"You came just in time! I was just worried about not having a suitable general available!"
Xia Zhe nodded in agreement and immediately asked the soldier who received the intelligence to explain the situation in detail.
It turned out that after Ajax's 100,000-man army set out, they had maintained stable contact with the city of Stobi.
The high priest is fully responsible for arranging these communications.
Three days ago, the liaison officer of the Western Expeditionary Corps who was supposed to arrive in Stobi City to report on the current situation did not show up on time.
The high priest was a little worried and immediately sent personnel west to investigate the situation. At the same time, he also asked all the security points in the west to monitor any suspicious clues day and night.
This morning, a security post in the west received a report from a villager that a note with strange contents was found on a pigeon captured during hunting.
He had already received instructions from the high priest, and seeing that the note was signed by Lord Ajax, how could the person in charge of the security point dare to be negligent?
He immediately sent his soldiers to Stobi with the note to meet the high priest.
Although the people sent to the west to inquire had not yet reported back warning of caution, the high priest still felt the situation was serious after reading the note.
So he immediately sent someone to the palace to report.
At home, he sorted out all the letters he had exchanged with Ajax in the past and brought them to the study in the palace.
"According to the information obtained by this old minister, Ajax's army made very smooth progress at the beginning. They quickly reached the Seranda region as they headed west. The Hyperion rebel army had a very good momentum of development on its own. After Ajax joined, it was even more powerful. Soon, they recaptured almost all of the original Hyperion territory." The high priest introduced.
"Isn't that going smoothly?" Xia Zhe asked in confusion.
"Everything was going smoothly. The new queen of Hyperion has agreed to be a strong ally of me, Stobi. When my king goes to Hyperion one day, she will tell me in person the whereabouts of the Heart of the King. However, ten days ago, a large number of troops from foreign city-states suddenly landed in the western port city-state of Skora. Their origins were unknown! Then, these troops marched eastward to Hyperion and had a head-on conflict with Ajax and his men. Afterwards, the contact was cut off!" the high priest continued.
The high priest's words contained too much information.
Xia Zhe was stunned for a long time before he figured it out.
I, Stobi, sent a hundred thousand men to help Hyperion fight. After they recovered their homeland, they wanted to form an alliance with our country, which is understandable.
But why is the Queen keeping me in suspense? Why does she insist on me coming over for a face-to-face interview before she tells me where the King's Heart lies?
What does Ajax cook? He can't even handle such a small matter, and he agreed to it without reporting to me!
Of course, the most troublesome thing is that it seems that it is not only Stoby, an external force, that intervenes in the civil war in the Seranda region.
We must first find out who the people who landed in the west are.
"Which city-state did those foreign troops come from? Is there any clue?"
Thinking of this, Xia Zhe asked.
"Except that their flag is an eagle and they are as good at using phalanx infantry as we are, I don't know anything else. Oh, by the way, Ajax's previous intelligence said that those armies have strange names for the gods. They call Zeus, the king of gods, Jupiter! Aphrodite, the goddess of love, they call Venus! Ares, the god of war, they call Mars! Artemis, the moon goddess widely worshipped in the Seranda region, they call Diana!" replied the high priest.
After hearing what the high priest said, the prime minister and Odysseus became even more confused.
Anyone who dares to forcefully land in the Seranda region from the sea and can quickly suppress the coalition forces of Ajax and Hyperion must be no small force.
There is no such force north of Seranda.
South of Seranda, in the heartland of Greek civilization, there are indeed many powerful city-states.
However, neither Achaea nor Olympia used the eagle as a totem, and it was even less likely that they would call the gods that.
You know, Olympia is the place where Zeus summoned the gods to gather according to legend.
The majestic statue of Zeus is built there!
That area is the place where the gods are most worshipped in all of Greece.
The city-state armies from there would never dare to call the names of the gods carelessly!
As for the countries on the Aegean Sea, there is really no reason for them to go so far to attack Seranda, bypassing the Peloponnese region!
That voyage covered more than half of the Greek mainland. It was more than tens of thousands of kilometers.
If you have this much free time, who can't expand some territory nearby?
Even if they attack the Great North or Thrace like Eubia did, it is much closer than landing in Seranda!
An eagle!
Jupiter!
Venus!
Mars!
After hearing this, only Xia Zhe's face changed drastically, and his head seemed to be about to explode!
Romans!
There is no doubt that it was the Romans who landed in Seranda!
Although, in this world, the Greek countries are still the center of civilization.
They never bothered to look outside.
Even when looking outward, they would focus more on the Persian Empire in the east.
But Xia Zhe knew that on the western Apennine continent, the country called Rome was already developing quietly.
Legend has it that the first generation of leaders of Rome were descendants of the Trojans.
Therefore, they also have a strong Greek style.
Whether it is the army's combat methods or the local customs and practices, they are very similar to those of the Greek city-states.
If you don't look carefully, you might mistake them for the army of a Greek city-state.
Xia Zhe also judged that Rome at this time was relatively immature and lacked the ability to expand its territory on a large scale.
They landed on Seranda not necessarily to conquer, but for other purposes.
Could it be that what they are after is the heart of the king?
The Heart of the King cannot be taken to Rome across the sea! Otherwise, getting it back will be as difficult as climbing to the sky!
Thinking of this, Xia Zhe finally spoke.
"That's not the army of the Greek city-state, it should be the Romans across the Ionian Sea! Pass on my order, the surrounding troops must gather in the city of Stobi within three days. Then, all go west to rescue Ajax!" Xia Zhe said.
Romans!
Hearing this word, everyone in the room was stunned.
Everyone here has played simulation games on the sandbox with Xia Zhe.
They clearly remembered that the king had set up the scenario many times, assuming that there was a great empire called Rome coming from the west of the Ionian Sea.
In the king's assumption, the mobilization capacity of the Roman Empire was even greater than that of the Persian Empire.
It is not surprising to land an army of 20 to 30 million at once!
If the setting of King is true, the Roman invasion would definitely be a horrific event.
Unlike when Eubia invaded and they held the beach, the Romans had already taken Scaura, the largest port in Seranda!
It’s too late to deploy Greek fire to block the enemy’s landing!
If Stobi sends troops to rescue, he will have to fight a tough battle with Rome!
The gap in military strength between the two sides is so huge, can they win?
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