Chapter 686
Moreover, with the blood of the previous pharaoh as the queen, wouldn't it be easier to become a pharaoh?
It was rumored that the female pharaoh favored a handsome boy from a foreign country, but it didn't matter, Melibra didn't care about it. After all, such a beauty with such status, she must be the only one worthy of him in Egypt.
Melibura, who was dreaming, finally came to his senses soon, and led his army into the battlefield.
He couldn't wait to defeat his opponent, and wanted to hold that Pharaoh in his hands.
However, on the battlefield, after seeing his opponent, Melibura was instantly dumbfounded.
It's not that Nitocris' heroic spirit and magnificence on the battlefield are not enough to attract him, and it's not that Nitocris and the "little boy" around her in a chariot can't make him feel angry, but because Nitocris Chris's army is too powerful, stronger than Melibra's imagination.
In fact, in terms of military strength, both sides of the battlefield are quite equal. Although Nitocris led an army of nearly 50,000 when he set off, in fact, most of them were garrison troops. The words of combat did not meet Nitocris' request—of course, it was just Nitocris' request.
These garrisons were naturally used to garrison troops after conquering a place.
But now, there are only 10,000 to 20,000 troops facing Melibullah on the battlefield, which is about the same as his subordinates.
But these 20,000 people, just relying on their equipment and momentum, dealt a huge blow to the self-esteemed Mai Libullah.
Chapter 0848
Even Mai Libula had to admit that the army in front of him was the army he dreamed of.
At the front of the team, there are terrifying chariot soldiers. Different from the chariots of Meribra, the horses in front of the Pharaoh's chariots are all covered with vests, and the chariots are also taller and stronger. More importantly, there are now There are hundreds of chariots in front of him, several times his number.
Behind the chariot is a group of monsters covered in metal armor.
It is said to be a monster, but in fact it is a unit of arms that has never appeared in Egypt-heavy infantry.
These heavy infantrymen are covered with gold-plated metal armor, covering them tightly. Ordinary weapons and arrows can't hurt them at all, but they are all tall and big, holding heavy axes. An irresistible warrior, Melibra could already guess what would happen if these infantry broke into his formation.
On the wings and rear of the heavy infantry, there were ordinary soldiers.
The soldiers wore luxurious full-body leather armor and held elite weapons that looked extremely sharp. They were lined up in front of the formation in a strict formation. The entire team was silent, and no one made any extra movements. They just stood there with a chilling aura. born.
On their two wings are the cavalry. Compared with the infantry, the formation of the cavalry is more scattered, but there are hundreds of people in number. Compared with the infantry, the cavalry itself is larger, so it looks very terrifying from a distance.
At the end of the team, there are tall wooden machines. Melibra doesn't know what these machines are, but it is definitely not a good thing to be able to appear on the battlefield.
Looking at the luxuriously equipped, well-trained, and forbidden army in front of him, and seeing that he was inferior to the opposite army in terms of quantity, training level, and equipment, Mai Libullah sighed.
Except for the generals, no one under his command could wear metal armor.
Who knows how that pharaoh found so many armors.
From this point of view, this battle is difficult.
Mai Libula looked at the opposite side again. At this moment, the gleaming golden figure in the enemy army was so terrifying in his eyes.
"I've been cheated..." Melibula said softly to himself.
"What are you talking about?" the general beside him asked.
"All of us have been deceived," Melibra shook his head, and said directly, "Everyone underestimated that female pharaoh, who quietly built such an army, this woman, too Terrible."
The generals around him also looked ashen. To be honest, facing such an army, they also felt hopeless.
McLibra even had the idea of simply withdrawing troops.
But the idea was dropped immediately.
Yesterday he vowed to mobilize the army, and at night he announced tomorrow's decisive battle in front of the envoy who persuaded him to surrender, and then ran away after meeting the opponent today. After doing this kind of thing, he himself did not lose face, the morale of the army plummeted, and there was no resistance at all. Will is the big deal.
Instead of running away now, and then being captured by the opponent, why not bite the bullet and fight the opponent, maybe the opponent's command error was defeated? The battlefield is changing rapidly, and anything can happen.
Thinking of this, he ordered the whole army to get ready, and then took the initiative to attack.
The enemy's formation is so terrible that even ordinary soldiers can see the gap between the enemy and ourselves. In this case, they must take the initiative to restore their momentum. Otherwise, if the enemy is allowed to charge, the army may even collapse under the pressure.
With an order from Melibula, the Heracleopolis army started slowly, and the soldiers marched forward step by step in neat steps.
Generally speaking, the order of formal warfare in this period is that the two sides approach each other, the archers of both sides shoot at each other, the chariots charge head-on, the cavalry flanks harass, and the infantry then kills.
Of course, there are occasional foreplays for the warriors to provoke and then single out as a foreplay, but Mai
Libra would not be stupid enough to do this, everyone knows that no one can compare to the royal family of descendants of gods in terms of loudness.
As Heracleopolis' army began to advance, Nitocris gave the order to march.
In this way, the phalanxes of both sides gradually approached at a "rumbling" pace.
Three hundred steps.
Two hundred and fifty steps.
Two hundred steps.
One hundred and fifty steps.
When the distance between the two sides was about 150 steps, Nitocris ordered the army to stop.
How is this going?
Generally speaking, the Egyptian army will stop and shoot at a distance of twenty or thirty steps, and the chariots will attack, because the bows used by Egyptian archers are too primitive and the range is really limited.
So why did the Pharaoh army stop so far away?
Mai Libula was a little puzzled, but he didn't stop his soldiers. After all, it was too late to change tactics casually in this situation.
Then, he saw that the large wooden machinery in the enemy's formation moved.
I saw the slaves near the machine put a huge sphere into the machine, and then began to pull the rope at the other end...
Just listening to the sound of "Huh--", the huge sphere was instantly projected by the machine and flew towards them.
"How is it possible? That's actually a trebuchet!?" Melibra turned pale with shock, "Isn't the trebuchet used to attack the city? How could it move?"
Meribra didn't understand the principle at all. In his mind, the trebuchet didn't look like that at all. The real trebuchet should be a tall and complicated machine, and it had to spend several hours on the scene before attacking the city. It has to be built to be used, and it has no mobility at all.
In fact, the catapults used by the Pharaoh army were a new type of small mobile catapult designed by Ye Ting, or they could also be called catapults. Although they did not have the range and power of a real catapult, they could be pulled up and walked away. It is quite convenient to use in battle.
I saw a flying stone-like sphere was launched by the trebuchet, and then slammed into the tail of the Heracleopolis army. The ground was immediately smashed into a big hole, and the two unlucky guys were smashed into meat sauce.
"It's okay, it's okay, it hit the end."
Although Melibra wondered why only one of the catapults was activated, he was also secretly glad that it did not hit the formation. What he worried most about was not how many people were killed, but that the catapult would disrupt the formation of the phalanx.
In the war of cold weapons, no matter how fancy the so-called formation is, there is only one core point, that is, more local people beat fewer people.
Therefore, tight formation is very important.
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