With such a heavyweight up leader supporting the show, An Ruoxi felt relieved. They then went out for a meal and agreed to meet again tomorrow afternoon before the show started.
After getting up the next day, he made an appointment with the landlord and his family for dinner. Fang Ze waited at home until about five o'clock, hoping to wait until this week's guests arrived and settle them before going to Xiao Hei's place.
But unexpectedly, Fang Ze waited until half past five and didn't even wait for this week's guests.
"What the hell is Big Meow doing?" Fang Ze came out of the house and made sure there was no one outside the door.
"I promised they were human." Fang Ze glanced at a few ant nests on the roadside and thought that if the guests coming this time were a lot of ants, then it would be understandable that he couldn't see them. But Big Meow has confirmed that all the guests coming this time are humans, so even if they are a group of dwarfs, Fang Ze can still see them as long as he is not blind.
There was no way, the guests never came, Fang Ze planned to drive to Xiao Hei's place first. If the guests did arrive, Xiao Hei's place was also a pretty big venue, so it wouldn't be crowded.
After getting on the Wuling Hongguang Batmobile, Fang Ze drove on the road. Halfway through the drive, suddenly there was a loud noise from behind the seat, and then someone called him from behind, "Hello, are you our landlord?" ?"
When Fang Ze heard the voice, he quickly adjusted Wuling Hongguang to automatic driving, then let the holographic projection appear on the front window, creating the illusion that someone was driving, and then turned to look behind the avatar.
Fang Ze was hanging in the back, and the curtain blocking the back seat and the expanded space was lifted up by a man who was powerful and had chest muscles that were definitely bigger than his own.
"Hello, you can call me Fang Ze." Fang Ze knew that this week's guest came unexpectedly, so he hurried over to say hello.
"Hello, my name is Leonidas." The man with short hair and a beard stretched out his hand to Fang Ze.
"Hello, hello." Fang Ze responded enthusiastically while wondering why this name sounded so familiar.
While talking to the stranger, Fang Ze also walked into the expansion space inside the Wuling Hongguang Batmobile.
Then, Fang Ze discovered hundreds of men with chest muscles that would make girls who only have A's envy and hatred, wearing only big pants and a red cloak.
This is so!
Fang Ze suddenly remembered that he had heard the name Leonidas there.
The Three Hundred Spartans!
In 480 BC, King Xerxes I of Persia led an army of 500,000 to attack Greece, heading south to approach the Thermopylae Pass. King Leonidas of Sparta personally led the Greek coalition to defend the dangerous Thermopylae, but the Greek defenders were quickly defeated. Leonidas ordered the main force of the Greek coalition to retreat quickly, and he personally led 300 Spartan soldiers. The Bada warriors came to the rear and launched a bloody and desperate struggle with tens of thousands of Persian troops. In the end, all 300 warriors died in the battle, and the Persian army paid a heavy price of 20,000 casualties in the battle to break through the hot springs.
Of course, the above is the plot of the movie, not real history.
In the real historical Battle of Thermopylae, there were not only 300 Spartans guarding Thermopylae, but more than 7,000 Greek allies fighting side by side with the Spartans. According to the traditional Spartan military formation, the Spartans' elite 300 well-armored heavy infantry were in the middle line, while the second line and two wings were occupied by Greek allies.
Although this battle also caused heavy losses to the Persian army, it was definitely not as exaggerated as the 3 million versus 500,000 people in the movie, causing 20,000 casualties.
After all, even in ancient China with a large population, there were very few battles involving more than 500,000 people at one time. They were basically famous battles with detailed records in history.
Therefore, although Persia used a lion to fight a rabbit, it invested a huge force of 150,000 to 180,000 troops, including navy and army, into small Greece. But these troops were actually scattered on the Asia Minor Peninsula and many other battlefields. Therefore, the number of troops actually invested in Hot Spring Pass was definitely less than 500,000.
Maybe not even 100,000.
After all, from ancient times to the present, only logistics has limited the scale of war. According to the conditions at the time, mobilizing 500,000 people to attack a checkpoint at one time would require several times more civilians to ensure the supply of food. However, Persia, which was on an expedition at that time, did not have such investment capacity.
But even so, Thermopylae is a battle worth recording in history, because the Spartan warriors who showed their power at Thermopylae are so legendary.
As we all know, Greece is composed of city-states. Sparta was one of the city-states, and for a long time it competed with Athens for the top spot.
Unlike Athens, which created many great arts, Sparta was a city-state where all citizens were soldiers. Every citizen in the city-state received warrior training from an early age, and unqualified citizens were brutally eliminated.
The so-called Spartan spirit is the warrior spirit, that is, no matter about sacrifice, only about victory.
Just like the old Spartan woman, when the slave reported to her that all five of her sons had been killed in the battle, she shouted, "Slave, who asked you this? I want to know if the battle was won."
Such a city-state and nation with such distinct personalities and characteristics would have been recorded in history even if there had been no Battle of Thermopylae.
But now that we have finished talking about literary youth, we must also talk about the real history.
Although Spartan sounds very interesting. But Fang Ze didn't want such a city-state or nation to appear in China at all.
Most movies and comics depict Sparta as a nation of warriors pursuing freedom, but this is a joke in history, because the Spartans were the city-state that brought out the ugliness of slavery to its most vivid expression.
The so-called Spartans are the Dorians who wiped out the native people of Sparta and turned them into slaves. Then they captured several city-states and plundered an extremely large population.
If it is a general city-state, even if it robs the population, some will be converted into indigenous people and some into slaves. However, the Spartan city-state resolutely converted all the population except its own nation into slaves, which is called As helots, they supported the Spartans who did not farm at all.
Helots not only have no human rights, but are also used as cannon fodder to consume the opponent's projectile weapons in war. Even the helots who had made meritorious service in the war received a promise of freedom, and then gathered together to massacre, while laughing at the childish wishful thinking of these helots.
You know, even the Romans only used prisoners of war and erring slaves as gladiators, and they did not massacre without reason like the Spartans. Compared with the Persians who are portrayed as evil villains in the movie, the real image of the Spartans is actually more in line with the villains.
There are still three chapters left, which will be posted before four o'clock in the morning. Five chapters will be updated.
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