The uncertainty of life is where our hope comes from.

– Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)

The fierce Spartan hoplites and royal pikemen, who were not afraid of death, fought unrelentingly in their pikes after being broken up by the wolf cavalry, and the wolf cavalry came in like a tidal wave, besieging them like a sea flooding the reef.

As soon as the spear line in front was broken up, the Cretan archers and iron gunners in the rear immediately scattered and retreated to the two flanks, but their speed of running was noticeably slower than that of the wolf cavalry, and in a matter of moments, the wolf cavalry caught up with them.

Cretan archers still had short swords at their waists as auxiliary equipment, while the iron gunners had only one iron cannon in their hands, and the archers and spearmen, who lacked the strength of close combat, could not stop the onslaught of the wolf cavalry, and the whole army collapsed in only a minute or two.

Compared to the Cretan archers, who fought and retreated, the completely collapsed iron gunners really turned around and ran, and here you can see the difference between the Roman system and the shogunate system, the former has a morale advantage that the latter cannot match.

The arrogant wolf cavalry, who had no interest in the pursuit of a defeated army such as the iron cannon gunners, left some of the cavalry to continue to crush the recalcitrant heavy infantry and archers, while gathering their main cavalry and charging the Spartan army.

The wolf king Sakel, who is barely a qualified commander, has a simple and reasonable idea: first lead the wolf cavalry to break through the weakest middle army of the Celestial Dragon army, then wipe out the Celestial Dragon army in the middle all the way, and finally make a detour to the periphery to defeat the two strongest wings of the Celestial Dragon army.

In Thack's view, the shield wall defense line of the Seventh Wing, the Assault Wing, the reserve force, and the spear phalanx defense of the Spartan Legion were undoubtedly the most solid defense among the Celestial Dragon Army;

In fact, the Predator Guard, the Fire Legion, the City Defense Army and other troops were successively defeated by the frontal assault of the wolf cavalry, and even the spear defense line built by the under-armed Spartan heavy infantry and the royal pikemen did not stop the charge of the wolf cavalry.

The wolf cavalry who successfully routed the pike-line line were left with only a few thousand wolf cavalry to clear the heavy infantry and archers who were fighting to the death, and the distance between the pike-phalanx and the Spartan legion was about 800 meters, and the wolf cavalry advanced slightly to enter the range of the longbowmen.

Seeing that the surging wolf cavalry in front of him had approached a position less than five hundred meters away from his own army, Leonidas, who subconsciously clenched the spear in his hand, suddenly stabbed the spear in his hand forward, and then withdrew it.

His eyes had been firmly fixed on the captains of his legion, and seeing Leonidas's move, the two longbow captains who understood immediately ordered the longbowmen under their command: "First round of projectiles, prepare!"

With the order of the two co-captains, the longbowmen, who held the bow in their left hand and the arrow in their right hand, raised their Lenghuai longbow in their left hand in unison, and then stretched their bows at a 45-degree inclination, ready to shoot.

"Shoot!" "Shoot!"

The two firing commands, almost in no particular order, made the ready longbowmen instantly release their bowstrings drawn into a full moon, and more than 2,000 sharp arrows formed a rain of arrows, covering the rushing wolf cavalry cluster.

The characteristics of the Leng Locust longbow determine that they are extremely difficult to be pulled into a full moon state, but the natural strength of the barbarian warriors is as strong as an ox, and it is enough to pull the Leng Locust longbow into a full moon state, which invisibly greatly increases the lethality of the arrows.

The first round of throwing from the two longbow wings cost the densely formed wolf cavalry nearly 400 casualties, and this firing distance was an ultra-long range that belonged only to the longbowmen, and was by no means comparable to any other far superior army.

"Second round of throwing, ready!"

"Shoot!"

"Third round of throws, ready!"

"Shoot!"

......

Round after round of arrow rain, from the back of the Spartan army's spear phalanx, the charging wolf cavalry group, five rounds of arrow rain covering the blow, caused nearly 2,000 casualties to the wolf cavalry group!

The death of his Robe tribesmen made the eyes of the wolf king turn red, and he was extremely disgusted with the Celestial Dragon army that had killed and injured his people in front of him, and he wanted to fly directly into the enemy army and tear them all to pieces!

The wolf king, who fell into madness, led the wolf cavalrymen with blood-red eyes who were also stimulated, and viciously pounced on the spear phalanx where the Spartan army was waiting.

The pikemen defense line constructed by the four phalanx wings was composed of four brigades, and the four hundred-man teams under each brigade were distributed in columns; thirty-two super-long pikemen formed a platoon, and one hundred-man squad formed four platoons, and after an interval of two meters, there was a second hundred-man team.

The eight phalanx brigades under the jurisdiction of the four phalanx wings used thirty-two small pike phalanxes to form a super-large pike phalanx of four rows and eight columns, and an infantry wing and an elite infantry wing each to protect their flanks on the left and right sides of the super-large pike phalanx.

When the wolf cavalry who were struggling to charge against the volley of the longbowmen rushed into the pike phalanx, the eight pike centuriens in the first row did not even have a chance to react, and they were directly crushed by the ferocious wolf cavalry.

The wolf cavalry at the front of the wolf cavalry cluster, the wolf under their seat is often pierced through the head and forelimbs by sharp spears when they attack the dense pikemen phalanx, and their thick flesh can prevent the pikemen from pulling out their spears.

In the blink of an eye, the wolf cavalry that continued to rush up would step on the corpses of their people and continue to charge, and the first row of pikemen, covered in the blood of the wolf cavalry, could not maintain even the most basic formation under the tide of wolf cavalry attack.

Fortunately, the specially trained barbarian warriors have very strict military discipline, coupled with their already fierce personalities; even if the attack of the wolf cavalry is unstoppable, even if their formation is broken, they still desperately resist the front line and do not take a step back!

In fact, it's not that they don't want to retreat, it's that they can't retreat; two meters behind the pikemen in the first row are the pikemen in the second row, and the pikemen who retreat without permission can only die in the hands of their own robes, and this is the ruthlessness of the phalanx.

The huge group of wolf cavalry, after crushing the first row of pikemen, met the phalanx of the second row of pikemen; this time, the wolf cavalry, which had slightly reduced the attack, did not instantly break the pikemen who were strictly defending, and the dense forest of spears caused heavy casualties to the wolf cavalry for the first time.

The longbowmen, who continued to shoot, kept throwing the sharp arrows from their quivers at the wolf cavalry in front of them, the first row of pikemen who had been crushed was still fighting stubbornly, the pikemen who had not been crushed in the second row, and the pikemen in the third platoon were immediately reinforced at the slightest instability.

The pikemen phalanx formed by the combined efforts of the two rows of pikemen not only blocked the charge of the wolf cavalry, but also slowed down the original ferocious offensive of the wolf cavalry;

In the face of this increasingly anxious battle situation, the wolf king Thacker did not stubbornly fight to the death, but after the anger and madness in his heart subsided slightly, he decisively ordered all the wolf cavalry to retreat immediately, and no longer carry out a futile death rush.

While the other wolf cavalry quickly retreated, hundreds of wolf cavalry who were in a scuffle with the pikemen were left behind, and these wolf cavalry, abandoned by Thack, only lasted less than three minutes before they were completely annihilated by the pike phalanx that pressed up!