When the sun rose, the overwhelming feathered arrows fell from the sky again, even though the Persians knew that this projectile was actually ineffective, but this was the request of Xerxes the Great, who wanted to use the rain of arrows to tell the other party his determination to take the hot spring pass!

"Mask!"

The Spartan Royal Janissaries on the front line once again squatted on the ground and raised their shields!

Today's Spartan warriors are dressed differently, and the Spartan warriors standing in the front row are all wearing pitch-black iron armor, which is obviously taken from Li Liguo's dead soldiers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the beginning, Leonidas didn't know that all the troops under Li Liguo's command were wearing iron armor, because the army of this era could not afford the manufacturing cost of iron armor at all, and the production and smelting technology of iron were too backward!

At most, the sword is made of iron, or only elite soldiers can use it!

Therefore, Leonidas just thought that the armor of his friendly army was strange, and did not think that it could have much effect, until the first day, the dozen or so warriors with shining iron plate armor were cut down properly among the Persian soldiers, and finally attracted Leonidas's attention!

Li Liguo also generously handed over most of the iron chain armor to the Spartan warriors, but those iron plate armor can't do it, that is Li Liguo's lifeblood, Li Liguo knows very well that it is easy to hand it over by himself and it will be difficult to come back!

Giving a small favor will reap gratitude, but giving too much will lead to greed!

Including Leonidas, hundreds of Spartan warriors were replaced with tattered iron chain mail, which did not look good, but the defensive effect was still stronger than that of bronze armor......

After the rain of arrows, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves shook the earth, and Li Liguo was surprised to find that the Persians actually sent cavalry!

You must know that the defense line at the entrance of Hot Spring Pass is a slope, and the cavalry charges on their backs, and the effect is obviously discounted, and acceleration is a very horsepower-consuming thing!

And Li Liguo also saw a very interesting thing, those Persian cavalry did not have horse pedals at all!

A small horse pedal may not look too inconspicuous, but for cavalry it is a technological revolution!

The period when the cavalry army of the nomads swept through the agricultural civilization was the era after the mass popularization of horse pedals!

Without horseshoe, it is not easy for a soldier riding a war horse to stabilize his body on the back of a bumpy horse......

Therefore, most of the attention of the cavalry without horse pedals is actually used to control the horse, compared with the situation of the nomadic cavalry in the later period, the situation of fighting with both feet and hands is controlled, that is two arms!

The cavalry without horses can only fight with one hand free at most, and the balance of the body shape is not easy to control, and the impact force is even worse, basically relying on the consciousness and inertia of the war horse......

Therefore, this kind of cavalry in large-scale battles, often will not be frontal hard infantry, before the horse pedal is used in large quantities, most of the cavalry are mounted infantry, in order to improve the speed of the march and the existence of the 'rapid mobile troops', to the place or to dismount to form a formation of foot combat, of course, this kind of infantry is often elite, ordinary soldiers are not qualified to have war horses as a 'hitchhiker'!

However, in the face of a small number of infantry, you can still try to use this kind of cavalry without horse pedals to attack, anyway, the size of the war horse is there, the impact force is still good, these cavalry only rely on the impact force, there is no horse pedaling on the soldiers sitting on the war horse, to be honest, it is a live target......

Then, Li Liguo saw how 'watery' these Persian cavalry were!

In the roar of Sparta, several Spartan warriors were indeed knocked out and vomited blood, but many more horses were frightened by the stabbing of their spears and ran off the rails......

Many war horses have a good temper, and they threw off the Persian cavalry riding on them, and stepped on their feet when they came, and he rode himself again......

Li Liguo looked at this unprofessional cavalry charge, and felt that the Persians must have given an order from Emperor Xerxes, who had never ridden a war horse, to do this......

In fact, these cavalry are more suitable for scouts and sentinels, and it is not bad to chase and kill the defeated soldiers, and it is still very powerful to control the horse with one hand and throw the knife with the other hand to slaughter the enemy who has no resistance!

Leonidas watched the Persian cavalry thunder and rain small attacks, and loudly mocked it, and in the spartan ridicule, the Persian cavalry retreated in embarrassment and replaced with a large number of Persian servant soldiers with different weapons!

"Array, shield!"

Leonidas shouted, and soon, a remake of yesterday's first wave of the offensive began!

The battlefield at the entrance of Hot Spring Pass, which had just been cleaned up for less than a day, was once again covered with the corpses of the Persians, and one wave was repulsed, and after ten minutes, the second wave arrived as scheduled!

The Spartans simply didn't have time to clean up the corpses, and even taking a break became a luxury!

In this way, wave after wave of Persian servant armies of various nationalities cannon fodder hit the impregnable Spartan phalanx of spears!

In between is a 10-minute break, which is not much different from the break time after elementary school students......

In fact, the Spartan warriors are also using their lives to 'class', and every class time is a test for them, and no one knows whether they can withstand the destruction of the Persians in this 'class'......

Li Liguo looked at the Spartan warriors who were exhausted and still desperately stabbing them, and his psychology was that he liked these real men more and more!

His soldiers, except for the crossbowmen, had already been sent to help the Spartan warriors share some of the pressure!

The battle was fought to this point, even the Spartan royal janissaries, it was difficult to maintain a tight Greek phalanx, and killing people almost became a mechanical instinct, after all, every time they encountered Persian soldiers with full physical strength, and the reinforcements of Spartan soldiers were only a few horses under Li Liguo.

Moreover, in the attrition, the casualty rate of Li Liguo's men and horses is always higher than that of the Spartan soldiers, which makes Li Liguo very painful......

After a few hours passed, Li Liguo was 'pleasantly surprised' to find that the number of soldiers under his command had successfully dropped to less than 20......

Many of the armor worn by the warriors in plate armor were poked out of the big holes due to the frequent attacks on their bodies!

However, even if it was the broken plate armor, it was picked off and worn by those greedy Spartan warriors, and Li Liguo didn't have much to say, after all, his people were almost dead......

It's not that his people's combat effectiveness is too poor, it's just because Li Liguo's soldiers don't have the determination to fight to the death!

On the battlefield, the more afraid people are of death, the faster they die!