I was a priest in the city-state era

In this era, due to the lack of lighting tools at night and the difficulty in distinguishing directions at night, marching at night is completely unimaginable.

Seeing the reactions of Pandion, Erechtheus and the two small leaders, Roy continued.

"Leader Pandion! I know there are two major problems in marching at night. One is that it is difficult to distinguish directions at night, and the other is that there are no lighting tools at night, but I can solve both of these problems. Since my floating compass can be used for night navigation, it can certainly be used to distinguish directions during night marches. If we make more lanterns, we can use lanterns as lighting tools for night marches."

After listening to Roy's words, Pandion nodded with a look of realization.

"If we can solve these two problems, we can indeed march at night. The Acropolis of Athens is about 40 miles away from the Eleusis tribe. We march 30 miles during the day and only need to march 10 miles at night. We can quietly reach the Eleusis tribe's station and attack them when the Eleusis tribe is unprepared."

As a large tribe, the Eleusis tribe will definitely arrange personnel to patrol the territory.

If the Athenian tribe marched 40 miles directly during the day, they would probably be discovered by the people patrolling the territory of the Eleusis tribe before they reached the Eleusis tribe.

Then when they arrived at the Eleusis tribe, the Eleusis tribe, which was well prepared for the battle, would attack the army of the Athenian tribe while they were resting.

The Athenian tribe only marched 30 miles during the day, so they could avoid the people patrolling the territory of the Eleusis tribe, and then approach the Eleusis tribe's station under the cover of night.

"This opportunity to catch the enemy off guard by marching at night will definitely be used less and less. Because other tribes will arrange people to patrol the territory at night after they are prepared."

After Roy finished speaking, Pandion agreed.

"Now, not only other tribes, but also our Athens tribe has no personnel to patrol the territory at night. It seems that we will have to arrange night patrols in the future to prevent the enemy from marching at night and catching us off guard. This time when we attack the Eleusis tribe, we will follow the proposal of the priest Roy and march 30 miles normally during the day, and then march close to the Eleusis tribe's station at night."

After the plan to attack the Eleusis tribe was finalized, Roy, Pandion, Erechtheus, and the two small leaders began to enjoy fine wine and various foods.

Fortunately, the alcohol content of wine in this era was not high, so Roy and others would not get drunk at all, which would affect the expedition the next day.

After eating and drinking, Roy and the two small leaders were arranged to rest in the guest room of Pandion's house.

In the guest room with candles.

Roy was about to extinguish the candle and go to bed, when he suddenly heard the cry of a young woman from the guest room next door.

Roy immediately understood that Pandion arranged maids to serve the two small leaders, and the two small leaders did not refuse this kindness.

"You're going to fight tomorrow, but you're still wasting your precious energy on women, and you're not afraid of dying on the battlefield."

Roy frowned as his sleep was disturbed.

"No wonder Pandion didn't regard these two little leaders as a threat. They are just two stupid pigs without ambition."

After saying that, Roy stuffed two paper balls into his ears, extinguished the candle and lay down on the bed.

The next morning.

Roy and the two little leaders had a simple breakfast at Pandion's house, and then hurried to gather their soldiers.

When the sun rose completely from the east, Roy brought fifty young men to the foot of the Acropolis and joined Pandion's large army.

In order to attack the Eleusis tribe, Pandion summoned three hundred guards, and the two little leaders also summoned one hundred soldiers each. Together with Roy's fifty soldiers, the total strength of this army was five hundred and fifty.

Although the Eleusis tribe had a population of more than 3,000, there were only 1,000 strong men who could take up arms and fight, not counting women, children, the elderly, the weak and the disabled, and the number of well-trained soldiers would not exceed 300.

The Athens tribe attacked the Eleusis tribe with 550 people, and the two sides were evenly matched in terms of military strength.

If nothing unexpected happened, the victory of this war would belong to the Athens tribe.

Before the army set out, Pandion stood on a hillside and shouted to all the soldiers.

"Soldiers! In order to make the Athens tribe stronger, I will lead you to attack the Eleusis tribe. Now I promise all of you that after this war, whether you are alive or dead, you will be rewarded with 100 kilograms of food. If this war is victorious, all of you will be rewarded with extra spoils of war."

After Pandion finished speaking, the soldiers all shouted happily.

"Long live Chief Pandion!"

"Long live Chief Pandion!"

"Long live Chief Pandion!"

Looking at this scene, Roy complained in his heart.

"I'm afraid that the rewards Pandion promised to the soldiers are all in the warehouse of the Eleusis tribe. In other words, after this war, Pandion's wealth will not only not decrease, but will become more. Because Pandion is using the wealth of the Eleusis tribe to reward all of us."

Ordinary soldiers only know that it is Pandion who rewards them, and of course they don't think about whether their rewards come from Pandion's private warehouse or the warehouse of the Eleusis tribe.

After using the promised rewards to boost the soldiers' fighting morale, Pandion personally walked in front and led the army to the Eleusis tribe.

Unlike the feudal rulers who stayed in the safe palace and let the generals go to war on their behalf.

In this era, only the most powerful people can become tribal leaders.

As the most powerful warriors, tribal leaders must also go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and show their strength.

If the tribal leader does not have awe-inspiring military power, the rule of the tribal leader will be shaken and even replaced by others.

Even in the city-state era, if the royal family that ruled the city-state lost its awe-inspiring military power, it would be replaced by a more powerful family.

Legend has it that after the death of King Erechtheus of Athens in the war to destroy the city of Eleusis, the Kingdom of Athens was seized by another royal family, so the hero god Theseus of the Kingdom of Athens was not a descendant of the Pandion family.

Roy walked behind the army with fifty young men, with both expectations and fears for the upcoming war.

After all, attacking the Eleusis tribe is different from attacking pirates.

Because pirates are sinners who deserve to die, Roy can eliminate hundreds of pirates without scruples.

But the war launched by the Athenian tribe against the Eleusis tribe was an unjust war.

Now Roy still has some resistance in his heart for participating in an unjust war.

Seeing the excited face of Aries beside him, Roy couldn't help asking.

"Aries! We are going to attack the Eleusis tribe. Don't you feel guilty in your heart?"

"Why should you feel guilty?"

Aries said with doubts.

"In order to survive better, we should annex other tribes. The Eleusis tribe has existed for so long, and they must have annexed other tribes."

"In order to survive--"

Roy said with a wry smile.

"With such a sacred reason, it seems that my entanglement is really meaningless."