Leonidas led his warriors all the way forward and was unstoppable; The Spartan phalanx, which has expanded, can harvest the lives of dozens of enemies every three seconds; Wang Jun, who is in a high place, can clearly see that the way the Spartan phalanx advances is alternate, which is obviously different from in the movie, not the first row of soldiers kills all the way to the end, and the soldiers in the back row just follow the play; Except, of course, Leonida, who has a pig's foot halo.

"That's kind of reasonable!" Discovering this fact, Wang Jun finally found a little bit of comfort.

The enemy still rushed forward in waves, but they could not stop the advance of the Spartan phalanx.

Aiming at the enemy in the distance, Wang Jun began to throw at a distance, still one arrow at a time; There were no more enemies to kill in the vicinity, and they were all cleared by the Spartans who had crossed the pass. Under the orders of the king's army, 18 Roman hoplites climbed down the stone wall one by one, and began to search for a living hole in the "human carpet" behind the Spartan phalanx, and found one of them with a knife; It seemed a bit of a waste to let the soldiers who were like road steamrollers do the work, but the home field was given to the Spartans, and the king's army had no better way.

The combined forces of Thracians and Medes retreated step by step in the face of the Spartan phalanx, which was highly effective in slaughter; The moment when the Medean general was also stabbed to death, it finally collapsed.

The soldiers on the road to the west of the cliff saw the form clearly, turned around and fled, and many soldiers were squeezed off the cliff in the chaos; And the dizzy soldiers on the east side of the cliff were blocked by the Spartans in the open ground outside the pass, with nowhere to escape, and it was a complete tragedy.

"They look thirsty!" Fassbinder was a little out of breath, but still verbally buzzing.

"Then give them something to drink!" Leonidas understood this advice and immediately gave the order.

The shields of the Spartan phalanx flew over, and soon formed a dense defensive queue, pressing towards the hundreds of poor fellows.

Putting down his bow and arrows, Wang Jun looked at the cliff protrusion in front of him; Under the persecution of Leonidas, one enemy after another, let out a helpless scream, like dumplings, fell into the sea one after another.

Everything in front of me is far more tragic than it seems in the movie.

Wang Jun silently took two steps forward, and the 5-meter-high stone wall jumped down.

The Persian trumpet sounded again, and the Spartan warrior standing on the cliff turned his head to look, and the sun slowly lost its brilliance.

There was only one thing in the gray sky, the arrows of the Persians, the arrows that covered the sky.

On the hills and plains to the west of the cliff, every Persian archer kept firing his bow and arrows, shooting 12 arrows in a row; 8,000 archers spread across the front of the position, and in a minute, nearly 100,000 arrows rained down on the open space in the protrusion of the cliff; There is no need for accuracy, only the number of coverage strikes, which Wang Jun is very familiar with.

Astino crouched on the ground with his shield on his shoulder, laughing loudly; Compared to his father, Fassbinder, Astino's performance is still very good except for his lack of actual combat experience, and even Starlius, who is above the top, is happy to cooperate with him.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I can't help but want to say."

"What?"

"Fight in the shade!"

"Ahaha!" Fassbender became more and more satisfied with his son, Astino; It was still common among the Spartans that this father and son went into battle together, but all fathers were the same, hoping that their children would become brave and warlike.

Without going to the Spartans to bathe in the rain of arrows, this is not a bull's nose technical work, thanks to the Persians have no way to use heavy arrows, otherwise it will be a massacre; The Persians did not use heavy arrows, according to the point of view of the royal army, the main reason was that the distance was too far, but it remains to say whether the Persians were equipped with heavy arrows.

Wang Jun led 18 hoplites to drag a pile of sharpened thick logs from the pass and advanced to the west against the mountain wall; These rough logs were prepared by the hoplites left behind when Wang Jun went to participate in the night attack last night. Although the rain of arrows was fierce, it could only cover the protrusion of the cliff, and not half of the arrow feathers fell close to the mountain wall. A group of 19 men trotted forward, and while the Spartans were bathing in a rain of arrows with their round shields, the king's army reached their intended destination, the east side of the convex curved mountain wall on the road west of the pass.

In the original plot, Leonidas and the others were the elephant soldiers who defended against the Persians in the convex bend, and the Persian cavalry that appeared next, Leonidas led the Spartan warriors to advance to the big straight on the right side of the mountain wall; Wang Jun did not understand this, could it be that the Spartans liked to give the enemy the opportunity to charge?

Beneath the mountain wall out of sight of the Persians, 18 Roman hoplites quickly set up groups of repulsive horses; The protruding bend was only about twenty meters away from Wang Jun, and if Wang Jun took a few more steps forward, he would be exposed to the Persian sight. The protruding mountain in this part slanted into the sea to the north, and the roads on the left and right sides of the mountain wall are about 10 meters wide, and the bend is the narrowest at only 8 meters. Although this mountain road is not as high as the altitude of more than 100 meters above sea level at the cliff of the pass, it also has a height of about 80 meters, and the sea surface is surrounded by reefs.

Next, Wang Jun is going to do a game here, and protecting Leonidas is the main task, but you can't always follow Leonidas to make soy sauce, right?

Wang Jun glanced back at the clearing at the protrusion of the cliff, where a circle of straw grew densely, and there were at least thirty arrows per square meter, which was a bit exaggerated; However, what is even more exaggerated is that the Spartan warriors generally had no more than 9 arrows stuck in their shields, and Leonidas recruited the Persians with 10, but compared to the density of arrows around them, it can indeed be described as "sparse".

All right! It was as if the Spartans were protected by the god of war.

The rain of arrows of the Persians finally subsided, and seeing safety, Leonidas took the lead and rose up; With the spear in his hand, he pressed against the outer surface of the round shield, and slashed downward, while the round shield was forcefully lifted; After a "snap" sound, all the arrows inserted in the round shield were broken in two, leaving only the arrows that had penetrated into the shield and the short shafts.

Xerxes, who stayed on the hillside and watched the battle from afar, was a little dissatisfied, not to mention that more than 10,000 troops had suffered a big loss, and the seemingly spectacular rain of arrows just now had no gain; The weather was fine today, and the sight could be farther, and the Spartans in the open space jutting out of the cliff to the east stood up one by one; However, Xerxes admired brave warriors, and he thought it would be a good thing to recruit the Spartans if it were possible.

The infantry of the combined Thracian and Medesian forces were completely crippled, and not one in ten escaped; The Persian commander is red-eyed, and the boss Xerxes is watching from behind, and he is too big this time! Because the two deputy commanders were hung up, the Persian commander did not have much choice, gritted his teeth, went into battle in person, took the cavalry units that had not yet participated in the battle, and rushed directly to the narrow mountain road.

Leonidas looked at the king's army in front of them, and thought that this was not bad, and then laid out a sharp array on the east side of the convex bend; After the enemy cavalry made a sharp turn, it must have lost its speed, and the result was even worse in the face of the butcher-like Spartans; Perhaps the director of the film wanted to show Leonidas's prowesss, so he arranged for the two sides to fight on the west side of the straight convex bend of the road, regardless of whether the science was scientific or not.

The earth shook violently, and the thunderous sound of horses' hooves beat the hearts of the king's army and Leonidas's warriors; The scene seemed very strange for a while. The cavalry of the Persians ran on the west side of the cliff, not seeing a single enemy of their own, and there was a sharp bend ahead, and if they did not slow down, they could go into the sea to bathe; Wang Jun led 18 Roman soldiers in the middle of the two rows of rejecting horses, and in the rear was the Spartan front arrow formation, which was also invisible.

The sound of thunder's hooves slowly decreased, and there was no longer the momentum of cracking the mountain wall, and the sound of horses' hooves became thin and dense, but it was very close; The figures and horses swayed in the convex bend, and the enemy's cavalry finally appeared in the eyes of the king's army.

The Persian cavalry, in the front, reduced their speed and turned around the corner, and the sight before them made it difficult for them to choose; More than 20 meters away, on the road only a dozen meters wide, there were two rows of wooden horses arranged in front of one behind the other, and more than a dozen infantry in red robes stood behind the first row of horses, and the shorter guy at the head had a blood-red mane on his helmet, and was looking at his cavalry with a mocking face; In the road twenty meters behind the second group of rejection horses, hundreds of Spartans in scarlet robes lined up in a sharp formation, where the width of the road had reached more than 30 meters, and the further back it went, the more open it became, and it was about 60 meters wide near the pass.

"Keep going! Death to those who retreat! "Seeing that the cavalry contingent had stopped, the Persian commander immediately gave the order; The creature was in the last brigade of the cavalry ranks, far from the forward, separated by a mountain peak, and it was impossible to know what had happened to the forward cavalry behind the convex bend.

The order was soon passed forward from the rear, and the cavalry in the vanguard had no choice but to ride their horses head-on; The distance of 20 meters is obviously far from enough for the cavalry to pull up the speed. 18 square shields, 18 heavy javelins, and 54 light javelins, all of which were placed behind the second row of rejecting horses, and now the hoplites carried only short swords and a crossbow, while the king army was armed with a longbow; Before returning to reality, Wang Jun collected a lot of good things and put them in the space ring, of course, because he was in the army, the items collected were naturally mainly Roman ordnance, and these bows and crossbows were just one of them.

18 Roman soldiers were divided into three rows and defended the road more than ten meters wide; The cavalry is different from the infantry, and it can't be crowded together, not to mention that there is no cavalry willing to go too close to the side of the cliff, so the number of cavalry who rushed to the horse side by side is not much, and the three-stage crossbow formation composed of only 18 soldiers can basically deal with it, not to mention that the sad cavalry doesn't even have speed.

Don't shoot people, shoot horses, this is the order of the king's army, at such a close distance, 18 soldiers have no arrows; Animals have a characteristic, after being injured by a frontal attack, they will generally scream and flee away from the enemy, while fierce animals will turn to the side and counterattack, as for the ferocious animals, they will rush directly with a howl; Obviously, war horses are still ordinary animals.

Wounded horses, one by one neighing and falling off the cliff with the knights, and a few Persian soldiers who fell or jumped off their horses in advance were either trampled by the horses or knocked away; The few and agile soldiers escaped the misfortune of the horses, but they could not dodge the arrows of the king's army; Of course, there are also dazed horses that have scurried to sharp rejections, but that doesn't change the outcome.

The cavalry of the Persians turned from the other side of the cliff and rushed down the cliff one by one; War horses are no better than humans, and they will not fall to the ground immediately after being hit by an arrow, even if they are hit, they will jump for a while before hanging up, but if they jump on the edge of the cliff, the result will be ......

In front of Wang Jun, there were not too many corpses piled up on the road more than ten meters wide and more than twenty meters long, and the field of vision and shooting was very wide; At the pace of the soldiers, each person could shoot four times per minute, and the three-stage shot could be guaranteed at the same firing point, firing 12 crossbow arrows per minute, which was not fast, but barely enough; The Persian cavalry, who had just turned the corner, was at the same speed as a man on foot, and because of the road, there were not many men and horses who could pass; Even if there were some accidents, Wang Jun used a combination of longbows and heavy arrows, with a high rate of fire and high damage, which was enough to remedy the occasional danger.

With the protruding bend as the dividing line, under the mountain wall on the west side, the dense cavalry on the road continued to advance; Under the mountain wall on the east side, the Persian cavalry fell into the abyss one by one; Such a refueling tactic is a benefit for Wang Jun.

Leonidas stood up with his warriors, and watched as the king's army had stopped the Persians with only 19 men, and it did not seem to be difficult, and perhaps he could return to the pass to rest; The Spartan warriors, who originally looked down on long-range weapons such as bows and arrows, seemed to have some understanding at this moment, but some of the warriors still firmly believed that if they turned from that bend, with the shield in their hands, they would definitely be able to rush to the rejection unscathed.

"Wang Jun, as well as his soldiers, deserve our respect." Leonidas turned to his centurion and said; Fassbinder and several nearby fighters nodded their heads.

Wang Jun is very busy now, and he doesn't know what the Spartan warriors are saying, otherwise he will use his heavy arrows to teach them a good lesson. The plot quietly shifted, and when Wang Jun thought that he could slowly use time to polish the Persian cavalry, the Persian cavalry retreated at the sound of horns.

Xerxes, who was watching the battle from afar, finally lost confidence and patience, and gave the order to retreat.

He kept looking, and saw his cavalry going round and round the back of the cliff, but he could not see the horsemen appear at the cliff near the pass, and the Spartans did not see their shadow; There is no doubt that the battlefield is in the place behind the protruding cliff, which is beyond the sight of one's eyes. Since no cavalry could advance to the vicinity of the pass cliff, there was no need to guess the fate of the cavalry who had bypassed; Xerxes didn't care too much about losing a few men, he had people now, but it was better not to do this inexplicable thing.

To be able to become the largest imperial emperor of this era, Xerxes is not stupid; All the cavalry that had not yet rounded the cliff were all recalled, and nearly a fifth of the cavalry disappeared behind the cliff. Hearing the horn of withdrawal from the rear, the commander of the combined forces breathed a sigh of relief; The emperor's order to withdraw his troops was much smaller, but the losses in this battle were a bit large. After returning, the commander arranged for personnel to carry out an inventory, and although the results were roughly known, the data was still very surprising; Of the 15,000 combined forces, only 3,600 cavalry and 3,000 infantry remained, while 7,000 infantry and 1,400 cavalry disappeared forever in the eastern pass.

After learning of the war damage, Xerxes became interested in the Spartans; They resisted themselves for most of the day, not to mention, and lost nearly 10,000 soldiers; Such a brave warrior should belong to him, well, I don't know which is more powerful, the Spartans or his own guards.

"Why don't you go and meet the king of Sparta?" Sitting on a high throne, Xerxes suddenly had such an idea.

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