Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"Aufidius is here"

——Pompei street graffiti

In the fourth century BC, the climate was warm and humid.

Pyrrho has become somewhat accustomed to it over the years and finds it refreshing and helpful for perspiration.

But now he realizes how lazy his thinking was!

Walking through the military camp with a little girl, he felt deeply that the seriousness of the problem was simply shocking!The scope of the problem is almost everywhere!The problem is so deep that I am blind!

——For example, I often see people picking up the hem of their clothes and scratching and picking at them in the queue!

——For example, I often see them being tossed around and walked around in broad daylight in the campground!

——For example, it is often seen that the saddles issued by the army are bloody and stained with stubble!

I don’t know if it’s because you’ve been sitting for too long?Did you eat too much?Or go to bed too late at night?still……

How dignified are you!

Why don't you wear underwear?

Why aren't you wearing underwear?

You guys...um...it seems like I'm not wearing one either...

Pyrrhus was heartbroken.We can't go on like this!

He immediately sent someone to convey the order to Kiel and recruit a batch of cloth to prepare one for each person in the army... No!Two pairs of underwear, and they must be worn!

Autumn and winter were short. After arranging these trivial matters, it was already dark. Pyrrhus strode to the central tent to hold a military meeting.

At this time, he met Metilas who had returned from bathing and hurriedly came to him.

He is the chief investigator, and he has a rare serious look on his face.

"Is there any emergency?"

Maitilas did not speak, but pointed his hand toward the night sky in the southwest.

**

"What the hell is that?" A Macedonian officer pointed to the fire rising higher and higher in the night sky.

"Never mind what it is! It must be the Thessalians signaling to Pyrrhus."

Little Antipater now had no time to take into account the new tricks of the Thessalians. He wanted to send out elite soldiers to fight at night, but he found that most of the people in the army could not see at night!

As Stratton predicted, the Macedonian soldiers were all conscripted farmers, and most of the Macedonian territory was far away from the coast. Their food was mainly grains, so they all had varying degrees of night blindness, that is, the relatively wealthy veterans. Good point.

The situation of the Greek mercenaries was slightly better, but these were unreliable people.And most of the rest are the elite direct descendants of the nobles, and they are not willing to let him go out to camp and fight at night!

The Macedonians were martial and warlike, and nobles often served in the military for generations. Little Antipater knew about night blindness.But before that, he led cavalry who were well-nourished and had no experience in night fighting.

——Today is a moonless day!

So I didn’t expect that after much selection, I could only choose three thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry...

"Do it!" Little Antipater gritted his teeth. This was a rare opportunity to lead the entire army. It was like pie in the sky. He would rather die than let it go!

The ancient Greeks themselves were known as "barbarians among civilized people" in later generations. They were a maritime nation, and their ancestors were probably pirates and plunderers. Compared with many agricultural civilizations, they were extremely adventurous.The Macedonians were more "barbarian" than the orthodox Greeks, otherwise Alexander would not have led an expedition to Persia with only a few people.

Little Antipater was just a cavalry captain before. In terms of qualifications, he could only follow the butt of a veteran like Glaucias. Now Cassander didn't know what was wrong with his brain and actually put him in charge. How could he be ignorant? Seek stability instead of taking risks and gain a martial name for yourself? !

"Everyone else is guarding the camp! The chosen one will follow me to ambush outside!"

**

On the other hand, Scopas left Achilles with 1000 men to guard the camp, and he had already led 6000 men to form a formation in the dark between the two armies.

After the Macedonians joined together, their military strength had been greatly strengthened, reaching two and a half times that of the independent army. It was no longer possible to suppress them with outpost warfare.

Fortunately, the Macedonians did not seem to have any plans to use outposts, so the formation went very smoothly.

There are two thousand mixed infantry lined up in the middle, and there are resisting horses in the front; craftsmen and civilians are setting up seven-shooter artillery in full swing at the back. The main tactic tonight is fire attack; there are more than 1000 light infantry to cooperate with the civilians behind the array. The artillery gunners were also in reserve; there were several hundred light infantry left, and they were responsible for maintaining lighting at the front of the battlefield.

A thousand heavy cavalry were on the left wing. Scopas handed them over to another Thessalian general. Night was not conducive to cavalry fighting. The task of the heavy cavalry tonight would be defense.

He led the light cavalry on the right wing, which had proven itself to be more elite, to undertake the most dangerous task tonight.

——Launch a counterattack in the moonless night!

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The battle was first initiated by the seven-shooter cannon.

In order to increase the range of the seven-tip cannon, it is necessary to increase the manpower to pull the cannon tip.But the relationship between range and human hands is not proportional, but a quadratic function curve.

Originally, there were only four people on a cannon tip, that is, 28 people pulled a cannon; now Stratton used a more useless long cannon tip, increasing the manpower of each cannon to 150 civilians and soldiers in total. The efficiency limit has almost been reached.

More than a thousand people shouted in unison, and nine flames pierced the night sky!Smash into Cassander's camp with the sound of hunting!

People with good eyesight can see a faint light group on the ground moving away with the fire in the sky, running towards the Macedonian camp that looks like a black stone in the distance, successively illuminating the open space between the two armies, the roving horses in twos and threes, and The horse in front of the camp - and then smashed against the Macedonian camp wall!

The fire mixed with alcohol and grease rose up!

The Thessalian Independent Army burst into cheers as the first hit hit the target.

Stratton held his head high, and there seemed to be no trace of complacency on his face. As if he had done something trivial, he simply ordered the gunner to adjust the limit lever and slightly increase the firing angle.

The team officers loudly ordered the gunners to reset quickly, and then placed the sealed clay pots wrapped with paper ropes on the gun barrels. The grease-soaked paper ropes were immediately ignited. At the order, the gunners shouted the trumpet in unison, and nine more guns were fired. A fire light rose into the sky!

This time the arson bomb landed directly further inside Cassander's camp, as if something had been ignited, and suddenly there was a huge fire behind the camp wall!

At the same time, the Thessalians also saw that the Macedonian army was already gathering in the open space in front of the enemy camp.

**

A short bugle sounded, and a few hundred or two hundred stadia in front of the Thessalian army's formation lit up torches.

Although the best-case scenario was that the Thessalians would attack the camp at night, and then he would directly attack them from both sides.However, Antipater had also guessed in advance that the Thessalians might use fire attack tactics.

It doesn't matter, if the enemy doesn't come, he will take the initiative to attack!

"Pull out the ballista and advance to attack distance from the front! The infantry will form a formation to attack from the left wing, and the cavalry will follow me on the right wing!"