Chapter 157 Hydra and the Nemean Lion

The city of Corinth has joined the Three Goddesses Alliance, and of course it cannot refuse to attack the city of Mycenae with its allies.

After hearing Harmonia's words, Sisyphus immediately explained.

"Don't get me wrong, I support Roy's idea of ​​attacking the city of Mycenae. After all, the city closest to the Mycenaeans is our city of Corinth. To force the Mycenaeans to accept the peace treaty, the biggest beneficiary is also our city of Corinth. . I'm just worried...the Mycenaeans have the advantage of being in a commanding position and difficult to attack. It will be difficult for us to defeat the Mycenaeans."

Sisyphus's worries are not unreasonable, Roy said with a confident smile.

"Sisyphus! I'm just going to force the Mycenaeans to accept the peace treaty. I don't necessarily want to have a war with the Mycenaeans. Since the Mycenaeans actively want to end the war, it means that they no longer want to lose soldiers. , so I am confident that I can force the Mycenaeans to accept a peace treaty without fighting between the two sides."

Sisyphus suddenly said.

"Then I will ask Glaucus to lead 300 soldiers with bronze spears and 700 soldiers with wooden spears to go out with you. I will stay in Corinth to transport food for you."

Although none of Loy's three hundred and fifty soldiers were killed on yesterday's battlefield, fifty were wounded.

Now the only soldiers that Roy can use to go to Mycenae are Roy's own 300 soldiers, Harmonia's 500 soldiers, and Corinth's 1,000 soldiers - a total of 1,800 soldiers. Hundreds of soldiers.

The Mycenaeans left five hundred corpses outside the city of Corinth. After deducting the wounded soldiers, the Mycenaeans' army only had 2,300 soldiers capable of fighting.

Even if he returned to the city of Mycenae, King Acrisios of Mycenae could summon the young men in the city to join the battle, and Roy could fight a war with the Mycenaeans with 1,800 soldiers, because Roy's army included 1,100 soldiers with bronze weapons, including 800 soldiers wearing paper armor.

After Loy, Harmonia, and Glaucus left the city of Corinth with 1,800 soldiers, Sisyphus also began to direct the Corinthians to clean up the battlefield and cremate the bodies of Mycenaean soldiers and Corinthian soldiers.

Because leaving these corpses unchecked will not only attract many dangerous beasts, but may also breed plague.

When night falls.

Loy, Harmonia, and Glaucus came to the Nemean region between Corinth and Argos with 1,800 soldiers.

In this era, there was a lush Nemean forest in the Nemean region.

In the past, there was a powerful Nemean tribe next to the great forest of Nemean. Because the leader of the Nemean tribe, Laikagutu, was a great hero with bronze skin and iron bones, the Nemean tribe often fought against the city of Corinth.

When the Mycenaeans conquered the Argos region ten years ago, the Mycenaean king Acrisios, who had the power of a great hero at that time, personally led an army to annex the Nemean tribe and killed the great hero Laikatu.

After Roy's army was stationed outside the Great Forest of Nemean, Roy, Harmonia, and Glaucus sat around a campfire, and Glaucus couldn't help but sigh.

"If King Nemean had not been arrogant when he came to Kagotu ten years ago, but had chosen to fight against the Mycenaeans with us in Corinth, perhaps we could have defeated the Mycenaeans with the strength of us Corinthians alone."

Harmonia asked curiously.

"Is that king of Nemean Laikagutu really powerful?"

"Harmonia! Although I have not personally seen King Nemean come to Kagotu, he should be really powerful."

After Harmonia and Glaucus looked at Roy, Roy said with a smile.

"I heard that in order to boast of their achievements, the Mycenaeans incorporated the hostile forces they defeated into their mythology. After the Mycenaeans migrated to the Argos region, the first powerful enemy they encountered was After conquering Argos, the leader of the Lena tribe, Inachus, ruled the Lena plain in the Argos region. In the myths they fabricated, the Mycenaeans wrote the Lena plain as the Lena swamp, and Inakos and The Lena tribe he ruled was written as the indestructible Hydra. After a hard battle, the heroic leader of the Mycenaeans finally used his wisdom to destroy the nine heads of the Hydra - that is, to destroy Inakos and Hydra. His eight sons then annexed the Lerna tribe which had lost its leader. King Nemean came to Cagutu, which was the second powerful enemy the Mycenaeans encountered. Because in the myth made by the Mycenaeans, they Kagutu is written as a Nemean lion with a copper skin and iron bones. Their heroic leader spent a lot of effort to kill the Nemean lion. As locals, you should know that the Peloponnese Peninsula. There are no lions at all, and you don’t even know what kind of beast a lion is. Only the Mycenaeans who migrated from Egypt knew about lions, and they would describe their powerful enemies as giant lions with copper skin and iron bones.”

After hearing Roy's words, Glaucus opened his eyes in surprise and said.

"Priest Roy, you are obviously a foreigner, but now I can't help but suspect that you are a native of the Peloponnese Peninsula. Because I am a Corinthian and I don't understand the things you are talking about like you do. ”

Harmonia also said curiously.

"Dear! I only heard that lions are very powerful beasts. Do you know the specific information about lions?"

Roy nodded and said.

"Lions are beasts that live in Africa in the southern Mediterranean and in Asia in the east. They live in groups like humans, and a male lion will have many lionesses as partners. Because lions are the most powerful beasts in Africa, it was once common among Egyptians The lion goddess was worshiped as the supreme sun goddess among the Egyptian gods.”

"Even that ferocious beast called a lion is just like us humans. A husband can have many wives——"

After hearing this information, Harmonia's little face showed an expression of disbelief.

In order to prevent Harmonia from misunderstanding, Roy continued.

"Harmonia, not every male lion can have a group of lionesses. Just like other animals, male lions also have to fight and kill each other before they can be the winner and own the territory and a group of lionesses. The Egyptians They worship the lion goddess because among the lions, the male lions are only responsible for guarding the territory and expelling stray male lions and hyenas. The female lions are responsible for taking care of the lion cubs and hunting. As the Egyptians moved from a stone civilization to a bronze civilization, the Egyptians began to pay more attention to the lions. The worship of the lion goddesses has gradually declined, resulting in those lion goddesses becoming subordinate to the wives of powerful male gods."

Harmonia seemed to understand, looked at Roy with admiring eyes and said.

"My dear, your knowledge is so profound. I just had a question that I didn't mention. In the mythology fabricated by the Mycenaeans, the heroic leader who defeated the Hydra and the Nemean Lion was named Akko. Lysios? After all, in reality, the Mycenaean king Acrisios was the prototype who defeated Hydra and the Nemean Lion.”

Roy shook his head and said.

"In the myths fabricated by the Mycenaeans, the name of this heroic leader is not Acrisios. Because the future King of Mycenae's achievements in defeating powerful enemies will also be fabricated into myths and attributed to this hero. Chief, so this fictional heroic leader in the Mycenaean mythology would have a fictional name.”

After pausing at this point, Roy said silently in his heart.

The name of this fictional hero is none other than Hercules.