Chapter 264: "·War of Cadiz·II"

What you get after hard work is more enjoyable than what you get without effort. Truth can be understood without any effort at a glance, and it is only temporary pleasure to understand it, but it is soon forgotten.
- Giovanni Boccaccio (outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance, humanist)
The total length of the Cadiz Valley is more than 800 meters, and the width is between 30 meters and 50 meters. The length of the long valley greatly limits the role of the long archers. They only have a range of 400 meters. The place in the middle of the valley to the east can be effective.
After Gattus led his army to the west of the valley of Cadiz, according to the actual situation in the valley, Spartan heavy infantry and Macedonian royal pikemen were placed at the forefront of the square, followed by the cheetah corps. A standard one thousand Macedonian phalanx.
In order to protect the fragile wings of the Phalanx forces after the Phalanx forces broke through the enemy forces, Gattus did not just send the Phalanx forces to advance, but kept the Phalanx forces at a width of 20 meters, with the left and right wings Scattered elite warriors protecting them.
After these troops entered the valley, the front and rear lengths were about 200 meters, which already occupied half of the longbowmen's range; the second army sent by Gattus was the longbowman, and then the remaining two thousand people Macedonia phalanx.
Francis, who eats a lot of wisdom, is not a fool. The painful lesson of the Macedonian phalanx last time is still fresh in his memory; this time he had expected that this particular army must be in the army of the city of Rome. To this end, he specially prepared five thousand archers!
The barbarian warriors who used bows and arrows to hunt from a young age are still quite talented in using bows and arrows. The 5,000 ordinary soldiers who were temporarily transferred by Francis to temporarily serve as archers are barely considered qualified archers.
When the Spartan heavy infantry in the red cape walked out of the valley majesticly, Francis's face showed such a smile; it was the slightest momentum behind the Spartan heavy infantry. Inferior Macedonian Royal Pikemen.
The two powerful arms that advanced forward with their super-long guns were approaching only 150 meters from the valley exit; the defender of the valley exit, who was waiting for it, immediately withdrew to the left and right wings with a big wave of Francis. Too.
More than 10,000 elite warriors here have just withdrawn, and over five thousand archers came to the vacant position, and began to open bows and arrows to wait for the volley command; such a scene made Sparta at the forefront heavy The infantry centuries pupil shrank sharply.
However, the Spartan heavy infantry is the Spartan heavy infantry. Even if the front is covered by the rain of five thousand archers, they still move forward step by step with no return; with the Spartan heavy infantry as an example, How could the pikemen in the back flinch.
At 150, 120, and 100 meters, after the Spartan heavy infantry entered the 100-meter range, the archers under Francis’s archery still did not start volley; the tense atmosphere became stronger and stronger, But the footsteps of the Spartan heavy infantry were not at all disturbed.
After the Spartan heavy infantry advanced another 20 meters, Francis, who had been paying attention to the dynamics of the Spartan heavy infantry, finally gave the order to shoot; then, the first round of the 5,000 archers volleyed. The pressure shot at the advancing Spartan heavy infantry.
The essence of the Macedonian phalanx lies in the stability of the entire phalanx. No matter what violent blows are encountered, as long as the phalanx is not chaotic, the soldiers in the phalanx can fight; once the phalanx is disrupted, the entire army Will lose without a fight.
All the pikemen in the Macedonian phalanx will have a round shield; the round shields of the Spartan heavy infantry and the Royal Macedonian pikemen can withstand the shooting of the javelin, but the protective area of ​​the round shield is limited after all, not to mention The enemy is a volley of five thousand archers.
The Spartan heavy infantry and the Royal Macedonian spearmen covered by the arrows of enemy archers immediately suffered heavy casualties; at least a dozen soldiers were killed on the spot, and even more were injured. .
But their pace of advancement was not disrupted. The wounded soldiers were still advancing, and the soldiers who were shot on the spot, their positions will be immediately added by the robe behind them; after being attacked by the arrow rain, the long archer behind Immediately stopped and started to fight back.
The range is far better than the long archers of ordinary archers. The position at this time can already completely cover the enemy archers; so, their arrow rain quickly covered the enemy archers’ heads, and the unguarded enemy The military archers were killed and injured immediately.
The next is the competition between the archers of the two armies. The archers under Francis continuously fired arrows at the advancing Macedonian phalanx, while the archers under Gattus were waves of arrows. Shooting at the enemy archer.
This contest continued until the Spartan heavy infantry advanced to only 30 meters from the valley entrance. Francis waved again and withdrew the deadly wounded archer troops. The 10,000 elite soldiers who had retreated to the left and right wings were blocked again. The exit of the valley.
The withdrawal of the enemy archers did not affect the performance of the long archers under Gattus. They were still shooting their arrows at the enemy; as long as there were arrows in their arrow pots, their salvo It won't stop, but this time they only brought two pots of arrows.
The long archer's shooting weakened the middle and rear of the army that Francis blocked the valley, but they could not affect their frontier troops; as the Spartan heavy infantry advanced, the direct battle between the two sides finally broke out!
The brave and spartan heavy infantry stabbed their super long guns in a neat formation; the first wave of defenders blocked at the exit of the valley was just stabbed by the dense super long guns Blood gourds have no chance of returning.
The airtight super-long gun phalanx is like a compactor, rolling over the defenders under Francis. The defense line composed of elite warriors that Francis has high hopes for has not been able to play its role. out.
Because of the terrain limitations in the valley, the Spartan heavy infantry’s long-gun square is quite narrow, and even after the breakthrough, they cannot expand their breakthrough area; in fact, their breakthrough is also the result of Francis’ deliberate relaxation.
If the pikemen phalanx of the Roman city had been blocked at the entrance of the valley, the losing party would be the uninhibited own army; Francis was not a fool, he would naturally not allow such scenes to appear. The pikemen phalanx was released to fight.
The Macedonian phalanx, unaware of the existence of the trap, seized the opportunity and killed it. As a result, they just broke through the frontal defense line of the defender, and their own left and right wings were caught in the key attack of the defender; the elite soldiers who rushed out, basically Such an attack cannot be reached.
The powerful Spartan heavy infantry and the Royal Macedonian Pikemen took up almost all of the frontal enemy forces with their own strength; the pikemen behind them quickly adjusted their direction under the cover of elite soldiers Enemy troops on the left and right wings were allowed.
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