Black and white alternate, and the moon rotates.

The magnificent city of Athens ushered in the early morning sun of April 15, 479 BC.

Getting out of the tent, Wang Jun stretched a few ** bodies and took a deep breath of fresh air; There is no fog, no pollution, and no gutter oil, which is actually quite good in ancient times.

In the camp that stretched for miles, smoke curled from the cooking, and the Spartan warriors were all in good spirits and smiling; The two of them, Astino and Starlius, gathered together for breakfast, and boasted that they could do it eighteen times in one night, fooling a few of the onlookers into grief and indignation.

A large number of Spartan armies surrounded the two and the north-west walls of the city of Athens.

The geography of the city of Athens is somewhat special, in the southeast and northwest directions of the city, there is first a plain, and then there are mountains, of which the mountains in the southeast direction are difficult to cross; To the northeast, there are open plains, and to the southwest, there is Salami Bay.

The Spartans now blocked the north-east and north-west, and the Athenians had to go 15 kilometers due south, along the edge of the impassable mountains, and bypass the mountains from the town of Wari; As for the southwest, there was the port, and the Athenians had nowhere to run.

The siege of Athens, inside and outside the city, people were in very different moods.

Despite being attacked on both sides, the four gates of Athens were closed, and there was no escape; The people in the city are not stupid, the Spartans dare to keep the two walls alone, there must be a follow-up, if they really want to rush to the wilderness, yesterday's tragedy of the Delian Alliance Navy will happen to them.

However, being trapped is not an option; Residents, the Union Army, and slaves, together there are 800,000 people, and it is good to drink, pull, and scatter, the key is to eat; With the developed sea transportation, the Athenians have never been short of supplies, so there are not many reserves in the city, and before the navy is annihilated, the food reserves can only support half a month; Now that the navy is gone, there are more than 90,000 mouths missing, and although it is said that it can support people for two more days, it does lose supplies.

Kalimaya was a little irritable, and walked up and down the castle tower to the northeast; Now the people in the city are still calm, after all, the siege has just begun, and everyone still has food and drink, but after ten days, what will everyone do?

No, food control has to be done, and it has to start now.

Kalimaya made up his mind that he planned to convene a meeting of the staff at noon to arrange the work of limiting the supply of food; It doesn't matter if the inhabitants eat a little, the warriors must be safeguarded; As for how long it will last, only God knows.

What Calimaya wanted most now was for the Spartans to attack the city as soon as possible, as quickly as possible, as fiercely as possible; The walls of Athens are definitely the benchmark of Greece, more than 9 meters high, 4 meters wide at the top and more than 5 meters thick at the bottom; As long as the Spartans attacked the city, they would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and Kalimaya was very confident in this. Only when the Spartans felt that there was no hope of taking the city would they choose to leave; Of course, if the Spartans suffered too many casualties, Calimaya would never mind pulling his army out into the field.

No matter how Kalimaya calculated, the Spartans did not attack all morning anyway, which was very different from the original style of Sparta.

Wang Jun is very depressed now, and his original good mood has been destroyed.

The reason is simple, Yuri Biade, who stayed on the battleship and had nothing to do, came to offer a plan, proposing to use the corpses scattered all over the battlefield as materials and throw them into the city of Athens with trebuchets to create panic among the people; Yuribiade was a man of action, and he had the navy dismantle half of the medium-sized trebuchets on 50 warships and bring them all to the army camp northeast of Athens.

Does this thing have any surnames?

However, this is not the reason why Wang Jun is really depressed.

Maybe the Spartans were cold-blooded, maybe Leonidas began to inflate himself, but Wang Jun had no way to speculate; His own strong opposition did not change Leonidas's decision, and Yuribiad's proposal was accepted and implemented.

Originally, Wang Jun did not have much rejection of the Spartans' use of enemy corpses; During the Battle of Hot Springs, the "corpse wall" was also built with the corpses of the Persians, and Wang Jun was accustomed to some practices of this era; The reason for the strong opposition was that it was afraid of causing a plague and completely destroying the city of Athens; This is the best city in Greece, not in the wilderness, and the king's army wants possession, not destruction.

Since crossing into this world, Wang Jun has been smooth sailing on the whole, and he has never been so depressed; Looking at the 12 Roman hoplites who were walking everywhere, Wang Jun found a little comfort, but he had some heartfelt soldiers, even if they were all summoned.

In the council hall of the city of Athens, Calimaya led a group of people to discuss how to distribute the food, and after calculation, Athens lasted for a maximum of 26 days; After 26 days, if the Spartans did not retreat, or if the Delian army was not sure to repel the Spartans, it would be all over. Someone offered to bring supplies from the town of Kouwari, but it was rejected by Calimaya; 800,000 people are expected to be transported by land, which is simply wishful thinking; Not to mention whether the Spartans would attack the transport convoy or not, the rough road around the mountains alone limited the transport capacity. There are also people who propose to kill some slaves, anyway, these slaves have been a little scratchy lately, killing some can deter other slaves, and can also reduce a lot of food consumption; Relatively speaking, Kalimaya felt that the idea could be considered, but it was not yet timely; Slaves have the value of slaves, and it is better not to kill them unless they are absolutely necessary.

The discussion of the people has not yet reached the results of the actual surname, and "flying corpses" appeared in the sky above the walls of the northeast and northwest sides of the city of Athens.

30 large trebuchets were placed in the northeast of the city of Athens, 200 meters from the city walls; 100 medium-sized trebuchets were placed in the northwest of the city of Athens, 150 meters from the city walls.

After some adjustments, large trebuchets can deliver up to 4 corpses at a time, while medium trebuchets can deliver up to 2 corpses at a time; More than 40,000 prisoners were divided into two groups, guarded by 20,000 black laborers who accompanied the army, and were responsible for collecting the bodies after yesterday's two great battles on land and sea.

A group of captives was sent to the shore to collect the bodies of those washed ashore by the sea; Although many of them were fed to the fish, more than 23,000 Delian Navy killed or drowned in battle, and more than 10,000 were washed up on the beach; However, the corpse that had been soaked for a day and a night was very disgusting to clean up.

the other group of prisoners, who were responsible for collecting corpses on the battlefield of land warfare; There were more than 30,000 Delian League naval officers and men, who were killed by the Spartans on land, densely scattered all over the southwestern suburbs of Athens, and it was not an easy task to clean up.

The black laborers were all energetic and happily did the supervision work; has been bullied by others, and now suddenly I can bully others, of course, I feel comfortable; This kind of pathological mentality, put into the real world, is also a lot of existence.

The corpse of a Delian naval officer flew over the high walls and fell into the city of Athens; In both directions, 150 trebuchets creaked and rattled hard, and with each wave of projectiles, 320 corpses were thrown into the city of Athens from both directions.

Don't think that only stones can kill people, and dead people can also kill people.

A few lucky Athenian citizens were walking on the streets of the city, and were smashed by the "flying corpses" in the air, and they didn't even have a chance to kick their legs and struggle, so they hiccuped directly; The kinetic energy carried by the "flying corpse" should not be underestimated, it hit the roof, the roof collapsed, smashed into the carriage, the carriage collapsed, and smashed to the ground...... The ground is paved with stones, solid and reliable, and can only be broken by "flying corpses" and flying organs.

The city of Athens slowly began to be chaotic, and the negative effects of the "flying corpse" spread rapidly through word of mouth.

Before the sun set, the trebuchets of Sparta did not stop; The trebuchets have some experience, and every hour, they move the location of the trebuchet so that the landing point of the "flying corpse" can cover another area; When the "flying corpses" behavior finally stopped, more than 13,000 corpses had been thrown into the city of Athens.

The towers on the northeast and northwest sides of Athens were littered with broken corpses and stretched to a hundred meters inside the walls; The smell of corpses filled this part of the area, and with the night wind, it spread to the city. No one dared to clean up the corpses until the Spartans stopped, and God knows where the "flying corpses" would come from; The slingers taught by Wang Jun basically mastered this weapon, and moved the trebuchets back and forth, covering all the places that could be covered; If it weren't for the fear of the archers, the slingers would have pushed the trebuchets in front of the walls and thrown the "flying corpses" a little deeper.

On the northeast and northwest sides outside Athens, the Spartans began to have bonfire dinners, and their appetites were good; The captives were also given some food, but it was only enough to satisfy their hunger, and it was impossible to be fed; Some of the captives from Thebes, in order to get more food, frequently threw "winks" at the strong Spartan warriors, intending to sacrifice the "hue" in exchange for some food; However, the Spartans hated these good men and women the most, not to mention the food, and it was lucky that they were not beaten up.

Kalimaya walked up to the tower with a gloomy face, and from time to time he would step on the broken corpse under his feet, soft and disgusting; The perimeter of the city walls was filled with firelight, and the laughter of the Spartans drifted in the wind. Kalimaya's family is considered an old Athenian aristocracy, and he is very particular about hygiene, and the smell of corpses in the air makes him have no appetite; In fact, many Athenians don't want to have dinner tonight, and relatively speaking, Athens is the most civilized place in the whole of Greece and the most hygienic city.

In a sense, the Spartans threw "flying corpses", which reduced the consumption of food in Athens by a little.

At this time, the Greeks did not yet know what a plague was, let alone what a pandemic was; Just out of relative hygiene, Kalimaya immediately arranged for people to clean up the corpses at night, otherwise the corpses on the ground would not only look disgusting, but also affect the soldiers' walking.

Led by slaves, a large crowd appeared on the towers and inside the walls of the northeast and northwest sides of Athens, and they began to clean up the broken corpses all over the ground.

With so many corpses, what to do with them?

Throwing it off the city walls, of course, it won't work.

These corpses are their own people, and they didn't save them before, so everyone is somewhat sorry in their hearts; Now people are "dead" twice, and it really can't be justified to throw them away; In addition, so many corpses are thrown down, and the stacking will become a small slope, which is equivalent to reducing the height advantage of the city wall, which is very disadvantageous for the defenders.

I don't know whose suggestion it was, but Kalimaya reluctantly accepted it anyway.

They piled up all the broken corpses under the heels of the inner side of the wall; When the war is over, we will find a way to deal with it, and now as long as it does not affect the soldier's walking.

No one knew that a terrible demon had been lurking in the city of Athens; A catastrophe that was supposed to break out in Athens 60 years later will erupt sooner. In real history, around 420 BC, a terrible plague struck Athens and almost destroyed the whole of Athens, and before that, no one knew what a plague was or how to prevent it.

The next morning, after breakfast, the Spartan warriors began to assemble in the open field behind the trebuchet, as if intending to storm the city of Athens.

However, after waiting for a long time, the Spartan phalanx of different sizes moved back and forth, and the shouts resounded in the sky. The soldiers of the Delian Alliance, who were waiting nervously on the city tower, were extremely disappointed, for Mao and these Spartans still not to fight?

Perhaps feeling the "warm" gaze on the city walls, the trebuchets of Sparta began the "flying corpse" war; For a whole day, the Spartans "sent" all the collected corpses to the city of Athens.

After the end of the second day, the Spartans had another bonfire, laughing and laughing, as if everyone had come not to fight, but to go on a spring outing.

From the third day, it rained, and the spring rain sprinkled on both sides made both sides a little upset.

This rain is a full 5 days and 5 nights.

In the city of Athens, the food is decreasing day by day, and a gang of bigwigs quarrel every day about how to make food; In fact, on the night of the fourth day, Kalimaya and the others began to carry grain.

Taking advantage of the night rain, 300 Delian soldiers, with 3,000 slaves, slipped out of the gate southeast of the city of Athens and went straight to the town of Wari due south; Even if they succeeded in bringing back some food, it wouldn't do much, but they had to do it in Kalimaya, and it was more important than it was to give confidence to the army and hope to the population.

However, the team of more than 3,000 people did not return until the rain stopped.

All the 201-class warships of the Imperial Spartan Navy were concentrated in the bay near the town of Wari; Half of the warriors had already gone ashore and transferred to the army, occupied the town of Wari, and set a trap for the Delian League. The biggest difference from the Delian League was that most of the soldiers of Sparta's navy were originally army troops, even sailors and oarsmen; If you evaluate it seriously, the level of Spartan naval warfare is even higher than that of naval warfare, at least for now.

The sub-fleet composed entirely of 201-class triremes warships, with a total strength of nearly 30,000 troops; Half of them were distributed, which was equivalent to the Spartan army of more than 10,000 troops, which was effortless to deal with a mere 300 Delian soldiers and 3,000 slaves.

Leonidas was not in a hurry at all, the entire Greek army was concentrated in Athens, and as long as he surrounded Athens to the death, he would win the whole of Greece; The Spartan Empire is no longer the Spartan city-state it used to be.

The 10,000 newly recruited Spartan Wehrmacht and 20,000 newly recruited Spartan militia arrived at the Spartan camp outside Athens on the night of the eighth day of the siege; On the same night, 10,000 Spartan Wehrmacht and 20,000 Spartan militia headed north, and now the city-states of the Attica Peninsula have become undefended cities, and 30,000 army forces can sweep everything.

Wang Jun didn't know why Leonidas had changed so much, was it because his wife gave him a green hat?

Or is it that after monopolizing power, Leonidas has no constraints?

Wang Jun didn't want to think about it deeply, anyway, after he completed the task, he had to return to the real world; Besides, what Leonidas is doing now is only good for Wang Jun to complete his task, and there is no harm.

It's just that Wang Jun always feels a little uncomfortable, it seems that a friend is gone, but there is one more emperor.

In order to ensure that the newly conquered territory could maintain military pressure, orders were transmitted back to the Peloponnese from the Spartan military camp; The 40,000 captives were taken to the Peloponnese in batches, where they became helots and worked for the empire free of charge as a state asset of the empire.

Before the expansion of Sparta, the millions of black laborers, except for the part that had already obtained civilian qualifications, the rest of the more than 900,000 people were all amnesty as civilians; Because 40,000 captives could fill the labor gap, these civilians, who were happy to be civilians, responded positively to Leonidas's re-issued conscription order; Of the 900,000 people, the proportion of young men is not much, but it is enough to form a Spartan militia of 40,000 people.

Leonidas transferred some veterans from the military camp on the outskirts of Sparta as senior officers, and took these 40,000 recruits with him to follow the footsteps of the 30,000 troops who marched north to the Attica Peninsula while training, and took over the city all the way.

The Spartan Empire rapidly transformed into a complete militarily imperialist state.

The city of Athens was cut off from the outside world, unaware that every other day, the map of Greece was changing.

On the twentieth day of the siege, the food crisis was on the verge of breaking out.

Kalimaya sent several grain convoys intermittently, but the result was the same, never to return; If Callimaya knew that the city-states of Thebes, Phus, and Sesby had disappeared, they would never have sent men again and again.

Now, an issue that had been raised at the beginning of the siege was once again on the table. (To be continued.) )