The pure Macedonian phalanx seems to be strong but is actually fragile, and the back and flanks are fatal weaknesses.In Alexander's time, this bulky phalanx was aided by archers and javelin skirmishers, and the most crucial coordination was the friendly cavalry.Friendly cavalry would go around the enemy from behind, they would not have stirrups, but they could still charge.If the phalanx is regarded as an anvil, then the cavalry is naturally a hard hammer that flattens the enemy in the middle, so this tactic is figuratively called "hammer anvil tactic".In the past, when there was a rebellion in the city-state of Dawan or a conflict with the states of the Western Regions, this last group of silver shield soldiers would occasionally cooperate with Dawan's Cypriot riders, who were far less reliable than their mates, but they were barely usable.It's just that today in the city, the field is narrow, and the horses are even more frightened by the continuous flying stones these days, and they can't fight at all.The Dawan archers, who were auxiliary to the phalanx, were also unreliable, and they were defeated after two rounds of firing at the crossbowmen of the Han army who had occupied the city walls on the edge of the position.They fled towards the stone-built inner city, leaving only the phalanx of Greek descendants behind the outer city, embarrassed by the Han army.At this time, the Greeks had no spearmen and archers to help, and no friendly cavalry to protect the flanks.The lonely phalanx resembles a Greek forgotten in the East, like a fish trapped on the beach, and the silver shield around its neck is like a white belly.They could no longer hold their spears in both hands, so they had to hold their shields to withstand the raindrops of crossbow arrows from the Han army.Because the long-range shooters on the Dawan side fled, the crossbow soldiers recklessly got closer and closer, and the crossbow arrows became more powerful the closer they got closer.Neither bronze nor scale armor could fully protect the body in the face of heavy crossbows, let alone the thighs of the Greeks were still exposed.The crossbow bolts were no more bulky and lucky-proof trebuchets, the accurate heads were sufficient, and dozens of people were shot and fell, dripping with blood.And the ironclad soldiers of the capital protection army waited with ring knives in hand, eager to try.After receiving three rounds of crossbow arrows, and seeing that the opposing armor was about to come up, Dionysus finally made the decision, let his soldiers throw away the spears they held in both hands, and only the silver-plated shield hanging from their necks, and shouted out a Chinese phrase that he had learned from a translator a few days ago."
Surrender!"
He asked the speaker to repeat it aloud a few times.The Silver Shield Soldiers had fulfilled their promise to King Dawan and had been "defending" for more than forty days, and they had just defeated the Han Army's Dead Skirmishers who had bravely broken through the city.Now under siege, Dionysus has not forgotten the fine seller tradition of the Silver Shield Soldiers, and Dawan is not their city, and the mercenaries take money to fight, so there is no need to die for it.The Greeks were ordered to crouch in the corner, their armor and weapons were removed, the Thracian bronze helmet was curiously carried in the hands of the Han soldiers, and even the precious silver shield was confiscated.After biting, his face was full of disappointment, and he slammed one side on the ground and stepped on two feet.And the rest of the jade diggers remembered that they were knocked back by the silver shield soldiers when they first entered the city, and they were not angry, looking left and right, they had the intention of cutting off the heads of this group of people, and made a lot of first contributions, but they were stopped by Zheng Ji, the protector of the Western Regions."
The hussar general came to the west to protect the west for the shield of the Great Han Dynasty, so as to stop the descendants of the Tyrannical Qin from advancing eastward, how could the army of the King of the Great Han do the same thing as the Tyrannical Qin?""
Those who surrender will not die, escort them out of the city, and wait for the hussar generals to fall."
Dionysus and his men obediently crouched at the corner of the city wall, and after being robbed of his mane helmet, his half-bald head was exposed, looking at the ruined outer city, only thinking of the price offered by the Sogdians, if they had accepted it earlier, they would not have ended up here, and when they regretted it, they found that the inner city of Dawan had suddenly caught fire.There was more than one Sogdian merchant in the city, and they persuaded a nobleman to do the same thing as forty years earlier.threw out the head of the anti-Han Dawan King!
The spear-throwing stragglers that Dionysus was looking forward to were not in the city, but there were quite a few outside the city, and they were also riding horses, shouting the Xiongnu and Kangju to attack the Han army array.This is a new tactic that Zhi Zhishan Yu came up with after coming to the river, in order to deal with the Han army, some riders in addition to bows and arrows, but also practiced throwing spears from galloping horses to the target, this is one of the typical tactics of the Scythians and Cypriots, has been used by the Dayue clan to deal with the phalanx of the Daxia people, the armor-piercing effect is very good, the javelin with the iron head will be deeply embedded in the enemy's shield for a while and a half will not be able to pull out, forcing them to abandon the core of the tactic: the shield.And the secret weapon used to deal with the Han army, armored cavalry is also particularly effective.This tactic did make the Han army strikers who despised the Huns suffer a big loss, and the heavy cavalry led by Xin Qingji suffered several rounds of spear throwing, which was much more ruthless than the heavy arrows, and many people fell off their horses and were seriously injured.Iron armor could not withstand the flying of iron spears at close range, but to the infantry, this weapon was a joke, and there were very few people who could come to the range of the attack and deliver a fatal blow, and most of them had already been fired into a sieve by the crossbow when they came within ten paces.If the Xiongnu were outnumbered as in the past, they might have been able to inflict heavy losses on the Han army, but today they are few in number.It seems that the hammer anvil tactics are reversed, and the Wusun soldiers and more than 50,000 cavalry of the Zhao Han'er Department who surrounded them from the west blocked the retreat of the Xiongnu and Kangju, while Ren Hong led 15,000 Han people to slowly press westward, and finally fought a decisive battle on the bank of the medicine killing water in the west of Dawan City.Just like the low-profile version of the battle of Zhiju Water, although the Huns knew that they were in a desperate situation and fought to the death, the Kangju people gradually lost their fighting spirit, and after the battle loss exceeded one percent, the various departments no longer obeyed the command of Khotan, and chose to surrender one after another.After Wusun and Zhao Han'er closed the encirclement, the Huns no longer had enough space to gallop on horseback, and the final result was that thousands of Huns followed Zhi Zhishan Yu, singing the lamentation of "losing my Yanran Mountain", turned around and launched a desperate impact on the Han army array, countless horse hooves rushed in, but they fell under the crossbow arrows one after another, and those who were lucky enough to rush to the near place also fell into the spears of the Han army formation, and were stabbed into a blur of flesh and blood.This led the Han army to carefully search for the corpses of Zhi Zhishan Yu and his wives who had generously died in the sea of corpses.And Ren Hong rode through this purgatory-like battle formation with a carrot, and when he came to the Wusun people, he saw that his wife Yaoguang was also stained with blood, and she was kneeling on one knee in front of a corpse, looking happy and sad.When Ren Hong passed, Yaoguang raised his head: "After all, Wu Zhitu is also the concubine's brother and blood relative, and he is the son of the fat king." ”"But because of that, he deserves to die!"
Like the Kangju king Khotan, Wu Zhitu also died in the chaos, and Yaoguang personally cut off his head.The sound of the iron blade rubbing against the neck bone is pervasive, but it is like a wife preparing food in the kitchen and chopping ribs.Yaoguang stuck Wu's head on the Wusun spear and held it high on horseback, winning a burst of cheers from the Wusun people.Although the eldest princess of Wusun is not Kunmi, her prestige has surpassed that of Da Le.Zhizhi's body was eventually found, and he was killed in battle with his favorite horses and his favorite clans, and he didn't know how many crossbows he had suffered.In addition to Zhizhi's head, Ren Hong also got the turquoise eagle crown that had fallen off, as well as the Xiongnu holy relic Jin Liuli.The Golden Eagle Crown and Zhizhi's head would be sent back to Chang'an to be handed over to Liu Xun, but the small dagger Jin Liuqi started with the pair of "Five Stars Out of the East" arm guards, and he decided to collect some valuable and commemorative things in the second half of his life, so that they would become family heirlooms.Ren Hong wiped the blood from it and put the golden liulu into the blanket hanging on the horse's back."
It's mine!""
His ancestors first betrayed the lord to seek wealth, and then attached to the Great Xia, and then could not fight to the death for the Great Xia, and then voted for the Great Wan, and today he will descend to the Han Dynasty.The silver shield soldier, the three surnamed slaves are also!
”This is Ren Hong's evaluation after returning to Dawan City and listening to Zheng Ji's report on the battle.He rejected Dionysus' request to serve the Han army with the Silver Shield, and who knows who would one day be stabbed by this group.Ren Hong disbanded the so-called "last silver shield soldiers" on the spot, they no longer have the need to exist, most of the remaining more than 200 Greek soldiers will be taken to Chang'an by Feng Fengshi as prisoners and trophies, maybe Liu Xun will also build a special Li Lu for this group of people, or move to a certain county to live, such as Lijing County in Wuwei County.This county, as early as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened the Hexi was established shortly after, Ren Hong ten years ago in the old department, there is also a Hexi cavalry named "Wu Heyi" is the original Lijing County Yuan fighting food husband.Dionysus himself was left behind by Ren Hong as a translator and advisor, and in the future Ren Hong might fight against the last remnants of the Diadochi, or the Bactrian states of northern India, the so-called "Indo-Greek kingdom", or even Ptolemaic Egypt far west.Perhaps similar troops and tactics will be encountered, and the number of them will probably be much larger than this group of Silver Shield soldiers, and they will be more flexible and difficult to deal with.So Ren Hong needs to understand the enemy's combat style, formations, weaknesses, the manufacture of torsion trebuchets, and all related things.Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is, Ren Hong knows very well that his strength is not strong, relying on the fox and fake tiger to borrow the name of the Han, otherwise how could he deceive Guishuang and turn against the king of the Yue clan?
No matter how weak the enemy is now, knowing that the other side can win a hundred battles, the gold and silver treasures in the city have been distributed to the soldiers, and the group of jade diggers who have ascended first have also been rewarded, but most of them have not made meritorious contributions, and they are still rich and happy without a reward, who will be willing to follow Ren Hussars to fight in the future?
After accepting the surrender of seventy cities of Dawan, Ren Hong did not appoint a new king of Dawan, but instead supported the "pro-Han Ershi King" and "pro-Han Yucheng King" to divide and rule the Dawan border.The Han army directly occupied the city of Guishan, deprived the king of Dawan and his cronies of the land, and set up officials to govern it.By the beginning of the sixth month of the fourth year of Tian'an, Ren Hong's army arrived at the city of Khujand in the western border of Dawan, which was nicknamed "the farthest Alexandria".Alexander must have been a man of narcissism, and as far as his army could reach, he built eighteen Alexandria cities one after another, with Khujand being the most eastern.When the Macedonians pursued Darius III into the east, and after fighting with the Scythian tribes at the edge of the medicine, they sent generals to establish it, which was regarded as the eastern boundary of the empire, and a part of the Greeks and retired soldiers were relocated.But three hundred years have passed, and there are very few Greek descendants in it, and even Dionysus can hardly tell the specific deeds of the Emperor back then, which shows the seriousness of his historical forgetfulness."
Since this city no longer lives up to its name, let's change its name."
Standing at the head of the city of Khujand, which was floating with red and yellow banners, Ren Hong ordered: "The name of Alexandria in the far east will be abandoned from now on. ”"This place has been renamed Pingxi City!"
The era of the old conquerors is over, and new ones have been born.This is the end of Yadi's Eastern Expedition, but his Ren Hong's Western Expedition will be written from now on!
PS: Juyan Han Jian: He Yi Benli, three years old, surnamed Wu, so Li Jingyuan Dou Shi Si Fu, is the second year of the god in March Gengyin, with merit moved to "Jinguan 73EJT4:98.In 60 B.C., two years before Shenjue, there was Lijing County.This book is a bit tiring to write now, and it is gradually beyond the scope of knowledge, and a lot of the content can't be as delicate as before, so it will be gkd later, of course, there will still be the tenth volume.Chapter 2 is before 0:00.