When they reached the middle of the river, the depth of the water was indeed only up to the crotch, as Curitopus said, which completely reassured the soldiers, who were a little nervous, and their pace quickened. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Persian army was already some distance from the riverbank, and in a hurry, the dense reefs on the riverbank affected their speed. The slingers, who were in the rear of the mercenaries, disrupted the Persian army's array with their long range, so that some of the chaotic Persian troops had not yet fully reached the shore, and the mercenaries rushed to the shore before the archers could fire a total of two rounds of arrows.

Oljuntas, the great Persian nobleman who spent more of his days drinking wine and dancing in his tent, had never had a detailed investigation or understanding of the vicinity of the battlefield, and he was completely panicked when the mercenaries waded across the river so easily and quickly, approaching him like hungry wolves.

Fortunately, his adjutant was calmer and urged the infantry to quickly move forward to encircle him.

After the first few columns of mercenaries rushed ashore, they had to slow down because of the craggy reef on the shore, which gave the Persian army time to breathe, and they finally gathered around like a tidal wave, and gradually wrapped the mercenaries who had come ashore tightly......

For hand-to-hand combat, mercenaries are never afraid. The round shield in their left hand protects themselves and their teammates, and in their right hand, they raise their bayonet spears high above the round shield and stab at the enemy on the opposite side, while the soldiers in the back rows also extend their bayonet guns as far as they can, protecting their teammates in the front line of battle and intimidating the enemy. Although the soldiers behind the array could not participate in the fight, they did not stand idly by, they tried their best to push forward against the soldiers in front, hoping to use their strength to push the opponent's line back, or even squeeze through it......

The fierce Caldan people faced the ferocious onslaught of the mercenaries and returned fire with their spears without showing weakness, while the greater strength and higher terrain of the Persians also offset the impact of some of the Greek heavy infantry. The archers in the rear of the Persian army and the archers in the rear did not dare to show weakness, and desperately fired rounds of sharp arrows to return the long-range blows of the Greek slingers and archers.

The two sides engaged in a bloody battle on the north bank of the Kentrite River. If the mercenaries win, they will set foot on Armenian soil and ravage Armenian land, which Ojuntas and his Armenian soldiers do not want to see; And if the mercenaries fail, they face destruction. So both sides are doing their best.

The mercenaries standing in the river face the greatest dilemma: on the one hand, the biting water of the river is gradually taking away their physical strength; On the other hand, most of the Persians' arrows fell on them. So that they will shield themselves and prevent them from being swept away by the river.

Davers saw with his own eyes a soldier who slipped and fell, and the soldiers around him stepped forward to save him, broke away from the protection of his shield, was shot by an arrow, and fell into the water......

Why didn't the Spartan soldiers show up yet? Davers was anxiously looking forward to it.

Standing on the top of a large rock, Ojuntas was calmed down by the balance of the battle, and when he saw the mercenaries of the Kentriet River struggling to be swept downstream from time to time, his heart began to have hope again. Of course, he could not see, nor would he see, that his soldiers were also falling......

Suddenly, there was a loud commotion from the right flank of the formation.

"What is Artukas doing?" Obrontas, looking to his right with some annoyance, saw an astonishing scene: the light infantry and archers in the rear of the right flank were fleeing in panic, and behind these defeated soldiers were hundreds of heavily armed Greek soldiers forming a thin infantry line, driving the defeated troops towards the center......

"Greeks! It's the Greeks!! Fast! Fast! ......" Olon Tas panicked again, and his mouth burst into a frenzy.

The adjutant hurriedly led the governor's personal guards to meet them, trying to stop the rout and prevent them from rushing through the formation in the middle, who knew that those Greek soldiers were not at all like ordinary Greek heavy infantry, they ran fast, pursued the rout soldiers who fell behind, stunned one with a wave of the shield, and stabbed one with a shot, which was simply an efficient killing tool, and the Persians ran as if they were running away from the demons of hell, and the personal guards could not stop them at all, and they were instantly coerced to flee to the left front, and the formation of the Persians on the right and middle was completely fragmented......

And the mercenaries who were blocked on the bank of the river easily broke through the line of the panicked Kardan at this moment, and also began to kill on a large scale......

It has to be said that the Spartan warriors, who have been engaged in military training since childhood, have a strong tactical literacy, according to the rough plan in advance, they began to consciously drive the rout to the riverbank, except for a few sober Persians, most of the soldiers did not know the direction, just fled with the flow of people, and when they saw the wide Kentrite River ahead, they all cried in despair......

After the guards escorted Ojuntas to a safe place, Ojuntas couldn't help but cry when he saw that the originally mighty army of more than 20,000 people was now only a few hundred people following him. He knew that with his strength he could no longer stop the Greek mercenaries from setting foot on Armenian territory.

The mercenary leaders were excited, and in the face of a large number of Polish soldiers who had surrendered, they quickly made a decision: to release the soldiers of other ethnic groups in Armenia, such as the Kaldans, and to express to them the goodwill of the Greek mercenaries; And for the Persians, the choice of the leaders, including Davers, was massacre!

Ignoring the pleading pleas of thousands of unarmed Persian soldiers, the Greek hoplites drove them into the Kentrite River with shields and bayonet guns, stabbed them indiscriminately, and caused them to push in chaos with stones and arrows, and those who fell into the water would pull down the others around them in order to survive, like crabs in a jar pulling each other's legs, and no one could escape......

It didn't take long for Davers to look at the dense surface of the river and the floating corpses, he sighed and looked away, throwing his gaze to the opposite bank: the Ducoyans were nowhere to be seen, and it was evident that they were so frightened that they could not hold back when they saw the great rout of the Polish army.

The rearguard of the mercenaries and the baggage battalions were able to cross the Kentrite River with ease, and then the whole army, led by the chiefs, occupied the empty camp of Ojuntas, and the fleeing Persians left behind a large amount of material and provisions, so the whole army began to celebrate the victory after the sacrifice of Zeus and Okeanos.

Because everyone knows that after defeating Ojuntas, there is no one in front of Armenia to stop their progress, and they are more confident in whether they can return to Greece!

Volume 1 Epilogue

After writing the first volume, Davers's adventures in Persia came to an end for the time being, in fact, the content I wrote was only a small part of Xenophon's "Long March", and the mercenaries experienced a lot of difficulties and setbacks, but there is no need to waste pen and ink on this, because that is not the point of this book, and it is not that I boast, I don't like to write books very much (in fact, the author's writing is poor, and he will not pile up flowery rhetoric...... Laugh! ）。

Davers was reborn in this era, adapted to this era, and through his own wisdom and efforts, he became the leader of the mercenaries, gradually mastered military skills, won the hearts of the army, and gained a firm foothold, and has achieved the purpose of this volume. Next, he should fight for his ideals, instead of fighting endlessly on the way back to his hometown......

For me, it can be regarded as a sigh of relief, because this volume is too limited to my imagination and thinking, after all, the conception of this volume of the novel cannot deviate too much from the time, characters, events and other clues in "The Long March", and on the basis of retaining about 20% of the story of the original book, 80% of the innovation has been made.

The next place where the story takes place is a region that is very unfamiliar to readers and unfamiliar to scholars, and the history of this area is only in Herodotus's "History", Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War", and other fragments of works left by scholars of that era. As a result, the recorded histories of the city-states are intermittent, not only are the political systems and diplomatic relations of the city-states vague, but the people, events, and time of their occurrence are not very specific.

Based on the information I collected (there is even less information about it in China), combined with my own inference, coupled with my imagination, I conceived a story line that I felt was more reasonable, and as Davers moved forward, I unveiled its mystery. I hope you are satisfied.

Davers has a long journey ahead of his life, and this is just the beginning. Let us accompany him, encourage him, and go through his legendary journey together......

Tomorrow please start enjoying the second volume: ####