Wars are all cruel, especially in ancient times, which purely killed and injured people to achieve victory in war, so it was even more cruel. Often after the war, the city is slaughtered, so after the war, it is likely that the red land will be uninhabited for thousands of miles. For example, when the Mongols conquered the world, they basically fought where they killed, many cities became ruins, and the population was basically killed. For example, Genghis Khan conquered the Flower Thorn Model Country and basically killed its capital. And in this place, only 17 people were left after the Great War, and with these 17 people, 100 years later, their descendants established a nation, and the only man of these 17 people was worshipped by the future generations as the god of freedom.
The story takes place in the tenth century, when the Byzantine Emperor Basil II was ambitious and extremely brutal. He sent a large army to attack the then Kingdom of Bulgaria, which was small and consisted of city-states, and finally the Bulgarian king gathered a national army of 30,000 to face Basil II, and finally the entire army was destroyed, and more than 16,000 people were captured.
In order to occupy Bulgaria and destroy its resistance, Basil II blinded all 16,000 people, made them waste, and blinded them and released them back. Invisibly, most drowned on the road and starved to death, and only a few returned to Bulgaria, but they could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide one after another.
The loss of more than 30,000 people was directly the entire effective force of Bulgaria at that time, and in the town of Lila, a very prosperous town at that time, most of the men were conscripted into the army and died on the battlefield, and others fled to escape the war. There was only one deserter left in the town, a man named Heristo, who was so cowardly that he hid to avoid military service.
There are also 16 women in the town who have lost their husbands, and they have no other place to flee, so they have to stay. The Byzantine army continued to sweep throughout Bulgaria to calm the resistance, and when it came to the town of Larry, Heristo took 16 women into hiding, so there was no one in the town, and the Byzantine army concluded that the town had been exterminated, and there was little to be swept away after that.
Heristo, for their prudence, is also day and night, and has always been strong to live. People in the surrounding area thought that these people who appeared every night in the town of Larry were ghosts, so they did not dare to come. The 17 men spent a long time here, and at first Heristo's cowardly desertion was despised by the women.
But as time went on, slowly these women began to compete for an affair with Christo. Slowly, the town of Lari grew more populous and returned to its former prosperity. After 100 years, The descendants of Christo revolted and re-established the country on the Bulgarian land, and Christo became the god of freedom in Bulgaria! And it has been revered by the Bulgarian people for thousands of years.