Chapter 74: Spartan Civilization III
Several Persian generals fell at the back, and were chatting about the fact that the front team was almost in the place, when suddenly a herald hurriedly ran over, and said in a trembling voice: "Oh no, our army suddenly encountered an ambush by the Greeks, first by arrows, then by the Greek warriors rushing to kill and chop, and now the army has been defeated!" ”
Several Persian generals looked stunned, and said: "We are divided into several teams to advance, one team is defeated, and there are other teams, let them block the Greeks' charge first!" ”
The herald reported with a sad face: "It's too late, the next few teams of men and horses were driven by the Greeks and all the troops were crushed, and now there are only a few overseers left with a small number of men and horses, blocking the impact of the Greeks, the overseer asked me to come over and report, I hope that the generals will quickly form a team to save the defeat!" ”
One of the Persian generals seemed to disbelieve: "What? How many Greeks did the troops of a few thousand people meet? How could it collapse all at once?! ”
Without waiting for the herald to respond, the last team of the Persian generals was finally affected by the rout, and the shouts of killing and cries reached the ears of the Persian generals from far and near!
The soldiers beside him were obviously flustered, and many soldiers had begun to quietly unload their burdens, ready to run in front of their colleagues at any time!
One of the well-eyed Persian generals looked desperately at the swept away soldiers in front of him, and said with a sad face: "It's over, it's completely over, this is not acting, this is a real defeat!" Emperor Xerxes the Great will never spare us, and our soldiers have all been defeated! ”
"Although we are defeated, we may not die, and a few of us also know that we can now escape from the pursuit of the Greeks, but we will never escape the butcher's knife of Xerxes, so we might as well surrender to the Greeks, the number of Greeks will definitely not be large, otherwise we will not only see our own rout and not see the pursuing Greek soldiers at all!"
"No! If we surrender, our parents, children, and people will definitely be completely wiped out by Xerxes the Great, and I can't ......"
Poof......
This Persian general, who shouted that he could not surrender, was stabbed to death by his colleagues beside him!
The Persian general, who drew his sword, looked around and asked, "Who else wants to obstruct everyone's survival?" ”
"It's okay for us to surrender, but are you sure the Greeks will really spare our lives?"
The murderous Persian general drew back his knife and said with a smile: "Look at me, I will take someone to negotiate, and you will wait for my good news." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Although Li Liguo's men and horses established the victory, the lack of troops was a hard injury, and they still couldn't clean up all the Persian soldiers for a while, but those servant soldiers didn't have the slightest resistance, and many of them even threw away their weapons.
Just when Li Liguo was unfortunately unable to completely annihilate the troops of this Persian servant army, he learned of the personal surrender of a Persian general, Li Liguo not only did not kill him, but also made full use of the prestige of this Persian general to persuade the Persian soldiers who were still fleeing and resisting slightly.
What was originally an inefficient pursuit and killing battle turned into a 'outing' to recruit Persian captives in batches, and often two Greek soldiers could escort more than 10 Persian soldiers out of the woods!
Those henchmen of Emperor Xerxes the Great were pulled out by the Persian general who wholeheartedly threw himself into Li Liguo, and their heads were cut off, and this battle ended perfectly!
In this battle, the losses of Li Liguo's men and horses were almost negligible, and the number of Persian soldiers captured and killed could not be counted, at least several times that of Li Liguo's men!
Due to the surrender led by the Persian generals, there were not many Persian soldiers who desperately fled for their lives, and the Persian soldiers who were not affected in the rear, under the leadership of a group of Persian generals who confirmed their safety, collectively laid down their arms and surrendered to Li Liguo in a systematic manner!
This situation made Li Liguo feel a little flattered, when can he be shocked by the spirit of the king, and the younger brother bowed his head one after another?
After questioning several Persian generals who had surrendered, Li Liguo learned that these Persian generals were not the dominant ethnic group of the Persian Empire at all, but were just tribal leaders who had been hard-pulled by Xerxes.
These people told Li Liguo how cruel Xerxes was, and they didn't want to serve that kind of murderous king anymore, and they were willing to be merciful and not kill the captives of Li Liguo!
Li Liguo also knew that sooner or later, the news of the surrender of these Persian generals would reach the ears of Xerxes through a small number of routs, and at that time, these Persian generals would probably be more afraid of being defeated by Xerxes the Great than himself.
Li Liguo fully showed his benevolent side, and appointed these Persian generals as the deputy commanders of the Persian troops regardless of his previous suspicions, to assist Li Liguo's newly appointed Greek governor to better lead these Persian troops!
Most of these Persian surrenderers were true supporters of several Persian generals, willing to fight for the Greeks, while those prisoners who hesitated or did not want to fight for Li Liguo were treated by Li Liguo as slave-like logisticians, without any weapons and equipment, and all the heavy work was done by them!
Li Liguo's soldiers were finally liberated from heavy battlefield labor!
In order to better control the Persian surrendered troops, Li Liguo completely disrupted its formation, and wantonly planted the Greeks and his own hand-to-hand combat soldiers as small leaders, and with the cooperation of several Persian generals, he soon initially mastered the army composed of thousands of surrendered troops!
At least it looks pretty bluffing!
Of course, the Greek heavy infantry, which was the core, was not scattered by Li Liguo, and together with the crossbowmen with divine arms, it served as Li Liguo's core troops!
While Li Liguo was busy digesting the fruits of victory, Emperor Xerxes was furious in his tent, and this defeat was even more miserable than the undead army!
You must know that the headquarters of several Persian generals are combined, but there are nearly 20,000 people, and less than a third of them have escaped!
That is to say, more than 10,000 people were wiped out at the hands of the Greeks!
In terms of numbers alone, the losses are much greater than the last time!
Moreover, the defection of those Persian generals made Xerxes the Great completely dispel the idea of sending the servant army again, and he was reluctant to ......
In this way, the battle plan of copying the back road was completely aborted......
Emperor Xerxes looked at the hot spring pass with dangerous terrain from afar, and it seemed that if he wanted to pass through here, he still had to rely on the most primitive attack!
At this time, Emperor Xerxes the Great had completely lost the so-called 'mercy' towards the servants and soldiers!