dhibooks Chapter 208 The Wheel of History Rolls Forward
Chapter 208 The Wheel of History Rolls Forward
Ugneon and Drocarius soon recovered to health.But the good times didn't last long. It didn't take long for Melody's "happiness plus sex and blessing" married life, and Mesoa's "lonely, lonely and cold" lovelorn single life. The wheels of history began to roll, and the Persian War in the true sense It's coming.
In 481 BC, Persian King Xerxes I's ambition to conquer Greece made a comeback. He personally led an army of 25 troops and a navy of 1000 warships. He led an army of 100 million and marched towards the Peloponnese Peninsula. advance.Facing the Persian army's pressure again, the whole city of Athens immediately entered a state of combat readiness, with Themistocles as the commander and Aristides as the deputy general, ready to fight the enemy head-on.The imminent war has created a sense of crisis in all Greek city-states that life and death are on the front line.
First, when someone asked the Athens coach whether to seek help from Sparta, another city-state that is the strongest in Greece, Themistocles hesitated. It is vivid in his memory (that is the allusion of "marathon running" in history), how can he believe that they will not stand by again this time?
At this moment, under the entrustment of King Leonidas of Sparta, the brothers Jokerius and Ugneon, who had been lurking in the city of Athens a year ago and waited for the critical moment to express their sincerity to form an alliance with the Athenians, finally boarded. onto the stage of history.They revealed their identities to the Athens coach and took out the handwritten letter written by the King of Sparta a year ago that had been kept safe.In the letter, Leonidas first expressed to the Athenians his apology for trying to preserve his strength and staying out of the world last time, and fully demonstrated that only when all the city-states in Greece are fully united and united with the outside world can it be possible to fight against the powerful Persia. Empires against each other.
Since the letter itself was written a year ago, with earnest words and clear reasoning, and with the seal of the king of Sparta as proof, Themistocles also complained about the last time he defeated the royal beast master of the Persian royal court in the city of Athens. Moqi's legendary Spartan warrior brothers have heard about it for a long time, and now seeing that the hero has a provenance, he expressed his full affection and trust to the two brothers, and immediately wrote back to the King of Sparta, and pressed the seal to express his gratitude. Willingness to form a covenant.
In this regard, Ugneon completed the first stage of the mission of lurking in Athens. He took the beautiful daughter-in-law Melodi who fell from the sky, and his attendant Mesoa, and returned to Sparta with his brother to organize the army and prepare to fight against Athens. People, and the rest of the Greek city-states joined forces to fight against the enemy.
However, the determination is determined, but the reality is cruel.Aside from economics, technology, culture, etc., in terms of military strength alone, the Greek city-states that practiced democratic parliamentary system were far less efficient in recruiting troops than the Persian Empire that practiced slavery.
Think about it, one side is to join the army voluntarily, to realize semi-democratic management in the army, ordinary soldiers and army commanders basically enjoy civil rights equally, everyone fights for themselves, if the order of the army commander is unreasonable, the soldiers below can raise objection.On the other side, there is no resistance to recruit strong men to join the army. The vast majority of Persians regard them as gods and are willing to dedicate everything, including their own lives, to their ambition to expand their territory and make contributions.In the army, orders and orders are also prohibited, and the master will say one thing, and those who violate it will be executed according to the military order.
Such an obvious and strong contrast, no matter in terms of the size of the army, the length of the preparation period, and the purge of military discipline during combat, to be honest, the possibility of Greece winning can be said to be very small.