Chapter 17 (2/2)

Tissaphernes was relieved of hisvery ith Cyrus the Younger and they soon beca Artaxerxes caer went to the capital to attend the grand cere brother’s ascension, Tissaphernes told the new king that Cyrus the Younger wanted to rebel, which resulted in the arrest of the Cyrus the Younger, he had only gotten released after the repeated pleading of the Queen Mother

After Tissaphernes returned to Asia Minor, he started opposing Cyrus the Younger on everythingSo when Cyrus the Younger started his rebellion, the first thing he wanted to do was to capture hio and showed up in the king’s arot crushed by the Greek’s hoplite, Tissaphernes dared to lead the cavalry around the hoplite and attack the Greek’s rear troopsAlthough he failed, his courage and deterenerals, so he was able to negotiate a truce with the Greek troops as the Persian envoy on behalf of the king, which obviously shown the king’s favor of him

What Davos heard about Tissaphernes was heard by Xenophon from Proxenus, and ardless of whether he liked or disliked Tissaphernes, but the fact was trueTherefore, after analyzing, Davos believes that Tissaphernes was a typical politician as accusto the situation and daring to grab the opportunityIt is hard to expect such a person to keep his promise!

When Davos told Xenophon about this concern, Xenophon sighed and said: “Proxenus was very clear about it and they won’t relax their vigilance against Tissaphernes, but wethe Persian KingEuphrates and Tigris rivers alone can cause us enormous trouble and we can’t smoothly cross such a wide river in front of the eneh foodOnce we go “collecting” food, the scattered soldiers can be easily attacked by the enee that if he really want to destroy us, it is absolutely unnecessary to give us supplies and let Tissaphernes swear an oath in the name of their God on his behalf, because if he breaks the oath in the future, he won’t only be laughed at by Persians and Greeks, but they will get abandoned by the Persian Gods, unless he wants to beco without faith as soon he ascended! Therefore, we can only believe in theuarantee our safe return home!”

Davos saw that what Xenophon has said is hedThe Greek ed position, so even if they were given “poison”, they had to s it

Day by day, Davos’ field hospital had begun to take shape, and after they carefully took care and treated the 12 wounded, 7 of theotten better

For most of the time, Davos learned Greek from Xenophon and entrusted Mersis, who had went out to buy, to bring back several pieces of linen and cut it into slender strips and using his legs, began to experiment on horap itAt the same time, he pulled his teammates to train with him and learn combat skills so that he can unify his mind and body memory

Because of Asistes recovery and the event where Menon’s troops protested, his relationshi+p with Antonios became closer and he visited Antoniosthe hoplite and for a KopisHe also studied fro of the characteristics of this units

The success of the field hospital made Davos’ reputation as “God’s favored” deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and his erness to learn also won the favor of everyoneThere are only few people who couldn’t recognize hihout Menon’s camp

As time went by, the Persians haven’t appeared, uneasiness and suspicion have gradually enveloped the entire Greek campDavos used his busy days to dilute his worries and his inability to change the predicae himself and enrich his experience as , Tissaphernes finally arrived with his army and accompanied by the satrap of Armenia, Orontes[2] and his army

The Greektime, had led the troops and set foot on their journey ho of the eThe troops of Ariaeus as originally waran to ether, but they also caetherOver the past 20 days, the Persians were not idle, they have sent the relatives and friends of Ariaeus and the other generals to Ariaeus ca to not held theenerals of Cyrus the Younger

This undoubtedly increased the suspicion of the Greek mercenaries, ere far behind the Persian aruidesAt dusk, the Greek troops and the Persians were 5 k each other as if they treat each other as their enemy,

Tissaphernes did indeed fulfill his promise to provide markets for the Greeks every dayOf course, the mercenaries have to pay for it theainst Davos by giving Hielos’ squad less food, but Mersis opposed itPreviously, Mersis was very reluctant when Davos asked hi after, Davos gave hiyptian slave and he became addicted to itHe then went to the field hospital every day to ask for a e and shamelessly said that it was the slave ed hi that after they return to Greece, he would make Davos teach this unique technique to him and buythen his brothel will be overcrowdedTherefore, not only will he not offend Davos, but will also try to satisfyof the Persian Empire from 423 BC to 404 or 405 BC and the father of Artaxerxes II and Cyrus the Younger

[2] Orontes as an Armenian ruler of the Orontid Dynasty who ruled as satrap of the Achaemenid Empire between 401 BC – 344 BC