Chapter 18 (2/2)

”Strong arer to the looseformation ahead, ”Like this one?”

”Of course a much more powerful than this one!” Matonis said loudly

Davos listened to their bickering and narrowed his gaze, 'A stronger arh the Median wall meant that the Greek troops has left Babylon In the next few days, what always appeared in Davos' sight was, Vast plain, endless golden wheat fields, and rivers that was dug by e rivers into a lot of small canals and ditches and eventually into far this, 'This should be the oldest irrigation project in the Middle East! A fertile land and an abundant water that have nurtured a large number of people and created a brilliant ancient civilizations of the two rivers one after another!…'

Further on, the source of those ris River As one of the other ris river was equally wide and at first glance, it seems to be difficult to reach the opposite side There were countless sailsover the river, merchant shi+ps were the ones whoboats sails slowly along the river The singing of the fisher of the sailors were heard across the river Nu over the river, and there were large fishes leaping in the water from time to time, a beautiful and tranquil view of the river

Near the river bank there is a large and densely populated city, Sitas, the Greek mercenaries approached the city and set up cae and caht, Davos and the rest finally ood sleep, because the Persian arical pressure on the Greek soldiers was much lesser

On the second day, the athtly When Davos crossed the river, they saw are and there were also vigilant soldiers on the other side after crossing over the pontoon bridge

What happened?

It wasn't until Xenophon caht, a man came from the other side and said that he was a confidant of Ariaeus, he had brought a e to Clearchus and Proxenus Therefore, the several leaders met him, I followed Proxenus in the main tent and listed to what the ilant because the Persian troops ht and they also intend to destroy the pontoon bridge and trap all of you between the Tigris river and the man-made ay' the several leaders and I becahtly irritated tone, ”After thinking about it, I think that this news is unreliable!”

”Oh, what did you think?” Davos curiously asked

”Because if the Persians attack us, whether it is victory or failure If they are defeated and destroyed, there is nowhere for them to escape If they e are on Persian land, there is no place to run at all and so why bother to destroy a bridge that is not easy to build Therefore, Clearchus listened to my advice!” Xenophon proudly said

”Well, it ht about it and praised him

”Since even you can think of it, Tissaphernes certainly is not a fool, so why did he need to make up such a lie?” Olivos sarcastically said

”That's because he is really afraid of us destroying the bridge!” Xenophon glanced at hiue with this uneducated fellow, ”As you can see these days, there area large ah to support our e, they can't come for a while since Tissaphernes' troops is on the other side, so—”

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