Chapter 32: Smoke Tactics
(Ask for collection, ask for recommendation tickets, ask for investment)
It's been another bloody night.
Qin Rongshuai sighed with emotion, his eyes swept away, and he suddenly saw a few figures in the distance, looking suspicious, walking towards the temple sneakily.
"Hey, it's Councillor Theron."
Leonidas also noticed those people, and hurriedly dragged Qin Rongshuai, and the two of them hid behind a marble pillar, secretly observing.
When the group approached, it was Senator Theron who walked in the front, followed by a fat man with a big belly, dressed as a Persian, and followed by several Persian soldiers, carrying heavy bags. There was also the sound of metal colliding as he walked, and through the gaps in the bags, you could see the glittering golden light.
Leonidas looked at this strange combination thoughtfully, and walked into the Delphi Temple, he patted Qin Rongshuai on the shoulder, "Qin, you take your people to stay here, and I'll call someone." ”
When Qin Rongshuai heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, calling people good, this means that things can't be good, he is afraid that Leonidas will not be able to see it, and now the more people called, the better.
There were also conservatives in the Spartan city-states, who believed that this war had nothing to do with Sparta, and that it was Athens who intervened in the uprising in Asia Minor and that it was Athens who defeated Persia in the Marathon Plains in the last Greco-Persian War.
Xerxes this time, under the banner of avenging the previous king, said that he wanted to set foot in Athens, and everything was caused by Athens, what does it have to do with my Sparta?
Moreover, the rear of the Spartan city-state was also unstable, and the root cause was the large number of black laborers. The Helots were the name given to the slaves of the Spartan city-state, and the Spartans were not the natives of the area, but they turned the natives and conquered subjects into slaves after they went south to conquer the region.
These slaves belonged to the state, were fixed to the land for heavy manual labor, and had to be conscripted to fight with the army in wartime, and lived a miserable life, and Sparta often wantonly tortured and killed the helots, which made the helots often riot and revolt.
The population of Helots was as many as 250,000, while the population of Sparta was only 9,000 at its peak, and the maximum number of troops mobilized was only 20,000 to 30,000.
In the battle against Persia, only 10,000 troops can be drawn at most, and the Persian army is claimed to be one million, even if it is discounted, there are 300,000 or 400,000, and the disparity in strength between the two sides is huge, which is also the reason for the concerns of the conservatives.
There is no benefit in winning the war, and if you lose the war, you may lose the country, and the benefits are not equal at all.
There are a lot of conservatives, and the representative figure is Councilor Theron, which is also the reason why Leonidas was jealous of Theron before, but he didn't expect this to be too conservative and directly conservative to the Persian camp.
Less than ten minutes later, Leonidas came back with ten men and quietly hid to the side and set up an ambush. Leonidas leaned over and said to Qin Rongshuai, "Qin, my friend, now let's make a battle plan, when the Persians come out of the temple, they will be divided into two teams with the Kosmos gods, we will deal with one team of enemies, and you will deal with the other team, how about it?" ”
Qin Rongshuai agreed, he brought Qin Ruishi and the Amazon female warriors all, even if he killed all these people, it would not be a problem.
But what happened next made him dumbfounded, and after ten minutes, Theron walked out of the temple with a satisfied face with a few Persians, and Leonidas saw this, roared, and jumped out with the people and ran directly to Theron to kill him.
Leonidas, you ™ ......
Whoever wants to tell me again that the Spartans are upright, I will give him a foolish face.
Leonidas surrounded Theron and the Persians on the spot, caught the traitor and the thief, and Theron was directly arrested. It is the king's duty to punish traitors and moles, and there are only a few people on Theron's side.
Qin Rongshuai rolled his eyes, he didn't want to stick to the affairs in the temple at all, but this is just right, I am not welcome to the gold and silver treasures in the Delphi Temple.
With a whistle, Qin Rongshuai rushed directly to the main entrance of the temple with his subordinates.
Several Divine Sect guards guarding the temple were shocked when they saw a group of people suddenly rushing out of the darkness, "Who are you, stop!" ”
"Oops, ah!" , screams rang out one after another, and several guards were knocked to the ground by a wave of arrows.
At this time, the guards of the Divine Cult who heard the movement in the main hall rushed out of the main hall with their weapons, and before they could see the situation clearly, they were faced with a dense rain of arrows, and they immediately fell down. The quick reaction immediately raised his shield, quickly retreated, and shrank in the hall and refused to come out again.
After a while, apart from the dead and wounded guards outside the main hall, there was not a single figure to be seen. I could only hear someone inside constantly giving orders and running around with the sound of chaotic footsteps.
Seeing that the situation was stalemate, Qin Ruishi raised his shield and pressed towards the door of the main hall, but before he could get close, several arrows were shot out of the hall, and the sharp arrows were nailed to the cowhide shield, Qin Ruishi was immediately furious, and raised the strong crossbow to pay tribute, but unfortunately it was blocked by the opposite shield, and it had no effect.
Qin Ruishi just wanted to move on, but was called back by Qin Rongshuai, at this time there is no point in attacking strongly, and it may cause casualties, after all, Qin Rongshuai is a good boss who is people-oriented.
"Someone!" Qin Rongshuai sneered, "Since you don't want to come out, then don't come out, go, collect dry firewood and oil, and keep them warm." ”
Five Qin Ruishi blocked the main entrance, and the others all scattered around to find weeds, branches and other ignitions, and transported them directly to the entrance of the temple.
During this period, the people in the temple tried to rush out to stop it several times, but they were all shot back by Qin Ruishi's strong crossbow, the range of the strong crossbow was farther than the bow and arrow, ruthless and accurate, and they were hit by the slightest mistake.
After rushing a few times and losing a dozen guards to nothing, the people in the temple stopped rushing out, and let the door pile higher and higher.
Look at it, Qin Rongshuai took out a lighter and lit the one-person-high grass pile, due to the influence of the Mediterranean climate, the plants here are basically evergreen, and the branches and weeds taken back are not easy to burn, if it is not poured with fire oil, it will not be lit at all. But after lighting it, puffs of smoke suddenly appeared.
"Someone!" Qin Rongshuai looked at the billowing smoke very excitedly, "Find some fans and fan them hard for me." ”
Ancient Greek buildings are basically made of stones, and it is basically useless to burn them with fire, and smoking them is Qin Rongshuai's real purpose.
Temples of Delphi are often built on hillsides, and at night the mountain wind is especially strong, and the wind and fire roll up the smoke directly into the temple, and the smoke of the added materials sticks on the face, not to mention how sour the taste.
The people in the temple were quickly confused and kept chanting, "We surrender, we surrender." ”
Qin Rongshuai then ordered the fire to be extinguished and released the people in the Delphi Temple, and the people of the Kosmos Sect crawled out with half a breath and collapsed on the square of the temple, gasping for fresh air, like a fish about to die.
Leonidas and his guards watched the whole process, as if they hadn't seen it, and tortured Councilor Theron and the Persians.
Seeing that the Delphi Temple had surrendered, Qin Rongshuai didn't care about the smoke that had not completely dissipated, and rushed in directly like a hungry dog pounced.
Here comes the treasure!