Agamemnon, who was standing by, felt mixed emotions when he heard the news.

The good news is that the trace of King Stobi has finally been found. Moreover, it can be confirmed from the Egyptians that King Stobi's direct subordinates are indeed very small, only about ten thousand people.

The worrying thing is that King Stoby is too strong.

I don’t know what trick he used, but he managed to attract seven million Cretans to follow him!

You know, the Cretans are notoriously unorganized and undisciplined, and no one can control them.

If we give them enough time to fully arm themselves, I'm afraid our fleet will no longer have any chance!

"Don't hesitate. Let's unite! The main forces of our army will join you and set up the battlefield here in Keldonia! We must destroy the Cretans and that Stobi King in one fell swoop!" Agamemnon solemnly proposed.

joint?

A million strong troops join in?

Ptolemy was stunned when he heard Agamemnon's proposal.

I thought that when the King of Achaea heard that the Egyptian regular army of 500,000 was defeated by the militia, he would be extremely contemptuous and then leave in anger!

In that case, facing the Cretan militia army heading west, our side would have little chance of winning!

Even more so, because they completely underestimated the Egyptian army, the Peloponnesian League army would directly attack from behind and take advantage of the situation.

However, I never expected it.

Agamemnon actually came to his rescue! He was willing to send his elite troops to fight alongside him at this critical moment to deal with the Cretan militia!

Hot tears welled up in his eyes, and Ptolemy felt unusually warm in his heart.

He immediately made a solemn statement that he would make his soldiers cooperate well and truly form a joint force!

Of course, Agamemnon wasn't being overly sympathetic. He was trying to help Ptolemy, but the fundamental reason was that he was afraid he couldn't defeat King Stobi!

Although in theory, the Spartan and Achaean heavy infantry are the elite of the elite.

When dealing with regular troops like those under Ptolemy, they could easily achieve a casualty ratio of one to ten.

With the one million men under his command, he had no pressure in defeating the seven million ragtag militiamen head-on.

However, the commander of that mob was King Stoby!

A man's reputation is like the shadow of a tree!

He was a god-like man who could play with Leonidas and Themistocles in his hands!

The right choice is to fight him or win as many friends as possible.

Seeing that Ptolemy had been conquered by him, Agamemnon did not hesitate and immediately sent a messenger back to his own camp in the west, ordering the entire army to move closer to the Egyptian army.

Upon hearing this order, Eurybiad immediately understood that Agamemnon had already found out the whereabouts of King Stobi.

Although Eurybiades did not like Agamemnon, he did not approve of going to war with King Stobi.

But as a member of the Spartan Legion, he still had basic ethics and did not send anyone to inform King Strobi.

Eurybiades simply used the excuse that the navy ships needed someone to command them to avoid joining the army and directly participating in the war.

Agamemnon knew this very well and acquiesced to Eurybiades's reason, asking him to guard the fleet.

In Agamemnon's view, Eurybiades was an unstable factor. Without him as a constraint in the army, his own command would be smoother.

For a time, war clouds gathered around Keldonia.

With the combined forces of Sparta, Achaea, and Egypt, their strength was unprecedentedly strengthened, no longer comparable to the defenseless 500,000 troops of a few days ago.

However, Agamemnon deliberately kept a low profile.

He specifically instructed Ptolemy not to publicize the origin of the reinforcements, and only said that he had gathered some small forces that had fled to Crete for refuge.

He wanted to lower King Stobi's vigilance and catch the Cretan militia army off guard.

Agamemnon felt that only in this way would he have a chance to truly defeat King Stobi and kill him in Crete.

Sure enough, the Cretan militia army won too easily and was completely unaware of the sudden change in the situation.

They continued to travel westward with full confidence, getting closer and closer to Keldonia.

Early that morning, he had just finished breakfast and walked out of the tent, and was about to order the army to march out, when a guard came hurriedly with a man.

When Xia Zhe saw this person clearly, he frowned and was quite surprised.

The man was dressed in rags, with multiple wounds on his body still bleeding, and looked quite disheveled.

However, his attire was very familiar to Xia Zhe.

That was the standard uniform of the old-style Silver Shield Spearmen who swept across the Great North back then!

"Your Majesty! This man claims to be a messenger from the city of Keldonia and says he brings letters from their generals Antigonus and Minos," said the guard.

Antigonus' letter?

Xia Zhe was stunned when he heard this. Before he could answer, the visitor took out a personal letter and handed it to Xia Zhe with both hands.

He motioned to Lillian to go next and open it and take a look.

After quickly browsing the contents of the letter, Lillian's face suddenly changed and she couldn't help but cry out "Ouch".

"What's wrong?" Xia Zhe was surprised and asked.

"Antigonus didn't know the origin of our army and only thought it was an uprising army spontaneously organized by the Cretans! He said that the Egyptian army had received strong reinforcements from the sea, and Keldonia was almost unable to hold on. They needed an outer army to launch a feint attack to help them break out!" Lillian replied.

"Reinforcements from the sea? So what? We have an army of seven million!" Xia Zhe said with a smile.

"No! Antigonus said that he recognized some of the flags and uniforms of the support troops, and the world-famous Spartan heavy infantry were among them! He reminded us not to fight head-on, and to mobilize the enemy to create conditions for them to break out, which would be a success! Try to preserve your strength as much as possible, and wait for him to break out, and then lead everyone in the subsequent battle! Take a look at the letter, it is written very clearly!" Lillian explained and handed the letter to Xia Zhe.

After taking the letter and reading it, Xia Zhe was filled with doubts.

It is understandable that Antigonus was unaware of his own existence and wanted to incorporate the Cretan militia army, so he warned everyone not to engage in a head-on confrontation.

After all, according to normal logic, how can militia have any combat effectiveness?

But Spartan hoplites? Where did they come from?

Hadn't Sparta already signed a peace agreement with him? Why would any Spartan come to join the war? Could they be defeated and deserters like Ptolemy?

The Cretan continent was not short of such defeated refugees. Many of his newly recruited militias came from various northern countries.

These losers will soon be assimilated in this land of pleasure, so there should be nothing to worry about, as they are not the regular Spartan army anyway.

Just figure out the number of new enemy troops and have a clear idea of ​​it.

"Do you know how many troops the Egyptian army has including their new reinforcements?" Xia Zhe said to the messenger.

Not seeing any information about military strength in the letter, Xia Zhe directly asked the question that concerned him most.