v9 Chapter 260： Battle of Taposakus (2)

After more than half an hour, almost all the Dionian troops completed the array, and this side quickly recovered quiet, but the Persian side was still noisy.

Two days ago, Artaxerxes listened to Trebasus' description of the situation in the Dionian camp, and he was more confident in winning the battle. Now he is standing high on the carriage and can see the situation on the opposite side clearly. The fast and efficient formation of the Dionian army is too obvious compared to his own chaos and procrastination, which makes him a little uneasy, and he can see. The place was completely black, and the uniform sense of oppression was heart palpitating, causing him to shout involuntarily: "Terrebasus, urge the troops to speed up the formation! Speed ​​up the formation!"

"Yes, King!"

After the Dionian army lined up, the sun was quickly rising to the middle of the sky, and the soldiers received orders from the team officers: "Hurry up and add some food."

Just as the soldiers of the First Division of the Second Battalion of the First Army were chewing the bread they carried and passing water sacs to each other, someone exclaimed: "Squad leader, look! There are elephants in the Persians!"

Standing behind the detachment and serving the soldiers, Alsinius immediately walked to the front of the queue and looked forward. There were dozens of men in the Persian army on the opposite side with tunics and swords tied to their fangs. Under the command of the mahout, the elephant is slowly walking to the front of the Persian array.

The elephants are huge in size and are particularly eye-catching compared to the surrounding army. Their appearance immediately caused a commotion among the soldiers of the First Army and the surrounding Army.

Alsinius took a deep breath and turned around and shouted to the soldiers who were discussing: "The Captain of the Matonis Legion has told us that there may be war elephants in the Persian army. What is strange about you! "

"Captain, we are just curious, the Persians actually sent such a docile animal to the battlefield!" A soldier responded.

"No matter how docile an animal is, it is terrible once it becomes crazy. Don't take it lightly!" Alsinius reminded him, and then smiled again: "But the Persians don't know that we have seen it many times in the Turiy Zoo. I have an elephant, thinking that using it will scare us, and then we will in turn make the Persians suffer from the abuse of elephants!"

"Captain, don't worry, we are not afraid of elephants. We just think elephants are so cute. It would be a shame if they all died in this battle." Another soldier said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Another soldier answered immediately: "I didn't feel a pity. It was not our fault that these elephants died in the battle. On the contrary, it would be great if you could taste the meat of elephants after the war!"

"Cripps, you foodie, you are not satisfied after eating so many delicious foods these days! Do you think you can become as strong as an elephant by eating elephant meat!" Alsinius laughed and cursed.

"Captain, he just thinks that the things under him are too small and want to be bigger." A soldier said loudly jokingly.

The soldiers burst into laughter.

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After more than an hour, the Persian army finally finished its formation.

At the forefront of the central road are the loosely formed Persian archers, followed by the Indian war elephants and sickle chariots lined up. The war elephants are in the center, the chariots are on both sides, and there are 3000 Persian armored cavalry behind. Behind the cavalry, 20,000 Greek heavy infantry and 10,000 undead troops were spread out. Artaxerxes is in the rear, behind him are ethnic forces from Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf coast.

At the forefront of the right wing are the mixed forces of Persian archers and archers from Armenia, Parthia, and Medes, followed by 100 tanks from Medes and Babylon, followed by Dukes, Armenia, Persian infantry, followed by a team composed of tribes around the Caspian Sea, such as the Sylkaria, the Tapulians and so on. At the far right end of the right wing there were more than 10,000 cavalry from Amería, Parthia, and Medes.

At the forefront of the left wing are the mixed archers of Persia, Arabia, Bactria, and Alahosia, followed by the infantry composed of Persia, Carria, and East Uxian and Sitakinis east of Susa. Then came the Far Eastern ethnic forces headed by Alahosia and Bactria. At the far left of the left wing, there are more than 10,000 cavalry led by Persia, Scythian, and Bactria, and 500 camel cavalry from Arabia are at the forefront.

It can be seen from the Persian formation that the Persian formation has a solid depth, with the strongest road strength.

The reason why the Persians made this arrangement was that the Dionian army had a large number of heavy infantry and strong close combat capabilities, so the depth was increased to enhance the stalemate ability in close combat. Whether for safety reasons or to eliminate Altaxerxes’ fears (Altaxerxes was injured by Cyrus’s javelin in the battle against Cyrus, and there is a psychological shadow), Strength must be strengthened.

Therefore, Lalabassius took the opportunity to put forward suggestions: hoard heavy troops in the middle, use war elephants and chariots to tear apart the enemy's defense line, and then use armored cavalry to completely disrupt the enemy's heavy infantry, and the Greek heavy infantry and undead army will keep up with the charge. , Completely overwhelm the enemy army, thus winning the battle...

Artaxerxes finally adopted his suggestion.

The formation adopted by the Dionian army is:

The First Army, Fourth Army, Seventh Army, and Fifteenth Army of the Twelfth Army are deployed in a checkerboard formation in the middle route. When combined, the thickness is 10 columns. There are 5 light infantry groups in the center of the rear. The commander is Matonis.

The left wing consists of the Second Army, Fifth Army, Eighth Army, Fourteenth Army, and Sixteenth Army in a checkerboard formation, and when combined, it is 10 columns thick, and there are no other troops behind;

The leftmost end of the left wing consists of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, the Gallic Cavalry Regiment, and 2000 Numibian light cavalry. The rear is nine light armoured battalions. There are 6 light infantry groups and 2,000 Barriari slingers in the rear.

The right wing consists of the Third Army, Sixth Army, Eleventh Army, Thirteenth Army, and Seventeenth Army in a checkerboard formation with a combined thickness of 10 columns, and there are no other troops behind.

The front row at the far right end of the right wing consists of the Second Cavalry Regiment, the Fourth Cavalry Regiment, the Iberian Cavalry Regiment, and 2000 Numibian Light Cavalry. The rear is also nine light armored battalions. At the rear are 6 light infantry groups and 2,000 Barriari slingers.

The command center where King Davos is located is at the rear of the middle road. In addition to the guards of the palace guards, there are also the 18th, 19th, and 21st regiments on its left and right as reserves.

From the formations listed by the Dionian army, it can be seen that Dionian gathered heavy troops on both ends of the two wings, obviously trying to defeat the Persian cavalry first, and then outflank the two wings. The Persian cavalry is obviously stronger than Dionia, and Daves actually wants to start from the strongest point of the enemy. It can be said that he knows that there are tigers in the mountains and is biased towards the tigers.

Although the number of the Persian army is twice that of the Dionian army, due to the caution of the Persian King Artaxerxes, the depth of the array has been significantly increased, while the Dionian army has an infantry array due to the confidence of King Davos. Only the thickness of 10 columns is maintained, so the length of the two formations is almost the same, both being 15 miles long.

The sources of the Persian army’s arms are complex. Not only are the clothes and weapons different, but the soldiers themselves are also very different. Therefore, even though the entire formation is mostly dense arrays and standing on a flat battlefield, the experienced Dioni The sub-reconnaissance cavalry can still roughly judge the front force arrangement of the Persian formation through careful observation.

The Dionian army is almost entirely black helmet and black armor. The arms are relatively simple, and Daves deliberately prevents the enemy from seeing the reality of the array. Therefore, the heavy infantry and cavalry at the forefront of the formation are lined up and can cover the enemy's opponent. After seeing the line of sight, the troops in the rear began to be deployed.

At the same time, Daves also specifically ordered: Soldiers behind the array must not raise their weapons before fighting!

At this moment, according to the report of the scouts, Felixius and the staff have drawn a sketch of the front force distribution of the entire Persian formation.

Daves took the wooden plank he handed over, and after carefully reading the sketch above, he was slightly surprised: "Hey, the Persians have 100 more chariots. This is a bit different from the number Izam told us."

"Maybe I just arrived recently." Felicius explained.

Daves thought for a while, and quickly made a decision: "Then let the right-wing light infantry brigade split out 2,000 men first to deal with these tanks."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Felicius immediately delivered the order.

"Your Majesty, it's past noon for UU reading , let's eat something first." Hernipolis reminded him next to him.

"I'm not hungry yet." Hernipolis had asked several times, so Daves waved his hand a little impatiently. After the messenger set out, he always looked to the left with concern, even though it was impossible to see the mobilization of troops miles away from his position.

After a while, he suddenly realized something and asked: "Hylonimus, Amintas, did they eat?"

Before Hernipolis could answer, Hironimos’ voice came from behind: "Your Majesty, we are old and don’t participate in the battle. It doesn’t matter whether we eat lunch or not—"

"Yeah, Your Majesty, we don't have any leisure time to eat, just wait for the battle to start!" Amintas interjected impatiently.

"Don't worry." Daves said calmly: "The more time is delayed, the more disadvantaged the Persians..."

As he was talking, Izam galloped from the left on horseback and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, I have found the position of the Xocant tribal warriors in the Persian army!"

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