Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

At first glance, the soldiers who guarded the gate were Daphes and Antonios, and let go directly.Stop them after Hilos.Daveus had no time to heed their shouts and followed Antonios to run north.After running for a while, I saw a pedestrian in front.

Clearkus was talking with Sisted, the brother of the Queen of Persia, when he heard a shout from the rear: "Stop! Stop! This is a conspiracy! A Persian conspiracy!!!... …"

The five leaders, more than a dozen squadron leaders, and 200 soldiers who escorted them and prepared to go to the market by the way were startled and immediately stopped to look back.

Daveus hurried in front of them and faced with many strange eyes, he gasped out loudly and said, "This is a conspiracy! ... Tiszafnis is ready... I'm going to get you all out of the net! Then we will be in a mess without a leader Chaos leads to the destruction of the whole army!"

Several leaders looked subconsciously at the Persian messenger Sister.

Sister pointed at Davos very angrily and shouted: "Who is he?! Say something like this! It's you who asked for the meeting. Tisavonis responded to Clearkus's request and treated him warmly He, now that you are rewarding Persian commander Tisavonis this way! This not only insulted him! It also insulted our king! You go back! I will report this to Tisavonis and suggest He reported to His Majesty, suggesting that His Majesty cancel the agreement with you Greeks!"

Several leaders hurriedly stopped his horse and apologized repeatedly.

Davers did not expect that this meeting was the request of Clearkus. He could not care much, and said eagerly: "Even if we want to meet, we should not have all the leaders and captains go to the Persian barracks! We are not always Are you always on guard against the Persians! Who knows that Tisavonis has been friendly to us for more than ten days, not to paralyze us?! Did you forget his previous betrayal?!"

As soon as Daveus's voice fell, Menon jumped out and scolded, venting his indignation for more than ten days: "Bold madman! Shameless liar! You not only cheated soldiers in the barracks, but incited them to come against me! Now I want to break the peace between us and the Persians again! Do you want to make everyone unable to return home!! Come, catch me for him!!!"

However, none of the soldiers listened to his orders.One is that he only brought two squadron leaders and no other entourage; second, some soldiers recognized Davis as a long-rumored "sacred person" in the Mennon Barracks and whispered.

First of all, several chiefs listened to Daveus, and hesitated a little, who knew that Mennon's scolding immediately made them disgusted with Daveus.Although Mennon was of poor character, after all, he got along for a long time, and several leaders knew he was not weak.It is undoubtedly a taboo for the ordinary soldiers to dare to counter the commander.

Clearkus's thinking is different.He actually thought that Menon had found a soldier to act here and wanted to disrupt this meeting.Because there is another purpose for this meeting: Tisafnis promised him that he was willing to point out in public who was making rumors among the Persian army and the mercenaries.

Clearkus has always speculated that it was Menon.Because from the beginning, when he entered Persia, Menon publicly competed with him for the command of the Greek mercenaries, and now he has been staying with Aliros, who has been close to Tisavonis, and privately with Socrates many times. , Achilles contacted secret talks, certainly to oppose him.This time, we must expose his villain in public to consolidate his command.Because he firmly believed that only he was capable of bringing the army back to Greece intact.This is also because he hates the Persians, but he bears the peace and talks with the Persians. He hates any villain who destroys the unity of the team.

So, he immediately said, "Since Menon has said so, take this man like a clown and send him back to the camp to be held, and wait for our interrogation when we come back!"

He looked around and said firmly: "Now I am going to negotiate with Tisavonis! Those who believe in me will go with me, and those who do not believe can go back!" Down, Antonios stepped forward to block and was also scored.

Clearkus strode northward, and Proccinus hesitated a little, and followed.Menon spit on Davis's face with a strong spit, scolding smugly: "When I come back, you're dead!!"Most soldiers also followed their leaders, and only a few soldiers who had heard of the "miracles" of Daphes remained in place.

Davos didn't care about Menon at the moment, he was pressed to the ground and ate a bit of dirt.He struggled and yelled in the direction of the leaders' departure: "Clearkus, you idiot! Your stubbornness will not only hurt yourself, but also the whole army! You will regret it! By the way, when the time comes You must have no time to regret it!..."

However, his scolding failed to call back to Clearkus, and the figures of the leaders grew farther and farther away.Finally, Davers calmed down and sat down on the ground.Before, he thought that Clearkus was a "famous general", and his mind should be sober. He didn't expect such stubbornness to listen to any opinions.In fact, Davers didn't know that most Spartan men were conservative and stubborn, and made up their minds, often without hitting the south wall or turning back.The most famous is before the Battle of Platia in the Hippo Wars. The commander of the Greek coalition ordered the troops to retreat, but one of the Spartan generals thought that retreating in front of the enemy was contrary to the Spartan tradition. The refusal to retreat caused the Spartan army to drag behind the team and almost failed the battle.

The advancing team continued on, and the soldiers escorting Davers pushed him back.Instead, the remaining soldiers stepped forward to introduce themselves and comfort Daphes.

At this time, Antonios was free and asked, "Daveus, are they really in danger?"

"Goat will negotiate with the wolf, what a good result!" Davers sighed.There are countless such scams in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign history.The success of Tisavonis’s strategy was mainly due to Clearkus’ illusion of peace talks, while others’ trust in Clearkus outweighed concerns about their own safety.Still their own influence is not enough!

"What should we do?" Antonios panicked.

How to do?Of course it is self-help!!Daveus suddenly thought of Xenophon.Why did he boast that he led this retreat in his book?It turned out to be because of this-more than twenty mercenary leaders and captains were slaughtered, and the entire Greek mercenary leadership faced a reshuffle!!

Thinking of this, he threw away his frustration and renewed his spirit: "Hurry! Let's go back!"

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Along the way, Menon added pros and cons to Proccinus and they talked about Davis's "bad spots", successfully inspiring their anger, secretly secretly happy: this time can be completely eliminated from this big trouble!

Before arriving at the Persian military camp, most of the soldiers who were going to the market for sale bid farewell to the leaders.

Entering the Persian military barracks, the scene that Clearkus saw was not different from what he saw when he left here yesterday. There were even some casual Persian soldiers who looked at them curiously and talked to each other about "how so many Greek barbarians came to our barracks "Come" and the like, let them clear their minds.

When it came to Tisavonis’s account, Sister went in to report and said, "The five leaders are invited in. Others are waiting outside the account temporarily!"

Clearkus was the first to enter. The light was dark in the tent. He narrowed his eyes and found that there were many people in the big tent. He was shocked and had no time to react. He heard a cry: "Take it down!"