It was late at night, and Enkidu leaned against the defensive wall they had built, looking at the curling bonfire in trance.

He had just refused Zaghisi's order to assassinate Ulukakina alone, even though he had the ability to do it.

The two sides inevitably had a big quarrel.

"We should conquer our opponents with dignity and dignity. At least Ulukaki deserves such respect!" Enkidu said.

Zaghisi jumped to his feet and became furious, "Do you know how many sacrifices of soldiers you have to make in exchange for your 'uprightness'? No, maybe we are facing failure and all the previous sacrifices have been in vain!"

Enkidu wanted to say that this battle should not have been fought in the first place! But he held back.

When a person is calm, he is flipping through the ancient information provided by the system in his mind. A conical earthen cone engraved with cuneiform characters is slowly rotating and floating in the air.

This is one of Ulukakina's "cones of freedom", a cone covered with his legal texts and inscriptions addressed to the god, unearthed near the foundations of the Lagash temple ruins.

"Make sure the powerful orphan or widow is not conquered," Enkidu muttered softly.

These "Cones of Liberty" are irreplaceable in ancient annals as the world's first documented effort to establish basic legal rights for citizens.

These laws restricted the people on whom the king's power relied: the nobles who supported their own armies, the priests who gave themselves the aura of divinity, the officials who served the king, and the wealthy businessmen who paid money to support wars and large-scale expenditures.

Even in the subsequent thousands of years of history, no king was fully committed to protecting his people from his own allies.

The time when the "Ulukakina Free Cone" appeared was the prehistoric era of more than 2300 BC.

Unfortunately, these cones of freedom do not get the credit they truly deserve, even though they are as important in the evolution of human society as the famous Code of Hammurabi, Magna Carta or the United States Bill of Rights.

The system suddenly interrupted: "It seems inappropriate to sympathize with your opponent during a war!"

Enkidu said: "I also persuaded myself to treat it as a game. Just like fighting monsters, destroy the oncoming enemies. In the end, their lives turned into points earned by the protagonist, so that

I reach the sky in one step...

However, this game is too real..."

The system said: "Then treat everything as ancient dust, which has long been crushed by the wheels of history."

"The wheel of history..." Enkidu smiled bitterly, "There is always something shining in the dust, right? Just like the free cone of Ulukakina."

"Things that shine will always remain. Even if they die, they will affect the changes of future generations."

"Then shouldn't I be too involved?" Enkidu asked.

"You shouldn't get involved in these things! Once you choose to side with a certain side, you will inevitably deviate from your true intentions.

Of course it’s okay to participate, so you can collect more historical information for me..."

"Then tell me about the 'justice' of Wenma people, so that I can have a better mental balance."

System: "Okay.

There is a long-standing feud between Wenmar and Lagash, who have been at war for more than a century over the fertile lands of the ancient Garden of Eden between the two cities.

The initial boundaries were determined by King Mesilim of Kish, but his decision seemed to favor the more powerful Lagash.

Wenma was never satisfied with this, so its troops often crossed the border and smashed the border markers.

Wars inevitably followed, but the Wenma were always defeated (with only two exceptions in a hundred years).

Later, Lagash allowed the Wenma people to farm on the designated land, but a large proportion of the grain produced must be used to repay the rent of the land. This policy made the Wenma economically a vassal of Lagash.

Wenma often failed to repay its loans with interest, so its troops would cross the border again. This was a powerless gesture and they never occupied the territory for long.

The cycle of war continued for generations, with Wenma always losing.

Therefore, when Lugerzaghis had the chance to defeat Lagash once and for all, he wanted to avenge a century of humiliation and defeat.

All Wenma people dream of beating Lagash one day."

Enkidu sighed: "That is to say, both sides of the war have their own justice and their own sins. Maybe I really shouldn't get involved."

He thought of Dan Ning, who was perhaps the only Wenma who did not want to conquer Lagash. She did not participate in this war against Lagash. In fact, she had been opposing her father's aggressive expansion policy.

My wife and I are still on the same page.

Because Lagash was too powerful (coupled with Enkidu's inactivity), the war between Lagash and Wenma continued to be stalemate for a period of time, and Lugarzagisi had no choice but to retreat.

But Wenma people will not give up so easily.

After Zaghis returned to Uruk, he continued to strengthen his troops and mobilized the major city-states he conquered to form a huge mixed army and launched another attack on the city of Lagash.

Lagash resisted tenaciously, and the second siege failed again. However, the Wenma army killed Ulukakina's son in the battle, causing a heavy psychological blow to King Lagash.

During the third time, Lugalzaghisi used money to hire Semitic troops from the north.

Semitic (referred to as Semitic) nomads used spears and bows to hunt and make a living every day. They were stronger and better at fighting than the Sumerians who were farmers.

Enkidu frowned secretly. It didn't seem like a good thing for foreigners to be hired to resolve Sumer's "domestic disputes".

The third battle was unprecedentedly cruel. The two sides were so angry that they both paid a heavy price.

According to historical records, Lagash's army resisted tenaciously until "not even one out of ten soldiers left in each combat unit".

This time, Lugalzaghisi finally won.

The gate of Lagash was breached, and the Wenma army marched straight in and began appalling looting and killing.

Hundreds of years of defeat and humiliation broke out at this moment, and they massacred the soldiers and civilians of Lagash, leaving the city no longer able to resist.

They ransacked wealthy mansions and royal palaces because Lugazaghisi had promised when his morale was low that after the city was captured, all the wealth would be freely available to them to compensate for all the hardships and heroic sacrifices.

The riots taking place at the moment are more terrifying than the scenes in hell. They are killing each other among the same kind, and everyone has lost their mind.

Enkidu could only try his best to restrain his men not to kill people. If they wanted to rob property, then let them go...

After intimidating the army and giving a death order, he led a group of people who were willing to follow him to save civilians. However, in the face of the riots of tens of thousands of people throughout the city, personal power seemed to be of no avail.

With the palace empty, Ulukakina fled the city of Lagash under the loyal protection of the people and took refuge in Girsu, a religious center in the east.

After the Wenma army looted the palace, they were still not satisfied and rushed into the major temples.

The temple was the economic center of the Sumerian countries, and the wealth concentrated there was unmatched by the royal palace.

The robbers put countless silver, gold and lapis lazuli in the temple into bags and tied them together, even the silverware on the altars of Enlil and Utu.

They looted the Nimakh Temple, Ninda Temple, Lugar Ulubu Temple, Nanshe Temple, Amagashtina Temple, and even set fire to the Jatudu Temple irrationally.

Dumuz Abzu Temple and Antasura Temple.

(In order to leave no trace, Inanna’s oval temple was treated the same.)

Such atrocities were rarely seen in Sumerian wars.

The wars Enkidu had experienced before were all civil wars fought according to more "civilized" rules: if a city surrendered quickly, it would generally be treated leniently; the longer it resisted, the worse its fate would be when it finally fell.

But the worst thing is to pay more war reparations instead of outright looting and massacre.
Chapter completed!