"What a Podare Ríos, the emperor of Macedonia. I actually sent him to the door, I just want to defeat him. Besides, if he is gone, won't Rome be empty? God help me! "Tyranis

"General, the Macedonian emperor has successfully landed and has now occupied the city of Alexandria. We are caught in the middle of the enemy. It's better to retreat to the banks of the Nile in Memphis and think again. ”

"Nope! Your proposal is so stupid, his brother Sith is now in my hands, and he is about to be pinched to death. Isn't my withdrawal now a release of this part of the living force? That will only bolster the ranks of enemies.

On the contrary, if I do not withdraw the encirclement, I will be more proactive on Libyan soil. I can do whatever I want, turn my hands into clouds and turn my hands into rain. You see, I hold the Sith troops in my palms, and I punch Podare Rios with the back of my hands folded. Let me fight Macedonia with one hand. ”

So Terranis decided to divide up the army. The strong Pontus army gave him such confidence, so the outcome of the battle was determined by a core battle.

After the capture of the city, Podarerios announced to the inhabitants that they had become Macedonian citizens and could continue to live according to their original national customs, and the emperor expressed respect for the local culture. He also spoke of the time when Alexander ruled peacefully. After lightly clarifying his position, he led the whole army to pounce on the 100,000 elite legions of Tyranis, leaving only a governor and a dozen guards here.

In fact, the Pontus army in this area exceeded 250,000. Tyranis left 50,000 men to continue the siege and personally led 200,000 troops to find the main Macedonian force. The battlefield will almost certainly be on a flat, unobstructed desert where the forces of the two warring sides know each other. A crucial battle is coming!

The Macedonian Emperor Podarerios conceived a set of tactics during the march and decided to use them. He envisioned dividing the army into three equal parts, with the left army being the matrix he led—the Emperor's Forbidden Army (with the virgin battalion as escort guard), the right army being the Macedonian Ninth Army under the command of Karamach, and the central army consisting of Greek and Roman armies, with Hipotturad as the general. The trinity of the left, center and right is roughly the same, the strength of the left army is the strongest, the right army is the second strongest, after the start of the war, they will independently complete their preset combat tasks, and the internal cooperation is to form a joint force at the same time.

In addition, he made some bold new weapon loadouts, concentrating all the stone catapults, ballistas, and scorpion crossbows at the front of the mid lane, followed by Agrion heavy javelinmen and elite archers, these firepower units are organized together, and the fire is concentrated to block and make up for the range (fire output principle, risky usage) to maximize the efficiency of long-handed attacks. The left and right armies were equally assigned to the Shenji Battalion to support the battle with bows and arrows.

All three armies consisted of infantry and archery arms, but each army had a different emphasis. The matrix infantry cavalry is evenly divided, the Ninth Army infantry is co-cavalry, and the infantry of the Chinese army has a high ability to resist strikes in heavy formations. And the three armies use exactly the same Macedonian military flag and handsome flag, and it is impossible to tell which part the emperor is in from a distance.

The formation of Pontus did not change much, with chariots and heavy cavalry charging, javelinmen with bronze shields following up in elite phalanxes, Pontus heavy cavalry (heavy javelin cavalry) and hill soldiers on both flanks, and Eastern infantry in reserve on the rear line. The catapult is placed at the end. (This is the principle of protecting siege engines, regular usage.) ）

Even if each other's strength is clear, everyone does not know how many troops the other party will have and what form they will appear in front of them before the decisive battle. It is only possible to conceive forecasts, to conceive schemes.

The decisive battle began unusually unusually, and the two armies met and entered the battlefield. Macedonia 70,000 vs. Pontus 200,000.

Podarérios gave the order, and the three armies began to spread out according to the predetermined pattern. The Chinese army was the most advanced, and the left and right armies were split into formations and advanced when the time came. All crossbow machines are in place. The whole Macedonian army entered a temporary silence.

The Pontic army pushed forward, as always, in order to reach the effective cavalry charge range as soon as possible. Tyranis mocked Podarerios in the middle of the army for his serious division of troops and the emptiness of the middle.

"Until the first half of the enemy army comes into range." The surveyor carefully judged the enemy's distance, and followed the commander's instructions in advance to his fighters.

"Ready, put!"

As the order was given, seventeen stone crossbows threw fire bombs at the same time. Hit the enemy with fire in the air.

"Bang!" "Ah~" The artillery fire exploded golden flowers in the Pontus army, and the distance was just right, and the engineering troops caused range damage to the elite phalanx soldiers in Pontus. There were also those who hit the chariots and cavalry.

"Bring up the catapults and return fire, and let the cavalry and chariots level the cannons on the opposite side first. On the flat ground is the world of my cavalry and chariots. ”

The first wave of the Pontic ironclad mobile force begins. The Macedonian armies on the left and right began to advance for some distance, and the whole formation resembled a "concave" shape.

Cappadocia's heavy armoured cavalry and shutter chariots got closer and closer, scorpion and ballista began to be designed, and thousands of archers fired arrows in unison. One after another, the Pontus cavalry was wounded and fell off their horses, and some chariots were shot off tires and overturned. During this time, the catapults continued to attack the pikemen of the Pontus phalanx.

From time to time, a dense and rapid rain of arrows from both sides is even more deadly. It was a "greeting" from the Macedonian Divine Machine Battalion.

The heavily armored cavalry of Pontus was numerous and fast, and was fully able to resist the erosion of the carefully constructed firepower network here. At the cost of losing a third of the cavalry and half of the chariots, the iron hooves of Pontus really rushed to the ballista position. The engineering corps and the archery corps withdrew from their positions ahead of time and ran behind the infantry. Of course, there are also soldiers who are slow to run or unable to move due to fear, and can only accept the cold iron kiss of chariots and iron horses.

The front of the Chinese army was mainly composed of alternating Roman infantry phalanxes and Greek pikes, and the spears and Latin shields were sharp weapons against chariots or cavalry. As a result, the Pontic Iron Cavalry failed to break through the frontal line of the Macedonian central army. However, the power of the Hondu Bronze Shield pikemen who followed closely was extraordinary.

The battle had already entered the battle on the left and right of the front, and they were the flanks of the Matrix, the Ninth Legion, and Pontus. The Macedonian heavy cavalry was like a sheathed sword, and cooperated with the infantry to disperse and repel the large number of eastern infantry.

A quick-eyed Tyranis sent a second wave of ironclad torrents, and this time he shifted his target to the right. This side is the Macedonian Left Army, the army led by the emperor. The shutter chariot could not be approached at all, and the bows and arrows of the Shenji Battalion and the Heavy Markers were highly penetrating and the arrows were not missing. Coupled with the alternating formations of the Roman battalion and the royal pikeguard, the Pontus chariot was either fleeing or destroyed.

This strength made Terlanese see the clue, and the Macedonian emperor must be on this side. He used elite bronze shields as pressure, and heavy armored cavalry as flanking forces. The infantry of the matrix withstood the front and did not suffer in the slightest. The Macedonian royal cavalry was particularly conspicuous, and they attacked decisively and intercepted the Pontus cavalry to kill.

(End of chapter)