Author's Note:
Part One - The Great Battle will use Homer's Iliad from when the Greeks attack the City of Troy. When I first started this story I thought I would have to blend other story lines to make it my own but I quickly realized that Homer has an abundance of material that I could use to make this story my own. Without new characters I will simply just integrate the ones that people don't really know about (unless you are a hardcore Iliad fan). From a plot standpoint we will keep the battle site and main story from the Iliad but tweak it to exponentially make the battle bigger with more gore such as beheading a character.
From the Introduction to Part One, I integrated the three Prince's of Troy more than any known major adaptation that we can all say we've read or watched at some point in time. Deiphobus plays a major role in the arc as a result of the integration of characters. Due to time constraints from COVID-19 this part of the story is much for fast paced with less dialogue between the characters and more storytelling on my part in order to advance the plot to where it needs to be for the final part.
Part One
After routing the Trojan forces on the beaches the Kings of Greece and King Agamemnon meet to discuss the next phase of the War. The discussion turned into a spat between Achilles and Agamemnon. The spat led Achilles to order his Myrmidons to stand down for the remainder of the campaign and to let the Greeks, especially Agamemnon, suffer heavy losses to realize that they are needed. Although Achilles had led the Greeks to a victory on the beach, he quarreled with King Agamemnon and refused to fight the next day.
Inside the walls of Troy, Hector and Deiphobus are preparing to bait the Greeks into a trap if the do not accept Paris's challenge for the right to Helen and end the war right there. On the other side the Greeks will be primarily led by Odysseus and the Ithacians.
Odysseus: It will be a long hot two hour march to the gates of Troy! I want all of you to fight with ferocity! NOW MARCH!
Before the battle Prince Deipohbus and General Glaucus address the Trojan army.
Deipohbus: Today we fight for our right to live as free people. We will choose to die on our feet rather than live on our knees. We choose to fight to the last Trojan. We choose to fight for freedom!
Mounted on their cavalry the three Princes of Troy look out towards the horizon.
Hector: Are you sure you want to do this?
Paris: I started this war.
Deipohbus: You sure did.
Hector: You don't have to do this. This isn't about Helen anymore. This is about power.
Paris: I will fight Menelaus.
Loud thuds can be heard approaching the city from the horizon line. It's the mighty Greek army.
The Greeks, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Odysseus, meet Trojans, Deiphobus, Hector, and Paris, halfway between the two armies to discuss potential terms.
Agamemnon: I will be swift and blunt with my demands. You will first give Helen back to my brother. Second you will surrender your right to be free and fight for me whenever I deem it necessary.
Deiphobus: You are as dumb as you look.
Hector grunts and rolls his eyes at Deiphobus for the not so helpful comment after Agamemnon makes his demands.
Hector: We reject your conditions. I know what you'll do to us, to our women, to our children even if we do surrender our freedoms. You're a butcher that can only rule through fear.
Agamemnon scuffed and brushed off the accusation.
Agamemnon: Then every son and daughter of Troy shall die because of your arrogance.
Menelaus is angry that his wife is never brought up by the Trojans and he draws his swords and swings at Paris. Hector, being the great warrior that he is, strikes a deadly blow at Menelaus and cuts his head off.
A frightened and angered Agamemnon orders his lords and generals back to the army to prepare a charge. The emissaries of the Trojans gallop back to their forces with three Prince's of Troy riding back to the infantry outside the city gates to lead their army.
Hector: ARCHERS AT THE READY!
Glaucus: FRONT LINE! PREPARE YOURSELVES! SHOW NO FEAR! SHOW NO MERCY!
As the Greek army charges at them the Trojan army shouts in unity: FOR TROY!
Odysseus leads the Greek army into the teeth of the Trojan army. The Trojan army breaks the first wave of the attack and the Greek become disorganized.
Odysseus: GET BACK INTO LINES!
With the Greeks becoming disorganized Paris orders the archers atop the city walls to fire into the center of the Greek army.
Paris: Archers! Aim for the center! Cut off any support for the Greek advance!
Achilles and his Myrmidons watch as the Trojans pick the Greek army apart from above with their archers. As the Greek army continues disorganized Odysseus orders them to fall back into lines and to charge the Trojan lines again.
Odysseus: FALL BACK INTO LINES! FALL BACK INTO LINES! THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THEM! ATTACK!
It isn't until the Trojans had killed nearly 400,000 Greeks that Agamemnon orders his army to retreat back to the beaches and to their ships for cover.
Agamemnon: FALL BACK! BACK TO THE SHIPS!
Odysseus: RETREAT!
The Trojan army charges after them killing the Greeks that are slow in retreat. All while Deiphobus charges out from behind the Trojan infantry with mounted units and is able to cut down more Greeks before the Greek archers are in range of the Trojan forces.
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Adapted from Homer's Iliad
Images from Warner Brother's Troy (2004)