"What are we going to do?"

"The class teacher will return to the camp and make a decision again at Setta, and think about it in the long run."

"But the fighter plane must not be missed, you must know that the enemy forces that can be easily destroyed now will make us pay a heavy price in the future."

The generals began to talk.

At this time, a young player stepped forward. Everyone looked at it, it was Clydes.

"You don't need to say any more, since I am the deputy commander-in-chief, then let me arrange it now. We're all experienced veterans and I have a lot of respect for you.

But if he is in his position, he will seek his position. I have taken the post of deputy commander-in-chief, and in times of crisis, I will take responsibility. ”

"Responsibility? Can you afford it?

You are facing more than 100 war elephants and the infantry of the Templar in Carthage. This is a terrifying force.

Anything can happen against it, and quantity is not a problem at all.

Add to that the fact that you are far from the supply base and in the wasteland of North Africa. Little general, the last general reminds you that defeat is death. ”

"I bear it!

Since I have come forward, I have to bear the responsibility and consequences of all this. ”

His tone was confident and powerful.

Everyone nodded, "The afterlife is terrifying." "Clydes was the second son of Thessarus, and was behind the goal. Gifted since childhood, the king adopted him as his adopted son and included him in the royal family. He was a popular man at the king's side, but by no means by favor.

Clydes had followed the king since the beginning of the Spanish Wars. excelled in the conquest of the peninsula; After coming to the North African battlefield, the achievements were even more outstanding and were affirmed by everyone. It's just that there are too many talented people in the king's Praetorian Guard, and he is only one of the many stars.

It is a fact that his identity made him stand out as a deputy commander-in-chief. But how capable he really is, he has never had a chance to prove.

"It's up to the deputy commander-in-chief."

Most of them took a stand.

"Well, now the situation is urgent, without further ado. No more nonsense.

The soldiers obeyed the order:

Janissaries and Macedonian heavy cavalry escorted the king back to the city of Seta.

Ben Shuai will lead the rest of the soldiers to fulfill the king's will, elephant hunting! ”

Split the cavalry, a risky battle plan.

North African coast

The Carthaginians discovered the intentions of the Macedonian legion, and without further ado, confronted the enemy head-on. Clydes was worried about the enemy escaping, and now it's all right.

As a well-known general, if Sinrida turned around and got on the boat and left, that was not his style.

The two armies met and entered the battlefield.

Clydes chose a piece of high ground among the rolling sand dunes. This location is the best condescending position in the nearby area. The two armies approached, looking at each other's opponents.

The Macedonian pikemen were lined up, with heavy and light javelinmen evenly distributed on both sides for maneuvering, with five cavalry squadrons in the center of the rear, three archery battalions in front of the left, and six artillery battalions in front of the right. Schedule a stop.

The Carthaginian army, relying on the superiority of a few elephants, rampaged and approached with impunity. The infantry was followed in two rows, the front row of heavily armed Holy Order infantry and Carthaginian pikemen, and the back row of lightly armed Iberian infantry and javelinmen.

Clydes was calm, he knew the weakness of the elephant.

The Macedonian infantry was clearly superior in numbers and in a neat formation. Carthage also had pikemen, but could not compete with the Macedonian royal pikemen alone.

Now the main problem is the war elephant.

The Macedonian engineering battalion had already adjusted its range, direction and prepared ammunition. The archers were also in position, and in front of the high ground formation, they were properly deployed and the rockets were ignited.

Sinrida divided the elephants into three directions, 24 on each side and 66 in the middle, with the infantry still following in two columns.

The elephant goes into range.

"Gather fire in the middle of the road, fire!"

"Whoosh~" A wave of 6 fireballs was ejected and smashed into the Carthaginian elephant herd. Two hit two elephants, and the rest of the fireballs hit the ground, and the spilled fuel continued to burn in the hot desert.

The Carthaginian war elephants continued to storm, and the soldiers of the Macedonian engineering battalion continued to throw fire bullets. Another elephant was knocked down, but such a hit rate could not stop the herd of elephants running violently, but the fatal part of this move was the fire attack. War elephants are impeccable in their combat capabilities, but they are by no means invincible. Maneuverability and difficulty in control are its natural weaknesses. Fire tends to cause panic among elephants, and elephant herds are largely useless on the battlefield if they go mad.

So Clydes used long-range fire to provoke the emotions of the war elephants, so that the enemy could lose control of these behemoths.

Sure enough, the elephant team in the middle of Carthage was in confusion and stopped. Sinrida hesitated and told the infantry to stop advancing as well. The herd of elephants on both wingers attacked unhindered and did not follow orders to continue their advance.

It's closer.

The Macedonians were not unhurried, and the archers fired a dense beam of rockets at the elephants on the right. A couple of rounds of rockets that drove that team of elephants crazy. Because some of the elephants who were very afraid of fire lost control of their emotions, they rushed around the team and howled wildly, and soon the other elephants were also forced to lose control of their emotions.

The left flank faced the onslaught of war elephants, and there was only a hard confrontation.

The well-sturdy Macedonian royal spear formations and light and heavy javelins were very effective against the war elephants, and many of them fell immediately when they encountered the spears, and were quickly repulsed.

The Carthaginian mad elephant rushed to his position, and the Macedonian army took advantage of the situation to kill him.

In desperation, Sinrida remembered the advice of a good friend: war elephants are not very reliable, and it is useless to bring too much. Now the facts are in front of him, and the once sworn that with a hundred war elephants, he can recover all the lost territory in North Africa, is now empty talk. The elephant herd was out of control, and the Carthaginian generals had to retreat while fighting, and they could retain as much living force as they could.

At this time, in the center of the battlefield, there were dozens of crazy and out-of-control elephants, running blindly and inadvertently, inadvertently forming a barrier. The Carthaginian army took the opportunity to retreat, but the Macedonian army was blocked and unable to pursue. A group of light cavalry that tried to pursue the mad elephant was chased by the elephant after suffering heavy losses.

Clydes calms down: victory is a must, not a force. At this time, you can only try to kill and injure as many enemies as possible, and you can't divide your forces to chase after them at will. Because the combat effectiveness of the infantry of the Carthaginian Holy Order is also very strong, it is difficult for the entire legion to pass through the "chaotic array".

Just look for a single hit.

Clydes led the Imperial Cavalry and Light Cavalry to break through several Iberian infantry and javelinmen phalanxes one by one; Heavy pikemen besieged and killed a dozen lone elephants. The other elephants gradually returned to normal and retreated to the beach. Macedonia withdrew its troops.

Macedonia won, repelling the enemy, but did not accomplish the expected goal. Some of the Carthaginian elephants and the Templar infantry were lucky enough to escape back to the port and escaped by boat.

Although Clydes did not wipe out all the elite of the enemy, he seized the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on this large army of hundreds of war elephants. His courage won praise from the people.

(End of chapter)