In the Battle of Salami, the Wu army won a complete victory, sinking nearly 300 ships of the Greek fleet and capturing more than 100 ships, and the Greek navy was almost completely annihilated, and only a small part broke out of the encirclement and fled back to the Greek peninsula.

Under the order of Qingji, the Great Wu Western Expeditionary Army took advantage of the victory to pursue, broke through the Greeks' coastal Great Wall from Athens to the port of Piraeus, and landed at Marathon, and quickly marched under the city of Athens.

The most famous place in Athens is the Acropolis.

The Acropolis is located on the Acropolis hill in the center of Athens and was founded in 580 BC.

The acropolis was built to protect against foreign invasions, and the top of the hill was surrounded by walls, but more than ten years ago, during the Greco-Persian Wars, the Athenians abandoned their homeland and left the country, so the city was burned by the Persians.

After the defeat of the Persians, the Athenians returned to their homeland and began to rebuild, although they had not yet recovered, but the most basic defenses were well equipped.

After the Wu army besieged the city of Athens, Qingji did not immediately order the siege of the city, but let the army set up camp and wait for the right time before making plans.

Night falls.

At this time, in the Chinese army tent of the Wu army, Qingji was discussing with Wu Ji, Wu Ming, Sun Di and other generals of the Wu army on a strategy to break the enemy.

"Your Majesty, Ephialtes is on his way to Athens with the Greek coalition, and will probably arrive tomorrow."

Wu Ming told Qingji: "The minister believes that our army can take advantage of a great victory, break through the city of Athens in one battle, and finally fight to the death with the main force of the Greek coalition army!"

In this regard, Wu Ji, the emperor's grandson, had a different opinion, and said to Qingji: "The emperor's grandfather, grandson thinks that it is not difficult to break through the city of Athens."

"The Greek coalition is numbered in the tens of thousands, but it is still not to be underestimated. After our army has broken the main force of the Greek coalition, it will not be too late to capture the city of Athens."

"Good."

At this time, Qingji will not take it lightly.

As the leader of all Greece, the city-state of Athens had a territory of about 1,600 square meters and a population of 250,000 in the heyday of ancient Athens.

Corinth had a population of 90,000 at the same time, Argos about 45,000, and some city-states had only 5,000 or less.

Now Athens has not yet reached its heyday, so Qingji estimates that the population of Athens will not exceed 200,000, but may be more than 100,000.

is just a small place, and the Wu army can still fight it.

"Wu Ji, is there a battle report from Wu Zhang?"

Qingji set his eyes on Wu Ji's body.

"Back to the emperor's grandfather, the king of Liao has led his troops into Macedonia, and the Macedonians have been at war, and the Thracian side has also poured out the country, to help the Macedonians resist the attack of our western expeditionary army, it is estimated that a decisive battle will be held in these two days."

"Good."

Qingji bowed slightly.

……

The next day, in the wilderness outside Athens, Wu's westward expeditionary army confronted the Greek coalition.

The total strength of the Wu army is more than 190,000, while the Greek coalition army has only more than 70,000 people, and the difference in strength is huge!

With a sound of "swish", Qing Ji, who was sitting on the top of the chariot, pulled out the Longyuan sword at his waist, shook his finger at the phalanx of the Greek coalition army opposite, and said loudly: "Soldiers, the time has come for you to make meritorious contributions!"

"With the blood of the enemy, sacrifice my Great Wu! Dye the robes of the Elder and the others! Glory to Great Wu!"

"Go to war!"

"Kill!"

With Qingji's order, the warriors of the Wu army, who had long been ready to attack, rushed towards the enemy on the opposite side like a flood that opened the floodgates.

The Greeks also held a shield in one hand and a spear in the other, and killed the Wu army straight and straight in a strict phalanx.

"Poof!"

"Whew!"

At the very beginning of the battle, it was a very bloody scene.

Relying on the belief of defending the country and years of military training, the soldiers of the Greek army have a strong ability to fight individually, and in a one-on-one situation, they will not fall behind in the slightest against the soldiers of Wu.

It is worth mentioning that the first batch of Wu troops who rushed out were actually Lydians, Syrians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians and other Fanbang aliens who had been trained into an army.

Their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, and their weapons and equipment were also sharper by the Greeks, but they could only be tied.

For these aliens, in fact, how many deaths and injuries they have, Qingji will not care.

Seeing that the battle situation was in a stalemate, Qingji waved his hand again, and after the first batch of alien soldiers who rushed forward retreated, the real Wu army soldiers came out.

The warriors of the Wu army formed an indestructible shield array, and at the same time formed several arrow arrays.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Woooo

The crossbow arrows thrown out by the crossbow spread throughout the entire dome for a time, and thousands of arrows were fired at once, and the dense arrows made people with dense phobia tremble, and even fainted with fright.

"Poof!"

"Ahh

"Poof!"

Sharp crossbow bolts fell quickly, killing hundreds of allied Greek soldiers.

Their weapons and armor are relatively poor.

The battle helmet is okay to say, it is tightly covered, but the rest of the cuirass, knee armor, bracers and so on, are all made of copper, and they are still in the Bronze Age, and they can't resist the sharp penetration of Wu Jun's crossbow arrows at all.

As soon as the crossbow arrows were fired, the armor on their bodies was like papier-mâché, and in an instant, they were pierced, and they fell in a pool of blood.

Many Greeks were shot directly into hedgehogs and died of exhaustion.

The sharp crossbow arrows of the Wu army were like cutting leeks, cutting stubble after stubble on the soldiers of the Greek coalition army.

After a few waves of arrows, the Greek coalition army suffered at least a few thousand casualties!

However, the Greeks still stubbornly continued to rush towards the Wu army.

The Greeks lacked war horses, and the land war basically relied on two legs to run, and some people with superb archery skills did not forget to open their bows and arrows when they ran, and wanted to return the color to the Wu army.

It's just that the gap between the bow and the crossbow is not ordinarily large.

The Athenians had advanced culture, and once developed the bow and crossbow of the Great Wu, and there were results, but the specific details were not mastered, so the range and power of their bow and crossbow were still completely incomparable with the bow and crossbow of the Wu army, and they could only be regarded as "knockoffs......

Seeing that the Greeks were getting closer and closer, Qingji did not panic at all, and waved his hand and said, "Fire Soldiers, come out!"

As soon as the order flag moved, the Wu army's array changed rapidly, and the shield array revealed a huge gap, and then stood in two rows of firecrackers, and the three thousand firecrackers held the firecrackers and aimed them at the enemy who was rushing wildly.

"Fire!"

"Bang bang bang!"

With the smoke of gunpowder, one projectile after another poured out, and before the Greeks on the opposite side could react, they were hit by the projectiles and fell straight in a pool of blood, dying......