The officers and men of the Delian League on the coast ignored two and a half things.

First, their commander Timistocles had already fed the fish, and now it was a scattered sand, and no one was subordinate to each other, otherwise they would not have been overwhelmed by Yuri Biad in the "war of scolding".

Second, 70,000 people look like a lot, but four-fifths of them are actually oarsmen, sailors, and professional soldiers, only one-fifth, and their status is still a professional navy, not a professional army.

As for the half-thing......

Kalimaya will definitely come to the rescue with 70,000 coalition troops?

This is really something that only the Greek gods can figure out.

Combined operations on land and sea to completely annihilate the navy of the Delian Alliance are the focus of Wang's plan; For most city-states, without a navy, it is equivalent to a shark without teeth, and can only wait for death, especially those island city-states; Now the development of the war situation has surpassed the plan, and the balance of the war is completely tilted in favor of the Sparta.

The Spartan Army was divided into two parts; One is interspersed between the city of Athens and the pier, blocking the connection between the pier and the city of Athens; The other lined up in a phalanx and pressed against the officers and men of the Delian League on the coast.

The 10 columns of Spartan phalanx, which stretched for more than 3.5 kilometers in depth, slowed down and approached the officers and men of the Delian League in a neat pace, and 3,000 longbowmen lined up alone in a small phalanx with a depth of 400 meters and walked in front of the large phalanx.

The navy of the Delian League, which did not have a unified command, well, should now be called the "army" of the Delian League, first formed a phalanx of various sizes according to the city-states, and then approached each other in shouts and screams, and barely formed a phalanx more than 3.5 kilometers wide; Although the front row is neat, the back row is messy; Some areas are 7 columns deep, while others are 15 columns deep.

Kalimaya was very entangled, looking at the two huge teams about to fight on the plains not too far away, but he couldn't make up his mind.

Save?

Or not save?

In fact, Kalimaya really didn't want to go out of the city to save people, he was just worried that the soldiers of the other city-states in the Delian Alliance Army would not be satisfied, and would question whether he would die or not; The naval officers and sailors on the coast were basically from other city-states, and most of the naval officers and sailors of Athens had followed Themistocles to feed the fish. Epirus, Aetolia, Thebes, Evia and other large-scale city-states, their army generals, helped Calimaya make a decision, and also made Calimaya let go of his worries.

Don't save!

The Army looks at the Navy far more clearly than the Navy looks at itself.

After the First Battle of Salami, the Athenians attached great importance to the status of the navy, and other Greek city-states began to pay more or less attention to the navy, but not as thoroughly as Athens did, and the status of the land of these city-states was still higher than that of the navy; There are about 70,000 navies outside the city, but in fact, four-fifths of them are low-status people such as sailors and oarsmen, and there are only more than 10,000 real soldiers.

In order to save more than 10,000 people, 70,000 troops went out of the city to fight a field battle with the Spartan army, which is not a good idea.

Besides, looking at the number of Spartan Army, it is estimated that there are around 100,000, and the 70,000 Delian Alliance Army plus more than 10,000 Navy temporarily converted into "Army" troops, can they win?

In the eyes of most of the Delian Alliance Army, more than 50,000 sailors and oarsmen were directly ignored...... The people at the bottom, the nobles and citizens of this era will not care whether they live or die.

The Spartans were good at field warfare, not siege cities, which is a well-known thing in the Greek world; More than 70,000 officers and soldiers of the Delian Alliance Army were very supportive of Kalimaya's decision, and the centripetal force was greatly increased; As for the navy on the tidal flats, let it be as it will be!

The first to attack was not the impassioned Delian naval officers and sailors, nor the approaching Spartan phalanx; The impudent Yuri Biad, who was the first to attack from the sea.

More than 20,000 fist-sized rocks roared down from the sky and smashed into the Delos Alliance's naval rear team that was sorting out the queue on the coast, splashing a splash of blood; At this time, the officers and men of the Delian Alliance all turned around to face the northwest direction of the dock, and the huge phalanx had not yet been sorted out smoothly because of the lack of a core commander.

The sudden and massive rain of stones, with the soldiers lining up in a dense queue with their backs to the direction of the attack, combined to cause many casualties; 1,237 people died on the spot with their heads blooming, and 4,537 people were injured to varying degrees.

The two sides scolded each other for a long time before, but the Spartan Navy did not carry out long-range strikes, which once made the Delian Alliance Navy on the shore forget that there was such a thing; The two sides are separated by more than 200 meters, which is an absolutely safe distance under normal circumstances.

However, Yuribiad's sneak attack was only one time, and it took too long for the trebuchet to reload.

In fact, the officers and men of the Delian League had no time to pay attention to the Spartan navy; They quickly left the edge of the coast and met the Spartan army approaching from the northwest; By the time the 50 Class 101 Spartan warships could fire stone projectiles again, there was already a standing man in range.

On the relatively flat tidal plains, two huge armies were marching in opposite directions, murderous.

As the distance between the two sides narrowed, Astino, as the striker, led his longbowmen to take the lead; 15 rapid-fire bolts/minute, 45,000 arrow feathers, have flown into the air, the first wave of arrow feathers has not yet landed, the second wave of arrow feathers has been off the string; Every 4 seconds, 3,000 arrows fall.

Because the phalanx of the Delian army was of varying thickness, Astinos constantly adjusted their positions and angles to cover and shoot more enemies; Arrows, long range, but poor penetration. After all, the navy is no better than the army, and only a few soldiers can equip the large round shield, as for the sailor, the oarsman, a spear or a short sword, even if it is okay; In Astino's eyes, the enemy on the other side could at best be regarded as a strong fisherman who came ashore.

The Delian alliance phalanx, except for the first row of soldiers who have large round shields, the rest of the personnel have almost no such life-saving weapons; After a one-minute storm of arrows, the center of the phalanx seemed to be passed by a harvester, and a large number of soldiers fell, and only a few soldiers could still stand in the middle; At a glance, the long phalanx was cut off and divided into two pieces.

By the end of the first round of rapid fire, the distance between the two sides was only more than 180 meters; At this time the Spartan phalanx stopped advancing and waited for the enemy to rush up; It is very important to conserve your own physical strength and deplete the enemy's physical energy, which is very important for infantry combat.

In fact, the Delian army wanted to do the same; Everyone is mixed up in Greek circles, and they all know this skill; But now they don't dare to stop. For the soldiers of the Delian League, the Spartan archers on the opposite side were too ferocious; If you stop, it is equivalent to becoming a living target, a prelude to self-defeat; After a brief commotion, the Delian phalanx barely filled the vacant area in the center, and the soldiers continued to advance steadily while shouting and cheering.

As soon as the first round of rapid-fire was over, the 3,000 longbowmen quickly adjusted their ranks and lined up, Hengheng in front of the Spartan infantry phalanx; Each longbowman had a heavy arrow on his bowstring, and the second round of rapid-fire began as the Astino whistled sounded. Unlike the first round, this round of rapid fire, all longbowmen used accurate rapid fire; Only 1 arrow can be fired every 5 seconds, which is a bit slower than the first round of free rapid-fire, but the accuracy is much higher.

Compared with the first round of rapid fire, Astino's second round of rapid fire was much thinner, and the scene was not shocking at all.

However, in war, the scenes that are not shocking will also kill people, and often more deaths.

Because it was a single platoon, all the longbowmen had a very good view, and with the slowdown in firing, the hit rate was a big increase compared to the first round of rapid fire; In addition, the lethality of heavy arrows is definitely much stronger than that of flying arrows, and the visual effect of directly piercing the Greek round shield and nailing people to the ground makes the advancing Delian Alliance soldiers feel terrified.

Is it swollen today?

Could it be that the Spartans beat chicken blood?

The Spartans' bows and arrows had an unimaginable range and terrifying power.

A ** arrow feather flies down, seemingly thin but endless; The Delian army advanced all the way, and the number of people dropped all the way, and the fallen soldiers were fine on the spot, otherwise they would have been trampled to death by their own people; The Greek phalanx, which is famous in Europe and Asia, actually has many shortcomings, such as the stampede problem in battle.

When the two sides approached about 100 meters, the soldiers of the Delian Alliance could no longer bear such a passive situation, and hysterically rushed towards the Spartans, and the originally irregular phalanx suddenly collapsed; The navy, after all, is the navy, and the army does not have the courage to do such a stupid thing.

Astino and his longbowmen have begun to shoot straight through, and their accuracy has improved again; The number of Delian Alliance soldiers in the charge has grown from a steady decline to a rapid decline; rows of heavy arrows shooting at each other, frantically harvesting the lives of soldiers; With and without a shield, the result is the same, at this distance, the heavy arrows can easily penetrate the chain mail, and the Delian League soldiers fall in rows and rows.

Seeing that the enemy was about to enter the 50-meter area, Astino fired the last arrow; The 80-centimeter-long heavy arrow instantly plunged into the chest of an enemy directly in front of him; Even if it is far inferior to Wang Jun's demonic archery skills, Astino is also a diligent and hard-working person, and he can still hit every shot in such a short distance.

"Defense!" Fassbinder roared and looked at his son in front of him with satisfaction; When Astino was less than 20 years old, he took 2,999 people and became a general, much stronger than he was back then.

As long as 3.5 kilometers, the 10 columns of the deep Spartan phalanx immediately turned into a turtle shield array; it was a little different from before, the shield array was a lot shorter, and no spears poked out; all the warriors squatted down, raised their shields over the top, and 3,000 longbow soldiers turned around and jumped on the shield array, directly stepped on the round shield and trotted, and jumped behind the Spartan phalanx in a few big steps.

When these longbowmen jumped off the shield array, the flattened Spartan phalanx suddenly rose a little, like a dragon shaking its body; Fassbinder led the warriors to his feet, the back row of warriors still with their round shields flat above their heads, while the front row of warriors were holding round shields, and their spears poked out of the gaps between the round shields, pointing directly at the enemy; It's time for hand-to-hand combat.

The soldiers who were at the forefront of the Delian alliance phalanx before were all professional soldiers, but now they are basically hanging, and the sharp longbows of the Spartans make them die extremely aggrieved; Now those who rushed up are basically oarsmen and sailors, and of the 70,000 "army", there are now less than 60,000 left.

The unformed crowd crashed into the "Great Wall of Steel" of the Spartans, and the result was no better than the original Persians; The only difference is that the strength of these sailors and oarsmen is indeed stronger than that of the Persians, but only that.

Leonidas took this difference into account.

In order to be able to end the field battle as soon as possible and besiege the city of Athens as soon as possible, Leonidas threw all 10,000 royal guards into the battle to annihilate the shipwrecked navy of the Delian Alliance; Now the first few rows of the phalanx are all ruthless royal guards such as Fassbender and Starlius.

Round shields flying, spears poking hard, there is not much new gadget, the Spartans have simplified the art of battle to the extreme; Not to mention facing these miscellaneous "armies" that can no longer be miscellaneous, even if the Delian Alliance is released in Athens, it will not be able to withstand the frontal attack of the Royal Guard.

After withstanding the onslaught of the Delian soldiers, the Spartan phalanx began to advance steadily; The 3.5-kilometer front was littered with the corpses of Delian soldiers; The remaining Delian soldiers could only choose to retreat in the direction of the dock, even if the Spartan navy was still waiting in the harbor.

The blood faded, and reason returned to the heads of the remaining Delian League officers and men; The official soldiers have died, and now the remnants of the 40,000-strong army are all made up of "temporary workers"; Originally, everyone expected the army in the city to come out to help, but so far there has been no one.

I don't know who led the way, tens of thousands of "temporary workers" dropped their weapons one after another, and squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands; It is better to be a black laborer than to be killed, and besides, these sailors and oarsmen were originally of a very low status in their respective city-states, so they were a little better than slaves.

On the walls of Athens, countless officers and soldiers of the Delian Alliance saw the battle from beginning to end, and their morale dropped greatly; The high walls don't seem to bring much security.

Kalimaya and several of the generals of the city-state stood on the tower, and you look at me, and I look at you, but they don't speak; Originally, I thought that these naval officers and men would have a bloody battle with the Spartans, and it didn't matter if they failed, but they had to bite off a few pieces of Spartan meat!

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