Chapter 153: Attack
?? The new model of multi-arms mixing greatly enhanced the overall combat effectiveness of the Northern Corps.
The Lance Phalanx no longer has a headache for close combat, as Barbarian Iron Sword Samurai can now effectively engage in close combat. The Longbow team is able to provide accurate and efficient support.
Combined with Sigimo's cavalry legions, Anaxaxos' forces were invincible in the region.
Of course, the combat effectiveness of the Northern Corps is not a conceptual fantasy. The enemy's attacks on the other side of the strait from time to time and at fixed points have provided them with an excellent opportunity for actual combat training. And there is no defeat in all kinds of battles, large and small.
They also set up a number of guard towers along the coast, which allowed them to detect the enemy in time. Just like Macedonia did when it dealt with the Roman invasion of Dinara. The enemy is not given the opportunity to assemble ashore at all. As a general rule, as soon as a British army came ashore, it would be wiped out on the beachhead or driven into the sea.
Britain was small and outnumbered, and after a few rounds of attack, it ran out of mobilization and could not attack again for the time being.
Since the two separate invasions of the British generals Henatis and Bletchen Decyangri ended in failure, the Britons have fallen completely silent.
In actual combat, the Northern Legion and the Germanic Legion have formed their own independent combat effectiveness, and it is not a problem to be independent.
Fighting against Sinatis was the Northern Legion, and fighting broke out on the Normandy plain. As a result, the Northern Army completely crushed its opponent and annihilated the barbarian forces of Shinatis without much effort.
Britain deliberately sent totemic warriors who thought they were strong. It is said that this warrior has an obsessive belief and a crazy fighting penchant, and will draw blue symbolic totems on his body.
However, in actual combat, the British totem warriors wore no clothes or armor, and most of them were killed by longbowmen before they could engage in battle.
Another British invasion brigade, led by Bletin Desiangrika. They met the Germanic legions in Belgium.
Blindly believing in the power of the chariot, the barbarian general tried to deal with the Germanic legions now annexed to Macedonia, as he had done with the Germanic pikemen in the past.
He overlooked the important point that the current Macedonian Eleventh Germanic Legion was by no means the former tribal barbarians. It has a qualitative leap in itself. It is the result of an organic fusion of barbarian soldiers' physical strength, bloodlust, and advanced military technology.
This proves it. Using his good barbarian cannon fodder pikemen and the Germanic cavalry that attacked like a tidal wave, Sigimo defeated his enemies and did not let a single enemy go.
The Western European theater won successive defensive battles. At the same time, the fierce fighting on the Spanish peninsula also went into albinism.
On the seventh day after King Aloyos carried out Operation "Cross Sword", that is, after confirming that Ducarus had succeeded in seizing the coastal stronghold. The army attacked Gaul in the middle of the peninsula in two directions.
He himself commanded the Praetorian Guard, the Guards, and various mixed and auxiliary units, and attacked Canterbury in a big way. The intention was to end the capital of Gaul, Numantia.
The second prince, Sith, led an invincible army across the Ebro River to the northwestern bank, where there was a strong Gallic army. It was the Gallic legion that had retreated from the Pyrenees Pass that day, and the general was the Gaul Davisiacus Mosa. The king's order to them was to exterminate the legion.
In addition, the 1st Greek Corps, under the cover of the Sith troops, was assigned to cross the Ebro River and make a long march along the northern coast of Spain, bypassing the Cantabrian Mountains and into the valley. They will pass through the narrow and deep Galician valley and take Asturiga. Submission of the Spaniards in Galicia. The king was relieved to entrust General Parmanuel with the task of striking at a distance and depth, and he was indeed up to the task.
The three-way army marched in unison, attacking like breaking the embankment, and the momentum was like a bamboo. It's like a torrent that has been building up for days and rushing down all obstacles. There is a poem that says:
"The flying stream went straight down to 3,000 feet, and it is suspected that the Milky Way fell for nine days."
The Sith led the Invincible Legion to find the Gallic legion hiding there, and the two sides fought on the riverside plain.
Faced with Macedonia's sturdy, sharp spear formations, the elite Gallic warriors flinched. In order to inspire his soldiers, the enemy general Davisiacus Mossa led the charge, only to be killed on the spear. The Gallic sergeants were in great confusion, and they encountered the phalanx face to face without a move.
When the Macedonian cavalry swept out from both flanks and broke through the Gallic cavalry corps. Most of the Gallic infantry had already been routed.
It was not that the Gallic soldiers were not brave enough, but that they were forced by the situation. The frontal was under tremendous pressure from the Macedonian phalanx, and the flanks were threatened. They just can't keep fighting. As a result, the battle turned into a one-sided massacre by the Macedonian warriors.
The Sith held down the main army of Gaul, and they themselves divided their forces to invade Spain. Therefore, the army of Aloyos rushed for a hundred miles, as if in a no-man's land.
As soon as the king led his guards outside the Gallic capital of Numantia, he began to siege the city. With its superior ranged attack force, most of the defenders were killed and wounded before the siege echelon entered the city. The Gallic king's forest hunters had already been cut off by the Macedonian archers when they were shooting at the edge of the city.
The Macedonian soldiers shouted victory and rushed into the city, the defenders were demoralized, and soon the city was captured.
Step by step, the Gauls were pushed into a corner, and as a result, they were depressed to death. The Gallic king Fosse was captured alive by the besieging soldiers, and he was unwilling to kneel to another king for the right to live, so he bit his tongue and committed suicide.
By capturing central Spain, it will be easier to control the entire peninsula.
The 1st Army Corps on the northern coast was still marching silently, while the armies on the southeastern coast were completing their tasks.
The Seventh Army and the Aegean Naval Regiment coordinated with each other to clear the Spanish ambushes and bandits along the way, and marched into the Iberian region. Here the Spanish guerrillas led by Avalus were easily defeated on the border, thus opening up the overland line of communication from Oscar to New Carthage. The two armies met smoothly.
It's just that the inhabitants of New Carthage jumped from the secret confrontation to the open and carried out a blatant rebellion. Ducarros, completely losing faith in these recalcitrant citizens, ordered the army to drive out of the city.
Ducarus's corps joined forces with Thessaros and Polype on the Iberian border, and then the three armies returned to New Carthage.
Ducarus gave the inhabitants of the city a chance to surrender the city unconditionally and submit in good faith. Refused.
Then the army frantically stormed the city, and the defenders, organized by the mob, were no match for the regular legions. The Macedonian army easily recaptured New Carthage from the rebels.
Those who do not obey will be slaughtered if the city is broken.
Quiet as a virgin, moving like a rabbit.
The Macedonian army suddenly attacked, rampage, and showed the spirit of a king. None of the forces on the Spanish peninsula could compete with each other. In just three months, King Aloyos had occupied two-thirds of the peninsula with his troops.