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The only thing Shen Bing can trust in the city is the slave.

But most of the Homusang people are not happy to see this, especially the richer people... The slaves in their hands have become free people, which has harmed their interests.

Shen Bing knew this, but he still preferred to trust the slave.

Because he knows that slaves are his "loyalty", and what war wants is "loyalty".

Facts have also proved that Shen Bing's approach is correct.

Because Huo Musang has formed an army armed with more than two thousand gladiators to defend the city.

There is also a "slave army" of more than [-] people...to be precise, an army formed by slaves.

Moreover, the morale of these two armies is high and their fighting strength is good. The commander of these two armies is a gladiator named Jalari, and he even asked Shen Bing to fight:

"Let my army go and fight the Seleucids, General!"

"Our sword longs for the blood of our enemies, for revenge for our relatives and friends, and for washing away our humiliation!"

Shen Bing replied:

"You will have a chance, but not now!"

"What you have to do now is to ensure the internal stability of Huo Musang."

"You are more familiar with Huo Musang, and you even know who is more likely to rebel."

"Only in this way can we fight the enemy with confidence!"

Jalari nodded and replied:

"Leave everything to me, honorable general!"

"I will never let Huo Musang rebel."

Jalari did a great job.

To be exact, it is a bit "too good"... Once the slaves turn over, they will double their hatred and return it to their masters.

This led to many "rebellions" in Huo Musang, and many slave owners were suspected of "rebellion" and decapitated.

Shen Bing acquiesced to this.

On the one hand, Shen Bing believed that these people were indeed guilty... Under slavery, which slave owner had few slaves die under their hands?

On the other hand, extraordinary means are used in extraordinary times. Only in this way can Huo Musang's internal stability be guaranteed.

Chapter 524 General Demeanor

During this period of time, I stopped updating because I found that there was a problem in the book and it was irreparable, so I thought about the new book.

Many readers asked if it was because of poor grades again. The grades of this book are indeed not good, with more than 200 subscriptions.But it has been like this for a long time, the first order is more than 900, but it should be a large part of it is the friendly support of old readers, so it didn't take long for it to drop to more than 500, and then fell all the way to more than 200.

The soldiers here are very grateful to the old readers who have always supported me, and the friendship order can reach more than 900 soldiers, and I am very satisfied.

But that’s all for the transformation, the soldiers also looked away, and wrote down with the mentality of not reading subscriptions.

I have almost finished writing this, but when I looked back, I found that there are many plots that seem to be writing an outline, so I just write what I do, basically there is no character creation and description... If you are not satisfied with this book , Of course, the reader's reading experience will not be good. This is the mistake made by the soldiers, and it is also a place for reflection.

Soldiers also want to go back and change slowly, but there are too many situations of "letting themselves go" and it is basically impossible to change.

The soldiers can only say, finish this book, and try to write the next one as well, I hope everyone understands.

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Shen Bing believes that with such a disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, it is obviously not wise to fight recklessly with the Anti-Qin Alliance, even if the Shenwu Army has matchlock guns, and there is Huomusangjian City, and there is still a lot of food and equipment in the city for support.

However, the combination of the Roman legion and the Macedonian legion is one defense and one attack to complement each other's strengths. This kind of phalanx, which is formed in a strict order to coordinate against the enemy, can easily cause asymmetrical casualties between the enemy and us if we fight recklessly.

The Qin army is also the side with fewer troops. As long as there is an asymmetric casualty, the Qin army will lose the initiative in the war.

Therefore, Shen Bing believes that the most feasible tactic is to attack the enemy's command system, that is, to capture the thief first and capture the king.

If the enemy is just an army, the effect of the strategy of capturing the thief first may not be ideal, especially the Roman legion.

Because the Roman Legion adopted the "eleven smash" law and the method of replacing the commander, that is, the adjutant.Every army has designated such a substitute officer, and once the commanding officer is wounded or killed in action, someone will quickly replace him in command.

On this point, it is not that there are no other troops. In fact, it is very easy to appoint a commander before the battle. Qin Jun is no exception.

The problem is that these 500 masters and 1000 generals, etc., do not usually participate in higher-level command. The [-] masters only command [-] people, and commanding [-] people is beyond their ability, so they panic, and there may be dissatisfaction among their subordinates. Problems, these are deadly on the battlefield.

The excellence of the Roman army is that its adjutants usually participate in and assist in the command as assistants to the chief officer, and instead of commanding the chief officer, they can often achieve seamless links.

Of course, if the chief officer dies in battle, there may still be a drop in morale, which is unavoidable.

The point is that Shen Bing is facing the coalition forces at this time, a coalition force led by Seleucid and supplemented by Macedonia, Rome, and Ptolemy.

These countries are full of contradictions in normal times. For example, Antiochus III always fought east and west in order to realize his dreams. Not long ago, he was still fighting against Ptolemy and Greece.

They just formed a temporary alliance to defend against foreign enemies because of the powerful foreign enemy Qin Jun and the new equipment in Shen Bing's hands.

Shen Bing was not surprised by this, because in history, when Mongolia conquered Europe, Europe, which usually fights internally, also united to defend against foreign enemies in Poland and Hungary.

This is why Poland is called the "Spear of God" and Hungary the "Shield of Christ".

Not for anything else, because the forces of all parties in Europe are too scattered, and the strength of a single country is too small to be worth mentioning. Only by uniting can it be possible to face the mighty Mongolia.

If Shen Bing can defeat Seleucid's command system, it will seriously damage the morale and confidence of the coalition forces. At this time, the internal contradictions of the coalition forces will break out again and collapse without fighting.

Then Shen Bing got the position of the Seleucid Army... on a hill fifteen miles northeast of Huomusang.

The information was sent by carrier pigeons, and it even showed the deployment of the Seleucid Army's troops: [-] troops were deployed five miles to the north, another ten thousand troops were deployed five miles to the east, and only five miles were placed on the hills. Thousands of guards defend.

Shen Bing understood why Akaifus made such an arrangement.

The northerly troops are ready to reinforce the Roman Legion at any time, while the easterly troops are prepared to reinforce the Macedonian Legion, which shows that he cares about both Macedonia and Rome equally.

As for the defense of the hill where he is stationed, only 5000 people are needed...Akeves believes that the Qin army has been tightly surrounded in the city, and at the same time, the 5000 people are still laying down a condescending defense, and there are [-] troops on the two wings at any time. Reinforcement, where can there be any mistakes.

This is actually the tactic of "offense is greater than defense" mentioned earlier.

Attacking is greater than defending does not mean that the side defending the city is "defending" and the side attacking the city is "attacking".

Whether to "attack" or "defend" depends on the strategic direction.

For example, although the Seleucid coalition forces were attacking the city in this battle, their strategy was to encircle rather than attack in order to trap the Qin army. This is actually "defense".

However, the Qin army wanted to take the initiative to attack and break through the Seleucid coalition forces and even defeat them, so it was actually an "attack".

On the "defensive" side, that is, the Seleucid coalition forces, there will inevitably be such a situation where there are loopholes due to the problem of military strength... There is no other reason, and it must be defended everywhere, so although there are many troops, they are evenly distributed. The Qin army on the offensive concentrated its forces to break through.

Shen Bing didn't think much, and immediately got the Shenwu Army ready for battle.

The attack time is chosen at noon, that is, around eleven o'clock in the noon.

This time is chosen for a reason.

First of all, the Shenwu Army is a cavalry army. They need good sight during the day, especially when they are musketeers at the same time. If they choose to go at night, it is not conducive to the long range of muskets, but it is conducive to the enemy's close combat.

Secondly, this battle is similar to modern special operations. It doesn't take too long and can't be planned for too long... After a long time, the enemy's two wings are within five miles of reinforcements. Come up, Ren Shenwu's army has three heads and six arms, but it can't resist it.

One of the most important reasons is that Shen Bing knew that the living habits of the Seleucid coalition army were somewhat different from those of the Qin army:

The Seleucid Allied Forces had three meals a day, one for breakfast, one for lunch, and one for dinner. Chinese food was usually around noon, which was around 11:30.

However, Qin Jun only had breakfast and dinner and no Chinese food.

The attack time is chosen at noon, which is when the enemy eats lunch.

So did the Seleucid Army eat Chinese food or not?

If you eat it, it means that you are not prepared enough to deal with the enemy. If you don't eat it, it is because the eating habits are bound to be in poor condition, but Qin Jun has no troubles in this regard at all.

The leader was of course Wang Ben. At this time, he had learned to use the matchlock gun and was very interested in it. He was even a little uneasy when using the matchlock gun.

When asked why, Wang Ben replied:

"General, although Wang Ben is not yet a weak champion, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child for nearly ten years."

"Although you can't count one as ten in battle on weekdays, you can't find an opponent in ordinary times."

"However, once this thing comes out..."

So Shen Bing understood that Wang Ben was lamenting that after so many years of learning skills, he still couldn't face the arquebus.

This will indeed make people psychologically unbalanced. Ordinary people will be able to operate a matchlock gun after practicing for a few days or even a few hours flexibly, and then they will be able to face off against an opponent who has practiced martial arts for ten years. It is not certain who will win...

Shen Bing laughed "haha":

"Well, you Wang Ben, the battle of life and death is just around the corner, but you are still thinking about whether you can defeat the matchlock gun!"

But having said that, this is what people often call "general demeanor".

Chapter 525 A Coward's Excuse

Shen Bing ordered the four gates of Huomusang to be opened at the same time, and each army went out of the city to form a formation.

In fact, the main direction of the Qin army's attack is the east, and other directions are just bluffing.

Otherwise, if the Qin army only attacked on one side, the Seleucid allied forces could easily send reinforcements to the east from other directions, and there might be a situation where the enemy's defense lines overlapped and were pierced no matter how they fought.

At this time, the Qin army attacked from all sides at the same time, and the Seleucid coalition forces did not know the truth, so it was inevitable that the troops would be dispersed, so that the Qin army could maximize its benefits.

The main direction of attack is the east, which has also been fully considered.

The Seleucid Command, also known as Acaevus, is located in the northeast, and it can quickly reach its destination by breaking through from the east and north.

But the arquebus soldiers in the north had fought before, and the Roman legion had already made preparations.

What's more, for muskets, the Macedonian Army, which is heavily attacking in the east, is obviously easier to break through,

The reason is that the arquebus is undoubtedly the king of attackers in this era, and even the strongest shield and armor cannot stop its attacks.

Because the Roman Legion had a huge shield and was wearing armor, although these two layers of protection at about [-] meters could not block the matchlock guns, they could reduce the power of the matchlock guns to a large extent. The soldiers are already very dangerous... If the Roman legionaries throw down their huge shields and sprint with all their strength, it may take only half a minute for a distance of [-] meters, and the musketeers can only fire one or two bullets in half a minute, which is obviously extremely dangerous.

The Macedonian Legion was another matter.

They held small shields in their hands, and their main weapon was a super long spear.

Small shields are difficult to protect Macedonian soldiers, and musketeers can stop them at least 150 meters away.

At the same time, super-long spears are almost useless for Musketeers... because if the enemy wants to charge with super-long spears, it is impossible to charge fast, just like if the Roman legion charges with a giant shield.

However, the Roman legion could throw away the huge shield and charge quickly, but the Macedonian legion could not throw away the super-long spear and charge... In order to reduce weight, the super-long gunners usually only have super-long spears as offensive weapons, even if they rush into the musket formation, they cannot fight with bare hands.

More importantly, the Macedonian soldiers had no experience with the Musketeers, so they didn't know what tactics to use.

From Shen Bing's point of view, the way to fight against musketeers, especially with only [-] musketeers, is actually very simple... directly use cavalry to charge into battle.

You must know that the speed of the cavalry is the nemesis of the Musketeers. The Musketeers often only have time to fire a bullet within the range, and the enemy cavalry is already in front of them, and then it is close hand-to-hand combat.

This is why the musketeers in the early days had to be equipped with a certain proportion of pikemen... In case of cavalry rushing into the formation, the pikemen could set up a spear formation in front of the formation for cover.

Although Shen Bing developed the matchlock gun, he did not come out with the general thorn due to time constraints... It is actually not easy to develop the matching military thorn, because it means adding a bayonet holder to the rifle.

The earliest military thorns were actually installed directly in the muzzle, but in this way the rifle could not shoot.

Of course, Shen Bing would not be so stupid as to tell the enemy the weakness of the Musketeers, and the cavalry was not the leader of the Seleucid Allied Forces.

As soon as the Qin army moved, the Seleucid allied forces became tense. They sent troops to fight in square formations, one row after another, and as Acaeves said before, they moved all the catapults up, densely packed. Line up in a row in the second echelon, and there are trebuchets moving forward one after another behind.

Obviously, they want to use long-range equipment such as trebuchets to suppress the firepower of the Musketeers and then take the opportunity to attack.

However, the Qin army did not attack.

To be exact, the Qin army from other directions did not attack, they just stood at the foot of the city wall and waited quietly.

The Qin army did not dare to move the Seleucid allied forces.

Because there are enemy trebuchets, archers, and terrifying artillery at the top of the city... Only when the brain is flooded will they attack such a city wall.

The Qin army in the east has already started fighting.

With Wang Ben's order, dozens of trebuchets fired stone bombs at the enemy.

Originally, Thunderbolt fireballs were needed, but since the arrival of matchlock guns and the fact that it is difficult to transport Huo Musang here, gunpowder was once very tight.

What's more, there is no need to use Thunderbolt Fireball for tasks that can be completed by stone bombs at this time.

Although the torsion trebuchets used by the Seleucid coalition forces have the advantages of simple structure, convenient manufacture, light weight and suitable for maneuvering, their fatal disadvantages are short range and low accuracy... the tendon torsion, its size cannot be adjusted , How much is produced depends entirely on luck. Unlike the counterweight trebuchet used by the Qin Army, the accuracy can be improved by adjusting the counterweight, and it can even be adjusted through pre-war test firing.