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Leonidas's Spartan legion, although it was a barbarian phalanx legion, was proficient in the use of the Macedonian phalanx, but it was obviously unrealistic and meaningless to maintain the phalanx formation during the advance of the whole army.

This is because the core of the Macedonian phalanx, which is both offensive and defensive, lies not in how elite the soldiers who make up the Macedonian phalanx, but in the tacit cooperation between the various arms that make up the Macedonian phalanx; in order to achieve tacit cooperation between the various arms, the marching speed is naturally not too fast.

This is also the reason why the barbarian phalanx legion is not good at attacking and defending. When defending in place, the barbarian phalanx legions that use the Macedonian phalanx to meet the enemy can have sufficient preparation time to carry out the coordinated deployment between various arms to play the role of the phalanx.

Once the in-situ defense turns into an advance attack, it is unknown whether the barbarian phalanx legion, which does not have sufficient time to prepare, will be able to carry out the coordinated operations between the various arms in a step-by-step manner; at least, Bai Feng, as the governor of Rome City, has no confidence in this.

The complexity of the Macedonian phalanx determines that the composition of the barbarian phalanx legion is relatively large, and unlike other ordinary legions that only have infantry wings and longbow wings, there are also special phalanx wings and cavalry wings within the phalanx corps.

The commander of the corps who can skillfully command four phalanx wings, two infantry wings, two longbow wings, and two cavalry wings, so far, there is only one Leonidas in Rome, and other generals, including the generals of the system, cannot do it.

Gatus and Simpson, who were also the leaders of the Barbarian Phalanx Legion with Leonidas, have so far only rigidly used the static Macedonian phalanx to fight, and have not been able to use the Macedonian phalanx like Leonidas's arm-driven commanding soldiers.

But even with Leonidas's ability, it was impossible for him to resist the onslaught of the enemy's 4,000 barbarian cavalry and 22,000 barbarian warriors when his legions were marching at full speed.

Seeing that the dying and struggling enemy army had chosen the location of his own army as the breakthrough point, Leonidas immediately ordered the whole army to stop advancing and line up on the spot to prepare to meet the enemy! With Leonidas' order, the running and panting Spartan army moved into action in an instant.

The pikemen of the four pikemen of the four pikemen were lined up in each line to form eight pikemen lines, each of which consisted of sixty-four pikemen armed with extra-long spears, each eight rows thick!

Combined with the gap between every two spear lines, a forest of spears with a length of 800 meters on the left and right appeared out of thin air in an instant, and the elite infantry of two wings were responsible for covering the left and right flanks of the spear defense.

Considering the presence of 4,000 cavalry in the enemy army, the two longbow wings that were supposed to be deployed directly in front of the pike line were directly deployed by Leonidas directly behind the pike-phalanx;

The remaining two cavalry wings of more than 2,000 light cavalry and the two divisions of Maxi and Darnell were divided into two mobile units by Leonidas and left on the periphery of the two flanks of the army to prevent the enemy cavalry from making a detour and launching an attack on the rear of the pike-line line.

Faced with the Spartan army, Gregory, who had never seen the strength of the Macedonian phalanx, instinctively felt jealous of the immobility of this army, but he had no choice but to personally lead 4,000 cavalry and rush to the enemy's flank battle formation.

The reason why Gregory's attack object was a flank battle formation composed of an elite infantry wing, rather than a phalanx of spears full of spears, was purely because of the momentum of the spear phalanx, which made the battle-experienced Gregory smell the smell of death.

Most of the famous generals in the ancient and modern worlds of China and abroad believe in their own intuition, and there are even some famous generals who firmly believe that their intuition is something more reliable than the so-called tactics, and Gregory, who is a famous Lucy general, is no exception.

The frontal spear line of the Spartan Legion's phalanx wing was an invincible line of defense that made the wolf cavalry of the orc army hate the battlefield, and Gregory's choice based on his instincts was indeed an extremely wise choice, but unfortunately it was of very limited significance.

When Gregory's 4,000 cavalry rushed to a distance of only 400 meters from the Spartan legion, the longbowmen of the two longbow wings began their volley, a distance of 400 meters, which was enough for the longbowmen to fire at least four rounds of arrows!

Nearly 10,000 arrows were fired from four rounds of arrows in succession, and more than half of Gregory's cavalry, which made people turn on their backs, were killed on the spot.

The Lucy's cavalry, which had never been subjected to such a sharp rain of arrows, managed to survive the four rounds of arrows, and before they could rush into the flanks of the Spartan legions, the flank infantry who had ensured that the spear line was undisturbed took the initiative to rush towards them.

Dressed in black armor with a shield in their left hand and a short sword in their right hand, the elite infantry of the Spartan legion resembled the Roman youth army, and even if they could not use the shield wall, they could use their shields to fend off the charge of the enemy cavalry.

The more than 1,000 Lucy's cavalry, who were caught off guard, did not even have time to react, and were stunned by the onslaught of the elite infantry of the Spartan army, and by the time Gregory reacted, the number of cavalry under his command was less than 500.

The Spartan Legion, which had resisted the frontal charge of the wolf cavalry of the Orc Empire and the Eight Banners of the Jurchen Tribe, still had a hand in dealing with the enemy's cavalry charge, while Gregory paid a heavy price for his blind charge.

Gregory tried to lead the remaining cavalry to retreat, but was once again covered by a rain of arrows from the longbowmen, and the dense rain of arrows wiped out Gregory and his Lucy cavalry, and even he fell to the ground and his fate is unknown.

François saw his fatherly and beloved teacher 'shot' by enemy archers on the way to attack, and his eyes were instantly blood-red, and he immediately led more than 20,000 soldiers behind him to launch a decisive charge against the enemy line.

The flesh and blood of the elite warriors of the Lucian tribe were clearly superior to the sharp arrows of the Spartan legion's longbowmen, and with an impenetrable spear line in front of them, and a rain of sharp arrows covering the shots, François's attack was both bloody and tragic.

After tens of thousands of soldiers had spilled their blood on the battlefield, François, who had been shot four arrows himself, learned that his teacher Gregory had not been shot by the enemy, and that several loyal Lucy cavalrymen used their bodies to block all the arrows for Gregory after he fell unconscious.

When the vengeful anger in his chest was extinguished, François's determination to fight to the death was shattered, and just as the armies of Licini and Vermina caught up, François, who knew that there was no hope of breaking through, chose to lay down his arms with his unconscious teacher.