Chapter 453: Kassite King Agum Surrenders

As early as the Paleolithic Age, 100,000 years ago, humans were inhabiting the western part of the Persian Plateau.

In 2700 BC, the Elamites living in the Karen River Basin in the southwest of the Persian Plateau established the Kingdom of Elam.

The Kassites, now one of the many forces in the Mesopotamia, come from the central Zagros Mountains in the west of the Persian Plateau.

Due to the influence of the Aryan invasion of the Persian Plateau from Central Asia, the Kassites were forced to migrate from the Persian Plateau to the north of the Karon River Basin.

The civilization of the Kashit people is very backward.

Among the forces in the Mesopotamia and Mesopotamia, the only one without a large city-state is the Kashit people.

However, after hundreds of years of development, the Kashit people absorbed the advanced civilizations of the Mesopotamia and the Mesopotamia and now possess the military strength of the Bronze Age.

In the history of another world, after the decline of the Kingdom of Babylon, it was the Kassites who once again conquered the Babylonian and Sumerian regions, and faced off against the Mitanni and Assyrian kingdoms for hundreds of years.

Tutupo City.

This city-state belonging to the Kingdom of Babylon was currently being besieged by an army of 10,000 Kassites.

Roy rushed to the outside of Tutupo City with 3,000 cavalry, and saw 5,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry of the Gashit people surrounding Tutupo City from the north and south. It seemed that they wanted Tutupo City to take the initiative. surrender.

Seeing Roy's army, the Gashit people did not take the initiative to attack, but sent envoys to negotiate with Roy.

The Kashit people were originally the most backward civilization in the Mesopotamia.

In the history of another world, they not only dominated the two river basins, but also established a stable rule for hundreds of years - this is definitely not an accident.

Because in past history, both the Sumerians and the Amorites could only establish short-term hegemonic rule.

Hammurabi, the greatest king of the Babylonian Kingdom, only maintained his hegemony for twenty years, not even one-tenth of the hundreds of years of hegemony of the Kingdom of Kassite.

The envoy of Kashit rode up to Roy, bowed his head and saluted very respectfully.

"Great leader, I send my greetings to you on behalf of King Agum of Kassite. Are you the army of the Hittite Kingdom, coming to conquer the city of Tutupo of the Babylonian Kingdom?"

In the Warring States Period in the far east, there was a diplomatic strategy called distant diplomacy and close attack.

The diplomatic strategy pursued by the Kashit people is to make diplomacy at a distance and attack at close range.

The Kingdom of Elam, the Kingdom of Babylon, the Kingdom of Haiti, the Kingdom of Assyria, and the Kingdom of Mitanni, which bordered the territory of the Kassites, were all forces that had long been hostile to the Kassites.

The Hittite Kingdom and the Egyptian Kingdom, which were very far away from the Kassites, were the targets of alliance and friendship between the Kassites.

"I am Loy, Emperor of the Athenian Empire."

Roy looked at the envoy of Kashit with an expressionless face and said.

"The Athenian Empire will conquer the Mesopotamia, so the Athenian Empire is hostile to you Kassites. We don't need to waste our words. You can now tell the Kassite King Agum and ask him to lead his army to fight with me. "

After listening to Roy's words, the envoy Jiaxi didn't say anything more, turned his horse's head and left.

Agum, the king of Jashite, is a young man about thirty years old.

The messenger returned to Agum and conveyed Roy's original words to Agum. Agum immediately prepared his five thousand cavalry for battle.

As a backward force with little information, Agum knew that the Hittite Kingdom was the strongest force in West Asia.

But the Athenian Empire—

Agum had never even heard of it.

Although he knew that the Athenian army and the Hittite army together destroyed the Kingdom of Babylon, Agum only regarded the Athenian Empire as a vassal of the Hittite Kingdom.

Agum's five thousand cavalrymen were assembled, and Roy took the initiative to attack with three thousand cavalrymen.

After the two cavalry armies collided, a one-sided massacre began.

Although the Kashit cavalry fought bravely and were not afraid of death, their weapons only had backward bronze war spears, their armor was backward cloth armor, and their horses did not have stirrups, horsebacks, saddles and other horse equipment.

Roy's cavalry used sharp iron spears as weapons, wore strong iron armor and makai to protect the knights and horses, and also had stirrups, saddles and other horse equipment to assist the knights.

With such a huge equipment gap, this war is an undoubtedly dimensionality reduction blow.

After the first round of confrontation between the two cavalry armies, more than a thousand of the five thousand Kashit cavalry were killed and more than two thousand were injured.

When Roy was about to launch a second round of attacks, King Agum of Gasite suddenly dropped his weapon and raised his hands in the air, shouting.

"Surrender - we are willing to surrender! Please do not hurt us anymore, we are willing to surrender to the great Athenian Empire."

Unexpectedly, King Agum of Kassite would surrender so simply. After Roy ordered the Athenian soldiers to stay put, he rode up to Agum and asked.

"Do you really want to surrender?"

"Yes!"

Agum said without hesitation.

"Although we are more numerous, you have more advanced weapons, so we are willing to surrender."

"After you surrender to the Athenian Empire, both you, the King of Kassite, and the nobles of the Kassite people will lose their status and power as nobility - do you still want to surrender?"

In this era, after the royal family and nobles surrendered, the royal family could usually obtain noble status, the big nobles could obtain the minor noble status, and the minor nobles could retain their property.

The city-state princes surrendered voluntarily and even retained their right to rule.

This is exactly why an overlord like Alexander was able to conquer a huge territory in a short period of time - most of the cities he conquered surrendered in exchange for Alexander retaining their right to rule.

So once Alexander died, the empire he established fell into pieces.

If every city conquered by Alexander had resisted as tenaciously as Tyre for seven months, even if Alexander defeated the Kingdom of Macedonia, it would be impossible to establish Alexander's empire.

After hearing Roy's words, Agumu's eyes immediately widened.

It was obvious that Agum just wanted to become a vassal of the Athenian empire.

The Kassites were nominally subjects of the Athenian Empire, but in fact they were still ruled by Agum himself.

Seeing Agum's reaction, Roy teased jokingly.

"Since you don't want to give up King Gasite's power, let's continue this war!"

Agum gritted his teeth and said.

"I am willing to give up my identity as King of Gasite."

Roy said with a surprised expression.

"If the Kassites join the Athenian Empire, I will transform you with the policies of the Athenian Empire. From now on, the Kassites must abide by the laws of the Athenian Empire and respect the gods arranged by the Athenian Empire."

Agum said with a sigh of relief.

"This is a good thing we can only hope for. We Kassite people are backward in civilization, so for hundreds of years, we have been absorbing the culture of the Elamites, Sumerians and Amorites, and worshiping their gods, hoping that their Gods can make us Kassites stronger."

In the history of another world, the Kashit people did fully accept the inherent culture, gods, and languages ​​of the Mesopotamia.

King Kassite not only redeemed the stolen Marduk statue from the Hittite Kingdom, but also rebuilt and decorated the temples in Nippur, Lagash, Ur, and Uruk.

"Agumu! Since you are willing to accept my request, then I have no reason to refuse your surrender."