Pivot of the Sky

Chapter 215: The Cruel Assyrian King

According to Amon's previous instructions and the cooperation plan discussed by Aesop and others, Salem City has become a logistic base for the Anu Army to attack south. However, the defense of the city and the Black Fire Swamp Fortress are still in the hands of Salem City. Anu's fighters are not allowed to enter the area of ​​Salem City, which is a heavy transfer station and hoarding ground for this expeditionary army.

An army expedition consisting of 6,000 warriors. There are 20,000 or 30,000 non-combatants responsible for the logistics army's resupply. The number of people who always live in Salem is more than 10,000, which has brought this emerging city-state. Opportunities for prosperity and development.

On the other hand, Aesop's new policy also made Salem very appealing, attracting people from all over the mainland to join the city. They come here to create their own home, and use their hands to create dreams from nothing. What is obtained in this way is the most cherished, so when the city-state and homeland are threatened, the most powerful fighting spirit can be aroused. During this period, the Salem City State has experienced small-scale frictions with the northern Enlier City State, but has achieved the fastest development since its establishment.

The Anu Corps went down six hundred miles in the middle and south of the Duke Plain and attacked the city of Marduk established by Yusir eastward on the north shore of the inland lake, but the battle did not go well because the Baron kingdom also mobilized its elite forces to cross the Youdi River Meet. The Kingdom's elite Barron Corps, the Kish Corps on the western border, and the Uruk Legion all went to the front.

The head of the Uluk Legion is no longer Gilgamesh, and the combat effectiveness is not as strong as when En Qi was alive, but it is still a force that cannot be ignored. King Hammurabi II of Barron is going to fight with Hati. Damn it!

King Hasti ’s strategy was to strike two ways. In addition to the Anu Corps south from the Duke Plains, another elite Enril Army also set out from the city of Syria and attacked Balen ’s base eastward along the south bank of the inland lake. Shi City. If the land of the Kish city-state west of the Youdi River can be captured, the city of Marduk in the Duke Plain will be cut off from the backup and trapped in the front and back of the two armies.

The elder of the city of Marduk knows that the situation is not good. Immediately after receiving the battle report, he sent a messenger to send a letter to Medanzo, who had cooperated with him privately, expressing his willingness to form an alliance with Salem and provide strategic materials to jointly fight against the northern ones. Enril City, as long as Salem closes the Blackfire Swamp business road does not cooperate with the Kingdom of Hati. Medanzo smiled bitterly for a long time with this letter and only said one sentence-"Why did you go?"

Although the alliance was not concluded, Euseel then breathed a sigh of relief, because the Barron Legion of the Baron Kingdom arrived in Malduk. At the same time, two other legions crossed the Youdi River and gathered at the border of the Kish city-state to meet the Enril legion that came in. Hati was on the offensive and Barron was on the defensive. This war fought intermittently for more than a year. Although Hati's army prevailed, he never achieved a decisive victory.

The Kingdom of Barron is a nationwide battle, and the commander-in-chief of the battlefield is Prince Feng Niu, who is gaining popularity in China. Anyone who can see this war can be seen as struggling. If you lose, you will lose the land of Marduk City and Kish City West of the Youdi River. If you win, you will not take any advantage of the Hati Kingdom. It's just destroying the opposing army.

However, Prince Feng Niu also had to come. The last war happened in this area, which earned him a reputation of admiration and put him in this position. The Minister of the Baronman did not hesitate to recommend it. He commanded the battlefield.

Prince Feng Niu was also very talented. He promoted Diqi-Zhou, a small mayor from Akkad Town, as the total quartermaster. Although the battle for soil conservation was hard, he did not retreat. This situation may also be expected by King Asher. Although the Anu legion did not capture the city of Marduk and the Enril legion did not drive the Barron army to the east bank of the Youdi River, they cooperated to complete another. A task.

The two regiments built docks on the north and south sides of the inland lake, and built ships to open waterways to echo each other. The Anu Corps developed a fertile soil in the wasteland on the north shore of the inland lake, first as a rear army camp, and then as a material hoarding place for the forward base, the scale developed from village to town, and then from town to city.

The front was fighting against the city of Marduk, and the rear continued to send personnel to reclaim the wasteland to build the city state. It took about two years to begin to take shape. The name of this city-state is called Meso-City, and there are places in the Duke Plain that can be developed. This thousands of miles of fertile soil can hold far more than the current city-states.

King Asher's expedition plan was originally prepared by two means. On the one hand, it was to curb the expansion of the Kingdom of Barron, and it was better to repel it. On the other hand, it took the opportunity to occupy the Duke Plain and open up new territory. Amon had already anticipated this, but the situation of the city of Isaac at the time could not prevent the Kingdom of Hati from doing so. It could only cooperate and benefit each other.

After more than a year of this war, both sides were a little bit fascinated. Prince Feng Niu led the army and resisted stubbornly. If he died, it would be worth the damage for both countries, and the Hati Kingdom has achieved the strategic goal. A foothold in the duke plains established a city-state.

Most of the areas controlled by the US state are in the Duke Plain, and a small part is on the grasslands on the south bank of the inland lake. The two territories can communicate with each other through ferries. Except for the part of the army behind the ferry, most of the Enril Corps have crossed the inland lake to join the Anu Corps. Although they are still at war with the Kingdom of Barron, large-scale attack operations are becoming less and less, the situation is gradually stabilized, and a new equilibrium situation is formed.

Due to the establishment of the city-state and the opening of the inland lake waterway, the logistical pressure of the Hati Expeditionary Force has also become less and less. If the situation continues, it may only require a truce agreement between the two kingdoms. Prince Feng Niu has asked King Barron to send an emissary to King Hati to negotiate.

Just at this time, the situation was suddenly changed, and no one expected that the Assyrian king Sinah, a soldier of the nation, bypassed the Assyrian plateau from the northeast and launched a sudden attack on the kingdom of Barron.

The Kingdom of Assyria has the smallest territory in the surrounding area and relatively inadequate products, and has always been considered the weakest country. The city of Enril in the northern part of the Duke Plain also attracted everyone's attention. All countries know that the Assyrian Kingdom sent a giant army to cross the Assyrian plateau. This city-state was established in the northern part of the Duke Plain. Constant friction, I am afraid that there is no time to pay attention to other things.

Even if the Assyrian Kingdom wants to start a war, it will continue to increase its troops in Enril City, which will not only consolidate the strategic bases already established, but also expand its sphere of influence. This is an inertia way of thinking. The Assyrian Kingdom broke this inertia, playing a trick to hit the west.

After the battle with Salem, the Assyrian Kingdom did not send additional legions to Enril, but it only ordered the Giant Legion to continue its assembly, not to fight with Salem, but to have small-scale military conflicts. Maintain a low-intensity state of war. The Giants wanted to attack Salem, but it wasn't a problem.

The Giant Legion has always been the most elite striker of the Assyrian Kingdom in the image of the people. Where it appears, it means the main attack direction of the Assyrian king's strategy, but this time it was a shot. The Assyrian Kingdom has been unobtrusive for too long, and no one expected that King Sinah spent ten years, and he quietly trained four whole legions, each of which was comparable to the main force of other kingdoms. force.

How could the Assyrian Kingdom support such a large elite army? It can be said that Sinach had great ambitions, or that he was a poor soldier, and that Yin Ren planned for many years and followed a path of militarism. Most of Assyria's land is steep plateaus and mountains, with little arable land and very barren. However, the Assyrian Plateau is rich in minerals and can be used to build weapons. In recent years, Sinach has quietly trained troops with the power of the country.

He sent the remarkable army of giants to the Duke Plains, and when the battle between the kingdoms of Hati and Barron came to an impasse, the opportunity finally came. As the commander-in-chief, Sinacher led three armies to bypass the Assyrian Plateau and storm the hinterland of the Barron Kingdom from the northeast, which caught him by surprise.

The main forces of the Balun Kingdom are fighting the Hati army west of the Youdi River, and all important strategic materials are also transported to the Kish city-state in the west to be hoarded. The north-eastern city-states are the weakest areas of defense. The garrison is not an Assyrian army opponent like a wolf-like tiger, and it has been captured by six city-states for six months.

The kingdom of Balun was taken in while taking advantage of it, and the losses were so heavy, partly because the main forces were on the western front, and partly because the two successive wars had also seriously consumed its national strength. Seeing that the entire kingdom was in danger of annihilation, the elderly Hammurabi II urgently asked Prince Feng New to lead his army to help.

With such a god-given opportunity, how could King Asher of Hatti not order the army to launch a storm? As a result, Prince Feng New's efforts for one and a half years came to nothing, and he had to beg with the Kingdom of Hati, ceding the land west of the Youdi River, and the city of Marduk fell. The army of Hati established a city-state, attacked a city-state, and obtained half a city-state of the Barron Kingdom on the west bank of the Youdi River. It became a newly opened territory and completely achieved the strategic goal!

The young king Asher smiled in the palace, and he finally achieved the feats that neither his predecessor nor Ge Lie had achieved!

It took time for the Kingdom of Hati to annex a large area of ​​land. The strategy of King Asher was mainly to appease. He renamed the city of Marduk to the city of Potmia, overthrew the statue of Marduk, and established the Enril Temple. The inhabitants lived and cultivated, but they vowed to be loyal to the Kingdom of Hati and the great **** Enril and become the people of the Kingdom of Hatti.

The second phase of this scuffle between the nations, mainly the war between Assyria and Barron, lasted for more than half a year.

Although Prince Feng Niu had defended the capital after returning to the army, the kingdom was seriously injured at this time. In the face of the mighty Assyrian army, he had to beg again and formally signed an instrument to cede the six city states that had fallen. The land of the six city-states has already been occupied by the Assyrian kingdom, and the current strength of the kingdom of Barron cannot be recovered at all.

But the signing of the official instrument was tantamount to acknowledging that the six city-states were included in the territory of the Assyrian kingdom. It was still the instrument signed by Prince Feng New on behalf of the Kingdom of Barron. At that time, he almost bit his teeth and could not help crying. The occupied six city-states are beyond recognition, and many places have become a scorched soil. The Assyrian king Sinah is too cruel!

Before Sinach launched this war, although there were many brutal acts in the country, he was still a fairly wise and capable monarch. He carried out a militaristic line. Although the lives of the people were hard, the Assyrian kingdom, which was sturdy and civilized since ancient times, maintained a stable social order and accumulated strong military power. Sinach may be a genius in the military, and he knows how to tolerate and find the most suitable fighter.

Ten years ago, he had just carried out military reforms shortly after entering the throne. Not only required every adult man in the kingdom to receive military training as a warrior, but also implemented a recruiting system to recruit distant plateau giants, bandit gangs, and homeless explorers. The army and promised that they would be well paid in the war.

The army of the Assyrian Kingdom not only has traditional chariots and cavalry, but infantry is also divided into heavy armored infantry and light infantry. At the same time, it specializes in training siege and heavy infantry, as well as other engineering soldiers not available in the king regiment. Army equipment is supplied by the state, equipped with iron armor, weapons and war horses, and also equipped with siege colliders and trebuchets.

When the Assyrian army advanced into Balen, the sinister nature of Sinah was finally revealed, like a more distorted outbreak after years of suppression. As a weak and princely monarch, he had endured for too long, and could not bear himself. He could only vent his anger in the near-mad killing.

Wherever the army passed, the city was destroyed, the clan was burned and looted, the Assyrian kingdom has always been sturdy, and these soldiers have almost become beasts in the endless killings. They hanged the enemy's body on a sharpened wooden pole to show the crowd. It was dense like a jungle. When confronted with resistance, even women and children in the entire town were not spared. A large amount of gold and silver treasures became loot. .

Such a killing scene, even Faust, the "sage master" who formulated the military strategy for the kingdom, could not stand it anymore. The great wizard walked in the town of Barron, which was everywhere, and he felt some legs inexplicably. Weak.

Faust was a beloved sage in the Assyrian kingdom, and it was his strategic plan for Sinach. First, watch the dogfights of Eju, Hati, and Barron coldly, and choose the right time to add a fire to stir up the dispute. The Giant Corps was secretly sent across the Assyrian Plateau to establish a strategic stronghold, and a nail was inserted between the Kingdom of Hati and the Kingdom of Barron to attract attention and mix the water. Attack the Barron Kingdom in unexpected ways when the melee reaches its most favorable position.

Faust's strategic plan was completely successful, but he did not expect that King Sinach would be so brutal, he could not help but whisper to Sinach--

"The great monarch is invincible. You waged a war for the purpose of establishing the cause, but also for the permanent benefits of Assyria. There is no needless killing. You condone the soldiers for robbing so many gold and silver treasures, but that is not enough to fight the war. For the purpose of raising war, after the war, peace and long-term peace and order are needed to build a strong and prosperous great empire. "

Just at this time, the queen Semir, who followed Sinah's royal conquest, also came to the king, expressing her reluctance to see Assyrian soldiers commit adultery and plunder, otherwise she would not go to the battlefield to serve the kingdom again. Sinach had just begun to thunder, lashing out at the sage master and queen he had never scolded before, but when the report from the front came, the resistance in the occupied area became more and more fierce, and the war consumed more and more, and finally Accepted Faust's suggestion and issued a new order.

The Assyrian army stopped burning in the occupied area and compiled the residents of the conquered area into the Assyrian household register, forcibly relocating to other places and dispersing arrangements. The owner must not continue to live in his hometown, nor can he live in the original village or Towns live together. These scattered and relocated former Barron residents received new plots of land to cultivate for Assyrian slave owners and pay taxes to the kingdom.

The kingdom of Assyria occupied the land of six city-states to become a new territory and had a large number of slaves. The people of the Assyrian kingdom participating in the military war formed a new privileged aristocratic group. The land and slaves ruled the area and recovered. After some production was made up and the war was consumed, the killing finally stopped and the situation gradually stabilized.

These policies of Sinach were made on the advice of Faust, and it really helped the rule of the occupied area. On the other hand, Faust's main purpose was not to see the corpse slaughter. At the same time, under the firm request of Queen Samir, Sinacher finally agreed.

The implementation of the New Deal requires time to digest the occupied area. At the same time, the front line of the Assyrian army has almost reached its limit, and the frontline army is still fighting. At this moment, King Barron sent Prince Feng New to lead the army to resist the latest round of attacks by Sinacher and made a request for truce and peace.

Sinach enjoyed the thrill of coming to the world, and was happy to see the formerly powerful Barron kingdom submit to himself, coupled with the inability to temporarily expand on a larger scale, so he agreed to the beggar of the Kingdom of Barron. After the armistice, the last thousands of prisoners of war were taken back from the front line. Among them were the legionnaires of the Barron Kingdom, but most of them were urban residents who had resisted the Assyrian army.

In the last battle, the Assyrian army did not achieve a great victory, and Sinah was very angry. He ordered that these people beheaded and skinned regardless of their age, in order to deter those who tried to resist his authority. Faust and Semir really couldn't stand it, and resolutely asked the king not to kill those who had already surrendered. Many of them were ordinary residents, and they did not fight the Assyrian army at all.

Sinah was originally displeased, but suddenly he changed his mind and said, "Please plead for these people, and pray for my kindness to save their lives. Well, I will divide these slaves into two and give them to Xian Master and Queen. But I have a task for you to complete, otherwise these people will still have to die! "

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