Chapter 41： Hell-like encirclement battle

"Report, the Persians have gone out of the canyon, have already chased it!"

“Very good. How many people?”

"There are about six or seven thousand people, both of whom are archers and bowmen!"

"Damn Persian! It must be a ridiculous idea of ​​defeating us all with bows and arrows!"

"That's just the right thing! The more they come, the more we kill!"

"Can Daves block it?"

"So our attack must be fast and brave!" Customer Thorpe said firmly: "You, please go back to your command position immediately, and immediately start the formation, we will force it up!"

"Hey!!......" The leaders fought and started to act.

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When Altazus came out of the canyon, he couldn’t wait to open the battle formation. Like the previous day, the archers were in the middle and the cavalry was on the wings.

Just after chasing Taniguchi, the detective ride came back and reported: "The Greeks came over to us!"

Although Altazus is in a state of excitement, after all, he has rich combat experience. This kind of tactical tactics requires space for maneuvering. He does not want to be confined to the mouth of the canyon. So he immediately ordered the entire team to move to the left.

The archers and archers are considered to be highly mobile, but the team of 7,000 people has taken time to change the formation in the case of a battle formation, and the Greeks did not give him this time.

Not long after the order was issued by Artauzus, the Greeks appeared in the field of vision. He suddenly became nervous. He was very clear: when there were enemies pushing in, it was undoubtedly self-seeking.

He re-ordered to restore the battle formation, and quickly figured out in his mind: After shooting two rounds of arrows and disrupting the enemy's progress, he immediately moved to the left side, out of contact with the Greeks, and searched for the fighters again.

However, his face quickly changed, because the Greek front line was long, far beyond his own wings, and continued to extend to the wings during the process.

Altauzus is aware of the traditional phalanx of Greece. They tend to pile up the array very thickly, usually above seven or eight columns, using a powerful impact to crush each other. But now the opponent's formation is so thin that there are only two or three columns. Why dare to do this? Altazus immediately understood: Because he is a light cavalry and archer on his side, the Greeks can still win without relying on the strength of the number of people.

The Greeks want to surround themselves! Great idea! Artauzus was a little confused and his look changed. He wants to retreat immediately, and feels that the formation has already been opened. So he will go back in vain, and the morale will not be affected. The key is time delay.

I have made a promise, at least let me shoot a round of arrows. He thought to himself: The arrows of seven thousand can disturb their formation, and maybe they can cause confusion, even if there is still time to retreat.

Thinking of this, Artauzus decided to take risks. He quickly called the generals under his command and told them to remember the order of withdrawal...

When everything was arranged properly, he felt more relieved. Looking at the Greeks who were approaching, he decided to wait until the distance between the two sides was close to about 100 meters.

Come on, the Greek barbarian came to die! He laughed. However, at a distance of about two hundred meters, the opposite side sounded the sound of copper, the Greeks actually stopped moving forward! He is anxious, but he does not want the team to push forward. It is easy to get chaos from the attack immediately to retreat. And Artauzus only wants to smoothly retreat, or continue to wait for the Greeks to attack, he now feels more troops. There are also ills that are not smooth.

Then, he suddenly saw the numerous arms of the Greek heavy infantry behind him, and began to circle around the head.

Stone soldiers! ! Altazus was so scared that he remembered that there were no stone throwers in the Greek mercenaries. How come suddenly? !

At this time, there is no time for him to think about it. Countless fist-sized stones are intensively swaying like hail. In the middle of the Persian army, these Persian archers are stalking, and they are hit by this moment. They are not protected by armor. The head of the beggar broke through the bloodstream, and even more was directly stunned...

The Persian army road suddenly became chaotic.

The firing rate of the stone squadron was very fast. In an instant, the array of the other side threw a flying stone and covered the sky...

Altazus was so anxious that his eyes were red, and his voice shouted: "Retreat! Retreat!!..."

The trumpeter is preparing to blow the horn, but the opposite is the first to sing the high-pitched bronze horn. The original Greek heavy infantry screamed: "Aris!!!" began to take a big step, rushing toward the Persians, the whole The Greek front is like a surging tide, without fear of the reef shoal in front, vowing to engulf the land, it is a powerful momentum that is nowhere to be able to kill the Persians’ strong morale, even in the forefront of the Greek army. In the passage, dozens of cavalry were rushing, and they took the lead to charge the enemy Persians.

The Persians have collapsed! They did not listen to the orders of the officers, even wrapped them in them, and ran forward. The pre-arranged retreat order could not be carried out at all. The cavalry, the bowmen, the right wing, the left wing and the middle road rushed to the canyon. They only had the heart. One thought: stay away from the terrible Greeks!

Lost! Lost! Lost without a single arrow! ! Altauzus had participated in the Battle of Kunasack before, as a teammate, he cheered for the Greeks to easily defeat the army of the Persian king. Now, when he personally faced the Greek charge, he felt the horror of the Greek heavy infantry. At this moment, his brain was blank, but his hands clasped his horse's neck, and they were surrounded by the attendants and rushed to the mouth of the canyon. Because he was in the middle of the road, the closest to the mouth of the valley, so he and the attendant cavalry almost run in front of the Persian army.

In front of it is the mouth of the valley. The vast space is suddenly narrowed here. The steep and continuous peaks make the air flow only in the mouth of the canyon, making the Altazus who just entered the valley mouth blown by the fierce mountain wind.

"Drive!" He clamped the horse's belly, and his heart was clear: the faster you rush across the canyon, the less you lose some people!

The road in the canyon is not a straight line, but a curved "S" shape. This is not a problem for the Persian cavalry who rides the battlefield all the year round. They control the horse very well, even if there is a turn in front, they are not too Slow down the speed of the horse.

Just as they hurriedly turned to the foot of the mountain, there was a wall of half-man high that was simply piled up by stones and wood. Altazus and his attendant cavalry were too late to collide. Suddenly people shouted at the horse, screaming again and again...

Altazus was swept away, and the scene he finally saw was the rapidly expanding mountain wall...

Persian squadrons enter the canyon like a torrent of torrents, stuffing the gorge full of gorges and pushing forward...

When the remaining cavalry of the current side was horrified and stopped moving forward, the soldiers in the rear were still running forward...

So a more tragic scene happened: the soldiers in front were crushed, and before they got up, they were trampled by the soldiers who were pouring in, and they struggled and stumbled on the soldiers who marched forward. In order to escape the killing of the Greeks, the rushing soldiers in the back are still pouring in madness...

Some people in the canyon have fallen, trampled, fallen, trampled... After the stone wall, the Persians piled up in layers, extending to the mouth of the valley. Some soldiers have been trampled into meat, some are still struggling, in the blood Mourning in the creek... It’s just a human purgatory!

"Vertical shield wall!"

"Javelin preparation!"

Seeing the Persian soldiers crowded in front of the stone wall, although Daves was a little nervous, he was still clear-headed and pronounced clearly in order to give orders!

The Persians who struggled to climb the stone wall were first shot by the light shield javelin led by Epiphanis, and then the Greek heavy infantry formed in a dense formation formed a shield wall to block their way. The soldiers in the first four columns were attached to the front chest. Back, giving the first column of soldiers support, their stab guns can also reach the front of the first row of soldiers, together form a spear wall, the passage is blocked tightly, easily panic, unorganized Persian thorn inverted.

Davers asked the soldiers to carry the stone wood and simply piled up the stone wall. The intention was to prevent the impact of the Persian cavalry, because once the horses were mad, the heavy infants would not be able to block even if they were ranked more. And it will be a heavy loss, so use roadblocks to slow the speed of the Persian cavalry. Unexpectedly, the effect of the stone wall was far more than imagined. It blocked the canyon with the mountain of corpses, making the power of the squad unable to converge and impact the defense line of Daves.

The battle did not last long. The Persian squadron had a chase after the war, no way to go before, and a bad situation in the middle of hell. The spirit completely collapsed and surrendered...