Among the angels present, the Angel of Justice was the only angel who did not participate in the war, so the boss Satan asked him to go and pass the order, of course, to supervise the execution, and whoever dared not listen to him the Angel of Justice, the sword of justice would surely come on his head.

The Angel of Justice descended among the other angels and announced to them the decision of the boss Satan, all the angels must immediately lay down their arms, otherwise, the anger of the boss will destroy them completely! The angels are afraid of the boss Satan, who is their chief manager, super domineering, so they have to suppress the anger in their hearts and withdraw from the battlefield in anger.

At this time, the wooden elephant was ready in the camp of the people of Xicheng, and Noji stood up at the meeting to speak, and said: "All the leaders of the coalition forces, it is time to show your true strength and courage! The rest of the people can first sail to Doss Island, and leave only a bold and clever man near the Wooden Elephant, who will do as I say, and who will risk staying for this task?"

Everyone hesitated, and after a while, no one dared to stand up.

Finally, there was a Xicheng man named Xinong, who stepped forward!

"I would like to take on this task," he said. Let the people of Dongcheng torture me and let them burn me alive, I have made up my mind!"

Sinon's words were cheered on, but some said, "Who is this young man? We have never heard his name." He must have been obsessed with demons, and the devil either wants to destroy the people of Dongcheng or destroy us. ”

At this time, the venerable old man Stoll stood up and encouraged Cinon, saying, "You are a brave boy! Go, the angel bless you! Now we need greater courage, for the angel has given us the means to end the ten years of war, and let us quickly burrow into the wooden elephant, and I feel that I am full of the strength of a young man, as if I had been on a great ship to conquer all directions, and if the king had not let me on board at that time, I would have taken part in that expedition." ”

The old man said that he wanted to jump into the elephant's belly through the wooden door first, and then Nodin's son Ding Yuan wanted him to give him this honor, and the old man led the others to Dos Island, and Stoll was easily convinced.

So, Ding Yuan was fully armed and the first to walk into the spacious and dark elephant's belly. Behind him were Meos, Medes, Neros, and Noji.

Then came Nosha, Nou, Menus, Onas, Lyus, Marcos, and his brother Marcos the Younger, and then Parnoel, and many other heroes, who were tightly packed into the belly of the elephant.

Finally, there was Peros, the maker of the wooden elephant, who entered the belly, pulled the ladder into the belly, closed the wooden door, and tied it inside, and the heroes sat silently in the belly, not knowing what fate awaited them.

The rest of the people of the West City obeyed the orders of Nowu and Stol, set fire to the tents and camps, and then boarded the ships and set sail for Dos Island, where they dropped anchor and ashore, eagerly awaiting the predetermined signal of fire from afar.

The people of the eastern city soon found that the shore was filled with smoke, and they looked at the top of the city, and found that the ships of the western people had departed, and the people of the eastern city were very happy, and they flocked to the sea in droves.

Of course, they were still wary and did not take off their armor, and they found a huge wooden elephant in the square where the enemy had encamped, and they gathered around it and looked at it with amazement, for it was truly an amazing work of art, and some had never even seen such an animal, because elephants were not like war horses, and they were everywhere.

Now there is a debate about what to do with this behemoth, with some arguing that it should be moved into the city and placed on the castle as a souvenir of victory, while others do not believe in this inexplicable gift left by the people of the West City, and advocate that it be pushed into the sea or burned with fire.

Hearing the latter two suggestions, the heroes of Xicheng who were hiding in the belly of the elephant were all frightened.

At this time, the priest of the eastern city of the angel Apollo, Laocoon, came out of the crowd, and before he could go to the wooden elephant, he dissuaded the people, saying: "Unfortunate man, which devil has led you to the mind? Do you really think that the people of the West City have left, and that the gifts of the people of the West City do not contain stratagems? Do you not know what kind of people Noji is? The elephant must have hidden danger in its belly, otherwise it must be a kind of war machine, with which the enemy who lies in ambush near us will attack us! In short, no matter what it is, you must not trust the people of Xicheng!"

So saying, he took a spear from the hand of the warrior who stood by, and plunged it into the belly of the elephant, and the spear pierced into the belly of the elephant and trembled, and there was an echo from it, empty, like a sound coming from a hole, but the hearts of the people of Dongcheng were numb, and their ears were not hearing.

Suddenly, some of the shepherds found Sinon hiding under the belly of the elephant, and they dragged him out as a prisoner of war to take him to King Lamech.

Xinon played the role entrusted to him vividly, and he stood pitifully, stretching out his arms to the sky, weeping and pleading: "Oh my God, where can I go, where can I go by boat?

The shepherds who had first seized him were moved by his words, and then he told them how he had become a sacrifice and how he had escaped at the last moment, "I could not go back to my country." He then added, "Now that I am in your hands, it is up to you to decide whether you will mercifully and generously pay for my life or put me to death like my countrymen!"

The people of the eastern city were so moved by this clever remark that even the old king of Lamech believed him, and said some comforting words to him, and allowed him to settle down in the city, only that he should tell him what was the matter with the wooden elephant, for he was also very pious and reverent when he spoke of it.

Sinoon immediately raised his hands and began to pray pretendedly. "O angels, I have sacrificed unto you, O altar and sword that threatens my life, and ye bear witness to me, that I have severed my ties with my countrymen, and therefore it is no sin for me to divulge their secrets! During the war, the people of the West City had been pinning their hopes on the aid of the Sheep-Eyed Angel, and since his statue was stolen in the East, things have gone bad, and you Easterners may not know that it was our cunning West-Side people who did it, and the Sheep-Eyed Angel was so angry that she withdrew her kind aid to the West-Eyed People. Then Cass the prophet said that we should go back by boat at once and listen to the angel's command again in our homeland, saying that we could not hope to win the war because the statue of the angel had not been restored. By the counsel of the prophet they finally decided to return to their homeland, and before they left they made this huge wooden elephant as a gift to the sheep-eyed angel as a gift to the angel of the sheep's eyes, and Kas demanded that the elephant be made so tall that you people of the eastern city could not drag the elephant into the gate and put it in the city, because the elephant would be dragged into the city, and the angel with the eyes of the sheep would protect you and not the people of Heze, on the contrary, if you damaged the elephant, which is what the people of the city wanted, then you would surely suffer, and the people of the west of the city intended that they would come back as soon as they had heard the will of the Almighty, and prepare to take your cityto restore the statue of the sheep-eyed angel to its original place. ”

Sinon's lie was so coherent that both the old king Lamech and the people of the East City believed that the sheep-eyed angel had always been concerned about the fate of his friends, who had been anxious about their fate since Laocoon's warning. But a miracle helped the heroes escape their doom. Here's the thing.

It turned out that after the death of the priest of the angel of the sea, Laocoon, the priest of Apollo, took up his position, and today he was sacrificing a great bull to the angel of the sea by the sea; when he saw this great wooden elephant, he said something of warning to the people of the eastern city; when he had finished speaking, he went about the sacrifice, and he and his two sons; at that moment two great serpents swam from the direction of the island of Doss, and they swam through the mirror-like sea until they reached the shore; from the surface of the sea came out the head of the serpent with a bloody crest, and the body of the serpent swayed in the water, stirring up the waves; they swam ashore, spitting letters, squeaking, and the eyes of the flaming snakes shone with a terrible lightThe people of the eastern city, still surrounding the wooden elephants, turned around and fled, but the two serpents swam to the altar of the angel of the sea, where Laocoon and his two sons were busy making offerings, and the serpents entangled the two children and gnawed their tender muscles with their fangs, and the children roared in pain, and their father Laocoon drew his sword and hurried. But the serpents also entangled him! The bull he had just slashed with his axe ran out of the altar in blood, mooing and roaring, and threw off the axe from his neck, and poor Laocoon and his two sons were finally bitten alive by the viper, which swam all the way to the main temple of the Angel of the Sheep's Eye, coiling and hiding at the foot of the statue of the Angel of the Sheep's Eye.

The people of the eastern city saw this horrific incident as a punishment for the priests for suspecting the elephant, and some hurried back to the city and made a large hole in the wall, while others put axles under the feet of the elephant and rubbed thick ropes to put around the neck of the elephant.

So they triumphantly dragged the elephant back to the city, and the boys and girls followed in high spirits, singing festive hymns, and when the elephant passed through the high threshold of the gate, it was blocked four times, but at last rolled over.

Each time it jolted, the sound of metal striking came from the elephant's belly. But the people of the East City still did not hear, and they shouted for joy and dragged the huge wooden elephant to the acropolis.

In the midst of the happy crowd, only the prophetess Kassandra drooped her head and her eyes glazed over, she was the one to whom the angels had bestowed her prophetic talents, and she had never made a mistake every time, and she had seen the heavens and natural objects and found many bad omens, and strangely people did not believe her. Now that she saw the danger, a premonition drove her out of the palace. Her hair was scattered, and her eyes were scorching, and she swayed through the streets, shouting as she went: "Don't you know that our way leads to hell, O people of the East City, that our road leads to the underworld of hell? I see the city full of blood and fire, and I see the Angel of Death rushing out of the belly of the wooden elephant! You are still cheering to send it to our acropolis! Why don't you believe me?" Even though I say a million words, you still don't believe me, and the avenging angel has decided to take revenge on you because of your disobedience, and you have become his sacrifice and captive. ”

Although he said it like a cry, the people of Dongcheng only laughed and mocked her, and no one listened.

On this night, the people of the East City feasted and celebrated, for the West City had finally been driven away by them, and because they had captured a great booty, which had never been done.

They played flutes and harps and sang merry songs, and again and again they poured their wine and drank it all, and the soldiers were drunk and drowsy, and they were completely disguarded.

In the middle of the night, he got up, crept out of the city gates, lit torches, and held them high and shook them continuously, sending the promised signal to the distance.

Then he extinguished the torch, approached the elephant, and tapped it lightly, and the heroes heard the voice, but reminded everyone not to be impatient, and to go out as quietly as possible. He gently pulled the deadbolt of the door, poked his head out, and peeked around for a while, to find that the people of Dongcheng had already fallen asleep.

So Noji quietly lowered the wooden ladder that Peros had set in advance, and walked down, and the other heroes followed him one by one, their hearts pounding, and when they came outside, they brandished their spears and drew their swords, and scattered them into every street of the city, and slaughtered the drunken and sleepy people of the Eastside, and they kept their torches still in the houses of the Eastside, and in a short time the roofs were on fire, and the fire spread, and the whole city was in a sea of fire.

The people of Xicheng, who were hidden near Dos Island, saw that Xinon had given a torch signal, and immediately pulled out anchor and set sail, and sailed quickly to the shore of the Red Sea with a tailwind, and rushed ashore; all the warriors quickly rushed into the city through the gap in the wall that the people of Dongcheng had torn down the wall so that the wooden elephants could pass through; the occupied city was in ruins, and there were cries and screams everywhere, and corpses everywhere, and the crippled and wounded crawling on the dead bodies, and those who were still running were also stabbed to death from behind; the barking of frightened dogs, the moans of the dying, and the cries of women and children were mixed together, miserable and terrifying。

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