Chapter 48： Race against time (on)

"What's wrong?" Davers felt the strange look of her.

"...go back to Greece...what do you want to do?" Clithista whispered.

"Oh... I haven't thought about this problem yet..." Daphus said, in fact, he always thought that he just didn't think about it: "But one thing is certain, no matter where I go, I will take you!"

Clithista put her face on Dave's generous shoulders, rubbing his rough skin, and said firmly: "Where are you going, I will follow you!" After she finished, she remembered something and emphasized one sentence. : "Just you better not go back to Asia Minor!"

"Why?" Daphus was a little surprised.

"Because there might be a battlefield." Christopher's words surprised Davis: "I heard from Little Cyrus -"

Clithista subconsciously glanced at Davers again, seeing his expression without any abnormality, and then said: "The contradiction between the Spartans and Tisafunis is deep, and the Spartans again Was involved in this Persian rebellion. Now, Tissa Funis returns to Asia Minor and will not miss this opportunity to rectify Sparta. Because Sparta is now the ally of the Greek city-states, he must Instead of Athens, he became the protector of the Greek city-state of Asia Minor. However, in the beginning, Sparta reached an agreement in order to obtain the support of the Persians. Among them, Sparta agreed to hand over the Greek city-state of Asia Minor to the terms of Persian jurisdiction. The war with Athens ended. Sparta has been dragging on not fulfilling this agreement, and... Little Cyrus did not urge the Spartans for some reason. So..."

"So, now that the new king is in place, Tisafunis will return to Asia Minor and will surely supervise Sparta on behalf of the Persian king to fulfill the original agreement!" Daves did not expect that there would be such a miracle between Sparta and Persia. Sparta's rogue is surprising to him, but he can understand: if Sparta agrees, the Greek hegemon will actually hand over the land of his compatriots to the enemies of the Greeks. This is simply betrayal and "selling country"! Undoubtedly, it will greatly damage its prestige established after the victory of the Peloponnesian War. Even the city-state will rise up against its hegemony because of dissatisfaction. If you disagree, it is a violation of the agreement, and the war will probably erupt.

Davers squinted at his chin and fell into meditation: Didn't the customer Thorpes talk to me to win over me? He thought about it and suddenly remembered something: "Clithista, I don't go to Asia Minor, are you still going back to Miley?"

"I didn't say that I will follow you all the time!" said Clithista, her look slightly: "I will return to the family if I go back."

Davers immediately understood what she meant: as a small apostle, she was an important family of insurgents, and her return would undoubtedly attract the eyes of Persian authorities to her family in Miletus.

Thinking of this, Daves comforted her and said, "You can rest assured that one day, I will let you go home!"

Clithista looked at Dave, who looked very serious, and the haze on her face gradually disappeared: "I believe in you!"

She gave Hima pure approval and said: "Since you let me manage the medical camp, then I will begin to exercise my rights. I want to give those female slaves the freedom, so that they will work harder to take care of the wounded."

"This is your right. But I have to say something to Melsis first."

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Three days later, the camp was marched.

In the afternoon, Tisafnis led the army.

After the leaders got the news from the detective, they quickly led the team to the nearest village and began to camp. Because there are many soldiers in the mercenary at this time can not fight: one is the wounded, the other is the soldier who carried the wounded, and the third is the soldiers who help the wounded and the soldiers of the wounded. The massive reduction in combat soldiers has made it impossible for mercenaries to march and fight as they did before.

When the army of Tisafunis arrived at the village, the mercenaries found no military flag representing Oritas and Sikosti. The generals guessed: The former Tissa Funis did not appear, did he give the two royal aristocrats? I have seen it off. At the same time, they also began to worry about the future trip. The Persian king's brothers don't have to worry, but Ortas is the governor of Armenia, and he is likely to intercept the mercenaries on the way to Armenia.

The Persian army attacked the mercenary slingers and felt the arrows were fired before the mercenary camp. The two sides began the drama of mutual long-range attacks that were performed every day. It is only in this attack mode that the Persian army has suffered losses. Now the mercenaries have the protection of the camp, and the advantages are more obvious. The leaders do not understand why the savvy, such as Tisafunis, is so rash.

The battle lasted only ten minutes, and Tissa Funis led the army to retreat. Because there were a lot of cavalry in the Persian army and feared that the night was attacked and caused chaos, the camp of the Polish army was ten miles away from the mercenary camp.

After deliberation, the leaders decided to let the soldiers rest at dusk, marching when the sky is not bright, and camp if the Persian army catches up. This not only ensures the safety of the troops, but also does not delay the march.

In fact, the arrangements of the leaders seemed to be superfluous. The Persian army did not appear for three consecutive days. Until the morning of the fourth day, the cavalry in front of the investigation reported that the road ahead was narrow and there were several peaks on the side of the road, including the lower hills. Discover the traces of the Persians. The previous lessons made the leaders very cautious about this.

"As I did before, I led a force from the right side of the mountain and drove them away." Xenophon said that his face was full of confidence because of his previous success.

Just then, the rear scouting cavalry came in return: discover the great forces of Tisafunis!

The news immediately made the leaders nervous. Because the mercenary's combat power is not as good as before, the wounded are too many, so that the mercenary does not dare to fight all the time, and at this time the whole army is located in the hilly terrain, the terrain is narrow, which is not conducive to the deployment of the troops, plus the personnel are too dense, the casualties under the long-range attack Will increase greatly. Obviously, this time, Tissa Funis was carefully planned to prepare a big blow to the mercenary.

Urgent situation! Curry Thorpe has not been able to discuss with other leaders, and he said to Xenophon seriously: "You must drive away the Persians who occupy the mountains at the fastest speed to ensure that we pass smoothly. As long as you take the mountains, I can defend the mountain road, Tissa Funis will not chase us anymore I need some light infantry!" Xenophon immediately made his request.

"Archers and slingers can't give you, only they can fight against Tissa Funis." Customer Thorpe stated in advance.

"I have five hundred light shields that I can send to you." Davers first said that at this time, you can't save your strength, you must work together to get through the storm.

Xenophon is very grateful to Davers because Daves has expressed his support to him many times in public.

"I will give you eight hundred Thrace light shields!" Tima Song looked aloud and said loudly. Because the former leader of Tima Song, Clerkus, used the money given to him by the little Cyrus to recruit mercenaries in Chernos, and attacked the Thrace forces near Hellers for more than a year, so he collected a lot. The Thracian, his military camp light shield among the Greek mercenaries is the most.

Once again, Xenophon expressed his gratitude and brought two hundred infantry, a total of 1,500 people, and set off quickly.

The leaders also ordered the entire army to speed up the march and improve the approach to the mountain road while improving the alert.

When Xenophon led the army to the foot of the mountain, it was discovered that the Persians occupied a mountain, and he was about to order the attack. At this time, the first light shield squad leader Epidini under the Daves presented his opinion. He pointed his finger at the mountain and said, "Xenophon, you are the mountain next to the Persians. If we attack the Persians directly, they may retreat to the higher mountain... This will not only delay the time, but also To make our offense more difficult, it is better to go directly to the higher mountain top and then throw the javelin and stones at the Persian, and you can easily repel them."

The Light Shields captains all said that Epiphanis’s approach was good. Xenophon was good at everything, so he ordered: Let the troops quickly occupy the mountains!