The Battle of Salamis (Greek: ννμμνχ? α τ? Σαλαμ? νο? In Persian, 480 BC, it was a naval battle in 480 BC between the joint fleet of Greek city-states led by Themistocles, an Athenian politician, and the Persian navy under Xerxes I, the Achaemenid dynasty of Persian Empire.

The inferior Greek Coalition forces lured the Persian fleet into the narrow strait between Salamis Island in Salon Bay in the east of Corinth Isthmus and Attica in Greece, and won a decisive victory in one fell swoop, which became a strategic turning point in the second Greek-Persian war.

In the battle of Salamis, the Greek fleet sank 200 Persian warships and captured 50 at the cost of only 40 warships. The Persian fleet suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and the wreckage of warships and drowned soldiers were washed into a bay on the other side of Salamis Island by the tide, piling up on several kilometers of beaches.

In the sunset, Xue Xisi tore off his shirt, got into the chariot and left to watch the battle. The remaining Persian navy did not dare to rescue the officers and men who fell into the water and fled the battlefield.

The Persian army was blocked by the Greek allied forces led by Spartan King Leonidas at the hot spring pass, and it could not be captured for a long time. At this time, a Greek spy led the Persian army to break through the Greek Coalition defense line from another mountain pass and detour behind the Greek army.

Leonidas immediately ordered the allied troops to retreat to save their strength. He led 300 Spartan warriors to stick to the hot spring pass to stop the enemy, and all of them were killed in the end.

After the hot spring pass fell, the Persian army marched in and approached Athens. The Athenians had to give up this historic city and retreat to Salamis Island. Persian troops occupied the empty city of Athens, burned it, and then pursued it to the other side of Salamis Island, and Persian warships continued to gather on Salamis Island.