"During the Liuhe period of the Han Dynasty, the Great Sima Hussar General Xi'an Hou Renhong visited Egypt and had mutual feelings with the Egyptian queen.At this time, the Roman general Pompey, who was persecuted by his son-in-law Caesar, fled to Egypt, and the two men met in Alexandria. ”At the same time, Caesar personally led his troops to Egypt in pursuit of Pompey.In order to protect the safety of Pompey and Egypt, General Ren Hong exerted the spirit of internationalism, joined forces with Pompey, and started a life-and-death battle with Caesar in Alexandria!
”This is what Ren Hong can predict, a bad movie in the later generations will interpret this matter, Cleopatra VII can also have a four-cornered love with three men to make the plot more bloody, and the three old men can even form a CP to sell some rot.But whether the ending of this scene is a comedy or a tragedy depends on the situation of today's battle.He touched the sweat on his palm, and had to admit that this was a strong enemy that he had never encountered in more than 20 years, Caesar and the most elite Roman legion.Fortunately, there is also a good thing such as a clairvoyant mirror, which can allow Ren Hong to stand a few miles away, and still be able to clearly see the layout of the Romans' equipment, as if opening the perspective of God.However, the 10th Legion carrying the Golden Eagle Banner had already set up a formation, and the ordinary soldiers wore knee-length chain curtains, held large square shields, and had horsehair helmets on their helmets that marked the imminent battle, and on their feet were straps that were like walking on the ground in the complicated terrain, and in addition to short swords, there were javelins, and there were also some archers in the back row, probably longbowmen recruited from Crete and other places.Ren Hong also noticed that at the rear of the team, there were many slaves driving carriages and carrying instruments, and Pompey said that under the ideal state, a Roman legion would have ten stone throwers and fifty-five ballistas.But the 10th Legion crossed the sea to Egypt, and from Rosetta Harbor through the humid delta to Alexandria, leaving all the stone-throwing machines on the ship, and the ballistae carrying only a dozen or so guns, and they were mainly used for siege, and in the field, they were too cumbersome to move.Ask Pompey to command the Roman mercenaries on the left flank, Ren Hong himself in the center, and let the queen's subordinate Apollodorus with a thousand Ptolemaic troops launch a tentative attack on a large battalion placed by the Romans on the right flank.Although he had collected a lot of information about the Roman army in the past ten years, Ren Hong even deduced with the officers how to deal with it.But hearing is better than seeing, and in the face of an unfamiliar enemy, Ren Hong must let the officers know the enemy's tactics.Apollodorus drove the reluctant Ptolemied cavalry forward, they surrendered to the queen after the battle of the "Zeus God Thunder" outside the city pass a month ago, and today they can have the courage to stand opposite the Roman legions, hoping that the Eastern God Thunder, who defeated them that day, can also slash at the Romans, but they did not expect that they would attack first.It was only after the queen was on the city wall and promised Delamarck a reward that they slowly marched out of battle against the Romans, who had not yet gained a foothold.The Ptolemaic soldiers were still the typical Macedonian phalanx, and the blindly lengthened spears of the Sarisa in the Diadochi Wars were slowly flattened and aimed at the Romans who took the initiative to attack them.The Romans on the opposite side were accompanied by the sound of whistles, and more than a thousand men on the right flank formed several solid phalanxes, the shields of the first row of young soldiers were held at the waist, and the shields of the second row of soldiers were resting on the shoulders of the previous row, and in the gap between the shields and shields, their heavy javelins were exposed, moving at a slow and compact pace, like large turtles wriggling forward in iron armor.When the two sides were about to make contact, the light infantry in Ptolema's army also threw javelins forward, but most of them were bounced back by the Romans' shields.On the other hand, the Romans, on the other hand, did not rush back to fire, but after the enemy had entered a very short distance, with a simple command, the shield wall suddenly reopened, and the young and young soldiers of the legion put down their shields, stood up, and threw their heavy javelins in unison.The javelins rained down like hailstones, piercing the flesh and blood of the Ptolemaic soldiers, their small round shields barely able to protect them all, and the fragile flaxen armor was vulnerable to the sharp javelins.There was also luck with shields, but the heavy javelins were so deep into the wooden shields that the barbs made it difficult to pull them out, and the Ptolemaic soldiers in the front row could no longer lift their defenses, and the shields were almost useless.The Romans threw their weapons at a faster pace, then drew their swords and rammed into the enemy lines.And at the moment when the two phalanxes touched, the flexibility of the Roman phalanx contrasted sharply with the rigidity of the Ptolemaic phalanx, the spears that were several meters long only took a small advantage at the beginning of contact, and the Romans were experienced in dealing with the Greek phalanx, they used long shields to clamp the spears, and did not hesitate to swing their swords to cut off the spearheads.After the spear and shield were lost, the soldiers in the front row of Ptolemy were like sleek hedgehogs after being plucked out by the iron tortoise, and the fish meat under the sword, the Ptolemaic soldiers fell into an uncontrollable confusion and scrambled to turn and escape.From beginning to end, the Ptolemaic cavalry on the flanks did not play a role, as several other Roman phalanxes firmly protected the flanks.Some tried to attack by chance, but they broke into the gap between the centurians and got trapped in it when the two centurians quickly closed together, and were knocked down by the Romans on the side of the shield wall with short swords or slings and short spears.The whole Ptolemaic army of 1,000 men tested the troops, and after only half an hour of engagement, it was destroyed by the more elite Greeks in it, and the Egyptians, who were even worse in combat, were afraid of collapsing faster.Fortunately, Ren Hong left them all in the city, and it was still okay for them to throw a few stones in the chaotic street fighting."
I now know why the Romans were able to conquer the entire Mediterranean."
Ren Hong couldn't help but sigh, if it is said that the easy defeat of the Ptolemaic army has made people understand the combat effectiveness of the Roman legions, then in the face of the Ptolemaic army that was routed on the whole line, the Tenth Army did not pursue, but raised its short sword and cheered in unison, and then stuck to their respective formation posts and stood still, which made Ren Hong even more solemn.The captains and military leaders under General Ren also put away the pride brought by the conquest of Egypt.They also saw that the army on the opposite side, from marching to fighting, was completely different from the Ptolemaic army, throwing spears, shield walls and other three-plate axes without looking, but the columns were properly coordinated, and the different phalanxes would rotate and fight in an orderly manner, as if it were their instinct to fight."
It's worthy of Qin Jun!"
They became serious one after another, and shouted at their subordinates to cheer up their spirits: "But we, it's the Han army!"
”The battle just now was a temptation on both sides, and the Romans easily repelled a thousand Ptolemaic troops deliberately sent forward by Ren Hong, but they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but stopped in place, their shields resting at their feet, and the two sides watched from a distance of more than two hundred paces.The Pompeians translated it and said that this was because the Romans were heavily equipped, and that the first attacking side had to run twice the distance, which would have taken a lot of physical energy.In the battle of Fassalu, which he lost to Caesar, Pompey planned to do so, and as a result, the two sides did not rush at me and did not rush, and looked at each other for a long time in collective silence, but the cavalry fought first.Today, however, Caesar's army had almost no cavalry, neither the Tenth Legion in front of him nor the Eleventh Legion still on the ships was full, and the total number was only about six thousand, including a large number of rowing slaves and attached legionnaires."
They want to hold back our army."
Ren Hong turned around, and scouts kept coming from the walls of Alexandria to report the battle situation on the port side.Caesar chose to attack on both sides, probably thinking that the Han army, the Egyptians, and Pompey were temporary alliances, and if Alexander's foothold was lost and set on fire, the three sides would be in turmoil, so that the Tenth Army could win smoothly.This gambler is too greedy!"
That being the case, forced the Romans to move, either to attack or to retreat!"
The Romans also dispatched a few hundred-man teams, carefully testing the range of the Han army with shields, and the distance between the two sides was now outside the range of the bow and crossbow, whether it was the Cretan archers or the crossbows of the Han army.The Roman ballista, on the other hand, were still behind the legions, and should have been installed after defending or gaining siege positions.Time was on the side of the Romans, but they clearly miscalculated the maximum range of the Han army."
Divine Machine Battalion."
Ren Hong decided not to wait any longer, and gave the order: "Pull up my Italian cannon!"
”On another battlefield, Roman warships easily entered the harbor between Pharos and the city, and tried to land at the nearest pier to the palace, where the Romans had somehow learned that Ptolemy XIII was still alive and imprisoned in the palace, and that a bald man apparently hoped to get the Egyptians back on his side by rescuing the Egyptian pharaoh.The triremes were equipped with Roman ballistas, a slight departure from the Ptolemaic ones: between the two axles was a sturdy iron bar, which was so long that it resembled a very large measuring stick.The iron bar is flat and smooth, with a particularly polished middle, and is topped by a longer, square-shaped wooden beam with a straight and narrow arrow groove along the long midline.The archer stood beside the bow arm on one side and aimed, and then carefully put a large arrow into the arrow groove of the wooden beam, and while loading the arrow, several sturdy young men quickly turned the lever to pull the string of the ballista to the fullest, and then aimed at the palace behind the dock and released it violently!
Stout arrows were fired at the towers, and some torsional trebuchets were throwing stones on the ship, not expecting to collapse the thick Ptolemaic palace, but to suppress the archers above, but the distance was a little insufficient.The walls were able to reach the docks, and the queen's confidant Aya with the guards also counterattacked with ballistas, but the accuracy was very average, and it could not cause fatal damage to the ships.The Romans disembarked from the ships one after another, their equipment and order only slightly inferior to that of the 10th Legion, and they also formed a formation and slowly moved forward to defend against the rain of arrows."
This is the real Fish Scale Formation of the Sandwich Gate, compared to it, the Greeks of Great Xia and Egypt are not as good."
On the order of Ren Hong, Chen Tang, who led a thousand Han troops to defend against the enemy's surprise soldiers, couldn't help but admire.Since ten years ago, he followed the example of Ren Hou Ye and abandoned the spoon from Rong, Chen Tang had never been so excited, and they had encountered a once-in-a-lifetime strong enemy!
But Chen Tang said confidently: "If you let me meet on the plains, I can defeat them with galloping armor!"
”A few years ago, the Anxiren had defeated the "Qin army" and killed a general named Crassus, and the example of that battle was sent by General Ren to inquire and print the process for the officers to learn repeatedly.But today, it is a battle to defend the city, and there are no cavalry.General Ren said that in the face of a strong enemy, no means can be excessive, as long as it is to win the victory!
And stronger enemies mean that they will get more motivation in developing new weapons, if they are always solved by crossbow machines, heavy armor, light and heavy cavalry, why should they be updated?
With Chen Tang's order, the gap in the tower where the ballista guns were originally fired was pushed up one after another, and the bronze casting instruments were polished to a bright one.During the siege of Alexandria, Chen Tang was familiar with this new weapon created by the hussar general and Liu Gengsheng, and brought a total of fifty Egyptian gates, thirty of which were in the east of the city, and twenty of which were here.This thing is expensive, it is made of the exquisite copper casting technology inherited from the Spring and Autumn Period of the Zhou Dynasty in the Han Dynasty, it looks like a hollowed-out copper pillar, almost the same length as the human body, and the mouth is trumpet-shaped.Attached to a wooden gun mount, the angle can be adjusted, and the wooden mount is connected to sturdy wheels, which can be pushed over short distances on the battlefield.General Ren once lamented that he asked the fleet to get sulfur and other materials from the islands of the South China Sea, looking for nitrate ore everywhere, sorry that India has no toilets.It took ten years to make three kinds of weapons out of the gunpowder obtained, and the so-called "two kicks" and "Katyusha" are all vaudeville, and only this "cannon" can be carried forward.As the lord of the river and India, although the resources and time are enough, but the trustworthy manpower is insufficient, between muskets and artillery, Ren Hong chose the latter, after countless failures, finally decided on several sizes and models, specially brought to fight the Romans This batch, named "Italian artillery".I don't know which country's bird language it is, but General Ren has a lot of words, saying "Whatever name the utensils use to hit whoever they want!"
”For example, the counterweight trebuchet that I tried in Dawan ten years ago was called the "Dawan Cannon", and I heard that the place where Rome, the capital of the Great Qin Kingdom, was located was called "Italy", so it was called this.Chen Tang was very indifferent to this name, and so did the soldiers, so he privately called this weapon by many names, or called "Hussar General Cannon" or "Bronze General".Craftsmen like to call it "sub-cannon", because the tail of the cannon is hollow, you can stuff the sub-cannon containing gunpowder and projectiles into it, and wedge the wooden or iron bolt used for the sub-cannon to ignite the fire, so as to reduce the chance of exploding the chamber, and the fire is much faster.When the craftsmen and soldiers of the Shenji Battalion adjusted the ten bronze cannons, several phalanxes of the Romans had also moved along the narrow dock towards the position of the palace, and their phalanx and shields could withstand even the arrows, spears and even stones fired by the ballistas!"
Don't save it, don't use stone bullets today, use iron bullets brought from the poison of your body!"
The commander of the Shenji battalion had been waiting for this day for a long time, and when they bombarded Alexandria, they could not move the thick city walls, which disappointed the brother troops who were looking forward to the scene of "ten miles of erosion", thinking that it was useless, and that the sound was powerful enough to scare the Egyptians.But today, they are not fighting stone rammed earth walls, but wooden ships, flesh and blood people!
What better target than a dense phalanx and a stationary warship?
The muzzles of the guns protruded from the towers, and the angles were lowered, some aimed at the ships in the distance, while others aimed at the slow-moving tortoiseshell formation, trying to take up positions in the harbor.The fire rope was lit, flashing with sparks, and finally disappeared into the tail of the bronze cannon, and the five people who took care of the cannon covered their ears on the side."
Bang, bang, bang!"
Eight loud bangs rang out from the palace pier in the city, and the Greek soldiers inside and outside the palace who assisted the Han army against the Romans exclaimed "Zeus's thunder" again.The most experienced Roman centurion on the dock couldn't help but stop the soldiers and look around in surprise, but fortunately, the cannon didn't hit them, and only smashed the unlucky Greek nude statue a few steps away.Even Caesar, who had just landed by boat, was taken aback.The guards immediately set up shields around him, and in the gaps in the shields, Caesar seemed to see a foreign object flying from the palace, splashing a few splashes around the ship, and then the left chord of the warship was hit by a heavy object, and the whole ship shook violently.The thing pierced the side of the ship and smashed a hole in the deck, and the rowing slaves in the cabin screamed.Ballistas don't have this power, what kind of weapon is it?
At the same time, more than a dozen loud noises rang out on the main battlefield outside the Sun Gate east of Alexandria, like an echo, like General Ren of Seris, announcing to Caesar: "My lord, times have changed!"
”PS: It's still a change today.,There are three chapters tomorrow.,For a happy life after the completion of the book.,Accelerate and accelerate.。