Just when Sima Xu persuaded Khorezm to surrender to the Wei Empire, the Persians under the city of Fulousha finally couldn't bear it anymore and were anxious to withdraw their troops.

In order to appease the emotions of these Persians in the past few days, Doro sent gold and silver treasures to their barracks to bribe their generals, and sent wine and meat to reward the three armies. But the Persians don't pay attention to these things, if it weren't for the Wei army, the great enemy, the Persian general Phildusi, would even want to order the army to attack Fulousha City, and teach these Kushan people a good lesson!

Seeing that the Wei army seemed to be stagnant and had no chance of winning the battle, Phildusi decided to withdraw his troops and return to China, but he didn't expect to meet a large force of Wei army iron cavalry on the way!

"Fire!"

"Boom! ...... "The sound of artillery fire shook the sky, and the shells that pierced the sky fell on the heads of the Persians like no money.

This is the usual tactics of the Wei army, which is to first destroy the enemy's formation with red-coated cannons, hit their morale, and then defeat them in one fell swoop!

The Persian soldiers, who had never encountered the red-clothed cannon before and didn't know the power of the red-clothed cannon, suddenly panicked, thinking that Thor was angry and wanted to punish him, so they were all frightened, and the formation was suddenly chaotic!

Seeing the fragmented bodies of the comrades around them who were blown up by the shells, and the flesh and blood were blurred, the Persians were already so frightened that they couldn't possess their bodies, and they were all over the place, where could they care about continuing to fight against the Wei army?

Taking advantage of the chaos of the enemy's position, with Ran Min's order, the 100,000 Wei army iron cavalry was like a huge torrent of steel, and instantly rushed towards the Persian phalanx.

The military quality of these Persian soldiers was still okay, and they panicked, but they quickly reacted, holding shields in formation, and the soldiers behind them also held spears, like dense bee needles facing the menacing enemy.

"Poof! ……”

The composition of the iron cavalry of the Wei army is very complicated, and they have been fighting all year round and have learned the tactics of many foreign armies, so after the iron cavalry in the front row was overturned by the Persian shield array at the first time, the iron cavalry of the Wei army behind pulled up one iron chain after another, smashed on the shield array of the Persians, and overturned the shields in their hands at once.

Its shield hand was even more shocked, and was assassinated by the Wei army's iron cavalry under the horse, and the blood flowed like a note!

But the shield array was only the first line of defense of the Persians, and the second line of defense was the spear array.

There is no doubt about the strength of the spear formation.

The spear is a kind of super lethal cold weapon, especially popular in ancient China and its Roman period, the spear is similar to the spear but longer than the spear, the length of the spear is generally five to six meters long, and it is generally used by infantry and cavalry.

During the time of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian phalanx composed of 50,000 people holding a spear created one myth after another of invincibility with the spear, but the spear was eliminated by history early in China.

In the era of cold weapons, the advantage of the spear can be imagined, it is long enough, then the lethality is naturally considerable, and compared with other cold weapons, the killing distance of the spear is the farthest.

Often not close to the can cause damage, and in the face of the enemy's attack, such as the bow and arrow commonly used in ancient times, the spear has a certain degree of restraint on the bow and arrow, the soldiers only need to erect the spear, frequent shaking from side to side can block most of the bow and arrow, the spear phalanx can also be used as a tall shield, it can be said that the spear can be attacked and defended in hand!

So how did the Wei army deal with the Persians' spear formation?

"Poof! ...... "At this time, there were already iron cavalry of the Wei army who suffered from this "Macedonian phalanx", and as soon as the war horse rushed up, it was instantly stabbed into a hornet's nest, drenched in blood, and died a miserable death!

"Shoot the arrows!"

At the critical moment, Ran Ke, who was responsible for leading the charge, gave an order and ordered the soldiers to release arrows.

"Whoosh! ……”

A rain of arrows fell on the Persian phalanx, but they were swept away by their spears.

The Persians basically consisted of four arms, one of which was a standing army, which was more numerous, carrying an 18-foot Macedonian spear and operating with both hands. The end of the spear has a counterweight to help it balance, and it also serves as a backup weapon in the event of a broken spear. There is also 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 generally squatted and pointed their spears in front of them, while the soldiers in the second row rested their spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in the first row, which increased the lethality of the frontal cavalry. And the essence of the whole phalanx tactics is that all the soldiers work together and go hand in hand, and those who escape from the battle will be punished the most severely!

The second is light infantry.

The spear of this class is shorter, the shield is larger in diameter (to cover the whole body of a kneeling soldier), and the armor is slightly lighter. Better mobility.

The third is cavalry.

It was basically a heavy cavalry made up of young nobles. Holding a Macedonian spear. When waiting for battle, the spear is often rested on the shoulder, with the spearhead slightly downward.

When charging, the spear stabs downward. After stabbing the first enemy, he often leaves the spear in his body and does not draw it, and then continues the fight with the sword. Wait until the battle is over and retrieve the spears.

This last type is the auxiliaries, which are lightly or even armless, and are mainly armed with javelins, bows and arrows, and catapults.

The remnants of the defeated army on the periphery of the Persian army have been cleared, but the Wei army has been unable to break through this strange phalanx of the Persians.

When Ran Min saw this kind of phalanx of the Persians, he couldn't help but shout: "This is the Macedonian phalanx!" ”

"Your Majesty, what is the Macedonian phalanx?" Xun Ji beside him didn't know, so he asked.

"The Macedonian phalanx, this phalanx tactic reached its peak in the time of King Philip II of Macedon and his successor, Alexander. Its basic formation changed to a column of sixteen armed with six-meter spears, and was covered by cavalry and light infantry in loose formations. The various arms of the army were organically combined into a primitive multi-arm mixed army, which exerted great power in Alexander's Eastern Crusade! ”

After Alexander's death, the Macedonian phalanx remained on the battlefield as the strongest infantry battle formation, but many of the tactics created by Alexander did not continue to develop, but stagnated. Infantry equipment has become heavier and its mobility has deteriorated; And the cavalry units that were supposed to cover the flanks of the phalanx were weakened instead. Later, the Macedonian kingdom and their phalanx were defeated by the Romans and their invincible legions. ”

"This ...... Your Majesty, then how should we deal with this Macedonian phalanx? ”

"Hehe, this kind of phalanx, which is invincible in the West, can only be beaten in our Huaxia! I dare to say that if Alexander had fought in Huaxia back then, the Qin army's arrow array would definitely teach them how to behave! ”

"Your Majesty means that our arrow array can restrain this Macedonian phalanx?"

"Not bad!"

The reason why Ran Min said such things was because he knew that the trend of historical development was like this.

Although the spear has many benefits, but also because of its length makes it less flexible, the Qin Dynasty bow and arrow power is famous all over the world, and the restraining spear is a more lethal bow and crossbow.

Although the spear can defend against ordinary bows and arrows, it is still a little sluggish in the face of the Qin Dynasty's arrow array, if you add the Qin Dynasty's more lethal bow and crossbow, then the spear array will no longer have an advantage, and once the spear formation is disrupted, then the length of the spear will become the biggest weakness of the soldiers!

Because the length limits the flexibility of the soldiers, once the spear formation cannot be maintained, then the soldier holding the spear can only sit and wait for death, and there is no time to resist.

In this regard, the slightly shorter spear is much more flexible than the spear, although because it is not as long as the spear, the lethality will be greatly reduced, but the basic role is still the same, the most important thing is that the spear is much more flexible than the spear, so with the slow development of history, the spear is slowly replaced by the spear.

With Ran Min's order, the Wei army pushed out the bed crossbows, and at the same time, the cavalry on horseback were equipped with divine arm bows, and the power of crossbow arrows was huge, and they could not be swept away by relying on the spears in the hands of the Persians!

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Whoosh! ……”

A rain of arrows covered the phalanx of the Persians, and sure enough, this powerful crossbow shot at once to kill a large number of Persians!

In this case, the Persian soldiers who stood so densely were like "lining up to be shot", and they were shot and killed by the Wei army, and they died a lot!

It didn't take long for the Persian army to collapse on all fronts!