Chapter 43 Surprise attack plan for night march

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

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

"Chief Pandion! I know that there are two major problems in marching at night. One is that it is difficult to identify the direction at night, and the other is that there is no lighting tool at night, but I can solve both problems. Since my floating compass can be used for night navigation, of course

It can be used to identify the direction when marching at night. If we make more lanterns, we can use lanterns as lighting tools for marching at night."

After listening to Roy's words, Pandion nodded with an astonished expression.

"If we can solve these two problems, we can indeed march at night. The Acropolis of Athens is about forty miles away from the Eleusis tribe. We can march thirty miles during the day and ten miles at night to reach Eleusis quietly.

The tribe of Eleusis was stationed there, and they attacked the tribe of Eleusis when they were defenseless."

As a large tribe, the Eleusis tribe would definitely arrange for manpower to patrol the territory.

If the Athenian tribe had marched forty miles during the day, they might have been discovered by the Eleusinian tribe's patrolmen before they even reached the Eleusinian tribe.

Then when they arrive at the Eleusis tribe, the Eleusis tribe, which is ready for battle, will wait and attack the Athenian tribe's army.

The Athenian tribe could only march thirty miles during the day to avoid the Eleusinian tribesmen who patrolled the territory, and then approached the Eleusinian tribe's garrison under the cover of night.

"This kind of marching at night is an opportunity to catch the enemy off guard. It will definitely be used once and less once. Because when other tribes are prepared, they will arrange people to patrol the territory at night."

After Roy finished speaking, Pandion said in agreement.

"Not only other tribes, but also our Athenian tribe does not have the manpower to patrol the territory at night. It seems that we will arrange to patrol the territory at night in the future to prevent the enemy from catching us off guard by marching at night. This time we attack the Eleusis tribe, we will

According to Priest Roy's suggestion, we will march thirty miles normally during the day, and then march at night to approach the Eleusis tribe's garrison."

After the plan to attack the Eleusis tribe was finalized, Roy, Pandion, and Erechtheus, the two young 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 their expedition the next day.

After drinking and eating, Roy and the two young 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 candles and go to bed when he suddenly heard the screams of a young woman coming from the guest room next to him.

Roy immediately understood that Pandion arranged for a maid to serve the two little chiefs, and the two little chiefs did not refuse this kindness.

"I'm going to fight tomorrow, but I'm still wasting my precious energy on a woman, and I'm not afraid of dying on the battlefield."

Being disturbed from sleeping, Roy frowned and said.

"No wonder Pandion didn't see these two little leaders as a threat. They are just two stupid pigs with no ambitions."

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

The next morning.

Roy and the two young leaders finished a simple breakfast at Pandion's house, and then hurriedly gathered their soldiers.

When the sun fully rose in the east, Roy led fifty young men to the foot of the Acropolis and joined Pandion's large army.

In order to attack the Eleusis tribe, Pandion summoned 300 personal guards. The two small leaders also recruited 100 soldiers each. Plus Roy's 50 soldiers, the total strength of this army was 500.

Fifty people.

Although the Eleusis tribe has a population of more than 3,000, but not including women, children, the old, weak, sick and disabled, the Eleusis tribe has only a thousand young and strong men who can take up arms to fight, and even more well-trained soldiers.

There will be no more than three hundred people.

The Athenian tribe attacked the Eleusinian tribe with 550 men, and the two sides were evenly matched in terms of military strength.

If nothing unexpected happens, victory in this war will belong to the Athenian tribe.

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

"Soldiers! In order to make the Athenian tribe stronger, I will lead you to attack the Eleusis tribe. Now I promise all of you that after this war is over, both the living and the dead will be able to get

A reward of one hundred catties of grain. If this war is won, all of you will be able to receive additional loot as a reward."

After Pandion finished speaking, the soldiers all shouted joyfully.

"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 all the rewards Pandion promised to the soldiers are in the warehouse of the Eleusis tribe. In other words, after this war is over, Pandion's wealth will not decrease, but will become even greater. Because Pandion uses

The wealth of the tribe of Eleusis to reward us all."

Ordinary soldiers only knew that it was Pandion who rewarded them, and of course they had no idea whether their rewards came from Pandion's private warehouse or the Eleusis tribe's warehouse.

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

Unlike feudal dynasties, rulers stayed in the safety of their palaces and let generals go out to fight on their behalf.

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

As the most powerful warrior, the tribal leader must also personally go into battle to kill the enemy and show his strength.

If the tribal leader does not have awe-inspiring force, the tribal leader's rule will be shaken or even replaced by others.

Even in the city-state era, if the royal family that rules the city-state loses its awesome military force, it will be replaced by a more powerful family.

Legend has it that after King Erechtheus of Athens died in the war to destroy the city of Eleusis, the Kingdom of Athens was captured by another royal family. Therefore, the heroic god Theseus of the Kingdom of Athens was not a descendant of the Pandion family.

Roy led fifty teenagers and walked at the rear of the army, feeling both expectation and fear of the upcoming war.

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

Because pirates are all unjust criminals, Roy can eliminate hundreds of pirates without any scruples.

But the war launched by the Athenian tribes against the Eleusinian tribes was an unjust war.

Now Roy still has some inner resistance to his participation in an unjust war.

Seeing the excitement on the face of the Aries beside him, Roy couldn't help but ask.

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

"Why feel guilty?"

Aries said with confusion.

"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."
Chapter completed!