In 480 BC, after the death of King Darius I of Persia, his son Xue Xisi succeeded to the throne. In order to realize his father's last wish, Xue Xisi vowed to crush Athens and conquer Greece. To this end, he carefully prepared for four years and mobilized the military power of the entire Persian Empire. The soldiers who participated in the expedition came from 46 countries that surrendered to Persia, 100 nationalities. There are Persians and Medes, who wear colorful robes and scales and hold short swords and spears; Assyrians wear bronze helmets and carry linen shields and sticks; Parthians and spiny mannequins with bows and axes as the main weapons; There are Indians in robes; There are Arabs wearing tunics and long bows on their right shoulders; Some Ethiopians wear leopard skin or lion skin and red and white bodies. Their weapons are bows made of palm trees and arrows made of flint and antelope fox skin. Thracians wore bright red cloaks and held javelins and shields; There are also soldiers of all ethnic groups in the Caucasus. Their helmets are decorated with ox ears and they are armed with leather shields and short spears. There are so many people, so many kinds and so many weapons and equipment in the Persian army, which makes this army very much like a big exhibition of armies and armaments of various nationalities (already shown in the film).
In the spring of 480 BC, all the Persian troops gathered in Little Athadis, claiming to be 5 million, but in fact there were about 500,000 people, divided into land and sea, heading for Greece. In the face of the menacing enemy, the Greek city-states, which have always liked internal struggles, organized unprecedented joint actions. More than 30 city-states formed an anti-Persian alliance, which was chaired by King Leonidas of Sparta. After crossing the Hellers Strait, Persian troops quickly swept across the northern part of Greece, and arrived at the Demobile Pass in July and August. This pass is the "gateway" of China and Greece, which is surrounded by mountains and seas. There are two sulfur hot springs in front of the pass, so it is also called "Hot Spring Pass". The mountain pass is extremely narrow and can only accommodate one chariot. It is the only passage from northern Greece to the south. At this time, the Greeks are holding the Olympic Games, but in Greece, the Olympic Games are above everything else, and fighting is forbidden during the competition.
So the Greeks only deployed a few thousand troops at the gates. When the Persians approached, Spartan King Leonidas brought only 300 reinforcements. According to the dangerous terrain of Wenquanguan and the narrow mountain road, the troops could not take action, and the cavalry and cars were useless, Xue Xisi adopted the storm tactics of sending heavy infantry to attack in turn, in an attempt to defeat the Spartans by numerical superiority. However, the Spartans took advantage of the geographical advantage of the hot spring pass, saying that "one person can keep it, but ten thousand people can't force it", and they were condescending and stabbed the enemy with sharp spears and Persian knives. Just when Xue Xisi was at his wit's end, a local farmer named Ebie Arthus came to report that there was a path leading to the back of the pass. Xue Xisi was overjoyed and immediately ordered the Greek traitor to lead the body-guard along the thorny path into the back hill.
It turns out that Leonidas has already arranged more than 1000 defenders in the city-state of Foces on the mountain beside the highway. When there was no war, they let their guard down until the Persians came to them and lost when they met the fox. The Persians did not pursue, and went directly behind the hot spring pass. When Leonidas, king of Sparta, learned that the Persian army was circling behind him, he knew that the tide was over. In order to save his strength, he transferred the troops of other city-states without fighting spirit to the rear, leaving only 300 soldiers with him to fight. Because according to Spartan tradition, soldiers can never give up their positions. For Xue Xisi, a bloody battle in Hot Springs was like a nightmare, which claimed the lives of 20,000 Persian soldiers.
Lu Xun's earliest published literary work was Soul of Sparta, which praised 300 warriors. He believes that the indomitable fighting spirit and lofty aspirations of Spartan warriors are what China people need most. Spartans' military patriotism is touching and mysterious. This great love for the motherland, this sacred spirit of dedication to the motherland, is the soul of Sparta that touched the world, and it is this great soul that Lu Xun encouraged.
"The Soul of Sparta" describes the heroic scene in which the Spartan king led 300 Spartan warriors and 7,000 Greek allies to a decisive battle with the million-strong army led by the Persian king at the hot spring pass. When the Spartans were outnumbered, they were fearless, dead, smiling at the enemy and showing their determination to ignore them. Leonidas, king of Sparta, was determined to die for his country and fight bloody battles with all the soldiers if the king did not die. After the war, the dust filled the sky, and Xiao Sen was murderous. The Persian army attacked conveniently, while the Spartan army guarded the danger and killed the enemy bravely. The king of Sparta took the lead, rode his horse, flashed his sword and fought fiercely with the enemy in the sound of golden drums. Suddenly, the cry came, and the blood flowed back, such as the sound of tide and water drops, throwing smoke on the desert. Persian troops, countless died by the sword, countless fell into the sea, countless were ravaged by backup, and dead bodies were lying everywhere. However, in the end, the Spartan army was outnumbered and the blade was broken. The king died and the whole army was wiped out. The soul of Sparta resounded through the ages, and it will go down in history forever, making the gods cry. Lu Xun praised this and stood tall above Wenquanmen Canyon. If the earth does not perish, Spartan's soul will live forever.
In 479 BC, 65,438+10,000 Greek allied forces pursued heroically and fought a decisive battle with 300,000 enemy troops in Asia Minor. The Greek allied forces led by Spartan King Pausanias attacked the Persian garrison, and the last decisive battle of this war broke out-the Battle of Platia. The king of Sparta is elected, and there are always two kings tied at the same time. This movement has very strongly exposed the advantages and disadvantages of the opposing sides. At the beginning of the campaign, the two sides confronted each other for a long time, and several small-scale encounters and outpost wars broke out. At first, Persian cavalry attacked Greek infantry on rugged terrain unsuitable for cavalry fighting, and suffered heavy losses. Then the commander-in-chief of the Persian army learned a lesson and used the characteristics of cavalry mobility to harass the rations supply of the Greek army. On the other hand, in the encounter with the Greek army, we should try not to confront the Greek phalanx head-on, but take advantage of our own joint arms and use the long-range firepower advantages of archers and trebuchets to annihilate the Greek army. As a result of the stalemate between the two armies, the Greek side did not take any advantage, there was a problem with the supply, and it had to be prepared to retreat. Pusanias' retreat plan was originally an army array, and then retreated part by part under the cover of darkness at night. However, the implementation of the plan has been delayed. When the central front retreated, the right wing retreated by half, and the left wing did not move. It was already dawn, and the action was discovered by the Persian army and turned into a life-and-death war. At the beginning of the war, the situation on the Greek side was very critical. Not only was it forced to face it during the maneuver, but the Persian commander Madoni adopted the correct tactics and caused heavy casualties to the Greek army with intensive long-range firepower. But soon, Madoni uz made a tactical mistake: he ordered the main infantry to gather behind the first-line archers and cavalry, for the purpose of preparing for a decisive attack on the Greek army, or preparing for a chase.
But as a result, a large number of Persian troops gathered together, and the first-line troops lost the room and flexibility to retreat. Spartan king Pusanias captured the fighter plane, assembled the Greek armored infantry phalanx, and violently rushed to the Persian army. Because as long as it is close, the Persian army has no room for maneuver to keep its distance, and the projectionist and cavalry can't play a role. In melee and melee, Persian soldiers are brave, but their skills in using weapons (that is, martial arts) are not as well trained as those of Greek soldiers, and their personal protection is not as good as that of Greek soldiers (without hand shields). Even so, with the number advantage of the Persian army, they could still drown the Greek army, but at this time, the Persian commander Madoni uz himself was killed in the chaos. Because the Persian army is a rabble of all ethnic groups, not a new one, when the command core dies, the whole army immediately falls apart. After this battle, the Greeks basically wiped out the Persian invaders on the Greek peninsula.
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