I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 397 Conquering the Etruscans
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As Roy's iron spear pierced the heart of the Etruscan King Amrius, Amrius' eyes widened instantly, and he asked Roy in disbelief.

"Why - you are so much stronger than me?"

The same young king, also the darling of the gods.

Amlius couldn't figure out why his number of soldiers was more than three times that of Roy's, but Roy killed him unscathed.

In order for Amlius to rest in peace, Roy said with a faint smile.

"If there is only a gap in equipment between your soldiers and my soldiers, you can still rely on the number of soldiers to make up for the gap. But my soldiers have the tenacious will to defend their home and country, and your soldiers are just called by you forcibly. They There is no will to fight to the death - that is the biggest reason why you will lose to me."

"You Athens are the foreign invaders of the Apennine Peninsula. I brought the Etruscans to save the Latins here, but I became the enemy they defended their country..."

Amlius closed his eyes with a wry smile, and fell backwards on the ground, turning into a corpse.

After killing Amrius, Roy observed the battlefield and saw Athenian soldiers using sharp iron spears as the vanguard, defeating the Etruscans.

These Etruscans fought for Amlius, not only without any property as food, but also with their own weapons and food.

The reward Amlius gave them was to allow them to search for loot after winning the battle.

Such an army is fine for fighting with the wind.

Once the situation on the battlefield is unfavorable, there will be a rout of thousands of miles.

On the other hand, Roy's soldiers not only have the advantages of weapons and equipment, the fighting will to defend their home and country, but also the food and death benefits so that the soldiers have no worries.

Even if Amrius's soldiers had a three-fold superiority in numbers, it was impossible to make up for the huge gap in strength.

"Amilius is dead—"

When Roy yelled this sentence with the loudest voice, the Etruscan soldiers who had been suppressed by the Athenian soldiers immediately began to flee.

After all, this failed war will not bring them any benefits, and they will die in vain if they fight desperately.

The Etruscans fled in confusion, and Loi did not let the Athenian soldiers pursue them.

Because after Roy conquered the Apennine Peninsula, these Etruscans would also become the people of Roy.

At the same time as the battle between humans and the winners, the wars between the gods also have winners and losers.

The sun god Jupiter raised the fire of the sun to its maximum power, but failed to defeat the goddess Persephone.

Minerva, the goddess of the moon, and Quirinus, the god of war joined forces, but was suppressed by the goddess Hera alone.

The three male gods Janus, Neptune, and Mars were also defeated by the four goddesses Luna, Vesta, Diana, and Venus by virtue of their numerical superiority.

Seeing the end of the war between humans, the sun god Jupiter could only flee from the battlefield with his own camp of gods.

After the Etruscans fled, Roy led the Athenian soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

Collect the horses of the Etruscan cavalry and let Roy get [-] horses.

Counting the corpses on the battlefield, Roy found that more than 200 Athenian soldiers were killed, more than 5000 Etruscans were killed, and more than 4000 were captured.

There is no doubt that this is an amazing victory.

So that night, Roy held a victory celebration with all the soldiers.

the next day.

Roy ordered the soldiers to build a podium, and then called all the soldiers together.

Standing on the wooden podium, Roy glanced at the Athenian soldiers and the Etruscan captives, and then shouted in a voice that they could all hear.

"Warriors who defend our country, yesterday we successfully defeated the invaders and drove the Etruscans out of the Lazio region. But I don't think this war is over yet, so that the Etruscans will not invade in the future, I want to lead you to conquer the Etruscans. I won the self-defense war yesterday, and I will give each of you twenty catties of salt as a reward. Next we conquer the Etruscans, and I will not only give you another Give twenty catties of salt, and arrange an unmarried Etruscan girl to be your wife. Even if you die in battle, I will let your brothers replace you and arrange an Etruscan unmarried girl to be your wife. your brothers as wives."

Twenty catties of salt!

Maiden of the Etruscans!
Hearing the reward promised by Roy, not only the Athenian soldiers were all excited, but even the Etruscan captives wanted to participate in the war.

Because all the Etruscan captives knew that the main army led by Amrius had been defeated, and the Etruscans were powerless to resist the conquest of the Athenians.

In other words, this is a war that must be won.

Seeing the reactions of the Athenian soldiers and Etruscan captives, Roy continued.

"I will not force you to participate in the war to conquer the Etruscans. If the captives are interested, they can also join this war. I will let you enjoy the same treatment as the soldiers of Athens. After the war, you will be given You distribute twenty catties of salt and arrange for unmarried Etruscan girls to be your wives."

The so-called Etruscans are the collective name for the native ethnic groups of the Apennine Peninsula who were conquered by the nomadic peoples of the Caucasus.

Therefore, within the Etruscans, there are hundreds of different ethnic groups, large and small.

These Etruscan captives did not resist attacking other ethnic groups. Hearing Roy's invitation, the Etruscan captives shouted one after another.

"I would like to join you."

"I know the roads in Tuscany, and I can show you the way."

"Even if you don't give me twenty catties of salt, I just want an unmarried girl to be my wife."

Because of the enthusiastic registration of the Etruscan captives, the number of troops available to Roy not only did not decrease, but increased instead.

In the end, Roy left more than 1000 soldiers to guard more than 2000 captives, and Roy himself led [-] soldiers into the territory of the Etruscans.

The territories of the Etruscans included Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Emilia, Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Trentino, and The area is about 16 square kilometers, and the total population is more than 50.

It is obviously unrealistic for Roy to use 50 soldiers to control a population of [-].

Because even if fifty soldiers control a population of 1000, Roy needs at least 50 soldiers to effectively rule [-] Etruscans.

So while bringing [-] soldiers into the Tuscany region, Roy sent messengers to Caesar, asking Caesar to bring [-] Sabine soldiers from the Puglia region into the Marche region.

Now that the main force of the Etruscans has been defeated, the Sabine soldiers can get twenty catties of salt and an unmarried Etruscan girl without going through a big battle.

Roy knew without thinking that the Sabine soldiers would certainly not refuse to participate in this war to conquer the Etruscans.

And because of the hundreds of years of fighting for territory, the Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans also have blood feuds with each other.

(End of this chapter)