total war rise of empire

Chapter 68
With the passing of January 501 of the Dark Calendar, Lei Zihao's rule in Megara City has been completely stabilized, and the 3000 Siris Revival Army have also completed basic disciplinary training. But at least it can be done to the extent of advancing at the sound of the drum and retreating at the sound of gold.

Lei Zihao, who had stabilized his territory, naturally became active in his mind. He had made up his mind to wait until he was fully promoted to the Iron Age, and then he began to waver in the idea of ​​beating the children of the Bronze Age. This was mainly due to the fact that after the main city was promoted to level 3, Lei Zihao Zihao felt a sense of depression in his heart, and a sense of crisis that was about to come.

At the same time, the gold coins and white bars in Longhan City have been consumed and there are not many left. Lei Zihao still thinks that after the military buildings are fully upgraded to the third level, he will directly pull out a main force of thousands of people. No matter how you look at it, the armored army that materializes out of thin air will not be cheap...

If you have no money, you will naturally go to grab it!Lei Zihao is not a reckless man who decided to go to war with his head. After signing a peace agreement with the people of Piros in private, Lei Zihao asked Xu Tangran to secretly send someone to investigate the news of the city-state of Piros!
The news that the people of Pylos strengthened the city defense could not be hidden from Lei Zihao, but the people of Pylos were limited by the material problem, so strengthening the city defense was nothing more than building more bows and arrows, raising the earth wall, or building several layers of earth walls...

For the poor Pylos, it is impossible to use glutinous rice juice, which works well, to build a city wall. They can only use the cheapest and simple loess. Moreover, the backward Pylos people do not have the craft of firing bricks, let alone making lime. With advanced technology, they build the city wall is nothing more than a layer of stones, a layer of thick soil and a little bit of wood to cover it. Because the adhesion between the stones is very poor, the city wall is not high at all!
Therefore, only a mature ladder can be easily climbed!

Furthermore, there is only one inland river in the Greek Peninsula, named Jinlong River by Lei Zihao, which runs through the entire Greek Peninsula and flows into the blue sea near the city of Pylos!

It would be okay if it was not far from the Golden Dragon River. Otherwise, the city wall built by the Pylos people had no moat at all!

Therefore, in the city-state of Pylos, except for the city of Pylos where Agamemnon lived, the other cities only have a wall that is not too high. When the Kingdom of Seris rose, it voluntarily surrendered, and it regularly 'taxed'...

Lei Zihao, who was extremely short of money, naturally coveted such a weak fat sheep by his side!

What's more, the number of Pylos captives should also increase. After the arena is built, it may be able to be used well. After all, the champion gladiators produced in it are equivalent to the official knights of the human world!
Although official knights are not rare creatures in the main world of humans, they are not "Chinese cabbages" that can be seen everywhere. An assault force composed of official knights is quite powerful!
Of course, for Lei Zihao, the most important thing is that the champion knight does not need to spend gold coins! ! !

This is the core value...

Hundreds of thousands of Pylos people, after removing those damaged during the war, should be able to extract about [-] young and strong...

After several months of observation, under Xu Tangran's suggestion, Lei Zihao chose a very good target - Corinth City!
At this time, the people of Pylos still don't know that Lei Zihao wants to steal money by flipping the table. As long as he pays attention to concealment for the first attack, he can definitely win a good first victory by surprise. On a high value target!

The city of Corinth is one of the three main cities of the city-state of Pylos, and with the surrounding farms, it has a population of more than 10!
This is definitely a fat sheep worth grabbing!
In fact, Lei Zihao had set his sights on Corinth City a long time ago, but he hadn't broken Li Qingmei at the beginning, failed to stabilize the people's hearts of the people in Seris, and just asked Jin Yiwei's spies to investigate some news.

However, the military intelligence of Corinth City sent back by Xu Tangran was unexpectedly weak!

According to Xu Tangran's information, there are only less than 500 security guards in the city of Corinth, and only in wartime will auxiliary soldiers be recruited in the city and even in the countryside and citizens will prepare their own weapons to participate in the war!
Due to the terrible defeat of the Pylos city-state in the previous battle of the Megara city, except for the most powerful Pylos city in the three major cities, the rest of the towns and even the security guards had to temporarily replenish...

After Lei Zihao saw this information, an idea flashed in his mind, and a bold idea came to him!

If a small number of elite raids are used, perhaps even the step of siege is enough to save!
To the people of Pyrrhus, the Spartan general's bodyguards and Wei soldiers were definitely elites at the crushing level!
It should not be difficult to take down the gate of Corinth City with the Spartan General Guards and Wei Wuzu. The difficulty lies in how to control the city of Corinth with tens of thousands of people. The people of Pylos are not blind. It is impossible for the main force of the Revival Army to follow behind, that is to say, the general Spartan guards and Wei Wuzu will withstand the crazy attack of the citizens of Pylos in Corinth City for several hours or even most of the day!
This……

Lei Zihao tapped his fingers on the desk continuously, weighing the gains and losses in his heart.

The army is a weapon of war, but it is also a consumable. If the soldiers with iron battalions and flowing water keep hiding Wei Wuzu and other elites for fear of losing them, wouldn't they be bound by their hands and feet?

Anyway, these elites can be extracted from the temple, and can be supplemented by regular soldiers in the future. As long as they can take down the city of Corinth with a population of tens of thousands, it is worth dying!
It's done!

After Lei Zihao made up his mind, Li Si's 500 Pylos prisoner-of-war camp and 3000 Seris Renaissance Army who had completed basic training began to gather, and the 120-person Spartan General Guards, 100-person Qin crossbowmen and even 100 The elite soldiers of the Wei Dynasty marched to the city of Corinth first!

As a matter of course, Lei Zihao would never personally risk such a dangerous vanguard commander!
The 320 elite pioneers were led by Leonidas himself, and Lei Zihao led the main force of 3500 people to march to Corinth City in a normal march!
The pace of ancient warfare was very time-consuming. In this era where marching relied entirely on legs, the infantry itself could not march faster, and they had to take care of the slower baggage troops. Therefore, the movement speed of the army was actually faster than that of individuals traveling on foot. Even slower!
Lei Zihao once again carried forward the decadent aristocratic style of life, and brought Li Qingmei, the "bedding" with him in order to relieve the boredom during the march...

Although Li Qingmei was not happy, there was nothing she could do. It was just that Freya was a little embarrassed. I don't know if Li Qingmei did it on purpose. After being finished, Freya felt that her legs were limp...

(End of this chapter)