Chapter 270 Fighting Battle

In the era of slavery in ancient times, no matter what kind of civilized country, the vast majority of the army will always be slaves, and Persia is no exception, at least 200,000 of the nearly 500,000 troops are slave soldiers, although they are only equipped with the most basic leather armor, but this mixed army of slaves carefully mobilized by the Persian emperor Xerxes himself can be completely different from ordinary cannon fodder regiments. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At the head of the army were the Assyrians with bronze helmets, flax shields and sticks, and Thracians with bright red cloaks and javelins and shields, followed by Parthians and Thornzim men with bows and axes as their main weapons, Caucasian soldiers with bull ears and leather shields and short spears on their hats and helmets, and Ethiopians dressed in leopard or lion skins, bows made of palm trees, and arrows made of flint as shock troops. The Arabs, who wore tight cloaks and had a longbow on their right shoulder, were placed in the center of the army, while the Indians in robes were used as death squads.

After the reorganization of this multi-ethnic group, this mixed slave regiment can also be said to be a complete corps of forward defense, long-range strikes, flank charges and dead soldiers, once they can make military achievements in this war, after the war they can cancel their slave status and become a member of the Persian regular army, and then after the Greek islands are completely conquered, they will even arrange for them to be stationed in place, although they must obey the instructions of the Persian officers, but they can override the Greek natives, and can enjoy many privileges, It can be regarded as becoming a so-called nobleman.

Although the Persian Empire was still a pyramidal structure, this progressive method of rule was much more advanced than that of Greece, and in each conquest, the Persian slave soldiers worked even harder than the regular army, and if it were not for the intervention of the Olympian gods, the 200,000 mixed slave corps alone would have been enough to sweep through Greece.

Although the Greek coalition army was also formed by the armies of the city-states, the military system and weapons were mostly the same, the main army was wearing helmets, upper body cuirass, shin armor wrapped in lower legs, holding a round shield in the left hand, and a spear in the right hand, and the 10,000 heavy infantry phalanx was divided into ten regiments under the cover of the slave soldiers, and attacked and strangled from all sides to the center.

In the previous Battle of Thermopay, the Greek coalition army has been defeated and lost, and the slave soldiers have suffered extremely serious losses, and now there are only about 30,000 left, and these slave soldiers can not be compared with the Persian mixed slave army in terms of physical ability and weaponry, they are pure cannon fodder troops, if only these soldiers are relied on to fight a frontal group battle with Persia, then just a round of long-range strikes composed of throwing axes and longbows is enough to halve the number of Greek coalition forces again.

What's more, the equipment technology at this time is far from being comparable with later generations, today's heavy infantry is much worse than the iron float and the like, the main means of defense is still the shield array formed by the round shield in the hand, even if it can withstand the repeated impact of the Persian army for a while, it is only a matter of time before the whole army is annihilated.

However, now, with the assistance of the almost infinite magic of the Greek priests, although the soldiers are not as invulnerable as Achilles, they also temporarily have the strength and agility that ordinary people cannot reach, and the heavy weapons that usually need to be held with both hands are now wielded as easily as using daggers, and the colorful brilliance on the body has a very excellent defensive ability, even if it is cut by a knife and spear, there will only be a deep blood mark, and it will not hurt the muscles and bones. Now, under the leadership of the Divine Grace warriors, these 100,000 infantry regiments, numbering less than 10,000 people, were like sharp swords deep into the mixed army of Persian slaves.

Originally, it was not a problem to defeat the slave army with the demigod power of the Divine Grace warriors, but now they had to do their best to protect their own army, and their fear and eagerness to save the scene made it difficult to exert one-twelfth of their might, and the battle situation was actually in a stalemate for a while.

Soon after, the main forces of the Persian army gradually caught up, and these foot soldiers were the regular army of the entire Persian Empire, formed by the Persians and members of the slave legions who had established meritorious deeds, their entire faces wrapped in yellow cloth to reveal their eyes, and their leather armor was shrouded in Persian robes. These weapons, which represent the Persian casting technique, far surpass the Greeks in both sharpness and texture.

The Persian gods are no better than the ancient Greek gods, although their cultivation and shaping of religious beliefs are not as extreme as heaven, but there is not much difference, every Persian regular army is basically a believer in the Persian gods, they can attach a weak holy power to the weapon, and it is very likely to break the protection of the divine magic with a full blow.

What's more, along with this regular army, there was also a military sacrifice on the Persian side, although it was far from being compared with the Greek sacrifice with the help of the gods of Olympus, but it was a great increase for the Persian army, and despite the best efforts of the charismatic warriors to maintain it, the Greek coalition army was still drastically reduced.

As time went on, the Persian Holy Guard, which was directly ordered to fight with the successive Persian emperors, and the ghost-faced double-swordsmen gradually joined the battle, and Xerxes did not hesitate to send these most elite ace troops in order to annihilate all the armed forces of Greece.

The Persian Holy Guard is wearing a light armor, holding a light spear, carrying three throwing javelins, each light armor is a scale armor carefully made of subspecies of demonic beast scales, and after it is baked, it will be completed by the blessing of the sacrifices, not only can it not be pierced by ordinary knives and guns, but it does not affect the action at all, and the light spear in his hand is extremely sharp, after pouring huge holy power into it, this large war gun can even pierce the shield and heavy armor together. Each member of the group was the most devout devotee of Ahura Mazda, the god of light, and if it were only about the holy power, they were not inferior even to the ordinary rituals in the temple.

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