Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"He's not fighting alone!"

——Huang Jianxiang

Pyrrhus did not yet know that Larissa had rebelled.

However, as soon as the enemy troops left the Acropolis in the morning, he received a notification from Philai's leading party.

He has already figured it out - he is the one who is pressed for time - and if someone takes the initiative to come to him for a decisive battle, that is because they are giving him face.

So he happily led the troops out of the camp and formed an array.

The basic tactical system established in the decades from Ipaminondas to Alexandria was to attack and encircle the right wing, retreat and encircle the left wing, and the side whose front line broke first would not be buried.

Therefore, it is customary to place the more aggressive heavy cavalry on the right wing and the more mobile light cavalry on the left wing.

It is said that the basic principle is that the spearman can only attack the left side, and the shield can only defend the left side.

In this era, there were basically no vests. The default difference between the appearance of light cavalry and heavy cavalry was that the riders on heavy cavalry were better equipped.In fact, the differences are limited. One is linen armor and the other is bronze armor.

According to Pyrrhus, the difference between heavy cavalry and light cavalry mainly lies in the different tasks

——The mission of the light cavalry is to harass, block, maneuver, quickly penetrate, and assault under limited conditions; while the mission of the heavy cavalry is to resolutely attack and close combat, and its sophisticated equipment is more of a kind of tactical necessity than a tactical need. Humane needs.

No matter how he understood it, he couldn't think of a better way to use it now.

The light cavalry was supplemented from the Thessalians. There are now 3 teams of 150 light cavalry, arranged on the left wing. They are responsible for attacking the backs of the infantry and heavy cavalry. In most cases, they can only have a diversionary effect;

One team of 1 heavy cavalrymen is on the right wing, and two teams of 50 melee cavalrymen riding camels and horses are also on the right wing. They can launch attacks from other directions except the front of the infantry array. One part of the so-called melee cavalry follows the heavy cavalry and the other part assaults the infantry. Responsible for blocking enemy light cavalry;

There are 6 heavy infantry teams of 600 people in the 1th team holding large shield spears, and 100 people in the 7st team of shield women. These are the main forces, divided into [-] small square formations and placed in front;

There are 7 teams of light shield pikemen with 700 people, divided into 6 small square formations and placed in the gaps between the heavy infantry. An extra team is strengthened to the thickened array of heavy infantry on the far right; in addition, there is 1 team of Macedonian pikemen with 100 people. The Sarisha spears they used were much longer than ordinary spears, but there were too few of them. Putting them on the front line with other troops would easily cause the line to break, so they were divided into two teams and arranged to assist on the east and west wings of the second line;

There are 6 people in the 600th light infantry team. These people can act as skirmishers between the two formations before the battle. After the battle, they can carry out projection attacks on the second line. The 3 people in the 300rd light infantry women's team can only be used for projection. Divide them into two The clusters are on the second line of the east and west wings.

Less than half of the team of light cavalry and other miscellaneous soldiers were left behind Pyrrhus, acting as messengers and the final reserve team.

Pyrrhus rode a red horse imported from Central Asia. He wore a rich gold breastplate sent by Dmitry on his upper body, bronze greaves and a studded leather skirt on his lower body. His arms were tied with iron handguards, and his long hair was braided. He tied his braid on his head in a Spartan style, and then put on his Corinthian helmet with a large red crest.

Looking at the three thousand metal backs of heads shining neatly in the morning light, Pyrrhus felt that his obsessive-compulsive disorder was greatly satisfied.

He pushed the Corinthian helmet on top and shouted to the military formation:

"My friends!

"We have talked too much about combat, and I believe you have all borne it all in mind."

"I hope everyone will never forget why we are here!" He looked at the enemy array gradually approaching, and then shouted:

"For the land! For new life! To defeat the unfortunate fate!

“When you realize what we are really fighting against, you can understand that the enemy in front of you is nothing more than this!

"So keep your weapons in hand!

"Today, we will tell the people on the opposite side, the only law of the goddess of victory, that is——

“People with true faith never fail!!!”

An excited shout broke out in the military formation.

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In front of Hot Spring Pass.

Thermopylae is a natural pass in the southwest of Maris Bay, where Mount Kalislomon is inserted diagonally into the sea, leaving only a narrow above-ground passage.

On the south side of Maris Bay, in an open area called Ekea, four armies were confronting each other.

To the north, close to Thermopylae on the west side of the coastline, are three thousand elites led by Philip; while on the east side of the coastline are 5000 people who came by sea from Demetrius; and across the south side from these 5000 people are The hills are the Dmitry army of nearly 2 people who have been pursuing them all the way from Piraeus.

In the center of the triangle formed by these three armies was the Athenian front army that had fled all the way. There were now only 1 of the more than [-] people left.

On the sea in the distance were hundreds of Dmitry's warships patrolling back and forth - but they could not affect the situation - Maris Bay was inaccessible to land in a large area.

Philip felt the seriousness of the matter.

He originally thought that he might not be able to arrive in time, but he successfully passed Thermopylae - Dmitri's sea troops could clearly occupy this place before then!

What's even weirder is that the Athenian front troops that have retreated here are already within a stone's throw of the reinforcements, but have no intention of joining them.

He probably guessed what happened.

The Macedonian soldiers are all very ambitious, and in their actions they are like capricious prostitutes!

Philip cursed secretly.

Looking at the two enemy armies farther away, Philip repeatedly weighed the balance, then sent someone to send an order to the 3000 troops in the rearguard, and then took the lead in breaking the confrontation!

Following his order, the three thousand troops began to move quickly to join the Athenian front.

He has decided that even the worst outcome is nothing more than being defeated by the Demetrius army in chaos, but he can at least bring most of the army back.As long as he retreats through Thermopylae, he has a high chance of stabilizing his position; even if Thermopylae is breached, he can retreat further to Lamia City - three thousand rear guards have already gone there to prepare for the response.

As for the possible betrayers in the Athenian front, he believed that with his prestige, he would be able to control the situation as soon as he joined the team!

The three thousand troops here began to move forward quickly, and the Dmitri army on the other side also moved in response to the trend.

However, Demetrius's two armies were not as fast as Philip.

——The pursuit troops on the south side just opened their formation and slowly approached the Athenian front; the sea troops on the north side were rushing along the coastline, preparing to seize the gap left by Philip and rush to control Thermopylae!

Philip had no choice but to send a large group of cavalry to block Demetrius's northern route army, and the main force still rushed towards the Athenian front.

Just when he was halfway through the journey, the center of the array of eight thousand Athenian front troops suddenly became chaotic. Then the commotion continued to spread to the outer circle, and the noise became louder and louder.

Then, when Philip's army was only two stadia away, the commotion suddenly stopped completely, and the Athenian front returned to an orderly war machine.

As the flags were raised, spears were raised in the direction of Philip's army.