Because he knew the shortcomings of the phalanx's lack of maneuverability. It would be okay if the enemy was infantry, but if the enemy was cavalry... only a fool would chase them with a super long gun.
Akevs just wanted to see what the so-called Silk Country could do to them.
His thinking was actually very clear. No matter how harassed the cavalry were, the Seleucid infantry would fight while advancing.
By the time the Seleucids advance to Lan's City, the end of these barbarians will come.
This idea is indeed correct.
Because Lan's city must be defended by the Qin army, and the Seleucid army was only two days away from Lan's army at this time.
Once the Seleucids arrived at Lan's, they would use primary phalanx as a unit to surround Lan's city from all sides and then build a walled city.
This blocked the connection between the Qin army inside the city and the Qin army outside the city, and also cut off the supply and water sources of the Qin army outside the city.
As a result, the Qin army outside the city had to withdraw from Central Asia due to lack of water, and it was only a matter of time before the Qin army inside the city surrendered.
Just when Akevs was about to give the order to advance in defensive formation, he found that the enemy had pushed out two black things.
Akevs had never seen that thing before, which gave Akevs an ominous feeling.
Then, there were two loud "boom boom" sounds, and the horses under Akefus were startled.
But this was the second priority. Then I saw two iron balls flying into the square with a roar. Immediately, several soldiers holding spears screamed and fell to the ground injured. Some had their legs broken.
Some had their heads blown off, while others had their stomachs and intestines pierced and rolled everywhere.
"What is that?" Akevus was shocked. He had never known that there was such a terrifying weapon in the world. It was at least 500 meters away from the phalanx.
At this distance, the Seleucid army had no weapons that could threaten the opponent.
"We don't know, General!" the subordinate replied in a trembling voice: "But it can obviously shoot iron balls!"
The soldiers soon became panicked.
Because it is scary for the enemy to have equipment that they have never seen before, but this equipment can also hit you from outside the range.
This meant that the Seleucid army could only wait to die.
"Hold on!" Akevus shouted: "They only have two of those things, they won't cause us much harm!"
Before he finished speaking, his subordinates shouted: "General, there are obviously more than two of them!"
Akevus turned around and saw two more doors pushing out from the enemy's direction.
This is the psychological warfare carried out by Shen Bing.
Strictly speaking, ten artillery pieces were incapable of defeating 30,000 Seleucid troops. Even if these Seleucid troops stood there and let the Qin army bombard them with artillery, they probably would not be able to finish them off.
Due to the consideration of marching speed, the Qin army only carried a thousand artillery shells, and most of them were solid artillery shells... It was originally considered to be used to attack Dawan City. Who would have thought that the artillery would be used to deal with the Seleucid infantry.
The reason why two cannons were pushed out was to prevent the enemy from knowing how many artillery pieces the Qin army had.
First two doors were pushed out to scare them, and when they thought that was all, two more doors were pushed out.
"Boom boom" this time four artillery shells flew towards the phalanx.
Since the Seleucid soldiers stood very densely, every cannonball fired could knock down several of them.
After waiting for a while, Shen Bing asked someone to push out two more artillery pieces.
From Shen Bing's side, it was very relaxed, but from Akefus' side, it looked extremely terrifying.
Because the increase of two guns...does it mean that the enemy still has many artillery pieces?
Should the Seleucid army do something to change this situation?
Otherwise, as time goes by, will they all die here?
Afkes also realized this. He hesitated for a while and then ordered:
"Straight ahead, attack!"
The spearmen said "Hey" in unison, then raised their spears and advanced in the direction of the artillery.
This approach is correct. In fact, this is precisely the weakness of artillery:
The distance of 500 meters would take about ten minutes at the slow advancing speed of the phalanx, and in ten minutes the artillery could only fire ten salvos at most, not counting the cooling time required for overheating of the barrel.
How many enemies can be killed or stopped with ten volleys?
The Principality of Burgundy wanted to annex Switzerland with its artillery troops, but in the end it was destroyed by Switzerland who used the super long gun phalanx.
This situation did not change until the Napoleonic era.
A man named Gribov made a series of improvements to the artillery, such as using more advanced manufacturing techniques to make the artillery, shortening the barrel, reducing the caliber, etc. to reduce the weight of the artillery, so there was Gribov.
System of field artillery.
Another key improvement is the use of prefabricated launch tubes.
The so-called prefabricated launch tube is to make a launch tube that is smaller and shorter than the gun barrel. These launch tubes are loaded with gunpowder and shells in advance.
When firing, just load the entire launch tube behind the barrel.
This allows the artillery to fire a large number of shells to kill enemy targets in a short period of time.
Then there was the "artillery cavalry" unit, which rode horses and dragged artillery around. They quickly fired a few shots and then moved. So artillery became Napoleon's weapon to conquer the world.
At this time, the artillery in Shen Bing's hand was not up to this level, so he could only fire two rounds and then move immediately.
But this did not affect the Qin army's ability to contain the Seleucid army.
Because the artillery was just dragged back a certain distance by a few horses and then stopped again, and then it was loaded and aimed again...
Akevus found in despair that under the enemy's tactics, the Seleucid infantry could only be beaten, because they could never catch up with the enemy, let alone hit the enemy.
After hesitating for a moment, Seleucid gritted his teeth and ordered:
"First, Second Cavalry, target front, attack!"
Each Seleucid primary phalanx had a cavalry corps, and each cavalry corps had a thousand men.
Akevus had to use cavalry to attack. At this time, only cavalry could catch up with that annoying and terrifying weapon.
Of course, Akevus had no hope that these two cavalry teams could destroy this terrifying weapon.
But as long as the cavalry can hold it back so that it cannot be moved, it only takes a few minutes... then it will be successful.
Because immediately, the spearmen will push the gun shield in front of the weapon, and then no one can stop them from destroying it.
In fact, the Seleucid army was still able to capture such weapons at that time.
So, the two cavalry teams lined up from the flanks, one on the left and one on the right, and then accelerated forward with their spears raised... The Seleucid cavalry did not withdraw their spears after stabbing the enemy, because if they were to withdraw, the recoil would be very strong.
The rider will be knocked off his horse.
These spears are usually left on the enemy for one attack, and then the sword is drawn for combat.
However, this time they had no chance to draw their swords.
Before they could step forward, two heavy cavalrymen diagonally inserted into their ranks...