Chapter 43: The Eve of the Great War
The raindrops the size of beans flew diagonally and fluttered on the mountain walls, and the steep roads near the sea were washed clean by the rain; The small gravel that used to be everywhere on the road was swept into the sea by the hurricane.
Under the huge electric light, the sea was boiling, and countless Persian warships were struggling on the dark sea; The huge waves more than ten meters high rolled up the overwhelmed Persian warships, throwing them down at will, or colliding with each other, or being swept into the bottom of the sea, or directly hitting the mountain wall.
The power of nature is terrifying, and tonight is destined to be a night of misery for the Persians.
Leonidas stood on the edge of the cliff outside the pass, staring at the Persian warships ravaged by the storm; Dassos, the leader of the Arcadians, Ruwandi, the leader of the Koslins, Gael, the leader of the Thebans, Dillard, the leader of the Phers, and Wang Jun, the leader of the Romans, also stood by; Behind the leaders, the warriors of the Greek coalition stood densely packed.
Seeing the Persian warships destroyed by the hurricane, everyone was excited and shouted, everyone was convinced that this was the gods helping the Greek coalition; But there are two exceptions, one is Wang Jun, who knows the plot, and the other is Leonidas.
To the west of the cliffs, the plains that could not be reached in the darkness of the night, were covered with Persian tents; Bands of Persian soldiers were patrolling in the wind and rain; On the 10-kilometer-long coastline, countless figures ventured to land in the waves, and the unlucky ones were carried away by the raging waves, but more Persian soldiers landed on land.
"Tonight, I plan to send soldiers to the direction of the Ancili Plain to investigate the enemy's situation." At the bottom of a flying cliff, Leonidas and Wang Jun and others gathered to discuss the division of labor and cooperation among the various departments; Towards the end of the meeting, Leonidas suddenly came up with the idea of exploring the plains at night.
"Who is going?" Dassault is a bald guy who doesn't want to take too many risks.
"You don't have to go, we Spartans just do it." Leonidas simply put down such a sentence and made a gesture to flash.
Excessive pride, this is a very bad impression Leonidas gave to the king's army, perhaps because the Spartans did not pay attention to culture and art.
"Leonidas, count me." Although Leonidas and their night visit to the enemy camp should not be risky, Wang Jun still had to follow, in case this bearded old handsome guy accidentally hung up, wouldn't it be a tragedy for himself?
"You? Oh, Romans, why don't you come and sit with me. "Gail, the leader of the Thebes, looked at the king with fiery eyes, and the mustache on his chin moved; This one is also 1.8 meters tall, and although it is not as "plump" as Leonidas's muscles, it is still considered strong.
"Leonidas, let's go!" Without paying attention to the "hungry" Gael, Wang Jun called Leonidas, and the two walked directly into the wind and rain outside the flying cliff; The Thebans were particularly fond of base-keeping, and even encouraged legal, marriage-based friendships.
Leonidas also disliked the Thebans very much, even if the Thebans' land combat ability could rank among the top of many Greek city-states, the reason was naturally because these Theban men who studied chrysanthemums all day long were too disgusting; However, Leonidas could never have imagined that a hundred years later, the Thebans would be able to dominate Greece and defeat Sparta twice.
No one noticed the cold light in Wang Jun's eyes before leaving.
None of the 18 hoplite kings were brought with them, they were modeled by the standard of Hoge, all of them were tall and powerful, but their agility was low, and they were not suitable for sneak attacks and other work; Because these hoplites were all summoned by Wang Jun, Wang Jun could see their family names, 18 people, and the data was completely consistent.
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Roman hoplites: No. 1
Physical Affiliation:
+ Strength: 12 (5 for a normal sturdy man)
+Agility: 6 (5 for a normal sturdy man)
+ Spirit: 4 (5 for ordinary strong men)
+ Constitution: 10 (5 for ordinary strong men)
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Leonidas brought all the Spartan warriors with him, which was actually only 299 people, a small team, and it was still appropriate to attack the camp at night; The royal army followed closely by Leonidas' side, and although it was impossible to see the Spartan caste, it was still possible to roughly determine that the average agility of the Spartan warriors should be around 11 points.
This is an amazing statistic, the last time Wang Jun traveled to "Gladiator", Maximus was very good, and all the surnames were 11; But here, the average agility level of a Spartan warrior is 11 points!
Perhaps it is because of the mythology of this world that all the Spartans are like a bull's nose banging like chicken blood; However, human evolution is mainly intellectual, and the rest of the brain may have been degrading; It's hard to say this question, maybe human fitness declines by a notch every 500 years!
On the Ancili Plain, Wang Jun and his party failed to reach it in the end.
For no other reason, before entering the plains, enemy camps and Persian sentinels were found all over the hills and ravines.
The stormy night provided the best cover for the sneak attackers; The Persians fought a lot of large-scale wars, and attached great importance to the night defense of the camp, and even in such weather, they still sent a large number of patrol soldiers and sentinels on duty.
The cold rain trickled down the cracks in Wang Jun's armor and into the interior, and his underwear was already soaked, and even the big pants with modern colors were so wet that they couldn't get wet anymore; The little brother who was almost ** during the day was soaked in the cold rain very unpleasantly, and it is not easy to be a soldier! Only then did Wang Jun realize that it seemed reasonable for the Spartans to wear only a pair of triangular "leather" shorts, at least they were easy to leak and dried relatively quickly on their bodies.
Touching the Sentinels of the Persians on a rainy night was not a difficult technical task for the Spartan warriors; One touches the other, this is Leonidas's request; Covering the sentry's mouth behind his back while piercing his chest with a sword from his vest through his chest is the way most warriors behave, when spears and shields are not good.
The royal army was more civilized and less violent than the Spartan warriors; Silently standing behind a Persian, his left hand reached forward, covering the Persian's mouth, and his right hand followed synchronously, the sharp Roman short sword gently slashed his throat. The Persian soldier's body trembled constantly, leaning on the king's body and slowly losing his body temperature; Wang Jun quickly caught the spear in the hands of the Persian soldier with his left hand, and carried the Persian body with his right hand holding the short sword, allowing him to slowly lie down on the ground.
The silent slaughter slowly unfolded in the stormy night and ended quietly.
The king's army carried the Persians he had killed, and followed Leonidas, who also carried a corpse; It is only now that Wang Jun understands the origin of the Persian corpses used by the Spartans in the movie to build the stone wall. Fortunately, Wang Jun's body had been greatly improved during the last crossing, otherwise not to mention touching the enemy's sentry in this ghost weather, just carrying a corpse on his back and running away on a rainy night would be enough to choke.
After the storm, there will be a rainbow.
The next day, as soon as the sun jumped above the horizon, a brilliant rainbow hung in the blue sky.
"I saw the ships crash into the rocks......"
"How is this possible?" The bald man Dathos climbed to the top of a hill after Astino and Starlius, overlooking most of the Ancilian plain; But the scene in front of him directly made Dassos's head crash, and it was difficult for him to accept the Persian tents that were densely packed all over the plains in his field of vision.
"What we saw yesterday was only a portion of Xerxes' army......" Starlius replied in a low voice.
"It's impossible to win...... Dassault muttered, this thing doesn't like pears, he likes apples.
"Hehe......" Starlius chuckled under his breath.
"What are you laughing at?" Daxos looked sideways at Starlius, feeling as if the blonde was laughing at him, and his tone was a little annoyed.
"Arcadians, I'm battle-hardened...... I just hope ...... There can be a suitable opponent. Starlius stared into Dassos' eyes and spoke without hurry.
Dathos looked at the excited Starlius speechlessly, and he felt that either he was crazy or this Spartan was crazy.
The early morning glow fills the bay of Malikos, and in the clearing of the cliff of the pass, a group of bodybuilders in swimsuits are busy building a wall; Well, there were 18 of them who were just shirtless, and they were huge; As Roman hoplites from half a century later, they decided that they could not accept only a pair of briefs with a surname, and that the enemy was not far away.
Nearly 5 meters high, 10 meters long, and 5 meters thick stone walls cut off the road that rises from the Ancili Plain and runs eastward along the coast; Without destroying this stone wall, if you want to attack Athens by land, you can only enter the hinterland through the pass into the narrow canyon; The Greek coalition used the hundreds of corpses of the Persians they brought back as clay, imitating the thick stone wall built by their ancestors, leaving the Persians with no choice.
On the top of the towering hill, Wang Jun was following Leonidas over the plain of Ancili; The Spartan centurion Fassbinder and the Theban leader Gael followed.
Wang Jun had to follow Leonidas closely, and the task he received was to be the guardian of Leonidas, who would he follow if he didn't follow? And Fassbinder, as Leonidas's centurion, was normal for him to be by his side; And Gail's motives for following him are very obscene, this guy has a crush on the exotic Wang Jun......
In fact, Wang Jun had long wanted to find an opportunity to castrate this, but now he had no chance, so he had to endure it first; Leonidas didn't like this thing to follow, but the others were reinforcements, in an alliance, and it was not easy to refute Gael's face.
"Centurion, has anyone found a trail that can go around behind us?" The plot continues, and Leonidas asks Fassbinder.
"No, Your Majesty." Fassbinder replied neatly.
"No, Leonidas; There is an ancient sheep road nearby, and the Persians can go around behind us through the ancient sheep road. "When the king killed the short man, he naturally wanted to remind Leonidas of this; Anyway, Fassbender also has a problem, and he replied so easily without a detailed investigation, which made Wang Jun secretly complain, your sister! This is the officer of the Spartans?
"You know?" Leonidas was amazed that the royal army, an ally from Rome, seemed mysterious.
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After some explanation and discussion, the Fushi naturally could not be sent, but Wang Jun knew that these people were unreliable, and the Thebans were not good in combat, so they were the only ones; So, the devastated Gale was sent by Leonidas to take his men to guard the Ancient Sheep Road; It's just that when this goods was leaving, he didn't forget to greet Wang Jun cordially, which made Wang Jun goosebumps.
On the road below the cliff, a group of people carried a huge sedan chair and slowly walked towards the pass, and Wang Jun and the others all looked down.
"Let's go!"
"No stops! Idiot! "The chubby Slow is actually in a happier mood; The great Xerxes sent himself to persuade the enemy who stood in his way, which was a complete trifle in Slow's heart, and the credit of sending it to the door; The Persian army went all the way, and there were countless surrenderers.
Slow raised his whip, intending to teach the sedan chair bearers a lesson, they were walking too slowly; In fact, the weight of this ridiculous and exaggerated huge sedan chair in Wang Jun's eyes is not light, and the fat pig himself has more than 170 catties, and it is very difficult to carry it with only 8 slaves.
Hey?
Slow suddenly saw dozens of corpses nailed to the side of the road, stabbed through the chrysanthemum with a spear, and poked out of the mouth. The enemy actually demonstrated to himself?
"Keep going." Slow swung the whip out of his hand with all his might.
Wang Jun knew that the fat pig would not have a few minutes to live, so he pulled Leonis down the mountain, and the battle was about to start later, and it was not interesting to stay on the mountain.
Killing an enemy is only 0.01 points, which is a bit of a cheat, but no matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat!
The king's army was descending the mountain, and at the pass, more than 20 Persian soldiers were rushing back with the huge sedan chair.
The 8 slaves now ran fast without the need for whipping, and it seemed that all their physical potential was stimulated at this moment; It can't be helped, the Greeks are so cruel that they almost started a group fight a few minutes ago, and the slaves will also cherish their lives.
Slow could no longer wield his long whip, and now he was hugging his severed arm in his chair and howling; The Spartan warrior Starlius slashed off Sloe's right hand and part of his right forearm with a volley of extreme wind.
Threats and intimidation are not important, the important thing is that Slow took his right hand, not only did he not get any credit, but he also had to go back to face Xerxes's wrath.
Xerxes was never stingy with the winners, but he was never tolerant of the losers.
There was darkness in front of Sloe's eyes.
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