In the early days of the kingdom, the senators went to the Senate and various departments to attend meetings every day, and often only brought one or two slaves to deal with political affairs. Later, several incidents of pedestrians attacking the senators were forced to bring guards every day to avoid accidents.

Since slaves cannot carry weapons according to the law, free people will be strictly investigated and interrogated by the supervision team when carrying weapons on the streets in Tuliyi, and they are only relatively tolerant of citizens. Therefore, Tuliyi gave birth to a special industry - the veteran guard house (in fact, some wealthy businessmen and officials later hired guards).

To establish an escort bank, it is not only necessary to obtain business licenses from the Commerce Office, but also to obtain approval from the Turiyi Supervision Office. It also needs to be supervised by the Turiyi Military Barracks. Since most of the escorts are legion soldiers or reserve soldiers, they must be coordinated with the military training of the military barracks. Therefore, they are often fund-raising by the retired team officials in the army. By the way, they also solve the livelihood problems of some injured retired soldiers, and therefore they are supported by the Ministry of Military Affairs.

When Leoticides passed through the east gate of the inner city, the city guards respectfully saluted the famous army commander of the kingdom.

The mansion of Leoticides is located next to a bustling street and is not small in size. It is a typical "Sun"-shaped double-storey residence most commonly built by rich people in Dionia. There are several shops on the side of the mansion facing the street and rented to vendors.

At the main entrance was a male servant holding a big yellow dog, staring outside the door with fierce eyes, which made passersby dare not stay for a long time. But when Leoticids arrived at the door, the fierce-looking big dog wagged its tail, pounced on it excitedly, licked and rubbed.

Leoticids patted it hard on its head, and the big dog immediately became quiet. Then Leoticids strode into the mansion.

The mansion looks decent, but it looks simple inside. The surrounding corridors do not have mosaic floors, no pools and statues in the center of the vestibule, no gardens in the backyard, and no small pavilion for chatting and drinking in the middle. Instead, the front and back yards are completely connected, forming a mud playground with a large area in the middle.

On one side of the playground, his 7-year-old son was practicing horse riding, and on the other side, his 17-year-old son was practicing fighting skills with a male servant holding a shield and sword (Leoticids originally had three children, but his second daughter died a few years after she was born).

His wife sat in the corridor beside the playground to watch, with two dogs crawling under her feet. The sleepy dog ​​suddenly stood up and ran towards the door as if she was happy.

Hearing their excited screams, the wife realized that her husband had already returned home. She immediately went up to meet him: "Why did you come back so late today?"

"The Ministry of Military Affairs has something to discuss." Leoticids said, pulling off the veteran Borton who was wearing it and shouting to the playground: "Teltotis, I'll practice with you!"

"Okay!" The eldest son Tertotis stopped attacking and replied loudly: "Father, I won't give in easily this time!"

Leoticids strodes into the playground, took the wooden shield and wooden sword from the slave, set off and said in a deep voice: "Come on."

Seeing the father and son fighting on the field, Ruitina showed a puzzled expression. After living with Leoticids for so many years, she could feel her husband's emotions were a little excited. This situation was too rare, and she couldn't help but wonder: What happened?

At this time, the youngest son Pagandas turned over and got off the horse, ran to the sidelines quickly, picked up a can of water, and drank it in a big gulp.

Ruifena hurriedly said, "Paganda, don't drink too much, it's bad for your health! I soaked a big watermelon in the well and cut it to quench your thirst later."

The house in Leoticides is decorated very simply, unlike a mansion of an elder. The only luxury is that when Ruifena first started building the house, she spent a lot of money to ask someone to dig a private well at home. The bottom of the well was deeper and the water was cold and bone-broken. Usually it is used to keep vegetables and fruits fresh.

"Oh." Pagandas obediently put down the water jug ​​and sat on the ground. Seeing his father fighting with his brother, Rui Fenna pulled him up and kicked him hard on the butt: "Look at you're sweaty, hurry up and take a shower first!"

After driving her youngest son away, Rui Fenna shouted to the two female slaves who were following her: "It will be dark soon, don't stay here stupidly. Go to the kitchen to urge them to prepare dinner as soon as possible!"

Twenty years have passed, and even though Leoticides has entered the top of the kingdom and has a noble status, Ruifena, who has proposed to be a man of her, is still as fierce as ever.

At the dining table, when Refina asked again, "What good thing happened today?", Leoticides finally put down the chewing bone in his hand and said seriously: "Your Majesty decided to support the Thebes, send troops to Peloponnese, attack Sparta, and let me be the commander of this expeditionary army."

"Father, are you going to lead your troops to conquer Sparta?!" The youngest son exclaimed, and the eldest son Tertotis also showed a look of surprise.

In the past, Leoticides didn't have much time to go home, and every time he returned home and stayed with his children, he either trained them or told them some stories during training. Most of the contents of these stories were about legends and heroes of Sparta. He hoped that children would gradually develop a kind of admiration for Sparta, but in fact, the effect was not very obvious. The children were more eager to defeat Sparta, a treacherous villain, after all, they spent more time in school.

Although Ruifenna was careless, she was actually very smart. At the beginning of her marriage, she was completely unfamiliar with the things in Greece. However, over the years, she had some understanding. Her husband was an Agos and should hate Sparta, but it was not the case in her usual conversations. This inevitably made her wonder. However, Leoticides did not say it, and she never asked on her own initiative, but now she still couldn't help asking: "You haven't accepted this appointment, right?"

"Of course I accepted it." Leoticids looked at his wife, as if she understood what she was thinking, and said a rare sentence: "I am very happy to teach the Spartans a lesson!"

This is his true thought. When he fled Sparta, he once made a poisonous oath: One day, he will lead the army back to Sparta and kill all the Spartans who humiliated him and forced his mother to commit suicide!

In the palace chamber, the reason why he performed abnormally was because he did not expect that the opportunity to achieve the oath suddenly came to him, and he was desperately suppressing the excitement in his heart.

"Tertotis." Leoticides continued: "This time you go out with me."

"That's great!" Tertotis almost jumped up excitedly.

Rui Fenna reminded him with a short-term support: "Teltotis is less than 18 years old and cannot serve in the military!"

"He works with me as my choreman and doesn't have to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy." After Leoticidos said that, he buried his head in the meal, but it made the family members feel uneasy.

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Although Davers held many meetings to analyze and judge the possible changes in the Greek situation after the Battle of Luketra, the development of things exceeded their expectations.

First of all, the signing of an armistice agreement between the Thebes and Sparta caught Dionia off guard, but this did not affect their preparations, and the expedition was still proceeding in an orderly manner.

Secondly, Jason's series of performances after the battle aroused Davers' vigilance and specially ordered Aristillas to strengthen surveillance in Thessali.

Then, Davers and the others believed that the failure of the Battle of Liuquetra would make Sparta desperately revenge in order to regain his reputation, but they did not expect Sparta to sign a truce agreement quickly and did not have any hostile actions against Thebes in the subsequent time. The reason was that the impact of this battle on Central Greece and the entire Peloponnese was unexpected by the top leaders of Dionia.

After all, Davers and the others did not live in Greece, and they had almost never suffered any failure in the war they experienced. They could not understand the feelings of the Greek people towards Sparta. Going back to the end of the Messenian War and before the Hippola War, the Spartans dominated the entire Greece. Its long-term strength gave the Greek people an inherent concept: unless the enemy has a huge advantage in the army, the Spartan heavy infantry will be invincible in the battle, which is an unbreakable principle.

However, in this battle that was considered a large scale for the Greeks, the Thebes defeated Sparta with fewer and more, and their king was even killed in battle. You should know that since Leonida died at the Hot Spring Pass in the Greek Greece, no Spartan king has died on the battlefield. So when the detailed process of the battle spread throughout the Greek land, many people in the city-state suddenly realized: It turned out that the Spartans were not that scary, and we might be able to do what the Thebes could do.

As a result, many city-states were incited. Two months ago, after signing the Kalias contract, according to the contents of the contract, Sparta should have withdrawn the military commanders stationed in various city-states. The Spartans have been dragging the agreement to fail to fulfill the treaty. Now these city-states have boldly expelled these military commanders sent by Sparta.
Chapter completed!