Battlefield of All Sides

Chapter 161

It was not until the fifth day after the lunar eclipse that Alexander finally ordered the troops to move.

A noon time was chosen, and after worshiping Zeus and Athena first, all the Macedonian troops were dispatched, and the mighty Persian army on the horizon also began to move upon hearing the wind.

As the horn sounded in the camp, except for the [-] Thracian infantry who stayed in the camp to guard the supplies and the Persian hostages, all the troops pressed forward at the same time.

Because Li Mu's phalanx is currently the largest in the team, it played a very important role in this battle. It was the first to leave the camp and was also in the middle of the army.

The surrounding Macedonian phalanxes gathered on both sides of Li Mu's phalanx, and the cavalry team of tens of thousands of people behind them also started to move. They went to the two sides, just like the battle in Issus, except that This time there are more troops, and they need to face a larger number of troops.

Li Mu kept shouting in the team, and Philip was also busy. This battle was extraordinary. In order to win, every link must not go wrong.

Li Mu helped the soldiers relieve their emotions and mobilized their patriotic emotions as much as possible, especially stimulating them with the past Persian bullying of the Greeks, allowing them to cheer themselves up, not to face the army on the vast battlefield. Fear.

But this time the situation is obviously completely different from before. Darius tried his best to assemble the hundreds of thousands of troops. From the beginning, there was a one-sided posture.

But since Alexander did not compromise, all the soldiers followed him to participate in this gamble. Whether they can win or not depends on everyone's performance.

When the troops gradually lined up in this barren grassland and the two armies confronted each other, the atmosphere suddenly froze. Even though the scorching sun in the sky made everyone feel hot, they still focused on the front.

Li Mu completely arranged the phalanx, stood on one side with Philip, looked back, and saw that the royal guard with Alexander was supervising the battle at the rear. At this moment, he felt a little courage in his heart.

Just turning his eyes back to the front, seeing that the entire Macedonian phalanx unfolded is only the length of the central phalanx of the Persian Empire, Li Mu has already made a decision in his heart

That is to lead the team to break through the Persian formation in front of them no matter what.

Because that's obviously the only way to win.

Li Mu cheered himself up in his heart, but the army in the distance in front of him suddenly started to make noises, and the shouts of the mountains and tsunami rushed towards his face.

The voices of tens of thousands of people came, and the momentum was already much larger than that of the Macedonian army.

The soldiers of the spear phalanx were quite calm, but the skirmishers who helped the spear formation resist the cavalry in front were a little flustered. The officers among them took great efforts to calm them down, but the next moment they changed suddenly. rise.

At that moment, the Persian army in the distance started to move first.

The cavalry on both sides of the Persian army took the lead. They yelled and drove the horses under their crotches, and led them to both sides of the Macedonian phalanx.

Obviously, the Persians, who had a strong military advantage, chose the safest method. They wanted to surround the entire Macedonian army, and then completely crushed the Macedonians to death with their troops.

When the horses moved, Li Mu knew what these Persians were going to do, but at the moment Li Mu loudly ordered the troops to stabilize, and then turned to look at the Macedonian cavalry on both sides, and found that they were also moving to the two sides, preparing to let the opponent The cavalry has no way to outflank.

Gaugamela's battlefield is very open, but these Persians are not all dispatched in one go, so more than 1 Macedonian cavalry can play a role, but it can only resist for a while.

The battle has begun, and it will end only with the defeat of Darius in Persia.

So the main force of this battle depends on the phalanx soldiers like Li Mu.

So almost at the moment when Li Mu looked back to the front again, there was a horn sounding behind him, and the surrounding phalanx also started to move. Li Mu also immediately yelled to let the phalanx move forward, and the spearmen raised their spears , step forward one by one.

Smoke and dust suddenly rose from the sandy ground, and Li Mu suddenly felt that he saw a familiar battlefield, and the original feeling of fighting reappeared.

Li Mu drew out his dagger to follow, and was surrounded by noisy voices. Li Mu's phalanx has a huge number of people, and it is the most important thing in this battle, and Li Mu dare not be sloppy.

The whole army started to move gradually, but after walking a certain distance, Li Mu realized that something was wrong. His phalanx completely deviated from the route he had set in advance, and now he has gone a long way to the left.

When the tight phalanx is moving forward, as long as there are no problems on the farthest sides, it is impossible for the phalanx to have such a large deviation. The current situation shows that something may have happened to the left side, and the leftmost side may have It has been dispersed by local cavalry!
Li Mu came to this conclusion in his heart, and looked over there, but he didn't see anything in the smoke and dust. The surrounding voices were still very noisy. Li Mu couldn't figure out the situation, so he could only restrain himself. force.

But after walking a short distance, the situation changed again. Some stragglers came from one side, saying that a phalanx on the left had been broken through, and that a large number of Persian troops were heading towards the back of the camp.

The voice was only repeated twice before being beheaded by a phalanx commander on one side. Li Mu heard this sentence, but immediately appeased the surrounding soldiers.

Things have already turned to the bad side, but if these soldiers are not properly stabilized, it will really fail if there is any chaos here.

So Li Mu appeased the soldiers at the first time, and let the phalanx continue to move forward steadily. The weapons in the hands of the Persian soldiers could be clearly seen on the battlefield ahead, so Li Mu asked the soldiers to put down the spears in their hands. , but the troops are still shifting to the left, seeing that the spear points of the troops are going to one side at this moment.

Li Mu couldn't control the situation at all. There were three to four thousand people in such a large phalanx, and the information was not smooth at all. Apart from being able to hear the order to set off, the soldiers completely relied on their comrades around them.

Therefore, such a phalanx is almost difficult to enforce orders. Li Mu can only move the surrounding skirmishers more to protect the sides of the phalanx.

But the situation changed quickly, the team no longer shifted to the left, and the chaotic scene gradually became orderly. Li Mu suddenly realized that this might be because the situation on the left had stabilized.

Li Mu didn't have time to find out if it was true, so he could only order the troops to hold their ground and continue to move forward slowly.

The faces of the Persian soldiers in front of them could already be seen clearly in the smoke and dust. Those people rushed towards the phalanx ferociously. The bows and arrows began to play their role. Li Mu rushed forward while ordering the troops to prepare to meet the enemy.

The entire battlefield was chaotic. Li Mu tried his best to make it possible to face the enemy directly anyway as soon as he stabilized the phalanx, but the roaring enemy army in front of him also made one's scalp tingle.

The crowd tactics are almost standard in ancient battlefields. Seeing those enemy troops rushing in one by one, Li Mu immediately turned around and patted the shoulders of the spearmen on the edge of the rear phalanx one by one, making them also Also put the spear down.

At this moment, Philip was running ahead and ordering the spearmen in front to stop, and began to line up to attack.

When Li Mu was running out of breath, the entire phalanx finally completed its formation before reaching the enemy.

At the next moment, those Persian soldiers in black clothes rushed into the formation of skirmishers holding scimitars and spears.

Li Mu's phalanx was very lucky, there were no cavalry charging in front of them, they only had to confront these Persian soldiers head-on.

But Li Mu's phalanx was also unfortunate. The entire phalanx was at the center of the Persian central phalanx, and the front was surrounded by the most rigorous and elite soldiers.

Except for the back, the front is full of black Persian soldiers.

The black wave seemed to be boundless, and it could completely submerge the entire Macedonian army in just a moment.

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(End of this chapter)