Chapter 42: Movement Warfare
Alexander killed all the Muslim captives in Syria, and they cut them with knives, and then felt that the speed was too slow, so he simply asked the infidels to dig a pit by the sea, and drove all the captives in, and when the tide came up, they drowned all the people inside. It's just that Alexander, who committed the second crime, obviously didn't learn physics, so he had to kill him again later.
Today, the Anatolian coast is full of corpses from Penives.
Alexander has caused a lot of pollution to nature!
Having crushed the main force of the pagan army in Syria in one fell swoop, Alexander immediately divided his army into two parts, one by ship to Jerusalem, and the other by land to Jerusalem.
The Muslims in Jerusalem heard the wind and ran back, and tens of thousands of horsemen followed them closely, and the infidels, relying on the speed of horses and camels, fled in confusion, and several times increased the distance, but were still met by Alexander's besieged soldiers in the deltas of Palestine and Egypt.
The besieged infidels were all wiped out, and it was another end of total beheading.
This is different from the one that has been discussed!
Didn't I tell Alexander not to slaughter the captives?
There are countless examples of the killing of captives that have led to the death of the enemy and the unification of the Empire, and the unification of the empire has delayed the Empire's strategy, but before Alexander left, I used my Nikephoros II, Nikephoros Phocas, to warn Alexander not to kill prisoners as much as possible.
About that Nikephoros II, I said it earlier. In the history of the Arabs, he was known as the White Death because of his successive victories in the Arab counter-offensive. The Muslim Hamdan dynasty was called the "sword of the nation", and Seifer Daulai was dying of his strength.
In 945, he captured Aleppo from the Ikhshid dynasty of Egypt and founded the Hamdan dynasty, conquering Damascus the following year and extending its power to Antioch and Husim. Later marched into Egypt. Capture Ramla, and the front forced the former suzerainty of the Ikhshid dynasty to make peace. Then, five years later, from 950 onwards. It fought against the empire every year, and in 953 near Marash, it defeated the Byzantine general Baljus.
But he was such a capable man, facing Nikephoros II. And it was only two years later that Nikephoros led the defeated army. Not only did Nikephoros vomit Aleppo that he swallowed in his stomach, but he also ate the important town of Antioch into his stomach, and the flames of war that ignited it led to the death of the Hamdan dynasty in 1004 after only forty years of existence.
Let's put it this way, the confrontation between Nikephoros II, the "White Death", and Seifer Dawlai, the "Sword of the Nation", was a two-power rivalry, and the result was that the empire seized a large amount of land and wealth in the East, recaptured the ancient city of Antioch from the Arabs that had been lost by the Roman Empire for more than 330 years, and determined the empire's control over the whole of Asia Minor and northern Syria. The foundation of Zhongxing behind the imperial Macedonian dynasty was laid.
At the same time, Nikephoros II reorganized the powerful ironclad paladon troops. The cavalry of the Byzantine Empire entered the glorious "era of super-heavy cavalry". This kind of ironclad palsadier changed the versatility of shock and cavalry archery in Justinian's time, emphasizing the difference between cavalry impact and shooting. To put it simply, the holy cavalry of the Justinian era who can charge and shoot arrows is under Nikephoros, and the cavalry should charge the charge, and the arrow will shoot the arrow, and the division of labor is clear, and it is no longer one person who takes on multiple duties, and the advantage of this is that the advantages of the cavalry's charge and cavalry archery are brought into play, unlike the Justinian era, if you want to charge, you have to pull the bow, and you have to charge with a few shots with the bow, not to mention the heavy armor on the body alone, so that the horses can't eat and walk.
In addition, in the famous military affairs of several emperors of the empire, compared with Emperor Leo's "Tactics" and Emperor Morris's "Strategy", which benefited many generals of the empire, he left behind "On Military Affairs" and "Raids".
In short, such a powerful emperor, such a god of war who has made considerable contributions and innovations in Byzantine military skills, still made a mistake in killing prisoners.
Because of one of his mistakes, the old and weak soldiers swore to defend the city, and even the women in the city threw stones at the Byzantine army, vowing to live and die with the city, and the result was that a brilliant attack on the Hamdan dynasty could only end with a reasonable result, so that the Hamdan dynasty lasted until 1004, a total of 40 years, which was the most unsuccessful of the few defeats of the "White Death".
And this time, it was Alexander who killed the prisoners, and it was not as simple as the one hundreds of years ago, if the Muslims resolutely resisted, how could the imperial army still draw troops to Italy?
Regarding the killing of captives, the vampire archduke did the most effective thing, sticking the Ottoman captives one by one on a stake, I once told this story to Alexander, but he didn't have the brains to think about it, the vampire archduke was on the defensive side!
Anyway, I almost spurted blood from Alexander's actions, but luckily there was a girl next to me who explained it, otherwise I might have died.
I know that Alexander is a man, and in my main point of the campaign, that is, Alexander's army appeared in one place first, so that the enemy mistakenly thought that this was our main attack, and after attracting enough attention, he quickly moved to another with the help of sea ships.
Now, Alexander first appeared in the Italian Peninsula, then withdrew and disappeared, and then appeared in Syria in an unexpected way, and attacked and defeated the paralyzed Muslims who thought they were blessed by Allah.
Now he slaughtered his prisoners, and although we had artillery, and the pagan fortresses to the south were in the medieval style of previous centuries, they were easily broken by artillery fire, but how many fortresses could he break?
Alexander is not stupid, he will not know that the army he has at hand is the only mobile force we have in a short time, and if it is lost, we will be completely passive?
The empire has more than 40,000 troops on the side of the Russian kingdom, nearly 70,000 troops on the side of Sviatos, more than 60,000 troops on Alexander's side, 30,000 people in the rear of Austria, and less than 70,000 people in various parts of the empire.
After thinking about it, I can think of only one possibility, Alexander deliberately killed the prisoner!
A month later, as I had conceived, Alexander was deliberately killing the captives, no, to be exact, he was slaughtering the captives, and I think that only the infidels who had been defeated and returned to Egypt had been killed, and those who had been captured in Syria were still alive and on his ship.
The reason I came to the conclusion is that the ships sent to supply Alexander's fleet have ceased to move, and it is highly likely that Alexander's southbound army has once again disappeared!
Having come to this conclusion, I was relieved at last, and informatively told Penives to wait for news of another great victory, and if nothing else, in about three or two weeks the Empire would have the good news of a great victory on the Italian side, of course, on the premise that the supply fleet had been transporting supplies for some time.
In the winter of 1723, three weeks and a few days later, on the outskirts of Milan, the Italian and French armies were defeated, and the 70,000 allied troops, who thought that the Imperial army was still eating dust under the Egyptian city, did not expect that the Imperial army would appear on their flank, and then appear from one side and attack them at night, so the coalition army was severely defeated. (To be continued......)