061 The pedantic Templars
Xiao Yunyang naturally did not know how to arrange the hostile Greek military formations. According to the normal Greek phalanx, whether it is the middle army or the two wings, there will be similar depth behind it.
However, the commanders of the Greek Allied Army knew the power of Xiao Yunyang's summoning soldiers, so they set up such an inverted ladder-shaped military formation.
In this way, the fragile wings can rely on deep formations and forces to trap Xiao Yunyang who was rushing in. The heavy infantry phalanx formed by the elite city-state guards in the middle is not afraid of the cavalry charge.
At least from paper, this army has no flaws in the army, which has strong combat power but few troops.
The most important thing about the practical battle formation in ancient times is that it is simple and durable. Simple and durable means that soldiers are efficient in deploying arrays and are not prone to errors. They can also be calm when moving and changing.
This is a very important key to winning for the components of the extremely low average cultural level of ancient soldiers!
This is why in ancient battle formations, square formations were the most common, and there were only a few commonly used square formations.
This does not mean that complex battle formations are not good, but that they want to change complex square formations back and forth, which requires too high a requirement for soldiers.
What's more, soldiers who can perfectly master complex battle formations also have high combat power when using ordinary battle formations.
Obviously, the Greeks in this other world are best at square formations, and even promote a square formation culture between warriors.
Every front row soldier will hand over half of his body to his comrades next to him to guard the shield!
This is undoubtedly a united and upward fighting spirit.
The enemy formation Xiao Yunyang faces now is like this. Whether it is light infantry or elite heavy infantry soldiers in the front row, they are dense Greek infantry phalanxes, and a small number of Greek cavalry shuttled between the various phalanxes, responsible for conveying military orders and coordinating various departments.
The Greeks also had cavalry, but the number was small. The most important thing was that the Greeks did not have a cross-age invention such as stirrups, so the combat effectiveness of the Greek cavalry was very weak.
Greek cavalry only has one hand to use for combat, so there is no long-range army among the Greek cavalry, and they are all single-sword cavalry.
Because of this, the Greeks often did not use cavalry as combat troops, but instead allowed them to serve as communications soldiers, personal guards, scouts, and battlefield miscellaneous work.
The Greek cavalry was hardly visible in frontal combat.
Xiao Yunyang's summoning cavalry can shoot archery on horseback has always been a difficult problem for the senior leaders of the Greek League to meditate. Since the bodies and war horse weapons will disappear after the summoning cavalry die, the Greeks could not get samples at all, so they could not know the principle of stirrups.
Of course, if Xiao Yunyang summoned cavalry and fought against the Greeks more often, through frequent observations, the Greeks were likely to have a glimpse of the principle of stirrups. After all, the technical content of stirrups is really not high...
As long as you observe carefully, can the Greeks still not be able to copy it?
It was densely packed, and at first glance, the Greek military formations on both sides were pressing over. In order to maintain the integrity of the formation, the Greek military formation was not moving forward at a fast speed, similar to humans walking slowly on foot.
Similar to the speed of Xiao Yunyang's previous life's honor guard playing in a straight stance.
The entire military formation was made up of countless square formations, with gaps between them, but the front row of square formations completely closed the gaps, and only Greek cavalry running back and forth behind the Greek military formation were seen running around.
Xiao Yunyang looked at the Greek military formation with a strong momentum, and somehow he was fooled to the high morale, and a hint of relief appeared on the corner of his mouth.
From the perspective of other normal commanders, it should be a headache to see the enemy's momentum, but Xiao Yunyang was very happy from the bottom of his heart!
Because the higher the enemy's aura, the higher the proportion of war souls obtained in the battle!
Even Xiao Yunyang couldn't bear to use despicable long-range means to weaken the morale of the enemy!
The right way is to harvest a large wave of war souls while the Greeks are so arrogant!
As for the extra losses on our side, it is not a problem in Xiao Yunyang's eyes. Anyway, the people who die are all tool people... Oh no, they are summoning soldiers!
Now Xiao Yunyang's soldier card summoning has been maintained for two days, so he naturally will not summon it on the spot. After determining the location and time of the decisive battle last night, Xiao Yunyang used the soldier card out.
Then the dinar obtained by Xiao Yunyang was swallowed up by the mercenaries from the neutral camp like flowing water!
"Sir, I'm very sorry, my brothers and I cannot support the invasion war you are engaging in.
This is the land of the Greeks, and we have already obtained enough. Being able to ignore everything that adults do is already the greatest limit for me and my brothers and I.
The Templar's sword will only wield the injustice and honor of the world!"
Hugo, the captain of the Templar, looked at the approaching enemy army formation opposite and said to Xiao Yunyang with a serious expression.
Xiao Yunyang was slightly stunned after hearing this and asked subconsciously: "You didn't say that last night!"
"We didn't know last night that the master was attacking the owner of this land."
Hugo replied with confidence, his face full of sacredness...
Xiao Yunyang felt a little sore after hearing this, but he also knew that these soldiers in the honorary camp were just elm knots. Apart from his personal loyalty to him and his lack of military pay (but he had to be a good person), his fierce fighting without fear of death, and his hatred of evil..., he was useless!
Therefore, Xiao Yunyang did not try to convince Hugo.
"Okay, but I hope you can protect me from the danger when I am defeated."
"That's of course. It's our duty to lead my brothers and my friends to this new world. Protecting the safety of our lives is our duty."
Hugo and his men soon left the front line, and they were going to give the combat space to others.
After Hugo and his group left, Julia, the female guard leader who had been guarding Xiao Yunyang, complained with disdain: "A group of ascetic monks with holy light in their minds. I really don't understand why the adults tolerate such a group of people around them. Sooner or later they will ruin the adults' 'good thing'."
Julia, who had been with Xiao Yunyang for a while, naturally understood that her adults could do anything for the sake of their own interests, and 99% of them did not meet the honor standards in the minds of the Templars!
Julia is reminding Xiao Yunyang that those Templars who have been brainwashed by the Holy Light will really do things that are unfavorable to Xiao Yunyang because of the so-called honor.
Xiao Yunyang smiled indifferently and said, "Everyone has his own value, and my responsibility is to put different people in the position they are best at.
Chapter completed!