Chapter 135: The Macedonian phalanx is broken, and Pharmacist Li arrives with his army

But she thought about it carefully, no, when did our Daqin come out with a brocade guard?

Ying Xi grabbed Fusu suddenly, pouted and asked: "Brother Huang, you coax me, don't think I don't know, our Daqin doesn't have a brocade guard at all!" ”

"Who said no, this is what I just established, don't believe it, go ask Zhuge Zhan, I have already transferred him from Yulinwei to Ren Tongzhi, can I still lie to you?" Fusu explained seriously.

"Really?" Ying Xi still didn't believe it.

"Really." Fusu nodded solemnly.

"Didn't lie to me?"

"I definitely didn't lie to you."

"Okay, so when am I going to take office?" Ying Xi blinked her eyes and asked with a smile.

"Wait until you're healed."

"I'm fine now." Saying that, Ying Xi waved her little arm at Fusu, indicating that she couldn't be better anymore, and then she brought up the Battle Dragon Spirit Snatch again, and said, "Otherwise, the imperial sister will play you twice?" ”

"No need," Fu Su hurriedly waved his hand: "It doesn't matter if you are injured or not, it doesn't matter if you say it yourself, Dean Hua has to agree." ”

"If you don't let me take office sooner, I'll always follow you, hum!" Ying Xi grabbed Fusu's arm with one hand, threw her face to the right, and said.

"Whatever you want."

couldn't get rid of Yingxi, so Fusu could only lead her to inspect the city wall together.

"The last general has seen Your Majesty." Seeing Fusu coming up, a large group of generals bowed to Fusu.

"The generals are flat, don't estimate the gifts of so many monarchs and ministers on the battlefield." Fusu said with a smile as he looked at everyone.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Zhang Er, who replaced Wang Li, who was resting, led the generals to thank Fusu, and then got up.

"How's it going?" Fusu looked at the Greek-style military camp in the distance and spoke.

"Since the night before yesterday, after we cleaned up the Yue's people, this Macedonian army has set up camp twenty miles outside the city, and this is the third morning, but there is no action to attack the city." Zhang Er replied.

"Well, continue to keep an eye on their movements, and report to me as soon as you find anything new." Fusu gave instructions.

"No." Open your ears and give up your hands.

A group of people pointed at the Macedonian military camp in the distance, and enthusiastically discussed the combat methods of the Macedonian army, focusing on their field formation, the Macedonian phalanx.

The Macedonian phalanx is a military formation that is very similar to that of a modern army. Usually 64 armor men form a platoon, 128 men form a company, 256 men form a battalion, 1,024 men form a regiment, and 4,096 men form a division (i.e., primary phalanx).

The primary phalanx, like a modern division, is a self-contained multi-arm combat unit, which includes (at full strength) 2,048 light shields, 1,024 auxiliaries and a 1,024-man cavalry regiment in addition to heavy infantry, for a total of 8,192 men. Each combined phalanx consisted of four primary phalanxes, equivalent to a small corps or field army in modern times, with about 32,000 men.

The Macedonian spear was usually held 3 to 6 feet from the end of the handle, the spears of the 4 to 6 rows of soldiers at the head of the phalanx were aimed at the front, and the posture of the soldiers in the back rows of soldiers was either inclined or perpendicular to the ground.

The first three and the last one in each column belong to key positions, and brave and skilled soldiers are selected. In battle, the entire phalanx often ran forward in a sturdy and dense formation, like a battering ram ramming the enemy's ranks.

But if the spear-wielding soldiers of the first array are defeated, and the enemy bursts into the phalanx with swords, or, worse, they have rushed in from the emptier side of the phalanx, then disaster has befallen them, and they will surely die.

In order to protect the flanks and rear, before the battle began, the lightly armed spearmen were lined up in a horizontal line of about 8 men in depth behind the phalanx, while the auxiliaries (mostly heavy infantry orderlies and grain collectors) were lined up in stragglers in front of the phalanx, with cavalry and a certain number of lightly armed spearmen on both flanks.

All in all, the Macedonian phalanx is a combat formation that is very suitable for large-scale positional battles on the plains, gradually pushing towards the enemy. Most of the infantry and even cavalry will suffer in the face of him, but there is one that is not included, and that is the Great Qin Arrow Formation of the Empire.

No matter how much you blow up the sky, how can you kill me if labor and management don't contact you? Directly Nima a few hundred meters away, a rain of arrows was thrown at you, falling diagonally above your head, what do you do? Just one of the few men with two-foot-long shields? They can't take care of themselves, and they don't have the strength to cover the pikemen.

Moreover, after Liu Ye's improvement, the Great Qin Arrow Array, which was equipped with ten thousand arrows piercing the heart and the divine arm crossbow, had a longer range and greater power, and was simply a natural Macedonian phalanx nemesis. Fusu was secretly proud, and it was unlucky for you to touch our Daqin.

Then another general asked Fusu, what if the other party used the cavalry to charge the formation, even if it was a mile away from the enemy, it was an instantaneous distance for the cavalry, and it was doubtful that the Great Qin Arrow Array could shoot several waves of arrows in this short gap.

Fusu really doubted how he became a general, first of all, let's not talk about the current Great Qin army is all on the Great Wall, how the Macedonian soldiers rushed over.

Secondly, even if he can rush over, our Xuanwu Wei of Daqin is a vegetarian? When you encounter the Xuanwu Wei Mo Sword Formation, which can be called the terminator of the cavalry, do you still want to have a way to live? We lined up in a few formations, and he didn't dare to come over.

Of course, the most important thing is that the new one is still in the stage of secrecy before it is officially installed a month later, and none of them knows about the Ten Thousand Arrows Heart and Divine Arm Crossbow.

When these two things go to the battlefield at that time, their power is no less than that of the British army's Makqin machine gun in Tianjin, and the effect of strafing the Mongolian cavalry led by Sen Lingqin in Tianjin is no less.

Fusu, who was chatting with everyone, was already a little impatient to see these two killing weapons in the army, and when the time came, he would be equipped with the oil tank he had personally developed to be responsible for long-range strikes, the divine arm crossbow was responsible for medium-range strikes, and the ten thousand arrows piercing the heart were responsible for process strikes.

At present, the oil tank developed by Fusu can be loaded onto the trebuchet developed by Liu Ye for small-precision launching, with a range of about 1,000 meters, and the maximum distance according to Liu Ye's setting is only 400 meters, but because the ammunition has changed from a stone bullet weighing 100 kilograms to an oil tank of only about 20 kilograms, the range has naturally doubled.

"Your Majesty, I have finally found you." Zhang Liang suddenly held on to the wall with one hand and pressed the other hand on his left knee, panting heavily.

"What's wrong?" Fusu was flickering happily, and when he heard that it was Zhang Liang, he immediately turned around and talked to him.

"The deputy governor of the pharmacist led 20,000 recruits from Xianyang." Zhang Liang slowed down, still answering breathlessly.

(End of chapter)