Chapter 400: The Battle of Troy (22)

"When did it occur to you, you despicable and shameless man, that you should fight with the noblest heroes of Greece on the battlefield? Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Do you still have the wrist strength to hold a sword tightly from being snatched away by someone's hand, and do you still have the strength to lift a shield against enemy attacks?"

"Of course, in the military tent where the heroes are seated, you can still rely on your identity to snatch the spoils of war from a person who dares to speak up, which is a very easy thing to do. You don't even need to do it yourself, as long as you move your mouth, you can do it. ”

"Agamemnon, son of Atreus, king of Mycenae, remember how eager you were to be commander of the expedition? At that time, your doors were open to everyone who would come in, even the most ordinary recruit. ”

"It's a pity that your friendly attitude is only for the sake of obtaining the supreme command and the position of commander-in-chief of the coalition forces. Now that the command is in hand, and you have ascended to the throne of the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces as you wish, these things are a thing of the past. You are no longer your hero's friend as you once were. You rarely show up in the army, and it's hard for people to see you again. ”

"We have no intention of taking the daughter of the priest of the sun god captive, and because of your arrogance you are unwilling to return the daughter of the priest, to offend the great god Apollo, who punished the Greeks with the arrows of the plague of death. It's all your fault! I want to put an end to this terrible calamity and tell the truth revealed by the apocalyptic sleep. ”

"Calcas the soothsayer is trusted by all, and if you return the priest's daughter Chryseis, and kill countless cattle, and kill innocent warriors and generals, the plague will be lifted, but what have you done? ”

"There are thousands of people like you among the Greeks, who aspire to higher status and who are tireless in their desire to gain power. But when they saw the need to make personal sacrifices to retain power, they couldn't help but flinch. A man who has no reason and insight, who has lost his noble qualities in the face of difficult choices, is not worthy to command an army or to be in charge of a country. ”

"Now I swear to you by this golden scepter: just as this scepter cannot sprout like a twig and draw leaves, from this day forward you do not want to see me fight again on the battlefield! You will regret that you should not offend my dignity!"

After saying that, Achilles smashed the golden scepter of Agamemnon, the commander of the coalition forces, to the ground and sat down in a huff.

Most of the heroes present were indifferent, not wanting to get involved in the dispute between the commander and the first hero, and only the upright king of Pylos, Nestor, tried his best to persuade the two sides to reconcile, but it was still to no avail.

Later, Achilles angrily shouted at Agamemnon, king of Mycenae: "Do whatever you want! I'm not going to raise my hand against you or other heroes because of this girl. You can give her to me, or you can take her away. But remember, Agamemnon, don't touch the rest of my ship's possessions, or I'll kill you. ”

Before the meeting was over, Achilles walked away without shaking his head, as the commander of the coalition forces, Agamemnon was very unhappy with the first hero's disregard for his authority, but no one could help the invulnerable son of Thetis.

"What a megalomaniacal man! Achilles thought that the powerful Greeks would suffer a series of crushing defeats after leaving him, and that our heroes here together were no match for the Trojans?"

There were many who respected Achilles, but there were also many who hated him, and Agamemnon directed the war against the son of Thetis and succeeded in deflecting the plague caused by his own incompetence and arrogance.

Before the meeting ended, Agamemnon, the commander of the coalition forces, ordered his guards to send the slave girl in his tent, the daughter of Chryses, the priest of the sun god, and the sacrifices to be escorted by the eloquent Odysseus. Then the son of Atreus ordered the Spartan herald Tartipios and the Mycenaean herald Eurygentes to bring Bresaeus, the daughter of King Brises, from the camp of Achilles.

The two heralds did not dare to disobey the orders of the allied commander-in-chief, and reluctantly came to the camp of the Milmidons, where they saw Achilles sitting in front of the barracks of the main tent, and were afraid to speak out for fear of the majesty of the sons of Thetis.

However, Achilles had already guessed the purpose of their trip, so he took the initiative to speak: "You don't have to worry, you are only the herald in charge of the message. Come here! I don't blame you, it's all Agamemnon's fault! My guards, bring the girl out and give them to take it back! But I want you to swear before the gods and mortals that if anyone asks for my help in the future and is rejected, then you cannot blame me, but the son of Atreus!"

Achilles' guards immediately led Bresaus out, and although he was taken captive by Achilles and turned into a slave girl, he was not subjected to much humiliation or abuse, and still wore luxurious silk clothes, and the gold and silver jewelry remained the same.

The daughter of Brises, king of Lynnassus, reluctantly left with the two heralds, and turned back in three steps, hoping that Achilles would force her behind. Because, after entering Achilles' tent, the royal noblewoman Breshad did not look like a slave girl, but like his wife, managing Achilles' huge "harem" and handling the mountains of war booty.

Attracted by Achilles' heroic masculine charm, Bresaus had fallen deeply in love with the generous and gentle hero. Even if he once led an army to storm the palace of the kingdom of Lunnassus and snatch her away from his father, it could not stop Bresaus from loving the god-like Achilles.

Seeing his beloved woman leave, looking at his close friend Patroclus, who was unconscious, and describing his withered appearance, Achilles' heart was about to break, and he sat by the sea with a cold face, and no one dared to approach.

The resourceful King Odysseus of Ithaca escorted Chryseis and the sacrifices to the kingdom of Mysia, and the sun priest Chryses was surprised and raised his hands in the direction of the rising sun, thanking the gods for his grace and asking the great god Apollo to stop the disaster on the Greeks.

His prayer did not take effect immediately, one of Apollo's quivers and a handful of plague arrows, and secondly, his anger had not yet been vented, after all, Agamemnon, the commander of the coalition forces, was not willing to sacrifice the daughter of the priest, but was forced to make a choice in the face of public anger, and even humiliated Achilles in order to compensate for his own losses.

"Anyway, there are no more dead people killed by plague arrows in the camp of the Greek coalition. If the epidemic prevention work is not done well, it is not impossible for the subsequent epidemic outbreak to occur. ”

With the Trident of the Split Sea, Lu Bin continued to observe the movements of the Greeks, and because Agamemnon reluctantly handed over the priest's daughter, the crematorium near the headquarters of the coalition army did not stop.

"At least the wrath of the gods has been subsided, and in order to regain the grace of Apollo the Distant Shooter, we must have a solemn sacrifice as soon as possible. ”

The soothsayer Calcas, claiming to have received an oracle from Apollo, specifying a hundred white sheep as sacrifices and sacrifices: "The great god Apollo has decided that Palamedes has been chosen to be in charge of escorting the sacrifices, and to preside over this sacrifice with the priest Chryses, and that the gods will bring higher glory to him."

Without the blessing of the long-range shooter Apollo, the archers and spearmen of the Greek warriors could not aim at the enemy, and were pressed and beaten by the Trojans, and had to voluntarily withdraw from the trench defense line during the day.

After Lu Bin learned about this, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "Apollo's golden arrow and silver bow are indeed extraordinary, and the plague arrow containing death qi is certainly beneficial, but compared with the invisible arrow of jealousy, it is far from catching up. ”

The dazzling Apollo chose Palamedes to perform the sacrifice and have him participate in the sacrificial rites, placing special honors on him, which only hastened the destruction of Palamedes.

Because Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, another wise man of the Greek coalition, was originally dissatisfied with Palamedes, and at this time, hearing that he was valued by the long-range shooter Apollo, hated Palamedes for having the same mind as himself, but enjoying a higher status and honor, Odysseus almost blew his lungs.

In order to consolidate his position and make himself unique, Odysseus, out of jealousy, decided to plot to kill Palamedes.

Odysseus quietly buried a batch of gold with the mark of the Trojan kingdom in the tent of Palamedes, and wrote a letter to Palamedes in the name of the Trojan king Priam. The letter spoke of the reward of gold and thanked Palamedes for betraying the secrets of the Greeks' military subordinates, so that they could counterattack and push the battle line to the beginning of the battle.

The resourceful King Ithaca secretly placed a letter on a captive and asked him to dress up in Greek garb and go to the camp of Palamedes to serve the hero favored by the gods.

Then, Odysseus pretended to find a strange "Greek" with Trojan physical features, and ordered his guards to capture the outsider who might be a spy.

Palamedes was unimpressed at first, but then his guards searched for letters from the captives, as was customary, and Odysseus immediately revealed his true purpose and obtained evidence of Palamedes' "collaboration with the enemy" as he wished.

Odysseus immediately convened a military council and, in the presence of the Greek princes, published the forged letter of collaboration with the enemy without blushing or beating a heartbeat.

Having suffered a terrible loss in the plague arrows of Apollo the long-range shooter, and having recently lost the gains accumulated in the past six months, the heroes present had already accumulated a stomach of anger, and when they saw the letter of the enemy of Palamedes, they could not help but burst out, and immediately summoned the enemy who betrayed their partner.