216, When God Comes

The latest order of Sinach was to let Faust and Semir quietly go to the city of Enrile in the Duke plain, and he himself stayed in the occupied city-state of the Kingdom of Barron. Now the most important territory of the Assyrian Kingdom is enjoying the achievements and pleasure of the conquerors. At this time, the Kingdom of Barron had already ceded the land and begged for surrender to Sinach, the war in the territory subsided, and the second phase of the melee between the nations was roughly over.

The biggest loser of this melee is of course the Kingdom of Barron, but the biggest harvester is a god - Enriel!

The main gods believed in by Assyria and Hathi were Enriel. They opened up new territory, built the temple there, and carried out new rule in the name of the gods, which also represented the expansion of the priests and nobles and the temple power. Enriel's divine territory was becoming wider and wider, and Malduk was retreating step by step. This was not a direct confrontation between the two great gods, but the result of human wars.

In a sense, the Assyrian Kingdom was the most important piece in Enriel's hand. Sinach's ambitions and Faust's strategic planning were more or less guided by this god. Many of their ideas and wishes were even directly related to Enriel's oracle. For example, when Sinach ascended the throne, Enriel descended the oracle, saying that he would become the great king on the continent, and hinted how he should do it.

When the fierce battle in the Kingdom of Barron gradually subsided, the melee between the nations entered the third stage. Sinach's ambition was ignited, and his goal was to point to the Duke Plain. The strategic base of Enrile City had been established. The next step was to break the city of Salem, the business road of the Black Fire Swamp.

The conservative plan of Sinach was to divide the fertile land of thousands of miles with the Hati Kingdom, and the best plan was to completely occupy the entire plain. If this goal was achieved, the strength of the Assyrian Kingdom would reach its peak on the continent, and Sinach would also become the greatest king ever!

Sinach sent Faust and Semir to Enrile quietly, but in fact he was also implied by Enrile. Based on the development of the war situation and the comparison of forces between various parties, this great god predicted the future situation of the Duke Plain, and his own guidance also became part of this prophecy.

Aesop didn't know at first that his opponent had changed. It was no longer a warrior Philist, but Faust who was strategizing. At the beginning, Faust did not reveal his strategic intentions or made public appearances. Instead, he secretly enhanced the power of Enrile, and even deliberately showed weakness in several frictions and conflicts.

Through the war to conquer the Kingdom of Barron, the Assyrian Kingdom captured a large number of people and became slaves, and Faust took the opportunity to solve the most troublesome logistical problems. He gave these slaves a way out or hope that as long as they could transport enough production and strategic materials to cross the Assyrian Plateau to Enrile, they would be able to become residents of the city-state. They would make contributions on the battlefield in the future and obtain a piece of land.

The intestinal path that crosses the Assyrian Plateau is cold and steep, and the loss of personnel and materials in logistics supplies is very high. However, with such a policy, the plundered slaves can take the initiative to work hard. The giant legion has been assembled, and a larger reserve army appears in the city of Enrier as civilians, hoarding materials and creating weapons.

The news of King Sinach's battle with Barron had reached Enrile. Many of the soldiers who participated in that war had become emerging nobles in the kingdom, possessing large tracts of land and a large number of slaves. This also made the soldiers in Enrile who had not achieved results so far envious and expected. They were eager to break through the city of Salem and become the new nobles on the Duke Plain.

The Kingdom of Barron expressed his surrender to the Kingdom of Assyrian. Except for not building temples for Enriel in the city-states across the country, the rest are similar to the situation when the Kingdom of Hati surrendered to the Eju Empire. Sinach called himself the Assyrian Emperor.

Aesop and others also discovered that something was wrong in Enrile, but at this time there was another more important thing that attracted everyone's attention, that is, the latest changes in the situation between the Assyrian Empire, the Kingdom of Baron, and the Kingdom of Hath. Just as Faust was secretly planning in Enrile, the war in the Kingdom of Baron was completely quelled, and the Assyrian Emperor Sinach sent envoys to King Hathi to discuss alliance with King Asher.

If Synach hadn't suddenly attacked Barron from the northeast, the Kingdom of Hati would not have won a great victory in the Western Front War. Ashe was also a direct beneficiary. The two kings had sent envoys to congratulate each other on their victory. Now Assyria and Hati have each achieved something, and in order to consolidate the results, Synach put forward another suggestion.

He first proposed to form allies between the two countries, strengthen trade and trade cooperation, and repatriate each other's fleeing slaves. In addition, Sinach also specifically mentioned the issue of belonging to the Duke Plain. He suggested that the north and south divide the Duke Plain equally, so that this fertile land thousands of miles will become a new border between the two countries.

In Sinach's suggestion, the city of Enrier, the northernmost part of the plain and the city of Salem in the north of the central part are all the territory of the Assyrian kingdom, while the city of Meso and the city of Budamiya in the south are of course the territory of the Hati kingdom, and they also contain large areas of uncultivated areas, which are much larger than the existing territory controlled by the two countries. Judging from the current actual situation, this proposal is beneficial to both sides.

But there was a problem that Sinach deliberately did not mention. He placed the sphere of influence controlled by Salem into the territory of the Assyrian Kingdom, just to test the attitude of the Hati Kingdom. King Ashe did not want to turn against the powerful Assyrian Empire on the surface, and sent an envoy to reply to it very interesting.

He told Sinah that he hoped that the two countries would form a friendly alliance, and he also called Sinah the Great Emperor of Assyria. However, in his letter, he also mentioned that he had conferred Amon as Prince of Salem, and the radius of 200 miles around the city of Salem was the territory of the Prince of Salem, which belonged to God Amon! If the will of God Amon made Salem surrender to the Assyrian Empire, Hathi would not stop it.

The Kingdom of Hati does not oppose the painting circles of the north and the south on the surface, but also states that the ownership of Salem City is not up to the two countries, and it depends on the choices of the people of Salem City.

The Hati Kingdom has just occupied the west bank of Budamiya City and the Youdi River. The newly established Meso city-state is also waiting to be developed. It is wise to gain a foothold from the southern part of the Duke Plain and then expand. It is not easy to draw any remaining energy to fight the Assyrian Kingdom. However, Ashe and Sinach are probably both cleared in their hearts that there is a very likely conflict between the two countries in the Duke Plain in the future. It depends on who has greater ambitions and stronger national strength.

At present, the city of Salem is a barrier and a nail, inserted between the spheres of influence controlled by the two countries. The king of Asher was also happy to see the city of Salem fight to the death with the Assyrian Empire. Fortunately, he was consolidating his business in the south of the Duke Plain, so he adopted a wait-and-see attitude and did not directly support them in military terms. As for civil commerce and material supplies, he did not stop it.

The outbreak of a larger war between Salem and Enrile was initiated by Salem because George finally realized the seriousness of the situation. Even if Faust secretly accumulates strength, no matter how hidden it is, there will be no clues. George discovered two abnormal situations when he investigated in the sky.

First, the number of people crossing the Assyrian Plateau has increased significantly. In the past, they were regular logistics and military personnel. Now there are more and more ordinary immigrants in groups. Many people have frozen to death or even fallen to death on the intestinal path of the plateau. However, more people have successfully arrived at Enrier City. Second, Enrier City has opened many new iron ores at the foot of the plateau. Most of these newly arrived populations are smelting refined iron.

In this way, Salem City has been developing rapidly in the past two years, but the strength of Enrile is not as conservative as imagined. If Sinach had freed up his hands to attack the Duke Plain after the conquest of the Kingdom of Baron, Salem City would be very passive. It is time to launch a real decisive battle. As long as you completely defeat Enrile City and live in the intestinal path of the Assyrian Plateau, the status of Salem City will be completely consolidated.

George encountered a dangerous situation during his investigation. He was suddenly attacked by several shuttles flying over the Assyrian plateau. He quickly escaped without fighting. He later learned that Faust, the sage national teacher of the Assyrian Kingdom, had arrived in Enrile City, and the situation was very bad.

While George and Aesop and others were discussing countermeasures, something happened to the business road in the Black Fire Swamp. A caravan was intercepted and a large amount of supplies were destroyed in the swamp. There were only two entrances in the business road in the Black Fire Swamp, which were held in the hands of the Syrian city-state and the Salem city. It would be difficult for a master to pass through the swamp and ambush the business road. What's going on?

Yunmeng, the "Swamp Goddess" was ordered to investigate, but found that this was the work of Enriel City. Someone disguised himself as a caravan and entered the business road with combat supplies. Salem City currently needs combat supplies, so he also bought weapons from the outside world. The Syrian city-state was completely released. However, after entering the black fire swamp, these people found a suitable place to leave the business road and lurked.

Instead of attacking the official logistics supplies transported by the Kingdom of Hati, they attacked a private caravan that traded with Salem City, and then sneaked into the depths of the swamp and hid. Yunmeng found these people in the swamp and captured them all for interrogation before finding out that they were spies sent by Enriel City, with the purpose of attacking the logistics military supply line of Salem City.

At present, the Hati Kingdom has occupied the City of Budamiya and opened a waterway on the north and south sides of the inland Hunan. The business roads in the Black Fire Swamp are no longer as important as they were before, but for the City of Salem, they are a passage that must be guaranteed. So Yunmeng took the order to station in the Black Fire Swamp and strengthened the military strength of the post stations on the trade roads.

The accident on the business road made Aesop realize that he could no longer wait so passively, and God Amon had no news, so he had to decide how to resolve the dilemma by himself. At this moment, another small-scale conflict broke out between the two city-states, and John led the Rangers to defeat the small army of the Giant Legion who attempted to provoke the dispute.

George took advantage of the situation to expand the scale of the battle and led the Salem Legion to launch an attack. Today, the city of Salem is much stronger than the past. It has formed a reorganized legion of 5,000 soldiers and dozens of priests. It is usually engaged in farming and takes turns to practice. It can gather in the war and fight to the front line.

George's strategy is simple and practical. The first step is to take advantage of the arrival of winter to harass the fields outside Enrier, so that the enemy cannot obtain the food and supplies on the spot; the second step is to bypass the city with strong city defenses, cut off the path to enter the Duke Plain on the Assyrian Plateau, and cut off the support of Enrier; the third step is to surround the foot of the plateau, attack those mines, and pull out the outer strongholds; the fourth step is to siege the isolated city of Enrier, which is waiting for assistance, and it is not a strong attack, it is a siege!

The sheep-gut path on the Assyrian Plateau was cut off, and the fields and mines outside the city could not be cultivated and mined normally. There was no need for a big battle. Enrile City would sooner or later surrender. George's attempt to attack the city would be very expensive. The Giant Legion has powerful offensive and defensive equipment. If it could lead the Giant Legion out of the city to fight, it would be the result that George wanted to see.

In the first wave of attack, Salem City won. The residents of Enriel who were farming outside the city saw the Salem Legion coming in large numbers and fled into the city. George himself set up a defense line between the two fortresses and ordered John to lead the vanguard troops around the city and attack the passage at the foot of the Assyrian Plateau. Enriel City finally faced the battle.

The Giant Legion sent Jufei, the commander of the front line, to lead the chariot and fight with John's cavalry at the foot of the plateau. John won, occupied the exit of the sheep's intestinal path, and ordered people to chisel the huge rock to temporarily block the road. However, at this moment, Faust led the main force of the Giant Army to suddenly leave the city and attack George's formation.

Faust had not asked Jufei to win, and he sent not many troops in the past, with the purpose of temporarily restraining John. John had just won the *** plateau road, and Faust sent the long-standing main force to the front battlefield. George was already prepared, but Enrile's strength exceeded his expectations.

As soon as Faust set off the army, he launched a fierce attack. The Philistine Legion commander jumped out of his chariot and rushed to the front with a giant sword. The Giant Legion also placed the heavy crossbow that was originally used to defend the city and the catapult chariot that siege the city in the battle formation. Before the charge, he launched a long-range bombardment, and the Salem Legion did not resist for a while.

Fortunately, there were two combat fortresses to rely on. George commanded the army to retreat and retreated to the rear of the two forts to form a triangular defensive situation. On the one hand, Faust consolidated the front line on the front, and on the other hand, concentrated the siege troops to attack a fortress.

At this time, Raphael had been recruited by the Kingdom of Hathi to the Anu Legion. Link was still practicing in the Garden of Eden, and Yunmeng was sent to guard the Black Fire Swamp. The two fortresses, the ones who presided over the divine art formation were Medanzo and Gabriel. Seeing that the military formation in the plain was about to collapse, and the divine art formation in the fortress could not last long, George urgently ordered Gabriel to break through and gather with the Salem Legion to shrink his strength.

A fortress was finally captured, and the magical formation was destroyed. The two armies suffered heavy casualties, but the Salem Legion obviously suffered greater losses. What's more terrible is that the connection between the vanguard troops led by John and the main force of the legion was cut off. When John realized this, he immediately led the cavalry back and attempted to attack the Giant Legion forward and back.

Faust changed his tactics at this time. He placed the siege troops behind the infantry battle formation, used catapults and crossbow formations to stabilize the defense line, and ordered his full strength to resist George's counterattack. He gathered the main force of the chariot to fight back to fight John, and first eliminated the army.

The battle was very miserable. John led the cavalry to rush back to death but fell into a heavy siege. He might have been able to escape at the beginning, but his responsibilities were not allowed to leave the troops. After the war began, he could no longer escape. George also launched a counter-charge, trying to support John's breakthrough, but was resisted by the defensive battle formation of the Giants Legion.

The war was finally disrupted. George knew that counter-charge rescue John might not be worth the effort, but he could not give up. Later, the army was strangled together, and Themifeus led a cavalry to break out of a bloody road to the battlefield where John was surrounded. She didn't have to do this. The cavalry might be in vain to kill him. She just hoped to attract the attention of the encircled soldiers to create a chance to break through.

John saw Themifei rushing over, his red robe was like a fire cloud, and then her war horse was shot into the ground. Themifei siege was surrounded by sword-wielding his sword, and his comrades around him were killed one after another, and a shuttle gun penetrated her chest. John let out the last roar in his life, and waved his giant sword and rushed to this side as if he was crazy. Jufei, who was chasing him all the way, was killed by the violent John, and John finally fell less than ten feet away from Themifei.

The cut off vanguard troops were wiped out, and the combat power of the Giant Legion re-exploded three years was far beyond George's expectations. It was meaningless for George to continue to launch a counter-charge rescue response, but the two armies formed a stalemate in strangle combat. At this time, they could not retreat.

After Faust eliminated John, he organized chariots to return to the battlefield and inserted into the battlefield from both sides of the formation. George even pushed all the last reserves onto the battlefield. Medanzo, who was guarding another fortress, led the defenders to run over from the flank and smashed the encirclement of the left-wing chariots. Both sides fought until dark before gathering the army. The Salem Legion suffered heavy casualties and was completely defeated in this battle.

The entire line was almost collapsed. If it was darker, if Medanzo had not given up the unsieged fortress in time and led the last new force to reinforce from the flank, the Salem Legion would have been ruined here. After collecting the remaining troops, both sides had a brief rest. One fortress was destroyed, but the other fortress was not lost. George still placed the battle formation here, and the entire army was shrouded in a tragic mood.

Finally, the battle that determined his destiny came. Goddess Mu Yun descended the oracle. Aesop led the people in the rear to hold a grand sacrifice ceremony. The soldiers in front also prayed and called to God Amon on the battlefield. God Amon's majestic figure flashed with golden light in the air. The Salem Legion was indescribable in the instant of inspiration from despair!

However, everyone exclaimed, because the battle formation of the Giant Legion dispersed, a stone platform appeared. Faust was standing in front of the stone platform with a staff raised. A woman shot a shocking arrow in the middle of the stone platform.

The black crossbow arrow headed towards Amon God with an invincible power arrow. In an instant, there was only the sound of a giant arrow slashing through the sky on the battlefield, and no other sound could be heard!
Chapter completed!