In this case, the Persian foot soldiers were shot dead by Wei Jun just like "queuing for shooting"!
It wasn’t long before the Persian army collapsed!
Chapter 76 As handsome also
After the war, Wei Jun cleaned the battlefield and counted the casualties of both sides.
Ran Min was surprised to find that the casualty ratio of Persian army in Wei Jun was one to two!
Are Persian soldiers and horses so tough?
You know, to be able to be an expeditionary soldier is one in ten, and a sharp soldier can still live as a veteran after so many years of war. It is even more powerful. It is very difficult to say whether it is against the Gupta dynasty or against the Tuyuhun war. The proportion of Wei Jun enemy casualties is one to four or one to five.
What’s more, there are one to ten!
But now the Persians are so powerful?
Find the Persian army commander Phil Ducey and ask him. Only then do you know that these 50,000 Persian troops are the elite of Sassanian dynasty. No wonder they can fight so well.
"What should we do with these fallen soldiers?"
Ran Min thought about whether it was unnecessary to supply logistics in Wei Jun now or to do such a thing that was utterly heartless, but it was absolutely impossible to release these soldiers.
He reasoned and decided to take these fallen soldiers back to China to build bridges and pave the way as coolies.
If necessary, we can migrate overseas. After all, the populations in Australia and America are too small, and our children may not be very happy when they rule in these uninhabited places!
After annihilating the Persian army, Ran Min led an army to attack Fulou Shacheng.
Wei Jun soon conquered the shaky city of Fulou, which was destroyed by the red cannon.
How dare Sendoro rebel against Ran Min? He didn’t let him go directly. He punished him. The nine families of men killed women and left them to be confiscated. Women who were lucky or beautiful in Ran Min could be taken back to the Forbidden City by him, while other women were auctioned off as goods.
I’m sure those gentry and businessmen will be very interested in this royal lady with status.
Ran Min didn’t really want to start slavery, because it was a retrogression in history, but he couldn’t help it. Otherwise, he could kill these people, and Ran Min became the biggest slave trader!
As far away as Taixi, Shapur II heard that Guishuang Empire had been destroyed by Wei Jun, and that 50,000 elite Sassanian Dynasty soldiers had also been wiped out. But it didn’t take long for Shapur II to feel even worse. The news came again-Sima Xu killed the Persian messenger Hua La Mo and completely fell to the Wei Empire!
Now the situation is very unfavorable for Sassanian dynasty.
But Shapur II, after all, is a generation of heroes who quickly calmed down after losing their temper. According to the tip, Wei Jun has frequently appeared on the northeast border of Sassanian Dynasty, so it is natural to hide such a large-scale military operation.
It seems that Ran Min wants to destroy the Sassanian Dynasty after destroying the Guishuang Empire.
"I must let wei ren know that our Sassanian dynasty is fierce! Ran Min wants his arrogance and ambition to pay a heavy price! " Shapur II said so
Wei empire is not challenging Sassanian dynasty to dominate in Central Asia, but trying to levy Sassanian dynasty to build a super empire across Asia, Africa and Europe like Alexander.
So Shapur II quickly dispatched 400,000 troops to prepare for a life-and-death battle with Wei Jun from afar.
When he entered the twenty-fifth year of the Emperor in March, after several months of army preparation and consolidation, Ran Min personally led 300,000 troops to attack the Sassanian dynasty after he had just hit the three major provinces of Guishuang Province, West Satrap Province and Vagatoga Province.
Wei Jun attacked the city all the way, and the South Persian army quickly met in Shahpour.
The Persian army in Wei Jun has put up a phalanx, but their phalanx is completely different
In order to deal with the Persian army formation, Wei Jun put on a well-documented phalanx rather than using chariots
The front row of Wei Jun phalanx is a row of chariots equipped with sharp knives and strong crossbows. This kind of chariot is specially designed by two thumbs up to attack the enemy formation. It is difficult to maintain the chariot formation no matter how strict it is.
Then three rows of strong crossbow arrays, then two spear phalanxes, each array has a command chariot in the middle, then three rows of strong crossbow arrays, then two spear arrays, then four guerrilla arrays, and finally the commander-in-chief and the war generals.
The two wings of the phalanx are the cavalry array, which is responsible for raiding the two wings of the enemy array.
In an infantry phalanx like Wei Jun, the lancer has the advantage of resisting the enemy and killing the enemy. The gunner is behind the lancer. When the lancer formation is disrupted, the smaller assault formation has a strong ability to penetrate the enemy and push it out.
The halberd hand is a single unit that joins the battle to eliminate the enemy when the phalanx is in melee.
No matter what happens, these soldiers will March forward with spears, and the front row and the back row will be reversed immediately. It is conceivable to turn thousands and tens of thousands of people into an iron wall phalanx. Soldiers must undergo strict training. From the perspective of weapons and methods of warfare, lancers are the most lethal infantry units.
The spear is like a forest, and the huge impact is unstoppable.
And the Macedonian phalanx on the Persian side is not bad at all
The Persian infantry phalanx is arranged in a long horizontal line with a depth of 16 soldiers. The Macedonian spear is usually held 36 feet away from the handle end. The 46 rows of soldiers in the phalanx are aimed at the front and the back. The positions of the soldiers holding the spear are inclined and vertical to the ground.
Three men at the head and one at the end of each column belong to the key position, so they choose brave and skilled soldiers.
In wartime, the whole phalanx often runs forward in a solid and dense formation, just like a siege hammer violently impacting the enemy team.
In order to protect the flank and rear, before the battle, the light lancers lined up in a horizontal line at the back of the phalanx, while the auxiliary soldiers were mostly heavy infantry and grain collectors, while the skirmishers lined up in front of the phalanx with cavalry and a certain number of light lancers on both wings.
This phalanx must be closely coordinated with the cavalry, and it is not easy to win by relying solely on the phalanx. The Persians will arrange the phalanx in an oblique array in wartime, that is, a right triangle or a right-angled body will face outwards, so that they will surround the enemy from a certain side according to specific needs.
Generally, the enemy will not be killed immediately in front of this Macedonian phalanx, and they will run like lawn mowers unless they meet the Macedonian phalanx.
When the Macedonian phalanx is integrated, it can push the front behind and then rush past the enemy like a wall, and most of them will try their best to avoid many spearheads, which is exactly what Macedonian generals want!
The enemy was placed on a big chopping board, and the knife was Macedonian cavalry.
Moreover, the Macedonian cavalry was very strong in history, which made them better than the Roman Republic as a whole, which enabled them to confront and defeat the cavalry that held off the enemy, and then turned around and always hit them hard in the back, just like chopping meat with a knife.
This requires that the coordination of walking and riding should not be late or early.
Seeing the Persian army’s neat phalanx following Ran Min’s side, King Ran Cao of Chu couldn’t help feeling deeply. "These Persian phalanxes are really different. Let’s fighters rush over and become hedgehogs!"
"Fuck, do you know how to crack the Persian phalanx?"
"This ….." Rancao said with no heart. "Father, emperor and son know that the Persian infantry phalanx is Macedonian phalanx, but I really don’t know how to crack it. It is said that the Roman army cracked this Macedonian phalanx!"
Ran Min pointed to the opposite Persian infantry phalanx in the carriage and said with a smile, "The Persian Macedonian phalanx is really powerful, and it has high maneuverability. The complete platoon bravely rushed to the enemy and dealt a heavier blow to the enemy who has not recovered from the cavalry attack."
"However, compared with the heavy infantry phalanx, the defensive ability of the Macedonian phalanx is slightly inferior, but the attack is much sharper. As far as I know, the Athenians who were defeated by the Macedonian phalanx described that every soldier had to deal with ten long spears at the same time before attacking the Macedonians!"
"It is not difficult to understand that the Athenians will quickly collapse when the Macedonians attack and overflow the Thebes positions, but they still can’t get rid of the pursuit of the Macedonian phalanx-the soldiers in heavy armor can’t move as fast as the Macedonians in battle."
It wasn’t long before Ran Cao suddenly had a brainwave and said, "Father, emperor and son know!"
"What do you know?"
"Restrain this Macedonian phalanx method!"
"oh? Tell me about it. "
"Father, you see the Persian this Macedonian phalanx defect is very obvious! That is, once our army breaks through the flank spear array, it is difficult for the lancers to resist the attack of the swordsmen, and this phalanx is weak in dealing with the dense arrow array. Whether it is a light cavalry archer or a infantry regiment, it is almost by shooting! "
Hearing this, Ran Min’s eyes can’t help shining again and again. "Fuck you!"
Ran Min is well aware of that fatal flaw of this Macedonian phalanx.
However, Rancao’s contact with this Macedonian phalanx will soon reveal its defects. I have to say that this young man is really a military genius!
First of all, if this phalanx is not azimuth formation, azimuth formation and azimuth defense, how do you think it should be arranged?
It’s good for everyone to face around a center, but what can we do except stay where we are?
According to the form, the battlefield should be constantly adjusted in the right direction. When attacking, it can face one direction. The spearmen in Sweden in the late Middle Ages also failed. However, the war was different at that time, and the Swedes consciously retreated when they were attacked by crossbows, because the azimuth defense could not move.