Chapter 114: Winning the Championship (17)
If this playboy is born in a family of emperors and generals, then he wanders easily all day long, looking like he has nothing to do, but he can run a war zone very smoothly thanks to the excellent military system formulated by his ancestors.
Podarerios summed up the military mechanisms of his ancestors and created a new staff command system. Let command operations become a consensus of a group, and this consensus can be handed over to all grassroots units at all levels. Efforts should be made to combine the military spirit with reason in the best proportion, so that the army as a whole can become a "thinking" fighting body.
Therefore, Ari Stackler lived in seclusion in the Pergamon headquarters, while the will of the General Staff deeply dominated and influenced the staff of the corps at all levels. In this way, even if a Macedonian army loses its general, it can still effectively continue to fight.
It is easier to understand that the Macedonian army has a higher probability of victory, because its chain of command is more involved in talent and more comprehensive, so the stability is better.
Ari Storkeler had already come up with the idea of integrating and grouping the Asia Army Group. Its basic concept is: divide one, two, and three parts to flexibly assign tasks; When it meets, it can immediately become a monolith. Of course, I haven't figured out how to implement it yet, after all, front-line generals need honor and practical benefits.
Far East, Colchis
The Eastern Front received a batch of reinforcements from Pontus, 6,000 pikemen phalanxes. Brick was ecstatic, and with his weapon in hand, he decided to launch a siege of Kutaisi the next day.
The city of Kuta, which had been besieged for a long time, was now lifeless, and the people, including the warriors, were in a state of insensitivity.
The lack of troops made it impossible for the Armenian defenders to hold the walls. The besieging soldiers quickly captured the gates and opened the passage into the city. General Brick dismounted and personally led the team on foot. The city's shelf-stricken resistance could not stop the Eastern Legion at all. In the central square, the Armenian general, Arcias Tomisa, led more than 200 ironclad cavalry to guard the center. There was no sympathy on the battlefield, and Brick ordered the arrows to be released.
At this time, the square was surrounded by a phalanx of Macedonian pikes. The gun arrays were stacked very densely, and there were also Eastern infantry as buffers between the gaps. The enemy cavalry had no chance of victory.
A rain of arrows fell, and someone was shot. Tomisa had no choice but to attack. The ironclad cavalry collided with the tip of the spear, and in the face of the double blow of class restraint and numerical superiority, the ironclad cavalry resistance in any way was futile. The battle fluctuated briefly and became one-sided.
Having eliminated all the Armenian defenders, the Eastern Corps finally captured the main Caucasian pass city, Kutaisi. At this point, Macedonia also had a strong foothold in the Far East: two important cities, Altasat and Kutaisi. Next, it is possible to go one step further.
Brick took a city and marched on his victory, intending to open the way to Assyria along the narrow passage of the valley. Because it was an attack, only the light brigade of the Eastern Legion, which was good at field warfare, was brought with it.
On the way, he encountered the troops of the Armenian general Benilari Herekia, who was stuck at the pass. The forces on both sides were equal, so they fought a decisive battle in the open field.
Brick's troops were almost all cavalry, including seven hundred elite Scythian archers, who were extremely fierce in combat. And the Armenian side is a regular force.
Mounted archers make full use of mobile and ranged attacks on the enemy, and enemy cavalry follows the archers to drive them out. The Macedonian heavy cavalry followed closely behind.
The battle went on quickly, and Brick won and scattered the enemy army. This would allow them to continue south into Assyria and conquer Hatra.
The second Chinese network of the Southern Theater
Not far outside of the city of Memphis, there is a famous monument, the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx. It is said that the guards in the pyramid had their own skills, and the Pontus army did not take it that year.
When the Sith marched south to conquer Thebes, he left no trouble behind him, so he led the entire Phoenician army to attack.
Sure enough, there was an army of strangely dressed monks, about two thousand people. Seeing that outsiders were approaching, they came out to line up to meet them.
The Sith ordered the artillery to open fire, which sent the defenders flying in all directions, followed by bow and arrow fire. By the time the two rounds of long-range attacks were completed, the enemy was already out of formation and had no resistance.
The Macedonian warriors rushed forward and cleared all the guards.
The Pyramids of Giza, with their Sphinx, are a wonder of the world. In 2560 BC, Pharaoh Khufu of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt ordered the construction of the Pyramid of Khufu. It is the tallest of them all. The four sides of the pyramid are very precisely aligned with the four directions of the compass, and the length of the four hypotenuses is less than one thousandth, and the slope of each side is 51°51'.
These large and imposing architectural complexes are a source of awe to those who stand in their shadows. It gives people the feeling of being severely oppressed, and the force of non-nature. Possession of this miracle will convince more local people of their new masters, increasing the loyalty of the major former Egyptian cities.
Battle of Thebes
At this time, the remnants of Pontus in the Nile region were basically in the city of Thebes. Among them, there are some elite soldiers.
So the Sith once again encountered a difficult city. However, this time he brought enough troops and equipment to break the city (the 2nd Roman regiment and the Phoenician regiment) in one blow.
The city of Thebes had three phalanxes of bronze shields and pikes and several hundred Cappadocian cavalry. The defender Hercules arranged all the main forces in the central square, and these troops were very good hitstun.
The Sith first sent the Phoenician army into the city, and the Macedonian warriors were very active and successfully entered the city. However, after the central square collided with the core of the enemy army, the battle became hard. It was difficult for the ordinary Macedonian phalanx to contend with the Pontic Bronze Shield pikemen. Therefore, when the phalanx soldiers meet the enemy head-on, it is even difficult to hurt the opponent.
The first echelon of the siege was pushed down the steps of the square with heavy casualties. The second echelon hurriedly made up, but was caught off guard by Hercules, who used the copper shield gun and the iron cavalry to launch a tactical counterattack. Split the Macedonian spear phalanx and slew a lot.
The Sith immediately organized a third wave of siege and took advantage of the enemy's excessive physical exertion to strike a blow. He threw the remaining infantry of the Phoenician corps and most of the main forces of the 2nd Roman Regiment into it. This time, the strategy was also changed. Instead of one-sided contact with the enemy, it has been changed to a bold battle line and outflanking tactics. Cavalry also entered the city to fight.
In order to kill and wound the enemy soldiers more effectively, the archers rushed to the first row and fired directly at the bronze shield spearmen face to face, not allowing them to retreat.
In the new battle, the Macedonian two phalanx stragglers charged directly to the flanks of the Brass shield spear line.
At the same time, on the street on the other side of the square, Macedonian hoplites swooped down on the dust.