Chapter 485 Plague and Apollo, the King of Bows

Research from another world shows that the Hittites are genetically different from the traditional Aryans, who worship the god of thunder.

This may be the main reason why the Hittites worship the sun goddess.

Although the Hittites also came from the East European Plain and the Caucasus, they belonged to a different ethnic group from the Aryans who worshipped the god of thunder, so the Hittites retained the goddess worship inherited from the matriarchal era.

When the Aryans who worshipped the sun god dominated the East European Plain, the Hittites also formed the sun worship under their influence.

The Hittites were not the only Aryan ethnic group in the Anatolian Peninsula.

In addition to the Amorites in the eastern part of the Anatolian Peninsula, there were also the Paleks, a branch of the Aryans, in the western part of the Anatolian Peninsula.

Unlike the Hittites, who rose rapidly by absorbing the civilizations of the Hattians and the Mesopotamian Basin, the Paleks were in a backward tribal civilization.

Because the Paleks posed no threat to the Hittites, the Hittites did not conquer the Paleks, who were considered distant relatives, as they enslaved the Hattians.

The Paleks lived a backward nomadic life, worshipped the King of Bows, Gali [Smythus Apollo], who was in charge of hunting, and regarded Gali [Smythus Apollo] as the god of plague.

Roy had no interest in conquering the Paleks for the time being.

For Roy, conquering the farming people was the most cost-effective.

The farming people rooted in the land would not rebel as long as they could live a life without worries about food and clothing.

The nomads migrated for a long time, and the food they produced was often not enough to feed themselves, so they had to rob the farming people.

Conquering nomads not only had huge management costs, but also could not obtain tax revenue in a short period of time, and they had to keep investing in them.

Perhaps this was also the reason why the Hittites were unwilling to conquer the Paleks.

Narik City.

This was the most populous Hattian city among the three city-states where the Hattians launched an uprising, with 50,000 Hattians and 10,000 Hittites.

In order to fight against Roy's 15,000 troops, Narik City not only formed an army of 5,000, but also borrowed 3,000 soldiers from Charpwa City.

In addition to the 8,000 soldiers of Narik City, 5,000 Palek soldiers also appeared outside Narik City.

The commander of the Paleks was Telepin, and his current identity was the King of Palek.

After Roy's army was stationed outside Narik City, the Paleks harassed Roy's soldiers.

When night fell.

Roy and Selene inspected the military camp and visited the wounded soldiers.

The wounded tent.

Several soldiers shot by Palek arrows were receiving treatment.

Roy took Selene into the tent and immediately asked with concern.

"Soldiers, have your wounds been infected and worsened? During the treatment of your injuries, you must tell us in time if there is any situation."

In this era of backward medicine, injury itself is not a fatal condition.

But the various complications caused by injuries can be fatal.

In response to Roy's concerned inquiry, the soldiers said that their injuries were not serious.

An Athenian soldier complained with a wooden arrow.

"Your Majesty! These barbaric Paleks are disgusting. Their wooden arrows only caused a scratch on my flesh, but this arrow was stained with blood in advance."

Roy took the wooden arrow and observed it carefully in the firelight, and found that there were indeed two kinds of blood on the wooden arrow.

The fresh blood belonged to the injured Athenian soldiers, and the old blood could not tell whether it was human blood or animal blood.

Looking at the wooden arrow in his hand, Roy had an ominous premonition in his heart.

After hesitating for a while, Roy ordered the soldiers.

"The injured soldiers and medical soldiers are temporarily staying in the tents and are not allowed to go out, and the soldiers outside are not allowed to come in. Although it's just my guess-the Paleks may want to spread diseases and plagues in our military camp, so you have to bear with it for now."

After leaving the wounded tent, Roy took Selene to the military camp kitchen.

Seeing two not-so-fresh wild deer carcasses in the military camp kitchen, Roy frowned and asked.

"Where did this deer come from?"

"We found this when we were fetching water."

A messenger explained.

"This should be a corpse that has died no more than one day ago, so I think--"

"Burn these two deer corpses, and boil all the water you fetched for an hour."

Roy said angrily.

"We are at war, so we must not take food of unknown origin, and we must boil the clean water fetched from the wild thoroughly."

The messengers immediately followed the order and threw the two deer corpses directly into the burning fire.

After Roy took Selene out of the barracks kitchen, Selene laughed and teased.

"Are you too worried? There will be no problem eating the corpse of a deer that has died no more than one day ago."

"I also hope that I am too worried."

Roy said with a serious face.

"But I must prevent the enemy from spreading diseases and plagues to us."

In the myth of another world, the Greek coalition army went on an expedition to Troy, and the first surprise the Trojans gave them was the plague.

At that time, Apollo [Smythus Galli], the god of plague and king of bows, was one of the patron gods of Troy.

When the Greek coalition landed on the coast of Troy, Apollo's priests prayed to Apollo to punish the Greek coalition.

Apollo shot plague arrows at the humans and livestock in the Greek coalition in the sky. The plague spread among the Greek coalition for nine days and nine nights, and the Greek coalition also burned corpses for nine days and nine nights.

Because there are no gods in the other world, the mythical Apollo sent plague to the Greek coalition. Perhaps the priests of Apollo, the god of plague, deliberately spread diseases or plague to the Greek coalition, or perhaps the Greek coalition landed in the Troy area and had no resistance to the native diseases of the Asia Minor Peninsula.

Roy knew that the patron saint of the Paleks was Apollo, the god of plague and the king of bows, so of course he had to guard against Apollo's priests spreading diseases and plague to the food and water of the Athenian army.

Roy's army was stationed in the south of the city of Narik.

The Palek army was stationed in the north of the city of Narik.

In the Palek camp, two soldiers were reporting the news to Telepin.

Telepin sat on a throne covered with leopard skin, and in his arms sat a beautiful and charming girl, Anna, the princess of the Paleks and priestess of Apollo.

After hearing the news brought by the soldiers, Telepin asked Anna.

"My dear wife, does your method really work?"

"Dear husband, please do not doubt the power and majesty of God Apollo."

Anna said with a confident smile.

"Even if the enemy's soldiers are numerous, they cannot fight against the plague controlled by God Apollo. We Paleks have used this method to defeat many enemies, and you yourself have experienced it. If we Paleks are prepared for your attack, your soldiers will all fall ill before you conquer us Paleks."

When Telepin conquered the Paleks, the Paleks also used the means of spreading plague to deal with Telepin.

Unfortunately, Telepin launched a blitzkrieg against the Paleks. Before Telepin's soldiers fell ill, Anna's tribe had been conquered by Telepin, and Anna, as a princess, was also occupied by Telepin.

Telepin said with a smug smile.

"It seems that I have not lost the favor of the goddess! As long as I can defeat or even kill the hateful Roy, I can take back the Hittite Kingdom. Then I will let Hatepuna be my queen, and you will be my second queen."

Telepin and Anna certainly could not have imagined that all of Anna's methods of spreading the plague were cracked by Roy.