriors swung their spears forward and stabbed forward, but often could not find their target.

Screams, fierce battles, and death filled the battlefield, but the hoplites soon broke through the Persian infantry's defenses and cornered the Persian archers!

Then, the real killing began!

At this time, the Greek phalanx on both flanks also began to attack rapidly, and the Persian infantry on both flanks who were heading towards the thicker Greek phalanx soon lost their cohesion and will to resist.

In this way, the Persian archers, having lost their frontal protection and surrounded by two wings, had to counterattack with short swords and daggers, but in the face of the heavily defended Greek shields, their counterattack was completely futile.

The Greek phalanx was like a heavy tank, invincible, crushing the Persian soldiers with impunity.

Some of the Persian soldiers fell, but they were wounded, and the soldiers at the front of the phalanx stepped over the fallen Persian soldiers, and their goal was to kill or maim the Persian soldiers who were still standing in front, and those Persian soldiers who were lying on the ground were all handed over to the light infantry behind, such as Li Liguo and his party......

"It's the first time I've felt that fighting a war is so easy, the Persians won't just be defeated......" Li Liguo sighed as he mended the 'leftovers' of the Greek hoplites.

The two wings of the Persian Front have become precarious!

The Persian soldiers, who were constantly in fear, desperately ran to the rear, trying to run back to the ship for refuge, and in ancient wars, the reason for the heavy casualties of the defeated side was here, the panicked people were completely incapable of resisting in the process of escaping, and in turn, the pursuers of them, driven by bloodthirsty instincts, almost always abandoned their original formation when chasing the fleeing enemy, and at a distance of about 100 yards, the Athenians did exactly that!

But the scattered Athenians did the impossible, at least, if the Athenian army was just a bunch of unprofessional hillbillies!

In stark contrast to Li Liguo's soldiers and his cannon fodder allies!

Li Liguo's crossbowmen are okay, the long-range troops have not participated in the ranks of mending swords, Li Liguo still has to leave some vigilance force, even if the more than 100 people are not much of a role on the battlefield of tens of thousands of people......

And those sword and shield soldiers who mended their swords were quite vigilant, and many of them gathered around Li Liguo when the Athenian hoplites in front stopped their footsteps, but those spearmen, Li Liguo couldn't see many spearmen around him anymore......

There were so many people on the battlefield that the spearmen were easily 'scattered'!

It was Wang Zhong, a guy who cherished his life, who followed Li Liguo closely, he knew that Li Liguo's side must be the safest, and if Li Liguo died, he would almost finish his game......

What kind of impossible event did the Athenians do?

Finding out that the Persian soldiers had fled along a certain route, Kalimash immediately ordered the trumpets to be sounded. Well, the spearmen under the command of Li Liguo don't understand what the military horn is saying anyway, so these spearmen are still happily chasing and killing the Persians who have no resistance!

However, the right flank of the Greek heavy infantry phalanx soon stopped, and after a while, except for some garbage troops, the Athenian hoplite killing stopped, because the Athenian soldiers rearranged their formation and made a 90-degree turn, and the light infantry around and behind them, equipped with the same equipment as the Persian soldiers, continued to pursue the Persian soldiers with victory, although these light infantry did not play a key role, they would maintain the pressure.

When Kalimash tightened the encirclement, they could protect the flanks of the phalanx, and the trumpets sounded on the left flank at the same time, and all the Greek phalanxes on both wings began to immediately move closer to the center of the battlefield!

Being able to quickly outflank the enemy in the middle in a scattered formation is a discipline that Li Liguo admires very much, but looking at his subordinates, there are only dozens of sword and shield soldiers and more than 100 crossbowmen with divine arms left......

There's no comparison......

It was not so easy to deploy troops in this way, and the Athenians had to be required to have an iron-clad discipline of warfare, which can only be found in battle-hardened armies!

From this we can see that the Greeks were by no means amateurs in the war as many historians call them!

The left and right flanks of the Athenian phalanx swept everything, but the battle in the middle did not go well. As mentioned earlier, the hoplite array in the middle, with only 4 columns per horizontal team, is not superior in numbers and cannot suppress the enemy, the main thing is that they are about to face the attack of the elite troops of the Persians!

These elite Persian and Sekh troops were also heavily armed and disciplined, and although the first wave shook the Persian army, the number of soldiers became the key from then on.

After the exhausting first round of attacks, the Athenian phalanx had to determine the time limit for the Athenian phalanx to attack in the front, and the human physical strength was limited!

In order to keep the pressure on, the Greek soldiers did everything they could to push the hoplites forward, but the Persian counter-offensive made the attack difficult, and the only advantage of the Greeks in the middle was that they only had to hold on to it, as Kalimash demanded, but this goal was still not easy to achieve!

Exhausted, they could no longer resist the huge numerical superiority of Persia and began to slowly retreat, under normal circumstances, a weak front like the central position of Athens, a retreat would have portrayed disaster, but these Greek veterans were not routed, on the contrary, they deliberately retreated slowly, and even if they retreated, they still killed quite a few enemies!

Gradually, the Greeks hunched back into the woods near the camp, and due to the rugged terrain, the phalanx had to disperse, gaps appeared between the shields, and then, the hoplites began to fall!