General Ares confidently glanced at the legendary Spartan Praetorian Guards wearing muscle armor and red cloaks and battle skirts behind him, and replied loudly: "Your Majesty, the infantry on the opposite side is using a modified phalanx of Greek pikes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Your Majesty, please see, the infantry on the opposite side of the middle lane has the largest number of infantry, basically carrying spears of more than 4 meters, which is much longer than the spears used by our army, and if we collide head-on, we will definitely suffer.

But they used a round shield with a diameter of 2 feet. The shields in the hands of the soldiers in the phalanx protect the left side of their own side and the right side of the bodies of their adjacent comrades, and once the soldier in the front row falls, the soldier in the second row will quickly fill in the gap left by him. The soldiers in the first row on the opposite side were in a half-crouch position, pointing their spears in front of them, while the soldiers in the second row were placing their spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in the first row, which increased the lethality of the infantry and cavalry facing the front.

The phalanx was lined up in a long horizontal formation, 16 men in depth, with large gaps between the soldiers and the soldiers, their infantry spears held 3 to 6 feet from the handles, the spearheads of the 4 to 6 rows of soldiers at the head of the phalanx were pointed forward, and the spears of the soldiers in the back rows were held in a different position, some inclined to the ground. The first three and the last one in each column belonged to the key positions, and I think there should be brave and skilled soldiers. When this phalanx is fighting, the whole phalanx should run forward in a sturdy dense formation, like a battering ram slamming into our team.

Tsk~ This tactical phalanx is very good, after this battle, I hope that His Majesty the King will allow me to train my Spartan warriors to learn this kind of phalanx! ”

The Ares Warlord is like a treasure, excitedly analyzing the merits of the enemy's phalanx!

Li Liguo frowned and interrupted: "Then how do we crack it?" ”

The analysis is so clear, if this guy Ares tells himself that he has no solution, Lao Tzu will draw his sword and cut him!

Li Liguo only knows some leftovers of history, Alexander seems to have conquered the world with the Macedonian phalanx, which seems to be very awesome, but later the Macedonian phalanx was put to an end by the Romans!

Ares said with a solemn expression: "Although the frontal impact of this phalanx is strong, the defense is not very good, if you want to exert the maximum power of this phalanx, you must cooperate closely with the cavalry!"

If the enemy arranges the phalanx in an oblique formation, that is, a right-angled triangle or a right-angled trapezoid, and the oblique face outward, he will encircle the enemy from a certain side according to specific needs, then it will be very difficult, but why did the general on the opposite side not perceive this when he could come up with such an excellent improved phalanx?

This simplest rectangular phalanx is good for nothing but a frontal attack!

This phalanx may seem formidable, but it has an Achilles' heel, that is, if you try not to give it a unified battlefield, and only attack its flanks or back, but not its front, you can kill it. Once we broke through the flanks, it was difficult for the spearmen in the spear formation to resist the hand-to-hand combat of the Spartan warriors. Moreover, the ability of this phalanx to deal with dense arrow formations is weak, whether it is a light cavalry archery or an infantry group, as long as it can disperse the opponent's light infantry, the spearmen in the array are almost at the mercy of shooting.

cough~cough...... Of course, we don't have ranged soldiers, so we can only think about attacking from the flanks and from behind......

Although the opposing general's spear phalanx platoon is simple and easy to break, they are clever in placing a large number of cavalry, archers and light infantry on the flanks, coupled with terrain restrictions, we simply cannot enter their backs under the noses of the enemy's cavalry, that is, whether this battle will be won depends on whether we can quickly crush the cavalry and light infantry on the opponent's flank!

My tactics are as follows: I will have the legendary Spartan Janissaries form very small combat units in groups of several people, which is naturally easy to cause command confusion for ordinary armies, but for our legendary Spartan warriors, there is no reduction in combat effectiveness at all!

These small units would then come together to form a non-compact array, so that our Spartan warriors could easily change formations and dash quickly in either direction!

As long as we break through to the flanks of the spearmen in the middle of the opponent's lane, we will win the battle! ”

It's a simple tactic to understand, but it's not that easy to do! The opposing flanks are not exposed or filled with a bunch of cannon fodder, but elite cavalry and archers!

Well, the light infantry was ignored by Li Liguo......

Those light infantry wearing leather armor and holding javelin waist knives and small round shields, Li Liguo believed that the legendary Spartan Janissaries were absolutely stress-free to fight five at a time......

"General Ares, are you sure to break through the blockade of the enemy's cavalry and archers with Spartan warriors?"

"Your Majesty, rest assured, that we are the most loyal and brave warriors of Sparta, and all of us are brave warriors who are brave enough to die, and unless we are dead, the enemy's flank will be broken!

It's not that I despise the quality of the soldiers on the other side, it's just that judging by their numbers and morale, they don't have the ability to kill our legendary Spartan Praetorian Guard! ”

Li Liguo looked at Ares with a confident look, nodded, and told the shameful truth, he couldn't think of a better way to deal with the enemy opposite, the number of people on the opposite side was there, and all of them were professional soldiers, the array was strict and neat, all arms were complete, and the protection of the two wings in the middle was very well done, anyway, in front of a half-military strategist like Li Liguo, the flaws in the opponent's military formation were really not flaws......

Even if you can see the vital point of the opponent's flank, you have to be able to break through!

Since Ares is so sure of victory, let's see if this general is really that powerful!

It also happened to test whether the legendary Spartan Praetorian Guard soldiers were not only reassuring in their loyalty, but also as strong as they imagined!

"Very well, General Ares, I will now put all the men and horses under your command, and I have only one request - victory!

If you can, try to make the Spartan warriors die as few as possible......"

Ares' eyes flashed brightly, and he knelt down on one knee and said, "Your Majesty, my subordinates still have a reluctant request." ”

"Say!"

"At the beginning of the battle, there must be someone on the front to contain the impact of the opponent's front phalanx, and the people who are held back may suffer heavy casualties, so ......"

Before Ares finished speaking, Li Liguo helped Ares up and whispered in his ear: "I will hand over all my general guards to you, and the blood of the Spartans can be shed less, understand?" ”

Ares looked at Li Liguo feverishly and nodded heavily!