These last words touched Eurybiades' heart.
What annoyed Eulibiad the most was that even though he had concentrated all the main naval forces of the Peloponnesian League, he still had to hide from the Athenian navy.
If the Trojan Navy could also join in, this joint fleet would have a total of nine thousand warships!
Even though it is still three points inferior to the Athenian navy, this huge force will definitely force anyone in the Tino Alliance to be careful.
Only in this way can we truly accomplish the mission entrusted by Leonidas.
It will psychologically undermine the confidence of the Tino Alliance caravan and disrupt their trading and profit-making rhythm.
This is an opportunity worth having a serious conversation about!
"Okay. Send out flag signals to reply to the other side. We agree! Each side will send a warship to the middle to meet and talk." Eurybiades finally gave the order.
Seeing the flagship of the Peloponnesian League raise the flag to signal its agreement for a meeting, everyone on the Stobi flagship breathed a sigh of relief.
Sure enough, the king is more powerful.
The king accurately judged that the Peloponnesian League navy had the same desire to unite as his own.
Maybe this matter can really be negotiated.
An hour later, the main commanders of both sides, each on their own warships, came together and began talks at sea.
Unlike the commanders of the Peloponnesian League who were cautious in their words, Xia Zhe said frankly that he had nothing to hide and started to show off as soon as they met.
In the name of the commander-in-chief of the Stoptroy coalition forces, he recounted the major battle achievements of his side.
The Stoby fleet successfully robbed the Tino Alliance's treasury!
The Trojan fleet came to help the allies transport gold!
Because there is so much gold that Stoby can't transport it all by himself!
Upon hearing this, not only were the commanders of Corinth, Argos, and Achaea extremely shocked, but even Eurybiades opened his mouth involuntarily!
The task that Leonidas gave himself was to try to delay the speed at which the Tinian Alliance made money.
This Stoby actually dared to launch a surprise attack on Tino Island and directly target the treasury of the entire Tino Alliance!
The most exaggerated thing is that he won!
He also mobilized the main fleet of Troy to act as porters!
If I hadn't seen with my own eyes the main fleet of Troy appearing in a place where it shouldn't be.
No one could believe that such a magical thing would happen.
"How much money did you rob?" Eurybiades asked.
Hector, the Prime Minister and others frowned upon hearing this. They were about to say a few perfunctory words, but Xia Zhe spoke again first.
"It's not much, just 100 million gold coins! If you are willing to join, I will give you 50 million gold coins when we return to Botaitia!" Xia Zhe said, patting his chest.
He didn't say 500 million, but only 100 million, because he was being cautious.
After all, half of the money had already been distributed to Troy, leaving only 250 million theoretically on hand.
To bring in the Peloponnesian League fleet, they had to pay for it out of their own pockets.
If you give too much, you will inevitably feel the pain.
However, Xia Zhe's intuition told him that the main Athenian fleet would definitely chase after them.
If you can get a group of enemies of your enemy to join forces, you will definitely gain huge benefits.
At critical moments, life is always more important than money!
"Fifty million gold coins! You mean you're willing to give us fifty million gold coins?"
"You're kidding! Fifty million! Do you know how big a pile of fifty million is? Twenty or thirty ships wouldn't even be able to hold them all!"
"This Stobi Fleet of yours is unheard of! How could you possibly have robbed so much money? And from right under the nose of Athens?"
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Before Eulibiad could express his opinion, the commanders of the Peloponnesian League started to mock him.
No one believed that Stoby could steal so much money.
Everyone thinks that this young, hairless King Stoby is a big liar.
"Don't believe it? Hector, let your men drive ten ships loaded with gold coins over here!" Xia Zhe ordered dissatisfiedly.
Knowing that success or failure depended on this, Hector immediately cooperated and waved for ten larger transport ships to come over.
Those ten ships, because they were larger, could hold more gold coins.
There were a thousand ships loaded with gold coins, with an average of 500,000 gold coins on each ship. And those ten ships, on average, each loaded with 1 million gold coins!
Seeing that the ship was approaching, Xia Zhe made a gesture of invitation, indicating that the Prime Minister, Hector and others should take a group of commanders from the other side to inspect the goods.
He himself was too lazy to climb up or down, so he just sat on the deck and basked in the sun. After feeling very comfortable in the sun, he simply lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
I don’t know how long I lay there, but the vibration and noise of a group of people returning to the deck woke Xia Zhe up.
When he sat up and looked, he saw that Eulibiades and his gang had returned to his side with a look of admiration on their faces.
"The king is truly a god. He actually used only dozens of ships to take over the Tino Island and took away all the financial reserves of the Tino Alliance! As long as this matter is publicized, it will surely shake the morale of the entire Tino Alliance!" Eurybiades said with emotion.
Use dozens of ships to take down Tino Island?
I didn't just mention the military force I used to capture Tino Island?
Glancing at the slightly embarrassed Hector, Xia Zhe knew in his heart that Hector must have let the cat out of the bag.
Well, just say it.
As long as the Spartan naval commander-in-chief recognizes that there is money to be made and is willing to join his fleet, victory will be achieved.
"You're too kind! The Spartan heavy infantry is invincible. Compared with you, my little trick is nothing. You have already confirmed the gold coins. Are you willing to accept my proposal just now?" Xia Zhe asked straight to the point.
"No problem! Even if you don't give me a single gold coin, our army will ensure your safe return to Stobi!" Eurybiades answered without hesitation.
Eurybiades spoke the truth.
After checking the gold coins on the ten ships, he believed Xia Zhe's initial story.
Especially Hector, the commander of the Trojan fleet, praised King Strobi highly in his words, even to the point of worship.
This surprised Eurybiades greatly.
You know, according to Hector, Stobi is just a newly established country, and the total number of warships in the country is only about fifty.
With such a weak fleet, he dared to launch a surprise attack on the island of Tinos and won a great victory. He also carelessly commanded more than 2,000 Trojan warships to serve as his porters.
Even Themistocles, the god of war of the Athenian navy, couldn't do this kind of magical operation!
There is such a good opportunity to attack the Tino Alliance, why should I continue to harass them?
As long as the Stobi fleet is safely escorted back to Botaitia, the Tino Alliance will not be able to recover this large sum of money, and there will definitely be big problems in daily operations!
By then, if there is any problem in the southern defense line built by the Tino Alliance Army, with Leonidas's command level, he will definitely be able to seize the loophole!
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