I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 39 The Saddle Stirrup
Hearing the shouts of killing coming from the direction of Thermopylae, Aktrick knew that Askogast's night attack had failed, and it failed not long after the operation started.

"Actrik, should we go and rescue them?"

Mondogast, who was beside the coalition commander, asked in a low voice, he really didn't want to see these [-] warriors die in vain.

However, Aktrick shook his head and refused: "We can't save them. Even if we attack the city immediately, the Macedonians still have time to kill Askogast and his men, and that will be futile." That's all."

"Then we just watch them die?"

"Yeah." Akterik responded. He wasn't cold-blooded, and there was really nothing he could do.

Seeing that Aktrick's attitude was clear, Mondogast had no choice but to give up and continue persuading him. Ascogast had nothing to do with him. He simply couldn't bear to let so many warriors die.

On the other side, Antigonus, dressed in plain clothes, stood with his hands behind his back outside the Governor's Mansion. His face was stern, and the air pressure around him was extremely low, making the companion cavalrymen around him chill and afraid to speak.

Antigonus kept his eyes on the brightly lit city wall in the distance. The shouts of killing over there had come to an end. A large number of Macedonian hoplites left the barracks the moment the enemy was discovered and went to reinforce them.He couldn't help but be thankful that he had specially asked Cronus to make the soldiers be more vigilant, otherwise, the barbarians might have succeeded.

As time passed, the shouts of killing on the city wall gradually subsided, and Antigonus relaxed. He thought that the barbarians outside the city would be unwilling to lose their troops here and launched a siege to attract the attention of the defenders , but did not expect them to be so cold-blooded that they directly abandoned the night raiders in the city.

After a few minutes, Kronos, who was wearing a linen breastplate, strode over. Antigonus noticed that the hoplites following him were all covered with more or less blood. It's just been through a fight.

"Your Majesty the King." Kronos stepped forward, stood in front of Antigonus, and said respectfully, "All the barbarians who attacked were killed, including a barbarian chieftain."

"The barbarian chief?" Antigon narrowed his eyes and looked at Cronus, who responded, "Yes, we captured a few wounded soldiers and learned about it from them .”

"The one who attacked tonight is the Malarizi tribe of the Salo people. Chief Ascogast personally led [-] night raiders from the tribe to participate in the operation. He originally wanted to cause us some trouble and motivate them. The morale of the army was low, but I didn't expect it to be completely damaged.",

"Oh, stealing chickens is not enough to lose rice." Antigonus shook his head with a sneer, and then ordered: "Let the soldiers go back to rest. The night attack failed tonight, and the barbarians will not come again."

"As you command." Cronus promised, and was about to turn around and leave, but Antigonus suddenly remembered something and stopped him, saying: "Interrogate those wounded soldiers carefully and ask them to explain the situation of the barbarian army. "

"Yes."

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In the next few days, the barbarian army outside the Hot Spring Pass did not attack again, as if they were frightened by the failure of the last siege and the night attack of the broken soldiers. Nothing happened, but Antigonus still sent people to collect the barbarian corpses piled up outside the city and set fire to them to prevent the corpses from decomposing and causing plague.

Although the barbarians on the opposite side couldn't understand what the Macedonians were doing, they didn't go to interfere, and just watched the corpses turn into dust in the dancing flames.

On the city wall, Antigonus looked at the barbarian barracks in the distance, his eyes sparkling. During the trial of the two captured Salomen a few days ago, they had already revealed all the information they knew. With a better understanding of the barbarian coalition forces, the idea of ​​taking the initiative to attack became stronger.

That's right, it is to take the initiative to attack.

As I said before, he has never been a passive person to be beaten. This year, he will definitely organize an army to break out of Thermopylae Pass and attack the barbarians proactively.But now, the main force of the barbarian army on his side is basically concentrated outside the Hot Spring Pass. As long as he can annihilate this army in one fell swoop, the large tracts of land outside the Hot Spring Pass will be at his fingertips.

More importantly, the bloodthirsty moon will last until the end of July, and the barbarian autumn hunting will come again in a month or two. If he chooses to hide in Hot Spring Pass and wait for the barbarian army to leave, he can only attack in August. Only a short month or two allowed his army to rage, for that was the time when the barbarian armies were scattered, and the easiest to deal with.

Having said that, Antigon couldn't guarantee that the tribes of the barbarians would not have some kind of special communication method, allowing them to convey information about the enemy and gather troops in a short period of time.Antigonus prefers to do things that are sure, so he is more inclined to wipe out the enemies outside the pass now, and then steal their homes when most of the barbarian troops go north to plunder civilized countries.

It is for this reason that Antigonus asked Cronus to transfer another battalion of bronze shield spearmen from Pella to the front line. With the addition of the second battalion, Antigonus's chance of winning the initiative would be greatly improved. At the same time, he also ordered mobilization and recruitment from all walks of life in Pella (the tribes outside the city were not mobilized because it would take longer).

However, another important point of the chopping block tactics commonly used by the Macedonian army lies in the Macedonian cavalry. The so-called chopping block tactics use phalanx spearmen equipped with Sarissa spears to stick to the enemy's infantry, and then use a large number of impact cavalry to attack from the flanks. Launch an overwhelming charge against the enemy, defeating them in one fell swoop.

The shock cavalry in the Macedonian army is not strong. There are only 150 partner cavalry and 258 Sarisa cavalry. There are more than [-] cavalry in the district. If you want to attack the army formation of thousands of barbarians, it is really suspected of death— —If it is similar to the heavy cavalry in the Middle Ages, then there is no problem, because the horses have been equipped with saddles and stirrups at that time, no matter how violent the charge is, the knight will not fall off the horse.

Antico thought for a while, but he still had to make these two harnesses first. Although he had never really ridden a horse in his previous life, he was not ignorant of the saddle and stirrup. As a senior netizen, he was I learned about harnesses from those water lovers' teasing, and then I searched for information about them. Now it is not difficult to assemble the design drawings of these two harnesses.

Considering that the newly transferred copper shield spearmen and mobilized troops were still on the way, Antigonus decided to take advantage of this time to make saddles and stirrups first. With these two items, the shock cavalry would be able to play a more powerful role.

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