I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 503 16 Army Against [-]

Lower Danube Plain.

Sun tribe resident.

The [-] Thracian coalition army and Perseus' [-] army gathered here, making this place a sea of ​​people.

The tent of Aeetes, the tribal king of the Sun Tribe.

Here the chieftains of the various tribes of the Thracians and Perseus were gathered, enjoying the feast that Aeetes gave them.

The leaders happily drank and ate meat, and even directly played with the maids who served them. It seemed that they were confident in defeating the Athenian Empire.

Aeetes sat on his throne, and beside him sat his daughter Phyllis.

As an ally who brought an army of [-], Perseus was placed in the nearest position to Aeetes.

Looking at Felice's beautiful and lovely delicate face, Perseus took the initiative to ask Aeetes.

"Great King Aeetes! In order to fight against the Athenian Empire, I think the Illyrians under my rule and the Thracians under your rule should form a powerful empire. Will you marry Princess Phyllis to me?" , let me and Princess Phyllis's child—your grandson be the king who rules the Illyrians and the Thracians?"

Aietes said with a displeased frown.

"Perseus, although we have a common enemy, I will not marry my daughter to you."

Aeetes' refusal was the expected result of Perseus, so Perseus was not disappointed.

"Princess Phyllis!"

Perseus looked at Phyllis and asked.

"Would you like me to be your husband?"

"I don't want to!"

Fei Li refused without hesitation.

"We are the branch of the Aryans who worship the sun god, and you are the branch of the Aryans who worship the god of thunder. If I marry you, the Balkan Peninsula will be the territory of the great sun god Helios in the future, and you still worship it. The territory of Zeus, the god of thunder? My father, Aeetes, is the beloved son of the sun god Helios, and we will never accept the god of thunder you worship."

"You don't want to marry me—do you want to miss out on the best husband in the world?"

"Isn't the Emperor Loy of the Athens Empire better than you?"

Phyllis mocked with a sneer of disdain.

"I know that you have been defeated by Roy all the time, and you were expelled by Roy from the Peloponnese in the south of the Balkans to Croatia in the north of the Balkans like a bereaved dog."

Perseus immediately fell silent.

Because what Phyllis said was true.

"Princess Phyllis! I don't deny that Roy is stronger than me, but he is our enemy. If we lose the war with Roy, both you and King Aeetes will become Roy's slaves."

The territory of the Sun Tribe and the vassal tribes of the Sun Tribe is Bulgaria.

This area covers an area of ​​11 square kilometers and has a population of more than 50.

Here is rich in mineral resources, the main mineral deposits are coal, lead, zinc, copper, iron, uranium, manganese, chromium, mineral salt and a small amount of oil.

Most importantly, there is fertile land irrigated by the Danube.

In the history of another world, Bulgaria has always been an agricultural country rich in agricultural resources.

As long as this place is conquered, two or three years later, the Athens Empire will add a grain-producing area.

In addition to the Bulgarian region ruled by the Sun tribe, the Romania region, Hungary region, and Serbia region ruled by other Thracian tribes are also areas of fertile land.

The Ukrainian region in the northern part of the Balkan Peninsula - the banks of the Dnieper River where the Slavs live are even more black land irrigated by the Dnieper River.

Aeetes and Perseus formed a coalition to deal with Roy, and of course Roy would not choose to be beaten passively.

A large amount of supplies from the Athenian Empire was transported to Byzantium, and after turning it into the logistics center of the Athenian army, Roy took the initiative to enter the Bulgarian region with an Athenian army of [-].

Plain on the west coast of the Black Sea to the east of the Balkan Mountains.

Roy's [-]-strong army was blocked by the Thracian coalition forces here.

The [-] cavalry and [-] infantry of the Athenian Empire confronted the [-] allied army of the Thracians and the [-] cavalry and [-] infantry of Perseus.

The enemy had a huge numerical advantage, so they were confident in defeating the Athenian army.

After looking at the Thracian coalition army, Roy asked Erechtheus.

"Erechtheus, I entrust this war to you to command, are you confident of winning?"

"I have no reason to lose."

Erechtheus said confidently.

"Although the number of enemies is [-] more than ours, our weapons and equipment are iron weapons and iron armor. The enemy uses backward bronze weapons, and they don't even have metal armor. The gap between the two sides is really too big."

The strength gap between the Athenian army and the Thracian coalition army is completely a dimensionality reduction blow.

Even if the Thracian coalition forces have a three-fold numerical advantage, the Athenian army cannot fail.

Roy was also full of confidence in the victory of the Athenian army's dimension reduction strike. Hearing Erechtheus' answer, Roy said immediately.

"Then I will leave this war to you to command."

Erich Theus accepted it readily, and then commanded [-] Athenian cavalry to divide into three cavalry legions to attack, followed by [-] infantry to cooperate with the cavalry.

Aeetes and Perseus obviously did not expect that the Athenian army, which was inferior in number, would take the initiative to attack.

Aeetes immediately led the Thracian knights to fight head-on, and Perseus also led his [-] army to wait for the opportunity.

As Roy's old opponent, Perseus understood the strength of the Athenian army better than the Thracians, so Perseus did not want to fight a tough battle.

In the endless green ocean.

The Athenian army and the Thracian coalition army are like two torrents colliding together.

As soon as the battle between the two sides began, the Thracian coalition forces fell into a disadvantage.

The bronze spear blade of the Thracian is difficult to pierce the iron armor of the Athenian soldiers, and the iron spear blade of the Athenian soldiers can easily tear the cloth and leather armor of the Thracian knight.

The attack of the Athenian soldiers can easily knock down the Thracian knight from the horseback, but the attack of the Thracian knight can hardly knock down the Athenian cavalry who use saddles, stirrups and other harnesses from the horseback.

Seeing that the situation on the battlefield turned out to be a unilateral massacre of the Thracian knights by the Athenian soldiers, Aeetes immediately found Erechtheus and wanted to kill Erechtheus as the commander to reverse the situation.

Seeing that Aeetes regarded himself as a target, Erechtheus came to Aeetes without showing any weakness.

The commander-in-chief of the Athenian army and the commander-in-chief of the Thracian coalition fought one-on-one—

The sun god Helios came down with the Thracian gods and bestowed his divine power on Aeetes.

Because Helios also knew that if Aeetes lost the war and the Thrace region was conquered by the Athenian Empire, he would not only lose his throne as the king of the gods of Thracia, but also lose his status as the patron saint of the Sun Tribe , was driven out of the Thrace region by the Athenian Empire.

After Helios descended with the Thracian gods, the goddesses Metis, Mnemosyne, and Amphitrite also descended on the battlefield to confront the Thracian gods.

The Amazon tribe joined the Athens Empire, and Bendis, the moon goddess who guarded the Amazon tribe, became one of the gods of Athens.

But Bendis didn't want to be an enemy of her brother, so she didn't participate in this battle of the gods.

(End of this chapter)