089 Essence of the Macedonian Phalanx
"Why is Alexander's troops marching so fast? Are they really all humans?"
Xiao Yunyang, who was sitting in the marching tent with a big Malaysian golden sword, was disbelief after listening to the latest information sent by the scout.
Although Xiao Yunyang, who came from modern society, was an outer sect of ancient marching and fighting, he had been in this world for almost three years and knew some common sense well.
Moreover, since Xiao Yunyang's main force is almost perfect soldiers, even if he arranges troops according to the script, summoning soldiers can be accomplished very well.
As for the Servant Army, due to the ruthless supervision system and the leading role of summoning soldiers, there was no sign of collapse in the middle of the journey.
Therefore, Xiao Yunyang did not have the brains of a famous coach, but he won many battles and achieved the record of a famous general!
This is what is called: as long as the army is elite enough, even if the commander is a pig, he can win a battle.
At least, Xiao Yunyang is much smarter than Zhu...
Of course, Xiao Yunyang's victory in every battle has a lot to do with the enemy being too weak. The troops of both sides were completely crushed in all aspects such as equipment, morale, training, and individual soldiers. As long as Xiao Yunyang is not hopelessly stupid, he will not be able to defeat the battle...
However, facts are facts. Foreign propaganda and even historical records cannot be written like this. The factor of victory will never fall on the soldiers. The attributes of elite troops will be overturned. All victories rely on the commander's mind!
This is the instinct of the ruling class. No matter how hard the people below can fight, their glory will always be shrouded in the superiors.
This is like Stalin, the great leader who turned around in his previous life, promoted him to be like a war god after winning World War II.
In fact, the Soviet army was able to win the victory not only by the so-called leader's command, but by the technical and material support of the Allied forces, and the Ula who was desperate for the lower-level Soviet soldiers...
However, after the victory of the war, no one would remember how brave the Soviet army was at the bottom. All people remembered was Stalin and a few supreme commanders, Marshal.
Therefore, when the strength reaches a certain level, the war can be pushed forward with no brainstorm. As long as it is not so stupid that it makes common sense mistakes, it is difficult to fail...
Why are the battle examples of winning with less and winning with more always remembered? It is because there are too few battle examples and it is too difficult!
Little do we know that most wars in human history rely on the crushing of absolute strength.
The Qin State swept away the six-way and established a unified dynasty mainly relying on the Qin State's national strength and advanced military merit system, rather than the few generals such as Bai Qi and Meng Tian. Without enough elite troops to command them, even the genius commander could not cook without rice.
However, Xiao Yunyang now found that he had made an impossible "common sense mistake".
Alexander actually arrived at the war zone ten days in advance!
Xiao Yunyang can understand that this foot force is placed on the independent elite orc legion of the Persian Empire. After all, orcs can eat grass (this is also one of the reasons why they are very green).
However, all the commanders of Alexander are human forces!
Marching and fighting are not just walking, humans are not robots, they don’t even need to eat, drink, defecate, and sleep at night!
And in the march, except for the walking soldiers, the most sluggish thing is the military baggage. Otherwise, what would tens of thousands of soldiers eat?
I can't hold on for a few days with the rations carried by the soldiers...
"Your Majesty, the enemy has approached ten miles away!"
After hearing this, Xiao Yunyang immediately threw out the doubts in his heart.
No matter how Alexander did it, the decisive battle was imminent and he didn't have much time left.
If nothing unexpected happens, tomorrow morning will be the time for the decisive battle to begin.
Because humans in this era had poor food and night blindness was common, the army tried their best to avoid night battles when fighting, and liked to eat at dawn and start fighting in the early morning.
In this way, there will be a full day spent on the war.
Xiao Yunyang knew that there was extraordinary power in this world. The main force of Alexander's troops could march here so quickly, which was bound to be related to extraordinary power.
Fortunately, Xiao Yunyang has always had the habit of gathering troops to fight, so he was not caught off guard by Alexander.
Although thousands of Greek legions are scattered in various occupied cities, more than 30,000 Greek legions are still gathered around Xiao Yunyang.
After this period of battle, although the battles were fought with the more, the number of battles was accumulated, and the number had reached 356 points.
Originally, Xiao Yunyang was planning to accumulate slowly and then be promoted to military position.
Xiao Yunyang had a premonition that if the military post continues to be promoted, he will inevitably summon more advanced troops, even troops in the firearm era!
After all, level 6 soldiers are already the peak of the cold weapons era, and firearms will naturally appear in the future.
However, now Xiao Yunyang has to use the battle soul to draw the soldier card, and he has no confidence in winning against Alexander Xiao Yunyang.
Because Alexander's march was too fast, Xiao Yunyang didn't even have time to summon Grayfors's first camp.
Now Xiao Yunyang is the only summoned soldiers around him. Although the Greek army is large, Xiao Yunyang is not very confident in them, even if he has military merits, his morale will be boosted.
After all, Alexander the Great's reputation was too high.
A large part of the reason why the Greeks were able to protect the Greek Peninsula from being invaded by the Persians was that Alexander the Great blocked the Persian Empire's military front.
[Congratulations to the host for drawing 1,000 Swadia Knight Soldier Cards; 1,000 Nord Royal Guard Soldier Cards; 1,000 Ancient Han Shooting Sound and Powerful Soldier Cards.]
After spending 300 points of battle souls, Xiao Yunyang drew 3 level 6 regular soldier cards with a scale of 1,000 people.
After seeing the Swadia Knight Soldier, Xiao Yunyang breathed a sigh of relief. He was now 80% sure that he could win.
This Swadia Knight was a heavy cavalry at the peak of the late medieval period of the European continent in his previous life. It was a very invincible existence in the Kingdom of Macedonia, which had just entered the Iron Age.
The most important thing is that Xiao Yunyang has a killer weapon to restrain the Macedonian phalanx.
After coming to this world, Xiao Yunyang learned through the cases of foreign wars in the Kingdom of Macedonia that the most powerful Macedonian phalanx under Alexander was not the Macedonian phalanx infantry, but Alexander's companion knights.
These partner knights were actually early feudal knights. Alexander allocated a large amount of land and manors to them in the name of their partner friends, and gained the loyalty and friendship of these partner knights.
Moreover, these partner knights can fully undertake the best armor and weapon training because they reward a lot of real estate.
They are the real essence of the Macedonian Kingdom.
Chapter completed!