Chapter 51: The Decisive Battle
The Persian army had been divided into two columns on the opposite bank, with 20,000 Persian cavalry near the riverbank, and infantry and Greek mercenaries behind the cavalry.
Originally, the Persian army had an absolute advantage in this battle, and if you think about it with your toes, you know that the Greek coalition army forcibly crossed the river, and the opposite bank was a steep riverbank, as long as the Persian army intercepted Alexander's army on the opposite bank, and landed one by one, Alexander's army would be difficult to land, but the Polish army made a big mistake in the formation, and put the clumsy cavalry in a horizontal line and put it in the front, which greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the Polish army.
"Philotas, this is a stupid Persian army." Alexander smiled knowingly at Philotas, the young king was the best at finding the enemy's weaknesses and finding the best strategy as quickly as possible.
"Philotas, you are the commander of the attack force on the right flank, and the infantry, cavalry, archers, javelinmen, and Agrarian troops on the right flank are all under the command of Philotas; General Parmanuelle, you are the commander of the left flank, the left flank infantry, the heavy cavalry, the Thracian troops are under the orders of General Parmanuelle; Cavalry of the Guards, with me and the right flank, attacked the enemy, Ptolemy, Seleucus, Cosimarcus, Neakas, Clitus, Amintas, Perdicas prepared to charge with the king. Alexander loudly arranged the battle deployment behind him, his eyes were firm, and his instructions were clear.
The Polish army on the opposite bank must have discovered Alexander's position, and on the opposite bank of Alexander's corresponding right flank troops, a large number of Persian cavalry were gathered after a while, capturing the thief and capturing the king, which was intended to take Alexander first.
Looking at the mighty Persian army on the other side of the Granicas River, Mo Jiu secretly sweated for Alexander, the number of the two armies was very different, and the next war must be very difficult and tragic.
In a moment, the short and terrible silence on the battlefield was broken by the horn of the Macedonian army's attack, Alexander, who was wearing gilded armor, slapped his mount and rushed into the water first.
But it turned out that Alexander's "recklessness" never failed, and he was such a commander who always charged first, and with his heroic combat style, he led the Macedonian "partners" step by step to the historical peak of military warfare from the Granicas River.
Seeing Alexander rush out of the camp first, several generals of the Guards who were in charge of the charge followed closely behind Alexander and urged the horses to jump into the water, and the soldiers behind him shouted the slogan of the charge, just the sound of the horn in the sky was frightening enough, the soldiers ignored the turbulent river, and marched forward, and Alexander ordered the attacking team to advance in a contract-shaped formation, so that the elongated Persian army could not quickly gather forces to attack the attacking forces of the Greek coalition.
Philotas sent an assault squadron to the opposite bank ahead of Alexander, but when the assault squadron reached the right bank, the Persian army, standing high on the bank, first fired a volley of arrows, and then dropped a dense array of javelins, and the cavalry squadron desperately landed on the shore, but the Polish army struggled to resist.
The javelins of the Polish army were like a majestic rain, covering the sky and the sun, and the thousand spears of the Greek coalition army were also like ten thousand golden snakes under the sunlight, stabbing left and right.
The two sides fought fiercely, and the river was instantly dyed red.
After the first wave of fierce charges, the Greek coalition finally retreated due to the disadvantage of the terrain and numbers, and most of the charging squadron assigned by Philotas died in the river, and only a few survivors retreated to the side of the guards under Alexander's command.
Alexander's eyes were blazing, he glanced at the layout of the opposing sides of the enemy and us, and suddenly ordered the guards: "Guards cavalry, charge with me!" ”
I saw Alexander slap the buttocks of the war horse Pusfeilu, Pusfeilu looked up to the sky and roared, swished out of the river more than a meter high, jumped a few steps to the opposite bank, and then Alexander clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and Pusfilu jumped up in the air, stepped on the embankment, and broke into the Persian camp.
The Persian army was so frightened by the majesty of Alexander's horse that it took a few steps back, just in time to dodge a small space for it to settle down.
Alexander seized the opportunity, swung his spear, aimed it at a general wearing Persian gilded scale armor, and shot him in the chest, killing him instantly.
This person is the Persian horse Seridas, seeing the horse landing, the Polish side suddenly more than a dozen soldiers surrounded Alexander, seeing the crowd surrounding, Alexander picked up the spear, and fought hard, although he was "beaten", but there was no fear, the more brave he became.
At the same time that His Majesty Alexander landed on the opposite bank, several close guards also joined the melee on the other side, tearing open an entrance for the Greek coalition to land.
Mo Jiu followed behind the charging team, watching this battle with cold eyes, sighing at the tragedy of the ancient battlefield, and of course also feeling the bravery of the generals of all parties.
At the moment when Jiu'er was distracted, the Persian generals around Alexander on the shore gathered more and more, His Majesty's spear had been cut off, and the king's close guards were all surrounded by Persian generals, and no one could care about His Majesty.
At this moment, a Persian general turned behind Alexander, raised a spear in his hand, and stabbed Alexander with all his strength, Alexander, who was entangled by at least five wave generals in front of him, was suddenly cut off a helmet by the spear wave general behind him, Alexander opened his eyes angrily, suddenly drew out the blue rainbow sword, cut off the head of the general on the left side with a sword, and threw the Persian general down the horse with a wave of his hand.
At the same time, another group of Polish troops surrounded him, and the king became the main target of the Persian generals' attacks.
At this moment, the right flank of Philotas, the left flank of Parmanuel, the middle infantry phalanx of one-eyed Antigonus, all the phalanx rushed to the other side of the river, the Persian army was frightened stupid by the bravery of the Greek coalition army, and hurriedly retreated, but because the cavalry was in front and the infantry was behind, when the cavalry turned around, the infantry behind them hindered the retreat of the cavalry, so that many infantry were trampled by their own cavalry troops, and the scene was miserable.
The Persian army fled so fast that before the men of the Greek mercenary Memnon behind them could react to what was going on, Alexander had already arrived closer, and another fierce confrontation took place, and the Greek mercenaries who fought for money died tragically on the Granicas River.
The chieftain, Memnon, fled in a hurry with his wife, Balsin. Alexander did not send men after them.
Mo Jiu drove her horse along the bank of the river full of corpses, walking towards the edge of the troops, she didn't want to see this bloody scene anymore, no matter which side it was, Jiu'er didn't want to see their dead and wounded, history is constantly advancing in war, but looking back on history, those previous wars, no one wants to see them again, but those former heroes in the war, they all want to take a look at it, so the word contradiction was born.
"Mo Jiu... Save me. An extremely faint voice came from under Jiu'er's horse, Mo Jiu's heart tightened, and he quickly looked down, next to the dead bodies of two Persian generals, a young man with a bloody face trembling was lying on the ground and stretched out his hand to Jiu'er for help.
Genno!? Before the war, Jiu'er also reminded himself to always pay attention to Xuanye's safety on the battlefield, and the two sides were really fighting, and Jiu'er actually forgot about this kid.
Mo Jiu hurriedly jumped off the horse and helped Xuan Ye up, "You kid, aren't you stupid, haven't you studied history?" The Battle of the Granicas River was the first major battle in which Alexander and Persia went head-to-head, and all the Persian princes who commanded the battle were killed. Isn't it good for you to stay in a Persian palace at such a dangerous time? You idiot! "I'm really going to make Jiu'er angry, I don't have the ability to protect myself at all, and I'm so cowardly, why are you here.
Xuan Ye cried and grabbed Mo Jiu's hand, "Mo Jiu, don't be angry, I failed every history exam, I don't know this history at all." ”
My God, how can he be such a player, Mo Jiu exclaimed in his heart.
I don't have time to talk to him about these trivial things, hurry up and hide him first, wearing such conspicuous Persian armor, don't let others see him, Mo Jiu quickly mobilized his brain cells, thinking about what to do next.
Raise your eyes and look around, to see if anyone has seen here, in addition to Fei'er and Ling'er beside her, there is also a pair of eyes staring at this place - Arestander, Jiu'er couldn't help but tremble in his heart, this old thing is really ghostly.
Unable to care about it so much, Jiu'er instructed Fei'er Ling'er to help Xuanye walk towards the grove behind him, hide him first, and talk about the rest later.
Walking to the hidden place in the grove, Mo Jiu ordered Fei'er to take off his armor and put it on Xuanye.
"Mo Jiu, I don't wear it, this is a woman's armor, and it's a Greek woman's armor, I don't wear it." The kid was still hypocritical at this time.
"Do you want to die?" Mo Jiu knew that he didn't need to say much, he knew this person too well, and he ate hard rather than soft.
"Alright then, just this once."
Jiu'er took off his cloak and draped it on Xuan Ye's head, and Mo Jiu told Xuan Ye to walk like a woman.
"Fei'er, you can ride his horse and lead him eastward in a while, don't stop, run as far as possible, find a safe place to stay, and I will contact you."
Fei'er flashed her big black eyes and looked at Jiu'er, "Miss, are you sure you want to save a Persian soldier?" ”
Jiu'er raised her eyebrows helplessly and nodded affirmatively.
"Mo Jiu, I want to go back to Babylon and join my father."
Babylon is one of the four major capitals of Persia, due to the vast territory of Persia at that time, there are four capitals in the country, spring, summer, autumn and winter, Babylon is one of them, and the other three are Susa, Polybos, and Ecbatana.
"Xuanye, do you really regard Darius III as your father? What do you have to do with him? Returning to him is equivalent to sending him to death, let Fei'er take you to a safe place, and take you out of this world when I complete the task, this era of war and chaos does not belong to us, have you forgotten? Jiu'er looked at Xuan Ye with disdain, this kid sometimes wanted to beat him if he didn't have the right views.
"Darius III is my father, and I must go back."
"Are you kid too hard, you won't wake up if I don't beat you?" Jiu'er raised his slap to slap.
"The Nine Maidens of Melbourne...... The Nine Maidens of Mel ......" Seleucus's voice came from not far away, so frightened that Jiu'er quickly held his breath and made a silent gesture to a few people around him.
"General Seleucus, I see the maiden go to the stream to the south." It was Arestander, you heard me right, he actually helped him get Seleucus apart? Jiu'er flickered her eyes a few times, and looked at the two girls in disbelief.
"Don't worry, these are all my Macedonian soldiers, and the imperial maid will be fine."
Alexander was even with Seleucus, thanks to Arestander who had broken up these two people, and it would be miserable to be seen by the two of them, but why should Arestand help himself? With such a handle in his hands, he will not be allowed to negotiate conditions with her Mo Jiu in the future, Jiu'er thought in his heart.
Listening to the sound of horses' hooves gradually leaving, several people in the forest were frightened.
Suddenly, Jiu'er's right palm was scorching, and before he could react, the bronze mirror in Ling'er's hand was gradually shrouded in a mist of light, and a powerful suction force rose from the copper mirror, sucking Jiu'er fiercely to the side of the bronze mirror.
No, this is it, I'll really find time! Jiu'er muttered.
In an instant, Mo Jiu had already entered the powerful aura of the halo, and the pain like an explosion of his mind spread all over his body, Jiu'er endured the discomfort and shouted hoarsely behind him: "Fei'er.. Protect Xuanye.. Ling'er.. Protect the bronze mirror.. I will be back! ”
I faintly heard the shouts of the two girls and Xuan Ye's heart-rending sentence, "Mo Jiu!! Don't leave me alone..... Woo....."
Finally, everything was calm, and Jiu'er fell into a deep sleep.