I was a priest in the city-state era

The Athenian Empire mobilized a large number of soldiers and food to the Balkan Peninsula, but of course it could not hide it from the various forces in the Balkan Peninsula.

city ​​of athens.

Before the war began, Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazon tribe, came to the palace to negotiate with Roy in person.

Palace hall.

Hippolyta saw Roy and asked him directly.

"Do you want to conquer us Thracians?"

"you misunderstood."

Roy explained.

"I intend to conquer the Illyrians. Mycenaean king Perseus led his army and used bronze weapons to carry out a dimensionality reduction attack on the semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural Illyrians. Now he has conquered the Illyrians Living in the mountains of Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia, we have established a powerful kingdom with an area of ​​200,000 square kilometers and a population of about one million. I cannot allow the Athenian Empire to have such a powerful neighbor. So I plan to destroy Perseus’ kingdom of Mycenae.”

"you are lying!"

Hippolyta said angrily.

"Perseus' Mycenaean Kingdom rules almost all mountainous areas. There is no need for cavalry to deal with Perseus. You mobilized 20,000 cavalry to the Macedonian plains. This is used to conquer us Thracians."

Now that Hippolyta saw it, Roy spoke frankly.

"I really want to deal with the Illyrians and Thracians together. Hippolyta! Now you can go back and gather your Thracian knights to prepare to resist the invasion of the Athenian cavalry."

"Why do we have to go to war?"

Hippolyta knelt down in front of Roy and cried on his knees.

"I have long said that I am willing to be your woman, and my people are also your people."

Roy stretched out his arms to pick up Hippolyta, held her in his arms and comforted her.

"I don't want to do this either! But if I want to transform you Thracians into a farming nation, I can only put a knife on your neck. If I don't launch a war against you, will you voluntarily become a farming nation? "

The lifestyle of farming people is more strenuous than the lifestyle of nomadic people herding horses and sheep.

Nomads are not fools, they are certainly not willing to accept a more difficult lifestyle.

Hippolyta said through tears.

"I offer my body to you, can you let my tribe go?"

"cannot!"

Roy shook his head and refused without hesitation.

"After I conquer all the Thracians, the Thracian tribes will become agricultural tribes, with the exception of your Amazon tribe. What do you want the other Thracian tribes to think?"

"Then...then can you give us a little more time? I will find a way to convince my people to become a farming people..."

Hippolyta made one request after another, Roy said impatiently.

"Hippolyta, do you have some misunderstandings about our relationship? Although you are not only beautiful, but also the noble queen of the Amazon tribe, I have no feelings of admiration for you, and I am even less likely to make concessions for you. "

"You...how could you be so heartless to me?"

Looking at Hippolyta's crying face, Roy said with determination.

"I am such a heartless man! Do you know my true face and still have unrealistic illusions about me?"

"I will make the Amazon tribes surrender to you..."

Hippolyta cried.

"I can get the men of the Amazon tribe together without weapons, and then your Athenian cavalry can kill them all..."

Roy said with his eyes widened in surprise.

"Hippolyta, aren't you afraid of being regarded as a traitor by your people by doing this?"

"I would rather be the queen who betrayed my people than see my people massacred by the Athenian cavalry."

"Dear Hippolyta, you made the right choice."

Roy lowered his head and pecked Hippolyta's lips, then said with a bright smile.

"Even if none of your tribe can understand your betrayal, I will always regard you as a great queen. As a reward, I will make you my wife."

Hippolyta begged as she lay in Roy's arms.

"My dear, you must take good care of my people."

After Hippolyta left the city of Athens, Roy immediately set out from the Thebes area with an army of 30,000 men and entered the Kingdom of Mycenae ruled by Perseus.

In just one year, Perseus followed Roy's rapid expansion and established a Mycenaean kingdom covering an area of ​​200,000 square kilometers in the Balkans.

It's a pity that Perseus only learned Roy's rapid expansion, but not Roy's ruling style.

Therefore, in the Mycenaean kingdom of Perseus, the Mycenaeans and honorary Mycenaeans who followed Perseus were the ruling class, and the ordinary Illyrians were the ruled class.

Roy led the Athenian army into the Kingdom of Mycenae. The Illyrians under the rule of Perseus not only did not resist, but instead warmly welcomed the Athenian army to rescue them.

The Athenian army conquered every Illyrian city and village without bloodshed, and Roy couldn't help but sigh - Perseus is really a qualified tool man.

It was Perseus's enslavement and exploitation of the Illyrians that made the Illyrians yearn for the Athenian Empire.

On the tenth day of the war against the Mycenaean kingdom, Roy sent ten thousand troops to take over the Aetolia, Calydon and southern Epirus regions.

Roy himself led an army of 20,000 to Dodona in the central Epirus region.

Roy did not encounter any resistance along the way because Perseus gathered all the Mycenaean soldiers and honorary Mycenaean soldiers who followed him to Dodona.

Dodona——

This is the new city built by Perseus.

It is worth mentioning that the patron saint of Dodona is neither Zeus, Poseidon nor Hades.

The patron saint of Dodona is the goddess named Dione.

It is worth mentioning that Dione's name is actually the feminine form of Zeus' name.

In other words, Dione is actually a feminized Zeus.

The narrow plain outside Dodona.

Roy led an army of 20,000 to confront Perseus's 50,000 troops.

"Roy, you really come to attack me again."

Perseus, wearing golden bronze armor and holding a golden bronze spear in his right hand, said with a confident smile on his face.

"Unfortunately, I have already made preparations. You can't destroy the Mycenaean Kingdom I founded."

Roy ignored Perseus' words and looked at the guardian goddess Dione who appeared over Dodona.

In the myth of another world, the demigod hero Achilles once dressed up as a girl in a girl's clothes, and even Odysseus and Diomedes could not see through Achilles' disguise.

Roy once thought that there must be something wrong with Odysseus and Diomedes.

But now, Roy saw the goddess Dione - Zeus wearing a gorgeous robe of the goddess, a gold necklace around his neck, and a hair ornament on his head, and he actually felt that this goddess had a beauty and charm that was not inferior to other goddesses.

This is Zeus disguised as a goddess! ! !

Ugh -

Realizing this, Roy couldn't help vomiting.