Chapter 446 How to Attack Babylon

While the war between gods was decided, the war between humans was also decided.

Roy led 5,000 cavalrymen to launch a charge against Phineus's 10,000 troops, killing more than 1,000 people in Phineus's army.

Before Roy launched a second charge, Phineus fled with his army.

Phineus's 10,000 troops were mainly composed of Hyksos who followed him.

Although the Hyksos can be said to be a branch of the Amorites, Phineus did not want to sacrifice his followers for the Babylonian Kingdom established by his fellow Amorites.

Roy led 5,000 cavalrymen to chase behind, but did not directly destroy Phineus's army.

Because in Roy's view, Phineus and his followers first fled from Egypt to the Babylonian Kingdom, and now fled from Sippar City back to Kuta City, and have become an army that can only run away.

Letting this army with no will to resist escape back can make other armies of the Babylonian Kingdom lose their will to resist.

Kuta City.

This is the city guarded by the Hades Nergal.

Phineus fled to Kuta with his army and immediately ordered the defenders of Kuta to open the city gate.

Just as Phineus was about to enter Kuta with his army, Roy rushed into Kuta with hundreds of cavalrymen and said to Phineus while guarding the city gate.

"Dear Phineus, thank you for helping me open the gate of Kuta. Now Kuta belongs to me, you can leave with your soldiers."

"Roy——"

Phineus glared at Roy with angry eyes, but he did not order an attack.

Because the previous battle had made Phineus understand that although his army had a numerical advantage, it was vulnerable to Roy's cavalry.

Seeing that Roy's cavalry had arrived, Phineus could only leave with his army and give Kuta to Roy.

In order to rescue the city of Siphar, Phineus took almost all the soldiers of Kuta away.

Now there are only a thousand soldiers guarding Kuta.

Seeing that the gate of Kuta was captured by Roy, Phineus left with his army, and the soldiers defending the city simply chose to surrender.

When Roy occupied Kuta without bloodshed——

Outside Sippar.

Hantili and Telepin also led 18,000 Hittite soldiers to defeat the 20,000 defenders of Sippar.

After destroying the Temple of Hades in Kuta and knocking down the statue of Hades Nergal, Roy left 4,000 soldiers to capture the nobles of Kuta, and then returned to Sippar with 1,000 cavalry.

Sippar.

When Roy returned here with 1,000 cavalry, he saw that the war was over, and 2,000 of the 20,000 defenders of Sippar were killed, and the rest were all captured.

After reuniting with Selene who had turned back into [Hatepna], Roy entered Sippar with Selene, Hantili, and Telepin, and asked his soldiers to capture the nobles of Sippar.

The Lord's Mansion of Sippar.

When Sippar was still an independent city-state, this was the palace of the King of Sippar.

After Roy, Selene, Hantiri, and Telepin entered the palace hall, Selene sat on the throne that used to belong to King Sippar - now the Lord of the City and said.

"We have captured too many prisoners in today's war. Should we temporarily stop the offensive and send these prisoners back to the Hittite Kingdom as slaves?"

Hantiri said immediately.

"The number of these 18,000 prisoners is too large. We simply don't have extra food to feed them, and we don't need so many slaves. Just kill half of them."

In ancient wars, large-scale massacres of prisoners often occurred.

The most famous deed of the God of Killing Bai Qi was winning the Battle of Changping and slaughtering 400,000 Zhao prisoners.

The fundamental reason why Bai Qi slaughtered the Zhao prisoners was that the logistics of the Qin army were stretched to the limit, and there was no extra food to feed 400,000 prisoners.

The Zhao prisoners would definitely riot if they could not get food.

So the best option is to kill all the captives.

After winning the Battle of Julu, the Overlord Xiang Yu chose to kill 200,000 captives because he could not afford to feed them.

Hearing Hantili's suggestion to kill the captives, Roy immediately said to Selene.

"Princess Hatepuna! If the Hittite Kingdom does not want so many captives, I am willing to buy them. My soldiers and I have conquered Kuta City. I am willing to exchange the families and wealth of all the nobles in Kuta City for these captives."

"Can you afford to feed these captives?"

Selene said with doubt.

"As far as I know, you don't have much food."

"I am transporting food from the Phoenician and Egyptian regions."

Roy explained with a smile.

"Although it is indeed a bit stressful to feed these captives, I don't want to waste these precious manpower. Moreover, if I buy these captives and set them free, I can recruit at least 10,000 soldiers from them."

"Since you are willing to pay the price, I will sell all these captives to you."

After deciding on the ownership of the captives, Selene continued.

"In today's war, although more than a thousand of our Hittite army were killed and more than a thousand were injured and lost their combat effectiveness, the Babylonian Kingdom was also severely damaged. Next, I plan to make a concerted effort to directly break through the capital of the Babylonian Kingdom, Babylon City. What do you think?"

"I agree with the princess's idea."

Telepin said immediately.

"We are now attacking the city of Babylon. The defenders of Babylon only have 20,000 soldiers at most. But our Hittite Kingdom has only 15,000 soldiers left to fight. The defenders of Babylon have the advantage of defending the city. The Athenian soldiers followed If we attack the city together, we can defeat the city of Babylon at the lowest cost."

As the capital of the Kingdom of Babylon, the city of Babylon was of course an easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack city.

In the history of another world, not only the Kingdom of Babylon, but also the Kingdom of Kassite, the Kingdom of Neo-Babylon, and the Persian Empire also used Babylon as their capital.

After hearing Tie Lieping's words, Roy said with a smile.

"My Athenian soldiers can participate in the attack on Babylon, but I request to separate from you. If you attack the west gate of Babylon, I will attack the north gate of Babylon."

"Can!"

After accepting Roy's request, Selene continued.

"Princess Semiramis, the daughter of the King of Babylon, is said to be a peerless beauty as beautiful as a goddess. She can be said to be the most valuable trophy in Babylon. Whoever can enter the palace first will get Semiramis. Princess Si as a trophy. If you don’t want to lose such a beauty, you must do your best to attack the city of Babylon.”

After saying that, Selene looked at Roy, Han Tili and Tie Lieping with half-smiling eyes.

Roy said while staring at Selene's perfect figure with a slender waist.

"I have no interest in the Babylonian princess Semiramis."

"It seems you can't wait to get Hatepuna."

Selene teased in a teasing tone.

"I promise you will not regret exchanging the advanced technology of the Athenian Empire for Hatepuna, because Hatepuna's beauty will not be lost to any girl in the world."

"No--"

Roy couldn't help but said silently in his heart.

In fact, I am not interested in the Hittite princess Hatepuna either——

What I am really interested in is you, the powerful goddess who defeated Marduk, the king of the Babylonian gods.