Chapter 112: The Battle of Troy
Odysseus, who had been plotting how to kill Calcas the Prophet, finally found an opportunity, because the Prophet had offended Agamemnon, the leader of the heroes, the King of Kings.
Not long before, Chryseius, the priest of Apollo, came to the Greek army, apologized to Agamemnon, and begged Agamemnon to release his daughter Chryseius, offering a large ransom.
Because when she was on the island where Apollo was sacrificed, she rebuked them in front of all the heroes that it was a wrong crusade, and that she would inevitably taste the bitter fruits of failure.
Enraged, Agamemnon, the king of kings, wounded her and then took her daughter into slavery with another priestess. Her beautiful daughter, who thus became the slave girl of Agamemnon, remained for nine years.
When she came to redeem her daughter with gold and precious stones, all the heroes were moved, except Agamemnon, who cursed Chryses. Chryses, who felt sorry for his daughter, had no choice but to complain to Apollo, so Apollo used his medical priesthood to cause the Greek army to suffer from the plague.
On the tenth day, at the assembly of the army, the heroes asked Carcas to reveal why the gods were angry, and Carcas, believing that he had the protection of all the heroes, explained the reason and asked Agamemnon to return Chryseis, the daughter of the priestess Chryses.
Agamemnon was furious, but complied in plain sight, but he demanded more ransom for Achilles, Odysseus, and Ajax's share.
Achilles threatens to go home and not participate in the war again, while Agamemnon says that since Achilles wants to go back, he will bring his slave girl Brises. The slave girl was also captured on the island where Apollo was sacrificed, but was not eligible for redemption, and Achilles liked the slave girl.
Achilles was aroused in his heart, and directly raised his sword to kill Agamemnon. Fortunately, Hera sent Athena, the goddess of wisdom, to keep an eye on everything about the Greek coalition and quickly stopped him, because these two heroes are extremely important to the Greek coalition army.
Seeing that Achilles had been persistent, Athena told Achilles that Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, would soon pay for his wild words, so Achilles angrily went back to the tent with his friend Patroclus.
Odysseus was tasked with taking Chryseis to the city of Etion to return Chryses, but he asked the Prophet to go with him.
The Prophet did not want to go because he sensed that he would be in great danger if he went with Odysseus.
However, both Odysseus, the hero's brain, and Agamemnon, the leader, asked him to go with him. There was no other choice, so the prophet had to go with him.
Before leaving, he said to the heroes, "If I don't come back this time, then I must have been killed by Odysseus." ”
Odysseus was furious and directly said that if he killed the prophet, then he would not be able to come back.
In this way, the two heroes who tore their faces left the barracks together.
When Odysseus was leaving, Agamemnon really sent the heralds Tartibios and Eurybarates to fetch Achilles' slave girl Brises, and Achilles knew that everything was just Agamemnon's idea, so he asked Odysseus to take his beloved slave girl and return it to the city of Etion. And he decided that from this day on, he would remain in the tent and not participate in any fighting.
When Odysseus and Calcas the Prophet arrived at the territory of the Trojan coalition, he saw an acquaintance, Iason, a disciple of Caron. So, taking advantage of the inattention of the prophet Karcas, he secretly consulted with Iason, so that the prophet would lose his life.
On their way back, they met the Amazonian queen Penthesilea, who had just arrived in Troy to help, and she led a group of twelve carefully selected female warriors, just in time to meet Odysseus and the Prophet.
They directly ignored the fact that Odysseus and the prophet Karcas had returned to the priesthood of the god of light, and went to war with these two heroes. Eventually, the prophet Karcas was killed, and Odysseus fled back to the Trojan camp.
No one noticed that when the Amazonian queen Penthesilea was on the road, she had a good conversation with the witch Medea and even drank a lot of Medea's wine.
Poor Calcas, the prophet, obeyed the god-king Zeus and carried the will of the heroes into the Greek coalition, hoping to kill them.
However, Odysseus avoided his ruse, and Achilles only turned against Agamemnon, the manager. And he, a disciple of the god of prophecy, Teresias, died outside the barracks.
When the wounded Odysseus fled, several of the Greek kings who had made the decision learned the truth, and Agamemnon decided to launch the fiercest attack on Troy to avenge the prophet Calcas.
However, Adros persuaded Agamemnon and the kings to test the reactions of the many heroes and soldiers, especially the attitude of the gods towards their attack on Troy. Because, only the gods are willing to support them can achieve the final victory.
When Agamemnon heard this, he immediately summoned all the warriors and heroes, and he tested their intentions in the square, and announced to them that they were going home, and they were overjoyed and pushed the ship to the sea, ready to begin their return to Greece.
When Hera, the queen of God, learned of this, she sent Athena to tell Odysseus to stop the crowd, and Odysseus immediately took Agamemnon's scepter, which symbolized supreme power, and ordered everyone to return to the square.
Only Thercites continued to clamor, and he bravely stood up against the continuation of the fight, especially against Agamemnon and Achilles, and in the square he insulted Agamemnon for being selfish and courageous.
Odysseus walked up to him and warned him to stop, but he didn't stop cursing, and finally Odysseus killed Thercites with his scepter. He re-energized the Greeks, and the army, having made sacrifices to Zeus, attacked the city of Troy.
The two goddesses, Hera and Athena, knew about Odysseus' relationship with Sisyphus, but they didn't mind, as long as Odysseus could help Greece defeat Troy, they could also help him escape from Zeus's hands.
For them, teaching Troy is already their main purpose. They still remember how the Trojan prince Paris had been laughed at by Aphrodite in order to curry favor with Aphrodite at a wedding attended by all the gods.
The messenger of the gods, Aerys, who took the form of Polytes, the son of Priam, king of Troy, informed the Trojans of the approach of the Greek army, and the Trojans marched out of the city, and when the two armies confronted each other, Paris came out of the Trojan army and signaled to fight Menelaos alone, Menelaos became excited, and he could finally take revenge with his own hands.
His wife, the most beautiful Ming Zhulun in the world, was abducted by the shameless Trojan prince in front of him, and he suffered humiliation. Now, he finally has the opportunity to wash away the humiliation he has received in front of the world.
When Paris saw Menelaus's exuberant appearance, he cowered in fear next to his friend, and his Hector scolded him for being a coward and accused him of being the culprit of the war.
Paris fought hard, and both armies ceased, while Menelaos asked Priam to witness the duel, and the goddess Aerys, in the form of Priam's daughter, Laoddic, told Helen to climb the tower of the Skaia Gate to watch the battle.
Priam, king of Troy, made sacrifices to the gods, and after swearing to keep the treaty, he returned to the tower, and he could not bear to see the death of either side at close range.
At the beginning of the duel, Paris threw his spear at Menelaos, but his spear hit Menelaos's shield but did not pass through it, and when Menelaos threw his spear, the spear passed through Paris's shield and armor, and Paris reacted and jumped to the side to be saved.
Menelaos attacked with his sword, but because the force was too strong, the sword broke into four sections, so Menelaos grabbed Paris with his bare hands and dragged Paris to the Greek army, and Paris was breathless.
Medea, who was watching the battle at this time, was entrusted by Aphrodite, the god of love and beauty, to save Paris once. She rushed to the aid of the defeated Paris, cut Paris's helmet belt, leaving Menelaos with only one helmet in his hand, and covered Menelaos with a thick fog to take Paris back into the city. Enraged, Agamemnon declared Menelaos victorious and demanded that the Trojans hand over the war criminals and offer gifts, but received no response.
At this time, Zeus sent Athena to provoke the Trojans to break the treaty, Athena incarnated as Laodochos, the son of Antenor, walked up to Pandarus and persuaded him to kill Menelaos with an arrow, Pendros sent an arrow, but Athena deliberately let the arrow only go into Menelaos's skin, and it was no big problem, the Greek army's doctor Macaon sprinkled medicinal powder on the wound, and the Trojan army took the opportunity to attack.
It was Athena who commanded the Greek army, but it was the god of war Ares who commanded the Trojan army, the Greeks were overwhelmed, Ares told the Trojans that Achilles was not in the Greek army, and the goddess Athena specially helped Diomedes to strength, Pandarus saw this and sent arrows to Diomedes, although the arrow was hit, it did not hurt Diomedes, Pandarus thought that Diomedes was dead, but Diomedes had called another hero, Stenelos, to pull out the arrow, and begged Athena to avenge him.
During the battle, Telepolemos of the Greek army was stabbed to death with a spear by Zeus' son Sarpedon, who was also dragged away with a back wound. When Hera and Athena saw this, the goddess Athena transformed into the hero Stantor to encourage the Greeks, and told Diomedes not to be afraid to attack the gods, and advised him to attack Ares.
Athena took advantage of Ares' killing of the hero Pelifas so that Ares could not see her and walked near him with Diomedes and attacked Ares, who was seriously injured and returned to Zeus to complain, and Zeus sent the divine doctor to cure Ares, and persuaded Ares to return to the battlefield.
Either way, this battle must be fought, and assigning Ares and Athena as the commanders of both sides can maximize the damage to the demigod heroes on their side.
Hector returned to the city and hurried to the palace, where he met his mother Hecuba, who told her to go and gather the women of Troy to make sacrifices to Athena to stop the mad Diomedes, and when Hecuba agreed, he went to Paris again, and he was not at all nervous when he saw that Paris was only checking his weapon, and the beautiful Helen was also condemning him, Paris said that he was preparing for battle, and Hector did not stay for a moment, so he went to his wife Andromac, and at the city gate he found his wife and son Astyanax。
Fearing that her husband would die on the battlefield, Andromac advised Hector not to go to war, but Hector disagreed, and went out to fight from the Scaia Gate, catching up with Paris, who had just entered the battlefield, and their appearance greatly boosted the Trojans. Together with Glaukos, they killed many of the heroes of Greece, and the goddess Athena, who wanted to help the Greeks, had just bumped into Apollo, the sun god who was helping the Trojans.
After Apollo consulted with Athena, the two gods decided to make a truce and let Troy and the most famous heroes of Greece go head-to-head, end the battle of the demigods as soon as possible, and choose the right lord of the constellation.
On the battlefield, both armies temporarily ceased fighting, only Hector called for battle, and no one in the Greek army dared to fight, and behind him, there were a large number of heroes on the side of Troy, such as Queen Amazon, Paris, Medea, Atalanta, and Iason.
Menelaos was so angry that he preferred to fight on his own, but Agamemnon stopped him, because it was a matter for Achilles to defeat Hector alone, and Nestor the elder taught the Greek heroes that they were cowardly without Achilles.
At this time, there were nine men willing to fight Hector: Agamemnon, Diomedes, Ajax the Great, Ajax the Younger, Idomenius, Merionez, Eurypylos, Toas, and Odysseus. Big Ajax was drawn into the battle, and he walked out with great joy, and Hector was a little timid at this time.
At the beginning of the battle, Hector threw his spear first, but was blocked by the shield of Ajax the Great, whose shield had seven layers, but was only pierced by six. Ajax the Great threw his spear through Hector's shield and armor, but the tip of the spear was deflected to one side, missing Hector.
The two heroes pick up their guns and fight again, and Ajax once again pierces Hector's shield and stabs him in the neck, after which Ajax picks up the boulder and throws it at Hector, this time injuring Hector's foot.
However, the wounded Hector became more and more courageous, and was not affected by the injury in the slightest, and exchanged the injury for the injury, which made the big Ajax also hang the color. However, in the nick of time, the herald came to stop the fighting, so as to avoid losing both, and the two knew the heroes and exchanged belts with each other as a commemoration.
After that, Zeus got bored, and he ordered both sides, all the demigod heroes and monsters to stand up and let them fight together, and only the last hundred survived.
Because he found that there were more people on his side, he should have a big advantage.
As a result, the battlefield was emptied, and the heroes of both sides all took the stage, and even Achilles, who had made up his mind not to appear, hurried over after hearing that there was such a big battle.
Not only him, but many heroes who did not join the big war also came from afar, ready to participate in this battle. The battle was passed down to later generations and is known as the beginning of the Colosseum.