Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 1076
Lunar October.

After the army of Wu conquered the city-state of Athens and razed the city to the ground, it continued to advance westward and was invincible all the way. It conquered the Greek city-states such as Corinth, Thebes, and Olympia, and advanced into the Peloponnese Peninsula.

At this time, the Spartans had just suppressed the uprising of the Hilos (Helots) in the country, and when they heard the news that the Wu army was advancing westward, they couldn't help panicking, and hurriedly organized an army to counterattack.

The Spartans were not actually native to this place.

It was originally called "Lagonia" and was the homeland of the Hilo people.

The ancestors of the Spartans were Dorians. Around 1100 BC, a group of Greek tribes composed of Dorians invaded the Peloponnese from the northern part of the Greek peninsula. One of them entered Laconia and destroyed The urban civilization of the Mycenaean era.

A new political center formed by five villages, this is the Spartan city of the Dorians.

It is called a city, but in fact it has neither walls nor decent streets.

When the Wu army reached the city-state of Sparta, King Archidamus of Sparta led a total of 3 Peloponnesian coalition forces to confront the Wu army.

Qingji dispatched an army of [-] to a decisive battle with the remaining Greek coalition forces.

After two hours of bloody battles, the Peloponnesian Peninsula coalition forces were defeated and the entire army was annihilated. King Archidamus of Sparta was also besieged to death. This declared the destruction of the Spartan city-state. It will not be long before the Nisar peninsula will fall too.

However, the Spartans were all soldiers.

They implement a strict medical examination system.

Only those newborns who are healthy are allowed to be raised, and those who are weak or disabled are abandoned to the wilderness.

Until the age of seven, citizens' children are brought up by their mothers at home.

From the age of seven to the age of seven, children enter the educational institutions of the state and begin life in the military camps.

Afterwards the Spartans were to enter the Youth Military Training Corps.

Before joining the regiment, the young people will undergo the test of whipping in front of the altar of the temple. Those who can endure it will be qualified, and the one who endures the most times of whipping will be the winner and will be rewarded.

Those who wailed for exemption were deprived of their qualifications to join the regiment.

The children of citizens who have reached the age of 20 begin to receive practical training, and at the age of 30, they officially obtain citizenship.

Unlike most ancient countries, Spartans attached great importance to girls' education.

Women usually receive the same military and physical training as men, with the aim of producing strong mothers who will produce healthy children.

Another purpose of girls' education is to enable women to take on the responsibility of defending the homeland while the men go off to war...

Under this education system, the entire country of Sparta became a heavily guarded barracks.

So when the Wu army entered Sparta, they were attacked by many old people, women, and children, making it impossible to guard against, and many soldiers of the Wu army died.

This made Qingji angry.

Qingji, who was furious, issued a very cruel order——

Massacre the city!

"Kill! Kill them all!"

"Not a single Spartan left! Kill them all!"

With Qingji's order, the Spartans also ushered in a catastrophe.

The Spartans, even the old and the weak, women and children, were ruthlessly slaughtered by the Wu army, and the corpses piled up like mountains, and the Hilos buried them.

The Hilos, who had a blood feud with the Spartans, even helped the Wu army massacre the Spartans and buried them on the spot.

Qingji admired such "docile" Xiluo people very much, and allowed them to select some strong young men as servants to join the Western Expeditionary Army.

At the same time, Qingji also lifted the slave status of the Xiluo people and gave them back their freedom.

And with the destruction of the two major city-states of Athens and Sparta, the rest of the Greek city-states were no longer successful, and they all surrendered to Wu to avoid becoming slaves...

In this case, the Wu army quickly captured the Balkan Peninsula.

Wu Zhang also occupied the Kingdom of Macedonia and the Kingdom of Thrace, and joined forces with Qingji in Sparta.

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Qingji, who occupied the Balkan Peninsula, was full of ambitions and prepared to move west or south to attack the Carthaginians in North Africa, or the Etruscans in the west, as well as the Romans and Syracuses.

However, at this time, the Israelites and Egyptians resisted the "Yifu Order" and "Yi Wenling" implemented by Wu, and set off a large-scale rebellion. It was difficult for the countries of Judah and Egypt to suppress it. Qingji led his troops to suppress the rebellion.

The city-state kingdoms such as Carthage, Rome, and Syracuse were let Wu Fan and Wu Zhang lead troops to attack, and Wu Ji went out with the army as a supervisor.

At the end of the new year, the celebration of the internal rebellion in the kingdoms of Judah and Egypt was quelled, and his health went from bad to worse, until finally he fell ill.

He knew he wouldn't be able to stay in the West for long, but he still decided to take care of everything for his successor.

Under the order of Qingji, the Israelites in Judah were dispatched to places thousands of miles away, such as Serbia, Nanguo, and Moguo. They were dispersed and forced to convert to Tiandaoism. Shoot to kill.

Some Egyptians were filled into the country of Judah to prevent them from continuing to make trouble.

After solving these matters, Qingji traveled across the ocean and embarked on the journey back to the native land of Great Wu.

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The time has entered the 48th year of Wu Shihuang, that is, 466 BC, the ninth month of the lunar calendar.

The pace of expansion of Wu's western expeditionary army was very rapid.

Wu Zhang and Wu Fan seemed to be competing with each other, and the expansion war started from the south to the north.

Wu Zhang led his troops to the north, swept across the barbarian tribes or states of Rome, Peonia, Tribali, Illyria, and Dacia, and then entered the Danube River, where a fierce battle broke out with the Celts.

Wu Fan led his troops to the south, annexed the Kingdom of Carthage, conquered the tribes of the Berbers and Bafurs, and captured the land of North Africa.

After three full years of fighting, the Wu Empire finally established hegemony in the Mediterranean Sea, laying down a territory about the size of the later Roman Empire.

Both of them imagined that Qingji could give these places to himself to build a state.

But how could Qingji allow it?

When the two met in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain), they got Qingji's order to summon them back to Beijing to report on their duties.

At this time, Wu Fan and Wu Zhang were plotting major events in Wu Jun's central army camp.

"Third brother, now you and I have 60 or [-] soldiers and horses, and we are the only ones who follow the lead. The territory we have built in the past two years surrounds the entire Mediterranean Sea and spans the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe. Compared with the mainland of Wu, it is only more Quite a few."

Wu Zhang looked meaningfully at Wu Fan who was sitting opposite him, and said, "Third brother, are you really willing to hand over the military power to that brat Wu Ji?"

"Why, Ninth Brother, do you want to disobey the emperor's order?"

Wu Fan couldn't help frowning.

(End of this chapter)