The sudden mutation occurred, and the Thebans were all stunned, looking at the archon who had lost his head, and the soldiers who pounced like wolves, it took a few seconds for them to react, shouting and running in all directions.

The brave one directly drew his sword and rushed up, wanting to block Qin Rongshuai's men, but someone kept shouting, "Close the city gate!" ”

Qin Ruishi raised his crossbow is an arrow, and the people who rushed up in front of him fell, and then pulled out his long sword and guarded the city gate, while the Amazon female warrior kept releasing arrows, basically shooting whoever made a sound, and after a while, no one dared to shout to close the city gate.

Several of the guards at the gate were quickly cut down to the ground, and the nobles' retinue resisted perfunctorily a few times before running away with their masters.

At this time, the Sun Legion was still a mile away from the city gate, and the defenders in the city of Thebes had formed a spear shield formation and launched a counterattack towards the city gate.

Dense spears, half-human tall shields and golden helmets pressed up with neat steps, and in the face of the formed spear phalanx, the bows and arrows lost their effect, and could only be fought with infantry.

Qin Ruishi abandoned his sword and held the halberd, held the cowhide shield in four rows, shouted, and the halberd stabbed out fiercely.

"Boom!"

Weapons collided, and gold and iron resonated.

The shiny halberd slammed into the metal-skinned round shield, sending a golden spark. Qin Ruishi's physique of up to 14 points was simply crushing for ordinary Greek soldiers, and the Greek soldiers couldn't resist it at all under the impact, and kept retreating backwards.

"Sweep Liuhe!"

The formation of the defenders of Thebes seemed to have been gnawed, a large number of people in the front row were knocked to the ground, Qin Ruishi in the back row picked up a strong crossbow and shot for a while, and then raised his sword and rushed forward to slash the defenders who fell to the ground, and then cut off the opponent's neck, picked up his head and hung it on his belt.

The defenders of Thebes collapsed directly, and in the midst of the screams, they turned around and scattered.

At this time, the soldiers of the Sun Legion had already poured into the city and began to occupy various key locations such as city gates, port docks, and city halls according to the pre-plan.

After taking control of the whole city, it was a city-wide raid, and the officials, nobles, large manor owners, big slave owners, and generals in the city of Thebes were all arrested and imprisoned in the city hall.

At the same time, occupy the warehouse, count the supplies, and take out the ordnance to arm the entire Sun Legion. Previously, due to the lack of weapons, the Sun Legion only had 3,000 men equipped, and the others only took a wooden stick to support the façade, but now they finally equipped their own soldiers.

Then all that's left is ransom......

Ah, no, it's asking for sponsorship.

Let each of these prisoners write a handwritten letter and bring it to their families, and if they hand over a large donation, they will be safe and sound, or the whole family will be reduced to slavery.

Qin Rongshuai also ordered the slaves of the entire city-state to be gathered, promising that as long as they cooperated, they would be given freedom after the war and made them citizens.

These Theban slaves were immediately enthusiastic and began to actively cooperate with the occupation of the Sun Legion, actively participating in the transportation of supplies and maintaining order in the city-state.

For those ordinary citizens in the city-state, Qin Rongshuai adopted a co-optation strategy, promising to ensure their personal and property safety, and exempting them from commercial tax for one year, and halving the commercial tax for two years.

As soon as the announcement of the tax reduction was announced, small workshop owners, farmers and artisans immediately said that they were the most solid backing of the Sun Legion.

After that, it began to collect the accusations of collusion between the great nobles and Persia, and after the trial was conducted by a jury formed by the anti-Persian alliance, he was hanged directly at the city gate.

After the pro-Persian forces were eliminated, the entire city-state of Thebes was completely in the hands of the anti-Persian alliance, to be precise, in the hands of Qin Rongshuai, who elected his own clerk as the consul of Thebes to control the day-to-day operations of the city-state.

At this point, Qin Rongshuai began to officially have his own forces and bases in this plane, and the rest was to slowly digest it, lay a solid foundation, turn Thebes into a basic plate, and use it as a base to begin colonial expansion to the Italian Peninsula.

Of course, this is only a long-term plan, and the most important thing at the moment is to fight the Persians.

Athens was overjoyed when they heard that Thebes was under control, and Themis immediately organized men to transfer logistics to Thebes, and sent a navy to the port of Thebes to protect the city's sea routes.

After half a month of operation, the Sun Army has gained a firm foothold in Thebes. At this time, the Persian army was approaching, and Leonidas led his soldiers to march again and rushed to the Thermothermal Pass to fortify.

Three days later, Qin Rongshuai, who was ready, mobilized 5,000 Sun Legion soldiers, 3,000 Theban soldiers, and 7,000 slave minions, and drove towards Hot Spring Pass.

Leonidas had set up a makeshift tent at the mouth of the valley at Thermopylae, and had built a two-meter-high wall with stones to block the narrow passage.

After Qin Rongshuai arrived, he didn't care about resting, but began to patrol around the hot spring pass with Leonidas, exploring the terrain while discussing tactics, and finally talked about the hidden path.

Leonidas nodded, "I already know the trail, and I've sent the Phosians to guard it, and they should be able to do this simple job." ”

"I don't think a thousand people are safe." Qin Rongshuai proposed.

"I only have so many troops to use, even with your legion, we can increase the number of guards on the trail to a maximum of two thousand." Leonidas sighed, "All must be arranged on the frontal line, the Persians claim to have an army of one million, even if it is an exaggeration, I estimate that there are three or four hundred thousand. ”

"And we, plus your Sun Legion, have a total of less than 20,000 people, the difference in numbers is too great, and the battle between our two sides is the number of soldiers. If Xerxes had come to attack here at all costs, the attrition of the soldiers would have been staggering. ”

Leonidas said and pointed into the distance, "Look there. ”

Qin Rongshuai raised his eyes and saw that the distant hillside was lit up with lights all over the mountains, and in the middle of the night, it was like a sea of stars in the sky, endless.

Not far from the sea, dense warships docked, so many that they filled the entire bay, as if there was an extra piece of land out of thin air.

Under the light of torches, the simple docks of the Persians were crowded with people, constantly carrying supplies and goods to the shore, like busy ants, tirelessly.

When they saw this scene, all the Greeks turned pale with astonishment, they had never seen such a large and spectacular line-up.

Qin Rongshuai patted Leonidas's shoulder and suddenly laughed.

Leonidas was a little puzzled, "My friend, what are you laughing at?" ”

Qin Rongshuai pointed to the sky, "You see it's going to be windy." ”

Everyone looked up, and heavy dark clouds began to obscure the starry sky, and the fire in the Persian camp gradually dimmed as the wind slanted down with the heavy rain.

In the distance, huge waves rose from the sea, tumbling and swooping down on the Persian warships, which were like leaves in a storm, tossed with the waves.

"It is God's will!" Qin Rongshuai said loudly.

"Boom!" , A huge lightning bolt pierced the sky, and under the thunder, Qin Rongshuai smiled and pointed to the Persian fleet and said, "I, order you, destroy!" ”

In the midst of the storm, the Persian ships could no longer withstand the ravages of the storm and began to fall apart, and countless soldiers died in the belly of the fish along with the wreckage of the warship.

The Greeks watched the whole process in shock.

Leonidas glanced at Qin Rongshuai deeply, and asked very seriously, "My friend, which god are you the illegitimate son of?" ”