After being brainwashed repeatedly like this, the emotions of the military and civilians have stabilized a lot.
Xia Zhe, who was originally enjoying eating and drinking, also heard about this amazing propaganda.
He felt that this must be a helpless move by his subordinates to prevent morale collapse, and it did not mean that they really recognized him as the king.
Of course, in Xia Zhe's opinion, this way of promoting oneself to the sky is also very interesting.
It must feel great to be admired without thinking.
Therefore, he secretly made up his mind to play the role of "wise and brave" well!
As long as you are in public, every move you make must look awesome!
As for what happened behind the scenes, Xia Zhe certainly always kept a way to escape.
Originally, he had arranged for Lillian to inspect the flagship once a day to ensure it was ready to leave the port at any time.
But since the main force of Persia appeared, Xia Zhe immediately changed it to three inspections a day.
Lillian didn't say anything about this. She worked hard and never asked questions that were unnecessary.
However, from Wang's level of concern, Lillian could clearly sense that this time, Wang was far more nervous than before.
The king's ease was clearly a pretense.
But it's not surprising if you think about it carefully.
The decisive battle with the 30 million strong Persian army was a super battle unprecedented in thousands of years.
If the Greek coalition could win, the king would surpass all the overlords in history and become the undisputed number one in history.
At such a critical moment, if anyone else were to sit in the king's position, I'm afraid they would not be able to eat or sleep.
It is not easy for Wang Yiran to still eat, drink and have fun every day, and there is almost no sign of anything unusual.
Another three days passed.
The Persian center army, commanded by Xerxes, finally arrived at the border of Troy.
Including the vanguard troops that arrived earlier, the available Persian military force was close to 20 million people.
As for the other legions, some of them fell behind due to the long journey, while others were deployed to the west by Xerxes to block Achilles and his men's pursuit.
But even so, the Persian army was far superior to the Greek coalition forces!
In addition to the advantage in numbers, the main force of the Persian army under Xerxes also possessed two super types of troops.
A stronger type of troops than the Spartan heavy infantry!
One of them, of course, is to cross the uninhabited area and suddenly attack the undead army behind Troy.
Although this army has less than one million people, its fighting power is so strong that all opponents who have fought against them are deeply impressed.
Not long ago on the edge of the Great North.
Achilles, a tactical genius, had to use three times the number of Stroby's personal soldiers to barely resist Xerxes' undead army.
You know, after more than two months of training with Achilles, the average combat effectiveness of Stobi's personal soldiers is no longer inferior to that of the Spartan heavy infantry!
Another more terrifying type of soldier is the war elephant!
This is a super soldier that the Greeks are terrified of.
Those war elephants that have been trained since childhood are huge in size and have thick skin and flesh!
In a head-on attack, even ten times the number of heavy cavalry would not be their match.
Once they switch to defensive mode, the Persian guard archers on the elephants' backs will also become killing machines that terrify the enemy.
The Persian guard archers already had a much longer range than other archers. With the help of the war elephants' high vantage point and mobility, they instantly became mobile arrow towers!
No matter how strong the enemy is, they will be in great trouble when encountering war elephants!
In order to resist the hundreds of war elephants in the Persian army, Achilles and Alexander spent far more energy than when they were dealing with the Undead Legion!
With the arrival of the main army, Xerxes did not hesitate and launched a test attack that day.
Xerxes understood.
Even after successfully plundering Thasos, time was still not on the Persians' side.
If you can't win quickly, quickly open up a retreat.
Once the main force of the Greek coalition forces that have been following arrives, this battle will be impossible to fight!
Even though his war elephants and undead army were very powerful, they still didn't gain any substantial advantage in the Great North!
The person who commands the main force of the Greek coalition is definitely a war artist!
Some of his ways of dealing with things were never even thought of by Xerxes, who claimed to be unrivaled in the world!
In Xerxes's list of powerful enemies, Achilles, who commanded the main force of the Greek coalition forces, was the biggest opponent.
As for King Stobi, who defeated Seleucus, Xerxes only regarded him as an excellent monarch, not a commander.
Xerxes felt that King Stobi's surprise attack strategy was indeed successful, but it was based on the weak Persian army left in Troy!
As long as your main force launches an attack.
King Stobi and his ragtag army had no choice but to retreat!
Thinking of this, Xerxes dispatched ten war elephants, along with 100,000 infantry, and began to try to attack the defense line built by the Greek coalition forces.
Seeing that the enemy army sent out war elephants as soon as they came, how could Antigonus and Hector dare to be negligent?
They immediately used the strongest tactics they could come up with, intending to give the main Persian army a warning!
Before approaching the first trench, Antigonus ordered the catapults deployed behind the first earth wall to start firing.
The Persian guard archers on the backs of elephants had a long range, but it was still relying on human strength. Compared with the distance of the trebuchets, there was still a big gap.
In just one round of stone throwing, seven out of ten war elephants were hit.
However, since Xerxes had already received intelligence about the existence of catapults, he had equipped several vulnerable parts of the war elephants with armor to protect them from falling rocks.
The war elephants that were hit were only injured and still had the ability to charge forward.
However, the Persian guard archers on their backs were not so lucky.
Although special armor was also prepared for these archers.
However, the power of the rocks falling from the sky was too great, beyond Xerxes's imagination.
Without the tough skin and flesh of elephants, the Persian guard archers would stumble and spit blood if hit by stones. Many were even killed directly.
Seeing this situation, Xerxes' face was gloomy, but he did not order a retreat.
In desperation, the 100,000 Persian infantry, including ten war elephants, had no choice but to continue advancing.
About half a minute later, the second round of stone rain came.
With their previous experience, many Persian soldiers attempted evasive maneuvers. Even elephants, whose intelligence was much lower than that of humans, began to sway back and forth, trying to avoid the rocks.
Although the effects of these actions were not ideal, many Persian soldiers were still affected.
However, thanks to the prepared Persian army, the losses were significantly lower than in the first round.
In the first round of stoning, Persia lost more than 10,000 people.
In this round, the casualties were only about 5,000 people.
More importantly, with this minute of forward movement, the surviving Persian guard archers on the war elephants had entered the range where they could launch a counterattack.
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