Four-Armed Divine Emperor

Athens quickly gathered a 50,000-strong coalition force from the Greek side, and many reinforcements were on the way. However, because the Persians were advancing so quickly, they would most likely miss the decisive battle. As for the naval battle, there was a butterfly effect, and Al would not completely believe that the protagonist of the second part, the Athenian commander, could continue to defeat the Persian fleet with fewer troops. If he won both on land and at sea, maybe he could wipe out the Persians in Greece?

Tame the captives, and then use them as spearheads to counterattack the East!

......

After learning that "His Highness the Angel" El was as lustful as most of the male gods in mythology—that he was surrounded by two "fairies" and an "oracle," and that the maids who served him all enviously praised His Highness the Angel for being strong and muscular, and for being able to last the entire night... In fact, based on this alone, no one would doubt El's boasting that he was a "demigod."

His sexual ability is definitely at the "supernormal" level.

So, despite the busy schedule of the war, the Athenians quickly selected eight beautiful and pure women to serve El.

Al accepted the request, but did not touch upon it. He privately asked the Athenian senator who was responsible for the communication to take his request back:

Find a few more

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It is best if the one is beautiful, or a married woman.

It's true that Al is a mysophobia person, but he cares about private cars. As for the beautiful divine servant, it's true that he is attracted to her, but because his desires have been satisfied, Al doesn't want to spend his money recklessly. After all, although he is extremely lustful, he considers himself to be "responsible" and doesn't want to encroach on these things. If he can't help but fall in love, he will be in debt again.

Besides, if we really talk about comfort...these undeveloped virgins are really not as good as those who are married, grown up, and much more beautiful.

Anyway, he has made up his mind that he is just having fun in this regard, which is equivalent to going to a prostitute. That way the psychological burden will be much smaller and he won't have to worry about the debt of love.

The invaders on the front line are gradually approaching, while Ai'er's side is fighting day and night.

During the day, he would "listen" and watch, occasionally appreciating the customs and culture of ancient Greece, or learning some military knowledge. At night, he would go back and work day and night, tormenting Ada and the others.

Because there was an agreement in advance, everyone is "equal" in this space, and in the other world, El is the main one, and cooperating with and satisfying him is the first priority. No matter how "annoyed" Ada is, she can only bite her lip and endure it. Of course, in fact, apart from sometimes complaining about El's strong physical strength, she also has some... This kind of pleasure... Every time Ada thinks about it, she feels like Brother Jie who swears to be self-disciplined from today and tomorrow but always breaks the vow. She is afraid, but can't help but indulge in it.

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There was nothing special about what happened afterwards.

Everything unfolded just as Al had "planned".

With this "angel" and the reinforcements of the Greek coalition forces, Athens also had the strength and confidence to fight the Persian army. So during the period when the enemy arrived, the Greek coalition forces worked hard to strengthen and build new city defense facilities, preparing for a decisive battle with the invaders.

Al also went to meet the protagonist of the second part, the commander of Athens, Themistocles. The latter was very respectful to him. Of course, it was unclear what he was thinking in his heart, because Al could not use the spiritual seed on him. He knew that this man was still wary and suspicious of him in his heart.

But Al didn't care about it. As an intruder, he couldn't kill the original protagonist before officially fighting the villain.

He had a conversation with Themistocles and provided him with some "military advice".

At that time, Greece was not actually a naval power. Even Athens, which had the strongest navy, had only more than 300 triremes, which were the main force of the Greek fleet. After conquering Egypt and Phoenicia, a naval power that was good at trade, Persia confiscated ships in these areas and organized them into fleets. During the Battle of Marathon, the Persian fleet once exceeded a thousand in size, and even now, the number is about 800, and its strength on paper has an absolute advantage.

However, the Persian fleet was composed of a multi-ethnic mix, many of whom were "vassal troops" from conquered areas. They did not speak the same language and had low morale, making it difficult for them to command and mobilize as flexibly as the Greeks. The Greeks also had the morale bonus of defending their country.

Moreover, on the Persian warships, because the Persians were not familiar with water and how to operate the ships, most of the rowers on the ships were often from vassal nations, while the commanders and soldiers were mainly Persians. Due to the language barrier and the Persians' lack of water skills, the strength of such a "mixed" warship was not as good as those composed of sailors from a single region.

Then there were the internal strife within the fleet. Everyone worked like dogs for their Persian master, but there wasn't always harmony between them. Historically, Queen Artemisia in the film decisively ordered the sinking of the Athenian fleet when it was blocked by the enemy while being pursued. The defeated Phoenicians accused the Ionians (from the southwestern coast of Anatolia) of betraying the Persians by attacking them, while they were paddling around on the sidelines. The Egyptian fleet, which hadn't participated in the battle, also decisively fled when they saw defeat was inevitable...

These were the flaws and weaknesses of the Persian navy, but few people were aware of them clearly beforehand. As a famous Greek general, Themistocles naturally had some understanding of this, but it was impossible for him to be as comprehensive as he was in his subsequent analysis.

Al gave a lecture to Themistocles, hoping to inspire him. His purpose in doing so was to hope that this famous commander in history could fight the war that was destined for him.

In the Persian invasion of Greece, victory or defeat on land was not the most important thing. Persia was ten times the size of Greece combined. One failure or two failures were nothing. In this magical world, Xerxes I could defeat an army of 100,000 in Greece, and after returning he might be able to gather another 100,000 conscripts. But if these tens of thousands of coalition forces in Athens were gone, the most precious and elite group of Greece's strong forces would be gone and could be surrendered.

Naval battles are the most important.

During the Persian westward expedition, logistics could not rely entirely on land transportation. Without control of the sea, if the Greek fleet blocked the Aegean Sea, most of Xerxes' 200,000-strong army would probably starve to death on the way back. Moreover, Greece is a mountainous peninsula. With sea control, the Persians could deploy troops to Greece at any time. Conversely, the Greek army could land at any time to the rear of the Persian army, which was their homeland, and cut off the Persians' retreat.

So in history, Xerxes I occupied and looted Athens, but after the defeat in the Battle of Salamis, he chose to withdraw his troops for fear of being cut off from retreat. This is why.

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Al is very confident about the war on land. If he is not afraid of taking risks, he can find a high ground to hide and fire an RPG or .338 and .416 at the "golden" giant Xerxes I.

The king was killed on the spot by the "wrath of God" because he did not believe that the Persian army would not collapse.

But if the naval battle was lost, because the movie is different from historical facts, strictly speaking, each of the two "300" films has a "pair" of prominent protagonists and villains. The first one is obviously the male protagonist is Leonidas and the villain is Xerxes I; and the male protagonist of the second part is Themistocles, and the villain who is also the "female protagonist" is the Persian female general Artemisia played by Eva Green.

The latter's historical prototype was actually just the queen of Caria, a vassal state of the Persian Empire, who joined the Persians in attacking her motherland, Greece. However, in the movie, Artemisia's identity and power were greatly enhanced. She was Darius I's most trusted deputy and general, almost the "regent" of the Persian Empire. Even when Xerxes I went into self-exile, wandering in the wilderness, and then accepted the so-called "black magic" to be strengthened and turned into a golden giant - the "God-King" returned to rule the empire, it was also her who controlled it behind the scenes.

In the plot, Artemisia's life experience is miserable. As a Greek, she was enslaved when she was still a child, and was eventually transferred to Persia by slave traders. She was promoted all the way to her current position. Her attitude towards her Greek "motherland" can be said to be nothing but endless hatred.

At the same time, as the deputy of two generations of emperors and a highly prestigious commander of the Persian Empire, if Xerxes I was defeated and killed on land, but Persia won the naval battle against the Greeks, then with her hostility towards Greece and prestige, Artemisia would be fully capable of unifying the Persian forces with the vacant throne and continuing to oppose Greece, that is, El.

So Al hoped that Demistocles could solve this problem for him. If he could destroy the main forces of the Persian navy and army at one time, leaving them leaderless... then it would be extremely easy for Al to launch his planned eastern expedition.

.......

After doing all this, Al didn't expect that he would encounter an unexpected surprise - Themistocles, the commander of the Athenians, actually gave him a hint that he could use the spiritual seed. His inspiration and guidance inadvertently lulled the "male protagonist" into relaxing his guard against Al, so he did not hesitate to "take" the male protagonist of the second part into his pocket and made him his 25th loyal fan in this world.

After assassinating Queen Leonidas, El completed a mission for the Persian camp. Now he has eight spirit seeds left. If he wins the Battle of Athens, the naval battle and some subsequent missions, this number will increase nearly tenfold... Hundreds of elders and leaders who are "die-hardly" loyal to El and have high status in their respective city-states and forces can fully support El's grand plan.

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Everything started just when Al felt he was "ready".

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The Persian army could truly be described as "blocking out the sky and the sun". The visual impact brought about by the huge number alone brought a huge shock to the Greek coalition forces defending the city.

Al didn't care about that.

Anyway, he doesn't take it lightly.

Incidentally, because of his fabricated background claiming he had a "close relationship with the goddess Athena," Al, for his own safety, decided to move directly into the Temple of Athena in the Acropolis, as the rooms there were cramped and hidden, posing a risk of assassination. It had a wide view, was located at the highest point in the city, and was also the most heavily guarded.

As for whether the Athenians would suspect that El, the "Angel Highness," was engaging in revelry every night in the temple of their main god, venting his anger in front of the holy god, and whether this was a "blasphemy"? Of course not, after all, El was not a mortal, but an "angel."

On the contrary, they were very happy about this. The more Al indulged himself, as if he did not take the surrounding Persian army seriously at all, the more confident they became. After all, the angels and gods would definitely not let the Greeks lose.

The Athenians also kept a lot of slaves. Al repeated what he had done in Sparta, saying that when the goddess Athena taught wisdom and civilization to mankind, she never wanted them to enslave each other. In the face of a powerful enemy, only by uniting as one and maximizing our strength can we achieve a great victory.

So the Athenians also promised freedom to the slaves who participated in the war as long as they fought bravely and tenaciously.

Then the siege officially began. Xerxes I was full of confidence. Although he suffered a small setback at Thermopylae, on paper, the Persian side was several times more powerful than the Greek side, from land to sea.

Before officially starting the siege, he sent an envoy composed of people from Greek and Ionian city-states who had surrendered to Persia to persuade them to surrender. Perhaps he was worried that, like the Spartan incident, the Persian envoys would be too arrogant and cause the Greeks to rebel. Xerxes I was a commander who was good at using tricks and diplomatic means to divide the enemy. Although his arrogance was greatly enhanced in the movie, as a self-righteous "God King", he was also generous with rewards and leniency to those enemies who were willing to kneel down to him.

The Persians portrayed in the movie seem to be nothing but evil and brutal.

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Other things, but in fact, he is also a veteran player of Earth OL, and he has mastered the skill of diplomatic intrigue.

After Xerxes I learned of Ai's existence, on the surface, not only did the latter not act in a suspicious manner to expose his conspiracy to bribe the Spartans, but he also brought reinforcements to lead him, allowing Leonidas, whom Xerxes hated very much, to reappear (although he died later).

Instead of making any offensive remarks, such as saying that he was a liar and that a huge reward was offered for Al's head, Al acted very sincerely and sent two waves of envoys to visit him under the pretext of meeting Al. In order to prevent assassination and to show the Greeks that he had no selfish motives, Al gathered a group of generals, commanders and senators of the Greek coalition forces to meet the Persian envoys at the steps of the Temple of Athena.

When they saw Ai'er, they immediately knelt down to pay their respects and held the scroll containing greetings and golden words from Xerxes I above their heads. The first group of envoys called Ai'er a "saint", and the second group of envoys respected Ai'er as an "ambassador saint", and then presented him with luxurious gifts and Xerxes I's trickery.

It was nothing more than reiterating that the reason why Persia attacked Greece was that it had a legitimate reason to avenge its former king and the country. He had always been devout to the gods, regardless of distance, and when he heard that an envoy from Olympus had come to the world in Greece, he yearned for it and wished he could see it in person... Apart from a long paragraph of words to build relationships, in the end it was nothing more than a verbal battle to argue for the "righteousness" of his war. Secondly, he engaged in tactical deception. He said that in the Battle of Marathon, the Athenian general Demistocles shot and killed the former Persian emperor, and it was reasonable for him to avenge his father; the Spartan King Leonidas killed his envoy, which was a national humiliation.

As long as the Greek side was willing to, first, hand over the "criminal" Demistocles to the Persians for disposal, and second, exile the remnants of the king's guard who followed Leonidas to fight at Thermopylae, and exile them outside Greece, never to return to Greece, then Persia would be willing to withdraw.

These demands did not seem particularly excessive, but Al knew that things were definitely not that simple. As the biggest "villain" in this world, Xerxes I would definitely go back on his word, not to mention that there was Artemisia, who hated Greece very much, manipulating and influencing him.

Themistocles had become a die-hard fan of El and was also the most capable general on the Greek side. From this point of view, El would never agree to this treaty. So although the coalition forces were somewhat shaken at the beginning, they still stabilized the morale under El's words and stated that they would never believe in any of their promises and negotiation conditions before the Persian army left Greece and Ionia, and expelled the envoy.

Until the last time, when the Persian army had already reached the city and begun to besiege it, the envoys arrived. They sent a half-year supply of food to the city, enough to feed thousands of people, showing their confidence in not being afraid of the Greeks' resistance. They also sent a debate team composed of religious figures from Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, and Persia, claiming to debate with the "messenger of God" in the Greek way. At the same time, they sent 12 beauties from different Persian conquered regions to Ai'er. The latter was rejected by Ai, but the former...

Al had no desire to engage in verbal battle with these people. Furthermore, he had noticed an Indian figure among the delegation. The one holding a snake staff had an imposing presence and was extremely mysterious, clearly an extraordinary individual. Others were wrapped in yellowed, oiled bandages, with the only exposed areas being the eyes and fingers, their skin mummy-like, making one wonder whether they were alive or dead. In short, it was clear they were no ordinary people...

Al knew that this world had a certain magical element after all, so he did not even confront the Persian debate team for fear of being ambushed.

He used the excuse that the delegation believed in foreign gods from all over the world and had a special status as priests of foreign gods. If they were allowed to come directly to the Temple of Athena where he was, it would be disrespectful to the goddess. The team must walk around the Acropolis of Athens three times. If they could walk without any problems, it would prove that the goddess allowed them to enter the city.

The Persians naturally had no way to object. There were many people in their team who had special abilities, so they were full of confidence and ready to confront Al.

But Al had no moral principles at all. He immediately arranged for his loyal subordinates to set up an ambush on the only way around the city. To be on the safe side, he also asked Sister Wang to take a walkie-talkie, an RPG and a sniper rifle to ambush in a remote and secluded place.

Needless to say, the ending.

The Persian team was very powerful. First, a grenade from nowhere "dropped" into the team, killing several people in an instant. Then, the general who was riding in the front stepped on an anti-personnel mine, and both he and his horse died. Several priests were also injured.

Many of the remaining people said they would not dare to move forward no matter what, but if they moved forward they might be "punished by God" to death, and if they returned empty-handed they would definitely be punished by Xerxes, so they still moved forward under the greater threat. Then Ada took action, first shooting and killing the mysterious-looking Indian, and while people were gathering around, she fired an RPG and turned away.

The successive attacks scared the Persian delegation to death. Only one in ten members were left intact. They dared not move forward no matter what. They knelt down and prayed towards the temple in the city, asking the goddess Athena for mercy and forgiveness, and then ran back in a panic.

All these "miracles" naturally strengthened Al's prestige. His identity as "the oracle of heaven" became known to everyone in Athens.

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Firmly believe it.

Since off-field measures were useless, Xerxes I naturally had no choice but to launch a direct attack.

Thus, a massive siege began. On the first day, Xerxes I sent more than 40,000 people to besiege the Acropolis of Athens.

On the ocean, the Persian fleet, which was twice the size of the Greek coalition, also began to advance. The Greek fleet commanded by Themistocles was circling them. He followed Al's advice and decided to give full play to the advantages of the Greek fleet's efficient command and higher fighting will, and engage in a protracted war with the Persians, dragging the enemy until they were exhausted, and then taking advantage of their inefficient command and difficulty in cooperation to defeat them in one fell swoop.

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However, despite the huge difference in numbers, the Greek side had the advantage of defending the city, and was also blessed with a series of buffs such as defending the country, "god's blessing", and "angels giving military advice".

In addition, the Greek army was mainly composed of citizen militias composed of free men and propertied citizens. The disadvantage of this system was that it could not withstand particularly large losses, and the consequences of failure were extremely serious. Because the total number of young and strong male citizens who were well-trained, equipped with their own equipment and had combat experience was limited, losses could not be immediately replenished. However, the combat effectiveness and morale of these soldiers were very guaranteed.

The Persian army consisted of a large number of conscripted troops and a small number of standing elite troops. Its advantage was that it could quickly replenish its troops and withstand failure, but its average quality was relatively low.

Moreover, in a battle like defending a city, which depends heavily on the quality of individual soldiers and their combat morale, these are the advantages that the Greek coalition forces have over the Persians.

In the previous two days of the offensive, the Persians left behind a large number of corpses but did not even capture a foothold. This greatly boosted the morale of the Greek coalition forces in Athens, who believed that the so-called Persian army was nothing more than this.

After the defeat at Thermopylae, Xerxes I seemed to have upgraded his brain. He knew that the Greeks were not as strong as those in most areas conquered by the Persian iron hoofs. They were very tenacious and their fighting power should not be underestimated.

So on the third day, after realizing that using ordinary troops to attack the city was extremely inefficient, he decisively dispatched a special force in his hands.

War elephant troops.

These giant beasts, as tall and strong as city walls (an exaggeration), had never been seen by the Greeks before. Therefore, when these Persian-trained war elephants slowly walked to the front line, the soldiers on the city walls were greatly shocked. The Persians launched an attack with the elephants with a more ferocious offensive than the previous two days combined.

The war elephants brought by the Persians were definitely more exaggerated than what Al remembered, at least in his world. The largest elephant Al remembered was only eight meters long and had a relatively docile temperament unless provoked. However, the Persian war elephants could charge towards the city walls despite arrows and drums.

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The Persians made some "magic modifications" to these giant beasts, covering them with thick armor to make them immune to arrows, and fixing huge spikes on the backs of some of them, which could directly shake the city walls and make the soldiers on the walls tremble.

As soon as the classical version of the "war behemoth" appeared, it immediately achieved considerable results. The Persians successfully opened up a control area on the outer wall of the Acropolis of Athens. A large number of Persian soldiers successfully broke through the most difficult area and stood on the city wall.

Fortunately, Al had been observing the battle situation on the front line in the Acropolis, which was located in the center and the highest point of Athens. He distributed telescopes to the officers staying in the city so that they could also clearly perceive the battle situation on the front line.

As the war elephants made a breakthrough, the soldiers were at a loss as to how to deal with these giant beasts. Al then suggested pouring kerosene on them and setting them on fire. Their hard skin and shells could make them immune to piercing and slashing, but not to high temperatures.

This method worked. The Persians blinded the war elephants' eyes, making them only obey the whip and pain. However, the scorching flames would arouse their fear and rage. In addition, Al took Ada to a high point to set up guns. No matter how hard the war elephants' shells and skulls were, they could not be harder than the anti-material sniper. Soon, the Persian war beasts' offensive was repelled. Although they almost captured one-third of the outer city when the situation was best, with the dispatch of the elite citizen heavy infantry of each city-state.

In addition, after El had slipped some "blessings from thunder and fire" to his loyal subordinates and taught them how to use them, the Greek coalition forces would often be excited by the sudden sound of explosions, because they were "blessings from the gods! Zeus' thunder and Hercules' fire!"

A grenade that exploded in a crowd of people could very likely reverse the situation in one direction in an instant, allowing the Greek defenders to counterattack and retake their positions, but the Persians were terrified of this. There were "alchemists" in Xerxes' army, but their gadgets were actually similar to the fireworks that children in China played with in Al's eyes. How could the existence of those who were killed by 300 warriors at Thermopylae be compared with his "folk collection" from America?

The Persian siege lasted for several days, resulting in countless casualties but no progress, which made the already arrogant Xerxes furious. When Al looked down at the Persian camp through a telescope, he saw those Persian executioners who were as deafening as his fucking Chaos Aliens. They chopped off their hands and modified them into serrated bone blades. Almost every day, they publicly executed the heads of those soldiers who were probably considered by Xerxes I to be not good at attacking.

After several days of siege, the casualties on the Persian side were conservatively estimated to be over 20,000, while the defenders had no more than 500 dead, and only a few thousand including the wounded.

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King Si I finally realized that this was not going to work, so he ordered the siege to be stopped and the troops to rest.

But Al won't let him go so easily. What if the bald little giant Xerxes is hit and chooses to withdraw his troops?

He had to force the other side to fight the Greeks desperately, so that he could annihilate the main force of the Persian Empire and create space for consolidating his personal prestige.

So on the second day after the Persians stopped attacking the city to rest, Al ordered the coalition forces to organize a night attack.

After a string of victories and numerous "miracles," Al's authority within the coalition had reached a point where he could have the final say. His plans for shamanic manipulation had been a complete success. Now, as he walked through Athens, soldiers and civilians along the way bowed to him. Some even collected the sand from where he and the "healing fairy" Anna had stood and the objects they had touched, believing it could heal injuries and illnesses and bring blessings...

Every time Al went to the coalition headquarters or the Athenian Senate, crowds of people would come out, and famous senators, commanders and senators would all kneel down to greet him.

Al proudly said to Ada Wong in Chinese:

"China has... At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu burned his boats and crossed the river at the Battle of Julu, crushing Zhang Han's 400,000-man Qin army. His might shook the world, and he summoned the commanders of the allied forces. When they passed through the camp gate, everyone crawled on their knees, and no one dared to look directly at the Overlord."

"When I read history books, I only read the words and had no idea what it was like. But now, unexpectedly, I can experience it firsthand! Only now do I understand the power of the Overlord!"

He spoke half-baked words and sighed to show off in front of Sister Wang. Ada rolled her eyes at this, but she also knew that the little man was feeling happy, so she ignored the hands that were trying to take advantage of her. After all, what Al said was true. Although he relied on cheats, cheats were also part of his "own strength". There was nothing wrong in being proud of the achievements he made by "himself".