After observing the Persian army for many days, Kalimash made a detailed battle plan, and the elite units of the Persian army were always arranged in the center of the battle line, and what Kalimash intended to annihilate was this irreplaceable elite division!

To do this, the Athenian hoplites needed to stretch their line as long as possible to avoid being surrounded by the numerically superior Persian army, which Kalimash cleverly turned into his advantage, with the Athenian phalanx deploying 8 columns on each flank and only 4 columns in the center. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Kalimash's plan was to use the center of the phalanx to drag the elite Persian troops into the encirclement and let the flank troops win! It was a risky move, and once the troops in the center of the front were crushed before the flanks could be outflanked, disaster was assured......

Before sunrise, the Greek troops began to assemble, and Li Liguo's hundreds of people, because they were not the Athenians' own light infantry, were arranged to the flank, that is, the side with strong troops, or the rear!

Obviously, Li Liguo's allies did not believe in how strong his soldiers were, and the reason why the impression score was so low was mainly that the spearmen who occupied the majority were new recruits at first glance, how could the Athenians dare to put Li Liguo's soldiers in front for a breakthrough operation?!

The Athenians fought battles, but they all directly attacked hard to break through the enemy's formation, and then the light infantry and other garbage troops in the back went up to make up for the sword and expand the results!

Before sunrise, the Greek troops began to assemble!

The people sang sacred hymns and waited for the command!

The strong religious color made Li Liguo very uncomfortable......

Deployed in the center of the front was the tribe of Leondis, commanded by Themistocles, a hero of the Athenian city-state, who could be seen leading his tribal warriors in every victory of the Athenian army!

On the far right of the front, near the sea, the Antis tribe was deployed, and the lucky Li Liguo followed behind the hoplites of this tribe with his soldiers!

Well, the front is traditionally divided into 3 parts: left, center, and right, but the first line is full of Athenian hoplites!

Kalimash stood in front of the central phalanx, and the Greeks paid attention to the generals leading the soldiers to fight, rather than sitting in the rear to command, anyway, some of them were generals, and they didn't care about how many more people died......

Li Liguo looked at Kalimash with bright armor and standing in front of him, and estimated that if he was not a martial arts master, he would want to finish this battle alive, it was enough!

Did it mean that Datis, the commander of the Persian army, was an experienced commander after all, and he saw that Athens was now more closely united and disciplined?

Of course, even if he and the other Persians sensed something unusual, it would not change their daily schedule, and their immediate priority was to cover the imminent retreat!

The Persian army continued to line up with the Greek troops as if it had just landed on the Marathon Plain, and everything seemed to be calm and orderly, after all, the Persian army was three times that of Athens, and in the face of such a balance of power, even the Greeks should not dare to attack rashly......

In fact, the Persians were still too confident!

The Athenian army stepped out of its position, at first slowly, then quickening, and the previous brisk walk turned into a trot, with the hoplites close together, shoulder to shoulder, shield after shield, and the exposed right side of each soldier was obscured by the shields of the adjacent soldiers.

On the way of the army's advance, the worries and fears of the soldiers disappeared, and the soldiers in the phalanx drew strength from the phalanx.

Li Liguo can feel this, this is the soldier he really needs!

Li Liguo slowly moved with the heavy infantry in front of him, as if he was brought up to some kind of rhythm!

When the hoplites on the front line were still 600 yards away from the Persian army (1 yard equals 0.9144 meters), the hoplites shouted their deafening battle cry - Alleeee in an impassioned tone!

Well, for some reason, this slogan was not translated by Li Liguo, and to be honest, he only understood the pronunciation of the Athenians......

The Persians could not believe their eyes, the Athenians had neither cavalry nor archers, and there was no reason for such an attack, but the Athenians rushed over, and they came with great rapidity!

In fact, Li Liguo was as surprised as the Persians, according to his understanding of war, isn't it always a long-range attack to the opposite side first, and then an assault?

Well, Li Liguo has to admit that the charge of the Athenian hoplites is indeed quite emotional!

The Persian commanders had no choice but to hurriedly line up to meet the enemy, with soldiers armed with wicker shields in front and thousands of archers behind, and in a few moments, thousands of deadly arrows would shoot into the sky, the standard projectile tactic!

Presumably, at that time, the Athenian soldiers will be finished in an instant, so the Persian army has no fear at all, they are also professional combat divisions, victorious divisions that have experienced countless bloody battles!

It is true that the Persian soldiers had never experienced such a powerful phalanx, but they were all convinced that they would soon crush the invading hoplites!

The Persian pikemen are on the field, and they wait patiently, and when the arrows that cover the sky and the sun fall, most of their enemies will be killed and wounded, after which the Persian infantry will go up and clean up the mess!

In a sense, the tactics of the Persians coincide with Li Liguo's thinking!

But the Persians faced a completely different kind of war, and the Athenian soldiers turned their trots into sprints at incredible speeds, 200 yards away!

The Athenian hoplites had mastered the tactics of dealing with other hoplites, and the strong bow and crossbow could not help this method of warfare!

As soon as the heavy warrior's spear with its iron spearhead collided with the wooden shield, the winner was immediately decided!

The Persians did not expect the Greek hoplites to come so quickly, and the hoplites rushed forward with almost frenzied shouts, using both hands and feet, stabbing and chiseling, until the opponent was unable to parry and collapsed and fled.

Then comes the real slaughter, these fearless warriors, driven by bloodthirsty impulses, will carry out bloody slaughter against the fleeing enemy!

When the Persian archers unleashed their sharp arrows, they realized that since they had never seen such a rapid attack, many archers had miscalculated the timing of their shots, and a large number of arrows failed to hit the target, and even if they did, they were bounced out by the shields and armor of the Athenian soldiers!

The Persian archers used only the most common wooden bows and arrows, which were less penetrating and had less range.

When the archers hurriedly stretched their bows and arrows again, the Persian infantry, who were holding shields and were responsible for protecting the archers, saw that the bloodthirsty killers wrapped in tens of thousands of metals were rapidly approaching them, and began to slowly retreat uneasily!