"Gold? What use do I have for gold?"
After receiving requests from Achilles and Odysseus, Xia Zhe was furious!
The Euboean army may land in Thasos at any time, and my safety will be in serious trouble!
You guys still have time to grab gold? You're so bored!
"Send a message to Achilles and the others immediately, tell them not to delay and continue moving eastward. Take Thasos as quickly as possible! Also, where is the team transporting Greek fire?" Xia Zhe asked.
"We have arrived at the city of Arcandos and are heading towards Amphipolis," the Prime Minister replied.
Hearing this answer, Xia Zhe's angry face eased a little.
Although this traitor has a lot of small tricks, he is still very efficient in doing things.
Sometimes, it is more useful than the greedy Achilles and Odysseus.
Of course, just taking Thasos would not be enough to prevent Eubia from landing.
Xia Zhe did not forget the subsequent actions.
He asked the Prime Minister and the High Priest to organize a hundred thousand craftsmen and laborers to carry the spare parts of more than a hundred Greek fire engines, along with a large amount of kerosene, by hand and on their shoulders, and carry them behind the army.
As long as Achilles and his men take Thasos, the Greek fire can be assembled in a few days!
Of course, Xia Zhe did not explain the purpose of all this.
It would have been rather embarrassing to let everyone know that he was so terrified of Eubia that he was willing to send his army 3,000 kilometers east to defend it.
The Prime Minister and the high priest don't know much more than Achilles and Odysseus on the front line!
Everyone just knows that Wang is playing a big game!
Only the king knows what the real goal of this game of chess is!
Anyway, as a subject, all you have to do is do the job at hand well!
Five days had passed since I received Wang's stern reply.
Achilles and Odysseus were both startled and knew that they could not delay here any longer.
In fact, a few days of rest was a good adjustment for the Stoby Expeditionary Force.
The soldiers, who were originally quite tired, regained their original vitality.
The army set out one after another, abandoned the plan to attack the golden city of Coenness in the north, and continued to attack eastward.
Achilles led a million men and walked ahead.
Only Odysseus remained in Amphipolis, with a ragtag army of 100,000 men of average strength, tasked with supporting the 100,000 craftsmen and laborers.
"General! Something terrible has happened! The Baisotian army has suddenly returned from the north! There are at least 300,000 or 400,000 of them, all cavalry!"
One hundred thousand craftsmen and laborers had just arrived in Amphipolis when Odysseus received urgent military intelligence the next morning.
It turned out that although he claimed to have retreated to Koernnes, Sital, who was good at using troops, did not go far at all.
He ambushed between 30,000 and 50,000 troops at various key points on his way north.
As long as Achilles and his men head north, they can strike a powerful blow at any time when the Stobi coalition relaxes its composure.
Sital believed that he could rely on his soldiers' extraordinary familiarity with the surrounding terrain and the inherent mobility advantage of the barbarian light cavalry.
It would not be difficult to wipe out the 200,000 or 300,000 Greek troops piecemeal through continuous harassment.
By the time of the final battle outside the city of Coennesse, his call to arms should have been delivered to the various tribes in northern Thrace.
Each tribe does not need to send too many people. As long as two or three percent of the ten percent come, it will be enough to put together an army of one million.
At that time, if we fight a battle with the exhausted Greeks, our chances of winning will be very high!
That would definitely be more cost-effective than defending Amphipolis to the death!
But.
No matter how long we wait, the Greeks just refuse to move in Amphipolis!
Until the day before yesterday, the Greeks finally moved, but they did not go north, but continued to advance eastward along the coast!
It seems that he has no interest in the famous golden city of Coennes at all!
As a result, Xitar's wishful thinking was dashed.
Koenness is an inland city with limited supplies.
If Baisotian abandons the rich coastal plains for a long time, his strength will obviously be greatly damaged.
In desperation, Xitar had to take the initiative and head south again.
The rescue troops from various northern Thracian tribes have gathered three or four hundred thousand people in Coenness.
However, Sitar was not confident about these people and had no intention of introducing them into his wealthy coastal plains.
He simply asked his allies' troops to help defend the city at Koernnes.
He took with him more than 300,000 main forces of Baisothen, intending to cut off the food supply of the Greek army of one million!
Before the troops move, the food and supplies must go first!
As long as the Greeks' food supply can be cut off, their million-strong Greek army will naturally collapse!
Without a doubt, the best point of attack is the capital city that he had just abandoned - Amphipolis!
According to reliable information, there are only 100,000 old, weak and disabled soldiers left in the city, and they need to protect 100,000 civilians who are carrying inexplicably heavy things.
Relying on their cavalry that comes and goes without a trace, it is not a problem at all for them to find a few places with weak defenses and rush in.
As long as we cut off the retreat of the Greek army in front.
With material supplies running out, the Greek army of one million will naturally collapse!
By then, based on his record of destroying millions of Greek invaders, Sital could package himself as a national hero of Thrace!
It has become possible to expand the territory on a large scale, dominate Western Thrace, or even unify Thrace!
not good!
Odysseus' heart tightened when he heard this information.
Unlike the civilized world, Thrace was vast and sparsely populated, with cities far from each other.
Achilles and his men had already captured the next city. It would take at least two or three days for them to return to rescue.
Bastion was a first-class power in Western Thrace, famous for its powerful cavalry.
Although the capital was occupied, the main army suffered no losses at all.
It was almost impossible for him to resist Baisotian's 300,000 or 400,000 cavalry with the 100,000 miscellaneous troops at his disposal.
What's more, they had to protect the 100,000 civilians who the king forced to accompany the army, as well as the heavy things they carried.
Odysseus turned his anxious eyes to the Greek fire accessories being transported by the laborers, and something moved his heart.
Yes, aren’t these things the ultimate weapons of the defender?
As long as we can assemble a few of them, they can kill thousands of Baisotian troops with one fire spray!
"How soon can you assemble these accessories into attack mode? I want to use them to defend against enemy attacks!" Odysseus hurriedly called a few leading craftsmen to ask.
"It's just that the casting of the base and the installation of the steering part are very slow. If it's just to fire at a fixed angle, the barrel can be put in place in just over ten minutes if there is enough manpower!" answered the oldest craftsman.
"Very good!"
Odysseus was overjoyed upon hearing this and immediately ordered everyone to start unloading the carts. He then lined up the barrels of the Greek fire cannons along the north wall, forming a row of over a hundred.
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