At this moment, a thunderous cheer sounded: "Davers! Davers!! Davers!!!..." The shouts were so neat and loud that overwhelmed all the noise, which made the leaders change their colors.

"That's Menon's mercenaries!" Timasong stood on tiptoe and looked in the direction where the sound came.

"Now it should be called Davers' mercenary!" Hironimus said enviously.

Davers on the stage smiled and said, "Greek warriors, I am Davers of Thessali, instead of Menon, and become the new leader!"

After the soldiers on the stage finished their speech, the soldiers in Davers' camp immediately stood up and applauded and cheered for him, causing the other soldiers to look at each other: Are these guys crazy?!

Some people who knew the inside story began to show off their news in front of their companions: "I heard that this young man is the god of Hades, and the 'oracles' he received every time he got is extremely effective!"

"I heard that he magically saved the dying soldier. Yes! It's the one standing behind him!"

"He also invented something that is very useful to us! For example, this one on my legs...well the leggings..."

The soldiers passed on their word by word. In the blink of an eye, everyone looked at him with less contempt and more curiousness.

Davers's words reached their ears again: "Justower, Keritopps' words were very exciting, but they were too short! Just like when a man was doing that with a woman, the woman was excited at the beginning and the man was over. How uncomfortable would that woman feel!"

The soldiers under the stage did not expect that this young man who was still a little childish would utter such vulgar words. After a moment of being stunned, they immediately burst into laughter: "Hahaha..."

Many people even took the opportunity to make slutty boo...

"This young man is very interesting!" Many soldiers said with a smile.

"Nonsense! It's so messy!" Timasong looked at Rithops and cursed.

Xenophon was also surprised. The Davers he knew was a young man with unique insights and polite words, and should not be so rude.

Kerithops didn't say anything. Although Davers was ridiculing him, he was not angry. Kerithops, who had been living in the military camp before he was thirty, knew the soldiers' ideas well. He didn't know whether Davers had accidentally hit him or intentionally. In short, this dirty joke had already made the soldiers feel intimate about the too young leader. It also made Kerithops look forward to the next speech.

"When I came up just now, I saw you all dejected, and some even had tears in their eyes. You were afraid! You were afraid that you could not return to Greece! You were afraid! The fear of the Persians would destroy you! - But, think carefully, when we are in the heart of Persia and our employer Cyrus was killed, and we didn't know what to do, the Persians, who had soldiers many times more than us, did not immediately attack us and eliminate us! How did they do it?" Davers slowly aroused the interest of the soldiers with the questions.

"Everyone here knows very well. The Persians spent their energy to talk to us, provided us with abundant food, and accompanied us so far... They spent so much time, money and energy to deceive our leaders and be killed by them!" Davers said slowly, and then he paused for a moment and asked loudly: "Soldiers, tell me! Who is afraid?! Are they afraid of?! - They are Persians! They are more afraid of our courage! They dare not fight head-on with us! The cowardly only dares to use these conspiracies quietly! They are afraid of us more than their gods, and they violate the oath made in front of the gods!

Now they have killed our leaders. When we are in chaos, they dare not attack us immediately. They are still thinking of making us surrender! Faced with such a timid Persian, what are you afraid of? You must know that we Greeks are not afraid of any threatening race! - Decades ago, the Persian king Darius led a large army to conquer all the races on this land. When he pointed his next target of conquest to the Greek city-states that were still weak across the strait, the soldiers, please tell me, has Greece surrendered?!" Davers leaned forward, stretched his right hand, and asked loudly to the soldiers below.

"No." Someone answered one after another.

"Too low voice, I can't hear it! Please tell me that Greece surrendered?!!" Davers asked in a louder voice.

"No!" The answer was neat this time.

Davers was still dissatisfied: "The voice is as small as a cowardly Persian! Again, has Greece surrendered?!!"

"No - there is!!!" the soldiers shouted, their emotions had begun to be mobilized.

"Yes! We Greeks did not surrender! In the marathon, the Athenians defeated the more with fewer defeats, and beat the Persian army to the point of urination. Darius rolled back to his lair and died of illness within a few years. His son Xerxes gathered an unprecedented large army in order to avenge his revenge and invaded Greece again. However, we Greeks never surrendered under power!

Soldiers, tell me where we hit the Persians?!"

This time, Davers didn't need to guide him anymore, and the soldiers spoke enthusiastically: "Salamis!"

"Pilatia!"

"There is also hot spring pass!"

...

Davers took over the conversation: "Yes, the Greek people united and defeated the Persians again, which made Greece a fertile ground for freedom, and had peace and prosperity for the next few decades. Soldiers, can anyone tell me the names of generals and soldiers who participated in the battle against Persia back then?!"

"Mitayad!"

"Aschylus!"

"Philipoldes!"

"Leonida!"

"Dimestokly!"

"Aristide!"

"Baosunnya!"

...

The names were shouted out by the soldiers. At first they were the names of generals, and later the names of soldiers participating in the war... About eighty years had passed since the Hippola War, and almost affected the entire Greek world. The mercenaries still remembered it freshly. Many of the soldiers present were descendants of those who participated in the war. They couldn't wait to proudly publicize the names of their ancestors. Even the leaders such as Zantiparis, Criano, and Hironimus could not help but participate. The atmosphere in the entire venue began to boil...

Timasong couldn't help but widen his eyes, realizing that he had underestimated the young man.

After a long time, the shouts from all directions weakened...

Davers continued to say passionately: "These names you mentioned were written into history by Herodotus and into your memories! They became heroes of Greece! Their spirits are as immortal as the gods! We grew up listening to their stories, and when we grew up, we took them as examples, longing to achieve earth-shaking achievements like them! Now - soldiers, you have an opportunity, an excellent opportunity to become Greek heroes like them, and write into history!" At this point, Davers paused again.

The anxious soldiers stood up and asked impatiently: "Tell us! What is the opportunity?"

"Didn't you find it?" Davers said loudly: "Although our ancestors defeated the Persians, they were either in Greece or on the sea. No Greek army could have invaded the Persian Empire. And we have already penetrated into the hinterland of Persia. As long as we work together to defeat the Persians, overcome many difficulties, and finally return to Greece successfully, then we will create history! Our deeds will be written into books, compiled into ballads, and sung throughout Greece. Beautiful girls and lovely children will pester us and let us tell our adventure stories! Our descendants will be as proud as we are today! More importantly-"

Davers took a deep breath and said excitedly: "Our deeds will inspire the Greeks in the future! Let them know that the Persians look strong, but in fact they are weak inside. They are just a giant made of earth. The country is like humans, sometimes strong and sometimes aging. When one day, when Persia and Greece start war again, the Greeks will take us as an example to attack Persia along the route we have taken. When they win, come to the battlefield where we once sprinkled blood, sacrifice us, and praise us, what will they say?!"

The soldiers were fascinated by the hearing.
Chapter completed!