Marvel Book of Magical Events

The strategic plan formulated by the expeditionary force was very detailed. Many Eridu special agents who joined the Holy Shield Brotherhood had detailed records of Egypt's humanities, geographical location, climate conditions, etc. at that time. Egypt was still in the "pre-dynastic period" at that time. Upper Egypt was the upper reaches of the Nile River, located in southern Egypt. It was the agricultural, population and cultural center of the Nile River Basin at that time, and Lower Egypt occupied the fertile Nile Delta in northern Egypt.

At this time, the New Stone Age Badari civilization in Upper Egypt was still in its early stages, and people here still made a living by simple agriculture, fishing and animal husbandry. Eridu's merchants often rowed small boats along the Mediterranean coast, transporting turquoise from the Sinai Peninsula to the Nile Delta, and then went back to the Badari civilization near Lower Egypt, exchanging the unpolished turquoise for barley, wheat and lentils, and then returning to the original route and transporting the grain to Eridu's series of strongholds in the Sinai Peninsula through a series of logistics channels arranged by the emperor.

Compared with transporting grain from the Mesopotamian Plain to the Sinai Peninsula and Egypt, this method is obviously more economical. This was also the emperor's helpless move. In this new era, the emperor could only trust that the leaders of the various strongholds who received temple education had enough loyalty and would not affect the expeditionary plan.

At this time, Egypt had no concept of a country, nor the name "Egypt", and there was no distinction between Upper and Lower Egypt. The largest administrative unit was just the primitive nome of the village community. The main research base of the Kree people was located in a primitive "nome" in Lower Egypt. In the pre-dynastic period, only the farming area had enough population as experimental materials. The administrative unit and territorial division of "nome" was a loose community composed of multiple villages that were close to each other. These population gathering areas began to unify in the pre-Egyptian dynasty period, and eventually formed two different kingdoms in Upper and Lower Egypt.

The special agents of Eridu sent a part of the human skeleton samples to the local temple for research. By comparing the tooth characteristics and limb proportions, the biological research department of the Holy Shield believed that the race of this "nome" had a close relationship with the East African race, rather than the generally believed - in fact, there were only no more than 20 people in the biological department of the Holy Shield - the Saharan African race. The biological research department also found that some special human skeleton samples did not have the tropical body shape of the Badari race, and did not conform to the space-time model of the biological distance model. In other words, these humans were not native to the local area, but populations plundered by the Kree from other parts of the earth.

During the hundreds of years of experiments by the Kree, these humans from other regions reproduced and merged with the locals, forming a North African race unique to the Badari culture of Lower Egypt. Perhaps it was these genes from southern Europe, North Africa, western Europe and South Asia that led to the confusing conclusions drawn by 21st century humans when conducting genetic tests on Egyptian mummies. This is a very important piece of information, which means that Badari's "Gnom" as a Kree experimental site is significantly different from several surrounding "Gnomes". In the mindset of small peasant economy surviving in groups, a little racial difference means that the organizational structure built by the Kree with slave soldiers and force to suppress the locals has loopholes, and several villages around Badari "Gnom" can stand on the side of the Eridu expeditionary force.

Before the expeditionary force set out, the temple's wandering traders came to these villages with the emperor's gift, that is, a larger reserve of turquoise trade, to purchase more food, and by sending armed personnel to support the ruling class of these "Gnomes", they quietly completed the encirclement of the Kree under the eyes of the Kree.

The expeditionary force set its destination as one of the "Gnomes" belonging to Eridu. It is close to the Kree's experimental site, but not too close, and the scouts and diplomats who arrived in advance also ensured that the news of the arrival of the expeditionary force would not be leaked. Captain Miller did not think that the main force of his expeditionary force would encounter obstacles from the locals before arriving at the destination. The Holy Shield Brotherhood believed that the Kree did not care about the resistance launched by humans.

In the eyes of the Kree, only those slave soldiers, that is, the transformed Inhumans, were threatening. The Kree directly ignored the role that the locals without weapons and equipment could play. Even the Kree headhunters who were scouting nearby completely ignored the local natives who transmitted information between different villages. The Kree headhunters were the superiors of the slave soldiers, and were also responsible for watching over the Inhumans until they completed the biochemical and psychological adjustments. According to the investigation of the secret service, all the biochemical psychological adjustments are to accept the parasitism of a special slave soldier, and to manipulate the brain neural circuits to make it obey the command of the Kree.

In the future, the special slave soldier is called Hive, the origin of the Hydra organization's belief and worship.

Captain Miller is the only one in the expedition who knows the truth, but he can't confide in anyone. He has heard the story of Captain America's fight against Hydra during World War II, the news that SHIELD was overthrown by Hydra, and the US government's private launch of the operation to eliminate Hydra. But until the emperor told him that the origin of Hydra came from the land in front of him, he thought that Hydra was just a terrorist organization originated from the Third Reich, not this secret religious association with pagan beliefs that lasted for thousands of years.

"I promise you that the Inhumans worshiped by the Hydra will be destroyed."

When the Emperor rushed from the Black Desert to the Nome where the main force of the expeditionary force was located, the offensive led by Captain Miller had already begun. The Guards led another thousand expeditionary forces to defeat the experimental material collection bases set up by the Kree in several nearby Nomes. The captured Kree headhunters were also interrogated and detained after being injected with large doses of tranquilizers, striving to obtain more intelligence from them.

The Kree headhunters are the lowest-level noble unit in the military tradition of the Kree Empire. They originated from the ancient hunting culture of the Kree people. This title is often awarded to soldiers with strong reconnaissance and individual combat capabilities. The Kree Empire will grant the Kree headhunters light bulletproof armor and monomolecular long knives, allowing them to move freely on the front line, helping soldiers break through the defense line or behead enemy commanders. This is the consistent tactic of the Kree people. Almost all Kree headhunters belong to the ancient military aristocracy, not the official military command system of the Kree Empire.

Although the Kree headhunters only wear light bulletproof armor, the weapons in the hands of the expeditionary force are limited by the production technology of this era, and it is difficult to cause damage to the Kree headhunters. Because of this, every team responsible for attacking the Kree stronghold must be led by the Guards. No matter how many Kree headhunters responsible for capturing experimental materials there are in that stronghold, one Guard can wipe them all out. The main task of the expeditionary force is not to kill the Kree headhunters, but to kill the mutant slave soldiers with various special abilities.

In just one week, Captain Miller was forced to take over as the commander of the main force of the expeditionary force.

The Kree have found a way to stimulate part of the human psychic potential. They use physical mutations to create a large number of slave soldiers, and plan to let the slave soldiers conduct a low-intensity actual combat on Earth first. The strange abilities of these slave soldiers have caused considerable casualties to the expeditionary force. Compared with the Kree headhunters, slave soldiers are more threatening to the expeditionary force. If it weren't for the four Guards in the main force, the expeditionary force would most likely fail here-as for recording the abilities of the Inhumans, it was a complete waste of time. No Inhuman has exactly the same abilities. Soldiers can only roughly judge their abilities through the physical mutations of the Inhumans.

This situation is exactly the same as when the Emperor's genetically modified warriors attacked Attilan.

"I've been worried about that special Inhuman for a long time!"

Captain Miller felt his blood pressure soaring, and he had never been so irritable. The expeditionary army's military doctors had no way to deal with some of the injuries caused by the Inhumans. They did not have artificial skin for treating large-area burns and other drugs that only appeared in the 20th century. Those things could not be produced in this era, and the surgical level of the military doctors could only stay in the First World War, and they could not minimize casualties. These were the best doctors trained by the Emperor. In the era without refrigerators, these doctors could only practice anatomy with corpses. Nowadays, there are no effective drugs, and military doctors can only apply for psychic means for treatment. As for the side effects of psychic healing, there is no need to consider it for the time being.

Fortunately, this era has not yet experienced the baptism of monotheism. All magic is associated with gods, and the soldiers are not so resistant to the magic of the temple priests. The emperor has inspected the medical camp. At least the military doctors still have enough L-norepinephrine, and the small-scale production of the temple laboratory can still cope with it.

"Our casualties here far exceed those in other strongholds!" Captain Miller said impatiently, "Your tactics worked, and the Kree began to shrink their defenses. But all the Inhumans ran to our side!"

"I believe that Inhuman will not be an obstacle to us." The Emperor gently soothed Captain Miller's emotions, "This is my fault. I killed him in the future, so I failed to pay attention to him in this era."

Captain Miller was still angry, "How did you eliminate him?"

"Using hydrogen bombs, on another planet."

"This is what the guy deserves. Hydrogen bombs, will he die too quickly?" Captain Miller sighed, and seemed very satisfied with the fate of the Inhuman commander. "You said that Hydra worships the Inhumans. What about Hydra?"

"Don't ask too much about the future. There are some secrets that you shouldn't know. You just need to know not to completely believe the propaganda of the entertainment industry. Not all Hydras are our enemies, but not all Hydras are our allies."

"This confuses me."

"It doesn't matter. Hydras are just tools." The emperor waved his hand, indicating that it was not appropriate to talk about Hydras now.

"Those Inhumans, are you sure there is no way to help them get out of control?" Captain Miller asked, "If there are so many terrible enemies in the next battle, I doubt whether the soldiers still have the confidence to persist. For them, this is a holy war. They believe that they are fighting for the gods and the world. You can't waste their lives and enthusiasm."

The emperor glanced at him. No one knows when Captain Miller changed his attitude and agreed to the emperor to use the name of the temple to arouse the soldiers' fighting will. Before that, he insisted on telling the soldiers the truth that it was not the devil but the aliens who hurt humans. Perhaps Captain Miller realized that aliens and demons were not that different to humans of this era. In any case, the soldiers believed that they were saving the world and overthrowing the terrifying enemy for future generations.

If we only rely on the emperor's appeal, we can't make these men who work on the land leave their families and join the army.

"Only a few Inhumans have combat capabilities, Captain Miller. The Kree do not have the technology to induce psychic genes. That special Inhuman commander is just an accidental product of an experiment. I believe they have not yet summed up the relevant experience, otherwise there would not be only headhunters in other bases."

"Can we conduct a decapitation operation?" Captain Miller said, "Both the Kree and the Inhumans have ignored the role of local residents. They even forced local villagers to deliver food to them. Our agents have figured out the situation of that base and the location of the Inhuman commander. I know you will kill it in the future, but now, I only ask that special Inhuman to lose the ability to command, which will not change history."

"You can't change history. This is history, but we now know the truth."

"Okay, a novel point of view."

When the new tactics were proposed, the expeditionary staff and the guards immediately began to calculate.

This stronghold is 120 kilometers away from the "Gnom" where the Kree people are located. It takes this 1,000-man main cavalry unit and 600-man logistics and reconnaissance units a whole day to reach the scheduled combat position and establish a stronghold with wooden sentry towers and low walls. If after a day of marching, a team led by the Guards is sent to capture the special Inhuman and remove the Kree's mental control over the Inhumans, this tactic is worth trying anyway, provided that the elite expeditionary team still has sufficient physical strength after the march that day.

The staff must adjust the entire marching steps. The marching plan of the Eridu expeditionary force is very similar to that of the Roman Empire. It can ensure that the next camp has sufficient defense measures and food at the end of the day, and can respond quickly to the enemy on the road. Therefore, the departure time and departure order of the day are strictly arranged. As the head coach, you will get a timetable to ensure that the chain of command will not be too far away from the scene of the incident in case of emergencies.

"Don't expect too much." The Emperor warned Captain Miller, "Those Inhumans are outright slaves. Even without biochemical control, they will still obey the orders of their masters. They are not human and will never stand with us against the Kree."

"I know." Captain Miller replied.

"You know? When the Battle of New York ended, I didn't go back to my residence directly, but went to the hospital because I wanted to investigate the real death toll. You know the habit of the US government. Insurance companies and private hospitals will try their best to get rid of responsibility." The Emperor suddenly talked about another thing, and Captain Miller raised his head curiously. "At that time, the power in New York had not been restored. The emergency room was in chaos, with injured people everywhere, and the morgue was full of corpses that could not be placed in the cold storage. They thought I was a doctor from another hospital, so I put on protective clothing and started to treat seriously injured patients. Before that, I had only received theoretical studies, had not attended medical school, had no professors in medical school, and had no internship experience as a resident doctor. But I did a good job and saved many lives, not with swords and guns, but with scalpels, hemostats and syringes."

"In the past thirty years, you have never said anything to comfort me, Your Majesty." Captain Miller folded his arms and asked meaningfully, "Is there anything different today?"

"Call me Salomon, at least for now. I and you today are facing new challenges that day." He paused, "No one knows that I shed tears for the dead that day. But that was not all that happened that day. I couldn't save everyone, even though I knew I could cast a spell to save the lives of the dying, but I didn't do it. I watched them die in front of me."

Captain Miller wanted to say something else, but he found that he couldn't say anything.

"We have a responsibility for the expeditionary force, but I hope you know why we have a responsibility for the expeditionary force, and why I hope you can officially take over the command of this army - we want to drive out the invaders, this is why we called the army - I have been preparing for this for thirty years, collecting all the steel and food, and establishing several logistics channels and a functioning administrative system. The expeditionary force spent ten years training, patrolling and fighting around Eridu, and people died almost every year. This is the first time you have commanded such a large team. Although you have no relevant experience... Don't waste their lives, but as long as you think your decision is enough, If you think that they are right, don't worry that their sacrifice is worthless. "

Salomon laughed at himself, "This example is not so appropriate, right? My mentor wanted me to experience the pain of kindness and death, so he asked me to conduct that investigation. I did it. You can say that I am a cold-blooded person, and I won't object."

"I have a better understanding of your madness, far more than the past thirty years." Captain Miller shrugged, "But the name Salomon sounds like a human being, which makes me feel a lot more at ease. What happened to make your humanity suddenly return to this world? "

It's too long, the battle can only be put in the next chapter