The southern tip of the Peloponnese, the Gulf of Laconia.

The Spartan fleet, more than four times larger, was anchored in the harbor, and 50 huge Persian warships attracted the inhabitants of Papatianica; The original 16 Spartan ships were ignored by everyone, even though the combined Greek fleet relied on these small ships to defeat the Persians.

Wang Jun and Yuri Biad stood on the dock, watching two handsome blonde men who vomited until their faces turned pale and a group of people were disembarking; Starrius, the centurion of the Royal Guard, Astino naturally became Starlius's subordinates, and they were on a special mission assigned by the royal army; Looking at the Athenians mixed among the warriors, Wang Jun knew that the two hearty tasks were still quite smooth, and the only surprise was that the two blonde muscular men would get seasick.

In addition to monopolizing 50 Persian warships, Wang Jun also instructed Starius and Astinos to take his team to abduct some Athenian shipbuilding technicians; To accompany their actions, Leonidas also deployed 1,000 Spartan militia. A soldier bears a nest of bears; The 99 Spartan Royal Guards soldiers under Starlius are all flamboyant muscular men, and Astinos is just one of them. Their hundred-man team is definitely a wonderful hundred-man team in the Spartan Royal Guard; The people of Sparta were generally straightforward and concise, but there were always some exceptions, and now these exceptions were concentrated under the command of Starius; However, Flim Flam does not affect the combat effectiveness, and Starlius' hundred-man team is at the top level of the Royal Guard, and no one dares to underestimate them.

Abduct the Athenian shipbuilders, if the average Spartan warrior is left to do it, it is estimated that they would rather kidnap the problem by kidnapping; Starlius and Astinos were different, boasting about Sparta like heaven and fooling the shipbuilders. Of course, the policy given by Wang Jun is important; As long as you are willing to come to Sparta, you will be given the status of a fourth-class citizen of Sparta, settling-in allowance, salary, etc.; The wealth collected from the priests alone was enough for Sparta to support these craftsmen for hundreds of years.

Before the Battle of Salami, the Athenian navy was so large, but its political status was very low, and many officers barely reached the Athenian fourth-class citizenship, and its corresponding rights were much lower than the rights of the fourth-class Spartan citizens, only better than the status of Spartan civilians. This was true of all naval officers, not to mention the status of Athenian shipbuilders; Wang Jun knew that Themistocles and they would soon adjust the status of the Athenian navy and related industrial personnel, so he chose to do it now.

The Greek city-states of this era were indeed very self-conscious of each other, otherwise they would have been integrated long ago; However, the so-called self-consciousness is generally confined to the ruling class, and people of low status do not have a strong sense of belonging, just to live.

Because of the above combined reasons, the completion of the tasks of Starlius and Astino far exceeded the requirements of the royal army; Almost half of the Athenian shipbuilders came to Sparta with their families; And many sailors and paddlers of the Athenian Navy, because their status is too low, life is extremely difficult, and they actually sneak away a lot. With the attitude of not being short of money, Starlius and Astino took them all and brought them back to the Bay of Laconia; Wang Jun expressed his appreciation for their self-assertive behavior, saying that in this era, there are no mobile phone phones, and if you have to ask for instructions on everything, it will definitely kill people.

According to the Spartan Admiral Euribiade, after drinking a little wine, he would have been eager to dig up the entire Athenian navy, with all the men and ships; It's really not good, it's okay to bring people to rob it, it's completely the face of a violent man.

Of course, Yuribiade is just talking about it, and if he really wants to move the Athenian navy, at least now he can't do it.

Now the Spartan Navy still has the original 16 warships to have combat effectiveness; As for the 50 Persian warships, it would be nice to be able to find all the men to drive back to Sparta. One year of the Army, ten years of the Air Force, and a hundred years of the Navy, this is a little exaggerated, but it is basically reliable; It may not take 100 years to build a powerful navy in the era of cold weapons, but today Sparta has only grabbed 50 Persian warships, and it is impossible to form combat effectiveness immediately, unless Sparta has made preparations early.

Indeed, the 50 huge Persian warships were able to barely sail to the Gulf of Laconia safely thanks to the Athenians who were abducted by Starlius and some experienced sailors from the Spartan Wehrmacht.

Some rejoice, others grieve.

On the southern outskirts of Athens, Themistocles stood on a much empty pier, roaring to the sky!

The Spartans not only shamelessly snatched 50 Persian warships, but also shamelessly abducted thousands of mechanics, sailors, and pulpers; When he first received the news that a large number of people had been abducted, Timistokely's eyes turned black and he almost fainted on the spot.

Now Athens has no joy of victory; The warriors of the other city-states all returned to their own territory, and the spoils of war were naturally left to Athens; In the sad Athens, the army only had a little seed left, the navy lost 15 warships, and the overall strength fell sharply.

Persian?

No, now no one cares about the Persians, and the crippled Persian army, without 5 or 10 years, will never be able to launch another war to conquer Greece; Themistocles knew very well that Sparta, to the southwest, was Athens' opponent.

Compared with Sparta, Athens also had an advantage, that is, the trade volume was huge, and the money came faster than the Spartans; As long as it recuperates for a while, Athens can recover quickly; Themistocles decided to hold back this breath for the first time, and came to the chief.

was so disturbed by the royal army that crossed over, and the Delian League, carefully planned by Athens, almost disappeared; The original plan was to establish such an alliance to defeat the Persians first, then gradually expand the influence of Athens, slowly control the Aegean Sea, and finally challenge the position of the Spartans.

Now, Timistocles has three things to do right away.

First, to improve the status of the navy and related personnel, and to increase the military investment of the navy, the Spartans must not be allowed to catch up;

second, to complete the "Great Wall" project from the city of Athens to the port of Piraes as soon as possible;

Third, repair the ruined Delian League, and try to win over those city-states that agree with the Bentoku slave social system.

The political system of Athens was a special phenomenon, with the open boil system of a small number of people, plus the slavery of the majority; Sparta, on the other hand, has entered the stage of a pronounced oligarchy. There is something that is not easy to understand, but it is real; The other Greek city-states agreed that Athens represented oppression, while Sparta, which was oligarchy and militaristic, was the defender of free Greece.

Sparta, under the impetus of the royal army, upgraded the 400,000-strong freedmen to fourth-class Spartan citizens, and gave the hope of millions of blacknuts to be promoted to civilians, and the so-called "defenders of free Greece" became more solid.

What the Athenians thought, it didn't matter to the Spartans; The Royal Guard, the Wehrmacht, and the militia returned to Sparta and immediately replenished their personnel and began training in full swing; More than 40,000 militiamen with the status of black laborers were all converted to civilian status because of their military exploits, and this result made the more than 10,000 black laborers who had newly joined the Spartan militia full of longing and trained to work hard.

In the battle with the Persians, Sparta lost mainly militia troops, and the Wehrmacht also suffered more than 2,000 casualties; Comparing the results of dozens of casualties in the Royal Guard, it is clear that the Wehrmacht and militia need to be better trained. In addition, in order to expand the navy, Leonidas transferred 10,000 Wehrmacht and 20,000 militia to Admiral Yuribiad; In the words of Wang Jun, the standing force of the Spartan army, with 70,000 well-trained soldiers, was enough.

Yuri Biad**.

Just went to Athens for a walk, and Yuri Biad went from playing soy sauce to a Spartan star; His fleet went from 16 medium-sized warships to a few turnovers; 50 large warships and 16 medium warships, enough to traverse the Peloponnese; The navy, which had less than 4,000 men, soared to more than 30,000 people, not counting the skilled workers, sailors and oarsmen who were brought from Athens.

The current Spartan Navy is in a situation of more people and fewer ships, and most of the soldiers are born in the army; Yuri Biad, who was excited, impatiently pulled the team to start intensive training; In order to form combat power as soon as possible, the training of the Spartan Navy is far more cruel than that of the Army, and there are many people, right? The battleships did not stop, and the soldiers exchanged in turns.

Battleships are naturally durable, and it doesn't matter whether they rest or not; The tragedy of the soldiers who had just transferred to the navy was that the army was transferred to the navy, and the process of hoping for a quick success, was often painful.

Wang Jun, with 12 summoned Roman hoplites, drilled around the heavily guarded Anica shipyard, becoming the "brick home" of warship development and transformation.

Strictly speaking, Wang Jun had only worked in the army during the two crossings, and was not familiar with the navy; However, the difference in the times, Wang Jun, a pseudo-army fan, still has a little bit of theoretical knowledge, and he can't be an expert, but the "brick family" is still barely competent.

Thousands of Athenian mechanics, well, Spartan mechanics, were in awe of Wang Jun, the ship-building "brick family"; Under the guidance of Wang Jun, an epoch-making design appeared on the Spartan battleship: a watertight cabin.

November 11, 480 B.C.E.

Sparta's first converted battleship with watertight compartments, the 101-class battleship, also known as the "Leonida" battleship, sailed out of the Gulf of Lacnia with a bull's nose; 101 battleship, converted from the Persian warship, in this world, Leonidas, is definitely the most powerful battleship.

Regarding the honorary title of the first 101 battleship, Leonidas and Spartan magnates agreed that the 101 battleship was developed and modified by Wang Jun, and was called "Wang Jun", which deserved its name; When Wang Jun heard this, what is this? Strongly disagree. In Wang Jun's view, if this battleship sinks in the future, he will lose a lot; After many refusals, it is good to say that the name of the battleship was finally transferred to Leonidas.

In normal history, the watertight cabin should have been invented by the Tang Dynasty at the earliest, and then slowly matured and was introduced to the West in the later period; It was not until the 18th century that the Western world began to use watertight cabins, and it was more than 2,000 years since the launch of the Spartan 101.

After designing and installing dozens of watertight cabins, the Persian warship, which was huge and backward in design, was transformed into the most robust, durable, collision-resistant, and heavy-duty large warship of this era.

In addition to the watertight cabin, Wang Jun also designed a small trebuchet, which was placed on the surface deck of the 101 battleship, with two in the front and two in the front; It is a shame that the Persians fought with bows and arrows on such a large warship; However, due to the influence of the sails, there were 2 trebuchets in actual combat, and the angle of shooting was somewhat limited.

In addition, in order to deal with the impact of small and medium-sized ships, Wang Jun also arranged four thick logs on both sides of the 101 battleship, and tied them with hemp rope at both ends; When a small and medium-sized ship rushes into the waist and abdomen of the melee ship, it can throw down the log, whether it is hitting the enemy ship or floating in front of the enemy ship, it can effectively prevent the enemy ship from directly hitting the hull with the copper sleeve collision angle; Retrieving the logs was very simple, two soldiers in a group, each pulling the hemp rope hard, and the logs returned to the deck.

At the same time, there were also 201-class ships, named after Admiral Yuri Biad; The 201 ship was randomly selected from the original 16 triremes of the Spartan fleet.

Because the size of the battleship is not large, and a lot of oarsmen need to be accommodated in the narrow space, the watertight compartment can only be made simply, which can play some role to some extent, at least the lateral strength of the battleship has been significantly improved; In terms of weapons, the copper-clad crossbar was retained, the bow copper sleeve ramming angle was retained, and a bed crossbow was added, which had a good range, but it took four people to wind it.

The value of a bed crossbow is not to shoot enemy soldiers or punch holes in enemy ships; A long hemp rope is tied to the tail of the huge crossbow arrow, indicating that the greater purpose of this thing is that after the bolt penetrates into the hull of the enemy ship, the rope is used to keep the lock on to the enemy ship; Whether you want to hit in a straight line or rely on the gang to catch the broadside after locking, it is much more convenient.

When the technicians were researching and testing the watertight chamber, they accidentally discovered another added value; If watertight partitions are used in the hull, it is actually redundant to erect ribs; In other words, in addition to reinforcing the hull and improving the anti-sinking surname, this thing can also shorten the shipbuilding cycle.

The Spartan military placed an order for 200 201-class warships and 50 101-class warships; Sparta, more than 50 years earlier in history, began to pay attention to naval construction; A lot of gold coins were consumed, and one after another warships were launched and handed over to the navy for verification and use.