In the blink of an eye, peace was achieved on the battlefield.
Then, the armies of Sparta, Athens and Crete all pressed forward like a mountain, pressing towards Agamemnon's base camp in the west of the battlefield.
It was not until this moment that Agamemnon realized that something serious had happened.
With only less than 50,000 loyal soldiers around him, Agamemnon certainly did not dare to resist head-on.
He had no choice but to retreat to the west with his personal soldiers.
They soon arrived at the Egyptian legion and sought refuge.
Although he had been paying close attention to the battle situation, Ptolemy never expected that Agamemnon's army would collapse in an instant.
It was not until Agamemnon himself escaped that Ptolemy realized he had to take a stand.
"Since Agamemnon has been defeated, we certainly cannot protect him! Give me the order to annihilate this Achaean army and capture Agamemnon!" Ptolemy made the decision quickly.
Upon hearing this order, the Egyptian army of 1.5 million began to move and besieged the Achaean soldiers who numbered less than 50,000.
Although Agamemnon's personal soldiers are few in number, they are not vegetarians.
They believed they were slightly inferior to the elite troops of Sparta and Athens, but the Achaeans were absolutely confident in their ability to deal with the Egyptian wandering legions.
For a while, the two sides were evenly matched.
One million and a half Egyptians could not defeat the less than 50,000 Achaean soldiers!
"Order the front troops to halt their advance. Don't get involved in the dog-eat-dog fight between Agamemnon and Ptolemy! Let them fight among themselves for a while!"
Seeing this sudden situation, Xia Zhe hurriedly gave orders.
Xia Zhe dislikes these two people very much, one is very evil-hearted and the other is very shameless.
Seeing them fighting each other was exactly what Xia Zhe wanted.
Since Ptolemy likes watching plays, I will sit down and watch his performance.
It’s not too late for me to give him a rating after he finishes his performance!
The Spartan, Athenian, and Cretan armies combined numbered over four million men.
They all waited silently on the eastern hills and plains, watching the bloody battle between the Egyptians and Agamemnon's personal soldiers.
It wasn't until noon that the winner was finally decided.
The Egyptians paid the price of at least 400,000 people and finally eliminated Agamemnon's personal soldiers.
Agamemnon himself was also killed by Ptolemy.
Soon, Ptolemy's messenger came to Xia Zhe with Agamemnon's head.
The messenger made an impassioned speech, describing how the Egyptian army kept their promise, regardless of sacrifice, and killed Agamemnon for King Stobi.
Hearing this, Xia Zhe chuckled but remained silent. Minos, standing beside him, had already begun to curse angrily.
"He is treacherous and fickle, yet he can still speak so righteously. I'm afraid there is no one in the world more shameless than Ptolemy!" said Minos.
"That's right! He only expressed his loyalty after seeing our army's great victory. We don't need such loyalty!"
"That's right! If our army is defeated, the Egyptian army will definitely come and trample us!"
"Why are you wasting time talking to them? We still have half a day left. Let's kill them all at once!"
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Minos' words spoke for themselves, and all the generals expressed their opinions, demanding that the Egyptians be eliminated as well.
Although Xia Zhe is usually an easy-going person, he was disgusted by the Egyptians' fickleness this time.
Without hesitation, he immediately gave the order to attack.
Ptolemy was filled with regret after his desperate performance, only to receive such a result.
If we had known this would happen, we would have accepted Agamemnon's request for asylum and withdrawn quickly to preserve our strength.
Now that both sides had suffered heavy losses in the battle with Agamemnon, the Egyptian army had no time to move and had lost contact with the coalition forces of the Eastern countries.
The outcome of this battle has already been determined before it even begins!
really!
Seeing the three-nation coalition forces full of fighting spirit all over the mountains, the Egyptian army, which had just experienced a great battle, could hardly put up any decent resistance.
In less than an hour, the Egyptian army completely collapsed.
Excluding those who died in battle, the number of those who took action exceeded 500,000.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Ptolemy had no choice but to flee. He took thousands of guards and fled to the depths of the jungle in the south.
After the war, when the losses were counted, the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces suffered less than 10,000 casualties.
In addition to the surrendered Egyptians and the Achaean soldiers who defected to the coalition forces because of Agamemnon's death.
The number of troops Xia Zhe could command increased from more than four million to five million!
The decisive battle on the continent of Crete ended with Xia Zhe's great victory.
A few days later, the news came.
Ptolemy fled south, but was brutally killed by the rebels in the south because he made too many enemies during his conquest of Crete.
At the same time, Eurybiades advanced westward to Keldonia and regained command of the combined Spartan and Achaean fleet.
At the port of Herrepna, where he first landed on the continent of Crete, Xia Zhe presided over a grand sacrificial ceremony.
Crete, once ravaged by war, regained its peace.
Everyone respects King Stobi as the common leader and becomes a member of the Stobi Federation.
In line with the principle of national self-government, Xia Zhe appointed Minos as the governor of Crete to manage this land.
But Antigonus did not keep him.
Because the Eastern Alliance on the east coast of the Aegean Sea has sent a message, asking Greece to send a reinforcement force to cooperate in doing a big thing.
Xia Zhe hopes that Antigonus will bring people to handle this matter.
It turned out that as the war on the northern front intensified, the strength of logistical supplies became the key to determining the final victory or defeat, which was already a consensus between both sides.
In view of this, Ajax and others far away in the east hoped to launch a large-scale offensive to inflict another major damage to the supply routes of the Persian army.
However, Xerxes was no mediocre man and had already taken precautions against this. He had already deployed strong fortifications at various passes outside the army's supply routes.
Ajax launched several attacks, with the largest one bringing a million men, but still returned empty-handed, unable to break through the Persian defenses.
Therefore, he quickly sent people to contact the Athenian navy that controlled the Aegean Sea, hoping that they could organize a group of forces to land and reinforce.
The two families then joined forces and managed to break through a Persian pass, completely paralyzing Persia's logistics supply line.
By then, the main force of the Athenian navy had already sailed south to the Cretan mainland, so Themistocles was unable to split up.
Moreover, the Athenian fleet had a limited number of land forces, and Athens itself was not known for its strength in land warfare.
So, Themistocles did not respond very positively.
However, with the end of the war on the continent of Crete.
A land warfare king like King Stobi, with his five million-strong army, was suddenly free.
Themistocles believed that the time was ripe to respond to Ajax.
It has become possible to go to the eastern coast of the Aegean Sea, open up a second battlefield, and insert a sharp knife into the back of the Persians.
After hearing such inspiring news, before Xia Zhe expressed his opinion, the generals began to request to fight, vying to follow the king to the Eastern Alliance to make achievements.
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