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Chapter 1539 Confrontation

Twenty-six flags embroidered with gold characters fluttered in the wind, and behind the flags the army was lined up in neat battle formations.

Sun Lei rode his horse and brought his men to the front of the battle.

Xin Qiji's blood boiled as he looked at the flags fluttering in the wind. He was very excited about the flags being awarded the numbers just now. He didn't expect to see such a grand event.

“There are even numbers and flags!”

Xin Qiji looked at those mighty flags with envy, but the glory brought by these flags did not belong to him.

"Don't look at it anymore. The enemy is right in front of you. Think about how to make meritorious deeds! As long as you have enough merits, you will have a flag in the future!"

Lu You looked at Xin Qiji and said.

"Achieve merit? What merit? There are hundreds of thousands of troops ahead of us, it's not our turn!"

Xin Qiji said dejectedly that their battalion of troops was arranged at the rear of the army.

"Where else could we be if not at the end? Look, the ones in front of us are veterans who have served for at least five years! They have fought dozens of battles, big and small. How can we compare to them?"

Lu You said that the previous camps were the earliest troops established in Qi State.

"I just joined the army too late, otherwise I could have done it!"

Xin Qiji spoke.

"You'd better prepare yourself. After the army ahead kills the enemy, we will also have to go up!"

Lu You said that those who would charge head-on would definitely be the elite in the front, but they also needed to go up.

"Don't worry, my sword is thirsty!"

Xin Qiji raised the knife in his hand and said with a smile.

"Where did you learn these strange words?"

Lu You frowned and looked at Xin Qiji and asked.

"I heard it from His Majesty. His Majesty was in high spirits a few days ago, and he was muttering to himself while reading the memorials."

Xin Qiji smiled and said that he liked Sun Lei's personality very much and liked to imitate him when he had nothing to do.

The Qi army was filled with a murderous atmosphere, and the murderous aura that rose to the sky caused the summer temperature to drop a lot. This momentum put great pressure on the opposing Western Liao army.

Yelu Dashi also felt the terror of the enemy opposite him. Their momentum was like an army of tigers looking down on a flock of sheep.

"The army is advancing!"

Yelu Dashi sensed the soldiers' fear and immediately gave a loud roar, and heavily armored spearmen appeared in front of the formation in neat steps.

Infantrymen wearing full armor and holding spears appeared on the battlefield, and the Western Liao army instantly quieted down.

"Is this Yelu Dashi's trump card?"

Sun Lei looked at those heavily armored spearmen. He recognized that they were the so-called Macedonian Phalanx in the West. However, there were some differences from the records. The armor of these armies was more sophisticated, and it was almost the same as the full armor combat he had seen in later generations.

“I’m afraid this will cost a lot of money!”

Zhu Wu looked at those armors and sighed, saying that apart from anything else, the cost of the Ming Guang armor from start to finish would not be low, and 15,000 sets would be a mountain of gold.

"It seems that Yelu Dashi has not been idle these years!"

Sun Lei touched his chin and said, "Yelu Dashi has worked really hard since he came to the Western Regions. It can be seen from the elite and well-organized soldiers that they have been trained for a long time, and those armors are probably made with the most advanced iron-smelting technology in the West. I didn't expect that the Western iron-smelting technology has reached this level."

"Your Majesty, he has three square formations in the shape of a triangle. Each formation consists of 64 soldiers forming a platoon, 128 soldiers forming a squad, 256 soldiers forming a battalion, 1024 soldiers forming a battalion, and 4096 soldiers forming a legion. There are three legions in total."

"But from observation, the only real heavy-armored spearmen are the elite ones in the front phalanx. The armor on the left and right wings is much worse, so they should be light infantry and auxiliary soldiers." "These soldiers should be responsible for the two wings when the phalanx charges. Your Majesty, please see that these people are not all holding spears, and there are also many shields."

"This is to prevent cavalry from entering. First, they block with spears, then use shields to defend, and finally use close combat. It is difficult for ordinary cavalry to rush in."

Zhu Wu observed with the telescope for a long time before speaking. Although the two legions in the rear seemed to be well-equipped, a careful observation would reveal the problem. The equipment was far inferior.

"I mean, how can it be that fast? It's not that easy to defeat 15,000 armors."

Sun Lei nodded and said that the two armies were still several miles apart and it would be difficult to see clearly without a telescope.

"There are heavily armored spearmen in the front, auxiliary troops on the wings, and a large number of light cavalry on the periphery. This configuration is quite powerful!"

Sun Lei looked at the enemy opposite and spoke, "The Khwarezmian Empire, the Western Karakhanid Khanate, and the Gaochang Uighurs are almost all light cavalry. They are like wandering wolves behind the heavy armored spearmen."

"Your Majesty, these heavily armored spearmen are difficult to deal with. They are fully armored and their spears are two feet long. Their formation is strong in frontal attack and has strong impact and suppression capabilities, but their mobility is very poor and their flanks are their weaknesses. But now they are surrounded by a large number of light cavalry, which makes attacking their flanks extremely dangerous!"

Zhu Wu said that if they rashly attacked the enemy's flank, they would definitely be surrounded and killed by the light cavalry.

"His Majesty!"

Li Kui and Feng Tai ran to the central army at this time.

"Why are you here?"

Sun Lei looked at the two men and asked, now they should be leading troops in their respective armies and preparing for battle.

"Your Majesty, we are willing to be the vanguard!"

Li Kui spoke eagerly.

"Do you have any idea?"

Sun Lei looked at Li Kui and asked.

"Your Majesty, our Xianzhen Camp will definitely be able to kill those enemies!"

Li Kui pointed at the heavily armored spearmen on the opposite side. This was the first time he encountered heavily armored infantry, and he really wanted to go up and fight them.

"Look carefully, the ones on the other side are heavily armored spearmen! And they have a very dense spear formation. You can't get in at all!"

Sun Lei pointed at the Macedonian phalanx opposite and said that this kind of phalanx is used to defeat the enemy head-on. Once the spears are raised, it will be like a hedgehog.

"Your Majesty, we have grenades, I'll blow them up!"

Li Kui spoke.

"It's OK against other people, but not this one. The dense spears will block the grenades thrown out, and once the weapons come into close combat, the effect of the grenades will be greatly reduced!"

Sun Lei shook his head.

"Your Majesty, let the Xianzhen Camp approach the enemy, and we will destroy the enemy camp and kill the enemy!"

Feng Tai spoke up and said that he was leading the Modao Battalion. The Modao was the best armor-piercing blade, and one strike could chop down an armored warhorse.

"If I were you, I wouldn't fight head-on. You see, it's hard to get close to a spear that's more than two meters long. Although they and you are both heavily armored infantry, there is still a difference. Carrying a spear that's more than two meters long will make them move slowly, and even turning on the spot is not easy. You can use your mobility."

Sun Lei looked at the two men and said that he was not going to fight the Macedonian phalanx head-on. The enemy's greatest reliance was actually a large number of light cavalry. As long as they were not surrounded, the speed of these heavily armored spearmen would not be able to do anything.

"Mobility! But... isn't this just giving in?"

Li Kui refused to accept this. He didn't like it. He wanted to defeat the enemy head-on and prove that the Xianzhen Camp was the best heavily armored infantry in the world.