Davers was refreshed and asked immediately, "Great! Where are they?!"

Phyllisus knew how to hand over the wooden board.

Izam gasped, took the wooden board, looked carefully at the schematic diagram of the Persian army drawn above, and then pointed to the central front of its right wing and said excitedly: "It's here! Remy followed the code I agreed before leaving, so that those ethnic groups and people could shake up and down regularly against the sun with the copper shields equipped by the Persians. This would be obvious from other Persian troops. Even if I stood here, I could see clearly. I remember that when conquering Asprestum, our mountain reconnaissance brigade also used a similar method-"

"Very good! You made great contributions!" Davers interrupted his nagging and asked, "Which unit is we opposite?"

"The Third and Fourth Battalions of the Eleventh Legion." Yizam responded immediately.

"Your Majesty, you can send the 18th Legion as a preparation so that when the troops of Izam's second brother retreat, you can make full use of this opportunity and increase the attack on this Persian military formation!" Phyllissius also suggested excitedly.

"One legion is not enough!" Davers shook his head, lit the wooden board hard, and said firmly: "Send the 19th Legion here, this will be the breakthrough for our infantry!"

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Just as the two legions of Dionia were quietly mobilizing in the rear of the array, Maldognos had already rode a horse to the carriage of the Persian king and said anxiously: "King, the troops have already been arranged, why haven't they issued an order to attack?!"

Artaxerxes said hesitantly: "...Would you wait for the Dionians to launch an attack first?"

"There are few soldiers in the Dionians, it is impossible to attack us first!" Maldognos suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart, turned his head to look at Tribasus not far away, and vented his anger: "Aren't you the most intelligent minister of the king's country? How did you advise the king for military service? Before the war, you should assist the king in implementing it! The army was already in line, and it was almost half an hour before the soldiers stood and waited foolishly. Do you know that when I came here from the left wing, I saw that many subordinate troops were already a little unstable, and even the formations of the East Uksians began to appear in chaos!"

Terebasus remained silent and did not refute. He had urged the Persian king several times before, but the Persian king seemed to have some concerns and never made a decision, so he dragged it on again and again.

Artaxerxes changed his face. Of course, he could hear that Maldognos was pointing accusations, but he couldn't scold him on the spot. On the one hand, it was because of the current enemy's current situation, which would affect morale, and on the other hand, it was also because of guilt. Before the war, he did discuss repeatedly with several important officials and formulate a tactic based on attack. However, when he saw the Dionian army on the opposite side in a simple and fast array, the soldiers in the array stood silently, with a calm and steady aura. Compared with his own scattered and noisy army, a strong sense of anxiety suddenly surged in his heart. The experience of several failures in the past came to his mind, which inevitably made him feel worried again.

But when he heard the words behind Maldognos, he was shocked.

Terebasus, who is good at observing words and expressions, immediately said: "King, those affiliated troops are not our well-trained Persian army. Although they have been strictly trained during this period, it is difficult for them to maintain their formation for a long time. We must launch an attack as soon as possible!"

Artaxerxes looked at Tribassus and then at Maldognos: "Then order the attack?"

Maldognos said anxiously: "King, don't hesitate, hurry up and give orders!"

Artaxerxes held the handrail of the carriage tightly, and his eyes swept over the majestic undead army ahead, the Greek mercenaries with iron walls, the huge war elephant, the terrifying killing weapon chariot, the well-trained archers... Finally, he looked at the silent army of Dionia on the opposite side. After a moment of silence, he took a deep breath and said loudly: "Prepare for attack!"

Maldognos looked happy and ran back.

Terebasus then shouted: "Prepare for attack! Prepare for attack!..."

"Woo... Woo..." At the same time as the Persian war trumpet sounded, Tribasus continued to issue an order for the Persian king: "Arrowers attack!"

In front of Artaxerxes's carriage, a flag embroidered with a bow and arrow was raised high, but only the only one who could see the flag swing was the archer troops in front of the center of the middle road. The entire army was more than ten miles long. Not to mention that when the flag was raised, even the soldiers at both ends of the wings could not hear the sound of the war trumpet, but the Persian army had its own ways.

Two teams of Persian messengers in gorgeous military uniforms rushed out from both sides of the carriage, passed through the gaps in the team, rushed to the front, and then ran wildly along the military formation to the sides, while shouting repeatedly: "Archers attack! Archers attack!..."

The archers in the middle are moved! The archers in the left wing are moved! The archers in the right wing are moved! At the forefront of the Persian army formation, there are archers with loose formations of more than ten miles long like a long snake that has just woken up from hibernation and slowly advancing towards the Dionys army formation.

As soon as he heard the sound of a bugle from the opposite side, Alsinis immediately raised his spirits like other team officials and shouted to his soldiers: "Brothers, please be careful, the Persians are going to attack!"

While shouting, he saw that some soldiers in the squad were too excited and looked eager to try, and immediately reminded: "Everyone must strictly follow the arrangements before the war and prepare for defense! Anyone who dares to violate military orders will be severely punished!"

The soldiers' hearts were terrified and their expressions became solemn.

"Captain, Persian archers are coming!" The soldiers in the first column shouted.

"Prepare for defense!" Alsinis's heart tightened and he stared ahead.

The Persian archers advanced very slowly because the Persian generals who led the army had learned about the detailed process of the Battle of Asia Minor and knew that there were also a large number of light infantry soldiers in the Dionian army, so they were careful to guard against the appearance of their opponents.

However, they were less than 250 meters away from the Dionian Army, and the opponent's light infantry still did not appear in front of the formation. Although the generals were puzzled, they did not stop the soldiers from advancing.

As they approached the Dionian army a hundred meters, the archers consciously stopped moving forward.

"Shoot!" Amid the shouts of the generals, the archers took arrows and raised them high at a very high angle.

"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!" The originally light bowstring sounds gathered together in thousands, which actually made the soldiers of the Dionian a hundred meters away hear extremely clearly.

"Tortoise shell formation!" Alsinis shouted.

The soldiers, who were originally lined up with dense formations, quickly retreated inward, and at the same time blocked the long shield in their hands on the outside and above the small square formation. In the blink of an eye, it seemed as if the 50-person team was covered with a layer of black iron sheet to protect them tightly.

Arsinis, located in the middle of the square formation, looked up through the tiny gap between the long shields and looked up. He saw arrows covering the sky and the sun pouring down like heavy rain. Even with the protection of the thick long shield, he couldn't help feeling tight.

"Peng!Peng!Peng!Peng!Peng!..." The arrow continued to fall on different parts of the long shield and made different sounds, as if playing a melody of death.

The soldiers of the Dionians in the tortoise shell formation all looked nervous, but when the melody disappeared, none of them were injured.

Before they could catch their breath, the melody rang again.

After repeated three or four times, a long break finally occurred.

This is because the generals of the Persian archers mixed troops found that the front troops of the Dionys army had adopted this strange formation, which caused almost no damage to their ejections. So they urged the soldiers to continue to advance and use closer distances to increase the penetration of the arrows.

The Persian archers dared not move forward any longer because they had heard that the heavy infantry of Dionia could project javelins and were too close to the enemy. When they were shooting archers, the Dionian soldiers on the opposite side suddenly launched a charge, which made them unable to escape. It was precisely because of such danger that not all archers were willing to continue approaching the Dionian army. Some archers of other races were afraid even if Persian generals repeatedly urged them.

The front soldiers of the Persian bow and archery troops used direct shooting and the rear soldiers used ejections, and the more concentrated shots were shot at the tortoise shell arrays instead of large-scale attacks, resulting in low efficiency, because the chessboard array of Dionia made the entire army more scattered, causing many of the ejected arrows to land on the open space.

A more dense sound rang out outside the tortoise shell formation formed by the Arsinis's squad, like a heavy rain hitting lotus leaves. Each long shield was pierced like a hedgehog. The soldiers made a muffled groan in pain from time to time. The sharp arrow tip penetrated the shield surface and touched the exposed arms or thighs of the soldiers of the Dionian soldiers. Occasionally, arrows passed through the gaps in the shield array, and because they were blocked by thick helmets and breastplate, they did not cause any major damage.

The soldiers of the Dionians gritted their teeth and persevered. Of course, they were almost shoulder to shoulder, with their backs close to each other, and even if they were injured, they could not dodge or retreat.

As the team leader, Alsinis not only had to peek at the movements of the enemies ahead from time to time, but also listened to the frequency of arrows hitting the long shield.

Suddenly, he said in a deep voice: "Brothers, hold on for a while, there shouldn't be many arrows from the Persians!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound outside the array began to become sparse and disappeared soon after.
Chapter completed!