Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Chapter 37 Invasion of Altauzus

"Go! Go!" Hilos took him back and ran back. With his lead, the soldiers immediately retreated.

The Persian cavalrymen raised their bows and rushed over again. Several of them lifted Mitradat's body, and the rest chased toward the Greek soldiers.This time, they were well-behaved, split into two shares, and detoured to both sides of Davers.

"Be careful of bows and arrows!" Hilos shouted, waving his hands to spread the soldiers away.

With little hesitation in the middle of the team, Daveus was hesitated, and was thrown back from behind, and then there was a cry.

"Olivers!" Daveus recognized from his distorted face with pain, but there was no time for him to think about it, and Mattonis and Geogris next to them quickly dragged them around the curve and moved forward Run fast.

"Swoosh! Swoosh!..." More than ten arrows flew again, screaming twice in succession.

At this time, the responding team had arrived, and the light infantry column running in front threw a javelin at the Persian cavalry, then held the leather shield and continued to charge forward.Then the heavy infantry who arrived erected a shield to form a shield wall to block the arrows.

Only the Persian cavalry of more than twenty people did not dare to fight, and with the body of Mitradat, fled quickly.

Davers only had the opportunity to check Oliver's injury.

Oliver saw Dafus coming and broke away from the support of Geogris.

"Leader...I...I--" Before he finished, Daveus gave him a strong hug: "Good brother, thank you!!"

Hearing this, Oliver had recently smiled with a gloomy face, and the whole person slackened, and then the pain struck: "Ouch!" he called.

Daphes thought he had touched his wound and hurriedly let go.

"Hey, Olivers, fortunately you are hitting an arrow in the ass. If you hit the arrow in front, I don't know what to scream!" Matonis mocked.

"Damn Mattonis, just be brave, and next time you will try an arrow!" Oliver sneered at the arrow on his butt.

The noise returned to the team of Hilos.

In addition to Oliver's attack, another soldier shot an arrow in the thigh and another shot in the back, but was only injured by skin and flesh because of the thick breastplate.

"Giogris, you sent Olivers to Helps, and he must be treated!" Daveus finished, patting Oliver's shoulder: "Receive treatment and come back to fight with us soon !"

"Yes, leader!" Olivers replied loudly.

"Excellent raid! I didn't expect you to succeed, we were all worried about you just now!"

"Yeah, if you killed Mitradat, it would be regarded as revenge for Menon and they should thank you for the entire mercenary!"

"Timasong said before that they were crazy and they chose leaders randomly. How do they say this time?"

Felix and the squadron leaders Anthony and Capps came together to congratulate Daveus, and Amintas directly paid him a military salute.

The clever Yasisters brought the horses and let Daves mount.

The soldiers consciously gave up a passage, shouting victory and welcoming him to return to the battlefield...

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"What did you say?! Daphes killed Mitradat?!" After listening to the heralds, Tima Song looked incredulous: "Now it's war time, and the messy news is to be punished. !"

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"Deverus killed Mitradat!" Xenophon exclaimed: "He came up with a bold plan, and he succeeded!"

"Great!" Hironimos breathed out and said with hate: "I see who else wants to escape this time! The Persians died Mitradat, and they will definitely vent those deserters!"

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Kleethorpes carefully listened to Tolmed’s account. Although he didn’t like the young man very much, he had to admit that he had done a good job this time, and even said that he had saved the whole army.Because he is very clear that mercenaries with loose military discipline and loose management are not afraid of enemy attacks. The stronger the enemy's attacks, the more united the mercenaries will be.Instead, it was Mitradat's way. Over time, it would dissolve the fighting spirit of the soldiers and bring down the entire team.

Thinking of this, he smiled on his face and said aloud to Tolmed: "Please speak to me to the leader of Davos, thank him for his efforts for the whole army! And remind him to pay attention to the enemy's attack soon. Will come."

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"What?! Mitradat is dead?!" Arius couldn't believe his ears.

"Yes, general, his body is out of the account!" the guard said.

Alirous hurried out of the tabernacle, followed by a close friend sent by Altauzus and Tisavonis.

Mitradat's body has been dealt with briefly, but it is still terrible, with four or five wounds on his body, a blood hole with a big fist in his neck, and he has been bleeding out.

Aliros bent down and was preparing to look closely. Altauzus could not help but shouted to the Persian cavalry who had fled back: "Who did it? Who did it?"

"It's... Mennon's soldiers, they..." The Persian cavalry stammered the whole process.

"A bunch of fools! Actually defeated by Menon's waste! You didn't protect Mitradat, each received 30 lashes of military tactics, and then was punished as a servant of the heavy camp." Artauzus shouted angrily .

"General, spare his life! General spare his life!!" The Persian cavalry kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Although Alirous regrets that these cavalry who are proficient in Greek, they have no intention of changing to stop Artauzus.He instructed the guards to escort the cavalrymen, and then said: "Bring some Greeks who have fled over, I will ask in detail."

"What more to ask! Kill them all! Then lead the army to attack the Greek barbarian!" Artauzus shouted impatiently.

"Clearkus, after they were captured by us, the mercenaries must have elected a new leader. We must first understand who they are before we can take the next step." Ali Ruos persevered and persuaded.

"To ask you, I'll go to avenge Mitradat first!" Altauzus walked away angrily.

Arrius shrugged helplessly to the confidant of Tisafnes.Nominally he was the leader of the army after the death of Cyrus. In fact, Mitradat and Altauzus each controlled an army, and the two were good friends. They secretly opposed Alirus. , So that Arreus is often constrained.Now that Mitradat is killed in battle, Ali Rouse is actually secretly happy. Compared with the smooth Mitradat, the impulsive Altauzus can deal with more...

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Although Altauzus is impulsive to do things, he is not confused about fighting.He knew that the Persian infantry could not fight against the Greek heavy infantry, so he only picked two hundred bow cavalry and two hundred archers, and hurriedly led them in the direction of the march of the Greek army.

Because Altauzus' army is either a light cavalry or an archer, it is very mobile.In the afternoon, the huge queue of Greeks entered his vision.

"Order the troops, expand in the shape of a goose, and quickly push them up!" Altauzus gave his instructions excitedly with bloodthirsty cold eyes.

The Persian army was facing Kriano’s guards. They had expected the arrival of the Persians again. Not many enemies were seen. They thought they were prepared to shout again as they did last time. Take it too seriously.

But I saw the Persians quickly unfolding and approaching quickly, within a hundred meters in a blink of an eye.

Krian Norton felt bad and shouted: "Ready to defend!"

As soon as the words fell, the arrows of the Persians had struck, and most of them hit the soldiers' shields like raindrops.As the Greek soldiers lined up closely, and the heavy infantry were next to each other, some people were injured, mainly light infantry.

"The formation was dispersed and heavy infantry rushed up!" Kriano anxiously conveyed the order.

The arrow hit again, and someone fell down screaming again.The team was a bit chaotic at this time, especially the heavy battalion behind him. The guards and servants hurriedly pulled the screaming cows and ran to the north side, farther away from the guards, to avoid suffering the pond fish.

Three heavy infantry squadrons held round shields and rushed past with arrow rain.

The Persians retreated immediately.