"The Spartans will definitely be defeated by us!" Ipa Mironda's strong confidence infected the generals around him. They quickly led the troops to arrange formations in front of the camp according to Ipa Mironda's plan.

Because the Piosha coalition had few soldiers, the length of their entire array was shorter than that of the Spartan coalition and was thinner in thickness. Except for the left wing, because its front row was the Saint of Thebes led by Pelopidas, followed by the Heavy Infantry of Thebes led by Ipa Milonda, with a thickness of up to 50 columns.

Moreover, Ipa Mironda deliberately waited for the right wing and arranged the middle lane before he began to arrange the left wing. As soon as the left wing was lined up, he ordered the offensive horn to blow, so that even if the Spartans felt something was wrong, they had no time to adjust the formation.

The trumpet was sounded, and the holy team led by Pelopidas led the entire left wing to advance quickly. The troops in the middle and right wing deliberately slowed down under the prior instructions of Ipamilongda, causing the left wing to quickly break in front. The entire infantry formation was like a hammer swinging forcefully, and the hammer head was the left wing.

However, the first one to start the battle was the cavalry. Ipa Mironda concentrated the cavalry in advance to the front of the middle road. Seeing this, Spartan King Cliombrotus naturally concentrated his cavalry in front of the middle road to fight against it.

When the trumpet sounded and the infantry of both sides were still advancing, the cavalry of both sides were already fighting together. The Piosha Allied Forces, whose main force was the Thessalian cavalry, was significantly stronger in combat than the Spartan Allied Forces, and they were quickly defeated.

Under the intentional drive of the Piosha Cavalry, the Spartan Cavalry had to retreat in the direction of the middle and left wings, which hindered the advancement speed of these two parts of the infantry array and gradually separated from the Spartan square formation on the right wing.

The Spartan king in the formation could not see the array being disconnected, but he could see that the cavalry in front of him had been defeated. However, for the Spartans, the cavalry was never the main force of combat. They had been invincible in the Greek land over the years because of military training and countless battles. Moreover, the King's Guard at the forefront was the King's Guard. They were the elite among the elites. If they could become one of them, they could win the respect of the Spartan people (the Spartan King's Guard had a 300 man, but the wars continued over the years, and the Spartan population had dropped sharply, so they could no longer maintain this number. At this time, there were only a hundred men in the array). Therefore, the Spartan king, like the surrounding Spartan warriors, was not moved by the defeat of the cavalry, and still firmly believed that victory would eventually belong to them.

When they saw that the Thebes in front were not far from them, the Spartans roared and began to charge.

At the same time, the Saints of Thebes also launched a charge under the leadership of Pelopidas. The weapons and equipment of the Saints soldiers are no different from the heavy infantry behind them, but in recent years they have been training or fighting, and have defeated the Spartan soldiers on small-scale battles many times. They are far superior to other Thebesian civilians in combat skills and spiritual fighting spirit. What's more, they believe that fighting side by side with their lovers is the sublimation and fusion of emotions in the spirit. Therefore, as the speed of the charge accelerates, their fighting spirit is also rising sharply.

So, when the forefront of the two sides collided suddenly, the Saints of Thebes actually fought with the King of Sparta's Guards in a competition of strength and skills.

But when the successors of both sides pressed, the gap gradually emerged. Compared with the 50-man column, the strength gap was obvious. This gap was reflected in the battle when both sides were pushing. The Spartan side, with few people, could only retreat step by step under the pressure, and the originally dense array gradually became loose.

The soldiers of the Saints of Thebes bravely squeezed into the gap, trying to expand the gap and destroy the shield formation. They were not afraid of the spears that the Spartans kept coming out, because they wanted to show their courage to their lovers. Defeating the Spartans was undoubtedly enough to boast about their lives, and they believed that even if they attacked with all their strength and reduced their defense, their lovers would resist everything for them.

The Holy Saints of Thebes fearlessly, the brave attack of life and death and the powerful squeeze of the super thick column made the Spartan soldiers constantly injured and fell down, and the array began to become fragmented. The worst thing was that their king was in trouble.

Cliombrotus, who was in the battle formation, had just stabbed the spear into the chest of the Saints soldier of Thebes who rushed to the front. Unexpectedly, the soldier vomited blood, but he held the gun bar and shouted a person's name.

Immediately afterwards, another soldier, the Saint of Thebes rushed up with tears in his eyes, ignored the spear stabbed by the King's Guard beside him, and rushed forward, knocking the unexpectedly caught Cleombrotus to the ground.

The Spartan king, whose helmet rolled aside, watched helplessly as the soldier bit his throat even though he was pierced by several thorn guns...

The king is dead! The Spartans established their country with martial arts. Except for the hot spring gate battle with too much disparity in the military force, there have never been any kings who died in other battles. However, today this tragedy happened, and it is hard to imagine how big the fighting spirit of the Spartans would be. What's more, now they are facing the terrifying Thebesians who are as mad as mad, and the number of people facing head-on is less than the other side. The Greek Spartans, known for their bravery, were timid. First, Black Roussus fled from the soldiers, then the Piriassi, and finally the real Spartans threw away the shield and turned around and ran away...

The Spartan phalanx on the right wing was defeated, and the soldiers fled desperately to the camp above the hill.

At this time, the road and the left wing had already contacted the enemy and had the upper hand in the battle. However, the Spartan coalition had always been centered on the Spartans. Now that the Spartans were defeated, the Allied troops had no intention of fighting and retreating in a hurry.

Although the Thebes army defeated the Spartans, the soldiers tried their best and were very tired. Moreover, the Spartan Allied troops were almost unharmed and the number was still more than that of the Thebes coalition. Therefore, Ipa Mironda did not dare to continue to attack the Spartan Allied camp and retreated back to the camp.

At the end of the Battle of Luctra, about 1,000 Lasidims were killed in this battle, including 400 Spartan soldiers. Thebes Saint soldiers also died and injured 200, accounting for 2/3 of their organization. Although the number of deaths in the battle was not large, this battle was actually a competition between the two city-states of Thebes and Sparta, and Thebes won.

Even many Thebes who came to the battlefield could not believe that they had won the victory. After returning to the camp, they cheered indulged in and carried Ipa Mironda under the leadership of Pelopidas and marched in the camp for a week to express their joy and gratitude.

The Spartan coalition camp was shrouded in the haze of failure. Although their number was still greater than that of the Thebes coalition, the Spartan king died in battle and his army was headless. Although some Spartans were unwilling to give up, they had to send envoys to the Thebes camp in accordance with traditional practice and request a temporary truce in order to bury the dead, which actually admitted the failure.

After burying the dead, both sides sent messengers together.

The messengers of the Spartan coalition were to return to Sparta as soon as possible to report the defeat to the Elders' Council, and asked them to accept the new commander and send reinforcements to save them from Piosha. Although the king Cliombrotus, who died in battle, left them a safe retreat, the Port of Cleucis, the low-moral army was afraid of being attacked by the Thebes, and did not dare to retreat alone, and remained in the camp on the hills.

The Thebes sent three messengers, one to Athens, one to Thessali, and one to Dionia.

The first messenger arrived at Athens, because it was closest to Thebes. When the messenger wearing a corolla proclaimed loudly to the Athenian Council: "The army of Thebes defeated the Spartan army and killed the Spartan king Cleombrotus!..."

This amazing news caused the entire venue to be silent. For these elites in Athens, Thebes' victory made them even more afraid of Thebes.

Kalistratus had no idea that the Bees could defeat Sparta, so he and Iphicratus asked the messenger in detail. Although the messenger answered briefly, they also felt that although Thebes won, the result was not too great. According to the Spartans' character, they would inevitably revenge wildly and the intensity of the war would increase.

Although this made Calistratus secretly happy, he was also worried that Athens would be reintroduced into the quagmire of war.

The second place to arrive at the Messenger of Thebes was Philare. After all, the port in the north of the Piosha area can be directly reached by boat, and the distance is not too far.

After Jason received the news, he danced. He immediately summoned the cavalry and infantry, proclaiming that he would help his ally Thebes.

Two days later, he led 8,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry to the south from land and headed straight to Hot Spring Pass.

Originally, he thought there would be a fierce battle at Hot Spring Pass, but when the Spartan coalition led by Cliombrotus attacked the Piosha area, he called on the garrisons in Central Greece to meet. Most of the Spartan garrisons in Hot Spring Pass sent most of them. After learning about the failure of the battle, the left-behind soldiers felt lonely and in danger, and took the initiative to retreat.

Jason easily occupied this very important strategic location, leaving 500 soldiers to garrison, and then led the guards and cavalry, without waiting for the advance of the large army to quickly pass the territory of the Fokis who were incompatible with it.
Chapter completed!