Chapter 71: Sparta XII

This round of indiscriminate huge arrow rain is right in the middle of Li Liguo's army, at this time, you have me, I have you, you can't separate at all, those hand-to-hand soldiers have already lost their own front, except for the Greek heavy infantry still maintaining their own phalanx, the battlefield is just a melee. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Li Liguo had no choice but to watch all his hand-to-hand soldiers, covered by the rain of arrows, being shot into hedgehogs along with those Persian soldiers......

Not to mention the melee soldiers, even the Greek heavy infantry could not effectively defend against arrows!

On the battlefield where the battle was fierce and abnormal, Hula lay down one after another, the soldiers on both sides were very fair, no one wanted to defend against the rain of arrows on their heads, let's rely on luck to see who was shot into a hedgehog first......

The Divine Arm Crossbowmen and Zhuge Crossbowmen under Li Liguo's command who had not entered the battlefield glanced at each other happily, and they became more and more satisfied with the type of troops they were playing......

If you come here at such a time when the battle is raging, even if you put on the full-body plate armor, you may not be able to come back alive......

A living example is in front of you, if these people enter the battlefield to take a closer look, they will find that among the layers of 'hedgehog corpses', there is a strong man wearing full body plate armor, but the helmet does not know where to fall, with a feather arrow standing straight on the head, looking at the sky with a horrified face......

This one is Kuroko......

Although few people have the energy to guard against arrows in the battle, the armor on their bodies can still play some role, and among the living people still standing on the battlefield, Li Liguo's soldiers occupy the majority, which is the best example!

After the rain of arrows, there were few people still fighting each other, and the casualties were too heavy, and the battlefield that was originally full of people became empty!

The survivors of the Persian soldiers have completely lost their fighting spirit, and they are being shot from behind by their own people, is there anything more demoralizing than this?!

They are not cannon fodder for the servant army, they are undead legionnaires with honorary titles!

Special mother, you dare to lay a black hand behind the undead army, waiting for the defendant to be black!

This is the common cry of the Persian soldiers who were lucky enough not to die under the rain of arrows, and they now only want to hurry back to the main force, and then sue the general who gave the order to die!

The Greek heavy infantry that survived the most under the rain of arrows belonged to Li Liguo, because the phalanx was always very complete when they fought, only the people in the periphery and the front row were fighting, and all the other Greek heavy infantry who did not fight covered themselves with shields well when the rain of arrows came, and saved their lives!

The losses of the Greek heavy infantry did not even exceed half!

In contrast, the losses of hand-to-hand combat soldiers were very tragic, 1500 hand-to-hand soldiers, and there were only a few dozen people left, and everyone was stuck with feather arrows on their bodies, and they were lucky not to hit the vital point and penetrate the iron armor......

Of course, compared to the Persian soldiers on the opposite side, who were more than twice as many as themselves, only a few hundred people ran back, and the battle losses of the hand-to-hand soldiers were relatively small......

2,000 archers, a dozen arrows per person, tens of thousands of feather arrows fell, and below were the soldiers on both sides who were less than 10,000 in the fierce battle, and the ones who survived were really lucky......

Li Liguo watched the Persian soldiers completely collapse, but his own soldiers looked confused, and the Phosis finally sorted out their arrays, and when they saw the Persian soldiers running away after the feather arrows, they were excited to come up and chase them......

After Li Liguo's order was issued again, the good discipline of the Greek heavy infantry was fully reflected, they quickly re-arranged a smaller phalanx, chasing behind the Persian soldiers' buttocks, and the hand-to-hand soldiers also reluctantly followed under Li Liguo's strict orders......

Interestingly, the Phosis took advantage of the formation of the Greek heavy infantry to rush into the woods and thorn bushes first, where there were thousands of Persian archers, and against these distrained archers, the Phosis were absolutely full of confidence!

This is the moment that the Persian general was waiting for!

He led the Persian undead legionnaires who had not entered the battlefield, and under his forcible restraint and bewitchment, he finally gathered nearly a thousand men and horses, quietly waiting for the Phosians to come in!

Next, the melee begins!

In the thorn bushes and woods, the Persian soldiers could not list the line at all, and the Persian general did not think of making a line at all, and the Persian soldiers rushed out of all imaginable and unexpected corners, and beat the Phosians who were in high spirits and planned to bully the Persian archers!

And then, of course, the Phosians collapsed!

The collapsed Phosis were bitten by the tail of the Persian soldiers, chased all the way out, and as soon as they got out of the woods, they saw hundreds of people close at hand, wielding strange repeaters, and struck at their own people......

And that's not all, the already small Persian soldiers, after suffering heavy losses from the crossbow fire, met the terrible Greek heavy infantry phalanx!

The Persian general looked desperately at the phalanx of Greek hoplites, which were small in number but advancing at an unusually strong pace, and knew that he was finished!

He looked at the Zhuge crossbowmen who were winding up with a vicious look, that is, they had caused tons of damage to their own army again and again, and they couldn't survive anyway, they must destroy these sharp weapons, Xerxes the Great would definitely send people to attack them again, and without the Zhuge crossbow, the Greek general who let himself end up in death would definitely be defeated and die like himself!

The Persian general led dozens of henchmen around him, and when Li Liguo's main force slaughtered the Persian soldiers, he used the bushes to bypass, and suddenly appeared in the line of the Zhuge crossbowmen who were not guarded, and these Zhuge crossbowmen who were busy winding the Zhuge crossbows looked at these dozens of blood-red Persian soldiers with red eyes in a daze, and they felt helpless!

The Persian general rushed to the Zhuge crossbowmen with his people, and easily defeated these Zhuge crossbowmen who did not have much courage, killing them covered in blood but not encountering much resistance......

The hand-to-hand combat ability of these Zhuge crossbowmen is so weak that Li Liguo can't bear to look at it directly......

In addition to the single-digit guards, Li Liguo was surrounded by more than 100 useless crossbowmen, and he looked at the Zhuge crossbow that the Persian general led to wreak havoc on the much, and hurriedly led people to gallop over.

It's a pity that because things were too sudden, when Li Liguo found this Persian team, the Zhuge crossbowmen had been easily defeated, and when Li Liguo brought people over, there was no one left of Zhuge crossbows that had been destroyed......

And the Persian general saw that the other party's general rushed over with less than 200 people, and his mouth hooked a cruel arc!