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- Massimo Gramelini (Vice-President, Journalist and Columnist, Italian newspaper La Presse)

Four teams of slightly weaker Macedonian royal pikemen were placed in the center by Maxi to list the most standard phalanx of spears to meet the enemy, and on the left and right flanks, two of the stronger Spartan hoplites, were used to consolidate the phalanx.

The ironclad cavalry and companion cavalry, which were originally active on the left and right flanks of the outermost phalanx, withdrew to Bai Feng's side at this time, but they still maintained a wedge-shaped battle formation and could join the battle in a fighting posture at any time.

The four Roman youth troops were sent by Bai Feng to fifty meters behind the phalanx, and as soon as the enemy army wanted to cross the front of the phalanx and attack from the weakest flank of the phalanx, the four Roman youth troops who were ready to attack would immediately rush forward and counterattack.

The range of the Cretan archers, who were inferior to the longbowmen, was much farther than that of the average ordinary archer, and the archers of the Yamato Empire were undoubtedly ordinary archers, and their range was about forty meters less than that of the Cretan archers.

As soon as the army of the Spo family in the castle of Takamizuji had begun to leave the city, Bai Feng sent this group of Cretan archers behind the pikemen of the phalanx, because he found about 500 bows and arrows in the army of the Spo family out of the city.

These bows and arrows with long banners lined up in front of the other spears, and if they were not suppressed by the corresponding archers, the Macedonian royal pikemen and Spartan heavy infantry, who remained immobile in the phalanx, would have suffered casualties.

Ever since the city of Rome had possessed the long-range longbow of Lenghuai, the army of Rome had never suffered any long-range attacks from the enemy, and Bai Feng did not want the soldiers of his own battalion to be lightly attacked by the bows and arrows of the Spo family.

At the rate of fire of the Cretan archers, a distance of forty meters was enough for one hundred and sixty Cretan archers to fire four volleys, and if the enemy archers were to run lightly, their rate of fire would be slower, giving the Cretan archers more time to fire a volley.

At least four salvo shots, even if they can't completely annihilate the enemy's 500 bows and arrows, they can at least completely defeat them; the Ashigaru of the Spo family is not a barbarian warrior, and they don't have the courage to fight to the death.

The surrender of the Sanada family and the southern family had long allowed Bai Feng to master the battle rules of the general family army of the Yamato Empire, and for these armies, if the loss reached about thirty percent, their entire army would collapse, with few exceptions.

Of course, thirty percent here refers to losses, including the wounded, and if only the casualties are counted, then a maximum of fifteen percent of the casualties is enough to demoralize the army of any ordinary family.

600 meters, 500 meters, 400 meters...... Two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters, one hundred and twenty meters, when the army of the Spo family approached only a hundred and twenty meters from the phalanx of pikes, the first volley of the Cretan archers began!

The sound of "swishing ......" brought up a hundred and sixty arrows that flew out, and the arrows of the Spo family were covered by the whistling arrows before they could react.

"Poof...... ......The sound of the sharp arrow piercing the flesh was small, but the screams and wails that followed were loud, and dozens of bows and arrows who fell to the ground were either killed or wounded, causing the other bows and arrows who were not shot to hurry up.

Immediately afterward, the second and third rounds of arrows of the Cretan archers followed, and the archers who did not even have leather armor suffered nearly a third of the casualties under the blow of three successive waves of arrows, and the remaining two-thirds were only enough to stretch their bows and arrows.

Before the fourth rain of arrows of the Cretan archers and the first round of arrows of the archers had not yet been fired, three groups of Parthian archers, who had arrived on the battlefield in time, suddenly launched an attack on the two flanks of the enemy.

The archers who were caught off guard did not expect that their wings would be hit by a rain of arrows, and they thought that the cavalry of the Yanhuang family was just some light cavalry cruising on the periphery of the battlefield, but they did not expect that the enemy was the legendary archer cavalry!

In the Yamato Empire, which did not have many war horses, it was a luxury to form a cavalry, and even the strongest southern family in the country of Mutsu did not have cavalry belonging to their own family, let alone the Spo family, which was the lowest in strength;

The sudden attack of the Parthian archers interrupted the Spo family's archery counterattack and plunged them into chaos once again, and the fourth and fifth rounds of arrows from the Cretan archers once again covered the hapless archers.

The cross-attack of the Cretan archers and Parthian archers dealt a heavy blow to the archers of the Spo family, and the tragic death of more than 200 archers and ashigari quickly routed the helpless archers.

The scattered archers and arrows still maintained their due sanity, and did not dare to turn around and flee directly, but fled backwards from the wings of the spearmen behind them, of course, not that they did not want to turn around and run, but that they were afraid of being killed on the spot by the samurai behind them!

After successfully defeating the archers of the Spo family, the Cretan archers switched their shots to the speared ashigaru, while the Parthian archers mounted the more valuable samurai and ashigaru group heads.

A distance of about 100 meters was less than half a minute for the charging pikemen, and the Cretan archers had to retreat after only two more rounds of arrows, giving the pikemen enough space to meet the enemy.

The phalanx of spears made up of sharp spears is not so easy to break through, and although the spears of the Spoo family are also a type of pikemen, their spears are more than half shorter than those of the Macedonian royal pikemen.

The warriors of the Spoo family, with their spears behind them, fearlessly rushed into the phalanx of Macedonian royal pikemen and Spartan hoplites, but the brave warriors were not able to pull off miracles.

The samurai who charged at the forefront seemed to have no second ending except to be stabbed to death on the spot by the dense array of spears, and the spears behind them quickly followed in their footsteps, spraying their blood in front of the spear phalanx of the guards.

In a hurry, a spear of the Spoo family, unable to achieve any success, threw his spear at the phalanx of spears, and a royal pikeman with a two-handed spear clenched in both hands was killed by the speeding spear before he could react.

The vacant position of the fallen royal pikeman was immediately taken by his comrades behind him, but the spearmen of the Spoo family in the battle found a new way to deal with the pike, and they all struggled to throw their spears into the pike.

In an instant, countless hurled spears were fired at the royal pikemen and Spartan hoplites, and the hoplites who had eaten a trench and a long wield were not fools, and they hurriedly raised their round shields to fend off the attack of this particular javelin.