Chapter 53: Crossing the river (middle)

"The location of crossing the river is in the upper reaches of our camp eight miles away. The width of the river is about 85 meters. The deepest part of the river reaches the waist span. The bottom of the river is stone sand. It is neither slippery nor hard. The river bank is flat. There are more rocks on the other side..." The customer's brief summary of the situation will be explained.
"It seems that this is a good place to cross the river! We immediately gather the whole army and cross the river quickly!" Timarson said excitedly.
"But we have to consider that the troops of Ortas will intercept us across the river and force the river, and the casualties of our soldiers will increase!" Zantitipis said cautiously.
"The Persians will never think that we will cross the river so easily! As long as we rush to the other side of the river at the fastest speed, we will definitely give them a sudden attack!" Timarson said confidently.
"Don't forget, there are Dukeya people behind us! What about our squatting camp? And, the Persians have more troops than us. They also have the Kardans, as long as they can stand on the riverbank for a while. We will have trouble, who knows how long the sand in the river can support the soldiers!" Zantitipis said with a little worry.
Tima Song immediately asked: "What good way do you have?"
Zandiparis said: "So everyone has to discuss how to cross the river smoothly and minimize our losses?"
"I thought you had a good idea?" Tima Song gave him a look.
"I have a suggestion." Xenophon interjected: "We can separate some of the soldiers to protect the squad. When the troops are ready to cross the river, this part of the soldiers will lead the squad to pretend to cross the river at the original pontoon. The Persians will surely think that we will cross the river again from here, attacking them from the rear, and will split the troops to defend, and wait until the big forces defeat the opposing enemies. This part of the soldiers are crossing the river in the place where they are fighting back to the big forces to fight. This distracts the strength and protects the squad. How do you feel?" Xenophon said with a little self-satisfaction.
I have to say that Xenophon's plan is good, and everyone is thinking. After a while, Krianno asked: "The team of the heavy camp is very large. How many soldiers do you have to protect? If too much, it will affect the time we will defeat the Persians, and you will let the camp and the soldiers go back and forth. Marching is not only easy to cause them to be exhausted, but also vulnerable to attacks by the Dukayan. Have you considered this aspect?"
"This..." Xenophon spoke in a moment, he said creepingly: "It is inevitable that there will be death and injury in the fight, as long as the loss can be minimized..."
At this time, Davers said: "I was inspired by Xenophon, and I also came up with a solution."
As soon as he spoke, everyone focused on it because the facts repeatedly proved that the youngest leader was not rash, and his speech always solved the problem.
"We are not in the river today." Daves looked at the princes and saw them, although they were a little surprised, they continued to listen quietly: "After the Persians enter the camp at night, they can send a unit first." Cross the river, find places to hide, and when our big forces will fight against the Persians tomorrow, they will suddenly attack the rear of the Persian army, and they will be able to disrupt the array of Persians, so that they can not only defeat the Persians, but also the Persians. It may even annihilate a part of them, thus weakening the power of the Persians, so that when we enter Armenia, we can reach the Xingxing Sea more smoothly..."
Everyone's eyes lit up, and Davers's suggestion was truly ingenious and different. In fact, the thinking of the leaders was trapped in the military tradition of the positive impact that the Greeks admired for centuries, and the Daphus River Crossing Plan was a strategy adopted by the great Red Army of the previous world to liberate Hainan. Inspired by the combination of the smuggling of small units and the strong crossover of large units.
"Daves, the soldiers have no experience of crossing the river in the night. How many people do you have to send the river first? If they are rioting because of fear when crossing the river, it is easy to cause drowning death, even to disturb the Persians, let us The action failed, so that the Persians knew the location of the river we had come to explore!
Kryano’s tone was much better than that of Xenophon. The problem he was worried about was also an important reason why the mercenaries did not dare to go to night. .
"How do you hide the team after landing? When will the attack on the rear of the Persian? I am afraid these should be considered." Tima Song reminded.
Daves said without hesitation: "For a unit, the problem you are talking about is not a problem!" He said that he looked at the customer.
Guest Sophos tacitly nodded.
That night, seven hundred Spartan fighters successfully sneaked across the Kent River.
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The next morning, the mercenaries began to camp.
The Persians saw it and quickly gathered on the other side.
The mercenary slaughtered three lambs, and the princes sacrificed to the gods of the great rivers, Russia, and the singers of the whole army.
Ortas predicted that the Greeks might have to cross the river, and ordered the army to be ready immediately.
At the end of the worship, the mercenaries began to march down the river bank. After a few miles, they stopped and rested for a while. Then turn to the upstream...
The handsome and beautiful, the Governor of Armenia, who won the Persian king's favor, did not understand where the Greeks were going. They thought that they would not dare to cross the river with the Persian army on the other side. Seeing them stalking like a headless fly, the heart could not help but be proud.
The Persian army continued to follow the march on the other side ~EbookFREE.me~ The mercenary finally arrived at the location of the river crossing marked by Sophos, and immediately stopped moving forward, then according to the prior plan, with the left end as the axis, the entire team to the river bank Rotate quickly...
When the Oritas did not understand, the mercenaries had already formed a formation towards the Kentret River. The whole team was divided into three parts: the first part was the 7,000 soldiers who prepared to cross the river and the Persian army. The ranks, the thick columns of the formation stand on the shore (because the river that can smoothly cross the river is not long); the second part is the heavy camp, they are closely followed; the third part is the three thousand soldiers, they are located After the heavy camp, back to the river bank to prevent the attack of the Dukeya people.
Just as the Persian army slowly adjusted its formation, the mercenary blew the attacking army, and the seven thousand soldiers did not hesitate to step into the Kent River...
Ortas changed his face and he finally understood: The Greeks are ready to cross the river from here!
I also don't care about the long-range strike of the mercenary throwing stone soldiers. Otatas eagerly shouted: "Fast! Let the infantry block it! The archers! The archers are quick to put the arrows!" He sighed and hoped for the water in the Kentret River. Slowly advancing the speed of the mercenary, and bow and arrow strikes can cause chaos in the Greeks, causing the Greeks to fall into disuse due to panic and crowding. After that moment of panic, Oritas resumed calming, after all, the depth of the river he personally tried.
Perhaps this is my chance to make a great contribution! He was thinking excitedly.
Davers followed the soldiers in front of the right wing of the unit, stepping on the harder river sand and marching forward.
The river in the early winter has been bitter, but the soldiers with high morale at the moment have no time to feel it. They have been filled with a thought: they rushed to the other side at the fastest speed!