I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 45 Preventing the Eleusis from Escape
After Pandion rushed into the camp of the Eleusis tribe with 450 soldiers, the entire Eleusis tribe immediately fell into chaos.

The young and strong men gathered towards the highest point of the hill—the place where the leader of the Eleusis tribe lived, and prepared to defeat the invaders under the leadership of the leader.

After all, the young and strong men of the Eleusis tribe also knew that if they fought against the invaders alone, they would only die in vain.

Women, children, and old, sick, and disabled men hid in their huts or fled in panic, trying to stay away from the intruders.

When Pandion rushed to the top of the hill with his soldiers, the leader of the Eleusis tribe had already gathered [-] soldiers, and more Eleusis men were coming.

"Pandion—it was you who attacked our Eleusis tribe!"

After the Athenian soldiers confronted the Eleusis soldiers, the leader of the Eleusis tribe asked Pandion angrily.

"Our Eleusis tribe is forty miles away from your Athens tribe, and there is no threat to you. Why do you want to attack our Eleusis tribe?"

"Celeus!"

Pandion called out the name of the leader of the Eleusis tribe and smiled.

"I want to increase the population of the Athenian tribe. The fastest way is to annex the Eleusis tribe. Is this reason enough? If you are willing to surrender, both of us can avoid casualties. I swear to the gods that you will have a small The identity and status of the leader."

"You asked me to surrender to you? Stupid Pandion, do you really think that you can conquer the Eleusis tribe with a population of 450 with 3000 soldiers?"

Celeus, the leader of the Eleusis tribe, sneered.

"Now I will lead the warriors of the Eleusis tribe to defeat the invaders and drive you people out of our territory."

"What a pity! Since you don't want to surrender, I can only kill you and let the soldiers of the Eleusis tribe give up their resistance."

After the verbal battle between the two leaders, Pandion took the initiative to brandish his bronze spear and attacked Celeus.

After all, time was not on the side of the Athenians. The longer the time dragged on, the more Eleusinians would gather around Celeus.

Erechtheus and the two little chiefs followed Pandion and led the Athenian soldiers towards the Eleusis soldiers.

After Celeus wielded a bronze spear in his right hand and a cowhide shield in his left, he fought with Pandion, and the soldiers of Athens and Eleusis also fought together.

At the beginning of the war between the two sides, the balance of victory tilted directly towards the Athenians.

Because the Athenians are all wearing paper armor, they can swing their spears with both hands to attack the enemy with all their strength.

Eleusis soldiers wielded spears in their right hands and held shields in their left. Their spears could not break through the defense of paper armor, and their wooden shields could not stop the full attack of Athenian soldiers.

Ordinary Athenian soldiers relied on their superior equipment to suppress the Eleusinian soldiers. The leader of the Athenian tribe, Pandion, wore paper armor and also gained an advantage in the battle with the leader of the Eleusinian tribe, Celeus.

boom!boom!boom!boom!
Pandion swung the bronze spear like a storm, stabbing Celeus' body non-stop.

Celeus blocked the continuous rain of attacks with a cowhide shield, and looked for an opportunity to counterattack Pandion.

Click!
finally--

After Celeus' cowhide shield blocked Pandion's continuous attacks, it was split in half by Pandion's full blow.

Celeus threw the broken shield directly on the ground, and then swung his spear with both hands to attack Pandion.

The two leaders began to fight fiercely. Pandion's spear blade stabbed Celeus, and the sharp spear blade would definitely tear Celeus' cotton clothes and leave a wound on his body.

Celeus' spear pierced Pandion's body, but it couldn't pierce the paper armor at all, let alone hurt Pandion's body.

With more and more wounds on the leader Celeus, everyone who saw this scene understood that the Eleusis tribe would definitely lose the war.

Because the leader Celeus is the most powerful warrior of the Eleusis tribe, even Celeus cannot defeat Pandion now, and it is even more impossible for the rest of the Eleusis tribe to defeat Pandion.

After the news spread that the leader Celeus had lost the battle to Pandion, the tribe of Eleusis began to flee.

Because if they stay in the tribe, their fate will be to be captured by the enemy, and their wives, daughters, food and other wealth will become the spoils of war that the victors can ask for.

Two gates of the tribe of Eleusis.

Roy led fifty teenagers to guard the west gate.

Pallas, the captain of the personal guard, led fifty personal guards to guard the gate to the east.

Seeing hundreds of Eleusinians rushing towards the west gate, Roy immediately raised his bronze spear in a fighting stance, and shouted to the fifty teenagers behind him.

"If the Eleusis people want to rush out, they must be killed without mercy. Even if they are women and children, we can't show mercy. Because if we don't frighten them with cruel means, we can't use 50 people Stop hundreds of thousands of Eleusinians trying to escape."

Then, Roy blocked the gate with his body, and shouted at the hundreds of Eleusis rushing over.

"Back back! Back all! Anyone who dares to approach the gate will die! You all go back to your own homes. We will not take away your wives and daughters, nor will we take away your food and wealth."

Fifty teenagers stood with Roy and shouted.

"Back back! Back all!"

It's a pity that it's impossible to stop those who want to escape with just shouting.

So when the fastest Eleusinians approached the gate, although Roy couldn't bear it, he swung his bronze spear with all his strength and stabbed at the Eleusinians who were closest to him.

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puff!puff!puff!

The Eleusinian who ran at the front was stabbed by Roy and fifty young men and fell to the ground.

Seeing this scene, the rest of the Eleusis stopped in fright, not daring to charge their lives against the gate.

Seeing that all the Eleusinians who wanted to escape from the west gate calmed down, Roy just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the sound of gold and iron clanging from the east gate.

Roy turned his head to look at the east gate, and saw the captain of the guard, Pallas, in a hard fight.

The person who fought against Pallas, the captain of the personal guard, turned out to be an Eleusis girl who tied her beautiful snow-white long hair into a single ponytail.

"White hair—"

Looking at the girl's snow-white long hair dancing when she moved her body, Roy said with wide eyes in shock.

"Everyone in the Eleusis tribe has black hair and black eyes. How could she have white hair? Could it be that her ancestors migrated from the far north, white-haired Germans?"

Of course Roy knew that on the continent of Europa, in addition to black-haired and black-eyed Southern Europeans, there were also blond-haired and blue-eyed Caucasians, and even silver-haired and blue-eyed Germanic people.

In this era, blond and blue-eyed Caucasians could migrate from the Greater Caucasus to Greece in order to survive.

Of course, the silver-haired and blue-eyed Germanic people can also migrate from northern Europe to southern Europe in order to survive.

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