I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 54
The attack bugle resounded over the Macedonian army, and the heavy infantry who received the order left the army formation one after another, and approached the wall of the barbarian barracks in a neat square formation. It is a large number of light infantry without armor. They advance slowly under the cover of heavy infantry. After they enter the range, it will be their turn to cover their comrades in attack.

Obviously, as the main force of the siege, the number of heavy infantry in the Macedonian army is very impressive. They have 750 Macedonian heavy infantry, 300 Greek heavy infantry, 220 shield spearmen, and 255 breastplates. Swordsmen and 250 breastplate spearmen, these 1775 heavy infantry are not the kind of products that can be called heavy infantry with only a round shield and spears, dressed in linen breastplate and bronze Wearing muscular armor, wearing Thracian helmets or Corinthian helmets, they meet the standards of real heavy infantry in the Greek world, and they are also the mainstay of the Greek city-states and the main soldiers of the Greek army.

It is no exaggeration to say that these heavy infantrymen with rich combat skills have no pressure at all against the barbarians who are stubbornly resisting. It is impossible to say that one enemy is ten, but one enemy three is certainly possible.

In order to enhance their offensive capabilities, Antigonus not only sent all the archers and javelinmen under his command to provide fire cover, but also asked the Agyrian axemen and Thracian spearmen who had performed well since the outbreak of the war to assist in the attack. city.

On the other side, seeing the Macedonians preparing to launch a strong attack, the barbarian troops in the camp immediately panicked. They quickly picked up their weapons and ran to assemble behind the wall under the scoldings of the warriors and chiefs.For a moment, the entire camp was in chaos. People could be seen running around like headless flies everywhere, as well as crying children, women and children mixed in with the crowd.

Facing the menacing Macedonian phalanx, the barbarian warriors hiding behind the wall could only shoot sparse arrows and javelins in an attempt to block the enemy's advance. However, the arrows and javelins they fired caused great harm to the Macedonians. It was simply negligible, because most of them were blocked or bounced away by the raised Aspis buckler. Only a few arrows passed through the shield at tricky angles and hit the warriors below.

Feeling the tinkling sound on the shield and the knocking sensation from time to time, the heavy infantry centurion in the phalanx gave a loud shout and ordered the soldiers to speed up their pace. At this moment, the bows and arrows protected behind them The soldiers stopped their progress, drew their bows and arrows on the spot, and shot the first round of tentative arrows at the barbarian barracks amidst the roar of the officers.

The barbarian warriors hiding behind the wall only saw a shower of arrows soaring into the air, drawing amazing arcs in midair, and then falling towards them like raindrops. Although this was just a wave of tentative shooting, it is true that It was still fatal to the barbarian warriors without armor protection. Some warriors who couldn't dodge were shot and fell to the ground immediately, clutching the arrow wounds on their bodies and screaming heart-piercingly.

The officers of the Macedonian archers did not expect that their tentative volley suppressed the barbarian light infantry's shooting, making them afraid to continue shooting for a short time, but even if they knew it, they would not stop shooting for it , After the first round of tentative volleys, the experienced officers commanded their subordinates to adjust the angle and continue shooting.Under their cover, the heavy infantry advanced rapidly all the way, and soon reached the wooden fence with a height of only two meters.

The low city wall in front of them did not stop the progress of the Macedonian heavy infantry. Under the call of the centurion, they raised their shields in an orderly manner, and formed a tortoise shell formation with the head high and the tail low against the wall. The soldiers in the front row Under the cover of his comrades, he put down his shield, took out the tools he had prepared and dug at the bottom of the wall, hoping to tear down the obstacles in front of him by destroying the foundation of the wall.

At this time, the javelin soldiers, Agyrians, and Thracians who followed them near the wall raised their javelins and threw them at the barbarian warriors behind the wall. The extremely powerful javelins immediately crossed the wall, such as Falling into the crowd like raindrops, these javelins with their own armor-breaking effect are simply overqualified against unarmored infantry. The bodies of the barbarian infantry were easily penetrated, and the whole person was nailed to the ground, with blood flowing freely and flesh and blood flying everywhere. The ground near the wall was soon dyed red.

The barbarian infantry who were shot by the Macedonians collapsed on the spot. They were not motivated to fight, but now they were hit by the javelin rain and suffered heavy losses. The collapse was a natural thing.The barbarian chiefs and warriors looked at the fleeing infantry with hideous faces, shouting desperately trying to get them back to their combat positions, and managed to stabilize the trend of fleeing.

But at this moment, a large number of Agirian axemen and Thracian infantry jumped onto the tortoise shell formed by the heavy infantry, climbed up the wall through this artificial slope, jumped into the camp, and killed the chaotic barbarian infantry. The warriors wielding hatchets and halberds were not as savage as the men they fought, but they fought with greater valor, killing the barbarian infantry on their backs and crying for their mothers.

Seeing this, the barbarian chiefs and warriors had no choice but to grit their teeth and push forward bravely, trying to motivate the fleeing fighters to turn back, but they did not expect the enemy's offensive to be so fierce, especially those armed with elongated shapes. The weapons were obviously barbarian warriors. Under their berserk attacks, the chiefs and warriors had no choice but to retreat. They were frightened by the long-handled weapons in the hands of the enemy-what a terrible weapon. All shields will be split open, and even if you wear armor after losing your shield, you will still be disemboweled by a sharp machete, and you will die miserably.

After just a few face-to-face encounters, several chiefs who took the initiative to greet them were chopped down, and every fallen person had either a broken hand or a broken leg, or was directly disemboweled and decapitated. The cruel way of death made those warriors who thought they were brave feel terrified, not to mention the ordinary soldiers around who had already lost their fighting spirit, which directly accelerated their rout speed.

And at this moment, the heavy infantrymen who were flying with their small shovels finally broke through the foundation of the wooden fence and pushed down the crumbling wall. The heavy infantry with shields and spears rushed in, and they also let out a battle cry in unison as they advanced. This kind of battle cry can not only boost the morale of one's own side, but also deal a heavy blow to the morale of the enemy!
(End of this chapter)