Chapter 402: The Battle of Troy (24)
The roof of the tent of the Greek camp, made of whole logs cut off from excess branches, was beeped and exploded by the flames of war, and the brittle bark of the tree cracked, releasing thick black smoke, which slowly rose upwards and converged into a dark cloud with no end in sight. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The terrible screams of the dying and the desperate wails of the seriously wounded, in the thunderous roar of the Trojans, are intertwined into a wonderful elegy for the Greeks who were in a good situation on the surface, but were turned over and beaten in the blink of an eye.
None of the half-human, half-god heroes stepped forward and tried to salvage the situation as best they could, and a Trojan learned to use their own heroes together, and one or a few Greek princes were not necessarily opponents. Moreover, due to the intrigue that happened within the coalition forces not long ago, the famous hero was lost for no reason.
The Greek princes all learned to cherish life in the situation where the first hero Achilles had a bad relationship with the commander of the coalition and was exiled in disguise, and did not want to obtain extraordinary merits to avoid threatening Agamemnon's position.
They were all very unimpressed by the disgusting face of the king of Mycenae at the military council, since even the first hero Achilles was squeezed and squeezed, who would be stupid to rise to the top, second only to Hector, the son of Thetis, the invulnerable Kuknos, and the extraordinary martial arts Aeneas.
Many heroes who knew the inside story secretly hoped that the Trojans would be more ferocious and kill more Greeks, especially the warriors of the Mycenaean kingdom and the brave Spartans, who accounted for more than half of the front camp.
"If we don't exhaust the soldiers under the command of the commander of the coalition forces, how can we show the value of our people? If Agamemnon wants to monopolize power, he will have to suffer a heavy defeat, and only then will he be reminded of the various benefits of the first hero, Achilles, and the truth that our position cannot be violated. ”
An invisible tacit understanding spread among the top echelons of the Greek coalition, and the half-human, half-god heroes, watching their former battalions fall to the enemy, continued to be content with preserving their own strength and the gains gained from the plundering of the city-states of the Trojans and their allies.
Lu Bin was keenly aware of this turbulent undercurrent, and the phantom of the incarnation issued a key hint behind Hector, the Trojan commander.
The first hero of Troy was distracted from the battle and saw that the middle camp of the Greek coalition army, which had been caught by fire caused by several rounds of rockets, had unknowingly been divided and gradually brought under control.
The new army, which was well prepared for battle, was about to advance into the front camp where the dust had settled, and it was possible to hold back the Trojans, and even overturn the two-wheeled chariots in turn, and save the situation from defeat.
"Maybe it's time to retreat! Accepting it when it is good is the established strategy before the start of the war, the powerful mobility of the two-wheeled chariot, once it falls into close combat, it is entangled by several times or even ten times the Greeks, not only will it spit out the fruits of victory, but it may even lose its capital. ”
Lu Bin saw Hector's thoughts, and couldn't help but point: "The front camp of the Greeks has a total of nearly 20,000 people, 20 heroes are stationed, and there are more than 3,000 tents. It was charged four times by 5,000 Trojan warriors, directly slaughtering nearly 13,000 people, more than 4,000 lightly and seriously wounded, losing about eighty percent of the tents, burning nearly 6,000 sets of armor and weapons, and only three of the famous garrison heroes survived, all with wounds. ”
Hector couldn't help but be in good spirits when he heard the gods who were pointing out him in the dark and the results of the raid could not help but lift his spirits, and it was indeed an incredible victory to kill about 20% of the soldiers of the Greek coalition. It's just that he doesn't know his own losses, and Hector estimates that it won't be much.
The lord of Troy immediately asked the herald to blow the horn of retreat, and as a muffled voice spread in all directions, the small two-wheeled chariots that diverted out immediately broke free from the entangled Greeks and took the initiative to move closer to the large army, like drops of water flowing into a stream, gradually turning into a torrent of mud and mud filled with death and destruction.
"We're back!"
When they saw the middle battalion of the Greeks, one after another, rushing out of the heavily armed shield soldiers, throwing javelins with impunity, and completely destroying the dozen or so chariots that had no time to retreat, the Trojans understood the foresight of the commander.
The heroes of the Trojan League, led by Hector, were in the rear of the chariot formation, as was customary, carefully escorting their companions back to the Trojan city to guard against a possible counterattack by the Greeks.
Unfortunately, the Greeks today have shed enough blood, and after such a heavy defeat due to the fact that they were punished by the gods for their descent, they lost many middle-level generals who commanded the warriors to boost morale, and the heroes at the top were separated from each other, resulting in such a heavy defeat, and the army was so busy cleaning up the mess that no one was willing to lead the army in pursuit.
When Agamemnon, the commander of the coalition forces, learned of this, his fist-clasped hands slammed the long table in front of him, his heart was dripping blood, and because there was no one on the left and right, tears flowed down even more. After all, the huge front camp, the warriors of the Mycenae Kingdom and the Spartan Kingdom, occupied more than half of the tents, and they were the most effective direct warriors under the command of the sons of Atreus.
Not long ago, Agamemnon broke with Achilles for the sake of war, and in the blink of an eye, he suffered such a tragic defeat that people couldn't react quickly, which means that he was completely confused.
Originally, Agamemnon didn't have much affection for the first hero, after all, the prophet said that without Achilles, the city of Troy would not be captured, which made Agamemnon, as the commander of the coalition army, very embarrassed.
If the direction of the war belongs to one person, then no matter how well the others perform and how high the position of power they obtain, they are only his foil. All this was an absolutely unforgivable fact for Agamemnon, who was in the prime of life, so he instinctively had a knot of fear towards Achilles, and reported a unfriendly attitude such as resistance and resistance, and often looked at the son of Thetis with strange eyes.
"The mean, shameless, self-serving Greek princes, are waiting to see my jokes. I can't afford to lose face as the commander of the coalition forces, and I can't give up the scepter in my hand. ”
Agamemnon stood up, wiped the tears from his face, his sad expression changed in an instant, and his eyes showed a resolute gaze, which did not diminish the sorrow of knowing that his side had suffered a great defeat, nor did he show indifferent indifference.
His performance succeeded in fooling the unruly heroes under his command, and few people could see the truth of Agamemnon, and as for the clever man with good eyesight, after the death of the great wise man Palamedes, he also learned to protect himself and obediently shut his mouth.
Agamemnon played the role of the supreme military commander he was supposed to present at this time, greeting the wounded in the battle, leaving the physicians accompanying the army to take care of them, and asking the honorable priests to bless them.
He ordered the organization of manpower, re-digging trenches, building a defensive system with the antlers, cleaning up the former camp with heavy losses, treating the remains of famous heroes well, and sending special personnel to hold a grand funeral.
As the king of Mycenae, Agamemnon was not only proficient in the power of the emperor, but also knew how to buy people's hearts, and after a series of aftermath work, he finally consolidated his power, and did not lose the wings of Palamedes and Achilles, and never recovered.
Unfortunately, the heroes who are conceited and conceited are not people who can be easily fooled by tricks such as small favors and small favors, they are all happy to see Agamemnon at the forefront, suffering heavy losses, whether it is personal power or their own fame, waiting to see him die.
"The wise Palamedes' tactics are endless, and they do not reflect the strategies of Agamemnon, who seems to be more proficient in the power of kings. Achilles' martial arts are superior to ordinary heroes, and none of the heroes of our camp are his opponents, to be honest. He conquered dozens of city-states, plundered mountains of war profits, and generously distributed them to other heroes, even low-level warriors, and was deeply embraced by the Greek coalition forces, and had seriously threatened Agamemnon's position. If it weren't for Achilles' invulnerability to the gods, and the martial arts of suppressing the high-level combat power of both sides, his fate would have been very unbearable, perhaps like the wise Palamedes, who was executed by Agamemnon by using his power. ”
After nightfall, in the palace of the Trojan royal city, at the feast of celebration, Hector instructed his god in the dark, that is, Lu Bin, who had observed the Greek coalition army, and told his heroes without reservation.
For Hector to know the details of the Greeks so well, the allies of the other Trojan camps expressed absolute trust, after all, this first hero of his own side did not shy away from admitting that his strength was inferior to Achilles, and he repeatedly grasped the fighters on the battlefield and led everyone to victory after victory.
These days, observing the crematorium on the outskirts of the Greek coalition garrison, burning corpses day and night, Hector immediately sought an oracle from his sister Kassandra, and learned that it was the plague sent by Apollo, the protector god of Troy, to punish the Greeks for their arrogance in disrespecting the gods. The Trojan prince immediately seized the opportunity to inflict heavy losses on the beleaguered Greeks on the outskirts of the city, filling in the trenches that were difficult for the two-wheeled chariots to cross.
The demoralized Greeks retreated as expected, and Hector did not wait for them to return, and when his warriors had had lunch and had recovered most of their strength, he persistently attacked again.
At that time, there were many people who objected, but Hector insisted on going his own way and decided to attack with all his army, and the result was unexpected and reasonable, and the Trojan chariot formation was like a mudslide from a flash flood, which in the blink of an eye flooded the front camp of the Greeks, and blocked the enemy in the middle camp with a fire bow, and successfully reaped a rich harvest.
With a battle loss exchange rate of 1:40, the Trojans exchanged less than 500 casualties for nearly 20,000 losses of the Greek coalition army, and dealt a severe blow to the enemy's arrogance. According to enthusiastic estimates, the Greeks will definitely not launch a new military operation for at least a month.
The phantom of Lu Bin's incarnation roamed the battlefield, and he was like a ghost hovering over both sides of the Battle of Troy: "The wounded beast will put away its claws, retreat to the safety of its lair to get a respite, and stop the bleeding by licking its wounds." When the recruits arrive from mainland Greece, they will launch a more aggressive counteroffensive to make up for their losses. Unfortunately, the Greeks without Achilles were no match for the Hector Triumvirate. Focusing heroes into a certain war zone, the Trojans play even more. ”
The proud Agamemnon knew that the coalition needed Achilles to return, but he didn't need a hero who could threaten his throne in the field of vision, so he had to fight hard to hold the situation even if he suffered a crushing defeat.
Unfortunately, the Trojans did not know where to learn about the Greeks, or had already tasted the sweetness, so they abandoned their conservative defensive strategy and began to attack on their own initiative, and Agamemnon, as the commander of the coalition forces, was overwhelmed by the reports of war that flew like snowflakes.
Many Greek heroes who knew about it, looking at Agamemnon's ugly appearance, laughed in their hearts: "You deserve it!"