Chapter 503: 60,000 Troops versus 160,000

Lower Danube plain.

Sun Tribe Station.

One hundred thousand Thracian coalition forces and Perseus's 60,000 troops gathered here, making the place a sea of ​​people.

The royal tent of Aeetes, the tribal king of the Sun Tribe.

The chiefs of the various Thracian tribes and Perseus gathered here and were enjoying the banquet Aeetes held for them.

The leaders happily drank and ate meat, and even directly played with the royal maids who served them. They seemed confident in defeating the Athenian Empire.

Aeetes sat on his throne, and beside him sat his daughter Phyllis.

As an ally who brought sixty thousand troops, Perseus was placed closest to Aeetes.

Looking at Phyllis's beautiful and lovely face, Perseus took the initiative to ask Aeetes.

"Great King Aeetes! In order to fight against the Athenian Empire, I think the Illyrians I rule and the Thracians you rule should form a powerful empire. Will you marry Princess Phyllis to me? , let my and Princess Phyllis’s child, your grandson, become the king of Illyrians and Thracians?”

Aeetes said with an unhappy frown.

"Perseus, although we have a common enemy, I will not marry my daughter to you."

Aeetes' rejection was what Perseus had expected, so Perseus was not disappointed.

"Princess Phyllis!"

Perseus looked at Phyllis and asked.

"Will you let me be your husband?"

"I don't want to!"

Phyllis refused without hesitation.

"We are a branch of the Aryans who worship the sun god, and you are a branch of the Aryans who worship the god of thunder. If I marry you, the Balkans will be the territory of the great sun god Helios, and you will still worship him. The territory of Zeus, the god of thunder? My father Aeetes is the favored son of the sun god Helios. We will never accept the god of thunder you worship.”

"You don't want to marry me - do you want to miss out on the best husband in the world?"

"Isn't Roy, the emperor of the Athens Empire, better than you?"

Phyllis mocked with a disdainful sneer.

"I know that you have been defeated by Loy. Like a lost dog, Loy expelled you from the Peloponnese in the southern Balkans to the Croatian region in the northern Balkans."

Perseus immediately fell silent.

Because what Phyllis said is true.

"Princess Phyllis! I don't deny that Roy is more powerful than me, but he is our enemy. If we lose the war with Roy, you and King Aeetes will become Roy's slaves."

The territory of the Sun Tribe and its vassal tribes is the Bulgarian region.

This area covers an area of ​​110,000 square kilometers and has a population of more than 500,000.

Mineral resources here are rich, and the main mineral deposits include coal, lead, zinc, copper, iron, uranium, manganese, chromium, mineral salt and a small amount of petroleum.

Most importantly, there is fertile land watered by the Danube River.

In the history of another world, Bulgaria has always been an agricultural country rich in agricultural resources.

As long as this place is conquered, a grain-producing area will be added to the Athenian Empire in two or three years.

In addition to the Bulgarian region ruled by the Sun Tribe, the Romanian, Hungarian, and Serbian regions ruled by other Thracian tribes are also fertile and productive areas.

In the Ukrainian region in the north of the Balkan Peninsula, where the Slavs live, both sides of the Dnieper River are even more black soil watered by the Dnieper River.

Aeetes and Perseus formed a coalition to deal with Roy. Of course, Roy would not choose to be beaten passively.

After a large amount of supplies from the Athenian Empire were transported to Byzantine City and turned into a logistics center for the Athenian army, Roy took the initiative to enter the Bulgarian region with 60,000 Athenian troops.

The plains on the west coast of the Black Sea east of the Balkan Mountains.

Roy's 60,000-strong army met the Thracian coalition's obstruction here.

The Athenian Empire's 30,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry faced off against the Thracian coalition's 100,000 troops and Perseus's 10,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry.

The enemy had a huge numerical advantage, so they were confident of defeating the Athenian army.

After sizing up the Thracian coalition, Roy asked Erechtheus.

"Erectus, I leave this war to you to command, are you confident that you can win?"

"I have no reason to lose."

Erechtheus said confidently.

"Although the enemy outnumbers us by a hundred thousand, our weapons and equipment are iron weapons and iron armor. The enemy uses backward bronze weapons and does not even have metal armor. The gap between the two sides is really too big."

The difference in strength between the Athenian army and the Thracian coalition was simply a dimensionality reduction attack.

Even if the Thracian coalition had three times the numerical advantage, the Athenian army could not fail.

Roy was also confident that the Athenian army would be victorious in reducing its dimensionality. After hearing Erechtheus's answer, Roy immediately said.

"Then I will leave this war to you to command."

Erechtheus accepted it calmly, and then commanded 30,000 Athenian cavalry to be divided into three cavalry legions to attack, followed by 30,000 infantry to cooperate with the cavalry.

Aeetes and Perseus obviously did not expect that the numerically inferior Athenian army would take the initiative to attack.

Aeetes immediately led the Thracian knights to fight head-on, and Perseus also took his 60,000 troops to wait for an opportunity.

As Roy's old rival, Perseus knew the strength of the Athenian army better than the Thracians, so Perseus did not want to fight a hard battle.

In the endless green ocean.

The Athenian army and the Thracian coalition were like two torrents colliding together.

As soon as the battle between the two sides began, the Thracian coalition fell into a disadvantage.

The bronze spear blades of the Thracians could hardly pierce the iron armor of the Athenian soldiers, and the iron spear blades of the Athenian soldiers could easily tear the cloth and leather armor on the Thracian knights.

The attack of the Athenian soldiers could easily knock the Thracian knights off the horse, but the attack of the Thracian knights could hardly knock the Athenian cavalry who used saddles, stirrups and other horse equipment off the horse.

Seeing that the situation on the battlefield was a unilateral massacre of Thracian knights by Athenian soldiers, Aeetes immediately found Erechtheus and wanted to kill Erechtheus as the commander to reverse the situation.

Seeing that Aeetes regarded himself as a target, Erechtheus came to Aeetes without showing any weakness.

The commander of the Athenian army and the commander of the Thracian coalition launched a one-on-one battle-

The sun god Helios took the initiative to descend with the Thracian gods and bestowed his divine power on Aeetes.

Because Helios also knew that if Aeetes lost this war and the Thracian region was conquered by the Athenian Empire, he would not only lose the throne of the king of the Thracian gods, but also lose his identity as the patron saint of the sun tribe and be driven out of the Thracian region by the Athenian Empire.

After Helios descended with the Thracian gods, the goddesses Metis, Mnemosyne, and Amphitrite also descended on the battlefield to confront the Thracian gods.

The Amazon tribe joined the Athenian Empire, and Bendis, the moon goddess who protected the Amazon tribe, became one of the Athenian gods.

But Bendis didn't want to be an enemy of her brother, so she did not participate in this war of gods.