Chapter 188: Opportunity Comes

And the long-awaited Trojan War broke out in Bai Ze, who was planning the origin of the world.

As soon as Paris had taken Helen and boarded the ship, the gods sent messenger Aerys to Crete to find Menelaos, who returned to Sparta and saw that the treasure had been robbed and Helen had left him. Enraged, he immediately sought out his brother Agamemnon.

Agamemnon suggested that the heroes of the year be gathered together to attack Troy, and Menelaos accepted the advice and went to Pylos first to find the older king Nestor, who was very angry. He decided to go on his own expedition and took his two sons, Trathymedes and Antilochus, with him.

Other conquests included King Argos, Theomedes son of Titius, Palamedes son of King Oboa, Idomenius and Philoctetes, king of Crete and grandson of Miros, and Ajax the Great, king of Salamis and Ajax the Great, son of Thelamon, and Ajax the Younger, son of the hero Oileus of Rocles, but not a single one was yet to arrive.

Odysseus, the son of King Ithaca Raeltes, was known for his wit, and he had just married his wife, Penelope, and gave birth to his son, Telemachus. Therefore he did not want to go along, and when Odysseus learned that Menelaos, Agamemnon, Nestor, and Palamedes had come to Ithaca, he pretended to be mad and put oxen on the plough and sprinkled salt into the field, and Palamedes saw his pretense and put his son in the field, and sure enough, Odysseus stopped in front of the child, and Odysseus had to admit that he was pretending. He had to fulfill his promise, and from then on Odysseus hated Palamedes. And determined to take revenge.

The heroes had gathered in the harbor of Olis, the army numbered 100,000 men, and the ships numbered 1,186, and before they set out, they were all making sacrifices at the altar on the shore, when suddenly a strange blood-red serpent crawled out from under the altar, and it bent into a ring and climbed up the tree. Climb to a bird's nest at the top of the tree, eat a female and eight chicks, and turn into a stone.

The crowd was puzzled, and the prophet Karcas revealed the meaning to them, saying that the heroes were to besiege the city for nine years. Only in the tenth year could Troy be captured, and the people set out for Asia with great joy.

Soon after the voyage, the Greeks landed in Misia, which was ruled by Telephos, who thought that this was Troy and began to attack the city, Agamemnon ordered Telephos to flee back to the city, and in the early morning when the coalition army was collecting the corpses, it was only when they realized that they were fighting the allies and not the Trojans, and the coalition signed a peace treaty with Telephos, because Telephos was the son-in-law of Priam, he was reluctant to go on an expedition against his father-in-law, but promised to help the coalition army.

After leaving the shores of Mysia, the heroes were disoriented by a terrible storm, and finally returned to the port of departure of Aulis, and after the first unsuccessful operation, they dragged all their ships ashore and formed a large barracks on the shore, and many heroes went home, even the commander Agamemnon left Auris, and they could not know the way to Troy, only Telephos knew.

However, not long before the coalition had fought him, and in the course of the battle, Telephos had wounded his thigh, and the wound was so painful that it was unbearable, and Telephos went to Delphi to ask Apollo how he could heal his wounds, and the priestess Pythia said that only Agamemnon could heal him.

He disguised himself as a beggar and went to see Agamemnon, where he met Clytnestria, Agamemnon's wife, who suggested to Telephos that when Agamemnon came in, he could pick up Agamemnon's son Orestes from the cradle and threaten him to smash the child to pieces if he did not heal his wounds, which frightened Agamemnon and agreed to cure him, for he also knew that only Telephos could show the way to Troy.

However, Agamemnon did not know how to heal Telephos' wounds, and Odysseus told Agamemnon that the antidote was rust on the tip of the spear, and that the wound sprinkled on Telephos healed quickly, so Telephos agreed to lead the people to Troy.

However, there was still a headwind blowing on the sea, and it turned out that the goddess Artemis had sent it, because Agamemnon had killed the goddess's deer, which made the goddess very angry, and the heroes had to wait for the wind to stop, and the prophet Carcas told everyone that only if Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia was sacrificed to the goddess would the coalition be spared, and Agamemnon would rather give up the expedition after learning about it, Menelaos repeatedly asked, Agamemnon finally gave in, and sent messengers to Mycenae in a hurry, concealed his wife, and brought his daughter to the military camp.

When the first messenger left the barracks, Agamemnon regretted sending a second messenger to tell his wife the truth, but the second messenger was intercepted by Menelaos and condemned Agamemnon's betrayal, and Clytennestra and Iphignia had already arrived during the argument.

Agamemnon was grief-stricken, but pretended to be calm to see his wife and daughter, Iphignaa saw that her father had something unspeakable, Agamemnon went out to find out if there was any other way for Carcas, as soon as Agamemnon went out, Odysseus led the soldiers to Agamemnon's tent, and Agamemnon rushed back after hearing the news.

In the midst of tension, Iphigenia stood up and asked for self-sacrifice, Iphigenia went to the altar, the herald Tartibios ordered everyone to be silent, and Calcas took out the sacrificial sword, chanted the name of the goddess Artemis, and prayed for a smooth journey.

When the sword touched the maiden, a miracle appeared in the sky, Artemis took Iphigenia away, and the knife touched only a red deer, and everyone rejoiced in the mercy of the goddess, because the goddess took Iphigenia to the temple of the goddess on the shore of Oxin Pontus in Tauris as a priest, and at this moment the sea was blowing a good wind, and all the soldiers were ready to go.

The coalition set out again, and the road was calm, and the prophet told them that they had to sacrifice to the goddess Chrysses on the island of Krysei, next to the island of Lemnos, in order to successfully attack the city, and Philoctetes knew the location of this altar, and the leaders followed Philoctetes to the altar on the island.

At this moment a great serpent came out and bit the foot of Philoctetes, the snake venom made Philoctetes' feet hurt very much, and the smell was overflowing, and his moaning in the morning and evening made everyone complain, and finally Odysseus suggested that he be abandoned on the shore of the island of Lemlos, and while Philoctetes was asleep on the ship, the leaders put him between the two rocks on the island, and left him with bows and arrows, clothes and food, and Philoctetes was left behind, but because he could not take Troy without him, the Greeks had to ask him to come back after ten years of siege。

The coalition forces finally reached the shores of Troy, and the soothsayers warned that whoever set foot on the shore first would die first. Odysseus, in order to attract soldiers to the shore, threw his shield himself on the shore and flexibly jumped on it. The hero Prothesilaus, eager to establish military prowess, did not notice the tricks of Odysseus, and immediately jumped ashore to kill the enemy, and as soon as the spear of the hero Hector of Troy flew, he ended his life.

The Trojans could not resist the retreat to the city, and the next day the two sides ceased fire to collect the bodies and bury the soldiers. The coalition forces then dragged the ship ashore and built fortifications, with the tents of Idomenius and Ajax the Great at either end of the fortifications. In order to defend against a sneak attack, the tents of Agamemnon and Odysseus were in the center to command the whole army.

After the repair, they sent Menelaos and Odysseus to negotiate with the Trojans, who demanded the return of the treasure and Helen, who knew that they were in danger and were ready to accept all demands. However, Paris was the first to refuse, some of his brothers supported him, and the bribed Antimacus even demanded the arrest of Menelaos and his execution, among which the Trojan prophet Helenus encouraged the gods to let Troy win, and finally the Trojans refused to negotiate peace, and the war officially began.

The coalition began to besiege the city, and after three attempts to no avail, the Trojans did not dare to rush out of the city to attack, and the coalition army had to invade the nearby city-states. These included the islands of Tenedos,, Pedas, and Rürnais, among which Thebais of Peotia was also occupied, and was ruled by Etion, the father of Hector's wife, Andromac.

The coalition forces killed seven brothers in Andromac in one day. He took prisoner Chryseius, the daughter of the priest Chryseith of Apollo, and Brisses, and gave Chryseiis to Agamemnon.

As the war continued, many heroes were killed, including the hero Palamedes, who made countless contributions, but Odysseus was jealous. In addition, at that time, Palamedes exposed Odysseus's trick of pretending to be crazy, and Odysseus framed Palamedes when he wanted to negotiate peace. Hiding the gold in his tent, and rumoring that he had been bribed by Priam, many people began to believe that Odysseus had forged the documents, and Agamemnon, after obtaining them, summoned all the leaders to the tent, including Palamedes.

Palamedes was stoned to death with chains nailed to his chains, and was executed by the sea after he begged for mercy, which led to the revenge of his father, King Nauplios of Oboa, and at first Agamemnon did not even allow Palamedes to be buried, but Ajax did not believe Palamedes' betrayal and buried him.