Chapter 580: Embattled
As soon as these words came out, all of them immediately raised their hands and bowed: "Queen, the goddess sent by the god Annu, please save us." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Those who come here are brave enough to carry heavy burdens and survive in death. But at present, it feels good to face so many people who are prostrating themselves as gods and saviors.
Cheng Qianxun was thinking about what to do next, when the big priest took two small priests, took a whole piece of sheepskin in his hand, put it on her, and asked her to move to the front of the temple.
When you go to the front, you can see that the temple is built on a high place, with stairs on both sides, and the high place in the middle is a bit like a platform.
If I hadn't experienced so much, I would have been a little dizzy when I walked to more than a dozen places. And under the platform, there are actually more people.
"This is the queen that God has given us!" The high priest shouted, and the people below knelt down and fell to the ground, covering their faces with their palms upward.
With a bright moon above his head and a kneel full of subjects below, it really felt like a dream for a while. In the blink of an eye, she became a queen, worshiped and revered by the people, and about almost all women were willing to have such sweet dreams.
"Please reprimand the queen and convey the will of heaven!" The high priest held his abdomen with one hand and his subjects under the high platform with the other, and humbled humbly towards her.
What providence is conveyed? Cheng Qianxun looked at the night sky full of stars, and the moon was hanging in the middle to the west, about about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night. It's okay to count the days later, and 0:00 in a hundred days will be the time for customs clearance.
He lowered his head and looked at his kneeling subjects, and spoke loudly. The voice should be loud, otherwise it is so high, how can people listen to it?
She shouted, "Have you finished reading it?" After reading it, go back to sleep, take care of your spirits and work tomorrow! ”
Even the high priest was stunned, Cheng Qianxun turned around and walked inside, walking towards the temple hall, and said: "All the people who know about the work will be left for me, and all the other people who are okay will go, I want to know how big this mess is." ”
I heard the high priest behind him say loudly: "Did you hear it, the queen said, go back and rest, our queen will hold a meeting overnight to come up with a countermeasure to save us from Yu... ”
As soon as they heard this, the important ministers and nobles standing in the hall came up one after another, and rushed to report to their homes: "Queen, I am... I am... ”
I can't hear the names clearly. She could only stop and wave her arms: "Stop!" "Stopped this mess.
Looking at so many people around me, I don't know what to do, so let's have a simpler way: "Who cares about the military." ”
"It's a subordinate, Queen." A guy with bulging muscles and half a head taller than a normal person shouted.
Pointing at him, Cheng Qianxun asked, "Tell me, what is the current situation?" ”
The guy squeaked and whined: "Queen, I just have to fight, this situation, this situation... ”
It's just a stupid big guy who can't be used, Cheng Qianxun is almost about to faint: "I don't know the situation, what kind of battle are you fighting?" Who's better at speaking and can explain the situation? ”
An old man wearing a calf-length skirt with a large gray beard stood up and bowed: "Queen, I am your minister, please go to the palace, there is a sand table there." ”
This is the temple, and it seems that it is only for sacrifice, so Cheng Qianxun ordered: "Lead the way ahead." ”
Walk down the high steps, and there are many sedan chairs carried by two people under the steps. It is said to be a sedan chair, but in fact, there are some simple "chairs" made of rattan and cloth hanging between two wooden sticks, and it feels very uncomfortable to sit on. It is impossible to be like a sedan chair like a large RV in the Qin Dynasty, after all, it is 5,000 years ago.
She frowned slightly: "Is the palace far away?" ”
"It's not far, it's right there." The old minister pointed to another mound about two hundred meters away, on which was built a mud house slightly smaller than the temple.
"That's the way." As soon as she finished speaking, the priest behind her arrived.
"Queen, Queen..." He panted and held a metal plate in both hands, in which was a yellow-orange-orange metal ring: "Crown." ”
This is the crown? It's really ugly, it's even more rudimentary than Sun Wukong's tight spell.
Forget it, it can be regarded as a status symbol, representing divine power. Cheng Qianxun stretched out his hand, took the metal ring from the plate, and put one hand on his head: "Okay, don't sit in a sedan chair, just walk over." Then he strode towards the location of the palace.
Of course, the other noble ministers did not dare to sit in the sedan chair, and twenty or thirty followed behind, walking quickly.
Of course, the palace cannot be compared with the Forbidden City, but to build such a building, it is necessary to pile up soil first, and then build it with adobe bricks little by little. Five thousand years ago, Europeans were still living in trees, and at the beginning of the Chinese civilization, it was very powerful to be able to build such a tall house. So much so that later people even thought that the early technology of the Sumerians and Egyptians was taught by aliens.
Two guards stood at the door, looking at a woman with a crown on her forehead that looked different from ordinary people, and walked towards the palace with a group of ministers and nobles. Knowing that it was about the new queen, he quickly knelt down and saluted.
"Yes, good job." Cheng Qianxun encouraged and continued to stride towards the palace on the stairs.
The royal palace is the same as the temple, with a central hall and side halls to the left and right. In the center of the palace hall, there is a sand table, about a dozen square meters in size, on which a map is made of clay, with a city in the middle, and mountains and rivers and other cities next to it.
"This is my country?" Cheng Qianxun walked to the sand table, and it felt quite big and spectacular.
"Yes, Queen." The old minister squeezed in and pointed to the slap-sized city in the middle: "This is your territory, Ekash." ”
That's all? Cheng Qianxun glared and looked around: "What about the next one?" ”
The old minister pointed to the sand table and pointed them out one by one, saying something that made her dizzy: "It's from other countries, Uluna, Urs, Erica, and Nippur. ”
Nima, Cheng Qianxun was almost scolded. After doing it for a long time, she was just this place, just such a city, and it was really a big slap. Four other countries that are stronger than her ... Just looking at the territory, people are several times larger than their own.
To the point, she asked, "How many people are in the city?" ”
The old minister replied respectfully: "According to last year's statistics, it was 2,000 people. ”
Two thousand, two thousand... Could it be that those gathered before the temple are all her people?
The military manager couldn't help but interject: "Now that we are besieged by the four countries, they all want to occupy Ekashgar as a stronghold and then fight other countries. Queen, what should we do? ”
"yes, what to do, what to do... The princes and ministers next to him were talking anxiously.
Cheng Qianxun's brows were twisted and never let go: "How long has it been around?" ”
"It's been more than a month." The old minister replied, "The former king opened the door to fight, but before he was struck by Sagon, king of Nippur?" Akkad? Regas was slashed with an axe. After returning for two days, he died, and before he died, he said that the god Anu would send a new king. I didn't expect the queen to really appear on the altar, what a miracle! ”
After saying that, they all knelt down in a large circle, and praised the gods in their mouths.
Cheng Qianxun thought about it and tried it with religion first: "Okay, go and tell those kings that I am the queen sent by the gods, so don't surround it anymore." ”
The old minister stood up tremblingly: "Maybe not, the guardian spirit is different, it can't stop them." Uruna worships Antu, the wife of Anu, Urs worships Ninkirus, the god of war, and Erika worships... ”
"Alright, alright! I know. Cheng Qianxun interrupted impatiently, with a headache. This Sumerian civilization should believe in multiple gods, and the gods are different, not perfect, with mortal temperament and temperament. Just like Athena, the patron saint of Athens, and Ares, the god of war in Greece, this chaotic family often has to fight and fight, not to mention the countries and city-states under its jurisdiction.
"And how many men did they send?" Cheng Qianxun counted on the fact that there were few people in ancient times, and there were not many people who came to besiege the city.
The old vizier replied, "Five thousand from Uruna, five thousand from yours, six thousand from Erika, and four thousand from Nippur." ”
There are indeed not many people, and the total number of people is 20,000, which is not enough for the population of the district where she lives. But her total number of people is only 2,000, not all of them are elite warriors, including old and young women and children.
She asked reluctantly, "How many troops do I have?" ”
The military manager was very helpless, even desperate, and said: "Three hundred." ”
Almost didn't go crazy, don't expect these three hundred people to be all at the level of three hundred warriors of Spartacus, it is a dream to resist any country with three hundred troops. What's more, there are also four of her powerful teammates with higher IQs than her as commanders. In a few of them, the former king was killed by a few blows, and she was about to die on the battlefield with an axe.
"How much grain is there in the city?" She also looked at the equally desperate ministers around her with desperate eyes, if she couldn't beat it, then she would defend it, and it would be delayed for a hundred days.
A minister timidly said: "We are mainly engaged in business and trade, do not plant, and most of the grain passes... ”
Cheng Qianxun roared angrily: "Talking about the point, how many days? ”
The minister trembled with fright, and hurriedly said, "Forty days at most." ”
Forty days, sixty days away from one hundred, not to mention hunger for sixty days, six days will be cannibalism. In sixty days, most people's bones can go to beat the drum, let alone defend the city. This is the country that the Celestial Realm threw at her? What a good country, where soldiers must fight, but there is a lack of food, a small country, weak soldiers, and embattled.
I feel powerless, and I really don't know where to start, to stall for time with my strong and ambitious teammates.
Behind the sand table was a staircase made of six mounds of earth, and at the top was a mat, and she walked over weakly, and sat down on the mat, holding her chin and frowning.
The other ministers didn't dare to speak, and sat down on the straw mats placed on both sides, sat and waited, and from time to time to see if the queen sitting on it had an idea.
What's the solution? Unless it is really a god and can sprinkle beans into soldiers, everything is not to be discussed. Cheng Qianxun simply lay down, put on sheepskin and closed his eyes to recuperate.
Before you know it, the night is about to pass. It was just as soon as the sky was bright outside, and someone ran in and shouted, "Oh no, no, three kings and a prince are shouting outside the city walls for us to fight." (To be continued.) )