Chapter 252 Izam's Advice

"...In July, the King of Persia ordered us to pull out our camp and march westward. Due to the large number of troops and the slow marching speed, it took us two months to reach Taposakus. At this time, Your Majesty, you have already led the army to conquer Syria, so the Persians ordered us to camp near Tabosachus.

In order to make it easier for me to leave quietly and to communicate in the future, the Xoxokant tribe army chose the northern outskirts of Taposakus as a station, not far from Mount Amanus, so one evening half a month ago, I secretly left the camp , drilled north into the mountains, and was not found along the way, and then went around in a big circle before returning here..."

"Izam, this time, you risked your life to go deep into the hinterland of Persia, successfully contacted the Kesokant tribe, and persuaded them to support Dionia and make great contributions to the kingdom. On behalf of the whole army, I would like to express to you. grateful!"

Davos saluted him with a solemn expression, which made Izam stand up quickly, waved his hands again and again, and did not dare to accept the salute: "Your Majesty, as a citizen of Dionia and a senator, this is my obligation. And although I have already retired, as a member of the former mountain reconnaissance team, this is my duty! I can't be thankful to you and the soldiers of the whole army!"

These words were very decent, and Marigi blinked: You must know that when Izam first started to follow Davos, he was a barbarian who did not understand the etiquette of honor and inferiority. After decades of edification in Dionia, Especially in the past few years after retiring, his life has completely changed his mind.

"Okay, since you still regard yourself as a Dionian soldier, then according to the army's reward and punishment system, I will give you a major credit first, and then reward you after the war is over." Davos was satisfied with Iza Mu's performance showed a smile on his face, and then asked: "You have been there for so long, do you know how many people there are in the Persian army? What is their army composition? What is the combat effectiveness?"

As the former captain of the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade, reconnaissance of the enemy is what Izam is best at, so he thought for a moment and immediately replied: "Your Majesty, according to my observations during this period, the Persians are in Tabosacus. There are about 350,000 troops stationed, of which the Persian army has about 200,000 people, and the rest... like the Duqya army has 30,000 people, Taoqia has about 10,000 people, and Amelia has about 30,000 people , Arabs have about 10,000 people, Scythians have 5,000 people, Cardans have 10,000 people, India has more than 10,000 people... Oh, they also have more than 20,000 Greek mercenaries.

Among so many armies, the Persian army of about 50,000 to 60,000 guarding the King of Persia should be the most effective. Except for the undead army stationed in Babylon, the others are from Susa and Persepolis in the east. area--"

"Artaxerxes personally led the army to the expedition?!" Davos interrupted him and asked in surprise.

Izam quickly responded: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty! I forgot to say just now that the Persian king was Taposachus, who led the undead army to arrive at the end of last month.

After arriving, he stayed in the city and did not show up. "

"Well..." Davos nodded: "You continue to speak."

"In addition to the 50,000-60,000 Persian army, the Persian army has an advantage over us. It has a huge cavalry, including the cavalry in the affiliated areas, about 30,000. In addition, it has a number of up to 5 There are thousands of archers. But they don't have strong heavy infantry! This is the biggest weakness of the Persian army, but the Duqya tribe army, the Kardans, the Greek mercenaries...the infantry combat effectiveness of these troops is OK, it is likely to be Placed in the 1st line by the Persians in battle against our legionnaires.

In addition, there are some special arms in the Persian army that need our attention. One is the sickle chariot. It is said that the reason why Artaxerxes arrived at Taposacus so late was to prepare these more than 200 chariots. I have seen this thing from a distance. The long and sharp double-sided blade will keep spinning with the wheel when the chariot is driving, and it is very scary to use it to charge into the formation.

In addition, there are war elephants, brought by the Indians, there are more than 50 heads. Although I have seen elephants at Turui Zoo many times, this is the first time I have seen someone use it to fight. The Indians put a small wooden tower on the back of the elephant, and two people can sit on the tower, one is a mahout and the other is an archer. Elephants are huge, and using it to rush into formation should pose a certain threat to our infantry formations.

There is also an Arab camel soldier. The camel is tall but slow. At first, the Arab camp was very close to the Armenian, but the Armenian horse was restless because of these camels. The Persians Let the Arabs stay away from the large army and build a camp by themselves, but they don't have many camels, maybe more than 500..."

Izam paused, seeing that Davos was silent, and said in a hurried tone: "Your Majesty, although the Persian army is huge in number, its source is too complicated. Apart from the tens of thousands of main troops, I found other Most of the troops were lax in discipline, lacked fighting spirit, and lacked effective organization. The various troops could not even understand the language, making it difficult to cooperate well.

I have experienced this deeply when I followed the army of the Duqya tribe from Opis to Tabosacus. Each army lost control in less than an hour after advancing according to the marching route prescribed by the Persians. Mixed with each other and scattered all over the plain... So every day just after the afternoon, the entire Persian army had to stop advancing, and then each army regrouped its own soldiers, which took at least two hours, including the Duqya tribe. The same goes for the military, which often clashes with other troops as a result...

Such an unmotivated, undisciplined, disunited Persian army could not stand up to ours, even though we were numerically inferior. But the Persians also realized this, and after the large force reached Tabosacus, they began to reorganize all the troops-"

"How did the Persians organize themselves?" Davos asked seriously.

"For some troops with a small number, such as the Kardans and Arabs, they merged them into the Persian army; for the troops with a larger number, such as Duqya, Amelia, they sent some Persian generals to In its army, on the one hand, it is responsible for conveying the orders of the King of Persia, and on the other hand, it supervises the execution of the orders of the troops. At the same time, these generals are also responsible for training these troops to cooperate with the Persian army... So these days, the Persian army has been near Tabosacus. I took the time to train on the plains of the city, and before I left, I felt that the state of the Persian army was better than when I first arrived in Takusakus.

Your Majesty, if the Persians continue to do this, even if we are able to win in the end, it will still cost a lot, so—" Izam said solemnly and loudly: "Your Majesty, we should take advantage of this When the Persian army is still relatively loose and not kneaded together, attack it as soon as possible! "

Davos pondered and did not express his position immediately.

Seeing this, Mariji immediately turned the subject away: "Izam, you have been in Mesopotamia so much, how do you feel about the attitude of the people there towards the entire Persian army?"

"Of course it won't be great!" Izam replied with a look of disdain: "The Persian army is not that our Dionian army has strict military laws. Their affiliated troops come from different regions and different races, not only The military discipline is sloppy, and some have hatreds with the Persians. For example, the army of the Dukeya tribe came to a rich place like Mesopotamia to loot, destroy, and even force women to kill and kill every day. The Persians do this. A large number of military law teams were also organized to deal with these violations of discipline, and even had several conflicts with the affiliated troops.

But even the Persian soldiers themselves were doing these disgusting things, so when the towns along the way heard the army coming, they closed the gates and refused to let the soldiers enter, even to the Persian army... I heard some Rumor has it that some Mesopotamian nobles stopped the Persian king's car several times on the road and sued the Persian army, but the Persian king did not seem to have given any punishment..."

Hearing this, Davos asked Marigi with interest: "The residents of the Mesopotamian plain seem a little dissatisfied with the Persian rule?"

"Your Majesty!" Marighi replied a little excitedly: "Although Persia has ruled the Mesopotamia plain for more than a hundred years and has been operating it as a core area, so far the Persian residents have been living in Mesopotamia. The sub-Plain is still not in the majority. The main ethnic groups on this plain are still Babylonians and Medes, but they have always been obedient to Persia, Persia also treats them almost equally, and outsiders also regard them as part of the real Persia.

But there is actually a difference between the two! Especially the Babylonians, because they have been ruled by many foreign races for hundreds of years, they have become accustomed to being indifferent to the wars between countries. acceptable. Therefore, when Cyrus the Younger led the army from Asia Minor into the Mesopotamian plain, almost approaching Babylon, and there was no obstruction along the way, this may be an important reason.

I don't know if Artaxerxes had any resentment about this, but the information from Mazayas shows that he was clearly against the Persians of Susa and Persepolis who gave him great support during those turbulent times The nobles trusted more, and later gave them more power and preferential treatment, and even gave them some land on the Mesopotamian plain, and these Persian nobles expanded their land recklessly in Mesopotamia , which once caused tension between the nobles and residents of Mesopotamia and the Persians. Although Artaxerxes later realized this problem and made mediation, the Mesopotamians affirmed their dissatisfaction with the Persians. will not be eliminated.

Your Majesty, as long as our army does nothing against the people of Mesopotamia after defeating the Persian army, and promises to give them some benefits, they will definitely regard us as the master of this land and open the city gates to welcome us. us! …”

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