Chapter 394: His Majesty Jupiter, the Sun God

The Tuscany and Umbria regions to the north of Lazio are both Etruscan territories.

The Etruscan King Amulius invaded Lazio with 50,000 troops. The best route was to enter the narrow plain north of the Roman Plain from the Umbria region.

After determining the marching route of the Etruscan King Amulius, Roy immediately led 15,000 troops into the narrow plain north of the Roman Plain, preparing to snipe the Etruscans here.

Rieti Plain.

After Amulius's 50,000 troops and Roy's 15,000 troops met in the middle of the Rieti Plain, seeing that Roy's soldiers were almost all Latins with a strong fighting spirit, Amulius, who was sitting on horseback, couldn't help asking Tullenus beside him.

"Dear Tullenus! We Etruscans are here to save you Latins, why do you Latins seem to regard us as enemies?"

Tullenus has also seen the Latin soldiers with a strong fighting spirit behind Roy.

If the Latins were forced by Roy to become soldiers and participate in this war, the Latin soldiers would never have such a high will to fight.

It is obvious that the Latin soldiers regarded the Etruscans as enemies with their own will.

Tullenus could only explain with a complicated expression.

"Great Amulius, I believe that these Latins must have been bewitched by the Athenians to regard the Etruscans as enemies. When we drive the Athenians away, I will persuade them to submit to the Etruscan king and make them soldiers loyal to you."

Amulius nodded with satisfaction.

"This war with the Athenians will definitely cause me to lose a lot of soldiers. I don't want to do anything at a loss, so the Latins must become my soldiers and make my soldiers more numerous than before."

Tullenus agreed to all of Amulius's requests on the surface, but he was thinking in his heart that as long as the Athenians and the Etruscans were both defeated, the Latins could get rid of the control of the Athenians and the Etruscans at the same time.

While Amulius was observing the Athenian army, Roy was also observing Amulius's army.

Amulius's army was composed of 5,000 cavalry and 45,000 infantry.

It must be admitted that these 5,000 cavalry were a great threat to Roy's army.

In order to deal with these 5,000 cavalry, Roy had to use special means.

Although Roy had not yet made artillery, he had already made gunpowder with saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, and made more than a dozen explosive packs with gunpowder.

At this moment, these explosive packs could be used to deal with Amulius's 5,000 cavalry.

When Amulius ordered his 5,000 cavalry to attack as the vanguard, Roy personally took the explosive packs and waited for the 5,000 cavalry to enter the best distance for throwing.

One thousand meters - 800 meters - 500 meters - 300 meters -

When the cavalry was only 200 meters away from Roy's army, Roy began to throw the ignited explosive packs.

Because Roy had the blessing of the goddess Artemis [hitting the target every time], all the explosive packs thrown by Roy fell accurately into the place where the cavalry had the largest number of people.

Boom! Boom! Boom——

Twelve consecutive explosive packs exploded in the cavalry, blowing the nearby cavalry to the ground.

In fact, the number of knights who were injured or killed by the explosive packs was probably less than 500.

But after the knights and horses who were killed or injured fell to the ground, the horses behind them were almost tripped to the ground because of panic.

In a chain reaction, Roy's twelve explosive packs caused the cavalry to lose at least a thousand knights.

The remaining 4,000 cavalrymen could not control their horses because of the frightened horses.

After throwing twelve explosive packs, Roy led the Athenian soldiers to attack.

While the Etruscan cavalry were still trying to control the frightened horses, Roy had already rushed over with the vanguard of the Athenian army and began to harvest their lives with sharp iron spears.

"What happened?"

Sitting on horseback, Amulius stared at the scene where his cavalry was unilaterally slaughtered by the Athenian soldiers with wide eyes, and he didn't understand what was going on at all.

"Turenus, do you know what the thunderous noise was?"

"I don't know..."

Turenus said with wide eyes in shock.

"I only saw the Athenian emperor Roy throw something into the cavalry, and then there was a thunderous noise, and fireworks blew up the surrounding knights."

"Great sun god Jupiter, is this the enemy's god punishing us Etruscans?"

Seeing that his 5,000 cavalry were almost slaughtered by the Athenian soldiers, and only a few hundred people escaped, Amulius said angrily like a gambler who lost his money.

"Even if I lose the cavalry, I have three times as many soldiers as the Athenians, and I can still defeat them."

After saying that, Amulius led his army to rush towards the Athenian army regardless of the fact that the Etruscans were in low morale.

Seeing that the Etruscan army was surging like a torrent, Roy immediately ordered the soldiers to adopt a defensive formation.

After all, the enemy had a three-fold advantage in numbers. If the Athenian soldiers were not prepared, they might really be defeated by a group of soldiers using wooden and stone spears.

As the two armies collided, the Etruscan sun god Jupiter and moon goddess Minerva took the initiative to descend on the battlefield.

Not only Jupiter and Minerva, but Mars, the patron saint of the Latins, and Quirinus, the patron saint of the Sabines, also appeared beside Jupiter and Minerva.

The four gods looked down at the human war on the ground, and Quirinus said angrily.

"The great God-King Jupiter! The great goddess Minerva! The Latins and Sabines were conquered by the Athenians. You have seen the fate of Mars and I. The Athenians pulled down the statues of Mars and me and let The foreign gods brought by the Athenians became the new patron gods of the Latins and Sabines. The Athenians hated the local gods. If the Etruscans were conquered by the Athenians, His Majesty Jupiter would lose the gods of the Apennines. The throne of the king, the goddess Minerva will also lose the throne of the patron saint.”

Mars followed.

"We are willing to help His Majesty Jupiter drive away the Athenians and foreign gods, but His Majesty Jupiter must promise to restore our status as the patron saint of the Latins and the patron saint of the Sabines in the future."

After listening to what Quirinus and Mars said, Minerva said expressionlessly.

"Quirinus! Mars! You said that Athenians hate local gods, but I heard that Luna, who is also the moon goddess like me, has joined the camp of the Athenian gods. Quirinus! You also said that she is Because Luna and the foreign gods attack you together, you will lose to the gods of the Athenians. Since the Athenians can even accept a weak god like Luna, maybe they don't hate the local gods as you say. "

It is indeed an inexplicable thing for the Athenians to overthrow the statues of Quirinus and Mars and drive them off the thrones of the patron saints of the Latins and the Sabines, but accept Luna, who was even weaker than them.

If they had asked Loy, they would have known that the Athenian empire simply did not accept local male gods and married goddesses.

If an unmarried goddess wants to join the Athenian Empire, she will definitely accept everyone who comes.