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Seleucus VII personally led 10,000 of the most elite ironclad cavalry and 10,000 sickle chariot troops to the Silesian region, and did not rush to attack the army of King Alexander and King Pontus in the border area, but began a new round of military expansion in the Silesian region.

Silesia has been a place of piracy since ancient times, and even after Alexander's empire brought it under its rule, it was not able to completely eradicate the pirates in Silesia; After entering the Seleucid Empire, Seleucus I had even less time and energy to solve such problems.

This directly led to the increasing rampant piracy in Silesia, and even the bad incident of several bands of pirates gathering tens of thousands of troops to attack Tarsus, the capital of Silesia; This happened at the time of the most difficult period for the Seleucid Empire at that time, and it was also the period when the Seleucid Empire was at war with the three northern kingdoms and the Kingdom of Egypt on all sides.

The powerful Seleucid Empire did not choose to compromise with the pirate forces in the face of internal and external troubles, but urgently transferred 5,000 ironclad cavalry fighting on the front line to urgently return to the Silesian region and launched a fierce counterattack against the pirate forces that intended to capture Tarsus, the capital of Silesia; Under the strong attack of the ironclad cavalry, the tens of thousands of pirate troops who tried to occupy Tarsus were all wiped out under the city of Tarsus.

Although the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire directly destroyed this pirate force that wanted to plot against them, the Seleucid Empire at that time really did not have more time and energy to focus on such things as exterminating pirates; Therefore, while these pirates lost almost all their troops, they also retreated to their lair unharmed, avoiding the danger of complete annihilation.

After the Seleucid Empire ended the war, there were still various threats from the outside of the Seleucid Empire, which was in ruins internally, where could enough troops be drawn to exterminate these pirates; This Silesian piracy problem has been delayed again and again until this day, and this time the brilliant Seleucus VII will take this opportunity to completely solve the Silesian piracy problem.

At this time, the army of the Seleucid Empire stationed in Silesia had 30,000 silver shield legions and 5,000 ironclad cavalry, plus 10,000 ironclad cavalry and 10,000 sickle chariot troops brought by Seleucus VII; The Seleucid Empire's army in Silesia had reached 55,000 people, of which the number of ironclad cavalry was as high as 15,000.

Even 10,000 extremely powerful chariot troops and 15,000 invincible ironclad cavalry were not suitable for deployment in the pirates' hiding places, but the Silver Shield Pikemen and Silver Shield Infantry of the Silver Shield Legion could launch a direct attack on these pirates hiding in Tibet; What's more, Seleucus VII also recruited 20,000 recruits in the Silesian region.

In order to completely exterminate all the pirate forces in the entire Silesian region, Seleucus VII deliberately recruited 20,000 recruits to form 10,000 archers and 10,000 pikemen; With the cooperation of 20,000 recruits and 30,000 elite soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion, Seleucus VII believed that the piracy problem in Silesia would be solved within three months!

In fact, after the Seleucid army had wiped out the first pirate forces, they learned from the pirates who were willing to surrender where the other pirates were hiding; In just half a month, the pirate forces that had plagued the Silesian region for hundreds of years were all wiped out by the army of Seleucus VII.

After all the pirate forces were cleared, the scattered pirates who escaped had no meaning at all, and Seleucus VII could no longer spend time and effort sending a large army to pursue those small pirates who did not have a climate; After the elimination of these pirates, Seleucus VII also fulfilled his promise to those who were willing to surrender, and did not blame them for their past crimes.

However, the past is not to blame, and Seleucus VII had no intention of releasing the captured pirates back; What if they went back and continued to run away as pirates, the most reassuring thing for Seleucus VII would be to keep these pirates under control.

As a result, Seleucus VII incorporated all these pirates, who numbered more than 20,000 people, into his command and formed a distinctive pirate army; These pirates, who wielded a wide variety of weapons, became the regular army of the Seleucid Empire.

The battle to exterminate pirates in half a month not only allowed Seleucus VII to obtain a pirate army of 20,000 people, but also allowed the newly formed army of 20,000 under his command to gain good combat experience; At this time, the kingdoms of Alexandria and Pontus also formed a large alliance to launch a counteroffensive against the Phrygian region occupied by the Brutus Empire.

Seleucus VII naturally would not waste such a good opportunity in vain, after determining that Alexander personally led 50,000 Alexander kings** and 30,000 Pontus** troops into the Phrygian region; Seleucus VII immediately launched an attack on the northern part of Silesia with 15,000 ironclad cavalry and 10,000 sickle chariots, as well as the Silver Shield Legion and the newly formed pirate legion.

Originally, the Kingdom of Alexandria still garrisoned 60,000 troops in the border area, including 5,000 ironclad cavalry; When Alexander returned home with an army of 20,000, he also took with him the most elite 5,000 ironclad cavalry of the 60,000 army.

In this way, the remaining army of Alexander's kingdom in the border areas was only 40,000 infantry; And the Pontus Kingdom has always garrisoned an army of 40,000 in the border area, and it has never exceeded the size of an army of 40,000.

The kingdoms of Alexandria and Pontus garrisoned a total of 80,000 infantry in the border areas, and instead of garrisoning large armies together, they chose to garrison their respective armies in the northeast and northwest of Silesia; Coupled with the fact that at this time, the attention of the Kingdom of Alexander and the Kingdom of Pontus was all focused on the Brutus Empire in the Phrygian region, and Seleucus VII's attack began!

When Seleucus VII personally led 15,000 ironclad cavalry and 10,000 sickle chariot troops, as well as a newly formed pirate legion, launched an attack on the 40,000 army of Alexander; The 30,000 troops of the Silver Shield Legion are stationed on the road that the King of Pontus** team must pass to support King Alexander**'s team, and it is impossible for the 40,000 troops of the Pontus Kingdom to break through the Silver Shield Legion's resistance in a short time.

When the soldiers of the pirate legion appeared outside the camp of King Alexander under the banner of the Seleucid Empire, the army of the Kingdom of Alexander laughed at the soldiers of the pirate legion who even had a variety of weapons, and sent an army of 5,000 people to defeat the unruly army of the Seleucid Empire in front of the barracks.

The fierce pirates had no choice but to surrender in humiliation in the face of the Seleucid Empire's overwhelming numerical and qualitative superiority, but the 5,000 soldiers of Alexander's kingdom were not something they feared; The pirates attacked the 5,000 troops of the Kingdom of Alexandria and successfully defeated the 5,000 soldiers of the Kingdom of Alexander.

The pirates' naked slaps in the face also angered the commander of the army of the Kingdom of Alexander in the barracks, and he directly sent 30,000 troops in the barracks to attack the pirate army outside the barracks; How could the pirates fight to the death with 30,000 enemy troops, they naturally chose to turn around and run immediately, and the King Alexander ** team, which played a real fire, pursued desperately.

Just as the two armies were chasing after me, there was a huge movement in the distance that the earth shook and the mountains shook; How could the soldiers of the Kingdom of Alexandria not be familiar with such a movement, this is the movement caused by the large-scale ironclad cavalry charging!

The soldiers of Alexander's kingdom, who understood it, immediately stopped the pursuit and fled desperately to the rear barracks; It's a pity that a two-legged man could outrun a four-legged horse, and these 30,000 soldiers of Alexander's kingdom were soon devoured by 15,000 ironclad cavalry led by Seleucus VII himself.

After directly crushing the infantry outside King Alexander's ** battalion, Seleucus VII launched an attack on the army camp of the Kingdom of Alexander without returning; The barracks that the camp gate was not closed at all, how could it withstand the impact of the ironclad cavalry, and the defenders who wanted to desperately close the camp gate at the entrance of the barracks only used their own blood to achieve the glory of the ironclad cavalry.

The soldiers of the Kingdom of Alexandria, who had just escaped from the charge of the ironclad cavalry, watched the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire roar forward, and before they had time to breathe a sigh of relief, the 10,000 scythe chariot troops of the Seleucid Empire came up again; The Scythe Chariot Unit is a more lethal infantry nemesis than the Ironclad Cavalry!

Chariot troops, as the name suggests, are chariots dragged by war horses; On the other hand, the Scythe Chariot is based on the chariot and is equipped with a scythe to increase lethality. The roaring chariot already has a strong combat power, coupled with the sharp scythes on the wings of the chariot; The lethality of such a scythe chariot unit to the infantry is simply terrifying!

In the face of the rushing Seleucid Empire's chariot troops, the soldiers of Alexander's kingdom had no choice but to put down their weapons in despair; The battle, which lasted only two hours, was annihilated by the 40,000 troops of Alexander's kingdom under the command of Seleucus VII, and the cost of casualties paid by the Seleucid Empire was no more than 5,000 men, of which more than 3,000 were pirates.

In fact, many of Alexander's soldiers were willing to surrender to the Seleucid Empire; However, the charge of the Scythe chariot left countless soldiers of the Kingdom of Alexandria who wanted to surrender without even a chance to surrender, and in the end, only about 8,000 soldiers of the Kingdom of Alexandria survived the attack of the Seleucid Empire and became prisoners of the Seleucid Empire. (To be continued.) )