The tenth month of the lunar calendar.

After Wu's westward expedition broke through the city-state of Athens and razed the city to the ground, it continued to advance westward, invincible all the way, conquering the Greek city-states such as Corinth, Thebes, and Olympia, and advancing into the Peloponnese.

At this time, the Spartans, who had just suppressed the Helot (Helot) uprising in the country, learned the news of the rapid westward advance of the Wu army, and they couldn't help but panic and hurriedly organized the army to counterattack.

The Spartans were not actually the natives of this place.

It was originally called "Laconia" and was the homeland of the Shilo people.

The ancestors of the Spartans were Dorians, and around 1100 BC, a group of Greek tribes consisting of Dorians invaded the Peloponnese from the northern part of the Greek peninsula, and one of them entered Laconia, destroying the urban civilization of the Mycenaean era.

A new political center was formed by five villages, the city of Sparta of the Dorians.

It is called a city, but in fact it has neither walls nor decent streets.

When the Wu army entered the Spartan city-state, the Spartan king Archidamus led a coalition of 30,000 troops in the Peloponnese to confront the Wu army.

Qingji dispatched an army of 100,000 to fight the remnants of the Greek coalition.

After two hours of bloody fighting, the Peloponnese coalition was defeated, the whole army was annihilated, and the Spartan king Archidamus was also besieged to death, which announced the end of the Spartan city-state, and the Peloponnese would fall soon.

However, the Spartans were all soldiers.

They have a strict medical check-up system.

Only healthy newborns are allowed to be raised, while those who are weak or disabled are abandoned in the wilderness.

Until the age of seven, the children of citizens are raised by their mothers at home.

From the age of seven to eighteen, children enter the educational institutions of the state and begin life in the barracks.

After that, the Spartans were to enter the youth military training regiment.

Before joining the group, the young people are tested by the whipping in public in front of the altar of the temple, and those who can endure it are qualified, and those who endure the most whipping are the winners and will be rewarded.

Those who wail for exemption are disqualified from joining the group.

Citizens who have reached the age of 20 begin to undergo practical training, and by the age of 30, they officially obtain citizenship.

Unlike most ancient countries, the Spartans attached great importance to the education of girls.

Women usually receive the same military and physical training as men, with the aim of producing strong mothers to produce healthy children.

Another purpose of women's education is that women can take on the role of defending their homeland when men go on the march......

Under this system of education, the whole country of Sparta became a heavily guarded barracks.

Therefore, when the Wu army entered Sparta, it was attacked by many old people, women, and children, which made people unable to guard against it, and many Wu soldiers died.

This made Qingji angry.

Qingji, who was furious, gave a very cruel order-

Slaughter the city!

"Kill! Kill them all!"

"Not a single Spartan is left! Kill them all!"

With Qingji's order, the Spartans also ushered in the catastrophe.

The Spartans, even the old and weak, women and children, were mercilessly slaughtered by the Wu army, and the corpses piled up for the Helots to bury.

The Helots, who had a blood feud with the Spartans, even helped the Wu army slaughter the Spartans and bury them on the spot.

Qing Ji admired such a "docile" Helo people, and allowed them to select some strong young men as servant troops to join the army of the Western Expedition.

At the same time, Qingji also relieved the Shilo people of their slavery status and gave them freedom.

With the fall of the two major city-states of Athens and Sparta, the rest of the Greek city-states were no longer in the climate, and they all submitted to Dawu so as not to become slaves......

Under these conditions, Wu's army quickly captured the Balkans.

Wu Zhang's side also occupied the Kingdom of Macedonia and the Kingdom of Thrace, and joined forces with Qingji in Sparta.

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Qingji, who occupied the Balkan Peninsula, was full of ambition and was ready to move west or south to attack the Carthaginians in North Africa, or the Etruscans in the west, as well as the Romans and Syracuses.

However, at this time, the Israelis and Egyptians resisted the "Yi Fu Order" and "Yi Wen Order" implemented by Dawu, and set off a large-scale rebellion, which was difficult for Judah and Egypt to suppress, so after thinking for a long time, Qingji decided to lead his troops to suppress the rebellion.

Carthage, Rome, Syracuse and other city-state kingdoms were let Wu Fan and Wu Zhang lead their troops to attack, and Wu Ji went out with the army as a supervisor.

At the end of the year, Qingji, who had quelled the rebellion in Judah and Egypt, deteriorated and finally fell ill.

He knew that he would not be in the West for long, but he decided to take care of everything for his successor.

Under the orders of Qingji, the Israelites of Judah were sent to the countries of Sai, Nan, and Mo, thousands of miles away, and were dispersed and forced to convert to Heavenly Taoism.

Some of the Egyptians were populated into Judah to prevent them from continuing the rebellion.

After solving these things, Qingji crossed the ocean and embarked on the journey back to Dawu proper.

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The time entered the forty-eighth year of Wu Shi Huang, that is, in 466 BC, the ninth lunar month.

The pace of expansion of Wu's army to the west was very rapid.

Wu Zhang and Wu Fan seemed to be competing, and one south and one north started an expansion war.

Wu Zhang led his troops north, swept through the barbarian tribes or states of Rome, Peonia, Triibaly, Illyria, and Dacia, and then reached the Danube, where a fierce battle broke out with the Celts.

Wu Fan led his troops south, annexed the Kingdom of Carthage, conquered the Berbers and Bafurs, and captured North Africa.

After three years of fighting, the Wu Empire finally established hegemony in the Mediterranean, laying down a territory as large as the Roman Empire in later generations.

Both of them fantasized that Qingji could give these places to their own feudal state.

But how can Qingji allow it?

When the two met in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain), they received the will of Qingji to summon them back to Beijing to report on their work.

At this time, in Wu Jun's Chinese army tent, Wu Fan and Wu Zhang were plotting a big event.

"Third brother, now there are five or six hundred thousand soldiers and horses under your command, but we are the only ones who look ahead, the territory we have conquered in the past two years surrounds the entire Mediterranean, spanning the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe, which is only a lot more than that of Dawu itself."

Wu Zhang looked meaningfully at Wu Fan, who was sitting opposite him, and said, "Third brother, are you really willing to hand over the military power and hand it over to Wu Ji, that hairy boy?"

"What, Ninth Brother, do you want to disobey the emperor's orders?"

Wu Fan couldn't help frowning.