What was Sargon II's expedition like?

Around 1 1 century BC, the kingdom of Babylon was destroyed by the Hittites, and since then the two river basins have been in a state of long-term scuffle. At this time, Assyria in northern Babylon began to rise. After hundreds of years of hard work, he finally defeated all his opponents and established the Assyrian Empire.

In 2600 BC, women's headdresses unearthed from Wuer's tomb were made of gold and colored stones and worn on the heads of modern plaster models. The establishment of Assyrian Empire was closely related to the barbarism and belligerence of Sargon II (72 BC1~ 705 BC).

When Sargon II was in power, the most powerful enemy of Assyria was Uraltu Kingdom. In 7 14 BC, he personally led a great army to attack Uratu. The army was invincible, like nobody's business. King Saduri II of urartu was defeated and committed suicide. The Assyrian army annihilated the enemy's main force, destroyed the temple of urartu's main god Harki, occupied a large territory, and gained a lot of wealth and population.

About this expedition, Sargon II wrote a poetic expedition, which is one of the earliest military literature works in the world. The expedition described the dust raised by his huge army marching, which covered the sky like a dark cloud on the horizon; His army has high morale, like a roaring lion, which makes all animals fear; His army killed the enemy bravely, like locusts devouring crops, clean and thorough. In fact, after hundreds of years of continuous campaigns, Assyria has trained a powerful steel army. This army has complete arms, including infantry, cavalry, chariot soldiers, engineers, navy and other units. The army is well-equipped, the offensive weapon is iron weapon, and the defensive equipment is armor and shield. Engineers are equipped with city bumpers, just like modern tanks, except that this kind of "tank" can't fire shells, but can only smash enemy gates or walls with tentacles. There are also tunnel soldiers who dig holes and destroy enemy walls. According to the research of foreign scholars, the Assyrian Empire was the first country in the world to master quenching technology and use iron weapons on a comprehensive and large scale. Assyria is invincible in West Asia with such a powerful army and advanced weapons.

After destroying the kingdom of Urartu, Sargon II sent troops to conquer the Miti (now Hamadan) area in Iran. Many important events in Iranian history have been preserved by his exploration.

Sargon II, like King sargon of Akkad, is also a figure of unknown origin. He may be the second son of King Tigray Palaza III of Assyria. After his brother was assassinated by the Temple Priest, he succeeded to the throne and became king of Assyria. But some people think that he is not a royal family, but a usurper by force.

When Sargon II came to power, Assyria was at home and abroad, and the military bureaucratic group headed by the king clashed with the industrial and commercial aristocratic forces represented by the temple priests. The vassal States rose up in succession to resist, and the rule of the Assyrian empire was crumbling. Therefore, after he took office, he changed his father's policy of unilaterally supporting military bureaucrats, wooed temple priests by granting a large number of urban autonomy, established an autocratic monarchy system with military bureaucrats and temple priests as its pillars, and consolidated internal rule.

Sargon II is the most famous conqueror of Assyria, but his policy towards the conquered areas has changed greatly. He gradually changed the king of Assyria's cruel slaughter policy in the conquered areas into a forced immigration policy in an attempt to induce the people in the conquered areas to stop resisting.

In 7 13 BC, he ordered the army to attack the city of Jerusalem. Rabshakeh, the commander of the army, shouted to the Jewish residents in the city, "Make peace with me and come out to surrender to me, so that everyone can eat the fruit of his own vine and fig tree and drink the water from his own well. Until I come and take you to a place like your own, a place where there is grain and new wine, grain and grapes, olive trees and honey. So that you can live and not die. "

However, his deceptive propaganda did not work, because it was also a great disaster for the people in the conquered areas to be forced to leave their homes and move abroad. Therefore, the people in the conquered areas are still stubbornly resisting, and Assyria's slaughter policy has not stopped. They killed all the local able-bodied men, completely destroyed villages and towns, and forced women and children to move to other places as prisoners of war to work as laborers on royal farms.

This extremely cruel policy of Assyria may be due to the extreme inferiority of Assyrians. Because they knew that they were behind other countries in Celia, they took brutal revenge on the conquered peoples with higher civilization in an attempt to eliminate their sense of inferiority.

In 705 BC, Sargon II died in an expedition to Iran, but the literary works recording his military expedition have been handed down to this day. The merits and demerits of the eternal romance are left to future generations to say.