This is the battle that affects the progress of human civilization, the battle to save the western world-the naval battle of Salamis.

In 549 BC, the Persian hero Ju Lushi unified the Iranian plateau. And perished the newly emerging new kingdom of Babylon. Although the civil strife in Persia declined for a time, by the time of Darius I's rule, under the powerful kingship of Darius I, the imperial territory had achieved unprecedented development. Encouraged by his great martial arts, Persian rulers surrendered their eyes to Greece, the most powerful opponent in Europe at that time and the representative of European civilization.

From Darius I to Xue Xisi, they always dreamed of conquering Greece, the symbol of western civilization. So there was a long Greek-Polish war. ?

Xue Xisi, king of Persia, as commander-in-chief of Persia, made full preparations in advance for his second expedition to Greece. Persia had no navy, but after conquering Phoenicia and Egypt along the Mediterranean coast, Persians used them to form a powerful fleet. At the same time, they made an alliance with Carthage, a maritime power in the Mediterranean at that time, so that they could pin down the Greek city-state Syracuse on Sicily, Italy.

Under the powerful military deterrence of the Persian Empire, many Greek city-states shamelessly surrendered to invade their own Persian Empire. Even sent troops and ships to participate in the war. When it was ready, in 480 BC, Xue Xisi started an expedition to Greece with 500,000 troops from Asia Minor, entered Europe through the Strait of Geras, and passed through Thrace and Macedonia. ?

On the land battlefield, Leonidas, king of Sparta, personally led 300 elite soldiers of his country and 7,000 people from other city-states in the Peloponnesian Peninsula to defend the first defense of Greece-Hot Spring Pass.

Faced with such a crisis, Leonidas ordered the troops of the Peloponnesus to withdraw first, while he and 300 Spartan warriors defended the hot spring pass. After some fierce fighting, the Spartan army was destroyed. Leonidas died a heroic death. Although the Spartan warriors were defeated, their heroic deeds have been handed down from generation to generation by the Greeks.

The desperate struggle of Spartan warriors won precious time for the commander of the allied Athens army, Te Misto Chris. Although the Persian army quickly occupied two-thirds of the land in Greece after the hot spring war, when they entered Athens, they found that there was only an empty city left in Athens, and the residents of the city had already withdrawn. As a result, the Persian army had to burn the city to vent their anger. ?

Although the Greek army failed, the main force of the navy did not lose anything. In September 480 BC, under the command of the Greek naval commander, Misto Chris, more than 300 Athenian warships were assembled in Salami Bay.

In September 480 BC, the Greek navy commander Temi stokely sent people to pretend to be deserters, and lied to the Persian king Xue Xisi that the Athenian fleet was in conflict and should immediately send troops. Xue Xisi was immediately fooled and ordered all 600 giant warships of the Persian navy to sail into the bay. The battle of Salamis officially started. ?

The entrance to the Salamis Strait in the war zone was blocked by Salamis Island, resulting in a narrow waterway. Persian giant warships can pass dozens of ships at a time because of their bulky size, which forced the Persian navy to adopt the most taboo refueling tactics of military strategists and put in troops one after another.

The Persian fleet entered the strait in several columns. At this time, the tide was rising, and the undercurrent was surging in the strait. The Persian giant battleship was too big to lose its tail and it was difficult to control its direction. Before the Persian warships turned their bows to the left, the long-awaited Greek fleet rushed up like an arrow. ?

At this time, there were only about a hundred Persian warships entering the strait, while the Greek Coalition forces had 370 warships, forming a situation of outnumbering them. The outermost warships of the Persian fleet faced the impact of the Greek warships horizontally, and almost all of them were sunk, so that the Persian warships behind them finally turned around and strangled with the Greek fleet.

The narrow water surface of Salamis Strait was crowded with warships, and it was difficult for both warring parties to move. At this time, the heavy infantry on Athens warships began to play a role. They used the tactics of docking to climb the enemy ships and fight with Persian soldiers. The soldiers on Persian warships are basically archers, and they can't resist the fierce attack of heavily armored Athenian infantry at all. Often, a dozen Athenian infantry can subdue an enemy ship easily.

At the Battle of Salamis, the Greek allied navy lost about 40 warships, and the losses of Persians were not recorded in detail. Historians generally believe that there were more than 600 ships, with tens of thousands of casualties. At a time when the Persian Empire had only 600 ships participating in the war. This shows that the Persian navy has been completely annihilated!

The failure of the Persian army in the Salamis naval battle was that Persia completely lost the right to control the sea in the Aegean Sea. Because it was a trans-returning expedition far away from the mainland, Xue Xisi, king of Persia, was extremely afraid of being cut off from the mainland by the Greek navy and being wiped out. So he immediately led the Persian army out of Greece. So far, Greece won the second Greek-Polish war. ?

In the first 479 years, the king of Persia sent a general to command 50,000 troops for the last expedition to Greece, and Sparta commanded 30,000 allied troops in the Peloponnesian Peninsula to fight a decisive battle with the Persian army in Platia, Greece. In this battle, the Greek allied forces killed the Persian general, and the Persian army was defeated and finally withdrew to the East.

The war of Salamis between Persia and Greece broke out in 480 BC, which was the turning point of the whole Greek-Polish war. Prior to this, the Greek side has always been in a defensive position. After this war, Greece turned to a full-scale counterattack. And finally defeated Persia. And all this is because of the victory of Salamis naval battle.