According to King Stoby's law of buoyancy, iron boats can float and can even be used in actual combat!

When the Prime Minister first heard this, he simply thought that Archimedes had lost weight and something went wrong, and he lost his brain as well!

Warships have always been made of wood!

How can iron float if it is so heavy?

Archimedes must have been crazy to invent a tin boat!

Fortunately, he is from the Sicilian continent across the western sea and has been on a large ocean ship!

He doesn't even have basic common sense!

However, when Archimedes' prototype ship was completed, the Prime Minister was dumbfounded.

The iron boat really floated on the water!

After recovering from his shock, the Prime Minister immediately realized the strategic significance of this invention!

If this kind of ship is made big enough and placed on a river, it will definitely be a moving castle!

Existing surface weapons are almost unable to cause damage to it!

If it were a little bigger and placed on the sea, it could even completely rewrite the rules of naval warfare!

Without hesitation, the Prime Minister immediately ordered people to make three iron boats for inland use according to Archimedes' requirements.

Each ship has three decks and can accommodate a thousand archers!

It also features massive ramming horns and Greek fire on both ends for battling other ships!

Originally, this was the Prime Minister’s secret weapon!

These days, I have been hiding in the dock on this side of the boundary river.

I haven't told anyone!

The Prime Minister only hoped that one day Macedonia would attack again from Stupla.

The sudden release of these three steel behemoths caused heavy losses to the enemy troops crossing the river!

However, no one would have thought that the king had already noticed this thing!

Today the king specifically requested his own private soldiers to go into battle by water, and he also said that he had capable people on hand!

The meaning is so clear!

Dry!

Just do as the king wishes!

Let the Macedonians see the power of my Stobi ironclad ship!

"Good fellow! I never thought you had such a powerful weapon in your hand!"

After listening to the Prime Minister's introduction, the high priest also became excited.

Not daring to say anything, the two hurried back to the Prime Minister's Office to discuss it with Archimedes.

Hearing that a million-man army battle was about to begin, King Stobi specifically requested the ironclad ship he invented to participate in the battle, and Archimedes was extremely excited!

He immediately proposed to go on the expedition with the ship to observe its actual combat performance and see if there could be any subsequent improvements!

It is certainly a good thing that Archimedes is willing to go!

With him around, if the ship is damaged, it can be repaired quickly!

The Prime Minister immediately agreed and then secretly contacted Ajax, asking him to send the best archers and rowers.

Not too many, three thousand people each will be enough!

Ajax understood the hint and without further questioning, he immediately distributed the weapons to his most elite personnel, along with a large number of iron-tipped arrows!

That night, under the cover of darkness, three ironclad ships secretly sailed out of the dock and headed downstream at full speed.

The next morning, the boundary river was still empty.

It seemed as if nothing had happened.

Two days later.

Achilles and Odysseus reunite victoriously!

It was extremely difficult for Odysseus to command an army of 800,000.

But in Achilles' hands, the more the better!

If you have weapons in your hands, you will not be afraid.

Achilles did not hesitate and quickly began to make full use of the troops at hand to set a big trap for Antigonus.

Antigonus, who was on his way to Thessaloniki, would certainly not be so stupid as not to send scouts to explore the way.

But he absolutely did not believe that Achilles would dare to fight a decisive battle with the main force of Macedonia in the wilderness without relying on the city defense!

So, when the spies reported that the Stoic coalition had an army gathering at the front, Antigonus only thought it was a detachment.

At most, the scale is 30,000 to 50,000 people!

Achilles' main force must still be in Thessaloniki, repairing the fortifications!

Of course, even though it was just a small force, Antigonus did not underestimate it!

He still deployed most of his military forces in a row, spreading out for several kilometers, forming neat square formations and marching in unison!

To crush Achilles's detachment!

Achilles's detachment must be crushed!

Let terror envelop the hearts of every soldier in that crappy little city-state!

Antigonus made a secret decision.

"Wow, what's going on?"

"Why are the enemies everywhere? They look like they outnumber us by a lot!"

"No way! Where do all these troops come from?"

…

As soon as they lined up and stepped onto a high hill, the Macedonian soldiers in the front row cried out in surprise and their faces changed drastically.

Antigonus was suspicious and rode away.

Looking forward along the slope, he was also stunned.

Oh my god!

On the higher hills ahead, rows of troops were emerging and marching towards the Macedonian army.

There are an astonishing number of them!

What can be seen already exceeds the total number of Macedonian troops.

As the enemy army steadily advanced, more and more people continued to emerge.

Seeing Antigonus appear, a general with a silver helmet riding a white horse on the top of the opposite hill actually waved to Antigonus, as if to say hello!

There were crowds of people around him.

On a tall flagpole, the golden words "Achilles" are written, fluttering in the wind!

"God damn it, Achilles! How dare you deploy your army on my Macedonian territory and engage in a field battle with my main force!"

At this moment, no matter how stupid Antigonus was, he understood what was happening.

The army has been deployed, and retreat is impossible now!

In that case, let’s fight!

What I have on hand are a full 450,000 battle-hardened elites!

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