The fleeing vanguard was seen clearly by the remaining Persian troops.
Even Persia's most elite "Immortal Army" thought that the Greeks had gathered the strength of all city-states to attack them when they saw this scene.
However, they looked to the other side for a long time and could not see the army chasing the vanguard.
"What happened? Are the Greek pursuers coming?"
The general of the "Eternal Life Army" then pulled one of the deserters over, and the deserter was stunned for a few seconds before shaking his head vigorously.
"Monsters! They're monsters!"
"Spartans!"
"Demons! They are all demons!"
Even the deserter stammered when he spoke, as if his spirit had suffered a great shock.
When the general of the "Eternal Life Army" saw that the deserter in front of him had lost his will to fight and was only filled with fear, he immediately raised his sword and cut off his head.
At this moment, the soldiers who had fled to the military camp finally calmed down a little and stopped making any noise.
However, when the generals of the "Immortal Army" learned that their vanguard troops were defeated by the three hundred Spartans, they were so angry that their teeth were chattering.
He summoned the commander of the vanguard and the commander-in-chief of the battle, and escorted them to the tent of Nadir Shah, the King of Kings in Persia.
"Boom! Boom!"
The two men immediately knelt down in the tent. The general of the "Eternal Life Army" raised his head and looked at Nadir Shah with a serious expression.
"King of kings!"
"In this battle, the two of them committed unforgivable crimes!"
"If we don't deal with him, he will definitely disrupt our army's morale!"
At this moment, the air in the imperial tent was so heavy that it could almost freeze the candlelight.
Nadir Shah was sitting on a throne made of pure gold at this moment, without saying a word.
His face was cut into two parts of light and dark by the flickering firelight.
One eye bathed in light, the other shrouded in shadow.
Above his throne hung the banner of the Persian Empire, symbolizing the sun that never sets.
On both sides of the throne, ten senior generals from all over the empire stood in rows.
But at this moment, they all kept absolute silence, even their breathing was deliberately slowed down, for fear of disturbing the thoughts of the King of Kings.
Although they didn't know what was happening now, the two generals kneeling on the ground were the direct leaders of the vanguard troops.
If they were kneeling here, it probably meant that the Persian army had just arrived on Greek soil and was defeated.
However, they were not clear about the specific situation. Most people thought that the vanguard troops suffered heavy losses, so these two guys were brought into the tent by the general of the "Eternal Life Army".
Nadir Shah looked at the two kneeling generals and said nothing.
Then, he turned his attention to the general of the "Eternal Life Army".
The general then added: "King of Kings, our vanguard..."
Before he could finish his words, a Persian officer covered in dust stumbled into the tent.
The moment he saw Nadir Shah, he immediately fell to his knees and touched his forehead to the ground.
"Great King of Kings, it's urgent!"
When Nadir Shah saw the officer come in, the expression on his face became even uglier.
"The vanguard army collapsed!"
These few words were like thunder, immediately stirring up the tent and causing people to suck in the air.
"Our vanguard was severely defeated by the Spartans at Thermopylae, suffering thousands of casualties!"
The tent froze instantly.
A servant who was pouring wine accidentally knocked over the golden cup, and the wine spilled on the carpet, but no one cared.
After all, everyone thought that the vanguard troops had captured Thermopylae and the casualties were too heavy.
But no one expected that not only did they fail to capture Thermopylae, but they also paid a very heavy price.
This is unacceptable to anyone.
"What did you say?!"
A burly general widened his eyes in disbelief.
"How can a mere Greek defeat my elite Persian army?"
"You mean, the vanguard suffered heavy losses and failed to capture Thermopylae?!"
There was another silence.
At this time, another veteran frowned and gently touched his temple with his fingers.
"No, that's not right."
"The Spartans only have 300 men, while the number of our Persian vanguard is a hundred times greater than theirs."
"Have you encountered an ambush? Have the Greeks deployed a large army here, surrounding our vanguard?"
As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately won the approval of many generals.
“That’s right!”
"Perhaps there are Greek troops hiding in the valley? That's why our army was defeated?"
"The old general is really experienced and hits the nail on the head!"
However, after hearing the words of the generals, the expression of the kneeling officer only became more terrified.
Even his pupils began to tremble.
Of course, this was only because he knew that what he was going to say next would be even more difficult for all the generals here to accept.
"No, it is not, my lord!"
"It's not an ambush, there is no ambush!"
"There are no Greek troops, nor any other soldiers!"
"No archers, no magicians!"
"Only the Spartans are there!"
Sure enough, after these words were spoken, there was another silence.
"Spartans?"
"The Spartans have called in reinforcements? Spartan reinforcements?"
The old general widened his eyes and pulled the officer who spoke up.
Obviously, he really wanted to get the officer's approval.
Because this is the last fig leaf and excuse for the vanguard army.
However, it was still ruthlessly torn open by the officer with his eyes closed and screaming.
"No reinforcements!"
"Those three hundred Spartans!"
Now, the silence was immediately broken, and there was an uproar in the tent.
You know, for three hundred people, tens of thousands of people are almost an astronomical number.
If you break it down, it's like one Spartan facing off against nearly a hundred Persians.
Unless the Spartans were gods, they could not have defeated an army of such number and size.
Therefore, at this moment, everyone in the tent was greatly shocked.
They couldn't even imagine how the Spartans defeated this vanguard army.
You know, this is an army that is fully capable of capturing a city, and even more than enough!
So, at the same time, all the generals frowned and opened their mouths slightly.
"What?!"
"Three hundred people?!"
"Those three hundred Spartans?!"
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