Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 1311

[Chapter 260 The Great Battle of Tabosacus (2)]

After more than half an hour, almost all the Dionian troops completed the formation, and this side quickly returned to quiet, while the Persian side was still noisy.

Two days ago, Artaxerxes was more confident in winning the battle after listening to Trebassus about the situation in Dionysian camp.

Now that he was on top of the carriage, he could see the situation on the opposite side. The rapid and efficient formation of the Dionysian army was too obvious compared with the chaos and procrastination of his own side. The place was completely black, and the uniform pressure made him palpitate, making him involuntarily shout: “Terrybassus, urge all the troops to speed up the formation! Speed up the formation!”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

After the formation of Dionia’s army, the sun was almost in the middle of the sky, and the soldiers successively received orders from the officers: “Hurry up and add some food.

” When they were chewing the bread they were carrying and passing water sacs to each other, someone exclaimed: ”

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Captain, look! The Persians really have elephants!”

Walking to the front of the queue, looking forward, I saw dozens of elephants in the Persian army on the opposite side, with hoods and long tusks tied with sharp swords. front.

The elephants are huge, and they are particularly eye-catching compared to the surrounding armies. Their appearance immediately caused a commotion among the soldiers of the First Legion and the surrounding legionnaires.

Alsinis took a deep breath, turned around and shouted to the soldiers who were discussing: “The commander of the Martonis Legion has told us before that there may be war elephants in the Persian army, what’s so strange about you! ”

Captain, we are just curious, the Persians actually sent such docile animals to the battlefield!” A soldier responded.

“No matter how docile an animal is, once it becomes mad, it is very scary, don’t take it lightly!” Alsinis reminded, and then smiled again: “But the Persians don’t know that we have seen it in the Turii Zoo many times. I thought we could scare us with it, 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 pity to die in this battle.” Another soldier said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Another soldier immediately answered: “I don’t feel a pity. It’s not our fault that these elephants died in battle. On the contrary, it would be great if we could taste the meat of elephants after the war!”

“Cripps, you foodie, you’ve eaten so much delicious food these days, and you’re

still not satisfied! Do you think you can become as strong as an elephant by eating elephant meat!” Alsinis scolded with a laugh.

“Captain, he just thinks the thing under him is too small and wants to make it bigger.” A soldier said loudly jokingly.

The soldiers burst into laughter.

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

At the forefront of the middle are Persian archers in a loose formation, followed by Indian war elephants and sickle chariots lined up in a row. Behind the cavalry were 20,000 Greek heavy infantry and 10,000 undead troops.

Artaxerxes is in the rear, and behind him are ethnic troops from Mesopotamia, the Persian Gulf coast.

At the forefront of the right wing are Persian archers and a mixed army of archers from Armenia, Parthia, and Media, followed by 100 chariots from Media and Babylon, followed by Durkia, Armenia, The Persian infantry, followed by the ranks of the tribes around the Caspian Sea, such as the Syracians, the Tapulians, and so on.

On the far right of the right flank were more than ten thousand cavalry from Amelia, Parthia, and Media.

In the forefront of the left flank are the Persian, Arab, Bactrian, and Arachosian mixed archers, followed by Persian, Caria, Eastern Uksian and Sitakenis infantry. Then followed by the Far Eastern ethnic troops headed by Arahossia and Bactria.

At the far left of the left wing were more than 10,000 cavalrymen led by Persia, Scythia, and Bactria, with 500 camel cavalry from Arabia at the forefront.

It can be seen from the formation of the Persians that the Persian formation has a thick depth, and the road is the strongest.

The reason why the Persians made such an arrangement was that the Dionysian army had a large number of heavy infantry and strong melee combat capabilities, so they increased the depth to enhance the stalemate ability in melee combat.

Whether it is for safety reasons or to dispel Artaxerxes’ fear (Artaxerxes was injured by the javelin of Cyrus in the battle with the little Cyrus, there is a psychological shadow), the middle road Strength must be strengthened.

Therefore, Lalabassus took the opportunity to put forward a suggestion: 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 attack, completely disrupt the enemy’s heavy infantry, and the Greek heavy infantry and the undead army will keep up with the charge. , completely overwhelmed the enemy and won the battle…

Artaxerxes finally took his advice.

The formation adopted by the Dionysian army is:

the first army, the fourth army, the seventh army, the twelfth army and the fifteenth army are deployed in a checkerboard formation, and the thickness is 10 columns when combined. There are 5 light infantry battalions in the center of the rear, and the commander of the entire middle road is Matonis.

The left

wing consists of the 2nd, 5th, 8th, 14th, and 16th corps in a checkerboard formation, which is also 10 columns thick when merged, and there are no other troops behind;

The Legion, the 3rd Cavalry Corps, the Gallic Cavalry Corps, and 2,000 Numibian Hussars were formed by nine light armoured battalions at the rear.

There are 6 light infantry battalions and 2,000 Balearic slingers in the rear.

The right wing consists of the 3rd, 6th, 11th, 13th, and 17th corps in a checkerboard formation, with a combined thickness of 10 columns, and there are no other troops behind.

The far right front of the right wing consists of the 2nd Cavalry Corps, the 4th Cavalry Corps, the Iberian Cavalry Corps and 2,000 Numibian Hussars, and the rear is also composed of nine light armoured battalions.

In the rear are 6 light infantry battalions and 2,000 Balearic slingers.

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

From the formation listed by Dionia’s army, it can be seen that Dionia gathered heavy troops at both ends of the two wings, apparently wanting to defeat the Persian cavalry first, and then detour from the two wings.

The Persian cavalry was obviously stronger than Dionia, and Davos actually wanted to start from the strongest position of the enemy.

Although the number of the Persian army was twice that of the Dionysian army, due to the caution of the Persian king Artaxerxes, the depth of the array was obviously increased, and the Dionysian army was due to the confidence of King Davos. The infantry array Only the thickness of 10 columns was maintained, so the lengths of the formations on both sides were almost the same, and both were 15 miles long.

The sources of the Persian army’s arms are complex. Not only do they have different clothes and weapons, but even the soldiers themselves are very different. Therefore, even though most of the entire formation is a dense array and is standing on a flat battlefield, the experienced Dionys The Asian cavalry can still roughly judge the arrangement of the troops in the front part of the Persian formation through careful observation.

The Dionysian army is almost all black and black armor, the arms are relatively simple, and Davos deliberately does not let the enemy see the reality of the array, so the heavy infantry and cavalry in the front of the formation are lined up and can cover the enemy on the opposite side. After seeing the line of sight, they began to arrange the troops in the rear.

At the same time, Davos also specially ordered: the soldiers behind the array must not raise their weapons before the battle!

At this moment, Philisius and his staff have drawn a sketch of the distribution of troops in the front of the entire Persian formation based on the reports of the scouts.

Davos took the wooden board he handed over, and after carefully reading the sketches above, he was slightly surprised: “Hey, the Persians have 100 more chariots, which is somewhat different from the number Izam told us.”

“Maybe Just arrived recently.” Philisius explained.

Davos thought for a while, and quickly made a decision: “Then let… the light infantry brigade on the right flank divide 2,000 people first to deal with these chariots.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Philisius immediately went to convey Order.

“Your Majesty, it’s past noon. Let’s have something to eat first.” Henipolis reminded beside him.

“I’m not hungry yet.” Henipolis had asked several times, so Davos waved his hand impatiently.

After the messenger set off, he had been looking to the left with concern, even though it was impossible to see the movement of troops from a few miles away from his position.

After a while, he suddenly realized something and asked, “Have Hieronymus and Amyntas eaten?”

Before Henepolis could answer, Hieronymus’ voice came from behind him. : “Your Majesty, we are old, and we don’t take part in the battle. It doesn’t matter if we eat lunch or not—”

“Yes, Your Majesty, we don’t have time to eat now, just wait for the battle to start!” Amyntas was impatient ‘s interjection.

“Don’t worry.” Davos said calmly: “The longer the time drags on, the worse it will be for the Persians…”

As he was speaking, Izam galloped from the left on horseback and shouted loudly. Said: “Your Majesty, I have found the position of the Xoxokant tribe warriors in the Persian army!”

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