The ironclad cavalry was embedded in the infantry group like an iron plate.

Brick made a mistake, he should not have put the hired Eastern infantry in front. Even though they are worthless cannon fodder, they are not used in this way.

The Eastern infantry is a type of soft warfare, flexible and adhesive, but lacks the momentum and strength to fight hard. Ironclad cavalry is the easiest to crush this class.

The Eastern infantry platoon could not withstand the charge on the front line, but it blocked the edge of their own spears. As a result, the four pikemen could not withstand a wave of Armenian attacks.

"They are not human and invulnerable. Not a single ironclad cavalry fell. ”

This is the story of a surviving scout.

"The iron rifle was so sharp that it pierced the body of a soldier and stabbed it into the chest of the soldier in the back."

"It looks like the impact is strong."

Zoe Los

The mercenaries were always the grass on the wall, and they were terrified, and then turned and fled. The ironclad cavalry may have only struck, and only a dozen people were killed, and the eastern infantry fled one after another.

"The phalanx of spears continued to fight for a while, but in vain. It doesn't hurt the Iron Guards at all. ”

- From the battle log.

"The mercenary's escape disrupted the formation of the phalanx, and the formation was unstable, and everyone could not gather the overall strength.

Totally understandable. ”

Zoelos imagined such a scene. The general cherished his soldiers and felt heartache.

The phalanx in the middle was defeated first, and one after another, the entire front-line phalanx was in chaos. The infantry collapsed on all fronts. The hussars could have fled, but they all rushed to the rescue.

I told them:

"Defeat is not allowed, use your last strength to win."

The light cavalry was so thin that in front of the ironclad guards, they seemed to fight shirtless. The man flipped on his back and fell down.

Leave the archers, resist? Can't resist, run? Can't run.

"Fiasco."

Infantry, cavalry, and archers, chased by the mighty ironclad guards, were wantonly killed, squeezed, trampled, and rammed. None of the Macedonian soldiers who entered the city escaped alive.

Seeing that the whole army was defeated, several scouts on horseback galloped out of the city like rabbits. Witnessing the tragic situation of his teammates, only a wall separated by a wall has become a parting of life and death. Several people wept silently.

"I want to reach out and take my brother by the hand, and see him being trampled under the iron hooves of the enemy, and there is sadness and helplessness in my eyes."

Witnesses.

Bleeker:

"The first scout to come to me looked calm, and I saw that his two lines were already a little dry.

The run must have been in a hurry. I felt a chill in my heart and chuckled.

Then, two more came dejected, red-eyed. I thought something big was going to happen.

The last one I recognize, the youngest, 16 years old, Brahms. When he came to me and cried, I put my arm around his shoulders to calm down. Still sobbing. ”

"All dead."

"The siege team died heroically."

"I see it.

He remained extremely calm and speechless. ”

"What to do? What are we going to do? ”

The soldiers gathered around and asked questions.

I clenched my gun and glared at the city. Urging the horse forward.

The people around me grabbed my reins and asked to retreat.

They said we couldn't beat the ironclad cavalry in the city. Unless there is a large number of hoplites or a regular Macedonian phalanx.

I looked behind me and saw that the archers were still there, but they couldn't enter the city to collect meat. I only have one guard, more than thirty people.

In desperation, he had no choice but to order a retreat. ”

Zoelos slowly reminisced, carefully identifying his student's mistakes and loopholes. to lay the foundation for the success of the next operation.

After all, there is still a difference in strength, and we have to constantly replenish our troops, even if it is a mercenary. In addition, the incomplete units were brought back to Ajani for replenishment.

The line of defense must be resisted.

Zoelos thought a lot, a lot, the battlefield, the words, the records, he sat alone until late, unable to distinguish between reality and imagination. It was as if the shouts of the front-line soldiers were heard.

Alam, rabies. How to deal with him?

northern

Sahara

205 years before the park,

The 1st Greek Army of Macedonia marched to the Saharan oasis city of Neput. Since the last submission of Dimidi, the soldiers have not been greedy for pleasure, and after only a brief adjustment, they have set off for the next stop. Travel across the Sahara Desert for the inland city of Neput.

In Neput, Carthage still retains some strength. Among them, the commander Gisken Hadlumeton led the main force to defend the town, and his men were all experienced infantry and cavalry, while the deputy general Aquat Sabraka led 95 war elephants and some regular troops to the strategic point in the northeast of the city.

Their intention is to support each other and be flexible in their tactics. And the main direction of defense was placed on the side from the city of Carthage.

But Parmanuel came from the west. The Macedonian army was armed with stone catapults and attacked the city upon arrival. The war elephants in Sabraka did not have time to reinforce.

The First Army has begun the siege of the city.

Due to the lack of transportation, the speed of development is limited, and Neput is still a developed town after all. A simple wooden fence could not withstand the beating of a stone catapult at all. Three entrances to the city.

Parmanuel ordered a fireball to be thrown into the city.

The Carthaginian army crowded the narrow streets of the city, and when hit by artillery, they were smashed in pieces. The dense buildings of Neput also caught fire. The Macedonian army had not yet entered the city, and the town was already in chaos, with heavy casualties. The shield cavalry tried to get out of the city, only to be beaten back. The defender, Gisken, was also killed by artillery fire.

After the artillery was prepared, the archers approached the edge of the city. Four vanguard phalanxes came to the leftmost entrance to the city, one of them was a phalanx of royal pikes and three phalanx of Macedonian infantry. The royal spears were the first to lead the attack and came face to face with the cavalry. The infantry squeezed into the city with their spears, and the shield cavalry fought desperately.

Then reinforcements came a guard to ride, and Macedonia leaned up to a phalanx. Here the phalanx infantry lost a lot, but they defeated the onslaught of the Carthaginian cavalry.

Winning the battle at the entrance to the city, the pikemen immediately poured into the city and set up a two-way gun formation. The enemy cavalry came again, supplemented by infantry. The Macedonian archers pulled away, the distance was just right, and began to shoot at the enemy from the back. The "whoosh" arrow beam made the Carthaginians feel the hostility of "front gun and back arrow".

The battle on the edge of the city led to another defeat for Carthage, and the line of defense was pushed into the streets of the city. Limited space, a hard front, gave the Macedonian pikes an advantage. Wave after wave of enemy tactics were completely ineffective, and more and more enemy troops fell on the road. The Macedonian phalanx stepped on the pile of corpses and continued to advance.

Only a 35-man phalanx of Templar infantry made a decent attack, and even temporarily split the Macedonian phalanx with a dense phalanx. But their numbers were so small that they were finally exhausted. After that, the siege team was no longer hindered and advanced all the way to the square.

(End of chapter)