139, life and death
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Medanzo controlled the shuttle and left Amon's territory, which was much faster than a long journey on horseback. Amon told him to be careful on the road and try to avoid the densely populated city-state when flying in the sky. A few days later, the guard who was sent to the Temple of Isis should have returned long ago, but there was no one seen. Amon was a little puzzled.
The highest ruler in the Temple of Isis is the Saint, and the High Priest George is responsible for all the classics and documents. Only these two people can reject his request. Is that the volume of classics really so important? Maria or George does not agree to Amon's borrowing? This possibility is very small in public or private.
Amon was about to send someone to the Temple of Isis to urge him, but unexpectedly, the messenger of the Temple of Isis arrived at this time. To Amon was very surprised that it was the high priest George who personally delivered the book to his door. What surprised him even more was that George also brought a message with someone.
The news is about the Kingdom of Barron and Hati. The war between the two countries began not long ago. Hati's Kingdom suddenly withdrew its troops when it was very dominant because King Lucier died.
While Gilgamesh invaded the Eju Empire, the elite Marduk Corps of the Barron Kingdom and another city-state corps Kish Corps had already gathered at the ferry crossing in the middle of the Youdi River. When the Uruk Legion advanced into the Eju territory and occupied a large area of land in the cape city-state, the Marduk Corps and the Kish Corps also took advantage of the opportunity to cross the Youdi River and approach the Duke Plain.
The army of the Baron Kingdom was stationed in the northeast corner of the Syrian desert and the southeast corner of the inland lake, and was also waiting for news from the Uruk Legion. If Gilgamesh's strategic intention was realized, the Baron army would have no worries. The entire Syrian desert was within the control of the Baron Kingdom. Taking advantage of the situation to go north to cross the inland lake, you can occupy the entire Duke Plain.
Hati had just reached a peace agreement with the Eju Empire and did not want to fight again, but a strong enemy was eyeing him and had to gather his troops again and advance to the southwest corner of the Inland Lake to be on guard.
The Hati army had not yet completely retreated, and it was convenient to regroup at this time. King Lucier did not return to the front line and returned to the capital directly. Before leaving, he wanted to reappoint Gelie as the commander-in-chief of the battlefield. No one was more suitable than him. But Gelie refused this appointment and recommended Prince Ashe to the king.
Prince Ashe is Lucier's favorite youngest son. This time he was with the king in person. During Lucier's kidnapping by Amon, Gere was not in the front camp. He once served as the commander-in-chief of the battlefield, which was also in line with the rules. The prince experienced the last battle and followed Gerel to ask for advice humbly. He got along very well with the generals on the front line. He was the commander-in-chief of the battlefield. He was very suitable for his identity, experience, and connections, and it was a rare opportunity to exercise.
Lucill was already a little afraid of Gelie's influence in the country, and this suggestion was right, so he followed the flow and appointed Ash as the commander-in-chief of the battlefield. Prince Ash himself was a little unsure and begged Gelie to be the chief priest of the entire army. This was a new position that had not been before. In fact, it was to assist the prince in commanding the battle on the front line. Gelie nodded and agreed.
Prince Ashe was named the commander-in-chief, but he followed Gelie's advice. Gelie suggested that he remained silent. Prince Ashe kept waiting and watching and not in a hurry to fight. The army of the two countries confronted each other in a strange state of silence.
There is an alliance between Eju and Hati. Gerry sends people to the cape city-state every day to get the latest battle reports. The soldiers do not have to fight, but there are a group of magicians in the army who are exhausted and drive shuttles to and from time to time without interruption. The Barron army over there is also waiting for news from the Uruk Corps. Once the southern front is stable, they can take advantage of the situation to advance.
Even if a great magician maintains enough physical strength and does not consume it too much, it will normally take more than two days to drive the shuttle from Hati Camp to the Cape City State. At the same speed, it takes more than three days to travel from Barron to the rear of the Uruk Corps. In other words, it takes seven days to travel back and forth for one shuttle, while Hati Army takes five days.
In fact, Barron's army did not use the shuttle to send messages to Gelie so intensively. Only a magician who masters high-level space magic and Qi element magic can control the shuttle. At least he must be a level six magician with deep magic power. How many magicians have to be sent to communicate continuously every day. No one knows when the current confrontation will last, and this is also a huge human consumption.
The first warrior in mainland China, Enqidu, fell, and Gilgamesh withdrew his troops in disgrace. Gere got the news at the first time, four days ahead of the Barron army. When he received the news, Gere suggested that the Assyrian prince march immediately and launch an assault before the Barron army could react.
The combat plan was also formulated by Gere. Prince Ashe commanded the three legions of Enriel, Anu and Nannar in his hands. Gere's march route was not directed to Barron's camp, but directly penetrated from the Syrian desert in the south, and Nannar's legion launched an attack north.
Of course, this legion could not defeat the Barron army. During the march, Enriel Legion turned around and surrounded the retreating Nannar Legion to block the Barron army's counterattack. As for the most elite Anu corps formed by Gelie himself, he ignored the unfavorable situation in the rear encounter. He broke through many defense lines and entered Barron's territory, occupying the ferry on the west bank of the Youdi River.
This tactic of splitting troops to block the enemy and raiding the enemy behind the enemy caused chaos in the two legions of the Barron Kingdom. The Youdi River Ferry Area was lost and their retreat was cut off. The Barron army won several victories at the beginning, and was about to force the Nannar Legion and Enrier Legion to retreat into the desert. At this time, the Annu Legion occupied the ferry and seized the logistics supplies that the enemy had stored on the banks of the Youdi River.
At Gere's suggestion, Prince Ashe divided the Anu army into two parts, a small part guarding the west bank of the Youdi River, blocking reinforcements from the direction of Baron's territory across the river, and a large part returned to the army to surround the Baron's army, whose rear route was broken. Baron's army was immediately defeated and almost pushed into the inland lake. After a series of hard battles, they barely stood firm at the edge of the lake. They had no way out of retreat in a battle of backwaters.
The sudden change in the front line also shocked the Kingdom of Barron, and the Eagle-Eagle army was urgently mobilized to reinforce. If the national strength of Barron is stronger than Hati, its territory is wider, its population is more fertile, its land is rich, its resources are rich, and its life is also very rich, but its national strength is not completely equal to its military combat power. Under the command of Prince Asher and Gere, Hati has already gained an absolute advantage in the war around the inland lake.
There are two biggest problems when Baron wants to reinforce the front line. The Eagles may not be able to arrive in time. Even if they can arrive, they will have to cross the river to attack and seize the positions on the west bank of the Youdi River. The ferry crossing on the other side has been lost, and the cost of crossing the river is huge and it takes a long time. The army trapped and waiting for assistance cannot hold on.
In this case, while the Kingdom of Barron ordered reinforcements to speed up the march, they sent envoys to the Hati camp to negotiate a peace. The so-called peace is to admit defeat. They are willing to pay a ransom, request the Hati army to rescue the siege, and then return the two corpses to the east bank of the Youdi River, and the two countries will suspend their troops, so that the losses of both sides can be minimized.
This is an errand that is powerless and humiliating, but the messenger must have an important enough identity, and ordinary ministers are not qualified to talk about it. The princes and nobles pushed each other, and finally the errand fell on the head of Prince Feng Nuo, who has always been idle and low-key. Prince Feng Nuo was not interested in the fight for the throne on the surface, but fortunately, the people traveled and made various talents, which made the other nephews of King Hammorabi II afraid of the other nephews. This time they recommended collectively so that Feng Nuo would take the blame.
Originally, the king wanted to send Princess Xiao Qian as an envoy, but the princess was sloppy and claimed that she was not fit in her body and pretended to be sick without showing up. Several of the king's nephews jointly recommended Feng Nuo. State affairs were the priority. Although she knew it was not a good thing, Prince Feng Nuo still took the order and left.
Feng Nuo only brought two followers and took a shuttle controlled by the great magician Jieke to the Hati Camp for negotiation. Prince Ashe asked Gelie what to do? Gelie suggested: the trick to deal with Prince Feng Nuo is to "drag", neither rush to reach a result nor refuse negotiation requirements; treat Barron's army as "draw", neither launching a siege and annihilation, nor giving the other party a chance to breathe; at the same time, he mobilized heavy troops to strengthen the defense on the west bank of the Youdi River.
The longer you drag, the more you get stuck, the more stable the defense of Youdihe is, the more beneficial it will be to the situation in Hadi and the higher the price you can get in negotiations.
This is how Prince Ashes did it. The negotiations were slow and the price was getting higher and higher. Prince Feng Nuo endured humiliation and agreed to it with a grudge. The young Prince Ashes achieved such a brilliant victory when he formally commanded the army for the first time. His mentality couldn't help but expand, and finally made a request.
He asked the Kingdom of Barron to admit that the large tract of land on the west bank of the Youdi River, which had been led by the Hati army, were officially cedeed to Hati, which was the same as the request that Gilgamesh once made to the Eju Empire. How dare Prince Fengniao agree? Even if the Kingdom of Hati asks for more money and materials, he can tolerate it, but such a request exceeded the low line. Even if the Kingdom of Barron can agree, Prince Fengniao himself would bear the infamous historical reputation.
Prince Fengniao, who has always been humble, finally got angry and decided not to talk. He said to Prince Ashe: "If your highness is stubborn, then start a decisive battle. Even if you can wipe out the two legions of Barron and occupy the land on the west bank of the Youdi River, your own losses will not be small. The Kingdom of Barron will launch a counterattack with the strength of the whole country, and no one will get it worth the loss!"
After saying this, Prince Feng Nuo was about to leave. Even the conditions that had been promised were invalidated and the negotiations were officially broken. Gelie commanded the army on the front line, and Prince Liu Yashe negotiated in the camp. He heard the news and rushed back to remind the prince that his request was indeed too much. If he did not want to turn a completely rebellious battle, he could not talk like this, and he could not turn a victory into a long-term hostile war of attrition.
Prince Ashe also regretted it at this time and quickly tried to keep Prince Fengniao and took back his previous excessive demands for renegotiation. At this time, the Eagra corps that rushed to reinforce in Barron had reached the east bank of the Youdi River and did not forcefully cross the river. They were waiting for the prince's negotiation results. At this moment, Prince Hati came to the capital of Hati, and forced Prince Ashe to end the negotiations and withdraw troops!
King Lucill died of sudden illness. Officially, Lucill was frightened when he was kidnapped by Amon and his mental state was not very good. He was infected with a cold on the way back to the capital. Although he had been carefully treated by the priests, he never improved.
After returning to the capital, the king felt a little relieved and relaxed. He feasted his ministers in the palace, but excessive drinking caused an acute illness and died in the middle of the night. The cause of the king's death is suspicious, but all the palace records are flawless, and no one dares to say anything more. The country cannot be without a king for a day. The king's death prequel is in his eldest son Enis. While Prince Ashe led a large army to fight, his elder brother had succeeded to the throne with the support of the ministers in the capital.
After King Enis ascended the throne, he wanted to send a funeral to his father, and sent an urgent report to the front line. On the one hand, he notified the king's death and the news of the new king's succession, and at the same time, he urgently recruited Prince Aisha to return to the capital to attend the funeral of Lucier, and ordered Gelie to succeed as the commander-in-chief of the battlefield.
Ashe and Enisben were the contenders of the throne, and each had its own power in the country. People had long understood that the new king after Lucille must be one of the two. This time, Ashe led a large army to fight with Gerry's assistance. Lucille's meaning was clearly intended to be in Ashe. Making achievements was just a prestige, and at the same time, it could also establish the prestige of Kia in the army.
But no one expected that Lucill would die so suddenly. The eldest son Enis took advantage of the situation to ascend the throne, and on the surface it was justified that the new king's succession was a fait accompli. He ordered Prince Ashe to remove himself from his position as commander-in-chief of the battlefield and immediately return to the capital to attend Lucill's funeral. If Ashe really handed over the military power and went back like this, wouldn't it be like dying?
Ashe was shocked when he received the news and found Gelie for a long talk all night. The outsiders did not know the content of the talks. However, Prince Ashe came from Gelie's big tent and immediately ordered the messenger from the capital to be detained and placed under house arrest, and ordered the news not to be leaked, so as not to shake the morale of the army during the war.
Prince Ashe claimed that he could not believe that his father was dead and sent an envoy to return to the capital to "verify". He suspected that the messenger was a spy from the Kingdom of Barron and deliberately pretended to be a messenger of the capital to disturb the morale of Hati.
This excuse was so difficult to find. Lucill's death was absolutely true. Ashe was just delaying time. He wanted to end the war with the Kingdom of Barron before the envoy he sent returned from the capital, and was eager to complete the negotiations. Prince Fengniao seemed to have heard some news. The situation at the negotiating table reversed. Instead, Prince Ashe was extremely anxious and wanted to send Barron a sum of money and quickly sent Barron's army away.
Prince Feng Nuo took on this chore under the guise of losing power and humiliating the country, but unexpectedly he took a big advantage. He also knew that he would stop it when he knew it, and did not mention any excessive conditions. He still paid a symbolic ransom and reached an agreement to withdraw troops from each other.
Of course, Prince Ashe hoped that the faster the better, so Prince Fengniao did something extremely glorious. He only brought two followers through the encirclement of the many Hati army and entered the camp of the Barron army, and brought out two corpses with heavy casualties and exhaustion, and brought them back to the safe area on the east bank of the Youdi River. Then the Hati army retreated, and Prince Fengniao led the reinforced Ei'a army to cross the Youdi River again, regaining the lost land on the west bank that was once led by the war, and the soldiers from beginning to end were bloodless.
This caused a great sensation in the Kingdom of Barron. According to the word of mouth, Prince Fengniao also became a legendary hero. He entered the enemy camp alone to fulfill his mission and could serve as a teacher of millions! After Enqidu fell and Gilgamesh retired, the people of the Kingdom of Barron needed a new hero to restore the deep sense of loss. Prince Fengniao's appearance happened to be a coincidence, and his reputation in the country was unparalleled.
His identity is a prince, one of the legal heirs to the throne, which is incomparable to Hathi's Gorie or Amon of Eju.
Not to mention how Prince Fengniao became the hero of the entire Barron Kingdom, Prince Ashe of Hati did not hand over the military power. Instead, he returned to the capital to attend the funeral according to the king's order, but he did not go back by himself, but led the elite chariots and cavalry in the army of Hati. The Enriel Legion was originally stationed in the capital, and following the prince back to the garrison, the generals under Prince Fengniao also brought the elite troops with him in the name of attending the king's funeral and rushed to the capital Hatusha City.
When George got the news, Prince Ashe had just set out. It seemed that civil strife in the Kingdom of Hati was inevitable. I heard that Gelie had returned to the capital with the prince, but I don’t know what role it would play.
When Amon heard this news, he felt very moved. He once captured Lucill, the king of Hathi, and held him by his side for more than half a month. Although the king was not strong, his body was not that weak, and he was treated at any time by the great master of the accompanying master. He should not die so quickly. It seems that there is something else.
He was also regretting Gelie. Gelie led the main force of Hati's army and commanded both of the national wars that he was extremely good. He should have won a big victory, but both ended up being unbeaten. King Lucille was the one who pulled his back. This king was already dead, and his death was the last and the most serious disaster to the country. It was really not a good thing from life to death.
With emotion, he smiled bitterly and asked the man beside George, "General John, since your injury has healed, why don't you go to the An-La Legion to take office, but follow the high priest to me instead?"
The "guest" brought by George was John, the former commander of the Ann La Legion. Not long ago, Amon recommended him to succeed the commander of the legion, but Pharaoh did not reject it, and only said that he would be appointed after John's injury healed. Calculate the day, John should take office, so how could he have time to visit Amon's territory?
When John heard the question, he slapped the table hard and said, "General, don't mention it! I was dismissed as soon as I took office, and I was demoted to the next level!"
Amon said in surprise: "What's going on? Could it be that your bad temper has happened again? What trouble did you cause this time?"
George shook his head aside and said, "The consequences of this matter are complicated. We can't blame General John for his bad temper. Let me explain it slowly."
Pharaoh did not refute Amon and the military. When John recovered from his injuries and returned to the Mengfeisi Military Service Bureau to report, Pharaoh ordered him to be appointed as the commander of the An-La Legion and rushed to the Cape City State to take office today. John was a straightforward person and went immediately.
On the way to the cape city, the Pharaoh and the Eju Army, who were far away in the capital, received several reports of impeachment of John. It was a long time since Amon was training troops on the march, he had dealt with several priests who were not working hard. At that time, John dragged them out of the army and beat them half to death with his own hands.
One of the priests was seriously injured. I don’t know if he pretended or John was too furious. Anyway, this person took the opportunity to transfer the army and returned to the rear to recuperate before he even went into battle. At that time, Amon had no absolute authority, and the priests were all under George's jurisdiction, so George had to nod because the priest was the distant nephew of Joseph, the prime minister of Eju.
This priest may have been afraid of death and did not want to go to the front line, or he may have been unwilling to be so humiliated. But later, Amon made many great achievements on the battlefield, and the priests of the An-La Legion were rewarded and had noble glory. Of course, all these contributions were not as good as that priest. He was always ridiculed in shame all day long, so he especially hated Amon and John.
Amon was very good at making great achievements, and it was not wise to find him now, so this person set his sights on John. There were really many tricks to capture John, and some small things could not be touched, but one of the charges was very serious. John once publicly criticized Pharaoh's orders as farts.
It was after fighting with the Hathi army and just returned to Eju, when the news of the Uruk Corps raid had not yet come. Pharaoh had ordered Amon to be removed from his position as commander. John happened to meet the messenger who was sent to the commander on the way. He was very angry when he heard the news and shouted angrily: "Fart! Amon is a warrior, and there is a position more suitable than the commander of the Emperor's regiment? Even if he is appointed to another position, he can serve as the commander of the legion!"
At that time, John pressed the hilt of his sword, surrounded by soldiers and was murderous intent, which made the foolish man's face pale. Just then, the great master Julian came with the second order of the Pharaoh and appointed Amon as the commander-in-chief of the battlefield. John did not continue to lose his temper.
This matter can be big or small, if no one pursues it, it will be over, and a general swears. But if he really wants to collect evidence and investigate, get conclusive evidence and make a big fuss, and send it to the Eju Army and the Pharaoh in a written impeachment report written in the divine text to the Eju Army and the Pharaoh, the nature of the problem will be serious.
Pharaoh claimed to be the spokesperson of Horus, symbolizing the will of the gods, guarding and governing Eju, and his formal orders were equivalent to the effect of the oracle. Who dares to say that the oracle farts? This is disrespect, blasphemy, and insulting the dignity of the empire, and must be severely punished!
A priest probably couldn't cause such storms, but he found Joseph, the prime minister, to cry, and the prime minister intervened secretly, so he obtained the signature testimony of the envoy at that time, as well as the proofs made by others present, and then wrote a letter to impeachment.
The prime minister of the empire had other considerations for intervening in this matter. He also wanted to use this matter to attack the rising military forces after the war, especially to weaken the influence of the newly-rise Amon. Although Amon handed over military power, his remaining power still existed in the military. John was his most important direct line, and these were somewhat in accordance with the pharaoh's hints.
Although there was such an impeachment and the evidence was conclusive, it was difficult for meritorious officials to deal with it casually. The Eju Army was planning to send someone to the Cape Town State to confront John, asking him if this was the case, and if so, what was the reason? This was to give John a chance to explain. But at this moment another incident happened. The priest who wrote to the letter to impeach John was killed, but the murderer was not caught.
Chapter completed!