Kill a large group of slaves, or stop the food supply of a large group of slaves.

The Athenian nobleman who first made this suggestion did not attend the meeting, because he was ill, not only coughing and fever, but also having a foul smell on his body; The attendees did not pay attention to the matter, and the food crisis had left them no time to think about other things.

If Calimaya had delved into this seemingly inconspicuous question, he would have been astonished to find that there were already some people in the city of Athens who had the same symptoms; Some were nobles, some were citizens, some were slaves, and even some officers and soldiers in the Union Army, which was well supplied with supplies and food, began to show such symptoms.

The problem that the bigwigs are now facing is that there are less than 400,000 slaves in the city, which is really a lot of them; How much food can be saved if you kill them all?

Some of the mentally retarded mathemats shouted loudly, accusing Kalimaya of not being decisive enough, and how good it would be to kill them early; There was no shortage of learned people in Athens, and the results came out quickly, and the very unoptimistic results made all kinds of pigs' heads shut up.

From the very first days of the siege, a food rationing system was in place in Kalimaya.

According to the food rationing system, hundreds of thousands of slaves in the city of Athens had very little food; In their miserable position, the food supply that the three of them together received was not enough for the children of an ordinary Athenian citizen, and even less than the soldiers of the Union Army who were still fully supplied.

For nearly 400,000 slaves, the food supply per capita was only a little, which was only enough to sustain life; Even if all of them were killed, the food saved was actually not much, and the food consumed by the slaves in 6 days was only enough for 70,000 allied troops to supply for 3 days, and if you added the 400,000 inhabitants of Athens, it would be only a drop in the bucket.

In a precarious situation, a drop in the bucket, everyone can't do without it; In addition, for the sake of food, the slaves have been partially scratched in the past two days, and it cannot be ruled out that they will have a tendency to riot.

Kill!

Without a lot of cheap power, perhaps the Athenians will have to do all kinds of dirty work themselves for a long time, and the economy will go back decades, but at least there is a future; If the current crisis is not over, a small life may not be saved, and there is no future at all.

Anyway, the Spartans only surrounded but did not fight, and the Delian army mobilized half of its forces, and 35,000 soldiers launched a slaughter.

In order not to cause chaos, Calimaya divided the city of Athens into nine large districts, each of which was further divided into four small districts, and let the soldiers deal with one small area and one area in turn; Groups of slaves were taken in groups by heavily armed soldiers to one compound after another near the city walls; It was the people who went in, the corpses that came out, and all the corpses were carried by the soldiers to the foot of the city walls.

The first to be slaughtered, of course, were the young men among the slaves.

The slaves, who had not eaten enough for 20 days, could not have imagined that they would be taken into the slaughterhouse, and they were honest all the way, thinking that they were going to do some work; As soon as they entered the compound, the blood stains all over the ground and the strong smell of blood immediately made them understand that the situation was not good; Revolt, of course, there will be, but this does not affect the outcome in any way.

After the young and strong were killed, the old, weak, sick and disabled among the slaves were simply dragged to the corner of the city wall to kill.

Nearly 400,000 slaves and 35,000 Delian League warriors were finally killed; On the inside of the long walls in the northwest and northeast of Athens, the remains of the soldiers who had been [***] were completely covered, and countless corpses were stacked into a huge "wall", which thickened the original Athenian wall of more than 4 meters thick by several meters.

This scene made the Delian League soldiers standing on duty on the city wall feel very depressed, maybe they smell the smell of corpses every day, and everyone doesn't care too much about the smell, but they feel very bad, and it really affects the appetite of his grandmother; Today, some soldiers have fallen ill, it is said that they have a high fever, or they may be disgusted by these corpses.

On the 20th day of the siege, the city of Athens was full of blood.

On the 20th day of the siege, outside the city of Athens, everything was as it was.

The Spartans practiced as usual for a day, and did not attack the city; 130 trebuchets were placed in place, maintained and maintained, and without a single bullet, piles of selected stones of all sizes seemed to be decorations.

Leonidas was not worried that he would not be able to defeat the city of Athens, but the experience that the king's army had passed on to the army, plus trebuchets and longbowmen, was enough to take the city of Athens; Leonidas's ambitions, instigated by the king's army, had already set his sights on the whole of Greece, and even Thessaly, Macedonia, and even the Aegean coastal areas of Asia Minor, which were now under the control of the Persians, were considered by Leonidas as part of the Spartan Empire.

To control such a large area, it is necessary to maintain a considerable army, and what Leonidas lacks most now is an army; Now that the Greek forces that dared to resist themselves were surrounded in the city of Athens, why should they be in a hurry. The two expeditionary armies sent out one after another have already taken large tracts of land; Thebes, Fosch, Sethby, Doris, Maris, Rocles and other regions, under the attack of tens of thousands of Spartan armies, had no ability to resist and became the new administrative regions of the Spartan Empire.

Now the 30,000 Spartan army in charge of the offensive is attacking the city-state of Aetolia, which is actually very strong, but the main force of their army is staying in the city of Athens, and it is estimated that the battle there will go smoothly. The army in charge of administering the new territory put the main force in the area of Maris, and stationed troops on the Ancili Plain north of Thermopylae Pass; This is where the Persian army once stood, across a huge mountain range, and to the north is Persian-controlled Thessaly, where Madonios, the commander of the Persian expeditionary force, is said to have stayed.

The territory of the Spartan Empire was expanding rapidly; This made Leonidas happy, but it also brought trouble; The navy has more than 50,000 people, and after the army has been expanded many times, it has reached a scale of nearly 180,000.

Wang Jun has been quiet these days, and he goes to the dock every day to go fishing.

Peace of mind and calmness are not only the requirements of fishing, but also the process of fishing, and the potential value of fishing.

If it weren't for the fact that he was still at war, the king's army would have taken Dina, who was far away in Sparta, and fished during the day and rolled the sheets at night; The trend of Sparta unifying Greece has become clear, and the royal army only needs to ensure that Leonidas does not die, and can sit back and wait for the task to be completed, and there is no need to revolve around the self-aggrandizing Leonidas all day long.

Because it was quiet, Wang Jun also adjusted his own family name that had not been sorted out for a long time; Although the harvest is not big because of the plug-in system, it has been slowly accumulated for a period of time, and there are 12 surname points; Wang Jun took a prudent line, and in addition to the outrageous spiritual castes, he tried to distribute the points evenly among the other three castes.

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+Strength: 30.0/30.0 (5.0 for a normal strong man)

+Dexterity: 30.0/30.0 (5.0 for a normal sturdy man)

+ Spirit: 11020/10020 (Normal Sturdy Man 5.0)

+Constitution: 31.0/31.0 (5.0 for a normal strong man)

Unallocated points: 0.3

Support Skills:

Equestrian - proficient

Hypnosis - rough passage

Control - coarse

Combat Skills:

Melee - Mastery

Distant Combat - Mastery -

In the evening, when Wang Jun returned to the camp, he used to scan the area of the Athenian city wall with his mental power, and was immediately stunned!

Your sister's!

What are the people in the city doing?

Do they think there aren't enough corpses in the city?

It's definitely a rhythm to the death!

It seems that the plague is unavoidable.

The twenty-first day of the siege.

Two new issues were placed in front of Marikaya and others.

The first issue is actually an old one.

The food was dwindling day by day, and hundreds of thousands of slaves were killed, barely enough to support 27 days; The unprecedented siege of the Spartans without attacking made all the Delian army bosses stunned and had nothing to do; When they went to war, they were not sure of winning, and if they didn't fight, they ran out of food after 6 days, and they began to wait for death.

The second topic is a new issue.

Seemingly overnight, the city began to appear in droves of patients, fever, cough, congestion of the throat and tongue, and an unpleasant [***] smell; The patients involved a wide range of patients, including Athenian citizens, nobles, and soldiers of the alliance army, and a large number of patients with the same symptoms, and most of them were young and middle-aged; Of the more than 70,000 Delian Army, 3,762 men fell, and the non-combat attrition was more than one-twentieth.

The first issue was okay, and the group finally decided that if they held out until the 26th, and the Spartans still did not move, everyone would go out of the city for a decisive battle; Rather than starve to death, it is better to die in a vigorous battle; In fact, at this point, Malicaya and the others regretted it very much, if the army had gone out to help the navy, no matter what the result was, it would have been better than the current mess.

The second issue is troublesome.

Strange diseases, no one has ever seen and does not know how to treat them; There is no point in rambling discussions in the face of something that is not known; In the end, all the participants ran to the temple.

Praying for the blessing of the gods is more like looking for a kind of psychological comfort; Even if there are really gods, they are useless, otherwise why is this world so bloody?

Wang Jun doesn't believe in this set, even if he is crossed, he still doesn't believe it.

The so-called sincerity is spirituality, which is purely a trick to fool people; Sincerely, the gods know a fart!

Let's take Chinese mythology as an example, Monkey King is bull's nose enough, right?

What mortal can he see through the heart?

At most, relying on "fiery eyes", you can expose those monsters whose makeup level is so bad that they fall off the scum.

Actions speak louder than words.

On the twenty-second day of the siege, it was the first day after the absolute sincere prayers of Kalimaya and the others.

There was a cough in the city of Athens, and an unknown disease slowly revealed its hideous face.

70,000 Delian Army, with the number of infected people quickly rising to five figures; Of the 400,000 Athenian residents, more than 20,000 were recruited; The city of Athens has become a territory of unknown diseases, and the feeling of panic is pervasive in the city.

Wang Jun has not seen the horror of the plague, but only knows some from books and the Internet; Compared with Kalimaya, whose hair is almost pulled out now, Wang Jun is definitely enough to be at the level of "brick family", but unfortunately, Wang Jun belongs to the Spartan camp.

Spring is a good time for everything to wake up, and it is also a season when certain germs are active.

No matter what method the people of Athens used, they could not stop the plague from spreading; From this day on, the plague not only made people feel hot and coughed, but also took people's lives; Before nightfall, the plague claimed the lives of 658 inhabitants and 439 warriors.

Kalimaya could only watch the situation deteriorate dramatically, powerless to turn it back.

On the same day, outside the city of Athens.

The king's army approached Leonidas and proposed that the army retreat a little, keeping a distance of more than 1 km from the Athenian walls; In addition, all soldiers are not allowed to drink raw water, they must drink boiled water, and raw and cold food is not allowed to be eaten, otherwise military law will be enforced.

Leonidas did not agree, nor did he refuse, he hoped that Wang Jun would give an explanation.

In two days, the city-states of Aetolia should be fully incorporated into the territory of the Spartan Empire, and the region of Maris that has already been acquired, plus the Attica Peninsula, which is equivalent to doubling the territory of the Spartan Empire; Leonid's next targets were the city-states of Epirus farther north and Thessaly, which was controlled by the Persians.

The expansion of the territory is of course a good thing, but the problem of insufficient troops is becoming more and more prominent; He has besieged Athens for 22 days, and it is estimated that the food in Athens has been almost consumed; Leonidas was determined to attack and take Athens in 2 days, and then spend a few days reorganizing himself before moving north to the region of Maris.

Of course, Wang Jun understood Leonidas's thoughts, the heart of the emperor! Brother nothing else, I have watched a lot of movies and TV series.

Calmly, Wang Jun described the terrible disease of the plague in detail in the way of storytelling, which can be regarded as a literacy for these unhygienic muscular men.

Leonidas and a group of high-ranking Spartan officers, one by one, felt unbelievable, and at the same time, they also felt creepy.

"Is there really such a terrible disease in the world?" After a long silence, Leonidas asked Wang Jun in a deep voice, he wanted to confirm again.

"Yes!" Wang Jun replied in a decisive manner, slowly raised his right hand, and pointed to the city of Athens: "Athens! ”

"How is that possible?" Yuri Biad jumped out, this thing seems to know how to figure out Leonidas's mind, who said that muscular men don't play carefully?

"It was really impossible, but ......" Wang Jun stopped in time, if it was because of those corpses, it would be tantamount to slapping Leonidas in the face in front of everyone; The current Leonidas has changed from some pride to high pride, and there is no need to explain it thoroughly.

"In 10 days at most, you can go to the city of Athens and see it for yourself." Wang Jun looked at Yuri Biade, and his tone was unusually calm.

Wang Jun did not regret teaching Yuri Biad some modern knowledge, because this was also to complete the system task as soon as possible; Longbowmen, trebuchets, bed crossbows, watertight cabins, etc., combined with his own personal bravery, led to the high prestige of the royal army among the Spartan army; Maybe it's because I'm not used to it, maybe someone deliberately suppressed it, but it seems to be normal, after all, Wang Jun is not an orthodox Spartan.

"Athens? 10 days? ”

Leonidas hesitated, but agreed to Wang Jun's suggestion; As for the reason for agreeing, whether it was because he trusted Wang Jun or because the plague that Wang Jun said was too terrible, Leonidas himself could not tell; Ever since Leonidas' mind came to him, "Leave the king's army in Sparta forever, life and death." After this idea, Leonidas's attitude towards Wang Jun gradually changed.

The twenty-third day of the siege.

The city of Athens was in shambles,

The Delian Army was half down, lying in bed coughing; the number of infected Athenian residents, more than 50,000; The food crisis has eased a little bit, because the patient's appetite is very poor and he can't eat much food.

Out of town and fighting the Spartans?

At present, Kalimaya could not even think of this tragic situation; Not to mention, the generals of several city-states were lying in bed.

The Spartans suddenly retreated!

The news was like a strong medicine, which stimulated the inhabitants of Athens and the demoralized allied officers and soldiers; Many generals of the city-states who were still alive and jumping ran up to the city to inspect them, including Kalimaya.

In the excited eyes of the crowd, the Spartans of the brigade rose up from camp, turned and left; A strange device that can shoot "flying corpses" is disassembled and transported away; The crowd that had been dense gradually moved away, leaving only piles of large and small stones on the battlefield.

I don't know which 2b led the head, but there was cheering on the northeast and northwest walls of the city of Athens, as if the Spartans had been beaten away by themselves.

Providence makes people.

The Spartans had only gone a little more than 1 kilometer before they began to set up camp, and the cheers on the walls of Athens slowly faded into dead silence.

Damn the Spartans these days!

What kind of retreat is this?

It's a complete trick!

In fact, the Spartans really had no idea of playing tricks; Leonidas merely followed the advice of the king's army and kept the army away from the so-called "epidemic area" for safety.

The so-called retreat of the Spartans was entirely a contribution of the people of Athens themselves, and they could not complain about others.

By nightfall, more than 3,500 people had died in the city, three times as many as yesterday.

The twenty-fifth day of the siege.

There was no more fear in the city of Athens, only despair.

Of the 70,000 Delian Alliance troops, only more than 10,000 were still normal, and the rest were all infected with the plague.

Of the 400,000 Athenian residents, less than 100,000 were not found by the plague.

Calimaya, the military governor of Athens and the commander-in-chief of the Delian League, developed a fever and cough in the afternoon; There is no doubt that he also contracted the terrible plague and escaped the first day of junior high school, but not the fifteenth.

The horrors of the plague were fully manifested in this day and night; More than 20,000 people were taken to hell by the plague in agony, and no one thought that such a way of death could go to heaven.

Yuri Biad entered the city of Athens five days earlier than Wang Jun estimated.

On May 12, 479 B.C., the twenty-seventh day of the siege of Athens, Euribiad led 200 naval soldiers into the city of Athens with the gate open.

The gates, which were opened by the people of the city themselves, were shot by Astinos and the longbowmen from afar, and hundreds of people tried to flee, but were all shot from afar by Astinos and the longbowmen; For Wang Jun's orders, Astino carried out absolutely 100% without the slightest suspicion.

In fact, since May 11, there have been no soldiers guarding the tower of Athens, and this unusual situation has made Leonidas believe most of the king's assertions; However, Yuri Biad insisted on going in to have a look, and Wang Jun could only agree with him on some rules after he came out.

In the city of Athens, there was silence.

When he saw the tall corpse wall on the inside of the wall, Yuribia regretted coming in; The tree wants bark, and the man wants face, so he has to take the people to the city.

In the city of Athens, there were dead people everywhere, and after walking for ten minutes, no one saw a living person; The air was filled with the smell of corpses, so strong that even these battle-hardened Spartan warriors could not stand it; A faint cough came from afar, the location could not be confirmed, and everyone did not have the courage to look for it.

Athens is now a dead city.

Yuribiad remembered the horror of the plague described by Wang Jun, and felt that something was wrong all over his body, so he hurriedly returned with his soldiers, and trotted all the way.

Gambling on gas is small, gambling on life is big. (To be continued.) )