As mentioned earlier, Pontus has occupied Libyan land. Pontus, founded in Asia Minor, was given territory in Africa, apparently by annexing Egypt with a powerful army.

Then, according to the timing of the military operation, the timing of Podarerios' choice to attack Asia Minor coincided with the period when the new main army of Pontus moved south to occupy Egypt. Therefore, it is understandable that in the early days of Macedonia's entry into Asia, there was almost no effective resistance.

Opato originally had a heavy army and was stationed in Ankara with great confidence. 20,000 infantry and 200 sickle chariots can defeat the phalanx. However, his unruly subordinate Mithridates acted on his own, neither intercepting the enemy nor returning to assist in the defense, but chose to venture deep behind enemy lines. As a result, he lost most of his infantry.

Because the infantry can use oppressive tactics to threaten the phalanx with combat vehicles, it is impossible to effectively fight against the Macedonian infantry with one alone.

Opato is trapped, tries to break out, and moves reinforcements around.

His chariot could not break through the Macedonian phalanx alone, and the Eastern infantry and hillmen were no match for it. On the contrary, the neatly arranged phalanx allowed the Pontus chariot to taste the power of the spear.

Repelling the attack on Pontus, the enemy was so frightened that he closed his door and waited for help. How can Leo Charles give his opponent a chance?

He carried out the siege with his backhand.

Siege artillery attacked in large numbers, and Ankara's wooden walls were rendered useless. Artillery attacked the defenders of the city, and the fire spread. The chariot fled frantically, and the horses were frightened one after another. In this way, Opato's five convoys of chariotters killed each other in the city, ramming each other indiscriminately. The defenders were slashed by the scythes on their wheels.

Even General Opato was knocked out of the car by his teammates in the chaos and ran over to death.

The chariot rushed out of the city, and the phalanx soldiers hurried up to engage the battle. The first wave of vehicles was disposed of without incident. Unexpectedly, more chariots rushed and collided with each other, but hit the weak point, and immediately cut the phalanx from here. The high-speed chariot brought down many of the soldiers in the phalanx. The Macedonian soldiers remained unmoved, maintaining formation and continuing to fight.

After a lot of trouble, he finally wiped out the enemy's crazy convoy. The threat is cleared, and the siege continues.

The archers then fired arrows into the city, and the eastern infantry was left unfazed, dead and wounded. Seeing that the time was ripe, Leo Charles led his guards into the city to settle the battle.

The Macedonian army occupies Ankara.

There is good news that reinforcements from North Africa, the newly formed "Carthaginian Army", have arrived, and they will capture Halicarnassus.

This regiment was originally intended to recruit North Africans to form an auxiliary regiment to assist the main force in the battle, but the Carthaginian military camp was in excellent condition, advanced weapons and equipment, and the quality of soldiers was relatively good. Once the Warp Compilation achievement has been made to upgrade it to the main battle group. They received orders from the Romans to sail across the Mediterranean, starting from the port of Carthage, passing through Sicily, by Tarentum, then through the Greek peninsula, and finally attacking southern Asia Minor by sea.

Now they have managed to reach their destination, Lycia, from where they will launch a new attack. But the naval brothers have made a new discovery: the Greek faction still exists.

The Pontics drove out Greek power from Asia Minor, and the Greek factions disappeared.

It is only by virtue of the natural advantages of the island that the Greek nobleman Doros occupies a unique corner and still firmly sets up the Greek flag on the island of Rhodes. Keep the nation alive.

Staying away from the Greek strife, Doros and his son Nicano trained their troops to establish a standard Greek legion on the island of Rhodes.

They deployed heavy troops at both the northern and southern landing sites on the island, and their legions were dominated by Greek infantry. The Greeks were very conservative in their concept of warfare, and still relied heavily on phalanx infantry. Such an army seemed to be immense, impregnable, and tens of thousands of pikemen were like an impregnable wall. Lack of maneuvering forces.

Thanks to the Doros Line, the Pontus temporarily abandoned the island.

In the east, the Parthian general Darius Trakshana conquered Fraspa, cutting off the Macedonian Eastern Army from sea communications. Trap the two armies between the Parthian and Armenian forces. The situation becomes urgent for Macedonia, and Brick must find a way out of the situation.

The number of troops is limited and there is no foreign aid. The Eastern Legion had to be frugal in resources and action steps to ensure the effectiveness of the action as much as possible. Obviously, it doesn't make much sense to recapture Fraspa at this time.

Although they lost the original stronghold of Atropane, they now sit on the fertile land of Armenia. With two legions and Altasat City, which is ready to get supplies, the Eastern Legion has no problem defending itself.

But Brick did not want to wait passively to be beaten, he actively stepped up reconnaissance and infiltration, and tried to find a breakthrough in Armenia. He set his sights on Kutaisi.

The enemy seemed to feel threatened, but also because of the lack of troops here, they sent reinforcements from Hatra with a new legion. Through espionage intelligence, Brick learned:

The new regiment was extremely combat-ready, with three squadrons of ironclad archers to assist in the battle, and the infantry was dominated by Armenian infantry. Other types of troops support cooperation.

The Armenian infantry was the product of the learning of the Eastern Roman legions in the West. The equipment is all modeled after the Roman legionnaires, with short swords, helmets, armor, Latin shields, and iron javelins being their unique innovations. The same is true for the combat mode. However, the training of the Armenian infantry was far less standard and perfect than that of the Romans.

Brick understands that this is bad news, but thankfully this reinforcement is still on the way. If you take Kutaisi before the reinforcements arrive, you will increase the depth of your defenses, and open a passage to connect with Ajani and join the auxiliary legions.

Kutaisi was garrisoned by the Armenian general Tigris, who was a brave man of war but too hasty and hasty in his use of troops. There were three corps in the northern mountains of Armenia, which were all sent away by him. Now there were only 290 ironclad cavalry left in the city to defend the city, including more than 70 of his ironclad cavalry guards, and about 100 ironclad archers and cavalry. The rest of the troops are nothing more than cannon fodder.

The scene seems familiar, that time it was the attack on the city of Artaschat, and the defenders were 300 iron armor. Rabies Maniac Alam wiped out all the stun forces of the Eastern Legion with only a hundred Iron Armor. The fiasco left a deep shadow on Brick's psyche. Now facing another city in a similar situation, he felt very frightened.

He was afraid of another strangulation battle in the city, and he was very afraid. I really can't afford to lose this time. In the event of defeat, the consequences would be catastrophic, and the Eastern Front would collapse completely.

But he was not reconciled.

Boost your infantry and train more pikemen. Now with the Artasat barracks and the advanced forge, his phalanx is hard and sharp.

Brick ordered the siege of the city of Kutaisi, and constantly mobilized and hired pikemen.

(End of chapter)