Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"A single notochord would satisfy all his needs."

——Einstein

Magnesia is full of ancient city-states.

Legendary heroes and many famous names come from here, which can be traced back to the mythical era before Homer.For example, they passed Popus when they crossed Mount Pelion.

But now these Magnesian cities were little more than small states even by Greek standards.

Is this where our ancestors lived?Philip thought.

It is a narrow strip of land sandwiched between the coast and mountains, with the southern part relatively sparsely populated.Apart from the aforementioned Popis, only Castnaia on the seaside is a decent city.

The Eastern Route Army came out of the mountainous area and headed straight here.There is no need to fight or negotiate, because the Macedonian fleet was already stationed here when it came.

Along the way, I didn't encounter the same situation as Philai, and the local leader of Castnaia also opened his door to welcome him.

But looking at the overly attentive smiles on their faces, Philip knew that they were just out of fear, afraid of suffering the same fate as Lamia.

But it doesn't matter, this is just a remote and barren place, not even worth collecting food.The true center of Magnesia was in the north, at Melipoa, south of the Tempe Valley.

Having received supplies from the navy at Castenaea, they will head there.

Things had been going well up to this point.

As they prepared to set out the next morning, the unit commander reported that several soldiers were missing.

Philip ordered the advance army to set off and head to Melboa as scheduled, where he waited for the follow-up of the matter.

A small town with a population of 1, but not many residents, is missing?Disappeared to where?

After a flurry of excitement, the missing persons were quickly found, or most of them - only headless corpses with their armor stripped off.

There was also a ragged Thessalian who claimed to be a member of the Thessalian Volunteers.

The leader of Castnaia's face was almost covered with sweat, and he explained incoherently: "This is... this is a Paniste! He is not a Magnesian... he is a slave of the Thessalians!"

"Bah! You slave of the Macedonians!" The captured volunteer team member still looked like a man-eating beast.

Philip couldn't help but be a little curious, you are a slave yourself, why are you so fearless?

As a result, the latest issue of "Bright Eyes Times" was found from this Panister, which announced a reward for "Macedonian combatants with armored heads". It used large text with pictures, which almost children could read. Understand.

“The transformation of Panister’s children into freemen is valid for the whole team and the inheritance is valid;

“The transfer of the whole Panistai family to freemen is valid for the whole team and the inheritance is valid;

"Granting citizenship to the city-state of Lamia is valid for the entire team and for inheritance;

“The land share granted to Lamia is valid for the entire team and is valid for inheritance;

"The value of other armor, weapons and horses is calculated separately..."

The more Philip listened, the uglier his face became, until the trembling reading of the leader of Castenaia was interrupted by the military report sent by the attendant.

I saw a wax tablet saying:

The forward army encountered large-scale sporadic harassment, suffered casualties, and the forward soldiers burned two villages in anger.

And on another wax tablet it was written:

All the messengers who communicated with the West Route Army are missing. The latest communication was last night's report of safety.

Philip felt he was in trouble.

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The West Route Army is now in greater trouble.

At first, the Macedonian companion cavalry could suppress the opponent's ranger harassment with their skilled combat skills.

But starting from the afternoon, as the rear army march gradually approached the riverside camp and the light gradually dimmed, the intensity of the sentry conflict gradually increased, and the casualties also skyrocketed.The so-called volunteers have basically withdrawn from the confrontation, while the opponent's "elite cavalry" continues to increase.

In order to avoid excessive losses, the Macedonians had to continuously shrink the warning circle to ensure the density of troops.

When we finally arrived at the riverside camp, the sun was already setting.Thousands of the opponent's cavalry were brazenly wandering back and forth almost a few miles away, and the outpost battle was about to develop into a cavalry battle.

In contrast, the former army that had already crossed the river camped on the bank on the other side of the river, and it went smoothly without any harassment.

Cassander sat in the camp, his brows knitted together.With people surrounded like this, the communication with the Eastern Route Army and Navy was naturally completely interrupted.

Although he knew that Pyrrhus's main force was here, Cassander still felt uneasy.

An officer suggested sending infantry to assist in driving away the enemy cavalry. Otherwise, safety at night would not be guaranteed and the enemy would likely be attacked at night again.

Cassander's eyes lit up after hearing this: "Okay! Send an infantry brigade to drive away the enemy cavalry in the east, and send a messenger to the eastern route army!"

The generals looked at each other in blank dismay.

I've lost my mind! This is it!Didn't I realize before that you, Cassander, care about your son?

In the end, a veteran persuaded me. Even if we break through the enemy cavalry outside, we still have to go through many ambushes of volunteers all the way to Mount Pelion. It is not the right time to establish contact now...

Cassander had no choice but to give up.

However, before sending out infantry to assist, the opponent's rangers automatically retreated some distance away.

In order to avoid unexpected losses, under the advice of the officers, all the sentries outside were taken back and the focus of defense was on the camp.

This time they learned their lesson, not only rearranging the camps to keep them apart, which not only left enough width for the counterattack troops, but also prevented the opponent's arson tactics from burning the company camp; in addition, they arranged them inside the camp wall. Discontinuous sections of the camp wall were constructed as a defensive basis when the outer wall was breached...

The Macedonians nervously continued to improve the camp. At this time, the enemy cavalry did not continue to advance until the night completely submerged them.

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"Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!"

"Beep-woo--"

The Thessalians had acquired a bunch of unpleasant musical instruments from nowhere, and as soon as it got dark they would make various noises in all directions outside.

At first, the Macedonians thought it was a signal to attack and quickly mobilized professional soldiers to take position.

In the end, only one or two cold arrows shot in made it known that it was a false alarm.

After going back and forth several times, the officers all realized that this was the enemy's tactic to tire out their troops.So part of the guard was lifted, allowing the soldiers to take turns to rest.

As a result, the Thessalians repeated this until late at night, and the Macedonian officers slapped their heads - that's not right!This is the enemy's tactic to make us relax our vigilance!

Some soldiers were quickly mobilized to defend the wall.

as expected!As the noise suddenly continued in intensity, fire began to rain out of the darkness!

The Thessalians prepared a fire source that could completely block the light, allowing them to shoot a large number of rockets and tinder in the darkness at once. Even though the camp wall was condescending, the soldiers had no time to fight back, and the enemy was hidden in the darkness again. , can only passively run back and forth to put out the fire.

After several such surprise attacks, the Macedonian light infantry were exhausted from mobilizing. Finally, one, two... several sections of the camp wall were set alight!

The arson attacks outside suddenly became intensive, and there were flaming meteors flying from all directions!

The general who was on duty at night made a prompt decision and ordered the soldiers to give up fighting the fire and retreat to the second line to prepare to engage the enemy. The soldiers in the second echelon of preparations were also woken up - in fact, they could not sleep - and were fully armed and ready to join the counterattack.

Just when the Macedonians opened their eyes wide and prepared to meet the enemy attacking in the darkness, there was no movement at all. Only the wooden fence of the camp wall was burned until it turned into a pile of coke. …

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At the same time, on the Onchistas River not far from the Kassan German army's riverside camp, in the moonlit river, countless black rafts floated down from the upper reaches; at the same time, there were countless black figures on the river. Following the rope, we formed several columns and headed downstream.

The footsteps, the noise of the river, although the movement was not small, it was really insignificant compared to the noisy military camp in the distance...