Pivot of the Sky

298 Macedonian Matrix

Alexander is curious about all the unknowns, and also likes to talk about marching and fighting, but instead of just playing with guns and fooling around like other children, he seriously discusses various strategic issues, which is very **** to Medanzo's temper. Amon stayed in Aristotle's house and made a brief introduction. He didn't have much contact with other people. It was not easy to meet, but Medanzo often talked with Alexander about Tiannanhaibei.

From the information learned by Philip II, Medanzo was also a remarkable figure, and maybe even another god. The king also specifically ordered Alexander to respect Medanzo like a respected teacher. It was not difficult for Alexander to do this. In addition to his love of prestige, Medanzo had nothing to laugh about on a weekday. Alexander also deliberately made friends, and the two got along well.

Alexander was only eighteen years old this year, and Medanzo saw the shadow of the young David in him. David Solomon was a disciple of Medanzo. Medanzo liked the Duketown miner in his youth very much, but now the Lord of Salem disappoints him. David-Solomon's ambition was to establish a Salem kingdom. Out of his love for his disciples, Medanzo still hoped that David would get what he wanted.

David demolished the temple of Amon and changed the main temple of the city of Salem to the temple of Aroum. Although the gods did not care about it, they escorted Aesop and left the city of Salem. David-Solomon has seven achievements of the original power, but his biggest vow now is the establishment of Salem. The achievements of this life's original power may end here, because what he is pursuing is another achievement.

When Medanzo met Alexander, he thought of David Solomon when he was a teenager. He liked the child very much, probably because of some kind of unclear compensatory psychology. Perhaps he felt that he had not brought David into the Garden of Eden, nor had he been able to help him realize his desire to establish a nation. There is always something regrettable.

Alexander was influenced by his father from an early age. His life desires are similar to those of David Solomon, and he is even more ambitious. He is going to conquer the huge and unimaginable Poz Empire and avenge all the Hittons. Young madness is the most imaginative time. This seems to others to be foolish in dreams, but Alexander tells Medanzo seriously that he has this wish.

Medanzo neither mocked nor hit him, but patted him on the shoulder: "Good boy, ambitious! But the road is step by step. Now even the Heaton Peninsula has not been unified, there is no need to talk about how to conquer waves. Empire. Regardless of whether the wish can be realized in the end, the real difference between empty talk and practice is-what are you doing now when it comes to what the future holds? "

Alexander is not empty talk. He has been studying the military formation and the art of war and has his guards perform exercises. This is like a child's game, but he plays it very seriously. After knowing Medanzo, he pestered him to teach him about the local customs, population distribution, previous wars, and military command.

Aristotle has also been to Tianshu Continent and experienced wars. Naturally, he will also teach these courses to Alexander, but when the sage mentioned military issues, he mostly talked about national strategy. Medanzo, who was born as a captain of the charge in charge of the charge, often talks about the details of a series of strategic command and tactical arrangements from the formation of the large army, the cooperation of various arms, the scheduling of the logistics system to the charge of the charge, the rotation of the battle array, and the connection of short soldiers.

Aristotle taught students how to look at the world, and Medanzo became another teacher of Alexander. What Alexander learned from Medanzo might be how to conquer the world. Medanzo did not deliberately teach it this way, but the Alexandria Congress learned the knowledge it needed from its own perspective.

One day Medanzo tempted to ask Alexander: "You know my origin and story. If one day in the future, when you really conquer the Poz Empire, David Solomon will have the opportunity to establish a Salem, and you will support it. With permission? "

This sounded like a joke, but Alexander knew that people like Medanzo would not ask casually, so he answered positively: "The Salem people want to build their own country and must get rid of the rule of the Poz Empire. The goals are the same. If my desire to defeat Poz is fulfilled, it will help them. "

Medanzo nodded: "Very well, I hope you don't forget what you said today. I ask you again, David-Solomon demolished the temple of Amon, which disappoints me. If one day you are in the same Location, would you do that? "

Alexander replied seriously: "I swear to the gods, never! If I can reach Eju someday, I will personally sacrifice to the temple of Amon and rebuild the temple of Isis!"

The child was even icing on the cake. He claimed that he wanted to rebuild the temple of Isis, and knew very well how to choose Amon. Amon was a warrior from the Temple of Isis, and became the head of the legion on the recommendation of the Temple of Isis to protect the Virgin Mary. Among the ancient gods of the various gods in the Tianshu continent, Amen is most admired by the goddess Isis. The restoration of the Temple of Isis was not detrimental to the glory of the **** Amon, but instead entrusted a deep commemorative meaning.

I did not expect that this eighteen-year-old child had such a heart, and he was really smart!

When Alexander replied in this way, Medanzo's soul faintly heard a cough, but could not tell whether it was from Zeus in the sky or Amon on earth. Medanzo patted Alexander's shoulder again: "Go, don't sit here chatting all day long, take me to the military camp in Macedonia."

One morning a few days later, Amon and Aristotle were talking in the study, and Medanzo led Alexander in. Alexander said cheerfully, "Mr. Amon, Teacher Aristotle, I have something to show you!"

He ordered the guard to bring in a sand table model. The terrain of the sand table was an open field at the foot of the mountain, and there were arrays of soldier puppets standing on it. At first glance, it looked like a bare grove. Amon frowned and asked, "What formation is this?"

Alexander replied: "Infantry battle."

Amon: "These soldiers are standing very densely. Are they holding spears? They are 20 feet in proportion to their height! I haven't seen such a close battle, and they are so difficult to manipulate. Weapons, how did you come up with it? "

Alexander: "It was the idea that Teacher Medanzo helped me to think about, and it solved the biggest problem in King Macedonia!"

Medanzo smiled and waved his hand: "I just gave some inspiration. The child organized his own exercises and thought out the military formations. In fact, there are already military formations on the Heaton Peninsula, but no systematic exercises have been conducted."

Aristotle stood up and waved to Amon and Medanzo: "Don't talk, let your Highness speak for yourself." Then asked Alexander Avenue: "What's the military problem with the Kingdom of Macedonia? How did your military formation overcome those problems? "

Alexander stood in front of the sand table and began to explain one by one--

Macedonia is the most powerful state in the northern part of the Heaton Peninsula, and its strength is no less than that of Aaron and Kibada in the south. However, in the eyes of such knowledgeable war generals like Medanzo, Macedonia and the entire Heaton Peninsula are nothing more than projectiles. They are far from being compared with the former Ecu, Barron, Hati, Assyria and other countries. Not to mention the huge Potts Empire.

The Heaton Peninsula is bordered by mountains and the sea, and the Kingdom of Macedonia has a rare open plain, but more than half of the land area is still mountainous. Fighting here is difficult to set up the battle tanks common on the battlefields of the Tianshu mainland nations. Because the city states are relatively small and the number of heavy cavalry is very small, often only wealthy noble citizens can afford the knight's armor and weapons When fighting, usually a small number of cavalry and a large number of infantry rushed to kill each other.

It is difficult to build and exercise chariot formations and cavalry here. In addition to this, the biggest problem is that the number of warriors is limited, and it is difficult to form regular legions like the traditions of the countries in the continent.

The regular legions that Amon has seen in various countries, except for the powerful and perverted Uluk Legion, basically have a standard system of 5,000 soldiers with 50 priests, and formal soldiers are at least one of the awakening blood power Samurai. Because the large army is most afraid of defeat, ordinary people can't afford heavy weapons without powerful bloodline power. Even if they can move, it is difficult to cooperate with the battlefield to launch continuous charge and kill.

For countries with large population bases, it is not difficult to organize several regular corps. As for combat effectiveness, it depends on the level of training and logistics support. However, this is difficult to achieve in the Heaton Peninsula. In addition to the conflicts between the city-states of the City-States, with their own weapons, there are many mercenaries who are wandering around, most of whom are ordinary. The farmer, though strong, is not a samurai.

Therefore, the scenes of war between Heaton's city-states are a little bit messy. Only cities like Kibada who are perverted to be formed entirely by military means can form a powerful regular army formation. Among the regular citizens of the Kibada city state, all adult men are warriors. Without the power to awaken blood, they would be eliminated by cruel training before the age of 20.

A kibada warrior can organize a strong battle, but other city-states are difficult to follow. The kibada warrior's shield is very heavy, and it needs to be tied to the left arm with a belt in order to be flattened. Ordinary fighters in other states did not meet this requirement at all, so they were always at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Kibada warriors.

If according to the conventional thinking, with the expansion of Macedonia's sphere of influence and population growth, more people can try to practice martial arts. The lucky ones will awaken the power of the blood to become samurai, and then set up the army to exercise training in the traditional way of the Tianshu mainland. I don't know how long it will take, and there are many difficulties.

Alexander, inspired by Medanzo, created a new type of army battle, emphasizing formation and coordination. The first change was the main battle weapon, which was no longer a traditional throwing shuttle gun or a Tomahawk shield, but a long gun with a length of twenty feet.

Medanzo is also a martial arts master. He told Alexander that for ordinary soldiers, it takes a long time to learn how to use the sword and axe, but after simple training, almost everyone can master the most basic long-arm assassination techniques. And the cost of building other weapons is relatively expensive, large-scale equipment is extremely costly, and wooden lances are relatively the cheapest.

Alexander took this idea to the extreme, designing a lance with a height of three people. Such a long gun is difficult to manipulate. If you want to move freely in the chaos, unless it is an amazing warrior. However, Alexander does not require the soldiers to have this ability, but instead uses a dense formation to assassinate forward. The techniques used in the battle are relatively simple. More importantly, the coordinated forces must be organized. The tight formation must not be chaotic during the advance. .

Medanzo helped Alexander make a long gun, about twenty feet long, with the tip of the gun pointing to the sky during the procession, the **** rested on the ground, and the position of holding was exactly the position that he grasped during the battle. Such a long gun should be made as not to be too heavy, but it must have good toughness and a weight on the buttstock so that the center of gravity is between the positions of the hand, so that it is easier to maintain balance during flat stabbing.

When marching, you can lean the pistol on your shoulder and point it towards the sky. When approaching the enemy, the first row of soldiers lay the pistol flat, the second and third rows of soldiers point the pistol towards the front, and the rear queue keeps the same distance. Such a close spear battle line looks like a hedgehog from nowhere. Even if a strong warrior is facing this battle, he will not be able to give play to his personal combat advantage.

If you form an army formation in this way, you will solve the three most problematic problems at the same time: First, the source of soldiers. In addition to the samurai, strong ordinary people can also be put into the battle formation queue, greatly expanding the regular army. scale. The second is finance. Its equipment is not expensive compared to other weapons and can be built in large quantities in a short period of time. The third is the effective use of arms. The Heaton Peninsula is difficult to create a large-scale chariot. This battle array makes full use of the advantages of infantry.

Why did Medanzo make the gun so long? The distance it pierced from the soldier just exceeded the length of a chariot.

After Alexander's brief introduction, Aristotle frowned and asked, "Well, you have set up a battle array so that you have indeed solved the biggest problem in the Kingdom of Macedonia. But what is the biggest problem in this battle array?"

Alexander replied: "I've let the guards perform. Such long guns, tight queues cannot turn around and can only move forward in combat, and the forward line must not be chaotic. This requires focused training, and the order and pace must be unified. If the soldiers in front fall, the soldiers in the back must immediately make up, and severe violations of orders must be punished severely. "

Amon said with a smile: "This is a problem of training in peacetime. Arrays are the simplest and most important training for large legions. This lineup can only move forward and it is difficult to turn around in combat. It is also the same when marching. When you leave the combat status, it changes. In a marching state, the commander must issue at least three orders to turn the battlefield in one direction. How fast can it be done depends on your level of performance. "

Alexander nodded and said, "Yes, I put the guards in a sixteen-square matrix, and it was very good. But if you let ordinary soldiers form a large-scale battle array, you need to train hard."

Amon pointed at the sandbox and asked, "In the state of engagement, the front of this battlefield is very strong, but the wings are very weak. This cannot be compensated by training. What will you do if the enemy scrambles from the wings or rear? "

Alexander replied: "It was precisely because there were not enough warriors and the number of cavalry was limited that I thought of making strong ordinary men into a battle array. In this way, the liberated warriors could form an auxiliary on the wings and rear. In battle, both wings can also be protected by cavalry. "

Amon pointed to the sand table again: "Such a long-armed battlefield has two fatal weaknesses. One is that if you encounter an archer's volley, you can't even hide; the second is that if the battlefields are staggered, the morale of the opponent is very high Wang, fighting casualties will not retreat, holding a spear can not be close to melee, what do the Sword Shield soldiers approach?

Alexander showed his embarrassment, scratching his head and thinking: "The range of the bow and arrow is limited. The two-winged cavalry is used to launch an attack. The cover of the battlefield is a way forward. Once the national strength of the Kingdom of Macedonia strengthens in the future, these pikemen can also be equipped with short shots. Shield and dagger. "

Amon smiled and said, "This warfare method you think of because of the limited number of warriors and the inability to organize large-scale corps, has great promotional value and is likely to cause a major change in military history. But I still recommend The first three and last rows of this gun formation still use regular warriors. "

Alexander blinked for a long time and thought for a long time, and said with some disappointment: "I thought my idea was perfect, but after asking you this, you found that this battlefield has many weaknesses, not as strong as I thought."

Medanzo said comfortably: "There is no perfect military formation in the world, and it is perfect to maximize the combat effectiveness under the existing conditions. Anyone can follow the same tactics, but usually depends on training and military discipline. Depending on the command and the logistics during wartime, your battle line has weakened the difference between individual combat effectiveness and solved the most important problem of troop resources. It is also an initiative.

It is the most appropriate given the situation in the Kingdom of Macedonia. Didn't Mr. Aristotle say that the world we perceive is imperfect, but you must know its shortcomings and know how to avoid them. This is the difference between genius and mediocrity. Take this sandbox to your father, and tell him what you just said, and he will know what to do. "

Aristotle also waved his hand: "His Royal Highness, there is no need to take today's class again. You take this sandbox and the guards to the palace, Your Majesty the King will be pleasantly surprised."

When Alexander went away, Medanzo sighed, "I have to admit that there is indeed a genius in this world! Unfortunately, this little prince is born with weak blood and cannot awaken the power of the source. To be healthy and longevity, he must also pay attention to his body."

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