Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"Common danger is the strongest bond; it keeps men united despite mutual dislike and suspicion."

——Titus Livy

Iolkos, south of Philais, is a small coastal city-state without walls.

But there is a small fortress near the port, where a group of Cassander's troops are stationed.

Pyrrhus took thirty ships and landed swaggeringly under the eyes of the garrison, without any concern for possible attacks by the garrison.

It would be better to say that they would rather come out to fight, so as not to have to attack the high wall of the fortress.

But this is basically impossible.

Because the number of people disembarking from the ship will reach [-], even if a considerable number of them are women.The garrison only has [-] troops.

Before departure, many women came to Pyrrhus to plead, because most of the stronger women wanted to take up arms and fight in the hope of gaining a piece of land even if they died in battle.

Many of his friends and mercenaries advised Pyrrhus not to bring women into the barracks, but he agreed because he was really short of men.

After some screening, he selected a dozen relatively prestigious fitness women as team leaders and established a women's camp with more than 800 people.In wartime, these people can guard prisoners, manage baggage, support logistics, serve as light infantry, etc.

In Pyrrhus's eyes, having these women serve as light infantry was just a supplement - many of his men were only light infantry - and what he valued most was actually logistics.

Because logistics in this day and age really sucks.

In most cases, the owner of the army does not care about the food and drink of the troops. The basic salary he pays his subordinates is to let them provide for three meals a day!

To Pyrrhus it was like some ancient joke.

So how exactly do they solve it?

The description of this process in many history books is "collection", but as long as you contact the context, you can find that the so-called collection is nothing more than robbing or buying.

Sometimes I rob, sometimes I buy, sometimes I rob and buy again.The armies of this era are like locusts, causing havoc wherever they go.

And in some inaccessible places where there is no way to rob, in this case, the general will find a way to solve the supply problem.

At this time the caravan appeared.

When an army marched in the ancient world, it was often followed by various caravans.

Selling food, selling weapons, acquiring prisoners and trophies, currency exchange, providing extracurricular tutoring...

At the same time, a large part of the work of the generals in charge of logistics in the army in this era - if there were any - was to deal with these caravans.

For example, ordering bulk supplies for combat, recruiting mercenaries, setting prices for soldiers, and receiving one-to-one professional coaching...

They are part of the ancient war ecology.The detritus caused by war is transformed into nutritious substances through them.

If an army is elite enough and 'pure', then there may be more caravans behind it than there are troops!

Far away.

In Pyrrhus's view, it is not that the army does not need life skills, but this need has been magnified.

Like this women’s camp.

can you cook?Okay, you join the cooking... team.

Can you sew and mend?Okay, you can join the first aid team and be responsible for sewing people up when there is a fight.

Do you talk about other people's rights and wrongs behind their backs?Okay, you can join the publicity team.

Can you fight?OK……

Pyrrhus did not expect that there were actually female soldiers who could fight, and they were qualified heavy infantrymen, stronger than a considerable number of male soldiers.

Finally, after thinking about it, I decided to put them into the combat order and call them the Shield Girl Team!

Most of the rest can only be used as light infantry.A few are archers, some are slingers, and the rest can only practice relatively simple javelins.

——The javelin is relatively easy to throw when fighting in a large scale. Just throw the tip towards the enemy.

After the female soldiers were reorganized, they still looked the same.

It was the male soldiers who gave Pyrrhus a headache.

There are [-] male soldiers who are cavalry. Well... we can't say they are cavalry, we can only say they have mounts...

More than 250 of them are riding horses, but the horses vary in quality. Some are war horses, while others are just draft horses, pack horses, and walking horses.Some of the remaining 150 people rode donkeys and some camels.

Pyrrhus selected a relatively good 150 cavalry.Among them, 50 cavalry with better equipment and higher level form a team of heavy cavalry; those with average equipment are light cavalry, divided into two teams of 50 cavalry each, and take turns to act as scouts.

Pyrrhus simply divided the remaining 100 men on inferior horses.Those with taller and stronger horses can be divided into two teams of 100 people mixed with those riding camels. These people can fight with the heavy cavalry. In close combat, taller mounts have certain advantages against people and cavalry, but their mobility is not as good as that of real cavalry; Those with shorter horses can only be mixed with donkeys. Although these people have 150 people in three teams, they basically only have four more legs than infantry. Some inferior horses are not as tall as donkeys. It would be too shameless to call them dragoons. Pilo The soldiers could only call them mounted infantry.

About 1800 of the remaining 500 people have a full set of heavy infantry equipment. They are relatively elite, and they are divided into 5 centurions. The remaining 1300 people are very poorly equipped. After a simple test, Pyrrhus divided them into There are 6 centuries each of pikemen and light infantry, and there are more than 100 people who are not very good at anything. They are left to maneuver and do odd jobs for the craftsmen brought there.

Finally, there were more than a dozen companions, all of whom could be regarded as relatively elite cavalry. Pyrrhus scattered half of them into the cavalry team and half followed him; there were also Desiachus and Stratton with ten Several students from Lyceum, who were able to read and write, were first placed in the central army and used flexibly according to the situation; there were also a dozen craftsmen, mostly carpenters, but also blacksmiths and coppersmiths. These people formed an engineering battalion to let them Stratton takes them.

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3000 people lined up in the open space in front of the pier, and it looked like a dark crowd.

Although the equipment is not very good, at least it looks neat after being organized like this - it is not in vain that Pyrrhus also had an obsessive-compulsive disorder attack, forcing them to change small things such as belts and shields according to color.

The Kassander army only had more than 200 people, huddled in the simple fortress, looking nervously here.

They don't dare to attack, but if they just retreat like this... they don't dare either.

Cassander has never been very popular with his soldiers. He manages the army with just two words:

Be strict!

Not to mention it's quite effective. So far, the Macedonian army, which has always been unruly and rebellious, can be regarded as obeying orders and prohibitions.

So with just such a hesitation, Pyrrhus's cavalry cut off their retreat, and then the large army came up without saying a word and began to pile up the resisting horses in front of the fortress, and then took out the prepared wood and began to build siege equipment. !

The Macedonians on the wall saw that a simple sling had been formed, and quickly sent people to surrender.

Pyrrhus won the first battle in his life.

A little boring.