Chapter 447: King Sasuditana of Babylon

There is a saying that soldiers are valuable and quick.

The goal is to attack the enemy before they can react.

The day after the Athenian army and the Hittite army captured the cities of Sipar and Kuta, Roy ordered Aries to take over the cities of Sipar and Kuta in a hurry with 10,000 troops.

Roy himself led 5,000 cavalry, and 15,000 Hittite soldiers led by Selene, Hantili, and Tieliepin attacked the city of Babylon.

The distance between Sippar and Babylon is only fifty kilometers.

So at noon the next day, the Athenian army and the Hittite army arrived outside the city of Babylon and surrounded the capital of the Kingdom of Babylon.

The enemy troops approached the city and immediately plunged the city of Babylon into panic.

Although the city of Babylon also had 20,000 soldiers defending the city, which was not inferior to the enemy forces outside the city, the disastrous defeat of Sippar City had made the Kingdom of Babylon understand the gap in combat power between the two sides' soldiers.

Even if the soldiers of Babylon rely on tall and solid walls for defense, they may not be able to defend the city of Babylon.

Therefore, before the Hittite army and the Athenian army attacked the city, the Babylonian king Sasuditana sent an envoy to express his willingness to surrender and pay tribute in exchange for ending the war.

If the Hittite Kingdom had long-term ambitions to control the Babylonian Kingdom, the Hittite Kingdom would accept the Babylonian Kingdom as a city-state prince of the Hittite Kingdom, and then subtly annex the Babylonian Kingdom.

It is a pity that the external environment of the Kingdom of Babylon is too bad.

To the north of the Babylonian Kingdom was the Kingdom of Kassite, to the northwest were the Kingdom of Mitanni and Assyria, and to the east were the Sumerian Kingdom of Haiti and the Elamite Kingdom of Elam.

If the Hittite Kingdom wanted to control the Babylonian Kingdom for a long time, these forces around the Babylonian Kingdom would become enemies that the Hittite Kingdom must face.

Obviously, the Hittite Kingdom did not have the extra power to control the Babylonian Kingdom and compete with the various forces in the Mesopotamia for hegemony.

Now the Hittite Kingdom just wants to break through the city of Babylon and rob the wealth that the city of Babylon has accumulated for hundreds of years.

The Hittite Kingdom did not accept the peace proposal of the Babylonian king Sasuditana, and Roy certainly would not accept it.

After all, only by wiping out all the kings of the Mesopotamia, including the Babylonian King Sarsuditanna, could Loy become the only king of the Mesopotamia.

After rejecting the Babylonian envoy's request for peace, the Hittite army began to attack the city from the west gate of Babylon. Roy led the Athenian army to attack the city from the north gate of Babylon.

To the south of the city of Babylon was the Euphrates River, and the east gate was the only one that was not blocked.

While the Athenian and Hittite armies were attacking the city, the Amorite royal family and nobles fled from the east gate of Babylon with their families and wealth.

Seeing that Phineus and the Hyksos who followed him were also in the fleeing party, Roy handed over the siege to the soldiers, and Roy himself rode towards the fleeing party at the east gate.

"Phineus, are you running away again?"

After catching up with Phineus, Roy joked with a smile.

"If you stay in Babylon with the Hyksos soldiers, the city of Babylon can only have 20,000 garrison soldiers. Now that you have escaped with the Hyksos soldiers, there are only 10,000 garrison soldiers left in the city of Babylon." about."

"This is the Babylon of the Amorites, not the Babylon of us Hyksos."

Phineus said, glaring at Roy with angry eyes.

"I will not let the Hyksos who follow me bleed and die for the Amorite city of Babylon. Only by surviving can we conquer a new land and regain our Egypt in the future."

"Then you continue to escape! You take the Hyksos and flee to the Persian Plateau, and I will take the Athenian soldiers to chase them to the Persian plateau. You take the Hyksos and flee to India, and I will take the Athens The soldiers chase you to the Indian region. One day, you and the Hyksos who follow you will become my prisoners."

After saying that, Roy stopped chasing Phineus and turned back to the north gate of Babylon.

Looking at Roy's leaving figure, Phineus sneered.

"I heard that the Indian region has a large population. By the time you catch up to the Indian region, I will have already conquered the indigenous people there and established a powerful kingdom."

When Roy rode back to the north gate, he was surprised to see that the Athenian soldiers had breached the north gate without his leadership.

When the Kingdom of Babylon was about to perish, not only the Amorite royal family and nobles did not want to sacrifice themselves, but even the soldiers at the bottom did not want to sacrifice their lives for the Kingdom of Babylon.

"The main force that captured the city of Babylon should be the Hittites!"

Roy said helplessly as he rode into the city of Babylon.

"You are fighting so aggressively. If there are too many casualties, I will feel bad."

The history of another world has proven that the Hittite Kingdom had no ambition to control the Babylonian Kingdom.

Even if the Athenian Empire did nothing, it could still take over the cities of the Babylonian Kingdom from the Hittite Kingdom.

So Roy always believed that the Athenian soldiers could just pretend to be attacking the city, and there was no need to be injured or even sacrificed for this war.

But the Athenian soldiers did not know what Roy was thinking. Without Roy's control, they actually entered the city of Babylon one step ahead of the Hittite army.

When Roy caught up with the Athenian soldiers, this group of wolf-like soldiers had already arrived at the gate of the royal palace in Babylon.

no way--

In order to take care of the soldiers' mood, Roy could only lead them to capture the palace and win the greatest glory in this war.

The Babylonian king Sasuditanna also seemed to have a backbone, so he did not escape with his family.

Even if he wanted to escape, the surrounding forces would not accept him as the King of Babylon.

The royal family and nobles of the Amorites could enjoy the treatment of nobles if they fled to other kingdoms.

If Sasuditanna fled to other kingdoms, would these kingdoms give him the treatment of a king?

Most importantly, after these kingdoms seized the cities of the Kingdom of Babylon, would they return these cities to Sasuditanna's rule?

The palace hall.

Roy rushed into the hall with a group of Athenian soldiers and saw the King of Babylon Sasuditanna sitting on the throne, looking at the invaders calmly.

Around Sasuditanna, his wife and children surrounded him.

The most beautiful girl among Sasuditanna's daughters should be the Babylonian princess Semiramis.

When Roy looked at Sasuditanna's family, Sasuditanna was also looking at Roy.

"From your appearance, you should be the young emperor of the Athenian Empire! My family and I can actually escape. I choose to stay because I want to make a request to you. I hope you don't harm the civilians in Babylon. As the king of Babylon, I am willing to sacrifice my family in exchange for the safety of civilians."

"Is this your sense of responsibility as the king of Babylon?"

Roy rolled his eyes and said.

"In the future, Babylon will be ruled by me, and the civilians of Babylon will be protected by me. You, the king of a fallen country, don't need to worry about my people."

As soon as Roy finished speaking, Selene, Hantiri, and Telepin also entered the hall with a group of Hittite soldiers.

Glancing at the Sasuditanna family, Selene said to Roy.

"You are really lucky! Since you captured the palace first and captured them, including Princess Semiramis, their whole family is your trophy."