"Enough time?" Ojontas also said coldly: "I don't think so! The news that came before was not that the Dionians divided some troops to capture Isus, Castablum and other cities westward, and opened up the road from Silesia to Syria. Farabazos was just harassing and did not dare to block the Greek coalition head-on. As long as the Greek coalition passed through the Taoji Mountains, they could reach Syria smoothly and meet with the Dionian army, which would undoubtedly greatly encourage the enemy's strength!"

Speaking of this, Ojontas turned around, bowed respectfully to the King of Persia, and then said solemnly: "King, the Greek soldiers have strong melee ability, and this time the Dionians also gathered the most powerful Spartan, Athens and Thebes army in the Greek city-states. Although according to the war report of Fanabazos, it was the rebellion of the Greek mercenaries that led to the defeat of the entire battle, it may also be that the Greek army led by the soldiers of Sparta, Athens and Thebes first defeated the left wing guarded by our army, which led to the mutation of the entire battle situation. Therefore, we must defeat the Dionian army in Syria as soon as possible before the Greek coalition arrived, so that we can safely win the final victory of this war!"

At that time, Aorongtas was ordered to block the Greek expeditionary force, but suffered a crushing defeat. The terrible impact of the Spartan warrior left a deep impression on him. Therefore, this great man who had been governor in Asia for decades and was like a local emperor could temporarily abandon the arrogance of the Persian nobles and warn him.

His words immediately made Artaxerxes's face look ugly, because he had the same memory: in the battle with Cyrus, he witnessed tens of thousands of Greek heavy infantry charges defeating his left wing with one charge, almost putting him in despair.

For several other generals present, the Greek army was able to repel Darius and King Xerxes twice, and maintained the advantage of winning or losing in the subsequent decades of battles with the Persian army. It was obviously more worthy of their attention than the Dioyes army, which had not won the brilliant victory against the Persian army so far (in the Battle of Cyprus, the Persian fleet suffered a crushing defeat, which did not shock the Persian nobles, because naval battle was not the Persians' goodness, and almost no Persians participated in the entire Persian fleet. As for the battle in western Asia Minor, Artaxerxes did not announce the real situation, so the battle report of Fanabazos made them wrongly judge that the failure of the Persian army mainly came from the betrayal of the Greek mercenaries).

Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, Tribasus's heart tightened, and he knew very well: at the beginning of today's meeting, Maldognos, Halpergos, and Ojontas questioned the strategies adopted by the Persian army before, which was actually expressing dissatisfaction with him.

The conflict between Trebasus and these top Persian nobles has been around for a long time, and the fundamental reason is jealousy. The Persian king regarded Trebasus as his confidant and obeyed his words. This was obviously incomparable to several important officials of the kingdom who were far from the royal court. Of course, this also involved the conflict between the old Persian nobles and the emerging nobles. Since the army joined forces, they have expressed dissatisfaction with Trebasus many times, but with the protection of the Persian king, the matter was finally lost. However, today's joint attack made Trebasus feel a little bad in the look when Artaxerxes looked at him: this king, who was mediocre in military terms, was shaken about whether he would continue to implement the strategy he proposed!

Fortunately, he had prepared in advance, so he took out something from his arms calmly and said softly: "This is the most capable subordinate sent by Lord Marktonos. After many investigations, he spent a lot of time to carefully draw the map of the Dionia army camp. I specially copied it and you can take a look."

As he said that, he spread the white cloth in his hand and placed it on the open space in the center.

Mark Tonos, who was originally watching, walked over first, looked down at the cloth placed on the ground, and said, "This is indeed a map of the camp in Dionia drawn by my subordinates."

Maldognos, Ojontas and Halpergos walked over slowly and looked around casually, but soon their faces showed a look of surprise and bent down to check carefully.

Seeing this, Artaxerxes asked the eunuch to bring a table and place the map on it.

While the three of them were observing the map intently, Terebasus said in a deep voice: "Five years ago, the Dionysian army invaded Greece, and the Greek city-states united to form an army of nearly 100,000 people. They had the opportunity to repel the Dionysian army, but the Dionys 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 Dionysian soldiers in the defensive camp. However, after more than two months of besieging them, they did not achieve much record. Instead, they allowed the Dionysians to take advantage of the Greeks' long-term attack and failed and their defense was empty, and sent troops to land in Thessali. In the end, Greece turned to Dionys, alas..."

This sigh seemed to twist on Artaxerxes' heart, making him lean back on the back of the chair: If it weren't for the rebellion of the Asian Minor, Persia would have been recaptured by him, and even with Asia Minor's nearby support, Greece would not have surrendered so quickly!

"This time the army of Dionia wants to repeat the same trick. Look, it depends on mountains on both sides of its camp, and there is a bay behind it. We can only attack from the front, and the narrow width of this front is obviously not conducive to our advantage of having many soldiers."

Tribasus gestured on the map and said earnestly: "Look at the camp they built, they actually built two wooden walls. The wooden fence in front was very low and only about one meter, while the wooden wall behind was 4 meters high, the two walls were 30 meters apart, and there was a trench in the middle. Although our secret spies could not detect the depth of the trench, it was difficult to cross easily according to the situation of the Deonian army in the Peloponnese defense and combat back then. It would be difficult for our soldiers to reach under the wooden wall behind and take a lot of time. And you see, the towers on the back were dense, and the Dionians would inevitably arrange a large number of archers on it to carry out fierce long-range attacks on our battalion troops.

In addition, Lord Halpergos's men also mentioned an information that we need to pay attention. During this period, the Dionian army sent a large number of soldiers to set traps in front of the camp... Based on the situation we have learned, we can see that the Dionian camp is very tightly defended. If our army only wants to attack the real wooden wall of the camp, it may cause a lot of casualties. Not to mention a long-term siege, it only takes one or two failed strong attacks, and those affiliated troops may lose their fighting spirit. Once the Dionians who are raising their strength launch a full-scale counterattack, our army's situation will be very dangerous!"

The three Persian nobles all commanded troops for a long time and were all well-versed in military affairs. Compared with this map, they naturally understood that Terebassus's words were not alarmist. Although they hated this person, they did not refute it bluntly. Instead, they stared at the map and thought hard, hoping to find a solution to the problem.

After a brief silence, Ojontas asked unwillingly: "Do we have to stay here forever, do nothing, just watch the Dionian army and the Greek coalition join?!"

Terebasus was waiting for the other party to ask this question, and he calmly replied: "The army of Dionians invaded our borders fiercely, conquered Canaan and flew away from the plane, Syria. We originally thought they would continue to attack Mesopotamia eastward, so the king personally led a large army to Taposacus, but the Dionians cunningly stopped advancing and wanted to consume us through defense, and at the same time wait for the reunion of the Greek coalition. Of course, we cannot let the Dionians do what they want, so we must force them to leave the camp and take the initiative to attack us. The entire battle situation is more beneficial to us."

Halpergos sneered: "Since the Dionian army can suddenly change from a smooth offensive situation to defense, it can be seen that their king is more cautious and wants him to give up the camp he has built, lead an army far fewer than us, and take the initiative to attack us. Unless he is a fool, this is impossible!"

Terebasus replied confidently: "I have learned in detail about King Dionia. This is a very confident and bold Greek. He has led less than the enemy's army many times and launched an attack, and he has won the victory. This is also one of the reasons why Dionia has expanded rapidly in just a few decades and became our opponent. It can be seen that he is not a person who dares to take the initiative to attack because of the small number of troops. On the contrary, he loves to take the risk. It is just because the king led the army to arrive in time and the difference in strength between the two sides is too great that he temporarily takes the defensive moment to wait for reinforcements. But as long as we pay some price, I believe he will have to give up defense and actively seek our decisive battle!"

"What price should I pay?" Artaxerxes asked anxiously.

Terebasus looked at the Persian king with a very serious expression and said in a deep voice: "King, the reason why Fanabazos was able to hold back the Greek coalition was mainly because he burned and evacuated the villages and towns on the Greek coalition's route, so that the Greek coalition could not collect any food and supplies, which made it difficult for them to transport and supply. Now we can also adopt similar tactics to evacuate all the people in the area near Taposacus, burn villages and materials that cannot be taken away, and turn the land between Taposacus and Syria into a white land-"
Chapter completed!