Chapter 319: Dimensional Attack on the Dorians

The Thessaly region is located in northern Greece, with an area of ​​about 14,000 square kilometers.

3,600 years later, because the Thessaly Plain is the most fertile plain in Greece, the Thessaly region has become one of the best agricultural areas in Greece, not only producing wheat and cotton, but also developing animal husbandry.

Unfortunately, the fertile Thessaly region is now ruled by the blond and blue-eyed nomadic Dorians.

As the population increased, the Dorians began to frequently invade Central Greece.

The main reason why Thebes failed to develop into a hegemonic city-state was the damage caused by the Dorians.

500 years later, the Dorians not only occupied the Otis region with iron mines, but also obtained the smelting technology passed down from the Hittite Empire.

So the Dorians used the iron mines in the Otis region to forge advanced iron weapons and launched a dimensionality reduction war of conquest against the Greeks in the south.

After Roy left Thebes with 1,500 iron spearmen, he was full of confidence in defeating tens of thousands of Dorians.

After all, in the history of another world, the Dorians used iron weapons to attack the Mycenaeans who used bronze weapons, and they were able to replace the Mycenaeans and become the overlord of the Peloponnese.

Now Roy is going to use iron weapons to attack the Dorians, and there is no possibility of losing to the Dorians.

Because there are neither copper nor iron mines in Thessaly, the weapons used by the Dorians are either made of wood, stone or bone.

Mount Osiris.

This mountain is the natural boundary between the Thessaly region and Central Greece.

To the north of Mount Osiris is the Thessaly region, and to the south is the Otis region of Central Greece.

Mount Osiris is also the territorial boundary between the two major tribes of the Dorians.

To the east of Mount Osiris is the territory of the Aeolus tribe, and to the west is the territory of the Athamas tribe.

In the mythology of another world, the territory of the Aeolus tribe was ruled by the descendants of Aeolus.

Because the Athamas tribe invaded the Central Greece region, Athamas was also regarded as the king of the city-state in the Thebes region [the Central Greece region is the Greater Thebes region in a broad sense].

Roy brought the Theban soldiers to the foot of the southern side of Mount Osiris and found that the wheat fields in this area had been harvested and the tribal settlements in this area were empty.

Obviously, the food here was robbed by the Dorians, and even the residents here were taken away as slaves by the Dorians.

Because there are many horse hoof prints in this area, this is proof that the Dorian knights have been here.

Taking the Theban soldiers to the top of Mount Osiris, Roy looked at the endless Thessaly Plain and began to think about how to eliminate the Dorians.

Roy's 1,500 soldiers were all iron spearmen using iron weapons.

Although the Dorians were knights on horseback, their weapons were basically made of wood, stone and bone.

In a head-on battle, even if the Dorian Knights have a ten-fold advantage in numbers, they cannot defeat Roy's iron spearmen to attack them.

In fact, the population of the four major Dorian tribes combined is only 50,000 to 60,000.

Even if all men over the age of 16 are on horseback, the number of Dorian Knights will not exceed 6,000.

If Roy defeats the four major tribes one by one, each large tribe can only send out 1,500 Dorian Knights to fight Roy at most.

It is not difficult to defeat the Dorians, but it is difficult to catch the Dorians.

After all, the Dorian Knights cannot beat Roy's soldiers and can take the initiative to stay away from Roy's army. Roy cannot lead a group of infantry to chase and kill the Dorian Knights.

"It seems that this is the only way."

There is a saying that the monk can run away, but the temple cannot.

Although the Dorian Knights can take the initiative to stay away from Roy's army, their families cannot move at will.

As long as Roy finds the Dorian tribe station, he can attack the old, weak, women and children in the tribe.

With the old, weak, women and children of the Dorian tribe as captives, the Dorian knights had no choice but to fight Roy's army head-on to save their families.

The Great Plain of Thessaly.

After Roy led his army into the grassland, he began to advance in a straight line towards the Atamas tribe.

Roy was able to confirm the location of the Atamas tribe's garrison because he used the ability of the demigod hero.

When the patrol knights of the Atamas tribe discovered that Roy's target was the Atamas tribe, Roy's army was less than thirty miles away from the Atamas tribe's garrison.

In order to stop Roy's army, the Atamas tribe sent thousands of knights to harass Roy's army.

These Dorian knights could only use wooden arrows and bone arrows from a distance to launch ridiculous attacks on Roy's army.

Because the Dorian knights attacked head-on, without stirrups and saddles to fix their bodies, Roy's soldiers could easily make them fall off their horses.

In this era, horses were used for chariot warfare instead of cavalry warfare because tools such as saddles and stirrups had not yet appeared.

On the third day of Roy's army entering the Thessaly region.

The settlement of tens of thousands of people from the Atamas tribe appeared in front of Roy's army.

Although the Atamas tribe knew that Roy's army was approaching the settlement, they did not move.

Because they had neither tens of thousands of horses or cattle, nor carriages or ox carts as vehicles.

If the Atamas tribe chose to abandon everything and leave alone, they would starve to death in a short time.

Even if they go to other tribes for help, other tribes will not have extra food to feed the tens of thousands of people in the Atamas tribe.

So in order to defend the right to survive, the Atamas tribe can only choose to fight Roy's army head-on.

Seeing more than 2,000 men and women of the Atamas tribe holding weapons and waiting to defend the tribe behind them, Roy ordered the soldiers behind him.

"Soldiers! Surround the Atamas tribe and don't let our spoils run away. I ask you to kill all the men, but you can't hurt women and horses, because I want to give women to unmarried soldiers among you. After this war, all of you will be rewarded with 1,000 kilograms of food, and unmarried soldiers can use the price of 1,000 kilograms of food to buy unmarried Dorian girls as slaves."

After Roy finished speaking, the soldiers immediately shouted like thunder.

"Long live the King of Athens-"

"Long live the King of Athens-"

"Long live the King of Athens-"

The soldiers reacted so excitedly because most of these young soldiers were unmarried soldiers.

Even the married soldiers were excited about the reward of 1,000 kilograms of food.

Seeing that the soldiers were so eager to fight, Roy didn't waste any more time and raised his iron spear.

"Everyone, follow me!"

After that, Roy led the charge towards the Atamas tribe.

Like a tiger leading a pack of wolves to attack a flock of sheep, Roy led 1,500 iron spearmen to attack the Atamas tribe, and a one-sided killing began from this moment.

After Atamas, the leader of the Atamas tribe, was completely desperate, he finally rode out of the encirclement with his family and guards and fled to the east.