Chapter 58: Leonidas
Of course, the system will not throw Li Liguo into the battle copy, and he won't even give him a way, even if he is sent to death, there must be a place, right?
Li Liguo's men soon discovered several people dressed in Greek clothes who had arrived, these people were not carrying weapons, and they had a trace of fear on their faces, obviously not real Spartan warriors!
Through inquiry, Li Liguo learned that these people were the envoys sent by Leonidas, the king of Sparta, to lead the friendly forces of other Greek city-states to meet them at the camp at Thermopyla, and the Spartan army had already arrived first. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
What made Li Liguo unhappy was that the king of Leonidas obviously didn't attach much importance to his allies, and the people who were sent to lead the way were only the 'black prisoners' of the Spartan city-states, the slaves of the Spartans!
Well, nominally, his allies were under the command of the Spartan king Leonidas, and he was justified in doing so......
Li Liguo's army was not too far from the entrance of Hot Spring Pass, and in less than half a day's effort, they arrived at the camp of the Spartans in Hot Spring Pass!
Li Liguo first carefully inspected the terrain of the entrance to the Hot Spring Pass, which was under a cliff between two mountains, and the pass was extremely narrow, only one chariot could pass through, and it was the only passage from northern Greece to the south.
After watching it, Li Liguo saw King Leonidas in armor, if it weren't for the introduction of the messenger next to him, Li Liguo almost regarded him as an ordinary Spartan soldier, these Spartans are not too much in their clothing, and the style of the armor is no different from the previous Athenian hoplites, not like in the movie, wearing a red cloak of pants and a helmet on the battlefield!
There should be a lot of bronze armor, after all, no matter how strong the muscles are, they are not invulnerable!
Leonidas walked up to Li Liguo, looked at the calm expression of the man who was about the same height as him, and nodded with satisfaction, at least the calmness shown by this friendly general in the face of hundreds of thousands of Persian troops, the king of Sparta Leonidas still appreciated it.
"Are you reinforcements sent by the Sesby?" Leonidas glanced at the Greek heavy infantry behind Li Liguo, then at the hand-to-hand combat soldiers with disorganized weapons and the crossbowmen with very average spirits, and asked with a frown.
What is the race than? Li Liguo has never been very interested in foreigners' names......
"Ah~ yes, I'm just ...... Well, it was your allies who were sent to assist you Spartans in their resistance to the Persian army! ā
Leonidas patted Li Liguo on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Welcome to your arrival, although the soldiers don't look good, there are quite a few of them, and they can play a lot of roles." ā
Li Liguo looked at Leonidas with a high-minded attitude that you barely passed, and said dissatisfiedly: "I brought all professional soldiers, nearly 3,000 people, and you Spartans, excluding those slave troops, seem to have only 300 professional soldiers, isn't the number too small?!" ā
Leonidas raised his eyebrows, pointed to the hand-to-hand combat soldiers behind Li Liguo, who accounted for the majority, and said: "Soldiers like you, our Spartan warriors can fight 10 at a time!" ā
Shouting, it's quite arrogant, if it weren't for the current enemy of the Persian army, his own life would not be secure, Li Liguo really wanted to give this Leonidas, who no one looked down on except the Spartans, a little color!
It is no wonder that the Spartan city-states continued to decay rapidly after the unification of Greece, because of the cruel policies of these Spartans towards other peoples, which provoked popular revolts and made them disintegrate from within!
Well, Li Liguo once checked it after watching the movie Spartan 300 Warriors, because he wanted to know at that time how such an awesome fighting nation perished!
As a result, he was defeated by the revolt of other peoples and slaves within himself......
Well, fewer people is a hard injury!
Even if the Spartans received the troops and the boys underwent strict military training from the youth, they could not stop the destruction of the surging rebel army!
After all, those rebel armies are also fighting for themselves, desperately they are fearless, they are all forced!
Li Liguo did not continue to entangle with Leonidas on this issue, Leonidas did not really want to insult his allies, what he said before was his sincere words, he really thought that the Spartans could fight 10 Li Liguo's soldiers at a time......
A very upright and honest Spartan king......
Li Liguo came at just the right time, it was the time when the main force of the Persian army had just opened to the hot spring pass, if nothing else, tomorrow would be the time for the Persian army to attack!
Li Liguo first accompanied Leonidas to briefly understand the situation of his own army, except for the 300 elites who can really fight, the Spartans are all ordinary Spartan freemen and slaves composed of servant army, Spartan freedmen are actually not the same nation as the Spartans, they do not have the citizenship rights of the Spartan nation, and they are the middle class of the Spartan city-state.
And the citizens of Sparta did not engage in any manual labor except for military service, because all the labor was done by black labor slaves!
Li Liguo understood that all he could rely on was the 300 red-cloaked Spartan Royal Guards, and the remaining thousands of Spartan soldiers could only be used as logistics personnel and cannon fodder......
It is hoped that the Spartans will be as brave and good at fighting as the legend says, but it seems that the hot spring pass has only been held for 3 days in history......
The reason is naturally because of the front and back attacks, and it seems that he should lead someone to block that path!
In fact, Leonidas knew about the news that there was a shepherd trail in the mountains, and the Spartans also had scouts!
Moreover, there were quite a few people sent by Leonidas to defend, in addition to Li Liguo's friendly army, thousands of friendly troops sent by the Phosians were all ordered by Leonidas to be stationed there!
This is also the reason why Li Liguo only saw the army of the Spartans at Hot Springs.
After Leonidas and Li Liguo arranged the tents of his army, they took a few guards to a hilltop with a wide view to inspect the camp of the Persian army.
Boundless white tents dotted the land, filled with all sorts of nationalities, Leonidas explained to Li Liguo:
"The soldiers of this expedition of the Persian Empire came from 46 countries and more than 100 nationalities that submitted to Persia. There were Persians and Medes dressed in colorful gowns and scaly armor, carrying short swords and spears; Assyrians with bronze helmets, flax shields, and sticks; Parthians and Khorezmians who had bows and arrows and axes as their main weapons; There are Indians in robes; There were Arabs with tight waisted cloaks and a long bow on their right shoulder; There were Ethiopians dressed in leopard or lion skins and dressed in red and white colors, and their weapons were bows made of palm trees, arrowheads made of flint, and antelope fox skins; Thracians in bright red cloaks, javelins and shields; There are also Caucasian soldiers with cow ears on their hats and helmets, leather shields and short spears in their hands. ā
Li Liguo: "......"