I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 27 The Ogrill Barbarians
It has to be said that Antigonus’s cheap father is really reliable, leaving him a country with such a complete infrastructure. The city of Pella has all kinds of buildings and neatly distributed, far less dirty and crowded than the big cities of the same era— ——This can actually be attributed to the fact that the Greeks themselves love cleanliness. They will not dump garbage and feces at the door of their homes like other nations.

It can be said that Antigonus can enjoy the life of a king after getting rid of Euphemia. As long as Thermopylae is still in his hands, the threat of war from outside will not be able to threaten Antigonus. Under his command, the people of the kingdom remained loyal to him, so even if Antigonus was a fatuous tyrant, he would not be overthrown from his rule.

However, after being reborn with great difficulty and becoming the monarch of a country, Antigonus's ambition is not here.The kingdom's finances and military strength are strong enough to support him in several large-scale foreign wars. Considering that he will be harassed by the Ograre barbarians every year, Antigonus decided to take the initiative to bring the entire Ograre Peninsula into the kingdom's rule scope.

According to the records in the Pella Library, there are at least a hundred barbarian tribes, large and small, entrenched on the Oglell Peninsula, and they are divided into several races.Among them, the most famous are the Tirgetais and Galindians who are good at using bows and arrows to fight, the Silurians and Usidians who are good at sailing, and those who like to use some kind of blue paint to paint or tattoo their bodies. Britts and Coritas and Dannos.In addition, there are Salo and Maliki who are good at ambushes and raids, who have a deep hatred with the Kingdom of Macedonia.

Although they are called barbarians, it does not mean that they are really barbarians with only muscles and no brains. They are just still in the tribal era and cannot establish a real country.Their handicraft industry is as developed as the alchemy industry, and there are large and small cities and towns standing in the plains in the forest. Some of their tribes can also farm and herd, which is not much different from civilized countries.

The best of them are the Brits. They are different from other barbarians. They have established their own capital and a large religious center. Although they are mainly agricultural, they even minted their own currency because of the complexity of the economy. With the rudiments of early civilized countries.

Even so, they, like other barbarians on the Ogrell Peninsula, will launch aggression against the civilized countries around the peninsula during the "Bloodthirsty Moon" to plunder the spoils.As a society of warriors, they indulged in the joy of killing infinitely.

The barbarian tribes on the Ogrell Peninsula are so complicated, let Antigonus know that it is not an easy task to conquer this peninsula, especially on the Ogreel Peninsula where the dense forest coverage rate is close to 60.00%, with the strength of the Macedonian army In terms of combat methods, the difficulty has increased again.

The pike phalanx tactics that the Macedonian army has always used have extremely high rigid requirements for the battlefield environment. It can exert great power in plain combat, but in the dense forest, the Sarisa pike cannot be used at all. Weapon Copis Machete Combat - This will be devastating. The combat effectiveness of copper shield spearmen who use Copis Machete to fight will be greatly reduced. Facing ferocious barbarian warriors, it is likely to be a one-sided massacre.

It is said that during King Philip's last expedition during his lifetime, his army was attacked by Salo and Maliki who were good at ambushes when passing through a dense forest.

In that disastrous ambush battle, a large number of barbarians wearing black cloaks and showing strong upper body muscles brandished all kinds of long swords or battle axes, and rushed out of the dense forest on both sides with roars. They rushed into the crowd before launching the spear phalanx to meet the enemy, and the Macedonian phalanx that could not be deployed in time broke up, so that they could only draw out their secondary weapons to fight, and the final result was that the entire army was wiped out.

The Macedonian heavy infantry and light infantry accompanying the army were not spared either. The former were able to resist for a longer period of time due to their superior weapons. However, as time went by, the number of enemies increased and the number of our own side became smaller and smaller. In the end, they were defeated by the crowd tactics.

These were narrated by the soldiers who survived the massacre and fled back to Thermopylae Pass. After they told all the news they knew, they thought they could be released. When they returned home, they were directly killed by Nicanor's cronies. Die, block the news.

With the lessons learned by a generation of time travelers, Antigonus must be cautious. As long as he is more careful or avoids entering the dense forest, ambushes and the like can be avoided.However, the environment in the barbarian-occupied area was very unfriendly to his pikemen. What Antigonus feared was that if he couldn't even fight an upright field battle, it would be over.

At this moment, Hephaestion, the chief clerk, came in led by the guards, and their footsteps interrupted Antigonus's meditation behind the desk.

He raised his head, saw that it was Hephaestion, and asked casually, "Hephaestion, how is the inspection going?"

"Your Majesty, there are still most of them that have not been checked." Hephaestion said respectfully, and then handed over the booklet in his hand to the guards around him, saying, "Your Majesty, this is the booklet I found left behind by the previous king. Written in a non-Greek script that none of us can read."

"A non-Greek language?" Antigonus raised his brows. Combined with the booklet left by the former king, he suddenly had a guess in his mind, and beckoned the soldier to bring the booklet.

After taking the booklet, he opened the first page of the booklet, and saw a passage written in English letters one by one:

"Hello, if you can understand this sentence, it means that you, like me, are from another world. Then, I hope that the things recorded in this booklet can help you."

It was actually written in English.Antico was a little disappointed. He thought that the senior traveler would also be a Chinese, but he didn't expect that he was a foreigner whose mother tongue was English.

He pursed his lips, looked up at the chief clerk and guards opposite him, thought for a while, waved to them, and said, "Go out first, no one is allowed to come in without my order."

"As ordered."

The two agreed together. They sensed the importance of this booklet from Antigonus's tone, and they didn't stay any longer. They walked out of the study together and guarded outside.

After they left, Antigonus suppressed the emotions in his heart, pinched a corner of the page, and flipped it gently...

(End of this chapter)