Aereatis rushed forward in terror, crawling and rolling; More than 100 undead soldiers ran wildly behind him, and a few of them rolled down the steep hill as soon as they stepped into the air, like a "human body rolling stone", and crashed into the follow-up team at the bottom of the slope. And some of the other undead soldiers walking on this mountain road desperately retreated backwards, but, how to squeeze, after retreating a few meters, their chests were attached to their backs, and they couldn't squeeze anymore.

More than three hundred round stones, starting from the positions established by the Theban warriors, soared down the hillside and swept everything in their path; Whether it was the undead Persian soldiers on the mountain road, or the small mounds, small rocks, small flowers and grasses, etc., they were all carried down the hillside by the huge impact; Rolling stones, "human body rolling stones", wrapped in dirt and other debris, poured all the way to the road at the bottom of the slope, giving the undead soldiers squeezed on the road at the bottom of the slope a "mixed bath".

In the era of cold weapons, the advantages of geographical advantages are infinitely magnified; Gail, who was lying in ambush on the hillside, with 400 Theban warriors, inflicted more than 200 casualties on the undead army who were in high spirits with a simple wave of stones.

This time, the commander of this mixed force, the former deputy commander of the undead army, Odawa, was half angry; In order to quickly advance to the rear of the Spartans, Ovada led 3,000 screaming undead soldiers first, while the 10,000 ordinary Persian troops were placed behind and slowly followed.

The plan is beautiful, the reality is skinny.

The 10,000-strong ace army of the Persian Empire had been killed by the Spartans at the pass before; Now I didn't do anything, just walked on the moon and walked the mountain road, and lost more than 200 soldiers at once.

Odawa, the deputy commander, did not pay attention to the Greeks on the hillside, but looked up viciously at the other end of the mountain road; The hundreds of undead soldiers at the front of the team saw the opportunity early, so they ran safely to the other end of the mountain road; Of course, Odawa was definitely not dissatisfied with his subordinates, and his eyes were fixed on the Greek named Aeryttis.

"Did this guy deliberately lead us into a trap?" As a cold-blooded soldier, Odawa's heart and appearance, like his appearance, are not good; He looked down on this Greek who defected to the Persian Empire at all, and naturally, he trusted this thing, and he had no qualifications to talk about.

Gael on the hillside, looking at the Persians crowded with the ancient sheep road, like a super python, only the front, not the tail; He immediately arranged for a warrior to go to the top of the hill to light a beacon fire and report to the other three friendly armies in the rear, and the Phers, who were in the rear, sent troops to inform Leonidas that there was an enemy on the Ancient Sheep Road.

Odawa's cold gaze shifted to the Thebans, the other party had a good location, and it was definitely a tragic battle; Thinking of the fiasco at the Hot Springs Pass, and remembering the order of Emperor Xerxes before departure, Odawa waved his hand, he had no choice, time was more important than anything else.

Bands of undead warriors, swiftly past the side of the deputy commander, along the steep slopes, launched the first round of attacks on the Thebans; Gail on the hillside was unimpressed, and with a wave of his big hand, there was another burst of rolling stones.

Location of the hot spring pass.

Wang Jun and Leonidas meet again; The Phershites brought news that the enemy had indeed come on the Ancient Sheep Road, and that when the messenger departed, the Gaels on the first line of defense had already fought the Persians; There is only so much information, and the messenger does not know what the current situation is.

If there was no deep communication with the king's army, perhaps Leonidas would have chosen to let the other armies evacuate and leave the Spartan warriors behind, but now, Leonidas felt that he could choose a better way to die.

With Leonidas' order, 290 Spartan warriors, 900 Spartan "helots", 353 Kosling warriors, 732 Arcadian warriors, plus 13 of the king's army, a total of 2,289 people, the whole army retreated to the exit of the canyon of the ancient sheep road; In the area of the abandoned passes, Sparta, Koslin, Arcadia, and the royal army, all of whom had lost some warriors here; These warriors, for the sake of the people not to be enslaved by the Persians, for the freedom of the city-state, they died in this land with honor.

The second line of defense of Greece on the Ancient Sheep Road.

200 Macedonian warriors and 303 Theban warriors mingled, constantly sniping at the Persian attacks.

This is a 90-degree curve, the width that can be walked is only about 10 meters, and once you turn over the mountain, it is a steep slope; The combined forces of the two city-states took advantage of the steep slope to hold back the Persian soldiers who were constantly rushing up.

Gale was covered in blood, the first line of defense had been abandoned, and 97 Theban warriors died at the hands of the Persians.

At that time, all the stones, bows and arrows on the position were consumed, and Gail, with his morale-like men, engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Persians who rushed up; The undead warriors did not look very good against the Upper Spartans, but against the Upper Thebans, their combat effectiveness was fully displayed.

Gale was actually very remorseful, because the Rolling Stone tactics had achieved great results, and he despised the Persians; At last more than 50 Persian soldiers rushed to the Theban position while the rolling stones were becoming sparse, and fought with the Gaels in close combat; The Thebans numbered 400 men, and the short battle ended quickly, and the Persian soldiers were beaten to death.

Gale immediately realized that these Persians, with their silver masks, were very difficult to deal with; Despite the geographical advantage, despite the partial numerical advantage, he actually paid the price of 31 soldiers; At the bottom of the hillside, a large group of Persian soldiers were forming another wave of attacking troops, and more than 200 people began to pour up the hillside silently.

Abandoning his position, Gale immediately led the Theban warriors from the other side of the hill to the ancient sheep road; I don't know if this was good luck or bad luck, but the hundreds of undead soldiers who had narrowly escaped were trying to climb the steep hill here, intending to attack the Theban warriors from behind.

The two sides met on a narrow road, and the two sides had no choice but to fight together, and the result was that all the Persians were killed, and Gael again lost 66 warriors; And this short encounter, with an unexpected bonus, was the capture of a traitor, Aeryttis.

The second line of defense had already encountered two waves of attacks, and the Macedonian soldiers used their extended spears, took advantage of the geographical advantage of the ramp, and cooperated with the Theban warriors, paying a modest price and firmly blocking the Persians; Gail was surprised to find that the combat effectiveness of these two groups of Persian warriors was far inferior to the masked men before them; Could it be that your luck is starting to improve?

The deputy commander of the undead army, Odawa, is now in pain, and the undead soldiers are now one less dead; The reserve forces of the undead army are all in the country, and there is no way to replenish the members now. Because of the delay in the first line of defense of the Greeks, 10,000 ordinary Persian infantry arrived; For Odawa, it is naturally more cost-effective to use these high-level "cannon fodder".

At the southeast end of the ancient sheep road, Leonidas and the king's army were trotting northwest; The rest of the troops advanced on foot in the rear.

It was Wang Jun's idea to go to the ancient sheep road.

The huge Persian military camp, they hit the people directly and sent them to death; However, now that the Persians have divided their troops, it is difficult to walk the ancient sheep road, and Wang Jun vaguely remembers that Xerxes did not send many people in the plot, so isn't this a good opportunity?

It was overcast, and it wouldn't be long before the sun would rise.

Odawa finally broke through the four lines of defense arranged by the Greeks, and bit the butts of the fleeing Greek soldiers, and launched a classical mountain long-distance running on the ancient sheep road; However, the fourth line of defense did not seem to have much resistance, and the Greeks ran away, which somewhat puzzled Odawa, who had gnawed three hard bones in a row. Comparatively speaking, it was much easier to deal with such Greeks than with the Spartans; At least Odawa still has more than 9,000 soldiers on his hands, including 2,307 undead soldiers.

Since the enemy's combat effectiveness was like that, the Persian soldiers were more courageous in chasing; Unconsciously, Odawa's forwards chased to a flat valley bottom, and the ancient sheep road became much more open here; This section of the road is at least 50 meters wide, but it is lined with steep cliffs that are difficult for ordinary people to climb, rather than the usual slopes and steep slopes that have come all the way before.

The Greeks, who had been fleeing in front, suddenly stopped running, and they turned to face the pursuing Persians; The dense formation was slowly taking shape, and the Greek coalition was about 50 meters ahead of the Persian pursuers.

The mountain run was finally over, and both sides were a little out of breath.

The Persian army also began to slowly assemble, and Odawa led a few undead guards to line up the dense ordinary Persian soldiers and walked to the front of his ranks; There was no nonsense, Odawa just looked coldly at the Greek soldier opposite; Now the sky is getting brighter and brighter, and you can clearly see that there are not many Greeks on the opposite side, about 2,000 or so; 9,000 against 2,000, the opponent's combat power level Odawa has seen it continuously, and this battle should be no difficulty.

Odawa raised his hand and was about to swing it down vigorously, when he suddenly felt a heat in his head, and then his eyes turned black, as if the heavens and the earth had returned to the night in an instant, and the night seemed to be boundless......

Rewind time by 1 second, and several Persian warriors next to Odawa suddenly heard "Poof! As soon as he heard it, he was stunned to find that Deputy Commander Ao Dahua had an arrow feather stuck in his head that flew from nowhere; After 1 second, Odawa fell limply to the ground.

Suddenly there were shouts from the top of the steep cliffs on both sides, and tree trunks and large stones fell rapidly from the cliffs on both sides; Hugging the head of the rat, this word is absolutely suitable for the current Persian soldiers, the supreme commander was suddenly killed, the dense array of troops was suddenly attacked from the air, except to instinctively save themselves, the Persian soldiers had no other choice.

Speaking of which, two or three hundred men threw tree trunks and stones, and in fact did not do much damage to the Persian army, which numbered nearly ten thousand; In the first round, even if the Persians were dense, it would only cause four or five hundred casualties, and when the second round went down, the Persian formation had spread out a lot, and the harvest was much worse. However, three successive rounds of air attacks disrupted the Persians' position; The undead soldiers lined up in the rear desperately tried to rush to the front, while the ordinary Persian soldiers in front desperately tried to escape by the way. More than 2,000 undead soldiers, and less than 7,000 ordinary Persian soldiers, were huddled together at the flat valley floor, and the scene was extremely chaotic; If Xerxes saw this scene now, he would probably be so angry that he vomited three liters of blood.

Because they had been informed in advance, the Phushits, who were guarding the fourth line of defense, waited for the retreating Thebes, Macedonians, and Sesbians, and pretended to release a few arrows at the Persian pursuers, and took part in this large mountain run; By now, it was the strength of the Fushi who was intact, and as a result, they became the vanguard of the coalition camp at the bottom of the valley.

It is true that the Phersy were not good at fighting tough battles, as was well known in Greece; However, the Fuxi people also have advantages, that is, the level of fighting with the wind is not bad, especially when it comes to fishing in troubled waters, which is the best.

Seeing the Persians on the opposite side in a mess, 1,000 Fushi warriors imitated the Spartans who had beaten chicken blood, basically maintained the formation, and rushed towards the Persians dozens of meters away; Behind them, the Theban warriors, Macedonian warriors, and Sesby warriors who were already red-eyed followed closely, one by one murderous.

The 50-meter-wide valley floor could not allow the Persians to exploit their numerical superiority, not to mention the fact that they were now in a mess; Adava's body was trampled under the feet of a Fushi warrior, and he would never have imagined that a battle he thought would be uncomplicated would end up like this.

The round shield, the spear, the weapons of the Phers, did not seem to differ much from the Spartans, except that they were a little worse in quality and weight; Against ordinary Persian soldiers, and Persian soldiers who have no intention of fighting, such weapons are enough. Rows of spears burst out, and Persian soldiers fell screaming; The Fushi finally found that they were actually very good at fighting, and it was not too difficult to slaughter the Persians!

The undead soldiers in the rear were anxious, and they began to attack the ordinary Persian soldiers who were out of control; The sun that has just emerged sprinkled the rising golden light on the valley bottom, reflecting the snow-bright sword light; The ordinary Persian soldiers who tried to rush through the undead army and fled fell in rows, and some red-eyed ordinary Persian soldiers tried to rush through by force, but it was clear that they could not kill these masked men.

The king's army slid rapidly down the steep cliff behind the Persian army along the thick rattan, and the speechless battle scene in his eyes made him suddenly sympathize with the Persian emperor Xerxes; Ordinary Persian soldiers of less than 7,000 were flanked by the "enemy", the screaming Phishians in the southeast, and their own men in the northwest, the aces of the empire, the undead army.

"Leave no mouth alive!" Leonidas stood in the front row of the Spartan phalanx, roaring madly.

"Leave no mouth alive!" More than two hundred Spartan warriors responded in unison.

The king's army, with 12 Roman hoplites, followed closely behind the Spartan phalanx; According to the old rules, Wang Jun was responsible for the roll call of bows and arrows, and the hoplites were responsible for picking up leaks and mending knives.

Beneath the majestic cliffs, a fierce and chaotic battle is going on at a high pace.

The king's army cooperated with the Spartans in slaughtering the undead; The undead army resisted the Spartans while slaughtering ordinary Persian soldiers; Ordinary Persian soldiers were slaughtered between their own and their enemies; The Phohi and the warriors of the other city-states slaughtered ordinary Persian soldiers in a frenzy.

This open ancient sheep road is slowly stained red and red by blood.

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