I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 394 His Majesty the Sun God King Jupiter

The Tuscany and Umbria regions to the north of the Lazio region were all Etruscan territories.

The Etruscan king Amlius invaded the Lazio region with an army of [-]. The best route was to enter the narrow plain north of the Roman Plain from the Umbria region.

After determining the marching route of the Etruscan king Amlius, Roy immediately led an army of [-] into the narrow plain in the northern part of the Roman Plain, preparing to snipe the Etruscans here.

Rieti Plain.

After Amlius' [-] army and Roy's [-] army met in the middle of the Rieti Plain, they saw that Roy's soldiers were almost all Latins with a strong fighting spirit. Mlius couldn't help asking Thurenus beside him.

"Dear Thulenus! We Etruscans are here to save you Latins. Why do you Latins seem to regard us as enemies?"

Thurenus has also seen the fighting spirit of the Latin soldiers behind Roy.

If the Latins were forced to become soldiers by Roy and forced to participate in this war, the Latin soldiers would never have such a high fighting spirit.

Obviously, the Latin soldiers used their own will to regard the Etruscans as enemies.

Thurenus could only explain with a complex expression.

"Great Amlius, I believe that these Latins must be bewitched by the Athenians to regard the Etruscans as enemies. When we drive out the Athenians, I will persuade them to submit to the Etruscans Yawang, make them your loyal soldiers."

Amlius nodded in satisfaction and said.

"This war with the Athenians will definitely cost me a lot of soldiers. I don't want to lose money, so the Latins must become my soldiers, so that I have more soldiers than before."

On the surface, Thurenus agreed to all the demands of Amrius, but he was thinking in his heart that as long as the Athenians and the Etruscans were both defeated, the Latins would be able to get rid of the Athenians and the Etruscans at the same time control.

While Amlius was observing the Athenian army, Roy was also observing Amlius' army.

Amlius' army consisted of [-] cavalry and [-] infantry.

I have to admit that these five thousand cavalry are a great threat to Roy's army.

In order to deal with these five thousand cavalry, Roy had to use special means.

Although Lowy hadn't built a cannon yet, Lowy had made gunpowder out of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, and used gunpowder to create a dozen dynamite packs.

At this moment, these explosive packs can be used to deal with Amrius's [-] cavalry.

When Amlius ordered his [-] cavalry to attack as the vanguard, Roy held the explosive pack himself and waited for the [-] cavalry to enter the optimal distance for throwing.

1000 meters - 800 meters - 500 meters - 300 meters -

When the cavalry was only 200 meters away from Roy's army, Roy began to throw ignited explosives.

Because Roy has the blessing of Goddess Artemis [[-]" by Roy throws, all accurately fall into the place where the number of cavalry troops.

Boom!Boom!bang——

Twelve dynamite packs exploded in the cavalry ranks in a row, turning the nearby cavalry bombers off their feet.

In fact, there may not even be 500 knights who were actually injured or killed by the explosive package.

But after the knights and horses who were killed and wounded fell to the ground, the horses behind were almost tripped to the ground because of panic.

Under the chain reaction, Roy's twelve explosive packs cost the cavalry at least a thousand knights.

The remaining [-] cavalry were also unable to control their horses because they were frightened.

After Roy threw twelve explosive packets, he led the Athenian soldiers to attack.

While the Etruscan cavalry was still trying to control the frightened horses, Roy had already charged forward with the forwards of the Athenian army, and began to harvest their lives with sharp iron spear blades.

"In the end what happened?"

Amlius, who was sitting on horseback, stared at the scene of his cavalry being unilaterally slaughtered by the Athenian soldiers with wide eyes, not understanding what happened.

"Tulenus, do you know what the loud noise like thunder was?"

"I have no idea……"

Thurenus said with wide-eyed eyes in the same shock.

"I only saw the Athenian emperor Roy throw something into the cavalry, and then there was a loud noise like thunder, and fireworks killed the surrounding knights."

"Great sun god Jupiter, is this the divine punishment of the enemy gods on us Etruscans?"

Seeing that his [-] cavalry were almost slaughtered by the Athenian soldiers, and only a few hundred escaped back, Amlius said angrily like a red-eyed gambler.

"Even without the cavalry, I have three times as many soldiers as the Athenians, and I can still defeat them."

After speaking, Amlius led his army to the Athenian army regardless of the low morale of the Etruscans.

Seeing the Etruscan army approaching like a torrent, Roy immediately ordered the soldiers to adopt a defensive formation.

After all, the enemy has a three-fold numerical advantage. If the Athenian soldiers are not ready for battle, they may really be defeated by a group of soldiers using wooden spears and stone spears.

At the same time as the two armies collided, the Etruscan sun god Jupiter and moon goddess Minerva came to the battlefield on their own initiative.

Not only Jupiter and Minerva, Mars, the patron saint of the Latins, and Quirinus, the patron saint of the Sabines, also appeared beside Jupiter and Minerva.

The four gods looked down at the human war on the ground, Quirinus said angrily.

"Your Majesty the great god-king Jupiter! The great goddess Minerva! The Latins and the Sabines were conquered by the Athenians. You have seen what happened to me and Mars. The Athenians tore down the statues of me and Mars, and let The foreign gods brought by the Athenians became the new patron saints of the Latins and the Sabines. The Athenians hated the local gods. If the Etruscans were conquered by the Athenians, His Majesty Jupiter would lose the gods of the Apennine Peninsula The throne of the king, the goddess Minerva will also lose the throne of the patron saint."

Mars continued.

"We are willing to help His Majesty Jupiter drive away the Athenians and foreign gods, but His Majesty Jupiter must guarantee that in the future we will restore our status as patron saints of Latins and Sabines."

After listening to Quirinus and Mars, Minerva said with a blank expression.

"Quirinus! Mars! You say that the Athenians hate the local gods, but I heard that Luna, who is also the goddess of the moon with me, has joined the camp of the Athenian gods. Quirinus! You also said yes Because Luna and foreign gods attack you together, you will lose to the Athenian gods. Since the Athenians can accept even a weak god like Luna, maybe they don't hate the local gods as much as you say. "

It is indeed an inexplicable thing that the Athenians overthrew the statues of Quirinus and Mars, and drove them from the thrones of the patron saints of the Latins and the Sabines, but accepted Luna, who was weaker than them.

If they had asked Loi, they would have known that the Athenian empire simply did not accept local gods and married goddesses.

If an unmarried goddess wants to join the Athenian Empire, it is bound to be open to all comers.

(End of this chapter)