The Elamite invasion came suddenly. When Lagash learned the news, three villages had already been attacked by the Elamites. The soldiers stationed nearby discovered this situation and had a brief battle with the Elamites. , there were casualties on each other, and the Elamites withdrew.
"Mamaipi! When I became a great and just shepherd, the Elamites also signed a friendly alliance with me, Lagash, claiming to be willing to respect my governance. But now they betrayed me openly and attacked the villages under my rule!"
We must deal with such traitors with a heavy blow!
"Elamites! Your duplicity really surprises me!"
Gudea immediately began to mobilize his troops and generals, and he was bound to give the other side a taste of suffering. The Elamites didn't even consider whether they could feed themselves, so they started fighting against themselves?
But bad news came again, that is, the Kuti people launched an attack on Tianfang City!
Due to the fast river transport, this news and the land transport news arrived at the same time even though Tianfang was far away from Lagash.
Gudeya couldn't help but decided to dispatch the army to rescue.
Lagash was the first Sumerian city-state to regain strength. Under full mobilization, the number of personnel with soldier qualities could reach an astonishing 20,000 during the war, which was more than four times that of other city-states in their heyday. !
Before the invasion of the Akkadians, the sign of a powerful city-state was that there were about 600 people as the city-state's standing army. When recruiting during war, 3,000 to 5,000 people could usually be recruited for combat.
During this period, Lagash mobilized a total of 20,000 troops! And these 20,000 people are not just a mob, but people with certain combat qualities. They are mainly made up of craftsmen, temple warriors, and professional soldiers.
This is because the city of Lagash also rules several small city-states and forty villages, so the number of people mobilized is so amazing.
Although King Gudea heard from Yuzai that the largest war in the East was the "Battle against the Communist Party of China Mountain". The participating parties involved hundreds of thousands of miles of land. There were more than six participating forces, and the total number of tribes and city-state personnel was mobilized. The number reached 150,000, more than ten cities were destroyed, more than seventy mountains were cut down, and blood flowed everywhere.
This is a staggering number, but considering that there are so many tribes in the East, and that basically all the people in the East are soldiers, it is normal for the number of people to be larger in a war.
But in the plains of Mesopotamia, 20,000 people were enough to overwhelm the entire Elam!
"Divide three thousand troops and go north to assist Tianfang!"
The Kuti people are very powerful, so they first divided into 3,000 people to resist, and the remaining people attacked Elan's hometown of Susa in one go. After all, the city-state area still needs production, and 20,000 people were recruited. The youth basically have the quality of soldiers. All the prime men have gone into battle, and the rest are slaves and temple priests, as well as some old, weak, sick, and businessmen whose qualities are not suitable for the battlefield.
Using slaves, Lagash was also afraid that their morale would be broken down by beating them, so the soldiers were more elite rather than more numerous.
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The Kutians mobilized their troops and declared their sovereignty over Tianfang City. This panicked Abram, who had just returned to the city of Ur. He arranged for his father Terah and his wife Sarah to express their intention to go to Tianfang City again.
"I want to rush there quickly before the Kuti people arrive in Heaven, ride on our donkeys and ride on a sedge boat, and I want to tell Lot about this!"
"Let him leave Tianfang quickly, that city will be razed to the ground!"
Abram set out. He was ready to leave as soon as he got the news. However, he did not expect that the city of Ur blocked the city and did not allow any residents to go out. It briefly closed the access to the outside world, leaving Abram trapped. In the city, there is no way to leave.
He could only return home helplessly and lamented to people:
"Lot did not listen to my advice and is now in danger, and I am unable to save him."
At this time, Abram suddenly thought, how great would it be if the "omnipotent god" he created in the idea he proposed really existed?
So, for the first time, Abram carved a little clay figure with no face or facial features, and the figure was based on his own imagination.
"I know you don't exist, but just this once..."
"I hope you will protect Lot and prevent him from dying."
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"The soldiers are more sophisticated than numerous, so how many people came to Ur City?"
Yuzai asked, and Lagash's sentry reported: "About four thousand people."
"Four thousand? I thought it was forty thousand, that's all?"
Lagash's sentry was stunned for a moment, and then Yan Zai asked Wen Ming: "How many people do we have?"
Wen Ming: "Not counting the Confucian disciples and many engineering personnel, there are a total of three hundred Yulin."
Yu Zai: "That's enough, beat him!"
The people of the East heard about the number of people sent by the other party, four thousand people, which is really ridiculous!
The soldiers of Lagash felt that they should help. After all, there were 300 of them here, plus the craftsmen and laborers from Lagash City. Together, there were more than 2,000 people, plus all the The number of people from the East is also close to three thousand.
"If it doesn't work, we can urgently recruit the surrounding villages and the labor refugees, and warn them that if they still want to work in Tianfang City, they must fight for us. In this way, we will have a military strength of more than 10,000 people, which is enough to scare them. Die on the opposite side!"
"Just send 300 people. Isn't this just to die?"
Wen Ming patted the soldier commander on the shoulder:
"Wrong. Remember, that's not the way it is calculated. These barbarians have dull weapons and weak bows and crossbows."
"Therefore, one Han can be regarded as five barbarians."
"So, there are fifteen hundred of us."
"Besides, asking people from those villages and refugees to help us fight will affect morale and disrupt deployment, giving the other side an opportunity to take advantage. War is never about which side has more people, but which side wins. Things like these don't For people who have a sense of belonging, it’s okay for you to let them work because you paid them, but how is it possible for them to work hard?”
"The total number of these people, even if there are 100,000 people, is nothing more than a mob."
The soldier commander was a little dumbfounded: "Can we still calculate it this way? But even if we calculate it this way, there is still a difference of more than 2,000 people! Wouldn't the chance of winning be greater if we add us?"
Yu Zai laughed and said: "There is no need to add unnecessary sacrifices. Things that can be solved at the minimum cost do not require too many people. In fact, if there are ten times the strength of the opponent, I will definitely come out in full force, and one person can be drowned with just a spit of saliva. They, but alas, I don’t have such a large population now.”
"So, as long as your troops are more refined than too many, and the opponent is not strong, three hundred feathers are enough."
Soon, the Yulin Army gathered together, with wings for the country as strong as the forest. Wearing iron armor on their bodies, each of them was the best among the totem warriors. They carried three weapons on their bodies. Also pulled out at the same time were cannons. And firearms!
Craftsmen from the East came here not just to build houses.
The Akkadian scouts were captured by Yi thousands of miles away and brought back to mine. Of course, they had a purpose!
"Things such as horses have to wait until those merchants transport them overland, which takes at least half a year to more than a year. This is relatively fast. After all, there are merchants from the adult country to open the way. So there is no need for horses, chariots and cavalry. I'm counting on it, but the opponent's donkey chariot doesn't move as fast as the horse chariot, do you all understand what I mean?"
Yu Zai conducted temporary pre-war training for the soldiers:
"We have all experienced many wars. This time someone is unhappy with us and wants to challenge us. Hold on to the weapons in your hands and show no mercy to the other party!"
"Our target is Ur City, not these shrimp soldiers and crab generals! If they want to fight, then let them fight first. We call this an upright battle of benevolence and justice!"
The soldiers of Lagash were dumbfounded, finding this speech unbelievable.
Three hundred people just want to capture the city of Ur? !
"I understand, these soldiers are just a reinforcement. The King of the East, the three gods, and the Confucian saint will definitely take action. They are the main force."
"But the city of Ur is also protected by the moon god Xin, the mountain god Parik, the wind god Ariel, and the sun god bird Smoqi. The decisive factor in this war will not be these three hundred people... ..”
The soldiers of Lagash thought they had found the decisive factor in this war.
This is a war of the gods. Only three hundred people, even if they are all great warriors, cannot influence the outcome of the battle.
After hearing what the soldiers of Lagash said, Yuzai said to the soldiers of the Yulin Army:
"The friendly forces of Lagash do not believe in your strength."
"Then let them see what the people of Zhuxia are and what the Han Yulin is!"
