Arriving in the middle of the river, the water was as deep as Clethorpes said, only reaching to the crotch, which made the soldiers who were a little uneasy in their hearts completely relieved, and the pace became faster.
The Persian army was at a certain distance from the river bank, and in a hurry, their speed was affected by the dense reefs on the river bank. The slingers behind the mercenaries used their super long range to disrupt the formation of the Persian army. Therefore, the chaotic Persian army had not yet reached the shore, and the archers had not shot two rounds of arrows before the mercenaries. rushed to the shore.
Ojuntas, the Persian nobleman who spends more time in the tent drinking wine and playing dancers all day, has never had a detailed investigation and understanding of the surrounding area of the battlefield. Facing the mercenaries so easily and quickly. As he waded across the river, he approached him fiercely like a hungry wolf, and he was completely panicked.
Fortunately, his adjutant was relatively calm, urging the infantry to quickly come forward to contain it.
After the first few columns of the mercenary soldiers washed ashore, they had to slow down because of the rugged reefs on the shore, which gave the Persian army time to breathe. Strictly…
Mercenaries are never afraid of close combat. The round shield in their left hand protected themselves and the bodies of their teammates, raised the stab gun in the right hand, crossed the top of the round shield, and stabbed the enemy on the opposite side. As a teammate, it also deterred the enemy. Although the soldiers behind the array were unable to participate in the fight, they did not stand idly by. They tried their best to push forward against the soldiers in front, hoping to use their strength to push the opponent's front line back, or even break through...
The sturdy Kardans directly faced the ferocious onslaught of the mercenaries and fought back with their spears without showing weakness, while the Persians' greater strength and higher terrain also offset the impact of part of the Greek heavy infantry. The archers in the rear of the Persian army and the cavalry archers in the rear did not dare to show weakness, and desperately shot rounds of sharp arrows to counter the long-range strikes of the Greek slingers and archers.
The two sides launched a bloody fight on the north bank of the Kentrit River. If the mercenaries win, they will step on the land of Armenia and ravage the land of Armenia, which is what Ojuntas and his Armenian soldiers are extremely reluctant to see; and if the mercenaries fail, they will face destruction. So both sides are trying their best.
The mercenaries standing in the river faced the biggest dilemma: on the one hand, the biting river water was gradually taking away their physical strength; on the other hand, most of the Persian arrows fell on them. This allows them to protect themselves with a round shield, but also to prevent them from being washed away by the river.
Davos saw with his own eyes that a soldier slipped and fell, and the surrounding soldiers stepped forward to save him, escaped the protection of the shield, was shot by an arrow, and fell into the water. hard to get up...
Why didn't the Spartan soldiers show up? Davos anxiously looked forward to it in his heart.
Ojuntas, who was standing high on a large rock, stabilized his mind because of the balance of the battle. Seeing that mercenaries were struggling to be washed downstream by the river from time to time in the Kentrit River, he began to have hope again in his heart. Of course, he can't see or see that the soldiers under him are also falling down...
Suddenly, a loud noise came from the right wing of the military formation.
"What is Artukas doing?" Ojuntas looked angrily to the right, and he saw an astonishing scene: the light infantry and cavalry archers at the rear of the right flank were fleeing in panic. The heavily armed Greek soldiers formed a thin infantry line, driving the defeated soldiers towards the middle...
"Greeks! Greeks! Quick! Quick!..." Ojuntas panicked again, shouting in his mouth.
The adjutant hurriedly led the Governor's Guards to meet them, trying to stop the routed soldiers and prevent them from rushing through the formation in the middle. Who knew that those Greek soldiers were not like ordinary Greek heavy infantry at all. They ran quickly and chased down the routed soldiers. Swiping the shield stuns one, and stabs the other as soon as the gun is fired. It is an efficient murder tool. The Persians run like a hell demon, and the guards can't stop them. The formation on the right and the middle is completely fragmented...
And the mercenaries who were blocked on the river bank easily broke through the front of the panicked Kardan people, and also began to slaughter...
It has to be said that the Spartan warriors who have been engaged in military training since childhood have strong tactical literacy. According to the rough plan in advance, they began to consciously drive the defeated soldiers to the river bank. Except for a few sober Persians, most of the soldiers did not know the difference. The direction, just fleeing with the flow of people, when they saw the wide Kentrit River in front of them, they all cried in despair...
After the Guards escorted Orontas to a safe place, Orontas couldn't help crying when he saw that the originally mighty 20,000-strong army was now followed by only a few hundred people. He knew that his strength could not stop the Greek mercenaries from setting foot on Armenian territory.
The mercenary leaders were excited, and in the face of a large number of surrendered Polish soldiers, they quickly made a decision: to release soldiers from other ethnic groups in Armenia, such as the Kardans, and to show them the goodwill of the Greek mercenaries; and to the Persians, The choice of the leaders, including Davos, is slaughter!
Ignoring the pleadings of thousands of unarmed Persian soldiers, the Greek heavy infantry in dense formations drove them into the Kentrit River with shield walls and stab guns, stabbed them, and caused them in the river with stones and arrows. Chaos and pushing, people who fall into the water will pull down other people around them in order to survive, just like crabs in a jar pulling each other's legs, no one can escape...
Not long after, Davos saw that the river was densely covered with floating corpses, he sighed secretly, looked away, and turned to the other side: the Dukiya people could not see a trace, obviously they saw the great defeat of the Polish army after the defeat. , too frightened to wince.
The rearguard of the mercenaries and the baggage battalion were also able to easily cross the Kentrit River, and then the whole army, led by the leaders, occupied the deserted camp of Ojuntas, leaving a large number of Persians fleeing in a hurry. The material and sustenance of the whole army began to celebrate after the victory after sacrificing Zeus and Okeanos again.
Because everyone knows: after the defeat of Ojuntas, there is no one in Armenia ahead who can stop their progress, and they are more confident in whether they can return to Greece!
Volume one ending
After writing the first volume, Davos' adventures in Persia have come to an end temporarily. In fact, the content I wrote is only a small part of Xenophon's "The Long March", and the mercenaries have experienced a lot of difficulties later. And setbacks, but there is no need to waste pen and ink on this, because that is not the focus of this book, and it is not my bragging, I don't like to write books very much (actually, the author's writing is poor, and he does not pile up gorgeous rhetoric... lol! ).
Davos was reborn in this era, adapted to this era, and through his own wisdom and hard work, became the leader of the mercenary army, gradually mastered military skills, won the military heart, and stood firm, and has achieved the purpose of this volume. Next, he should fight for his ideals, instead of endlessly fighting and fighting on the way back to his hometown...
For me, it is a sigh of relief, because this volume is too restrictive to my imagination and thinking. After all, the conception of this volume of the novel cannot deviate from the clues of time, characters and events in The Long March. On the basis of retaining about 20% of the stories of the original book, 80% of the innovation has been carried out.
The next place where the story takes place is an area that readers are very unfamiliar with and scholars are also not familiar with. The history of this area is only described in Herodotus' History, Thucydides' Peloponnesian The History of War, and the fragments of other works left by scholars of that era contain a few words. Combined with historical evidence such as ruins, inscriptions and cultural relics excavated by later generations, scholars have a general understanding of the history of this area at that time. However, there is no book that records its history in detail, so the recorded history of each city-state there is intermittent, not only the political system and diplomatic relations of each city-state are ambiguous, but also the characters, events, and time of occurrence are not very specific.
Based on the information I collected (there is even less information about it in China), combined with my own inferences and imagination, I have come up with a story line that I feel is more reasonable. Uncover its mystery. Hope you are satisfied.
The journey of Davers' life is still very long, and this is just the beginning. Let us accompany him, encourage him, and experience his legendary journey together...
Please start enjoying the second volume tomorrow:#