I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 43 The surprise attack plan of the night march

In this era, because of the lack of lighting tools at night and the difficulty of distinguishing directions at night, marching at night is completely unimaginable.

Seeing the reactions of Pandion, Erechtheus, and the two little chiefs, Roy continued.

"Pandion leader! I know that there are two major problems in night marching. One is that it is difficult to distinguish the direction at night, and the other is that there is no lighting tool at night, but I can solve both problems. Since my floating compass can be used for night navigation, of course It can be used to identify directions when marching at night. If we make more lanterns, we can use lanterns as lighting tools for marching at night.”

After listening to Roy's words, Pandion nodded with a dazed expression.

"If we can solve these two problems, we can indeed march at night. The Acropolis of Athens is about forty miles away from the tribe of Eleusis. We can march thirty miles during the day and only ten miles at night to reach Eleusis quietly. and attacked the Eleusis tribe when they were unsuspecting."

As a large tribe, the Eleusis tribe will definitely arrange manpower to patrol the territory.

If the Athenian tribe marched directly for forty miles during the day, they would have been discovered by the Eleusis tribe inspecting the territory before they reached the Eleusis tribe.

Then when they arrived at the tribe of Eleusis, the tribe of Eleusis, who was ready for the battle, would wait for work to attack the army of the tribe of Athens.

The Athenian tribe only marched [-] miles during the day to avoid the people of the Eleusis tribe patrolling the territory, and then approached the Eleusis tribe's garrison under the cover of night.

"This kind of night march is an opportunity to catch the enemy by surprise, and it will definitely be used once. Because when other tribes are prepared, they will arrange people to patrol the territory at night."

After Roy finished speaking, Pandion agreed.

"Now not only other tribes, but our Athens tribe has no manpower to patrol the territory at night. It seems that we will arrange to patrol the territory at night in the future to prevent the enemy from marching at night and catch us by surprise. This time we attack the Eleusis tribe, we will According to Priest Loi's proposal, we marched for thirty miles during the day, and then marched close to the camp of the Eleusis tribe at night."

After the plan to attack the Eleusis tribe was finalized, Roy, Pandion, Erechtheus, and the two little chiefs began to enjoy fine wine and various foods to their heart's content.

Fortunately, the alcohol content of this era is not high, so Roy and others will not get drunk at all, which will affect the next day's battle.

After drinking and eating, Roy and the two little chiefs were arranged to rest in the guest room of Pandion's house.

In a room with candles.

Roy was about to put out the candles and go to sleep when he suddenly heard the wailing of a young woman from the next room.

Roy immediately understood that Pandion had arranged for a maid to serve the two little chiefs, and the two little chiefs did not refuse the offer.

"I'm going to fight tomorrow, and I'm still wasting precious energy on women, and I'm not afraid of dying on the battlefield."

Having been disturbed from sleeping, Roy frowned and said.

"No wonder Pandion didn't regard these two little chiefs as a threat. They are just two stupid pigs without ambition."

After speaking, Roy plugged his ears with two balls of paper, then extinguished the candle and lay down on the bed.

the next morning.

After a simple breakfast at Pandion's house, Roy and the two little chiefs hurried to gather their own soldiers.

When the sun was fully rising from the east, Roy brought fifty young men to the foot of the Acropolis Mountain to join Pandion's large army.

In order to attack the Eleusis tribe, Pandion summoned 550 personal guard soldiers, and the two small chiefs also summoned [-] soldiers each, plus Roy's [-] soldiers, the total strength of this army was [-]. .

Although the Eleusis tribe has a population of more than 3000, women, children, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled are not counted. The Eleusis tribe has at most a thousand young and strong men who can take up arms and fight, and there are not many well-trained soldiers. There will be more than 300 people.

The Athenian tribe attacked the Eleusis tribe with 550 men, and the two sides were evenly matched in terms of strength.

If nothing unexpected happens, victory in this war will belong to the Athenian tribes.

Before the army set off, Pandion stood on a hillside and shouted to all the soldiers.

"Soldiers! In order to make the tribe of Athens stronger, I will lead you to attack the tribe of Eleusis. Now I promise to all of you that after this war is over, both the living and the dead will be able to get A reward of one hundred catties of food. If this war is won, all of you will be able to get extra spoils as a reward."

After Pandion finished speaking, all the soldiers shouted happily.

"Long live Lord Pandion!"

"Long live Lord Pandion!"

"Long live Lord Pandion!"

Looking at this scene, Roy complained in his heart.

"I'm afraid that the rewards Pandion promised to the soldiers are all in the warehouse of the Eleusis tribe. In other words, after this war, Pandion's wealth will not decrease, but will become more. Because Pandion used The riches of the tribe of Eleusis, come and reward us all."

Ordinary soldiers only knew that Pandion was rewarding them, and of course they didn't think whether their rewards came from Pandion's private warehouse or the warehouse of the Eleusis tribe.

After raising the fighting spirit of the soldiers with promised rewards, Pandion went ahead and led the army to the Eleusis tribe.

Unlike feudal dynasties, the rulers stayed in the safety of the palace and let the generals go out to fight in their place.

In this age, only the most powerful can become tribal leaders.

As the most powerful warrior, the tribal leader must also personally fight the enemy and show his strength.

If the tribal leader does not have awe-inspiring force, the rule of the tribal leader will be shaken and even replaced by others.

Even in the city-state era, if the royal family ruling the city-state loses its awe-inspiring force, it will be replaced by a more powerful family.

Legend has it that after King Erechtheus of Athens died in the battle to destroy the city of Eleusis, the Kingdom of Athens was captured by another royal family, so Theseus, the hero god of the Kingdom of Athens, was not a descendant of the Pandion family.

Roy walked behind the army with fifty teenagers, both anticipating and fearful of the upcoming war.

After all, attacking the Eleusis tribe is different from attacking pirates.

Because pirates are sinners who deserve to die, Roy can eliminate hundreds of pirates without any scruples.

But the war waged by the tribe of Athens against the tribe of Eleusis was an unjust war.

Now Roy still has some conflicts in his heart about his participation in the unjust war.

Seeing the excited face of Aries beside him, Roy couldn't help asking.

"Aries! We are going to attack the Eleusis tribe, don't you feel guilty in your heart?"

"Why should you feel guilty?"

Aries said suspiciously.

"In order for us to survive better, we should annex other tribes. The Eleusis tribe has existed for so long, and they must have annexed other tribes."

"For survival--"

Roy said with a wry smile.

"With such a holy reason, it seems that my entanglement is really meaningless."

(End of this chapter)