I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 171
"Your Majesty, the envoy of King Matthaeus, Clemans, arrived in Pella last night and stayed at a hotel in the city."

"Let them stay in Pella for a few more days. I have ordered the guards to pack their luggage. I will leave Pella later and go to the west to have a look."

While fiddling with the gadgets on the table, Antigonus said casually to his chief foreign affairs officer, Hieromos.

Seeing that Antigonus was about to go out suddenly, Hioloomos didn't realize it all at once, and agreed at once. After he agreed, he realized it and asked strangely, "Your Majesty, are you going to the west?"

"Well, I have been relying on the documents sent from the west to know the development of the west. Now I want to go and see for myself to confirm whether it is really as good as the consuls wrote in the documents."

Hieromos nodded, and continued to ask: "Then I will tell the messenger of Clemens that you have traveled far away."

Antigonus's unwillingness to meet Clemens' emissary is enough to explain his opinion. For Clemens, a usurper and traitor who seized power by a coup d'état, Antigonus would never give him a good look, let alone What's more, he also authorized Ivanus, the head of the intelligence department, to organize a coup d'etat that allowed Ilitek to be restored.

The interior of the Mateus Kingdom is not as strong and watertight as an iron barrel. In fact, after Kleimans launched a coup, many officials who were dissatisfied with his usurpation approached the Macedonian ally, hoping that this ally could help them make Yili King Tekla was restored. Faced with the requests of these officials, the Macedonians did not agree to them, nor did they refuse immediately, in order to leave a way out for themselves.

But now, this back road reserved in advance came in handy.

Although the officials who asked for help from the Macedonians were weak and unable to fight against the flourishing Clemens, this did not mean that they were useless.Under the authorization of Antigonus, Evanus obtained the list of these officials, and then sent spies to find them one by one, asking them to assist the mission of the intelligence department as much as possible.

Evanus is going to adopt the most radical method, which is to use his own way to return to his own body. He will send a team of professionally trained elite soldiers into Dita with the assistance of Mateus officials. Peicheng, sneaked into the palace, captured Climans, and forced him to return the throne to Ilitekla.

This team of elite soldiers is that Antigonus allocated funds to the Ministry of Intelligence in the past year to let Evanus train a group of about 100 soldiers to perform special missions. The requirements of these soldiers are extremely strict, and they must be able to use a variety of weapons to master A variety of skills, able to survive very cruel torture and interrogation, and also understand multiple languages ​​and dialects of a few regions in the country, in other words, they are the special forces of this era.

Their equipment was referenced by Antigonus from the Roman Assault Regiment in the game "Rome Total War". Each of them wore a black cloak with red trim. Under the cloak, they wore a specially made light muscle breastplate with a face. They are covered by iron masks with totems of gods and ghosts on them. They often use two corpis scimitars in battle. They move lightly and quickly. They are all ruthless killers walking in the night.

Oh, their images not only refer to the Shenyin Assault Group, but also copied the names given by the Romans, but no one can come and sue him for plagiarism, because there are no Romans in this world, or , Even in Europe, Rome in this era does not have the existence of the God Hidden Commando.

Antico threw tens of thousands of drachmas on this special force that he had high hopes for. Now is their chance to prove their strength to Antico, so those selected soldiers of the Shenyin Commando After arriving at the mission, they were all gearing up and eager to try, wishing to break into the palace of Matteus immediately and capture the usurper alive.

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Thirty Shenyin Assault Regiment soldiers left Pella and went to Ditape City by boat. At the same time, Antigonus had already left Pella City and stopped in Arcelos City.During the two years of peaceful development, this young immigrant town has grown in population. It is about to break through the [-] mark and become a city. Not only is the population of Arcelos City increasing, but the level of infrastructure in the city has also been improved. Two or three-story apartment buildings painted with white wall paint can be seen everywhere on both sides of the street. There are dense clothes hanging on the balcony of each floor of the apartment building. Walking downstairs, it is possible from time to time. Dripping from unwrung clothes.

The city of Arcelos is well-developed in commerce. Almost every block has several markets selling different goods, such as food markets, clothing markets, or luxury goods markets. Of course, the luxury goods markets mainly receive rich people Macedonian citizens, the ornaments made of silver and gold are placed in a dazzling array. In order to prevent theft, each market has several tall security guards watching.

In addition to markets related to people's livelihood, there are also many places such as public baths and theaters. Greeks in white robes often go into public baths to enjoy the comfort brought by the shower while chatting and farting with their companions. Thinking about it, I can give a few more drachmas, wander into the small room next to the bath, and enjoy the services of scantily clad female technicians.

Antigonus was not only concerned about the development of the city of Arcelos, he also noticed that the soldiers of the city defense army here were not well equipped. No matter what kind of armor the soldiers wore, their shields were uniformly Greek-style round shields. It can be said that the protection of the round shield for the whole body is unsatisfactory, it can only protect the upper body, so he has the idea of ​​improving the shield in his heart.

This idea can be said to have been thought of as soon as the brain was hot, and it can also be said to have been foreshadowed long ago, because in previous wars, many of our own casualties were caused by the enemy's long-range firepower, because the protection of the round shield The range is not large, so the soldiers are easily killed by the dense arrow rain.

Therefore, the idea of ​​improving the shield has been kept in Antigon's mind.

The soldiers of the Macedonian Kingdom basically use spears to fight. This tradition cannot be changed in a short time. Therefore, the shields improved by Antigonus must be able to be used with spears. For example, the square shields used by the Romans can be abandoned directly. Because it was used with a dagger, although Antigonus was a spirit who was furious one, three, five, and two, four, six ecstatic, he would not want to move all the things of the Romans here.

It must be able to protect the whole body and be used with a spear. Antigonus quickly had the answer in his mind.

That is the kite-shaped shield, a shield that was widely circulated in the Middle Ages. The top of the kite-shaped shield is an inverted triangle. Soldiers can put their spears in the inverted triangle and insert the sharp end of the bottom of the shield into the ground to make the shield stable. , which allows soldiers to resist enemy cavalry without saddles and stirrups to play a miraculous effect.

Not only that, there are two types of kite-shaped shields for cavalry and infantry. The kite-shaped shields used by cavalry are smaller in size and can only protect the upper body of cavalrymen. The kite-shaped shields used by infantry are larger in size and can perfectly protect soldiers The body of the kite-shaped shield can avoid the shooting of arrows, but because of the size, the weight of the kite-shaped shield will increase relatively.

I am afraid that the kite-shaped shield can only be promoted in a small area first.Antigonus thought that the soldiers would not accept this new gadget until the kite-shaped shield showed its advantages in actual combat, so he could only let the city defense troops change their equipment first to see the effect.

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Leaving aside the experience of Antigonus improving the shield, in the city of Ditape, thirty soldiers of the God Hidden Assault Regiment, who were received by the officials of the Kingdom of Mateus, entered several officials as servants after arriving at their destination. In the homes of the officials, the weapons that the soldiers need to use when they act have already been prepared.

These soldiers of the Shenyin Commando will dress up as palace guards, and under the operation of a guard officer who was instigated to infiltrate the palace, they will take over the patrol mission not far from Clemens' bedroom.

Climans learned to behave well after launching the coup. He only allowed the guards commanded by his confidants to guard the palace, and actively wooed the palace guards to make them more loyal to him and not easily instigated by outsiders. However, he did not expect the actions of the Macedonians. Faster than him, he had already instigated a guard officer before he started to act. In order to ensure the reliability of the officer, Evanus sent someone to take the officer's family away and put him under house arrest, so whether the officer was for himself Or for the family, they can only accept the drive of the Macedonians.

On the second night after the soldiers of the Shenyin Commando arrived in Ditape City, the soldiers who put on the uniform of the palace guard followed the guard officer into the palace. Because the officer was personally led, the patrols encountered along the way Didn't notice anything wrong, let them in.The leading officer knew that he was performing a mission of great importance, and his back was soon drenched in cold sweat. While praying for the completion of the mission as soon as possible, he also prayed that he would not be seen through.

They passed the journey without any danger, but they could only walk more than 100 meters away from the bedroom. If they went in again, those palace guards who were loyal to Clemens would definitely stop them immediately , and question the reason for their entry.

The soldiers of the assault regiment looked at the heavily guarded area and decided to stand still for now. They quietly followed the officer on the fixed patrol route, observing the situation in the "restricted area", and walked about ten times. They found a rule that the two patrols blocking between them and the bedroom would join up almost every 10 minutes, and it would take about 5 minutes from the joint to go away, that is to say, they had 5 minutes to move forward. Sneak into the bedroom and arrest Climans who is sleeping inside.

After discovering this pattern, the soldiers of the assault regiment were immediately excited. They looked at each other, exchanged eyes, and decided to start their actions after the next meeting of the palace patrol.

Under the watchful eyes of the soldiers, the patrols who had no idea that the enemy had sneaked in quickly finished meeting. After the leading officer said to each other that nothing happened, he led his subordinates to walk in the opposite direction. After they walked away, the assault group The soldiers rushed towards the bedroom, and the officer who led them in did not follow suit, but was asked to find a place to hide and not to expose himself - but the officer knew what the Macedonians meant, telling him to hide and not to expose himself. Was caught by the palace guards, which made their actions come to light.

On the other side, Climans in the dormitory didn't have the slightest sense of imminent disaster. He was still sweating and exercising with his arms around the beautiful dancer given to him by an official during the day. The few guards guarding the door also felt itchy in their hearts and couldn't concentrate when they heard the voices coming from inside the house.

This gave the Macedonians a convenience. While they were distracted, the Shenyin assault group ran all the way outside the bedroom under the cover of night. Before the guards noticed them, they threw throwing knives first. The trained soldiers accurately pierced the guards' throats with throwing knives, and then stepped forward to stabilize their bodies before they fell to the ground, and slowly placed them on the ground to ensure that there was no unnecessary sound.

At this time, the sound of the new king's violent movements was still heard in the house. Several soldiers of the Shenyin Assault Regiment looked at each other, glanced at each other, kicked open the door directly from the outside, and filed in.The sudden sound of the door being kicked open scared Klimans to tremble, and his whole body fell softly on the dancer. He looked at the door with an angry face, wanting to scold the person who had offended him, but found that a group of people rushed in. Soldiers dressed in palace guard uniforms, and everyone looked familiar.

"You, who are you?"

Climans shouted angrily, and at the same time, he also had an ominous premonition in his heart. Knowing that something was wrong, he struggled to get up from the dancer, and at the same time, he groped for the head of the bed—there was a short sword there.

However, the God Hidden Commando didn't give him a chance. These cold killing machines ignored Clemens' questioning and rushed in to capture him alive. Clemens pulled the terrified dancing girl up and pushed her towards the rush The soldiers who came blocked their progress. The latter stabbed the dancer to death with a sword, and followed closely. Climans quickly grabbed the dagger by the bedside, and was about to make a resistance movement, but was caught by the leading soldier. He kicked heavily on the stomach, and the whole person flew out.

Climans, who fell to the ground, felt an overwhelming pain in his stomach. When his throat was sweet, he immediately spit out blood. The dagger in his hand flew to nowhere. King Matteus, who was naked on the ground, fell to the ground, and one of them took out the rope he had prepared to bind his limbs, preventing him from escaping—in fact, he was kicked hard The Clemens also lost the chance to escape because of the pain.

And at this moment, the palace guards heard the sound of movement belatedly. They surrounded the bedroom tightly, but no one dared to rush in.
(End of this chapter)