In the more than a year since then, the exiles stopped. Although the team continued to grow, they did not prepare for the battle. Instead, time was used to erode the fighting spirit. More and more people sighed, but fewer and fewer people were determined to take revenge.

However, Pelopidas was always paying attention to the movements in the west: the rulers of Thebes had the support of the Spartans, and they acted against the pressure on the city-state. The people suffered a lot and complained; and other city-states in the Piosha area also surrendered to Sparta...

The strong sense of responsibility made Pelopidas unable to bear it anymore. He decided to take action immediately. Because he was afraid of leaking the secret, he did not discuss with other leaders of the exiles, but privately found six like-minded friends to assist him in implementing the "Plan for the Restoration of Thebes" that he had been thinking about for a long time.

They disguised themselves as hunters, set out from the Athenian border early in the morning, crossed mountains and ridges, and rushed on the road non-stop. By the time they arrived outside Thebes, night was approaching, so they mingled in the team of farmers returning from the land, passed through the city gates, and hid in the residence of their good friend Charon, and asked Charon to send slaves to call his other good friend, the clerk of the military consul.

After discussion, the banquet the next night was held.

Now they have successfully killed two pro-Spartan military consuls. Just as Pelopidas breathed a sigh of relief, Philidas raised the letter in his hand anxiously: "Pelopidas, the situation is not good! Someone has noticed our plan and wrote a letter to inform him!"

Pelopidas hurriedly took the letter and saw it. The letter was a warning to Achias: An exile sneaked into the city and attempted to assassinate the pro-Spartan leaders, reminding him to be careful!"

Pelopidas changed his face and asked hurriedly: "Who wrote it?!"

Philidas shook his head: "There is no signature on the letter. The messenger left immediately after delivering the letter. It can be seen that this person is not Azias's friend. Perhaps he is just an ordinary city-state official, and he accidentally saw you in the city..." After all, although Pelopidas was young, he was still a little famous among the people of Thebes.

"What should we do now?" The other people looked nervous and looked at Pelopidas.

Pelopidas calmed down at this moment, and he said with a firm expression: "When we set out, we had already made a wish to Zeus and prepared for sacrifice! Things have been going on now, are we going to retreat halfway? We should speed up our actions and quickly complete our plan while the enemy may not understand the situation!"

Pelopidas's words gave the others a shot of a heart attack. Everyone quickly reached a consensus and took advantage of the night to leave the mansion and go to the homes of the two real leaders of the Spartans - Leontiardas and Sypatas.

The lustful Sipatas was spending the night in the high-end brothel in the city. Charon had already bribed the brothel people, and the exiles easily entered the bedroom and stabbed him to death.

Leontiadas was not as careless as his colleagues. He never went out at night, and there were guards in the mansion and were more careful. However, Pelopidas had already had plans to assassinate in his mind. He had not been idle for more than a year on the border of Athens. He asked Charon in Thebes to find opportunities to contact these guards, and finally convinced some of the guards who hated Sparta. On that night, they poured their colleagues with wine and quietly opened the gate for Pelopidas.

When Pelopidas entered the bedroom, Leontiardas was still sleeping soundly. Pelopidas covered his mouth with his hands and stabbed a sharp dagger into his heart. This caused the fall of Thebes and caused countless people to be killed and injured. The cunning pro-Spartan leader Leontiardas died in a bad life.

Immediately afterwards, Pelopidas rushed to the prison with some guards, pretended to be Leontiardas's entourage, used his personal token to trick the door open, and then took advantage of his unpreparedness to kill all the prisoners and freed all the detained people who resisted Spartans.

They all expressed their gratitude to Pelopidas, but Pelopidas asked them to go to the city immediately and contact all the people who were dissatisfied with Sparta.

Everyone was pleased to be ordered.

So the city of Thebes became uneasy late at night. The pro-Spartans noticed the abnormality, but they were completely unable to contact their leaders, so they could not respond in time. The Spartans in the Acropolis did not know what was happening in the city because no one informed them, and did not dare to act rashly in the dark, so they could only guard the city.

As soon as dawn broke out, the whole city of Thebes was boiling.

Most of the people in the city rushed to the square, and Ipaminonda was also among them. When Pelopidas secretly wrote to him about his plan, Ipaminonda, like some of Pelopidas' friends, opposed such a risky plan. However, when he saw Pelopidas standing on the central platform of the square and showing the bodies of Leontiardas and others to the public, he couldn't help but sigh at Pelopidas's resolute and bold action. Such a seemingly difficult thing was actually done by him!

Pelopidas listed the various sins committed by the Spartans and pro-Spartans in Thebes to the people, which made the people in the square feel empathy. Then he appealed passionately: The people of Thebes took up their weapons, united, and bravely fought with the traitors and invaders! Avenge their dead compatriots and let Thebes regain freedom and independence!…

The people were spoken excitedly. They shouted the name of Pelopidas and were excited to crown the insurers who participated in the assassination plan, led by Pelopidas, and unanimously elected Pelopidas and Philidas as military consuls.

The two accepted the appointments given by the people without hesitation, and announced the establishment of a 100-person council in the city-state, whose members were taken turns each month by Thebesian citizens, and established the supreme authority of the city-state as the general assembly.

The people cheered and celebrated Thebes's becoming a democratic government.

Then, Pelopidas immediately issued an order to the people: pick up the shield spear, form an army, arrest all pro-Spartan personnel, regain the acropolis occupied by the Spartan army, and at the same time, they must defend against the Spartan army that is most likely to come to intervene.

The people of Thebes took action immediately, and the pro-Spartans were found, either beaten to death or detained. Only a very small number of people fled from Thebes.

When fully armed civilians gathered in the square again, Pelopidas did not immediately lead the army, and he requested the appointment of Ipaminonda as the commander-in-chief and fight alongside him.

Many people in the civilians didn't even know who Ipaminunda was, but at this time Pelopidas had a high prestige, and out of trust in him, most of the people chose to agree.

When they saw a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance but a bookish atmosphere walking onto the platform, they couldn't help but regret the choice they had just made.

But Pelopidas looked happy. He knew Ipa Minonda's ability very well, so he excitedly said to him who slowly walked onto the stage: "Ipa, we can finally fight together again!"

Ipaminunda seemed calm on the surface, but he was extremely excited. He was a modest and low-key man. Due to his disgust of factional struggles, he did not participate in the series of political adventures carried out by Pelopidas. He spent most of his time reading, music and physical exercise. But when the people shouted for victory, the high revolutionary enthusiasm also infected him, not to mention that his close friends gave him so much trust, so even if he knew that the next new Thebesian government was facing a stalemate, he still said without hesitation: "I will do my best to defend Thebes with the citizens!"

The first time Ipaminunda held a public office in the city-state was such an important position related to the rise and fall of the city-state. At this time, he was already forty-one years old.

At this moment, the civilians guarding the south gate hurriedly reported: "A small group of Spartans came out of the Acropolis, broke through their obstacles and fled out of the city."

It turned out that a pro-Spartan personnel ran into the acropolis and reported to the Spartan commander the shocking news that "there was a riot in the city, the pro-Spartan government had been overthrown, and the leader was killed." The commander was shocked when he heard this, but he had only 400 soldiers under his command, and the troops were too small. Without the cooperation of the Thebes people, he did not dare to send them out to suppress the rebellion. Even if the soldiers were all brave, they could not be the opponent of thousands of angry Thebes mobs. So he quickly made a decision: taking advantage of the riots in Thebes that the mobs had not yet completely controlled the whole city, and quickly sent people to force them out of the city and request assistance from the Spartan garrisons in the neighboring city-states Pratia and Thespia.

The news brought by the city guard made the coup's insurrection nervous.

At this time, Ipaminonda, who had just been appointed as the commander of the army, volunteered: "Perot, please let me lead a force to the south gate to block the reinforcements of the Spartan, and you will go back to the Acropolis!"

Pero Pidas saw Ipaminunda's firm eyes and answered without hesitation: "Okay!"

Then, he immediately assigned 3,500 civilians to Ipaminonda, leaving only 2,000 soldiers to himself. The generals equipped with Ipaminonda were all close friends, and they were also familiar with Ipaminonda so that Ipaminonda could command more conveniently.

Before I could thank him, Ipaminonda hurried to the south gate with his army.

At this time, another military consul, Philidas, asked worriedly: "Can Ipaminunda block the Spartan reinforcements?! Do we need to make more preparations?!"
Chapter completed!