Support Athens?

If it weren't for Wang Jun's crazy brainwashing during this time, Leonidas and most of the parliamentarians would definitely agree; Not only will they agree, but they will happily agree and act quickly; The Spartans seem to have an innate preference for combat.

Fundamentally, Sparta was originally characterized by oligarchy and militarism; Under the impetus of Wang Jun, the vague oligarchy became a clear oligarchy, and the militarism in the narrow sense became militarism in the broad sense.

Fighting off the Persians is now only a matter of tactics; Before the Athenian envoys came in, Wang Jun had raised a question about how to get more benefits for Sparta in the Greco-Persian War.

Leonidas and the other parliamentarians felt that the question was worth pondering; Now, when the Athenians ask for help, it's time to have a deep discussion and actually do it.

The Athenian messenger returned with a satisfactory reply, and the Spartans promised to send troops to help, and gave him a written reply for the first time.

"The things of Athens are the things of Sparta."

This is Leonidas's handwriting, with few words and a very resolute attitude; Of course, what does that mean......

Aegean Sea, light wind and clouds; The blue sea, rippling in the microwave.

Apparently, the Greek gods treated the Athenians and Spartans, and it is clear that the Athenians were put into the status of illegitimate children.

At Thermopylae, the Spartans appeared and stormed the Persians; At Marathon, as soon as the Athenians appeared, the wind and the beauty welcomed the Persians.

Kalimaya's heart was heavy; Ten years ago, his eldest brother also stood here, facing the Persian army, and it is estimated that his mood was the same at that time.

At the top of Mount Emad, 479 meters above sea level, Calimaya and the other nine Athenian generals looked at the southeast coast; There were so many enemies that they had difficulty even estimating at Calimaya, and now Athens had exhausted almost all its combat strength, and it had only gathered 20,000 men, including Calimaya and other generals; Now in the city of Athens, there is no more force to maintain law and order, and the capitulation faction is ready to move.

How to fight?

Imitate ten years ago, directly pulling 20,000 people to the marathon plain below?

Ten years ago, Athens and Persia had a ratio of 1:3, and although they won a big victory, they also lost 3 generals; And now, the Athenians have doubled in number, but the Persians ......

Looking at the endless camps in the distance, the ten Athenian generals were silent.

The only fortunate thing was that the Persians did not seem to be in a hurry to act, which gave Kalimaya time; Time is of the essence, and reinforcements from the Greek city-states will take time to arrive; The number is also very important, but how many reinforcements can be made, Kalimaya has no bottom in his heart.

In the two battles of Hot Spring Pass and Ancient Sheep Road a few days ago, for some reason, Athens did not send a single soldier; Now, it is unknown how many reinforcements other city-states will send, or whether they will send troops.

In the tent of the Persian military camp, Madonhos was holding a military council; The huge tent was crowded with generals, there was no way, there were too many people and horses.

Madonhos was ruthless this time, and for several days in a row, the navy kept transporting the army; Judging from the progress, by this evening, all 300,000 troops will have completed the landing; And tomorrow is the day when the 300,000-strong army will go into action.

Persia was able to become the largest empire at this stage, and it was absolutely inevitable that it would take its surname; The strategic foresight, the tactical learning, the diversity of the troops, and the gentleness of the rule are all the advantages of the Persian Empire.

The Battle of Marathon was a great shame for the Persians; Some time ago, the Battle of Hot Spring Pass and the Battle of Guyangdao were a great shame. Madonhos and his generals can be said to be angry! More than 35,000 soldiers disappeared meaninglessly, while the Greeks paid the price of less than 5,000. Pacifying Athens, which was what all the Persian generals wanted to do; Under the proper guidance of Madonios, the Persian army has come out of the shadow of the two defeats at Thermopylae Pass and Guyang Road.

On the outskirts of Sparta, the Spartan barracks.

Leonidas stood on the parade platform arranged by the king's army, looking at the 100,000 troops ready to go, and the scarlet robes seemed to stain the earth red; A large army means a strong combat power; The whole of Sparta has made the unification of Greece the only goal in this life.

Ten years ago, Sparta had also sent troops to aid Athens, but it seemed that it was so late that it could only visit a messy battlefield; This time, at the suggestion of Councillor Wang Jun, the Spartans decided to be late again, at least for more than 24 hours.

Wang Jun stood beside Leonidas, his face full of vegetables.

Don't get me wrong, Wang Jun's face is definitely not caused by rolling sheets with Tina every night; According to Wang Jun's current physique, there is no problem with rolling during the day, and continuing to roll at night, and rolling at night.

The dishes on his face, all for the sake of it, came from the plug-in who was disabled and strong.

Wang Jun finally determined one thing, that is, this plugin never gives himself a hole to exploit.

To unify Greece, it is necessary to kill countless people; And Wang Jun is now a member of Sparta, and it stands to reason that he can get the reward of caste points as long as his warriors hack down the enemy as he did in the first time he traveled to "Gladiator"; Although the reward amount drops significantly for each enemy killed, the base is large!

Before Wang Jun could understand the budget, the plug-in jumped out and shattered this good wish; Is there a reward for killing enemies? Of course, there is, but there is a limit, only the king's army and the 12 Roman hoplites he summoned are valid (and 6 died at Thermopylae).

The opportunity to "make a fortune" was deprived by the plug-in, and Wang Jun had no temper at all; The result of the face is already a good result. According to the plug-in, it is necessary to maintain the stability of the space, and not let Wang Jun expand too fast; Your sister's! Is this helping yourself or cheating on your father?

The sun is gradually rising, and the Aegean Sea is gilded with gold.

On the Marathon Plain, 300,000 Persian warriors formed a huge and incomparable square formation, slowly advancing to the northwest; A game of life and death, Madonios bullied, and at one time put all the fighters into battle.

"Aren't you Greek warriors very good at fighting? I'm going to drown you right now! ”

Looking at the slowly advancing troops, Madonios was overjoyed; This place is still more suitable for large troops to fight, and it is definitely not like Hot Spring Pass and Guyang Road, because of the steep terrain, hundreds of thousands of troops have to implement refueling tactics; Now, these problems no longer exist.

At the northwestern end of the Marathon Plain, Calimaya commanded a coalition of 25,000 Greek troops, lined up in a dense phalanx and marched towards the dense Persians.

Corinth sent 1000 warriors, the Phorsi 2000, and Sesby 2000; The reinforcements of these 5,000 people all arrived yesterday evening, and half of the reinforcements from the other city-states were gone; The Spartans, who had asked the messenger to bring back the written documents, did not move at all, and Calimaya hated it and gritted his teeth.

As I said before, the Greek gods do not seem to have taken Athens to heart, and these days the wind is mild, and the plain of Marathon is dry everywhere; The vast swampy area that the Athenians had been lucky enough to exploit ten years ago now has not even a shadow; In this battle, which has a huge difference in the number of personnel, it seems that there is only a hard-hitting way to solve the problem.

round shields, spears, short swords, the 25,000-strong Greek coalition army, most of the warriors were these weapons; The average height of the Athenians was far inferior to that of the Spartans, and it was about the same as the king's army, and many warriors liked to grow beards, and they all looked at them one by one, and they were all "uncles".

The "uncles" formed a dense phalanx in eight rows in depth, and rushed towards the Persians in small steps; Since you can't choose to fight or not, you can choose life or death on your own; There was a small wish that haunted the hearts of the Greek warriors: "Another glorious battle of Marathon." ”

The Persian phalanx is a new 20-row deep phalanx, and two phalanxes are only 10 meters apart at one time; Behind the two infantry phalanxes were cavalry and a variety of troops.

The new Persian infantry phalanx, derived from the old 10-row deep phalanx; The actual approach was not complicated, and two ten-man squads were placed in each column; The two captains are one in front of the other, holding a square shield and a 2-meter spear, and wearing scale armor; Behind them were two squads of 18 infantrymen lined up in a column, each with a bow and arrow and a scimitar.

At the Battle of Thermopylae, the Persians showed their rain of arrows that covered the sky; Even if the terrain at that time was limited and only more than 8,000 people were mobilized, the rain of arrows was quite terrifying; Now, over the plain of Marathon, there are Persian arrows.

Unfortunately, the Persian arrows were bronze three-edged broad-bladed arrows with scorpion-tail-shaped barbs, which were powerful but lacked penetration; Almost everyone in the Greek coalition used a large round shield, covered with a layer of copper skin, and the wood was hard, just enough to defend against the bows and arrows of the Persians.

The Greek allied soldiers were all out of the way, and the initial nervousness and apprehension turned into anger when the battle began; Seen from the sky, the slender Greek phalanx, like an ordinary wave, surged toward the Persians, who were ten times their size; Although the Greek coalition was outwitted, it was just such a wave.

The terrible rain of arrows of the Persians was astonishing and the results were very small; If you have to be short and tall, then the rain of arrows that shade the sun still successfully stopped the pace of the Greek coalition charge, but it was only a small contribution.

The battle formations of the two sides finally slapped together, and the killing was going on every minute; Judging from the single forward confrontation, it is still the Greek coalition that has the upper hand. Better physique, greater strength, longer spears, stronger shields, all this is destined for the result when the two forwards collide together; The squad leader of the Persian infantry suddenly became the post with the highest battle losses; One by one, they were hit by the shields of the Greek warriors and retreated, and the spears of both sides stabbed each other in the "competition", and the Greek spears with a length of 50 centimeters were very feathering.

Blood was flying, soldiers were howling.

It turns out that the Persians are very vegetable!

The Persians fell in rows, while the Greek warriors suffered few casualties; However, the Greek coalition did not rejoice for long, and tragedy struck.

The horse's hooves are like thunder, and the ground is like cracking.

The cavalry of the Persians, emerging from both flanks, soon reached the sides of the Greek phalanx.

What was the biggest drawback of the Greek dense infantry phalanx?

Weak flanks!

Kalimaya is not stupid, he has also participated in some battles between the city-states, how can he not know the weak links of the phalanx?

On both sides of the Greek coalition, there were a number of skirmishers and archers, which were generally sufficient to secure the two flanks of the phalanx.

But now, a large number of Persian cavalry appeared, Persian cavalry that could shoot arrows at high speed and distance, and could be slashed at close range.

Calimaya miscalculated, the Persians had cavalry! Lots of cavalry!

This is definitely a serious mistake.

Ten years ago, the cavalry of the Persians was held back by the swamp and did not play any combat value, but only the speed of escape; It was for this reason that the Athenians did not gain experience in fighting the formed cavalry.

Inexperience, sometimes fatal.

The earth trembled under the hooves of the Persian horses, and the dense phalanx of the Greek coalition was scattered and torn apart piece by piece by the Persian cavalry; For each Persian cavalryman, there were two kinds of weapons, bows and arrows, and swords; The quality of the weapon is not excellent, but it is sharp enough.

What do you do when you are in front of you with a large group of Persian infantry shooting arrows at you and stabbing spears at you, while there are cavalry shooting arrows at you from the side and slashing at you?

It's hard to say what will happen to the big guys, anyway, the Greek coalition collapsed.

The Athenians, who had always regarded courage as the first value in life, became the second group of city-states to turn around and flee; The first batch was, of course, the Fossies.

In fact, the squad leaders of the first phalanx of the Persians have been crippled by the Greek coalition army, and they continue to rush forward and mix in the Persian infantry to fight, and they can still continue to earn some capital; But the Greek coalition chose to flee and give their backs to the Persians' bows and arrows, which was simply asking for their own death; What's more, if you go to a race with two legs and four legs, in addition to turtles, turtles, tortoises, and kings, do you still want to run past the cavalry?

At this time, the quality of veterans and recruits in the Greek coalition army was clearly reflected.

Dropping their spears, shouldering their round shields, and drawing their swords, the veterans ran away; Running away with a spear is equal to death; Running with a round shield on your back can defend against arrows flying from behind; With a short sword, you can also make a last stand.

The recruits have everything, all the weapons are lost, all the weapons are held......

In the bright sun, the plain of Marathon, which once brought supreme honor to the Athenians, became the tomb of the Greek coalition; sole

It is consoling that the Persians also fell in equal numbers, at least one of them each.

Of the 25,000 Greek coalition troops, less than 3,000 of them, because of all kinds of luck, they ran up the mountains on both sides of the plain and escaped with their lives; The remaining 22,000 Greek warriors have all become fertilizer on the plain of Marathon, and only one of the ten Athenian generals remains, Calimaya, the highest-ranking Athenian in Athens this year, the military and political governor of Athens.

Madonios rode on his horse and laughed loudly!

Shame before the snow, how can you not be happy!

Although his own army lost more than 22,000 people in battle, it was equivalent to a one-to-one battle with the Greeks, but it didn't matter;

If those Athenian traitors did not tell a lie, then Athens is now an undefended city.

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