Pelopidas immediately replied: "If even Ipaminunda can't stop the enemy, then no one can defeat the Spartans!"

People around him did not understand where Pero Pidas had such great confidence in Ipaminunda. As far as they knew, although Ipaminunda had participated in battles many times before, he was a soldier and a team officer. He had never had any experience in commanding troops to fight. However, Pero Pidas's confidence still infected them, and other than that, they had no better way, so they could only suppress their worries and lead the remaining civilians to advance towards the Acropolis with Pero Pidas.

On the way to the South Gate, Ipaminunda had already thought about the strategy of fighting the enemy. He had lived in Thebes for decades. He was familiar with the surrounding terrain. He knew that the main urban area of ​​Thebes was in a lowland between mountains, especially in the south city. There were protruding mountains on both sides of the city, forming a trumpet-like terrain.

Therefore, after arriving at the South Gate, he told others his plan: 800 people lurked in the mountains on both sides of the South Gate. When the enemy reinforcements arrived, he would lead the remaining civilians out of the city to fight. Once both sides fully contacted the enemy, the ambush on both sides immediately attacked the enemy's side...

Some people raised objections, believing that going out of the city to fight was too risky, especially when facing the Spartan army, it was better to rely on the city walls to defend.

Ipaminunda immediately refuted this conservative idea. He calmly said: "The new government of Thebes has just been established and is not stable, and the acropolis is occupied by the enemy. If the Spartan garrisons from the surrounding city states gather outside the city to call a powerful army and siege Thebes, the battle will become very long. When the army of Sparta arrives again, the battle will become more difficult... If this continues, the psychology of the people may change, so we must take advantage of the different time when the enemy arrives at Thebes, take the initiative to attack and defeat them one by one in order to win time for the revival of Thebes!..."

Everyone was convinced by him, and they did not expect that this taciturn person could say such touching words.

Of course, some people also asked questions: "What if the Spartans were not fooled and did not attack us?"

Ipaminunda calmly replied: "Then we retreat to the city, and this will not cause any loss to us. Even if they find our army ambushed in the mountains, they dare not pursue it, because we are most familiar with the terrain here. However, I think the arrogant Spartans will immediately attack us in the hope of re-occupying Thebes as soon as possible."

"Damn Spartans, we will never let their conspiracy succeed!..." Everyone expressed their anger and determination towards the Spartans loudly.

Ipaminunda also said in a deep voice: "Everyone, let us work together to make this battle a nightmare for the Spartans!"

So, the people with high morale began to deploy according to Ipaminunda's plan.

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The messenger asking for help first arrived at Platia, the closest to Thebes. After learning that "there was a riot in Thebes and the pro-Spartan government was overthrown", the Spartan garrison was shocked. He knew that if he had lost Thebes, Spartan's control over the Piocha area would be in great trouble. Therefore, he led two thousand garrison soldiers (most of which were Peloponnese Allied soldiers) without hesitation and immediately marched quickly towards Thebes and rushed outside the city of Thebes at dusk. Then, he was surprised to see that the Thebes actually left the city and hit the round shield with a spear to provoke the marching Spartan army.

How could the Spartan general allow Spartan's defeated generals to be so rampant? What's more, Thebes had only a little more people than his own army. So despite the fatigue of the soldiers, he immediately arranged the army into a military formation of the same length as the other party, and then blew the trumpet of attack.

At the same time, Ipaminonda also issued an order to attack. He was at the forefront of the battle formation, holding up his shield and spear, leading the way, and charging towards the enemy.

The people of Thebes were so angry that the Spartan army was a little weak after trekking all the way, and they were at a disadvantage when they first started to catch up. When they recovered and began to regain the battle bit by bit with their rich combat experience and stronger killing skills, the ambush of Thebes suddenly emerged from both wings and attacked the rear of the Spartan army.

The Spartan army was unable to defend, and then it was defeated and the soldiers fled in scattered.

The entire battle lasted less than half an hour, and the Thebes won the final victory. While cheering, they also turned their admiration to the planners of the battle. Ipamionda, who had been unknown before, won their trust in this ordinary middle-aged man.

Another Spartan garrison from Thespia who was about to arrive at the city of Thespia was shocked to learn that the "Platia army was defeated". The general of the commander Sphelias thought that he was short of troops and did not dare to advance rashly. Instead, he retreated westward to a small town in the middle of Thespia and Thebes.

After Ipaminonda learned that the enemy had retreated, he immediately led his troops back to the city, stationed at the top of the city, and sent people to report the good news of victory to the two military consuls.

At this time, Peropidas and Philidas were leading the civilians to attack the Acropolis for one day, but they were unable to take it down. After all, although the Acropolis was small, the city walls were very strong, and they were located on the hills, with only one path, which made the superior troops of Thebes unable to be expanded. Moreover, the Spartan army was surrounded on all sides and had no way to retreat, so they fought to the death, which led to the failure of the Thebes' sieges many times, and both the generals and soldiers felt a little discouraged.

At this time, the good news that "the Nanmen Army defeated the Spartan reinforcements" came, which made everyone feel energetic and morale rebound.

The generals also talked about Ipaminunda with a smile on their faces, and Philipdas even praised: "Perotis, you are right. Ipaminunda is indeed an excellent general in command!"

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The next day, the news of the "Thebes coup success" spread throughout Central Greece. Countless exiles from Thebes began to rush back to their mother state from all directions to defend the emerging Thebesian government. Exiles from Athens were the greatest force. For Athenian citizens, this was something they were very happy to see. Although the Council did not express any opinions on this openly, many Athenian volunteers went to Thebes with the exiles, preparing to fight side by side with the Thebes, including two newly elected generals this year, who joined the volunteer team as private identities.

The exiles were excitedly moving westward, and they fought several battles with the Spartan Allied troops stationed in some city-states in the Piosha area, who also rushed to Thebes, and all won.

Thebes was constantly receiving assistance and its strength increased dramatically, and the Spartan reinforcements of Thespia could only retreat.

On this day, the Thebes' attack on the Acropolis failed again, but the Spartan generals did not feel happy. He stood at the head of the Acropolis and looked down, and could clearly see the increasing number of enemies under the hills. The situation was obvious. Thebes received help from outside, which also meant that the Spartan reinforcements failed to attack Thebes, or they did not come at all. This not only made him, but also made the Spartan soldiers in the Acropolis feel a little desperate.

At this moment, Peropidas sent an envoy to negotiate with the Spartan generals of the Acropolis and proposed the conditions of "let the Spartans return the Acropolis, and Thebes would let them leave safely", and the two sides finally reached an agreement.

The return of the Acropolis allowed Pero Pidas and the new government led by Philidas to finally completely liberate Thebes. While the people of the whole city cheered, the leaders led by Pero Pidas still looked solemn, because they knew that the test of Thebes had just begun and the Spartans would never give up.

On the third day, the news finally reached Sparta, shocking the elders' council. They no longer had the intention to cause trouble for Dionia, but had to quickly concentrate all their strength to put out the fire ignited by Thebes.

After some discussion, the Elders Council decided to lead the troops to fight with Agsipolis, who had been king of Sparta for less than two years.

So Sparta began to recruit soldiers from the Peloponnese allies.

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Just as Leottizides led the Dionian coalition to defeat the Carthaginian army and intercepted a large amount of baggage, the outer city of Serodhiham on the north coast was captured by the Iberian army.

Why was the city of Cerrodium, which had been defending steadily for nearly ten days before, and failed to siege Hasdruba's troops many times, suddenly broken?

It turned out that after several failures in siege, Hasdruba realized that the loss of strong attack from the front was too great and it was difficult to break through, so he used the Iberian infantry.

The Iberian infantry under Hasdruba came from the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula and were all recruited from the indigenous tribes conquered by the Magrid family. There were 4,000 people. Almost all of them were wearing racial costumes made of white linen with purple mixed edges. They were not armed outside and thick leather hats on their heads. They were equipped with a large oval shield, a gun, and the most common and intimidating Fakata dagger hanging around their waists. Their style and length were very similar to the Dionian dagger, and they were also extremely sharp. The slightly different one was that the front of the sword was slightly arc-shaped.
Chapter completed!