"So now copy Alexander's anvil hammer tactics?" Zhang Chao hesitated, Alexander the Great's most well-known invention was the Macedonian phalanx, which was born from the primitive Greek hoplite phalanx, and the first highly disciplined group combat method was very powerful for the restraint of barbarian peoples. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the time of the initial crusade, Alexander defeated a million-strong Persian army with such troops, won the Battle of Gaugamela, and conquered Persia.

However, the protection of such a phalanx against arrows is somewhat limited, but it is said that a few rows of soldiers armed with Sarissa's super-long spears can block most of the arrows, and the rest can be blocked by a small half with a round shield hanging from their shoulders......

It is still a little unrealistic, the most powerful thing about the nomads is that their characteristics of living in water and grass give them strong mobility, and the most criticized thing about the Macedonian phalanx is the mobility and terrain constraints, which happen to be restrained.

But now it is useless to think about what he has and what he has not, because in such a short period of time, it is impossible for him to form a phalanx legion.

He looked back and could clearly see that his temporary subordinates were all saber infantry, and they were all lightly armoured, and the two Ascended Ones led Shurima's elite on an expedition, and Shurima's most powerful royal knights were only a few old veterans of a hundred battles, a total of about a hundred people.

Alexander's anvil hammer tactic required one part of the force (the main force) to be used as an anvil, and another part of the force (usually the most elite troops or cavalry capable of delivering quick strikes) as a hammer, striking the enemy on the flanks and backs, so that the enemy army was crushed by the flanks of both sides.

The anvil hammer tactic was pioneered by Alexander the Great, and for the first time the power of cavalry was recognized, but the most important and indispensable of these was still the Macedonian phalanx, the largest anvil in the world at that time.

Now he only has a hundred cavalry, but because of his extreme elite, he thinks that he can still use it as a hammer, but he uses these lightly armored city guards as anvils...... Even relying on the city wall is a bit too nonsense.

The city guards themselves were lightly armoured, armed with recurved double-edged swords and small round shields, and they were more adept at street fighting and hand-to-hand combat, unlike the Macedonian phalanx infantry with a 4 to 5-meter-long Sarissa lance, who were better suited to maintain the battle line, and if they could not even hold their positions and bring the battle to a stalemate, then the so-called anvil hammer tactics were nothing more than a joke.

If they are suitable for defending the city in peacetime, but in the current situation where the number of enemies and friends is very different, and they basically have to fall into a small battle for the city, they are a little inadequate, especially on the city walls, a group of hoplites is far more effective than light infantry, and they can easily push those poorly armored nomadic cannon fodder off the city walls with their huge weight alone.

And although the Shurima Royal Cavalry is strong, but at this time the other party has the most restrained heavy cavalry light cavalry archers, although the heavy armor can protect most of the arrows, but for the sharpshooters with a bright eyes and extremely powerful breath, although this layer of heavy armor is thick, there are still weak armor such as shin guards, neck guards, masks, etc., which may be buried for a large number of nomadic marksmen as long as it takes a little longer......

And with the speed of the royal cavalry, it was too difficult to catch up with the nomadic light cavalry who came and went, and he didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the European knights who were shot through by the Mongols.

"You can only recruit the people first, and under the premise of defending the city, even the people can play a potential far beyond the average soldier. Zhang Chao muttered to himself, at the moment, the city guards he had were roughly no more than 5,000 people, while the enemy had at least 100,000 troops, even if the lowest conscription militia accounted for the vast majority of them, his city guards were far from being the strongest elite.

The quality was slightly better, but the quantity was even worse, so he had to increase his soldiers, even if they were just draftees, but he believed that Shurima's draftees would be much more disciplined than the messy nomads.

Luckily, the nomadic soldiers were just gathering outside the range of the arrows below, provoking and insulting the soldiers inside the city, without intending to attack, which meant that maybe he still had time.

Zhang Chao didn't see siege weapons in their ranks, and he knew very well that it was impossible for these large troops to carry those large siege equipment - in fact, it was impossible for these people to build such high-end gadgets such as shield carts, siege towers, and rushing carts, but it was a little strange that even light ladders did not have them.

It was clearly an omission on the part of the enemy, perhaps they were carrying more treasure, or perhaps they thought that the little time they had lost building the ladder was nothing to them.

In short, now he has the opportunity to give a speech to mobilize the people of the city, and the speech may sound very useless, and Zhang Chao has always thought that all the speakers are fraudsters, no different from pyramid schemers.

But it has to be said that when it comes to mobilizing morale and stimulating human emotions, a successful speech can really exert great power.

Zhang Chao thinks that his tongue is not too clever, but fortunately, he has never eaten pork and he has seen pigs run, whether it is the speech he has seen on the Internet or the speech made by Darius and Azil, he has personally experienced it.

"The enemy is still rushing to siege weapons, even rudimentary ladders take time to make, and the vast majority of the nomads are not skilled at crafting...... We still have time. ”

Zhang Chao said categorically to the lieutenant general behind him.

However, the lieutenant did not react much, he soon realized that these people were very respectful to him, and they could be described as obedient, but everyone seemed a little mechanical, after all, it was just a simulated projection, and they did not seem to be very intelligent.

This made Zhang Chao feel a little tricky, but it would be better if everyone in the whole city was like them, he could easily pull up a conscription militia force of hundreds of thousands of people, and drown these invading enemies in the sea of people.

But obviously, this is absolutely impossible, otherwise the assessment will inevitably be too flawed.

"You take someone to guard here, and I'll come when I go. Zhang Chao commanded, and just wanted to leave.

Suddenly, a clear cry sounded in the sky, and he saw a pitch-black dot appear in the sky, Zhang Chao's pupils suddenly shrank, even if it was so far away, he could still clearly see that it was a group of giant birds of prey with a wingspan of five or six meters!

They have a beak and claws like those of a falcon, but their necks are longer, and their grayish-black feathers exude an ominous aura, each of which seems to be made of metal and looks particularly bright in the sun.

Not only that, but behind them sat sturdy archers shrouded in black leather armor, each of them holding a longbow, carrying a one-zhang-eight (5.76) long riding spear diagonally behind their waists, and a pair of eyes narrowed tightly in the cold wind pressure, revealing a breathtaking killing force.

"I'll go!" Zhang Chao raised his eyebrows, when he was still thinking about learning from Yadi's tactics here, the enemy actually formed an air force, how could he fight?

"No, you must not let the other party get close to the city wall!" Zhang Chao immediately realized this.

Originally, the morale of the city guards was not very high - any army would feel fear when it was surrounded by more than a dozen times the number of enemy troops on several sides.

If they let the air force they have never seen before disrupt the defenses of the city, then the collapse of the entire army will be in the blink of an eye.

And even if these raptor knights all return in vain, he will face the danger of his own city's defense layout, garrison weaknesses and other important information being detected by the other party, which is definitely good news for Ge Satai, who was unable to grasp the situation in the city, but it is even worse for Zhang Chao.

A mere 5,000 men could not defend every wall of the entire city, so he could only do it with a focused approach, and he had to keep a mobile force in his hand, not only to serve as a fire brigade, but also to guard against the other side's tactics of attacking the west.

This means that his forces are still stretched thin, so he must not let the other party find out his truth, otherwise he feels that this group of people is very likely to dare to hit his city gate directly holding the wood.