Cilicia, on the map Bianjing received, is located in the second column among the two provinces in Asia Minor, and is also on the far right.
When the pressure is on the attackers, it means that his quarrel in Asia Minor has come to an end. Although this mountainous area may take a long time for him, he has the confidence and patience to slowly complete it.
What's more, Li Ning beside him used his cunning tactics to once again achieve a small victory, without even using a single soldier, causing the entire Phrygian resistance victory to fall into disintegration.
He had previously said that as long as the landowners were driven off their land, their logistics would have huge problems. Greek mercenaries were working hard for money. If there was no money, their combat effectiveness would also decline rapidly.
And just as he expected, under the fierce pursuit of the two countries' coalition forces, the Greek mercenaries could only coerce their employers and make the rabbits run for their lives in embarrassment. After all, they had to save their lives first to get the reward.
However, this kind of escape caused them to quickly lose their base and, in turn, their subsequent source of money.
Although even if they stay on the land of Phrygia, the rising and falling slave genes will quickly cause them to lose their base. But they can still find a place to store food. However, after finding Cambadocia, they will face a passive situation of competing with local indigenous people, that is, other landowners for supplies. .
In fact, if someone can observe this process from another angle, they will definitely find this. The frenzied pursuit of the Song Dynasty and the Macedonians did not necessarily force the Greeks to make substantial concessions. The combat effectiveness of the mercenaries was still guaranteed, but the slaves' successive judgments made the slave owners worried and made the mercenaries unable to see the future. Prospects.
Although the Spartan warriors needed to kill some slaves to slowly become warriors as they grew up, other Greek city-states only had experience in managing slaves and would not specifically set up this kind of course.
These experiences may still be useful in their contracting, but after arriving here, the situation is completely different and cannot be perfectly transplanted. Therefore, even if they intervene in the management affairs of the slave owners, they cannot calm the slaves. On the contrary, they The companions need to be careful when sleeping at night to prevent the slaves from silently cutting off the heads of their employers, or even their own heads.
Under such a panic situation, what kind of war can be won?
Therefore, what helped Li Ning complete his strategic plan to a large extent was not the combat power of his army. The Song Dynasty army was the most vulnerable to criticism in Chinese history. Even if they were flanked by Alexander's powerful phalanx army, they could not steadily improve their combat power to a certain level.
On the contrary, the messages that were spread one after another gave the slaves more hope of life. This gave them the courage to take up arms and fight directly with their slave owners, and this created a huge opportunity for Li Ning.
Li Ning lived up to the high expectations of the slaves. In a short period of time, he and Alexander captured most of the estates in the entire province of Phrygia.
This also quickly won more efforts to respond, and even large-scale uprisings occurred in other nearby provinces. The province of Cappadocia they were about to go to was undoubtedly the most serious one among the locals. They have always been known for being brave and good at fighting, and their control over slaves is also relatively loose, because most people need a wider area of activity. For example, those slaves who are responsible for grazing cattle for their slave owners have much free space than those in farming civilization. The slaves among them were not.
therefore. The slaves over there performed more magnificently.
But Li Ning can't see the scene there in a short time, because his main focus is on the Silesia region, a place surrounded or even piled up by mountains, which any military strategist needs to deal with carefully. Even though Alexander was standing next to him, he did not dare to take it lightly. ,
However, during the march, Alexander's subordinates still brought him new hope, because he accidentally learned that Alexander showed amazing military talents in several battles after he fell ill.
Li Ning initially thought that these people were preparing to brag to him about Alexander's decisive battle on the narrow road of Themisus, but he soon discovered. In fact, before that, just after leaving Perge, Alexander conducted a very decisive siege.
In that place was called Selium.
This small city may seem inconspicuous, but it is very solid. At the same time, its location is also very special, resulting in its strategic position that cannot be ignored at all.
First of all, it is located between two large cities, Aspendu and Side. At the same time, it is about 5 kilometers away from the coastline, making it impossible to carry out sneak attacks from the sea even if there is a navy.
At the same time, the defending troops there were not ordinary Persians, but Greek mercenaries hired by locals. Their combat effectiveness was not too far from that of the Macedonian army.
Therefore, when Alexander heard that Aspen had violated their promise to contribute tribute, he was furious and sent troops to quarrel there, but he was unexpectedly blocked by this small city on the road.
In the original history, this small city prevented Alexander from moving forward, but in this time and space, Alexander undoubtedly had richer choices.
Originally, he could reduce his own casualties with the active weapons provided by the Song Dynasty, but the Macedonian nobles, because they were worried that the Song Dynasty people would ask for the city again, would rather choose to surround this small city and then attack Aga from another way. Spundus.
But Alexander rejected the nobles' opinions. At the same time, he did not adopt the former, but thought of another way.
Since the long-range investment tools of the Song Dynasty were still trebuchets made by the Macedonians, when Alexander displayed those gadgets, the Greek mercenaries in the city immediately knew that the so-called active weapons were most likely made through this gadget. launched.
Alexander was hoping that they would make such a judgment, and even to make them more certain, he deliberately threw several gunpowder packets through the trebuchet. After causing a vigorous explosion effect, the Greek roosters in the city also began to feel scared.
But this did not cause them too many casualties, so that their morale had not completely collapsed, but Alexander seemed to want exactly this effect. On the second day, he set up his formation again, but the position of the trebuchet seemed to be further forward. Some.
This is relatively risky militarily, because it may be within the range of the opponent's bow and arrow. At the same time, people in the city can also choose to go out of the city to make a surprise attack and quickly approach these bulky big guys, thus achieving an unexpected victory.
The latter has become an important option for the city defenders, because they are all worried that gunpowder will cause them greater harm. No one can withstand the formation and destruction of three or five gunpowder packets every day, so they choose to risk going out of the city to raid. .
However, this just allowed Alexander to seize the opportunity. After they rushed out of the city, they found that the gunpowder bags with their heads on the ground had been ignited. At the same time, the surrounding Macedonian soldiers also threw a large number of similar things here. At the same time, in the distance The disease surrounded them on both sides as quickly as possible. Now all the mercenary commanders understood the opponent's tactics.
After an earth-shattering noise, the mercenaries who were charging forward were blown into the sky one after another, and the cavalry who were outflanking them also launched a charge towards the remaining mercenaries.
