Chapter 186 I Want to Use Prisoners of War to Dig a Canal

After all the deserters who left the battlefield were captured by the Athenian soldiers, taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, Roy led two thousand soldiers to chase Deucalion and his soldiers.

When Roy led two thousand soldiers to the coast twenty miles away, Deucalion and his soldiers had already boarded two hundred warships and sailed the large fleet to the southern seas as quickly as possible.

Looking at the retreating fleet, Roy did not feel the joy of victory in the war.

Because in Roy's view, this war has just begun.

If the Athenian navy could not defeat the Knossos navy that dominated the Aegean Sea, Deucalion would have nothing to do but block the maritime trade of the city of Athens, causing the city of Athens to collapse due to lack of food.

"Your Majesty Roy, we have won."

Aries' excited voice rang in his ears, Roy nodded and said.

"We won."

Upon hearing Roy's words, the two thousand soldiers behind Roy immediately cheered in victory.

"Long live King Loia of Athens!"

"Long live King Loia of Athens!"

"Long live King Loia of Athens!"

Roy returned to the battlefield outside Athens with two thousand soldiers, and saw that the soldiers who had stayed to guard the prisoners were looking for their own soldiers among the corpses on the battlefield.

If one's own soldiers are found to be alive, companions with herbs will be asked to come over to treat their comrades.

If an enemy soldier is found alive, it turns the enemy soldier into a real corpse.

Because the enemy soldiers who died frequently were not even worth selling as prisoners to slave traders.

After careful observation, Roy confirmed that there were only 200 soldiers killed in the battle, and about 300 soldiers were seriously injured.

Roy's soldiers wore paper armor to protect their bodies, but they suffered so many casualties. Of course, Deucalion's soldiers suffered more serious casualties.

After this battle, Deucalion's 5,000 soldiers left behind 700 corpses, 900 seriously wounded soldiers, and 400 lightly wounded soldiers.

Two thousand soldiers were lost in the first battle, and the psychological shadow left by this war on Deucalion was enough to make him dare not come to land to fight Loy again.

Looking at the more than 900 corpses on the battlefield, Roy ordered Aries with a heavy heart.

"Aries! Find out the identities of all the soldiers who died in the war on our side. I will write their names myself, and then let the craftsmen build a heroic monument to record this war and their names, so that the soldiers who died in the war will be immortalized as heroes. .As long as the city of Athens remains, their names will never be forgotten.”

"Your Majesty Roy——"

After hearing Roy's words, Aries opened his eyes with a shocked expression.

In this era, even heroes of noble birth find it difficult to immortalize their names.

But Roy actually wanted to carve the names of ordinary soldiers on the stone tablet so that the names of ordinary soldiers could be immortalized.

As long as they are soldiers of flesh and blood, they will definitely be moved by Roy's actions and be willing to die for Roy without regrets.

Seeing Aries' reaction, Roy patted his shoulder with his left hand and warned him.

"After writing down the identities of the soldiers who died in the battle, you can arrange for people to cremate all the corpses of our soldiers and enemy soldiers, because a large number of corpses may cause a plague. As for those prisoners - everyone is human, give them Treat the wounds and let them eat better!"

"Does Your Majesty want to turn those prisoners into our soldiers?"

Roy immediately shook his head and said.

"Why do you have such an idea? I will let the Phoenicians become my followers because those Phoenicians have lost their foothold in their hometown and they have no nostalgia for their hometown. But these captives, they There must be parents, brothers, sisters, and even wives and children waiting for them to return home. I don’t want soldiers whose loyalty is difficult to guarantee. I want to use these prisoners to do hard work and let them dig the Corinth Canal for me.”

"Corinth Canal?"

With the wisdom of Aries, he certainly would not understand the significance of digging the Corinth Canal.

Roy was not interested in explaining to Aries and returned directly to the city of Athens.

The west gate of Athens.

When Roy came outside the city gate, he saw Procne, Philomela, Chione, and Pandora coming out to greet him, holding wreaths woven from olive branches in their hands.

"Brother Roy——"

Philomela ran up to Roy excitedly, held up a wreath of olive branches, and motioned for Roy to lower his head.

Roy lowered his head, and Philomela immediately put the olive branch wreath in her hand on Roy's head.

Then, Procne, Chione and Pandora put three large olive branch crowns around Roy's neck.

After getting the olive branch crowns from the four girls, Roy raised his head and said to Procne.

"Procne! Now that the soldiers have followed me and won the battle, you arrange for people to send them thirty cows and thirty sheep so that the soldiers can eat meat tonight."

Then, Roy said to Chione.

"Chione, you are arranging people to build shacks for the prisoners so that they have a place to sleep. In the future, I will let these prisoners dig the Corinth Canal, but I cannot let them get sick because they cannot sleep well."

Philomela said with confusion.

"Brother Roy, the Isthmus of Corinth belongs to King Sisyphus of Corinth. Why should we dig a canal for him?"

Roy said with a smile.

"Don't worry, I won't do stupid things in vain. What I want to dig is my own Corinth Canal."

Hearing Roy's words, Procne, Philomela, and Chione opened their eyes in surprise, and Pandora teased directly.

"King Sisyphus of Corinth is an ally of the city of Athens. This time he sent five hundred soldiers as reinforcements to the city of Athens. You are too greedy."

"Sisyphus only sent two hundred soldiers with bronze spears. His actions chilled me so much that I decided to protect the city of Corinth myself."

Roy said with a serious face.

"Pandora! It is not Sisyphus who forms an alliance with the city of Athens, but the city of Corinth. So my betrayal of Sisyphus does not mean betraying my ally the city of Corinth."

Roy's words made Pandora unable to refute for a moment.

Because on the surface, there doesn't seem to be any problem with Roy's logic.

The Three Goddesses Alliance formed by Loy was originally an alliance between Athens, Corinth and Thebes, not Loy's alliance with Sisyphus and Harmonia.

"You are really too cunning! Could it be that you had the idea of ​​annexing the city of Corinth from the beginning?"

"Pandora, your conspiracy theories are wrong."

Roy stretched out his right index finger and pressed lightly on Pandora's little nose.

"If Sisyphus had given me five hundred soldiers with bronze spears, I would have treated him as an ally."

After speaking, Roy hurried back to the Acropolis.

Royal Palace of Athens.

A large indoor swimming pool designed by Roy himself.

Roy jumped into the swimming pool, still thinking about the three goddesses bathing together in Mount Helicon.

If possible, Roy really wanted to grow a pair of wings and fly to Mount Helicon to bathe with the three goddesses.

I don’t know how much time passed——

"Brother Roy!"

"Brother Roy, did you fall asleep in the water?"

The girls' voices brought Roy back to reality. Roy opened his eyes and saw Procne, Philomela, Chione, and Pandora standing at the edge of the swimming pool looking at him worriedly.

"Although there are no real goddesses, they are also future goddesses!"

Roy swam to the edge of the pool and said while reaching out to pull the four girls into the pool.

"My lovely and beautiful goddess, you will soon become my mermaids."

"ah--"

"ah--"

Accompanied by the girls' screams, Roy was surrounded by four mermaids in a blink of an eye.