Chapter 54 (2/2)
Suddenly, there was a huge noise fro of the for?” Orontes looked to the right angrily, and saw an aht infantry and archers in the rear of the right ere running away in panic, behind these defeated soldiers were hundreds of fully ar the defeated soldiers to the center…
”Greek! It's the Greek!! Fast! Fast!…” Orontes panicked onceburst out froether with the satrap's personal guard to try stop the defeated troops, so that they can prevent the to the center of the formation But who knew that those Greek soldiers were completely different from those ordinary Greek hoplites They run fast and chased after the defeated soldiers who fell behind, a wave of their shi+eld willthe uards couldn't stop them and within a moment, they were forced to flee to the left and the front, and the for and center of the Persian fell apart…
And the ot blocked on the river bank easily broke trough the defense line of the frightened Chaldaeans and began their killing…
It ed insince their childhood, and they have a strong tactical literacy According to the prior rough plan, they will start by deliberately driving the defeated soldiers to the river bank Except for a few clear-headed Persians, most of the soldiers did not know the direction, but fled by following the flow of people However, once they saw the wide river Centrites, they all cried desperately…
After the guards guarded Ortas to escape to a safe place, Orontes saw that thearmy now only has a few hundred people, and can't help but cry He knew that with his power he could not stop the Greekon the territory of Armenia
The mercenary leaders were excited They e nu the soldiers of Arroups, such as the Chaldaeans, and showed theoodwill of the GreekDavos, chose to kill them!
The Greek hoplite lined up in a dense fornored the demands of thousands unarmed Persian soldiers, as they use their shi+eld walls and spears to drove the stones and arrows to pushed them in the river in chaos The people who fell in the water will pull the other people down for their own survival, just like crabs inside a pot pulling each other's legs with no one able to escape…
Before long, Davos looked at the river covered with floating corpses He sighed and looked away to the other side: he could not see a trace of the Carduchians, they were obviously got scared when they saw the unexpected great defeat of the army
The supply camp and the mercenaries behind were able to cross the river Centrites easily Afterwards, under the leadershi+p of the leaders, the whole mercenary troops occupied the e behind a lot of materials and supplies The entire mercenary troops had once an the victory celebration
Because everyone knew that after the defeat of Orontes, no one in Ar forward, which made them more confident that they can return to Greece!
First volume end: (T/N: will just tl so the first volume, Davos adventure in Persia came to an end In fact, this content that I wrote is only a small part of Xenophon's 《Anabasis》 The mercenaries will also experienced a lot of difficulties and setbacks, but there is no need for me to waste ink on it, because that's not the focus of the book