I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 84 The Battle of Arcelos (4)

The destruction of the barbarian chariot troop brought the high-level coalition forces into a strange calm. The chiefs who had just clamored to dispatch all of them suddenly fell silent. They looked at the chief of the Duretika people with strange eyes. Thankful for my persistence, but I also know that this is not the time to come out to attract hatred, so I also quiet down.

Different from the silence in the rear, the barbarian infantry attacking from the front had already passed over the remains of the destroyed barbarian chariots and continued to advance towards the Macedonian phalanx. At the same time, the Macedonian siege equipment was rarely launched after the appearance of the barbarian chariots. He also roared again, replacing the ordinary stone bullets with fire bombs stained with raging fire. Under the thrust of mechanical energy, twenty fire bombs roared into the sky, dragging black tail flames under the scorching sun. Smashing towards the dense barbarian army formation.

Facing the flints falling from the sky, even the bravest warriors will be afraid. They saw with their own eyes that the flints all fell into the densest place where the barbarian warriors stood, as if they had eyes. The warriors standing at the point where the flints fell They were instantly reduced to ashes and crushed to the ground without a trace by huge rocks. They might have just been smashed into meat paste, but compared to the tribesmen who died under ordinary stone bullets before, they were also roasted into meat paste.

Around the flint, the fierce flame ignited many barbarian warriors nearby. The barbarians usually wore robes made of animal skins, which was undoubtedly a good kindling, so that after encountering sparks, their bodies directly Ignited by the flames, they let out heart-piercing screams, and the firemen ran around frantically, pounced on the nearest clansman, and begged the other party to help him extinguish the flames on his body, but the flames were not easy to extinguish, just like devils Like tentacles, entwining and devouring the life of the person being ignited.

Just one round of projection took the lives of more than a hundred barbarian soldiers, but this was nothing more than a drop in the bucket in the eyes of the coalition forces with a large base. At the same time, the archers deployed behind the Macedonian phalanx stepped forward one after another. , took out several arrows from the quiver, inserted them into the soft ground under his feet, and took out another arrow and put it on the bowstring, making preparations for shooting.

Although the field of vision is blocked by the wide back and shield in front of the robe, it is not impossible for a pair of well-trained archers to follow the officer's order to complete the shooting, let alone the famous Cretan bow and arrow among them hand!

"Archer, prepare to—"

"Keep the attack speed and follow up, 45° angle, launch!"

As soon as the officers finished speaking, the archers who had pulled the bowstring into the shape of a full moon loosened their thumbs on the bowstring reflexively, and sent a round of black arrows into the air. After that, they had no time to care about the results of the first round of shooting. , bent down at the fastest speed and pulled out the arrow stuck at the foot, stretched the bow and set the arrow, slightly too high, pointing directly at the sky——

"emission!"

Whoosh whoosh—

Although the rain of arrows fired by the Greek archers seemed as painless as drizzle to the huge barbarian coalition, they were not willing to be beaten passively. Amidst the sound of horns, the archers in the barbarian coalition quickly ran out. The barbarian military formation set up their bows and arrows towards the Macedonian army, and fired an even larger rain of arrows!

In an instant, the buzzing sound of the bowstrings of thousands of bows collapsing almost merged into one, making it difficult to distinguish each other. Thousands of arrows soared into the sky, drawing beautiful parabolas one after another in the midair, and then headed towards the Macedonian phalanx. Falling rapidly, although the arrows used by the barbarian archers are not iron arrows, the casualties caused by thousands of arrows falling together to the Macedonians are still extremely considerable!
Hearing the ear-piercing whistling sound from the sky, the expressions of the centurions in the queue changed drastically, and they quickly shouted loudly: "Raise your shield! Raise your shield! The enemy's arrows are coming!"

Amidst the mournful roars of the centurions, barbarian arrows rained down into the square formation, clanging and hitting the square shields held up by the soldiers. The soldiers quickly waved their spears and knocked the falling arrows into the air - this is not impossible, because the barbarian arrows have lost a lot of kinetic energy when they fly here, and they can also be shot when dense spears are swung at the same time. was beaten into the air.

Wave after wave of arrows soared into the sky like an endless rain, forming a line in the sky and falling into the Macedonian phalanx one after another. Although the Macedonian soldiers had made preparations, the round shields they equipped were not as good as the square shields used by the Romans after all. , unable to completely cover the body.Inside the phalanx, the left foot of a soldier squatting on the ground was pierced by an arrow falling from the sky. The severe pain made him let go of the spear and round shield in his hand, and wanted to cover his blood-spitting left foot. Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers quickly raised their shields to help him block the incoming arrows, and cooperated to drag him to a safer rear.

"Damn! Why are there so many barbarian archers?"

Feeling the tinkling sound coming from the shield, a hoplite centurion cursed bitterly. At this moment, the shield held by a soldier beside him was broken by an arrow. Defense, the palm of the left hand holding the shield was nailed to the shield by the piercing arrow, and a bloody arrow was sprayed directly on his face, and the soldier let out a heart-piercing scream immediately, but the strong desire to survive made him He didn't dare to put down his shield, and could only endure the excruciating pain.

After several consecutive waves of arrow rain, the barbarian archers finally stopped shooting, which made the soldiers in the Macedonian phalanx heave a sigh of relief, but when they put down their shields, they were shocked to find that the barbarian infantry had rushed to them only a few meters away. Ten steps away!
"Damn it! Formation to meet the enemy!"

"Raise the spear! Raise the spear!"

Following the shout of the centurion, the soldiers hurriedly placed their spears on their shields. The soldiers in the front row half-kneeled on the ground and tilted their shields in front of them, preparing for the most violent impact—the bronze shield spearmen It was the Sarisha spears that were held tightly with both hands, pointing directly at the barbarian infantry rushing towards them. They had spears like a forest, and the dense spearheads would make one's scalp tingle from a distance!

"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"

The barbarian warriors roared, and launched the most violent charge with their shields upright. A large number of ordinary tribesmen followed closely behind them, roaring like wild beasts that could not be made by humans, but more like a group of running wild beasts, or It was a galloping black flood, hitting the Macedonian solid line of defense head-on!
"Hold on!"

At the moment when the front lines of the two armies were about to collide, the centurions in each phalanx shouted loudly, ordering the soldiers to stabilize the front line. The heavy infantry in the front line did not care about killing the enemy, and stuck their bodies tightly behind the shields, trying to Using the weight of their bodies to withstand the power of the barbarian's charge, the comrades behind them also used shields to withstand the backs of their comrades——

The next moment, the barbarian allied forces, coming like a flood, slammed into the Macedonian Great Wall of Steel head-on. The entire right wing trembled under the violent impact, then the central army, and then the left wing, but the power of the charge did not last long. The battle line was soon stabilized again under the desperate resistance of the veterans!
(End of this chapter)