The reason is that the vine armor equipped by the Shenwu Army is lighter and equipped with ropes and arrows, which can easily and quickly cross the broken wall and rush into the city... Although the city wall has collapsed, there are still broken walls everywhere, and there is still a certain way to climb over. Difficulties.
What's more, the Shenwu army from the Central Plains is better at attacking and defending cities, while the cavalry under Ge Yu and Jie Zhi are only good at riding and shooting.
In fact, these are secondary.
Shen Bing knew that the morale of the Seleucid soldiers was depleted at this time, and no matter who he sent to attack the city, it would be the same.
However, the Shenwu Army had never fought head-on with the enemy except for serving as Shen Bing's personal guard and firing artillery from a distance.
Ge Yu and Ya would not say anything. As commanders, they certainly knew how to make full use of their strengths.
But their subordinates are the Huns, so the cavalry in the Western Regions will inevitably have opinions:
"They are the ones fighting the battle. Is the Shenwu Army conserving its strength?"
At this time, it happened that the siege battle was what their cavalry was afraid of, and there were still 10,000 Seleucid soldiers in the city, especially most of these Seleucid soldiers were super spearmen... This was definitely a trouble for the Xiongnu and the Western Region cavalry. .
At this time, it would be perfect for the Shenwu Army to have a show battle.
The Shenwu Army shouted and rushed to the waste mound. They did not immediately rush down to the mound to fight hand-to-hand. Instead, they used the mound to fight the enemy with powerful crossbows.
This is the advantage of the Shenwu Army. The vine armor on their bodies does not have to worry about the enemy's arrows, so they can safely aim at the target and use crossbow arrows with high accuracy to shoot down the enemies one by one.
This enemy includes not only the super long spear phalanx under the mound, but also the breaks in the city walls on both sides of the mound.
Many Seleucid archers were gathering at the break. They formed a condescending crossfire on the left and right, and fired arrows at the Shenwu Army with their bows and arrows.
However, those arrows hitting the rattan armor were like tickling the soldiers of the Shenwu Army.
The crossbow arrows fired by the Shenwu Army made the Seleucid archers scream and fall from the height of the gap from time to time.
Then, while the crossbow arrows suppressed the enemy, the Shenwu Army fired rope arrows over the fracture, and then climbed up along the rope one after another.
The Seleucid super-pikemen below the mound never expected that after the enemy blew up the city wall, they climbed up the city wall from the breach instead of entering the city through the gap...
In fact, not only the Seleucid soldiers did not expect it, but also Ge Yu and the Huns they led, as well as the soldiers from the Western Regions. They all admired it and secretly thought that it was no wonder that the Qin Dynasty was able to unify the Central Plains and then conquered the Western Regions and the Western Regions. grassland.
This is obviously beneficial to the Qin army, because it is a kind of intimidation both internally and externally: externally it makes the enemy frightened and disorganized, internally it frightens the Xiongnu, and the soldiers of the Western Regions are convinced by the Qin army, so they will not fight again. I want to cause chaos.
The Seleucid super-pikemen guarding the gap became anxious, and under the command of the captain, the entire team attacked the mound.
However this is a wrong choice.
The reason is that the super pikemen phalanx has very high requirements on quality and training, and it also has requirements on the terrain.
This spear formation is only applicable in areas with flat terrain. Once the terrain is rugged, it cannot form a spear wall.
For example, now, the super-long spearmen attack from the bottom up along the mounds... The irregular mounds immediately disrupt the formation of the spear formation, leaving many loopholes.
There are even some locations, such as a short wall that needs to be crossed, which is still impossible to do while wearing heavy armor and holding a super long gun.
Even if they can do it, when climbing the mound, the super-long spearmen have to hold the super-long spear weighing more than ten kilograms diagonally so that the tip of the spear is upward, while holding up a shield to block the crossbow arrows fired by the enemy, and they must also pay attention to the footing of their feet.
, so it is impossible to fight without thinking about the future.
The Shenwu Army soldiers on the mound were shooting crossbow arrows while easily dodging the slow and weak spear heads in front of them...
To be precise, he didn't dodge, but directly grabbed the head of the gun and pushed it down, pushing the enemy off the ground.
There were even many soldiers of the Shenwu Army who snatched spears from the enemy and stabbed them down one by one, stabbing the Seleucid soldiers down one by one.
What was even more powerful was that the Shenwu Army threw a row of "Thunderbolt Fireballs", which immediately blew up the Seleucid soldiers and sent them fleeing.
In fact, these soldiers were more likely to be scared away. It was actually difficult for the "thunderbolt fireball" to hurt them who were wearing heavy armor and holding shields. After all, the gunpowder at this time was not powerful enough, and the fragments were only "iron caltrops".
The soldiers of the Shenwu Army put away their crossbows, drew out their bronze swords, and pursued him.
Another feature of the super long gun phalanx is that it cannot be missing, because once a hole is missing, the enemy will get through this loophole. As long as you advance a short distance from this loophole and cross the control range of the super long gun, the super long gun will be powerless against it.
Already.
Therefore, the soldiers who form the super long spear phalanx also need to have a strong psychological quality. They must not run away at any time. If someone is injured or dies, someone from behind will immediately take over.
At this time, the Seleucid soldiers had already fled in groups, so the subsequent gun formations immediately became chaotic. As a result, they were killed by the Shenwu Army and were defeated and fled.
Ge Yu led 10,000 Xiongnu soldiers and followed the Shenwu Army into the city, and soon took control of the entire city of Homusang.
In fact, it was quite difficult for Huo Musang to persist until this point.
The reason is that the vast majority of the people and soldiers in Homusan are Central Asians and West Asians who speak Serbian, not Greeks.
As mentioned before, Alexander destroyed Persia, and after his death, the three parties of Seleucid, Ptolemaic and Macedonian forces were divided.
Except for Macedonia, Ptolemy controlled Egypt and Seleucid controlled Central and Western Asia.
The ruling methods of these two countries were to use Greeks and Macedonians as generals, and to recruit soldiers from local people such as Egypt and Central and Western Asia to form Hellenistic armies.
Therefore, what Shen Bing saw was that the phalanx of super long spearmen he faced was not an authentic Macedonian phalanx... They were troops trained by Central and Western Asians equipped with Macedonian armor and super long spears.
This is somewhat similar to the troops Shen Bing recruited in the Western Regions and grasslands.
Their fighting power is very strong. It is no wonder that they defeated Anthia for a time and surrendered. There is no problem with their loyalty to Antiochus III. What is especially rare is that they actually resisted for a while when they knew that Antiochus III and the nobles had abandoned them.
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If it had been anyone else, I'm afraid he would have surrendered or even turned against him long ago.
Shen Bing entered the city through the open city gate. On both sides of the city gate, there were people kneeling in fear and faintly crying.
They were unsure how Shen Bing, the new ruler, would treat them.
Massacre the city?
coolie?
Or run out of the city?
They never thought that Shen Bing didn't care about this at all, and he led his troops straight to the military camp warehouse.