Chapter 379: Coalition Forces
Upon learning that Helen, Queen of Sparta, had been taken captive by the Trojan prince Paris, the Greek princes immediately expressed their willingness to fulfill their sacred oath and gather a large army to wage war on Troy across the Aegean Sea. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In addition to King Itake, the resourceful Odysseus, a mortal who was favored by Athena, the goddess of wisdom. and the sons of Peleus, king of Milmidon, and Thetis, the goddess of the sea, whom the oracle spoke of as far superior to his father's "son."
It's a pity that this son of destiny was invisibly strangled in infancy by the gods of the Holy Mountain through forced marriage, and was supposed to overthrow the rule of the Great Eagle and become the king of the fourth generation of the divine court, but due to the inheritance of his mother's divine blood and the favor of fate, he was only a demigod.
Odysseus was unwilling to leave his wife and children for the sake of the mess of the Queen of Sparta, cross the blue Aegean Sea, and expedition to the mighty city-state of Troy.
The eloquent Palamedes and the king of Sparta came to visit, and Odysseus pretended to be crazy and stupid to fool the two guests, but it was a pity that Palamedes, who could see through the tricks of mortals, used the life of Odysseus' son to pierce the disguise of King Itake.
Odysseus, under the affection of father and son, showed his true face of sanity, and had no choice but to agree to the expedition. Although he didn't say it, he hated Palamedes for his advice.
In particular, Palamedes showed a wit that was not inferior to Odysseus, which made King Itace feel deeply humiliated, after all, it was too humiliating to be defeated in his field of expertise. He hated Palamedes to the core, and personal enmity led to the tragic end of the Greek prince in the future.
As for Achilles, the son of fate, the first hero of Greece, Thetis, the goddess of the sea, with the waters of the River Styx and the sacred heavenly fire, created Achilles' invulnerable divine body - two-thirds of which is divine and one-third is human.
Even Hercules, the great hero who completed the Twelve Trials, is not an opponent of Achilles in a way. The only pity is that Hercules did not fight Achilles, and the strongest heroes of both eras missed.
Due to the curse of Hera, the god queen, the famous Greek hero, who sublimated himself in the fire of lightning strikes, was taken into the sacred mountain of Olympus by his father Zeus, becoming one of the candidates for a new god.
The famous Greek prophet declared to the Quartet that without the son of the hero Peleus, the Greek coalition could not break through Troy on the other side of the sea. Upon hearing the news, Achilles' mother, Thetis, the goddess of the sea, left the palace under the sea and, despite the opposition of her husband Peleus, sent her only son to the island of Sculos, surrounded by whirlpools, and handed over to King Lycomedes for protection.
At first, Achilles, who was still a boy, lived with the king's daughter in the palace of Lycomedes, who did a good job of hiding his true identity. Unfortunately, as he grew older, Achilles grew a beard and an Adam's apple, and he could no longer hide his identity.
Fortunately, when the daughters of King Lycomedes came of age, they married off one after another, leaving only the youngest daughter, Deidamia. Achillestan Chen revealed his identity, and the two naturally embraced each other, and the childhood friendship bred the love between men and women, and the two became a secret husband and wife.
Odysseus and Diomedes, the king of Argos, follow the instructions of the prophet and travel together to the vortex island of Schylos to visit King Lycomedes in an attempt to find Achilles, who is disguised as an achilles.
Unfortunately, the two searched for the girls in the palace, no matter how good their eyesight was, but they did not find Achilles. After all, the disguise of Thetis, the goddess of the sea, was enough to blind mortals to the resourceful King Itake.
However, Odysseus was not a man to give up easily, and he knew that he had to find Achilles in order to completely conquer the Trojans, to fulfill his oath, and to return to his homeland as soon as possible to enjoy a good time with his wife and children.
King Itace knew that the girl raised in the deep palace was very different from the closed disciple taught by the centaur sage Caron.
Odysseus devised a trick to put the warrior's shield and sword on the ground, and let the retinue standing outside the palace blow the battle horn, stomp their feet vigorously to make heavy footsteps, and even did not hesitate to exchange swords, block with guns and shields, and make the sound of an approaching battle.
The maidens in the palace of King Lycomedes, including his daughters and female officials, were frightened by such a realistic battle cry, like a hare fleeing from the palace in all directions pursued by a falcon.
Only Achilles did not run away, he felt the blood in his body, stimulated by the battle horn to boil, and without hesitation, he stepped forward to pick up the sword and shield, and made a posture of preparing for battle according to the teachings of the centaur sage Charon.
In this way, Achilles revealed his true identity and could no longer stay in the palace of King Lycomedes in the name of his wife.
Under the persuasion of Odysseus and Diomedes, Achilles was in principle willing to fulfill the oath his father had made and lead the Thessalians, who were skilled in archery, with the warriors and allies of Milmidon, on an expedition to Troy.
The famous heroes who accompanied the army, as well as Achilles' etiquette teacher Funix and his friend Patroclus, Achilles' father, one of the Argonaut heroes, Peleus, in the name of the kingdom of Mirmidon, sent fifty warships to show his strength.
Ships from the Greek city-states sailed into the turquoise seas and, according to their prior agreement, assembled in the harbor of the island of Sihira.
King Agamemnon of Mycenae was elected commander of the coalition by the princes and heroes, and when the army was busy gathering weapons and equipment, Agamemnon convened a meeting of everyone.
After three days and three nights of heated discussions, intelligence gathered from all sides showed that the new city-state of Troy had amassed a staggering amount of wealth due to its occupation of an important stronghold of commercial trade between the East and the West.
The matter of regaining the robbed Spartan queen Helen was temporarily put aside by these Greek princes and heroes, discussing how to divide the wealth of Troy.
In the end, the commander of the coalition forces, Agamemnon, shook his god-given golden scepter and decided to give Troy an ultimatum first, ordering them to hand over Helen, Queen of Sparta, or a full-scale war would break out.
"Even if the Trojans hand over the treasures we regard as our eyes, this war of devastating the city of Troy will continue. ”
Agamemnon made no secret of his passion for wealth and profit, and the princes and heroes who participated in the conference did not feel ashamed at all, but felt unsurpassed glory.
Lu Bin, who monitored the meeting throughout the whole process, was secretly surprised in his heart: "It turned out to be driven by interests, no wonder the Greek coalition army held out for ten years and wanted to capture Troy, everything was for interests!"
Lu Bin opened the book of the traveling mage, and the ghost ships that traveled all over the sea, salvaged the souls of those who died at sea over the years, and broke through the invisible fog, allowing him to draw the general outline of the world and successfully draw a world-class map.
"The world is big! Troy was so well positioned that it was a natural hub for trade between East and West, and the starting point for the commercial circle around the Mediterranean, and the wealth accumulated was able to create a golden statue of Apollo the long-range shooter, which shows the extravagance of the Trojans. According to the temperament of heroes who are keen to take risks to obtain war profits, it is really difficult to fight themselves if they don't grab a handful. ”
The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Agamemnon, was well aware of the weakness of mortals, and at the most opportune time, made the most favorable decision, which was immediately supported by everyone. The king of Mycenae not only strengthened his position, but also tied the princes and heroes present to the chariot of the expedition to Troy.
Lu Bin praised this: "This is the power of the king! The wise Odysseus, Palamedes and Agamemnon are all a little inferior in comparison. To be the commander of the coalition forces, this Mycenaean king is really not a wasted person. ”
"Hmm...... I remembered that both Agamemnon and Diomedes were descendants of Sisyphus, and they both had cursed blood in their veins. However, both kings were tamed by the gods of the sacred mountain, and completely forgot the tragic fate of their ancestors in the underworld who were given eternal punishment by the gods. It's called forgetting your roots!"
Before the end of the coalition meeting, the Greek princes and heroes, who had not slept for three days but were still in high spirits, elected Menelaus, the king of Sparta, who had lost his wife, and two famous wise men, Palamedes and Odysseus, as envoys, to cross the sea of love by boat and go to the Trojan kingdom on the other side of the sea to deliver an ultimatum to the current king Priam.