"Enough time?" Ojuntas also said coldly: "I don't think so! The previous news did not mean that the Dioonians had divided part of their army to the west and captured the cities of Issus, Castabrum, etc., and opened the road from Silesia to Syria. Farabazos was just harassing, and did not dare to stop the Greek coalition army head-on, as long as the Greek coalition army passed through the Taukis Mountains, it could reach Syria smoothly all the way to join the Dionian army, which would undoubtedly greatly boost the enemy's strength! ”

Speaking of this, Olon Tas turned around, bowed respectfully to the king of Persia, and then said solemnly: "Great king, the Greek soldiers are very strong in melee combat, and this time the Dioonians also gathered together the most powerful Spartan, Athenian and Theban armies in the Greek city-states, although according to the battle report of Phanabazos, it was the rebellion of the Greek mercenaries that led to the defeat of the entire battle, but it may also be that the Greek army led by the soldiers of Sparta, Athens and Thebes first defeated the left flank guarded by our army, This has led to a sudden change in the situation of the war, so we must defeat the Dionian army in Syria as soon as possible before the Greek coalition arrives in order to win the final victory in this war! ”

Oljuntas, who had been ordered to intercept the Greek expeditionary force, suffered a crushing defeat and was so impressed by the terrible impact of the Spartan warriors that the great man, who had been governor of Amelia for decades, was able to temporarily abandon the arrogance of the Persian nobility and warn him.

His words immediately turned Artaxerxes' face ugly, for he had the same memory: in the battle with Cyrus the Younger, he had witnessed a charge of tens of thousands of Greek hoplites crushing his left flank with a single charge, which almost drove him into despair.

For the other generals present, the fact that the Greek army was able to repel Darius and King Xerxes twice, and maintained a superior advantage in the battles with the Persian army in the following decades, was obviously more worthy of their attention than the Theolytic army, which had not yet won a brilliant victory against the Persian army alone (the defeat of the Persian fleet in the Battle of Cyprus did not shock the Persian nobility, because naval warfare was not the Persians' specialty, and the entire Persian fleet had little to no Persian participation). As for the battle in western Asia Minor, Artaxerxes did not disclose the true situation, so the report of Fanabazos led them to misjudge that the defeat of the Persian army was mainly due to the betrayal of Greek mercenaries).

Seeing that everyone's eyes in the room were focused on him, Terebasus's heart tightened, and he knew very well that at the beginning of today's meeting, Mardonios, Harpergues, and Ojuntas had questioned the tactics adopted by the previous Persian army, which was actually expressing dissatisfaction with him.

The conflict between Terebasus and these top Persian nobles had a long history, and the root cause of this was jealousy. The Persian king regarded Terebasus as his confidant and obeyed him, which was obviously incomparable to several important ministers of the kingdom who were far away from the royal court, and of course it also involved the contradictions between the old and new Persian nobles. Ever since the great armies had joined forces, they had repeatedly expressed their displeasure with Tribassus, but with the protection of the King of Persia, the matter was ultimately overcome, but today's joint attack made Tribassus feel a little uncomfortable from the way Artaxerxes looked at him: the military mediocre king was wavering about whether or not to continue with the strategy he had proposed!

Fortunately, he had prepared in advance, and unhurriedly took out something from his arms, and said softly: "This is the map of the Dionian army camp carefully drawn by the most capable subordinates sent by Lord Maktonos, after many explorations and spending a lot of time, I specially copied a copy, you can take a look." ”

As he spoke, he unfolded the white cloth in his hand and placed it in the open space in the center.

Maktonos, who had been watching from the sidelines, walked over first, looked down at the cloth placed on the ground, and said, "This is indeed a map of the Ionian camp drawn by my men. ”

Maldonios, Ojuntas, and Halpergues walked over slowly, looking at them nonchalantly, but soon their faces showed surprise, and they bent down to take a closer look.

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

While the three of them were concentrating on the map, Tribasus said in a deep voice: "Five years ago, the Dionian army invaded Greece, and the Greek city-states united to form an army of nearly 100,000 people, which had the opportunity to repel the Dionian army, but the Dioonians built a defensive camp with a complex structure to lure the Greek army to attack, and the number of Greek soldiers was two or three times that of the Dionian soldiers who defended the camp, but after more than two months of siege, they did not achieve much success, Instead, the Dioonians took advantage of the great opportunity of the Greeks' long-term inconclusive attack and the lack of air defense in the rear to send an army to land in Thessaly, and finally Greece fell to Dionia, alas......"

This sigh seemed to be screwed into Artaxerxes's heart, and he leaned against the back of his chair: if it were not for the rebellion of the Asians Minor, Persia would have been recaptured by him long ago, and even with the nearby support of Asia Minor, Greece would not have surrendered so quickly! ……

"The Dionian army is trying to repeat its old trick this time, you see—its camp is flanked on both sides by mountains, and with bays in the rear, we can only attack from the front, and the width of this front is narrow, which is obviously not conducive to our advantage of being outnumbered."

Trebasus gestured on the map and said earnestly: "Look at the camp they built again, they actually built two layers of wooden walls, the wooden fence in front is very low and only about one meter, and the wooden wall behind is 4 meters high, the two walls are 30 meters apart, and there is a trench in the middle, although our spies cannot find out the depth of the trench, but according to the situation of the Dionian army in the Peloponnese defense in those years, it is difficult to cross easily, It will be difficult for our soldiers to get to this wooden wall behind them, and it will take a lot of time. And you see, on this wooden wall at the back, the towers were densely packed, and the Dioonians were bound to place a large number of archers on it to make fierce long-range attacks on our attacking troops.

In addition, Lord Harpergues' men have mentioned a piece of information that needs our attention. During this time, the Dionian army sent a large number of soldiers to set traps in front of the camp without stopping...... According to what we have learned, we can know that the Dionian camp is very well defended, and our army may pay a lot of casualties just to attack the real camp wooden wall, not to mention a long siege, it only takes one or two strong attacks to fail, and those affiliated troops may lose their fighting spirit, and once the Dionians launch a full-scale counterattack, our army's situation will be very dangerous! ”

The three great Persian nobles were all long-term commanders of the army, and they were all well versed in military affairs, and compared with this map, they naturally understood that Terebasus's words were not alarmist, and although they hated this person, they did not refute it bluntly, but stared at the map, meditating, hoping to find a solution to the problem.

After a brief silence, Olon Tas reluctantly asked, "Are we going to stay here all the time, do nothing, and just watch the Dionian army and the Greek coalition converge?!" ”

Trebasus waited for the other party to ask this question, and he calmly replied: "The Dionian army invaded our borders with great momentum, successively conquering Canaan, flying away, and Syria, originally we thought that they would continue to invade Mesopotamia eastward, so the king himself led a large army to Taposacus, but the Dioonians suddenly stopped their advance on the cunning, wanting to wear us down by defense, and at the same time waiting for the rendezvous of the Greek coalition army, of course we could not let the Dioonians get their wish, so they must be forced to leave the camp, Take the initiative to attack us, and the whole situation will be more favorable to us. ”

Halpergues sneered: "Since the Dionian army was able to suddenly switch from a smooth offensive posture to defense, it can be seen that their king is more cautious, and wants him to abandon the camp that has been built, lead an army far smaller than ours, and take the initiative to attack us, unless he is a fool, this is simply impossible!" ”

Trebasus replied confidently: "I have learned more about the king of Dionia, a very confident and bold Greek, who has led an army smaller than the enemy on many occasions, and has taken the initiative to attack, and has won all of them, which is one of the reasons why Dionya has expanded rapidly in just a few decades and has become our opponent, so it can be seen that he is not a person who does not dare to take the initiative to attack because of the small number of troops, on the contrary, he is very adventurous, just because the king led the army to arrive in time, The difference in strength between the two sides was too great for him to temporarily go on the defensive and wait for reinforcements, but as long as we pay some price, I believe he will have to give up his defense and take the initiative to seek a decisive battle with us! ”

"At what cost?!" Artaxerxes asked eagerly.

Terebasus looked at the King of Persia with an extremely serious expression, and said in a deep voice: "Great King, the main reason why Fanabazos was able to hold back the Greek coalition army was because he burned and evacuated the villages and towns along the path of the Greek coalition army, so that the Greek coalition army could not collect any grain and materials, which made it difficult for them to transport and supply. Now we can use similar tactics to evacuate all the people in the vicinity of Taposacus, burn villages and supplies that cannot be taken, and turn Taposacus into a blank slate between Taposacus and Syria—"