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Its weakness is obvious, that is, lack of mobility.

Jiang volunteered to say:

"General, let me lead the troops to test it out!"

Shen Bing shook his head.

In fact, there is no need to test such a phalanx. You can know its tactics at a glance... Use the outer super long spears to form a spear wall. The javelins of the soldiers will counterattack the cavalry.

In addition, each of these spearmen has a shield in their hands, so it is impossible to determine who will win or lose in the bow battle.

After thinking about it, Shen Bing ordered:

"artillery!"

Wang Ben responded, and asked the Shenwu Army to push the artillery, but there were only two cannons.

Chapter 5 and Two

Acaevus did not order the soldiers to attack.

Because he knew the shortcoming of the lack of mobility of the phalanx. It would be fine if the enemy was infantry, but the enemy was cavalry... Only a fool would chase them with a super long gun.

Akaifus just wanted to see what the so-called Silk Kingdom could do with them.

His thinking was actually very clear. No matter how much the cavalry harassed him, the Seleucid infantry would advance while fighting.

When Seleucid advances to the city of Lanshi, the end of these barbarians will come.

This idea is indeed correct.

Because the Qin army must defend Lanshi City, and at this time the Seleucid army is only two days away from Lanshi.

Once Seleucid arrives at Lan's, they will surround Lan's city from all sides with the primary phalanx, and then build a city wall.

In this way, the connection between the Qin army inside the city and the Qin army outside the city was blocked, and at the same time, the supplies and water sources of the Qin army outside the city were cut off.

As a result, the Qin army outside the city had to withdraw from Central Asia due to lack of water, and it was only a matter of time before the Qin army inside the city surrendered.

Just when Akaifus was about to order to advance in a defensive formation, he found that the enemy pushed out two black things.

Acaevus had never seen that thing before, which gave him an ominous feeling.

Then, after hearing two loud bangs, the horses under Akaevs were all startled.

But this is the second thing, and then I saw two iron balls flying into the phalanx with howling noises, and immediately several soldiers holding spears let out a scream and fell to the ground injured, some of them had their legs broken. Some had their heads blown off, while others had their stomachs and intestines rolled all over the place.

"What is that?" Arcafs turned pale with shock. He never knew that there was such a terrifying weapon in this world, and it was at least 500 meters away from the phalanx.

At this distance, the Seleucid army had no weapons to threaten the opponent.

"We don't know, General!" the subordinate replied in a trembling voice: "But it can obviously shoot iron balls!"

The soldiers quickly panicked.

Because the enemy has equipment that has never been seen before, which is terrifying in itself, but this equipment can still hit itself outside the range.

This means that the Seleucid army can only wait to die in place.

"Hold on!" cried Acaevus, "they only have two of that thing, and it won't do us much harm!"

Before he finished speaking, he heard his subordinate shout: "General, obviously there are more than two of them!"

Acaevus turned his head to look, only to see two more doors pushed out from the enemy's direction.

This is a psychological warfare carried out by Shen Bing.

Strictly speaking, ten cannons are simply not capable of defeating [-] Seleucid troops. Even if these Seleucid troops stand there and let the Qin army bombard them with artillery, they may not be able to finish them off.

Due to the consideration of marching speed, the Qin army only carried [-] shells, and most of them were solid shells... Originally, it was considered to be used to attack Dawan City. Who would have thought that the artillery would be used against the Seleucid infantry.

The reason why two guns are launched is to prevent the enemy from knowing how many artillery pieces the Qin army has.

First two doors came out to scare them, and when they thought that was the case, two more doors were pushed out.

"Boom" this time, four shells flew towards the phalanx.

Since the Seleucid soldiers stood very densely, each shell could knock down a few.

After waiting for a while, Shen Bing had another two cannons launched.

It was very easy for Shen Bing, but it was extremely scary for Acaves.

Because of this increase of two doors...does it mean that the enemy still has a lot of artillery?

Should the Seleucid army do something to change this situation?

Otherwise, as time goes by, are they all going to die here?

Afkes also realized this, he hesitated for a while, and then ordered:

"Straight ahead, attack!"

The spearmen said "Hey" in unison, and then raised their spears and advanced in the direction of the artillery.

This approach is correct. In fact, this is precisely the weakness of the artillery:

At a distance of 500 meters, it takes about 10 minutes at the slow advancing speed of the phalanx, and 10 minutes can only fire ten salvos at most for the artillery, and this does not include the cooling time required for the barrel to overheat.

How many enemies can be killed or blocked with ten volleys?

The Principality of Burgundy wanted to annex Switzerland with artillery troops, but in the end it was wiped out by Switzerland, which used the ultra-long spear phalanx.

This situation did not change until the time of Napoleon.

A man named Griffin made a series of improvements to the cannon, such as using more advanced manufacturing techniques to make the cannon, shortening the barrel, reducing the caliber, etc. to reduce the weight of the cannon, so there was Griffin system of field artillery.

One of the key improvements is the use of prefabricated launch tubes.

The so-called prefabricated launch tubes are made of smaller and shorter launch tubes than the gun barrels, and these launch tubes are filled with gunpowder and shells in advance.

When firing, it is only necessary to install the entire launch tube behind the barrel.

This enables the artillery to fire a large number of shells to kill enemy targets in a short period of time.

Then there was the "cannon cavalry" unit, which rode on horses and dragged artillery to maneuver, fired a few shots quickly and then moved, so artillery became Napoleon's weapon to conquer the world.

At this time, the artillery in Shen Bing's hand was not at this level, so he could only fire two shells and then move immediately.

But this did not affect the Qin army to contain the Seleucid army.

Because the artillery was only dragged back by a few horses for a certain distance before stopping again, and then reloading and aiming...

Acaeves desperately found that under the enemy's tactics, the Seleucid infantry could only be beaten, because they could never catch up with the enemy, let alone hit the enemy.

After hesitating for a while, Seleuci gritted his teeth and ordered:

"The first and second cavalry, in front of the target, attack!"

Seleucid each primary phalanx has a cavalry team, a cavalry team has 1000 people.

Acaevus had to attack with cavalry, and only cavalry could catch up to that annoying and terrifying weapon at this time.

Of course, Acaevus did not hope that the two cavalry could destroy this terrifying weapon.

But as long as the cavalry can hold it down so it can't be transferred, just a few minutes...then it's done.

For then the spearmen would push the shields in front of the weapon, and then there would be nothing to stop them from destroying it.

In fact, the Seleucid army was able to capture such weapons at that time.

So, the two cavalry came out from the flanks, one from the left and the other from the right, and then rushed forward holding their spears... The Seleucid cavalry did not retract their spears after stabbing the enemy, because if they wanted to retract them, the recoil would be too strong. Kicks the rider off the horse.

These spears are usually left on the enemy for one attack, and then drawn to fight with the sword.

However, this time they never had the chance to draw their swords.

Before they had time to step forward, two heavy cavalry entered their ranks obliquely...

Chapter 5 and Three

Blood and flesh flew everywhere and screamed.

The Seleucid cavalry was immediately devastated by the heavy cavalry of the Pu Lei army.

It should be said that although the number of Seleucid cavalry is small, the quality is still good.

The reason is that the Seleucid Empire maintained the tradition of the Alexander period, and the children of nobles served as cavalry.

This is very different from nomads.

The reason is that the cost of raising horses in Europe is high, and it is difficult to practice riding and fighting. Ordinary people do not have the conditions to learn how to ride horses and fight in the form of cavalry.

The usual life of nomads is to ride horses and graze. Ordinary people are unhappy without horses, so cavalry has become standard equipment.

Since most of the Seleucid cavalry were descendants of nobles, they received education and received strict and unified cavalry training since they were young, so their combat quality is naturally remarkable.

This is a bit like the cavalry army of the Qin State... Although the cavalry army of the Qin State is not all the children of nobles, because the cost of raising horses is relatively high, the cavalry is selected from the elite infantry.

If it is not better than nomads in riding and archery, Qin cavalry and Seleucid cavalry are probably no worse than nomads.

The problem is that the heavy cavalry of the Pu Lei Army at this time is not only the nomads with excellent riding skills, but also combines the heavy armor and weapons of the Qin State...

Shen Bing equips the heavy cavalry with the armor that is equipped for the driver of the chariot.

As mentioned before, because the driver of the chariot is the soul of the chariot, and he cannot block or even dodge during battle, so it is extremely dangerous.

Therefore, his armor is the most complete in the Qin army. In addition to the armor, it also has a shawl and leggings, and a horseshoe-shaped lock is added to the key points to thicken it.

The front end of the horse is also armored.

The most important thing is that these heavy cavalry have saddles and stirrups.

This made them more stable, which, combined with their high mass, gave them an absolute advantage in cavalry hedging.

Just like at this time, the Seleucid cavalry raised their spears and rushed towards the Qin cavalry...they had to carefully grasp the force of the thrust.

Because if the force is too great, the reaction force will knock yourself off the horse, and being knocked off the horse in a riding battle almost means death.

Therefore, the Seleucid cavalry is usually more suitable for dealing with enemy infantry. On the one hand, the slow speed of the infantry will not produce a huge reaction force like the cavalry hedge. On the other hand, the infantry is low and the cavalry is high. The reaction force transmitted along the spear is obliquely upward, and part of it will be broken down.

Cavalry hedging is different. The reaction force it produces is often several times that of infantry, which is not something they can bear.

Therefore, when fighting against cavalry, Seleucid cavalry usually throw their long spears at the target as javelins, and then draw out their long swords to split.

This is indeed lethal, especially the Seleucid cavalry javelin throwing is normal training, they can even throw the javelin to kill the target, and then gallop up to pick up the javelin stuck on the corpse.

However, at this time, the heavy cavalry of the Pulei army suddenly thrust into their team from the flanks, which made the Seleucid cavalry panic and only a few teams had time to throw their spears.

Then... the meeting of the two armies was a one-sided situation: the Seleucid cavalry were either dismounted by Qin cavalry, or they were knocked off their horses.

In the blink of an eye, only half of the Seleucid cavalry remained on their horses.

Then Qin Jun Qingqi also launched an attack.

The typical Xiongnu circling tactics were used, bows and arrows were drawn, and when the horse was close to the enemy, the horsepower was used to shoot the arrow into the enemy's formation.

Circle after circle like this, so the arrows shot at the Seleucid army continuously.

Acevs was stunned for a moment.

Because he found that the riding and shooting of these "barbarians" were far and accurate.

To put it far, it is because the "barbarians" actually targeted the crossbowmen in the phalanx.

It is not the first time that Acaevs has fought against nomads, but he has never seen an archer who cavalry and shoots far across the phalanx and hits the inside of it outside the range of the javelin.

This is actually the strength of the Macedonian phalanx...

It is not without reason that Alexander conquered the Persian Empire with an army of [-]. His troop configuration was based on heavy-armored ultra-long gunners and then layered on each other to cover and cooperate with each other to achieve the best defense and attack power, especially against Horseback riding of nomads.

For example, a heavy-duty super-long gunner is a heavy helmet and heavy armor, holding a shield in one hand and a super-long gun in the other.

This equipment is a test of the infantry's stamina, so usually only strong and well-nourished soldiers can be used.

The advantage is that both defense and attack are taken into account:

The spear wall composed of ultra-long spears hardly needs to worry about the impact of cavalry, so the cavalry can only shoot arrows at a distance.

But ultra-pikemen only need to raise their shields to cover each other, and it is difficult for arrows to hurt them.