I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 447 Babylonian King Sasudi Tanner

There is a saying that soldiers are expensive and fast.

It is to attack in front of the enemy before the enemy can react.

The day after the Athenian army and the Hittite army captured the cities of Sipar and Kuta, Roy ordered Aries to take over the cities of Sipar and Kuta in a hurry with an army of [-].

Roy himself led [-] cavalry, together with [-] Hittite soldiers led by Selene, Hantili, and Tilipin, attacked the city of Babylon.

The distance between Sipar and Babylon is only fifty kilometers.

So at noon the next day, the Athenian army and the Hittite army came outside Babylon and surrounded the capital of the Babylonian kingdom.

The enemy army approached the city, immediately throwing the city of Babylon into panic.

Although the city of Babylon also has [-] guarding soldiers, the number is not lost to the enemy forces outside the city, but the fiasco of Sipar City has made the Kingdom of Babylon understand the difference in combat power between the soldiers of the two sides.

Even if the soldiers of Babylon City rely on tall and strong walls for defense, they may not be able to defend Babylon City.

Therefore, before the Hittite army and the Athens army attacked the city, the Babylonian king Sasudi Tanner sent an envoy, expressing his willingness to pay tribute in exchange for ending the war.

If the Hittite Kingdom has long-term ambitions to control the Babylonian Kingdom, the Hittite Kingdom will accept the Babylonian Kingdom as the city-state princes of the Hittite Kingdom, and then annex the Babylonian Kingdom in a subtle way.

It is a pity that the external environment of the Kingdom of Babylon is too bad.

To the north of the Babylonian Kingdom was the Kingdom of Kasit, to the northwest were the Kingdoms of Mitanni and Assyria, and to the east were the Kingdom of Haiti of the Sumerians and the Kingdom of Elam of the Elamites.

If the Hittite Kingdom wants to control the Babylonian Kingdom for a long time, these forces around the Babylonian Kingdom will become enemies that the Hittite Kingdom must face.

Obviously, the Hittite Kingdom did not have any extra power to control the Babylonian Kingdom and compete for hegemony with the various forces in the Mesopotamia.

Now the Hittite Kingdom only wants to break through the city of Babylon and rob it of the wealth it has accumulated for hundreds of years.

The Hittite Kingdom did not accept the Babylonian king Sasudi Tanna's summation, and of course Roy would not accept it.

After all, only by eliminating all the kings of the Mesopotamia including Sasudi Tanna, King of Babylon, can Roy become the only king of the Mesopotamia.

After rejecting the Babylonian envoy's peace request, the Hittite army attacked the city from the west gate of Babylon, and Roy led the Athens army to attack the city from the north gate of Babylon.

To the south of the city of Babylon is the Euphrates River, and the east gate is the only one that has not been blocked.

While the Athens army and the Hittite army were attacking the city, the royal family and nobles of the Amorites fled from the east gate of Babylon with their families and wealth.

Seeing that Phineus and the Hyksos who followed him were also in the fleeing team, Roy handed over the siege to the soldiers, and Roy himself rushed to the fleeing team at the east gate.

"Phinius, are you running away again?"

After catching up with Phineus, Roy joked with a smile.

"If you stay in Babylon with the Hyksos soldiers, you can only get 1 defenders in Babylon. Now you flee with the Hyksos, there are only [-] defenders in Babylon." about."

"This is the Babylon of the Amorites, not our Hyksos Babylon."

Phineus glared at Roy angrily and said.

"I will not let the Hyksos who follow me shed blood for the Amorite city of Babylon. Only by surviving can we conquer a new land and regain our Egypt in the future."

"Then you continue to flee! You flee to the Persian plateau with the Hyksos, and I will chase the Athenian soldiers to the Persian plateau. You flee to the Indian region with the Hyksos, and I will take Athens The soldiers pursued to the Indian region. One day, you and the Hyksos who follow you will be my captives."

After speaking, Roy stopped chasing Phineus and turned back to the north gate of Babylon.

Looking at Roy's leaving figure, Phineus said with a sneer.

"I heard that the Indian region has a large population. When you catch up to the Indian region, I have already conquered the indigenous people there and established a powerful kingdom."

When Roy rode back to the North City Gate, he was surprised to see that the Athenian soldiers had broken through the North City Gate without his own leadership.

At the moment when the Kingdom of Babylon was about to perish, not only the royal family and nobles of the Amorites did not want to sacrifice themselves, but even the soldiers at the bottom did not want to sacrifice their lives for the Kingdom of Babylon.

"The main force to capture Babylon should be the Hittites!"

Roy said helplessly as he rode into the city of Babylon.

"You guys are fighting so aggressively. If there are too many casualties, I will feel distressed."

The history of another world has proved that the Hittite kingdom did not have the ambition to control the Babylonian kingdom.

Even if the Athens Empire does nothing, it can still take over the cities of the Babylonian Kingdom from the Hittite Kingdom.

Therefore, Roy always believed that it was fine for the Athenian soldiers to pretend to be attacking the city, and there was no need to be injured or even sacrificed for this war.

But the Athenian soldiers didn't know Roy's thoughts. Without Roy's control, they actually entered Babylon one step earlier than the Hittite army.

When Roy caught up with the Athenian soldiers, the group of wolf-like soldiers had already arrived at the gate of the royal palace in Babylon.

no way--

In order to take care of the mood of the soldiers, Roy could only take them to capture the palace and win the greatest glory in this war.

Sasudi Tanner, king of Babylon, also seemed to have a backbone, so he didn't flee with his family.

Even if he wanted to escape, it was impossible for the surrounding forces to accept him as the king of Babylon.

The royal family and nobles of the Amorites fled to other kingdoms and could still enjoy noble treatment.

Sasudi Tanner fled to other kingdoms, should these kingdoms arrange for him to be treated as a king?
Most importantly, after these kingdoms seized the cities of the Babylonian Kingdom, should they return these cities to the rule of Sasudi Tanner?

Palace hall.

Roy rushed into the hall with a group of Athenian soldiers, and saw the Babylonian king Sasudi Tanner sitting on the throne, looking at the invaders calmly.

By Sasudi Tanner, surrounded by his wife and children.

The most beautiful girl among Sasudi Tanner's daughters should be the Babylonian princess Semiramis.

When Roy looked at Sasudi Tanner's family, Sasudi Tanner also looked at Roy.

"Looking at you, you should be the young emperor of the Athenian Empire! My family and I can actually escape. I chose to stay because I want to make a request to you. I hope you will not harm the civilians of Babylon. As the king of Babylon , I am willing to sacrifice our family in exchange for the safety of civilians."

"Is this your sense of responsibility as the king of Babylon?"

Roy rolled his eyes and said.

"In the future, Babylon will be ruled by me, and the civilians in Babylon will be protected by me. You, the subjugated king, don't need to worry about my people."

As soon as Roy finished speaking, Selene, Han Tiri, and Tielepin also led a group of Hittite soldiers into the hall.

Glancing at Sasudi Tanner's family, Selene said to Roy.

"You are really lucky! Since you captured the palace first and captured them, including Princess Semiramis, their family is your spoils of war."

(End of this chapter)