Vol 9 Chapter 254: Persian strategy (2)

"Enough time?" Orontas also said coldly: "I don't think so! The news that came before did not mean that the Dionians had separated some troops and captured Issus and Castablum to the west. Waiting for the city to open up the road from Silesia to Syria. Farabazos is only harassment, and he did not dare to block the Greek coalition forces. The rendezvous of the Nya's army will undoubtedly greatly boost the enemy's strength!"
Speaking of this, Orontas turned around, bowed respectfully to the King of Persia, and then solemnly said: "Majesty, the Greek soldiers are very capable of close combat, and this time the Dionians will be in the Greek city state. The most powerful Spartan, Athenian, and Thebes armies gathered together. Although according to the report of Phanabazos, it was the rebellion of the Greek mercenaries that led to the defeat of the entire battle, but it may also be Spartan. The Greek army led by the soldiers of Athens, Athens, and Thebes first defeated the left wing guarded by our army, which led to a sudden change in the whole battle. Therefore, we must defeat the Dionian army in Syria as soon as possible before the Greek coalition forces arrive. In order to secure the final victory in this war!"
At that time, Orontas was ordered to stop the Greek Expeditionary Army, and suffered a disastrous defeat. The terrible impact of the Spartans left a deep impression on him. Therefore, this man has been governor of Ameria for decades and is like the emperor of the earth. Ordinary great men can temporarily abandon the arrogance of the Persian nobility and give a warning.
His words immediately made Altaxerxes’ face look ugly, because he also had the same memory: in the battle with Cyrus, he witnessed tens of thousands of Greek heavy infantry assault. Defeated his left wing and almost made him despair at the time.
As for the other generals present, the Greek army was able to repel Darius and King Xerxes twice, and maintained the advantage of more victories and fewer losses in the battle with the Persian army in the following decades. It is more worthy of their attention than the Dioyouya army, which has not achieved a glorious victory over the Persian army alone so far (the defeat of the Persian fleet in the First World War in Cyprus did not shock the Persian nobles, because naval warfare is not what the Persians are good at. There were almost no Persians involved in the Persian fleet. As for the battle in western Asia Minor, Artaxerxes did not disclose the true situation. Therefore, the battle report of Phanabazos made them have a wrong judgment. The failure mainly came from the betrayal of the Greek mercenaries).
Seeing the eyes of everyone in the room focused on himself, Trebasus felt tight, and he knew very well: As soon as today’s meeting began, Maldonios, Halpergs, and Orontas Successively questioned the strategy adopted by the Persian army before, which was actually expressing dissatisfaction with him.
The contradiction between Trebasus and these top Persian nobles has a long history, and the root cause comes from jealousy. The Persian king regarded Trebasus as his confidant and obeyed his words. This was obviously unmatched by several important kingdom officials far away from the royal court. Of course, this also involved the contradiction between the old Persian aristocracy and the emerging aristocracy. Since the reunion of the army, they have expressed dissatisfaction with Trebasus many times, but with the protection of the Persian king, the matter finally disappeared, but today their joint attack has caused Trebasus to start from Artaxerxes. Si looked at him and felt a trace of badness in his eyes: The military mediocre king was shaken as to whether to continue to implement the strategy he proposed!
Fortunately, he had prepared in advance, took out something from his arms without hurriedly, and said softly, "This is the most capable subordinate sent by Master Marktonos. After many investigations, it took a lot of time. I made a copy of the meticulously drawn map of the Dionian army camp. You can take a look."
As he said, he unfolded the white cloth in his hand and placed it on the open space in the center.
Mark Tonos, who was originally on the sidelines, walked over first, looked down at the cloth placed on the ground, and then said: "This is indeed the map of Camp Dionia drawn by me."
Maldonios, Orontas, and Halpergs walked over slowly and looked at them carelessly, but soon their faces showed surprised eyes, and they bent down to take a closer look.
Seeing this, Artaxerxes asked the to bring a table and place the map on it.
While the three of them were looking at the map attentively, Trebasus said in a deep voice: "Five years ago, the Dionian army invaded Greece, and the various Greek city states united to form an army of nearly 100,000. There was a chance to repel the Dionian army, but the Dionians built a complex defensive camp to lure the Greek army to attack. The number of Greek soldiers was two or three times that of the Dionian soldiers in the defensive camp, but The siege for more than two months did not achieve much success. Instead, the Dionians used the great opportunity of the Greeks to take advantage of the Greeks' long-term attack and the empty defense to send troops to Thessaly. In the end, Greece fell to Dioni. Ah..."
This light sigh seemed to be screwed in the heart of Artaxerxes, making him lean against the back of his chair: If it were not for the rebellion of Asia Minor, Persia would have been recaptured by him, and even with the nearby support of Asia Minor, Greece would not. Surrender so soon! ...
"This time, the Dionian army wants to repeat the same trick again. You see-its camp is relying on mountains on both sides, and there is a bay behind it. We can only attack from the front, and the width of this front is narrow, obviously not. It will help us to give full play to our advantages."
Trebasus made gestures on the map and said earnestly: "Look again—the camp they built actually built two layers of wooden walls. The wooden fence in the front is only about one meter low, and the wooden fence in the back The wall is 4 meters high and the two walls are 30 meters apart. There is a trench in the middle. Although our secret spy cannot detect the depth of the trench, it can be seen from the situation of the Dionian army’s defense operations in the Peloponnese. It’s hard to be crossed easily. It’s more difficult for our soldiers to get under the wooden wall behind, and it takes a lot of time. And you see—the wooden wall behind is dense with towers, the Dionians must A large number of archers will be placed on it to carry out violent long-range attacks on our attacking troops.
In addition, Lord Halpergs's men also mentioned an information that needs our attention. During this period of time, the Dionian army sent a large number of soldiers to set up traps in front of the camp without stopping... Based on what we have learned, we can know that the Dionian camp is very tightly defended. Our army is just If you want to attack the wooden wall of the real camp, you may pay a lot of casualties. Not to mention a long siege. It only takes one or two storms to fail, and those affiliated troops may lose their fighting spirit. Once Dioni is recharged. If the Asians launch a full counterattack, our army will be in a very dangerous situation! "
The three great Persian nobles are all long-term commanders, and they are all well versed in the military. Compared with this map, it is natural to understand that Trebasus’ words are not alarmist. Although he hates this man, he did not refute it bluntly, but stared at the map. , Thinking hard, hoping to find a solution to the problem.
After a brief silence, Orontas asked unwillingly: "Are we going to stay here all the time, do nothing, just watch the Dionian army and the Greek coalition army meet?!"
Trebasus was waiting for the other party to have this question, and he calmly replied: "The Dionian army aggressively invaded our borders and captured Canaan, flew off the plane, and Syria. We thought they would continue to attack. The East invaded Mesopotamia, so the king personally led his army to Taposakus, but the Dionians cunningly stopped advancing suddenly, wanting to consume us through defense, while waiting for the rendezvous of the Greek coalition forces. , Of course we can’t let the Dionians do what they want, so we must force them to leave the camp and take the initiative to attack us so that the whole battle will be more beneficial to us.

Halpergs sneered: "Since the Dionian army can suddenly switch from a smooth offensive posture to a defensive posture, it can be seen that their king is more cautious and wants him to abandon the camp that has been built, and lead far more than ours. For the few troops, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com took the initiative to attack us, unless he is a fool, otherwise this is impossible!"
Trebasus replied confidently: "I have learned about King Dionia in detail. This is a very confident and bold Greek. He has led many less than the enemy's army and proactively launched an offensive. This is one of the reasons why Dionia has expanded rapidly in just a few decades and has become our opponent. It can be seen that he is not a person who dare not take the initiative to attack because of the small number of troops. On the contrary, he loves Taking risks, it was only because the king led the army to arrive in time, and the difference in the strength of the two sides was too great, so he temporarily took the defensive position to wait for reinforcements, but as long as we pay a certain price, I believe he will have to give up defense and actively seek our decisive battle!"
"What's the price?" Altaxerxes asked eagerly.
Trebasus looked at the King of Persia with a very serious expression, and said in a deep voice: "The king, the reason why Phanabazos was able to hold the Greek coalition forces is mainly because he burned and withdrawn the villages and towns along the Greek coalition's forward route. , So that the Greek coalition forces could not collect any food and materials, resulting in difficulties in their transportation and supply. Now we can also adopt similar tactics to evacuate all people in the area near Taposakus, burn villages and materials that cannot be taken away, Let the area between Taposakus and Syria become a piece of white ground—"
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