The next day, Li Liguo came to the so-called discussion meeting curiously, and entered the Chinese army tent of the Athenian army. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Except for the 10 generals sitting at the top and the commander-in-chief, who had full right to speak, the other tribal leaders did not even have the qualifications to interject, and Li Liguo and these people were clearly warned even before they came, and they could just follow the final orders set by the generals......

The reason why these little leaders were recruited is said to inherit the 'democratic' tradition of the Athenian city-state?!

In bullshit democracy, the generals with a large number of troops and elite have the right to speak, and the other vassals can only listen passively!

However, Li Liguo's trip was not in vain, because he heard a completely different discussion than he expected.

These generals of Temeth are arguing about whether to go to war with the Persians!

Your sister's army is all set, and you are hesitating to fight?!

Well, the Persian army is indeed too numerous, and these generals are obviously not sure of victory......

This is not the most bizarre, Li Liguo listened to their conversation for more than 1 hour, only to know that this coalition army is not commanded by one person at all, the commander-in-chief of Kalimash is just an honor, the entire coalition army is commanded by the 10 generals sitting above and Kalimash every day!

It's really democratic enough!

This is also the ancient backward war, if it comes to modern warfare, if the commander-in-chief changes every day, he will be beaten up so long ago that he can't find the north!

Sure enough, democracy sounds wonderful, but it's not excellent in every way, especially in times of war!

Some of the Athenian generals opposed the decisive battle, believing that the Athenian coalition was too small to engage the large army of the Medes (i.e., the main body of the Persian army); The other generals, on the other hand, advocated a decisive battle.

Of the 10 generals, 5 were in favor and 5 were against, and Kalimash was neutral......

Then Li Liguo was embarrassed......

If it weren't for his own weakness, Li Liguo really wanted to go up and cut down these 10 generals who were just 5 to 5, can you fight the war quickly, Lao Tzu is still waiting to go home to expand his strength!

Just when the vote was deadlocked, a relatively responsible general finally stood up and gave a wonderful speech, well, this general's proposition was very much to Li Liguo's appetite, so Li Liguo remembered the general's name: Mitiad!

Foreigners' names feel weird......

Mittiades stood in front of the stage in high spirits and proclaimed loudly to Kalimash, the only one who did not vote: "Kalimash, now that the fate of the whole of Athens is in your hands, are you willing to be enslaved by the Athenians, or are you willing to fight for the freedom of Athens?"

If you vote for my proposal, your ancestral lands will be free, and your city-state will be at the top of the list of Greek city-states! ”

Although Li Liguo couldn't hear the connotation of what this Mityad said, the effect was outstanding, and Kalimash, a neutral pit man, finally voted for the decisive battle!

The generals who supported the decisive battle admired Mittiades very much, and handed over the days of taking turns in command of the army in his hands to Mittiades, and the practice of handing over the days of command can be regarded as a major feature of Athenian democracy......

After the seminar, it turned out how strategic Mitiades was, the commander-in-chief of the Persian army, Datis (the Persians did not have the tradition of Athenian democracy, just such a commander-in-chief!). There is no longer a confrontation.

Five days after the landing of the army, the Persian army ran out of grain and grass, and the stench of rotting animal carcasses, coupled with the foul smell of the excrement of tens of thousands of soldiers, made the conditions of the barracks extremely bad!

Of course, Datis also considered attacking the Greek positions, but whenever he studied the 10,000 disciplined hoplites and the thousands of light infantry that followed, he reconsidered his decision, and without the large and reliable hoplites of the Persian army, he could not get the opponent out of his fortifications!

Didn't have hoplites to storm the fortified elite Greek hoplite positions? The Persians are not all 'Spartan monsters' who are not afraid of death!

Datis knew his army well, so he had no choice but to order the camp to be pulled out the next day......

Such an act was extremely dangerous, and the Athenians would have led an army to attack. It took the whole night to dismantle the tents and get the ships in position, and the preparations were made without the Athenians noticing, which undoubtedly made the operation even more difficult!

And the biggest difficulty is not this, but loading the cavalry onto the ship! Therefore, it was necessary for the cavalry to board the ship before dawn, and other units were responsible for the guard.

Of course, the Persian army had a naval advantage, and if Datis could really withdraw the main force safely, he could land elsewhere with the army and launch any number of attacks along the coastline against the weak points of Athens!

At that point, Athens will be in danger!

However, things were not as rosy as Datis imagined, and that night, the Athenian soldiers heard some unusual sounds from the Persian tent, and the Athenians easily found out the exact news that the Persian army was preparing to retreat!

The Greek generals knew that they could not let the unscathed Persian army slip away from it, the Persian army had too many offensive options, they could sail north to Thebes, Thebes had always been at odds with Athens, and they also offered Darius, the ruler of the Persian Empire, items that symbolized submission, and Persia could get hoplites from Thebes, which was exactly what the Persian army lacked!

When the time comes, if you attack Athens again, you won't be so easily stuck by the Athenian hoplites!

Persia can also unite with Aegina to attack Athens, Athens and Aegina have been at odds for some years, and the Persian army can spend the winter there to recover!

Well, the Athenian city-state actually had a lot of enemies, so if the main force of the Persian Empire left, it could be open to find all kinds of allies to smash the Athenian coalition together......

Therefore, Kalimash and Mittiades knew very well that if Athens wanted to survive, it would have to deal a heavy blow to the main Persian forces that were still on the shores of Marathon, after all, Athens could not keep its subjects in a fighting state all the time, and democratic Athens did not have such a professional army!

Once again, Kalimash gathered 10 generals and began to make a battle plan for the next day!