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Seleucus VII personally led a large army to attack the Kingdom of Alexander, and the commander of the army of the Kingdom of Pontus immediately led all the 40,000 troops of the Kingdom of Pontus to the west to aid the army of the Kingdom of Alexander.

This was also the result of the alliance between the kingdoms of Pontus and Alexander, and even if the armies of the two countries were not stationed together, mutual assistance between the armies of the two countries was their respective mission; When the 40,000-strong army of the Kingdom of Pontus was attacked by the troops of the Seleucid Empire, it was only natural that the Kingdom of Alexander's army should immediately go all out to reinforce the army of the Kingdom of Alexander.

Helplessly, the 30,000 fully loaded Silver Shield Legion had already been waiting for the Pontic Kingdom army to reinforce the Alexander's army, and the Pontus Kingdom's army had to defeat the Seleucid Empire's Silver Shield Army if they wanted to reinforce the Alexander's army.

The combat effectiveness of the Silver Shield Legion is naturally undoubted, but the 40,000 army formed by the most elite bronze shield pikemen in the Pontus Kingdom is not vegetarian; The battle between the two sides began in a fierce battle, with the Pontus army desperately trying to defeat the Silver Shield Legion to reinforce the friendly forces, while the Silver Shield Army did everything to stop the Pontus army.

Although the army of the Pontus Kingdom had a certain advantage in numbers, it was slightly inferior in quality to the Silver Shield Legion of the Seleucid Empire; If we take into account the more tenacious fighting will of the Pontus Kingdom's army, the 40,000 troops of the Pontus Kingdom are still slightly stronger than the 30,000 soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion.

However, a slight advantage could not change the inseparability of the two sides in terms of overall strength, and the battle between the Pontus Kingdom army and the Silver Shield Legion was also inseparable; At this time, Seleucus VII's attack on Alexander's army was going very smoothly, and after almost completely annihilating the 40,000 troops of Alexander's kingdom, Seleucus VII began to reinforce the Silver Shield Army.

The soldiers of the Pirate Legion, who suffered relatively heavy casualties, were left in place by Seleucus VII to clean up the battlefield and take prisoners, while the ironclad cavalry and the chariot troops led by Seleucus VII quickly rushed to the point of battle between the Silver Shield Legion and the Pontus army; The ironclad cavalry and the scythe-chariots were much faster than the infantry, and in half an hour the army was on the battlefield.

At this time, the army of the Pontus Kingdom and the soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion had been completely fought together, and it was difficult for the ironclad cavalry and sickle chariot troops under the command of Seleucus VII to participate in the battle; In particular, the scythe chariot troops, once they were fully mobilized, could cause accidental injuries that Seleucus VII could not accept.

In desperation, Seleucus VII had to give up on letting the scythe chariot participate in the battle, and he personally led the ironclad cavalry to bypass the main battlefield where the battle broke out, and launched an attack on the army of the Pontus Kingdom from the rear of the Pontus Kingdom's army.

With the flexibility of the ironclad cavalry, Seleucus VII was still confident that the ironclad cavalry would not be accidentally injured when attacking; In fact, the appearance of the ironclad cavalry and sickle chariot troops led by Seleucus VII had already frightened the soldiers who were fighting in the Pontus Kingdom, and when Seleucus VII really launched an attack with the ironclad cavalry, the army of the Pontus Kingdom suffered heavy casualties.

Under the front and rear attacks of the Silver Shield Legion and the Iron Cavalry, the tens of thousands of troops of the Pontus Kingdom did not last long on the battlefield; As for escaping, the infantry of the Pontus Kingdom is also two-legged, how can they outrun the pursuit of the ironclad cavalry and the curly sickle chariot?

Seleucus VII's army annihilated all the 40,000 troops of the Kingdom of Alexander stationed in the border area before lunch, and after lunch, all the 40,000 troops of the Kingdom of Pontus stationed in the border area; The army of the Seleucid Empire, which had not eaten lunch at all, annihilated all the 80,000 border garrisons of the Kingdom of Pontus and the Kingdom of Alexander in one day, which was also a miracle battle!

Compared with the army of Alexander, which had only 8,000 soldiers and was taken prisoner, the army of the Kingdom of Pontus surrendered more than 125,000 soldiers; Even the commander of the army of the Kingdom of Pontus became a prisoner of Seleucus VII, which was a unique victory in the history of the Seleucid Empire, and a unique defeat in the history of the Kingdom of Pontus.

After completely annihilating the garrisons of the two kingdoms in the border areas, Seleucus VII had the recruits stationed in Silesia to hold more than 20,000 prisoners in the barracks outside Tarsus; Seleucus VII himself continued to lead the army to take advantage of the victory and launched an attack on the Cappadonia region of the Pontus kingdom.

The Pontus kingdom differed from the Armenian and Parthian kingdoms, which had mastered the training methods of ironclad cavalry and the techniques of forging a full set of armor before they broke away from the Seleucid Empire; In addition, the kingdoms of Armenia and Parthia also have the production of top-quality war horses, and it is not surprising that these two kingdoms have a large number of ironclad cavalry.

Compared with the Seleucid Empire, which only had ironclad cavalry, the Armenian kingdom and the Parthian kingdom even developed more ironclad cavalry troops; The Armenian kingdom now has a new ironclad cavalry, and the Parthian kingdom also has a new ironclad camel cavalry.

However, there is no ironclad cavalry in the Pontus Kingdom, except for the infantry with good combat effectiveness, the only cavalry units that the Pontus Kingdom can handle are the Pontus heavy cavalry and Cappadocia cavalry; Although the combat effectiveness of the Pontus heavy cavalry is also good, it is more than a step worse than the real ironclad cavalry, but the combat effectiveness of the Cappadocia cavalry is impressive.

In fact, Cappadocia's cavalry had become to some extent the core fighting power of the Pontus Kingdom; The reason why the Pontus Kingdom has always been able to occupy the position of the most powerful kingdom in the Kingdom Alliance is that it relies on the super combat effectiveness of the Cappadocian cavalry, which is no less than the ironclad cavalry, and more importantly, the training difficulty of the Cappadocian cavalry is far less than that of the ironclad cavalry.

With the strong strength of the Seleucid Empire, it is only a 20,000-strong ironclad cavalry, which is already the limit of the Seleucid Empire; However, the Pontic Kingdom has a full 20,000 Cappadocian cavalry, which is the result of the Pontic Kingdom not fully forming the Cappadocian cavalry, if the Pontus Kingdom is fully committed to forming Cappadocian cavalry, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The most powerful Cappadocian cavalry of the Pontus Kingdom was trained in the Cappadocia region, and the strong Cappadocian cavalry was trained with the young men of the Cappadocia region and the war horses of the Cappadocia region; Seleucus VII's goal was to directly occupy the defense-empty Cappadocia region and completely destroy the strong foundations of the Pontus Kingdom!

The kingdom of Pontus, whose capital was in Sinop in the Pontic region, was generally stationed in two parts; Some were stationed in the border area between the Kingdom of Pontus and the Seleucid Empire, and some were stationed in the capital area of the Kingdom of Pontus.

Cappadocia, which is the most important production base of the Pontus Kingdom, does not have any army to garrison, which is also a misunderstanding of the Pontus Kingdom, that is, as long as the army in the border area exists, the Cappadocia region will not be attacked by the army from the outside; No one could have imagined that the 40,000 troops of the Pontus Kingdom in the border region would be wiped out in a single battle.

When the army of the Seleucid Empire penetrated deep into Cappadocia, the towns in Cappadocia that were not guarded by a single soldier fell one after another; In less than ten days, the entire Cappadocia region, including the capital Masaka, had fallen.

After capturing Masaka, Seleucus VII did not continue to march to the capital area of the Pontus Kingdom, but let his exhausted soldiers rest in the city of Masaka, preparing to meet the all-out counterattack of the Pontus Kingdom.

In Seleucus VII's view, it was impossible for the Pontus kingdom to sit idly by and watch the most important region of his kingdom Cappadocia fall, and their army would soon move directly south from the Pontus region in the northern part of Cappadocia; As Seleucus VII had predicted, when the Pontus kingdom learned of the fall of Cappadocia, they immediately began to raise a large army to prepare for a counterattack on Cappadocia.

The elite army that still remains in the capital of the current Pontus Kingdom is only 20,000 Cappadocian cavalry and 10,000 sickle chariot troops, how can these 30,000 troops alone counterattack the Cappadocia region; In order to increase its military strength, the Pontus Kingdom began a large-scale military expansion on the day it learned of the fall of Cappadocia.

More than 20,000 javelin-wielding Pontic light cavalry were formed, and the hill soldiers and oriental infantry with simple weapons and equipment also formed a full 50,000 men; After a short period of intensive training, the army of 70,000 recruits and 30,000 Pontic elites marched towards the Cappadocia region.

After Seleucus VII's army fought in the border areas, only 22,000 soldiers remained of the 30,000 troops of the Silver Shield Legion, and only 15,000 of the 20,000 troops of the Pirate Legion remained; The core ironclad cavalry still has 13,000 soldiers, and the scythe chariot troops have suffered very little losses, and almost maintain their original strength.

In this way, the total strength of Seleucus VII's army that could be used to meet the counterattack of the Kingdom of Pontus was only 60,000 people, of which the pirates with weak combat effectiveness were as high as 15,000, and only 45,000 soldiers could really be regarded as elite divisions; Compared to the army of the Kingdom of Pontus, which had 70,000 recruits, Seleucus VII's army still had an advantage in quality.

In the end, who can win this strong duel between the Seleucid Empire and the Pontus Kingdom can only depend on the performance of the two armies on the battlefield; After all, the army of the Pontus Kingdom also has 20,000 Cappadocian cavalry with a combat strength no less than the ironclad cavalry, which is where the confidence of the Pontus Kingdom's counteroffensive army lies. (To be continued.) )