The southern gate of the city of Argos.

The guards could barely believe their eyes, and their jaws dropped; A few bigwigs appeared in front of them in embarrassment, and these are all characters in Argos Bull 13!

They just went to Sparta for a meeting, how could this happen?

"Closed City...... Shing mun! Sparta ...... The talent is coming! ”

Several bigwigs rushed into the city gate in a hurry, out of breath and with gloomy faces.

What's the horse?

Could it be that these bigwigs insulted Spartan women in Sparta and were chased and killed by men in pants?

Although the relationship between the two sides is not so close, it is true that Sparta has not had a bad relationship with Argos for decades, so what happened today? Seeing that the bigwigs were not good-looking, the guards did not dare to ask more, whether they understood or not, it was important to carry out the order; With a shrill creak, the crowd scrambled to close the thick gates.

"Prepare for war! Blow the trumpet and prepare for battle! Sitting on the ground in the city, the bigwigs finally recovered and continued to give orders.

The city of Argos, which had been quiet for many years, was in chaos for a while.

The clock is back to November 20th.

At the end of the Spartan parade, 5,000 Spartan Royal Guards, 10,000 Spartan Wehrmacht, and 20,000 Spartan militiamen were left on the parade ground, and the rest of the soldiers all returned directly to their respective camps; On the parade platform, the representatives of the other city-states, except for the Spartans, at first thought that there was another program, but then they saw more than 10,000 black laborers arriving one after another, with a large amount of food and something that could not be said to be anything.

The original complex facial expressions of the representatives of these city-states were only stiff.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Dathos shouted luck in his heart! The same is true of the Arcadians behind him, and choice is definitely more important than effort.

Your sister's!

See, the Spartans didn't scare the city-states through military parades, this is simply the rhythm of action!

"Leonidas, where are you going?" A certain zombie face leaned over and asked Leonidas, feeling the slightest bit of confidence in his heart.

"Oh, I'm going to take them for a walk to the north." Leonidas replied with a smile on his face, and his attitude was absolutely mild.

Take a walk?

Leonidas once took 299 Royal Guard soldiers to Thermopae Pass for a "walk", and the actual situation is known to passers-by; Now he has become a "local tyrant", bringing 35,000 soldiers, plus more than 10,000 waiters, and 45,000 people to go for a walk?

"Northside?" The stiff-faced man was raining down, he was of Argos, and to the north of Sparta was Arcadia, and Argos; Now that Arcadia has thrown himself into the arms of Sparta, then, it seems, there is only Argos...... Well, there is also the northernmost Ahamia, but that is several times farther away.

Starting from Sparta, all the way to the north, less than 60 kilometers, is the old nest of the Arcadians, the city of Tejeli; From the city of Teyeli, walk northeast, about 30 kilometers, to the city of Argos.

This Leonida took tens of thousands of horses to the north for a "walk", and if he was not careful, he was likely to appear under the city of Argos.

In fact, the parade is now over, and Leonidas is indeed going to take his troops to clean up the "disobedient" city-state; Now that you've bared your fangs, how can you not take a few bites?

Polis? In Wang Jun's eyes, they are just some "warlords" who occupy the city as kings; As the largest "warlord" in the Peloponnese, it is naturally incumbent upon us to eradicate and co-opt other small "warlords."

Leonidas and Wang Jun invited the representatives of the other city-states to go for a "walk" to the north with smiles on their faces; Naturally, Dassos and the others readily agreed, but the representatives of the other city-states stopped eating.

Promise?

This means that these people have become hostages, and they are being taken by the Spartans to attack their city-state.

Don't say yes?

In case Leonidas waved his hand, a group of Spartan warriors rushed up like wolves......

Almost stiffening their necks, representatives of the five city-states including Argos politely refused to "walk together" and proposed the idea of leaving on their own.

Leonidas doesn't care, with a wave of his hand, he will not be far away; The representatives of the five city-states were relieved and immediately chose to leave Sparta.

To the north, there is only one road, and in the middle section, it is still a rugged mountain road.

Thus, a peculiar scene appeared in the northern suburbs of Sparta; Dozens of people were running in small steps in front of them, hurrying back, and a few people looked flustered; Behind these dozens of people, a long queue of tens of thousands of people, all of them happily, followed at a steady walking speed; As time passed, the distance between the two sides became larger and wider.

Several bigwigs of the city-state of Argos, in such a situation, ran for 3 days in embarrassment, and finally rushed back to the city of Argos; In the past 3 days, I haven't eaten well and slept well, but whoever follows a huge army will not be in a good mood.

Leonidas left Fassbender in the city of Theyeli.

The loyal Fassbender is now at the rank of general; His direct subordinates were 999 people, 10 hundred members of the Royal Guard. In order to be able to successfully complete the military control of the Arcadian region, Leonidas also allocated 2,000 Spartan Wehrmacht and 4,000 Spartan militia to Fassbinder.

Leonidas and the king's army stayed only for half a day in the city of Tejeli, gathered the 4,000 Arcadians who had volunteered to join the army, and continued on their way, heading straight for Argos; The first target was placed on Argos for two reasons, firstly, Argos belonged to one of the two "disobedient" city-states, and secondly, because Argos was closest to Theyeli.

Dassault became an Arcadian Spartan councillor and renounced his military membership; This thing is a bit bloody, but after all, it doesn't like to fight and kill.

From the time Fassbender took over the defense of Tejelli with his soldiers, it marked the Arcadian region as the third administrative district of Sparta, Laconia as the first administrative district, and Messenia as the second administrative district; Nothing unexpected happened, what should be a nobleman is still a nobleman, what should be a citizen is still a citizen, and the slave, whose status has improved, has been nationalized after registration, and has become a black labor who has the opportunity to advance to the commoner.

All kinds of affairs were carried out in an orderly manner, and with the efforts of Dassos and others, the Arcadians were very cooperative; Leonidas also had no intention of deceiving the Arcadians, and everything went exactly as agreed.

On the afternoon of November 24, the Spartan Northern Expeditionary Army, 4,000 Spartan Royal Guards, 8,000 Spartan Defense Army, 16,000 Spartan militia, 4,000 Arcadian "recruits", plus 10,000 black labor logistics, more than 40,000 people appeared outside the tense atmosphere of Argos.

For the arrival of the Spartan army, the Argos had known about it at least a day in advance, and whether they were afraid or not, they were somewhat mentally prepared; However, the Argos did not expect that in the Bay of Argolis, south of the city, the fledgling Spartan navy was rushing from south to north, heading straight for the port of Kios, on the southern outskirts of Argos.

The commander of the Spartan navy, Yuribiad, dispatched all the warships, 50 large sail ships, 16 medium triremes, and a total of more than 20,000 people; If it weren't for the short time and the launch of new warships, Yuribia would have pulled all the naval soldiers aboard.

Also because of time, there is only one Class 201 and one Class 101 battleship; 49 large sail warships and 15 medium triremes are still the same. However, the Bay of Argolis is different from Salami Bay in that the sea is open and deep, with few reefs and no twists and turns; For large sail warships with only 50 ships, the Gulf of Argolis can play a good role.

The Argos Navy, with only 25 medium-sized triremes, was originally a little stronger than the Spartans, and now it is a tragedy.

Choosing to remain neutral in the Greco-Persian War, the Argos Navy did not participate in the Battle of Salami; In other words, they do not yet have experience in dealing with large warships.

When 66 Spartan warships, large and small, slowly approached the port of Kios, the Argos Navy was still discussing in a chaotic manner, and the Spartans were too strong to make people desperate; Those who are determined to fight, those who are pessimistic and disappointed, and those who suggest abandoning ships and fleeing, do not think that they can win.

Yuri Biad took the "Leonidas" as his flagship, and this 101-class battleship was already armed to the teeth; And the 201-class battleship, named after himself, is too small to feel.

Yuribiad would have liked to have a good time with the trebuchets on his battleship and sink a few Argosian ships, but he couldn't do that; Because Leonidas gave the order early on to besiege the enemy ships first, and then join forces to capture the enemy ships after the victory of the army.

Surround it!

Dozens of Spartan warships blocked the harbor, and the momentum was violent, scaring away a lot of small fish and shrimp; And the "Leonidas", symbolizing the surname, fired four stone projectiles, and four huge waves formed on the sea surface of the port.

These 4 stone bullets are actually just to vent the resentment that they can see but not move, but they just fit the concept of the so-called deterrent surname shooting in naval warfare in later generations; The so-called unintentional insertion of willows and willows, and Yuribiade's unintentional move directly caused the voices of the Argos Navy to fight to the death all disappeared.

What kind of weapon is this?

In 480 B.C., this thing hadn't been invented yet! According to historical records, around 400 B.C., the first catapult machinery appeared in Greece.

The two sides were separated by more than 800 meters, and the Spartans' silent weapons could hit the middle ground; For the Argosians, who relied on bows and arrows from a distance, the Spartans' weapons were shocking in terms of range and power; When the trebuchet launches stones, the movement is actually not small, but it is more than 800 meters away, and the sound of the collision of wooden instruments is inaudible anyway.

Because the battleship was wooden and limited in size, Wang Jun could not place a huge or large trebuchet, otherwise the counterweight would collapse the deck of the battleship; However, there is no problem with a small trebuchet to throw stones that are tens of kilograms small. Don't underestimate the level of tens of kilograms, even if it's 10 kilograms of stones, hitting a wooden battleship at high speed and opening a hole or something; If the stone goes up to 30 kilograms, then the consequences are very serious.

The Spartan warship, with its huge size, multiplier of its own number, and mysterious and terrifying weapons, all this was definitely a heavy blow to the main battle faction in the Argos navy.

A desperate battle?

Don't be kidding, it's almost the same as going to die; Who knows how many mysterious weapons the Spartans had?

Surrender?

Not so much for the time being, after all, the Spartans did not choose to attack, but only surrounded but did not fight.

All right!

In the end, the Argos Navy reluctantly chose to cower in the harbor and not go out if they were killed.

The aggrieved Argos Navy would not have known that in fact, the Spartan Navy had only one large warship, the "Leonida", which was equipped with four small and medium-sized trebuchets; The other 49 large warships can only use long-range weapons, but they are actually just bows and arrows......

The navy surrounded but did not fight, and there was no wonderful scene; The Army, in fact, is the same, at least for the time being.

More than 30,000 Spartan warriors fought in the east, north, and west directions of Argos, leaving only the south; In this direction, it leads to the port of Kios, and if you want to escape, you can only run to the sea, as long as you can break through the blockade of the Spartan navy.

The Spartans changed their habit and did not attack the city, but only rested around it.

10,000 black laborers, a large part of which began to build camps, bury pots and cook, and feed the soldiers at any time, this war is a hard work; And the other small part, under the command of Wang Jun, began to assemble trebuchets.

Historically, in field battles, the Spartans were bull-nosed and fearless; But in siege warfare, the Spartans were often helpless, and there were several depressed battles, even small cities defended by only a few hundred enemies, and thousands of people fought for half a month, but they were not defeated.

The royal army despised Leonidas many times, and the city of Sparta did not even have a decent wall, let alone a wall; In the era of cold weapons, the important surname of the city wall was self-evident, but the Spartans really did not; In addition to Sparta, which is the best, all other Greek city-states have strong walls, especially the city of Athens, which is not only strong, but also tall, and quite beautiful at the end.

The black Lotus carried with him those things that outsiders could not understand, which were in fact parts of large trebuchets; Originally, Wang Jun wanted to make some giant ones, but the mechanics couldn't do it for a while, so they could only make 10 large trebuchets to "cope" one or two.

A large trebuchet, which can project 200 kg of stones, is already fierce; If you replace it with 100 kilograms of stone, you can shoot a distance of 350 meters, which is more than the range of a bow and arrow that the defender can reach around 260 meters with the height of the city wall. Of course, if Wang Jun, a pervert, uses a longbow, it is far more than that.

Trebuchets have many advantages and disadvantages; For example, the installation can't be done in a few hours, but fortunately, Wang Jun and they can also spend it at this time.

That night, tens of thousands of Spartan soldiers gathered around the city of Argos for a grand bonfire, eating, drinking, and shouting, and being extremely happy; And the Argos who were in the city were watching with bulging eyes on the nearly 5-meter-high city wall, and their hearts were pounding; The prestige of the Spartan army was not known to any city-state.

This night, the two sides were uneventful.

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