Seeing his comrades-in-arms being bombed by artillery shells, the Persians have been scared out of their wits for a long time. Why should they continue the war in Wei Jun?
While the enemy was in chaos, with Ran Min’s order of 100,000 Wei Jun iron cavalry rushed to the Persian phalanx like a huge flood of steel.
The military quality of these Persian soldiers was still in a panic, but they quickly reacted with shields, and the soldiers behind them all held spears like bee needles to face the threatening enemy.
"Snow! ……”
The composition of Wei Jun Iron Cavalry is very complicated, and they have learned from many foreign armies’ tactics all the year round. At the first time, the front iron cavalry was overturned by the Persian shield array, and then the Wei Jun Iron Cavalry pulled up one iron chain after another and smashed it on the Persian shield array, which overturned the shields in their hands.
Its shield hand was even more shocked and was assassinated by Wei Jun Iron Cavalry.
But the shield array is the first line of defense of the Persians, and the second line of defense is the spear array.
There is no doubt that the spear array is strong
Spear is a super lethal cold weapon, which was particularly popular in ancient China and Rome. Spears are similar to pike but longer than pike. Spears are generally five to six meters long and are usually made by infantry and cavalry.
During the period of Alexander the Great, Macedonian phalanx spears composed of 50,000 people holding a spear created one invincible myth after another, but in China, spears were eliminated by history long ago.
In the era of cold weapons, the advantages of spears can be imagined. It is long enough, so the lethality is naturally considerable, and other cold weapons have the farthest killing distance compared with spears.
Often before approaching, it can cause damage and face the enemy’s attack. For example, in ancient times, bows and spears often restrained bows and arrows to a certain extent. Soldiers should erect their spears and shake them from side to side frequently to block most bows and spears. The phalanx can also be regarded as a tall shield, which can be said that spears can be attacked and defended in hand!
So what will Wei Jun do to the Persian spear array?
"Snow! ….. "At this time, Wei Jun iron cavalry had suffered from this" Macedonian phalanx ",and the horse was stabbed into a hornet’s nest as soon as it was rushed away. It was a miserable death!
"Shoot the arrow!"
Key is always responsible for leading the charge Ranke ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows.
"wooshing wooshing! ……”
A rain of arrows fell on the Persian phalanx, but it was swept away by its spear array.
The Persian phalanx base consists of four arms. One is a large number of standing soldiers, carrying a 1-foot Macedonian spear with both hands. The end of the spear has a counterweight to help balance and serve as a weapon when the spear breaks, and there is a round shield with a diameter of 2 feet.
The shields in the hands of the soldiers in the phalanx protect their own left side as well as the right side of the adjacent comrades. Once the soldiers in the front row fall down, the soldiers in the second row will quickly fill the gap left by them.
Generally, the first row of soldiers are crouching half-way, aiming their spears at the front, while the second row of soldiers put their spears on the shoulders of the first row of soldiers, which can enhance the lethality of the front to the cavalry. The essence of the whole phalanx tactics is that the soldiers work together and go hand in hand, and those who run away from the battle will be severely punished!
The second is light infantry.
This arms spear has a shorter length and a larger shield diameter (which can cover the kneeling soldiers), and the armor is lighter and more maneuverable.
The third is cavalry.
The base is a heavy cavalry composed of young aristocrats, holding a Macedonian spear and waiting for the war, often putting the spear on the shoulder and pointing slightly.
When charging, the spear sticks out to the side, and after hitting the first enemy, the spear is often left in his body and will not be pulled out, and then the sword will continue to fight until the battle is over, and then the spears will be recovered.
This last type is the auxiliary soldier, whose armor is very light, and it is the main weapon of javelin, bow and arrow and catapult.
The defeated troops in the periphery of the Persian army have been cleared, but Wei Jun has been slow to break the strange phalanx of the Persians.
When Ran Min saw the Persian phalanx, he couldn’t help shouting, "This is the Macedonian phalanx!"
"What is the Macedonian phalanx?" Xun Ji around is not clear and asks
"Macedonian phalanx, a phalanx tactic, reached its peak in the era of King Philip II of Macedonia and his successor Alexander. Its basic formation changed into a sixteen-person column with six-meter pike and cavalry and light infantry in loose formation, and all arms were organically combined to form the original multi-arm mixed force, which played a great role in Alexander’s eastward expedition!"
"After Alexander’s death, the Macedonian phalanx was still the strongest infantry fighting formation, but many tactics created by Alexander failed to continue to develop, but the infantry equipment became heavier and the maneuverability was further degraded; However, the cavalry units on the flank of the cover phalanx were weakened. Later, the Kingdom of Macedonia and their phalanx lost to the Romans and their enemy regiments. "
"This … then we should deal with this Macedonian phalanx?"
"Ha ha this invincible phalanx in the west in our Chinese have beaten share! I dare say that if Alexander had hit China, Qin Jun Arrow Array would have taught them to be human beings! "
"Do you mean that our arrow array can restrain this Macedonian phalanx?"
"Not bad!"
Ran Min said this because he knew that this was the historical development trend.
Although the spear has many benefits, its flexibility is not high because of its length. In the Qin Dynasty, the bow and arrow power was famous, and restraining the spear was a crossbow with greater lethality.
Although spears can defend against ordinary bows and arrows, they are still slightly slow in the face of the arrow array of the Qin Dynasty. If the crossbow with greater lethality is added to the Qin Dynasty, the spear array will no longer have an advantage, and once the spear bursts are disrupted, the length of the spear will become the greatest weakness of the soldiers!
Because the length limits the flexibility of soldiers, once the spear formation cannot be maintained, soldiers with spears can sit still and not resist.
In this respect, a shorter pike is much more flexible than a spear. Although the lethality will be greatly reduced because it is not as long as a spear, the base is still the same. The most important thing is that a pike is much more flexible than a spear. With the development of history, a spear is gradually replaced by a pike.
With Ran Min calling the shots, Wei Jun pushed out all the crossbows, and at the same time, all the horseback cavalry were equipped with crossbows. The crossbows were so powerful that they were swept down by the spears in the hands of Persians!
"Shoot the arrow!"
"wooshing wooshing! ……”