Chapter 16 Ten Disasters (2)(1/2)
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Even though there are frogs jumping around in these streets and alleys, no one dares to hurt these frogs. Even the guards of the royal capital have to transport a large amount of clean water every day to feed these things.
After all the dead frogs were transported out of the city, they found a place to burn and buried.
No one understands why the Pharaoh gave such an order. The frog meat tasted quite good. More importantly, if too many of these things are flooded, it will easily make the scalp numb.
However, the Pharaoh's orders were harsh. Understanding must be followed, and not understanding must be followed.
During the long period of rule by Rassis, the pharaoh gave many commands that were confusing at the beginning. But afterwards, all proved that the pharaoh's prophecy of the unknown was far-sighted.
In short, although these frogs jumped out of the river and died a lot, they did not die on a large scale.
Another kingdom of gods hanging high in the sky fell like a meteor.
Among the rotten frogs that were about to die, countless maggots and flies were born, and then a huge plague was brought to the kingdom, causing corpses to be everywhere and every family was mourning.
However, because of Rassis's preparations and the sanitation and disinfection work, the frog corpses were incinerated.
Therefore, although the hot weather brought about an epidemic, it was not as rampant as expected and it was so rampant!
The prophecy of frogs, maggots, and flys, so that humans and animals plagues were all passed by safely.
The statue of Goddess Neve is a goddess with a frog head. The frog disaster symbolizes the fall of this goddess.
Then maggots, flies, animal plagues, and human plagues symbolize the fall of the wild gods, the flies gods, the cow gods, and the Imt gods.
These are the powerful gods among the nine-pillar gods, and they are in charge of the most important priesthood.
Lassith stood on the balcony and looked towards the sea of earth. He was a little sad!
Although the fall of several great gods is as long as they deal with it well, it has little impact on the world. But what happens next is different.
In this god battle, even a great god like Osses would not easily make the Nine Pillars God fall so easily.
The most important thing is the war with the Olympus gods worshipped by many city-states near the Earth Sea...
Rassis looked at the direction of the Earth Sea, and I am afraid that both sides would end up losing both sides this time.
Not only did the Nine Pillars of the Gods fall in large numbers, Olympus also suffers great strength and faces the end of usurping the throne by his sons.
All of this will only be in vain to the rise of a new god. In the end, he even gained benefits, continued to develop, and even dominated the whole family. He will destroy the other nine-pillar gods and the Olympus gods together!
This is how the supreme power of God of Great Light is achieved!
As things have developed to this point, Rassis has no doubt about the historical evolution of this world.
The most important thing now is to see if you can seize the opportunity and take advantage of it!
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh!
"Pharaoh. The coalition forces of the Earthly Sea attacked. They organized a huge fleet and were coming soon!"
A messenger came to Rases in a trembling voice and said, "It can be seen that the coalition forces in the Earth Sea are very powerful this time, so they are so panicked like this!"
"Don't panic! What are you afraid of? How many enemy coalitions are there? How many warships are there in total? Which city-states have joined the coalition?"
Before the battle of the gods started, Rassis had already guessed this day. So he just asked calmly.
The emotions of the superiors can easily stabilize people's hearts!
Therefore, looking at Lasith's appearance, the messenger quickly calmed down and said quickly: "Almost all their city-states have joined this coalition. There are city-states such as Yana, Chris, Sbardin, etc., forming an army of about 100,000 people. With almost 300 warships, they are about to cross the sea and come to our territory!"
"So, basically all the city-states around the Earthly Sea participated in this war? In other words, if they were destroyed, then the entire Earthly Sea would belong to us..."
Even Yana, the most powerful city-state in the sea, had only about 40,000 households and a population of about 200,000.
The number of troops drawn according to the limit is only one lord per household, but only about 40,000. This is already a rhythm of forced rebellion...
Other city-states of all sizes and large contribute only tens of thousands or even thousands of troops, which is already amazing!
Therefore, as long as the 100,000 Earth and Sea coalition forces are wiped out and can never go back, it will be enough to make the entire Earth and sea lose any resistance and be easily conquered by the kingdom!
"But..." The messenger opened his mouth wide, but after a long time, he couldn't speak. Finally, he thought for a long time and had to nod. It was the sentence that the Pharaoh said to the point!
So, the messenger held it in for a long time and finally said: "But we must destroy them!"
"Then destroy them!" The Pharaoh waved his hand, as if he had just killed an irrelevant fly.
The messenger was speechless, although it seemed that this was true. However, the entire kingdom was worried about foreign troubles in front of him, and it was not so easy to defeat such an unprecedented enemy.
The Earth and Sea Alliance has more than 100,000 soldiers, and the kingdom can mobilize more than 100,000 troops. The combined forces of both sides may exceed more than 200,000. This is an epic unprecedented war!
This will completely determine the fate of the two civilizations!
At this moment, Rassis showed a faint smile. After enduring in this world for so long, it was finally time to see the picture.
The Earth and Sea Alliance came slowly than I thought. After all, it was a coalition army and had too much coordination work to be done!
And these land, sea, city and states are not so close. In fact, there are also many conflicts between them, and they don’t know how many wars have been fought between them.
In fact, if the kingdom had not developed too fast in recent years and fought for maritime trade, seriously affecting the countries of the earth and sea, and with the Olympus gods being driven behind the scenes, it would have been impossible for such an expedition!
Therefore, amid a lot of friction and conflicts, the coalition forces arrived late.
At this time, the kingdom's troops had already made all preparations.
Lassith's policy is to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, lure the enemy into depth, exchange space for time, and drag it until the enemy can no longer bear it.
After all, the Earth and Sea Alliance was a labor force for an expedition. The places where the land and sea cities and states were located were not well developed, and a large amount of food was imported from the kingdom every year.
Therefore, the logistics problems of these coalition forces will definitely not last long.
The kingdom has the Nilo River that floods every year, bringing rich silt and silting fields, and is the best fertilizer. It is enough to provide a great harvest of food in the kingdom, and it can also be exported in large quantities while supplying it to the kingdom.
However, Rassis had been brewing this war. Over the years, he had been using disasters as an excuse to reduce the output of food exports. He had hoarded a large amount of food in the kingdom.
Not only is it enough to survive disasters and famines, but it is even enough to cope with this cruel war that will surely come.
At this time, all these arrangements played a role at this time.
This year, there was a drought and a major disaster. The water level in the Niluo River continued to drop. After so-called blood and other disasters, the failure to obtain income was already a foregone conclusion.
Lassith left an order to let the people in the lower reaches of the Nero River move towards the area near the kingly capital Thebes, where the kingdom would open warehouses and release grain.
So, after struggling to cross the sea, the coalition forces of the Earthly Sea that had been expeditioned by the troops came ashore, but did not encounter the imagined enemy. They were unable to rob and plunder enough to compensate for the hard-earned spoils. They were driven with complaints and slowly came upstream.
At this time, the coalition forces suddenly discovered that the dry water of the Nilo River was not enough to allow their battleships to pass through.
So the tragic battleship had to stay on the sea. Then, about 30,000 infantry soldiers rushed to Thebes, which was hundreds of miles upstream.
At this time, the kingdom's army was on high alert and had even been raising energy.
Near the underground sea, the coalition forces who were accustomed to the humid and warm weather suddenly came to the desert area, and the suffering they suffered was enough to make them complain.
However, all this was just the beginning. They did not expect that something like a nightmare was still waiting for them.
When night fell, these coalition forces had just set up camp and rested. In this era, the cross-sea expedition organized is not an ordinary difficulty.
Coming across the sea, coupled with the hardships, all of this has made them tired.
After sleeping until the middle of the night, the sound of horse hooves almost shocked the entire ground. Countless war horses rushed out of the night and entered the camp of the Earth and Sea Alliance.
The rugged and mountains near the ground sea are just a place where the city-states are numerous. There are no such large-scale cavalry, and they rarely deal with these cavalry.
In fact, in this era, cavalry was just more like toys, or something that was made to fool people by dirty nomadic tribes.
There are no stirrups, no heavy armor. Just relying on the light horse bow, it has almost no effect on the armor on the heavy infantry of the coalition forces. In other words, it can also play a harassing role for some light infantrymen.
Therefore, it was absolutely unexpected that the enemy of the kingdom would carry out large-scale raids with cavalry.
By the time they heard the movement and realized it was too late. The cavalry had already entered the camp.
These were the cavalry of the nomadic tribes who vassed the kingdom and at this time they broke into the enemy's positions. They immediately threw these coalition forces into chaos.
However, the combat effectiveness of these coalition forces is indeed strong. The army composed of these city-state citizens is incomparable to ordinary troops.
They quickly organized themselves and repelled the attacks of these vassal cavalry. But a large number of tents and baggage had been burned.
As the smoke swelled, the sky was already white.
These coalition forces, which were under the stimulation, set off again and rushed towards Thebes. They prepared to attack those vulnerable enemies in one go.
However, when they came to Thebes, they were almost desperate.
This capital is far more magnificent and solid than they imagined. It is even better than Yana City, which is famous for its easy defense and difficult attack.
Outside the city, two simple satellite cities were built, each of which was stationed in large armies, marching towards the horns and protecting the entire Thebes.
"God, the enemy is at least more than 50,000!"
"If you have such a tall and solid city wall, this enemy is simply unable to deal with it!"
Many of the soldiers of the coalition army watched this scene, and they had a lot of experience and had no idea how many wars they had participated in. Just a brief look, they lost confidence.
Originally, although they were tired, they were proud and relieved of the huge coalition forces that mobilized all the city-states in the land, sea and city, and thought victory would be easy!
As soon as their army arrives, the enemy will definitely collapse.
However, everything in front of you gave these guys who felt very good!
The commander of the coalition forces saw that something was wrong, so he hurriedly organized the troops to stop and then prepared to start camping and rest.
He felt a little uneasy in his heart. This war would be very difficult to fight. Even if the gods predicted the victory of this war, the same would be true!
To be continued...