total war rise of empire

Chapter 79 Target Argos
On the second day after Lei Zihao's army entered the city of Megara, the first group consisting of 3000 replenished Siris revival troops and 500 Pylos prisoners of war left the city of Megara!

Then came the main force led by Lei Zihao!

This time, Lei Zihao didn't have to cover up anymore, because the city-state of Pylos had already received the news of the destruction of Corinth City. !
It has completely formed an incompatible situation with the city-state of Pylos!

Naturally, the city-state of Pylos raised its alert attitude towards Lei Zihao to the highest level!

On the second day after Lei Zihao's army left Megara City, the Pylos Elder Council in Argos City received a report from a messenger who ran away vomiting blood...

With unprecedented efficiency, the city of Argos began to take in the civilians of the outer villages and towns of Pylos, and sent a messenger to the main city of Pylos in the rear, begging Agamemnon to send his Janissaries for support!

However, the city of Argos, which thought the reinforcements would arrive, unexpectedly received various excuses from Agamemnon to delay!

The elders of Pylos in the city of Argos were very puzzled. This was not a simple civil war in the city-state of Pylos, but a battle of life and death for the entire Pylos nation. Didn't Agamemnon understand the truth of the death of lips and teeth? !
What the elders of Pylos in the city of Argos didn't know was that Agamemnon was suffering too!
Just when Lei Zihao's army was approaching the city of Argos, Agamemnon, the lord of the city-state of Pylos, was carefully accompanying a clergyman who was wearing a glorious priesthood!
The white full-body robe is embroidered with exquisite angel icons. For the human world, this set of clothes means surpassing the power of local lords!
Because only the high priest of the Church of the Lord of Radiance is qualified to wear this suit!

In the Church of the Brilliant Bishop, the Pope is the unique dictator at the top, and there are two departments below. One is the priests of the Brilliant Bishop who control the entire human world.

Among them, the tallest is the archbishop in red. Only in the capital of a powerful human kingdom will you occasionally see a archbishop in red who is more powerful than the king!
Below the archbishop in red is the high priest who manages the churches of local lords everywhere!
The High Priest is also the manager of the Church of the Lord of Radiance who controls teaching power and collects various taxes in the entire human world, and even sells the Atonement Roll!
It is the top management of the Church of the Lord of Glory in the local area. Most of the cardinals serve the Pope in the City of Glory, and a few monitor and suppress those kings in the powerful royal court. Therefore, the local high priests can be regarded as real The emperor of the land in the sense!

Local aristocratic lords are not like powerful kings. They have a group of knights who can barely protect themselves. Even if the church wants to punish the kings, it still needs to pay a certain price!

However, for those small local noble lords, the church is a behemoth that dominates everything. As long as the Glorious Lord Church sends out a team of ordinary judges, it can easily crush the local small noble lords!

Those high priests naturally want to be popular in the local area, and they want girls to be girls...

Even the glamorous wives of the nobles, as long as the priest shows such a little bit of interest, the lords and nobles who can kill the common people at will will obediently wash and strip their wives. Throw it on the bed of the priest!

As for the local high priest, there are servants of the gods and deacons of the church. The servants of the gods are responsible for preaching and ruling the spiritual beliefs of the common people, and the deacons belong to the local force of the church that the high priest can use. They are all combatants with weapons. Priests do some private affairs, or arrest some unlucky people who are not firm in their beliefs, set up a fire to play human flesh barbecue, or set up a gallows to watch corpses swing...

The church is more confident in killing people than noble lords, because they have good reasons!
As long as you are labeled as a traitor, you can wait to spend money to eliminate disasters, or you can choose a package of gallows or fire!

Even the children of nobles cannot defy this law!
Even those official knights and even great knights, when they see the servants of the gods, they have to respectfully say hello and put on a friendly gesture!
In the human world, except for a few grand knight commanders who do not belong to the church, no one dares to defy the oracle of the Lord of Radiance!

In addition to these bright clergymen under the pope's command, the other set is the shield and sword of the church!
The Holy Knights are the force guarantee that the Pope can control the human world, and the larger number of the Church Judgment Army is the sworn enemy of all heretics!
Compared with the well-known responsibilities of church clergy, the internal structure of the Judgment Army and the Holy Knights is much more mysterious, because they rarely take action, and once they do, they will not leave alive!

Even the Kingdom of Atia, the most powerful kingdom in the human world, doesn't know how many Judgment Army the Pope has and how big the Holy Knights are!
This is also the reason why the barbaric and bloodthirsty Hungarians dare not disobey the orders of the church!

Interestingly, the most powerful kingdom of Atia in the human world is located on the eastern border of the human world, firmly blocking the path of the half-orc legion in the Slavic region going south, and watching the path of the night elf empire going west!

The fact that the Kingdom of Atia is so strong has a lot to do with the church's deliberate indulgence and treating them as watchdogs of the human world!

And another watchdog of the church is the Teutonic Knights with brilliant records!
The Kingdom of Atia and the Teutonic Knights are holding back the invasion path of the half-orc army in the Slavic region from both sides!
Except for these two watchdogs with strong centripetal force, the human world inside is a mess...

There has always been a rumor in the upper class of the human world that the Assassin Alliance, which makes nobles everywhere fear, is a transcontinental dark industry secretly controlled by the Pope!

The gray trench coat of death is the logo of the League of Assassins, and it is also a life-seeking ghost from hell!
It can be said that the human world is a mess on the surface, but in fact the power of the pope in the human world is not much worse than that of the real emperor!

Agamemnon, who was on the Greek peninsula, naturally could not be ignorant of the horror of the Church of the Lord of Radiance. Even though the people of Pylos had never believed in the Lord of Radiance, when the high priest of the church in white robes led a small team After the soldiers of the Judgment Army came to the city of Pylos, Agamemnon had to give up the best room, and obeyed his orders like a servant!
The reason why Agamemnon did not help the city of Argos was because of the order of the white-robed priest!
The church wants to use the lives of the Pylos people to consume the target's military strength and delay as much time as possible for the subsequent landing of the Crusaders!
(End of this chapter)