Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

“When the gods turn against you, even the strongest are not immune.”

——Sophocles

Young Antipater was impulsive and reckless, but one thing was right - Cassander did have the idea of ​​​​killing all these military leaders.

In order to ensure the inheritance of power, Cassander was already planning to kill all of these people in Thessaly in order to ensure the inheritance of power.

He was going to die anyway, so he might as well drag these dissatisfied people to die together, so that Philip of the Eastern Route Army could succeed to the throne in front of the army.It's a pity that Prepelous is still in Corinth, but fortunately he can't affect Philip's succession.

Of course, if it were better to win, he would directly implement enfeoffment in Thessaly and throw all these internal unstable factors to Thessaly to stabilize external unstable factors.

In short, it is to 'defeat internal troubles if you lose, and eliminate enemies if you win'. No matter what, he will not lose.

While the young Antipater, Glaucias, and Euplemus of the former army were still worried about Cassander's thunderous wrath that might come at any time after sending the military report of "loss of 2000 people", this man was leisurely and contented. While marching on horseback, he read the military newspaper and drank pure alcohol mixed with unknown amounts of drugs.

Hey, life is so much easier now that I have let go of my mental burden!

Throwing away the wax tablet, Cassander sneered, glanced at the silent officers, and issued new instructions.

The former army suffered too much losses and was no longer able to carry out the task of advancing across the river.Therefore, a large part of the main force should be separated to join the front army, and then a part of the front army should be left to guard the camp, and then cross the river to camp on the opposite side.

In this way, there will be a ready-made camp when the rear army comes, and the two armies can always take care of each other without wasting time.

The generals naturally had no objections.Only Cassander's brother Philip volunteered to lead troops to join the former army.

Then he begged Cassander to let him take over the command of the front army from his son.Apparently seeing that the former army was in danger of being destroyed, he wanted to leave this only seedling for his own family.

Cassander has never been easy to talk to, especially when it comes to personal affairs in military matters - and although he and Cassander are brothers, they don't have much of a personal relationship at all.For this reason, old Philip was ready to cry and beg him pitifully.

The result was unexpected, and Cassander readily agreed.

——You have already gone deep into Thessaly. Anyway, you and your son are still in our army no matter how we switch. You will definitely be indispensable. No matter which army is defeated first, your broken mirror will be reunited sooner or later.

But someone has to give Oplemous a warning and be careful of these old boys.Although this possibility is very low after the slaughter of Lamia - according to the "Bright Eyes Times", Thessaly has tried all the direct participants to death in absentia - but they still have to guard against this group of people taking advantage of the situation. If something goes wrong, throw in the towel!

He also had to inform Philip of the fact that Pyrrhus and the Thessalians were so difficult to deal with, so he had to be very careful...

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The former army camp where the smoke had not cleared was still in a mess. However, in order to prepare for possible attacks during the day, the Macedonians went into battle and worked hard to strengthen the camp's fortifications. The corpses in the company camp had not yet been properly cleaned up.

The result was a false alarm.

Fortunately, it was a false alarm.

Then at noon, we actually saw reinforcements sent from the rear.

When little Antipater saw his father coming, he couldn't help but threw himself into the arms of his relatives and cried so hard that he felt aggrieved.So many personal guards have been with him for many years, and they were dug into a hornet's nest without seeing anything. He has been in the army and fighting for so many years since he was a child, and he has never been as scared as he was last night...

As a former military commander, no one despises him when he cries so loudly in front of the soldiers of the three armies.After all, everyone was so scared last night that they couldn't even get out of bed. Then the Thessalians came in, set fire to the tents and stabbed them with knives!It is said that when this man was riding back to camp like crazy last night, he was beaten to a bloody mass by the Thessalians!

Some veterans still lamented that they had never seen anything like this in their lifetime of fighting.Today's young people don't respect martial ethics and come to attack old comrades late at night - what happened to this good fight?

When they heard that some people had to be left behind while others crossed the river, both those who wanted to guard the camp and those who wanted to cross the river cried out loudly.

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Although a night attack caused considerable losses, it was not without its benefits.

For example, military orders are particularly effective now, and no one can shirk no matter what the warning or patrol is, because everyone knows that if these tasks are not done well, people will die.

However, the sentry cavalry of the front army did not encounter any enemies when they were sent out. Instead, the rear army received overwhelming hostile feedback.

At the beginning, there were trivial traps such as stumbling over horse ropes and trapping horses. It really takes a bit of luck to fall into such traps on such a large plain.

As the warning range approached the woods and hills, some ragged people began to ambush.Use javelins, bows and arrows, and slings to shoot cold arrows or cold bullets. Once the sentry rides on chasing someone, they will run away. If they continue to chase, they will run into someone else's trap.But if you don't chase him, he will harass you again.

Although there were few casualties, it also made the cavalry exhausted.

But by noon, enemy sentries gradually began to appear.These people are all wearing short red cloaks and wandering in small groups close to the edge of the warning range. Will there be small-scale fights?

Most of the Cassander troops performing sentinel missions were light cavalry from the Thracian tribe. These people were poorly equipped. When they encountered each other, they could only shoot bows and arrows at each other, and their hit rate was impressive.But there was the iron one who wanted to fight in close combat, and then he found that he hit the iron plate.

They were all wearing colorful armor, but I only had animal skin jackets; and the guy in my hand actually didn’t have any parents!

If someone stabs you, no matter if it sticks or not, turn around and run away; you can't even reach their horse.

If you just throw the stabbing gun away, it's a one-shot deal - if you can't blow it up, just wait for it to be chased empty-handed!

The news was fed back to Cassander's army, and the generals were all amazed: Pyrrhus actually sent out elite heavy cavalry who could charge with spears to perform sentry duties!

Moreover, they sent out almost two thousand light cavalry. To suppress them in all directions, Pyrrhus would have to send at least two thousand. Is it possible that Pyrrhus actually had two thousand elite cavalry?

Why didn’t we find so many outstanding talents in Thessaly before we recruited soldiers?

In the end, the Macedonian officers discussed it and felt that they could not be petty at this time and had to send out the elite cavalrymen who were their comrades. No matter whether they could win or not, at least they could know themselves and their enemies.