Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 1880 Macedonian Generals, Two Founding Monarchs

Although Thor won a small victory, that was all.

The lack of hard power in their hands is a fact they have to face!

After the large Macedonian army arrived from behind, Odin, Thor and the others were completely unable to retreat.

With just these two thousand men, they could just attack the enemy's vanguard, but the enemy's main force had already arrived. If they attacked at this time, they would probably be swallowed up without leaving even a trace.

As for the troops of the Locke Kingdom, Thor had seen them once and found them to be of mixed quality.

Some of them are real combat-ready soldiers. After all, they are in such an awkward geographical location, so they are not completely helpless.

However, some of them are just for show and are of no use.

Of course, it was impossible for Alexander to personally deal with a small kingdom like the Kingdom of Locke. In this battle, the general sent by the Kingdom of Macedonia was Seleucus, a general under Alexander's command and the most outstanding young talent in the Macedonian Kingdom.

Alexander attached great importance to promoting young talents in the country. Seleucus was one of them. He not only had excellent military ability, but also outstanding political ability. He could be said to be a very comprehensive talent.

Today, Seleucus serves as Alexander's guard general and commands the Silver Shields, the elite legion of the Macedonian Kingdom.

In the history of Blue Planet, Alexander the Great conquered almost all of the "civilized world" that the Greeks at that time could know in just ten years, but this achievement did not last long, and the empire finally fell apart after the death of the great emperor.

But history has given them opportunities to reunify, such as the former, such as the "paperhanger" Antipater who devoted himself to reviving the Macedonian Empire, and the latter, such as Seleucus I who almost succeeded in starting a new dynasty.

After Alexander's death, the peace of the empire could no longer be maintained until the death of the imperial regent Antipater in 319 BC, and the melee between the various military leaders began again.

At first, General Antigonus had the upper hand. He occupied the core areas of the former Persian Empire, including Media, Persia, and Syria, forcing Seleucus to flee Babylon and flee to Egypt.

Antigonus' rapid expansion forced Alexander's former generals to unite and form a coalition. Under the leadership of Ptolemy, who dominated Egypt, the coalition first counterattacked Cyprus and gained control of the sea in the eastern Mediterranean. Then Seleucus secretly returned to Babylon and regained control of the province.

In the autumn of 310 BC, Antigonus led his army into Babylonia. In order to avoid Antigonus's attack, Seleucus turned eastward and gained strong support from the old Persian nobles. He quickly gained a foothold and expanded his territory to the ancient Indian region.

In 301 BC, facing the powerful offensive of Antigonus, the precarious Lysimachus, Cassander and Seleucus I joined forces to fight a decisive battle with Antigonus' army. As a result, with the help of war elephants hired by the Seleucus army, Antigonus' army was thrown into chaos and the 81-year-old veteran Antigonus was killed in the army.

At this point, the Macedonian Empire had four major powers: Lysimachus occupied Thrace and Asia Minor, Cassander was in charge of Macedonia, Seleucus I controlled Babylon and Persia, and Ptolemy was king of Egypt.

From 295 BC to 285 BC, Antigonus' son Demetrius, who had gradually recovered, captured Athens and controlled Greece, and then became the king of Macedonia after Cassander's death.

However, Demetrius encountered unanimous opposition from Lysimachus, Ptolemy I and Seleucus I. Under this pressure, Demetrius made a desperate move and launched an eastern expedition. As a result, he was captured by Seleucus I and died in 283 BC.

After Demetrius' death, the Seleucid Kingdom became the only powerful kingdom in the former Macedonian Empire. In order to inherit the will of Alexander the Great, the 77-year-old Seleucus I launched a westward expedition and killed the 281-year-old Lysimachus in the Battle of Kolupedium in 80 BC. The entire empire seemed to be within Seleucus's reach.

However, unexpectedly, shortly after the battle, Seleucus I died in a mutiny led by Ptolemy Crowned, and the dream of imperial unification was once again shattered.

As for such a small country as the Kingdom of Locke, it can be said that Alexander was sending military merits to Seleucus in preparation for his further promotion. Otherwise, Macedonia could have sent a general to lead a troop of soldiers to take over such a small kingdom.

Although Ares's vanguard was at a disadvantage and surprised Seleucus, it also gave him more expectations.

Seleucus was a young man at this time, and he also had the characteristic of some young people who were unwilling to live a dull life. Now he was not as mature and steady as he would be in the future.

If it was as expected, a fight of sheer strength, he would not be interested at all, it would be just a routine matter at best. However, the unexpected factor of Thor made him very interested.

Of course, he also showed his usual cautious nature.

In the situation where the enemy situation was unclear, they did not attack rashly. Instead, they sent people to investigate the situation of Thor's troops, to find out how many Northern Di soldiers Thor had and whether there were other Northern Di cavalry nearby.

This battle was not as boring as he thought, which certainly surprised him, but he would not take the battle as a joke, and fully demonstrated the style of a general. If he was a person who took the battle as a joke, he would not be worthy of Alexander's attention and training.

After sending people to explore the area for hundreds of miles, Seleucus finally felt relieved and officially began to attack the Kingdom of Locke.

In the first battle, due to the lack of coordination between the troops of the Locke Kingdom and the Northern Di troops, Seleucus promptly and keenly noticed this and made full use of it. Thor suffered a great loss in the first battle and directly lost a city.

You know, the Locke Kingdom is just a small country with only four cities in total.

In this battle, even the high-level general Thor was injured.

This time, Ares, the god of war, finally won a battle.

With the cooperation of more than a hundred Silver Shield soldiers, Thor was successfully defeated.

However, due to Seleucus' initial caution, it took him a long time to investigate Thor's situation. Although he won a great victory in the first battle, he learned his lesson and managed to hold on to Thor for more than 20 days, waiting for the arrival of the Mongolian advance troops.

This time, although the vanguard of Temujin's reinforcements was small in number, with only 3,500 people, 3,000 of them were part of his personal guard, the Qiexue Army.

Temujin's personal guard, the Keshig, had only 8,000 people in total. This time, nearly half of them were pulled into the vanguard.

The remaining 500 men in the vanguard were not unknown either. They were the famous archers on the Northern Di grasslands. Each of them had the ability to shoot eagles with a bow and arrow. Each of them was a rare archer on the Northern Di grasslands. The commander of the vanguard this time was not an unknown person either. He was Temujin's biological son, the fourth son Tolui. In addition, Temujin's most capable arm, one of his left and right arms, Jebe, was also made deputy general by Tolui.

Jebe was known as the best archer in the Mongolian tribe. On the battlefield, countless enemies were defeated by his longbow. Moreover, he was a famous general ranked among the top in the Mongolian tribe. He was a man of both wisdom and courage, and was known as Temujin's most loyal hunting dog.

Among Temujin's sons, Tolui and Hua Zheng had the best relationship. Thor, the Golden Sword Prince Consort, was trapped in the Locke Kingdom. Therefore, Prince Tolui personally asked Temujin to serve as the leader of the vanguard army and led a light cavalry to the Locke Kingdom ahead of the main army.

It is precisely because of this that this time, although the Yuanmeng vanguard army is small in number, its configuration is very luxurious. Even a figure like Zhebie came to serve as a deputy.

With a son and a son-in-law, Temujin could not help but pay attention to them.

Tolui and Jebe were both famous generals of the Yuan Dynasty. They were both good at leading troops and fighting. Either of them was as good as Saishugu on the opposite side.

Although their troops had entered the Kingdom of Locke, they did not immediately join Thor. Instead, they took advantage of the fact that the Macedonian troops had not yet discovered them and detoured to the height of the Seshugu troops, preparing to harass the opponent's food supply route.

As famous generals of their generation, they were of course well aware that the most important thing about their army's powerful fighting capacity was its mobility.

Once they join Thor and enter the city, it would be tantamount to cutting off their own advance.

After dismounting, their most skilled horse riding and archery became meaningless.

The Xirong cavalry was good at frontal group charge and overcoming difficulties, which was their strength. The Beidi knights, on the other hand, were good at running and roaming, cutting into the battlefield from the side, and had unique horse archery, which was their forte.

Especially the Archers' unit, once they entered the city, they would be completely useless.

If the Archer takes part in the defensive battle, although there will be 500 more skilled archers, however, in the battle of attacking and defending a city, archers are used for large-scale rain of arrows and overwhelming firepower coverage, rather than one-on-one precision strikes.

If the archers climbed up the city wall and faced the overwhelming rain of arrows, their survival rate would basically not be higher than that of other troops, which would be a waste of this army.

Avoiding the enemy by using the false position can bring the greatest help to Thor.

The good news is that Tolui and Jebe successfully found Seleucus's grain transport troops.

After all, the Xirong also had troop transports.

In order to save manpower and material resources, reduce unnecessary consumption of food and fodder on the road, and ensure logistics in the fastest time and with the highest efficiency, they basically rely on troop carriers.

But the disadvantage of this method is that the route is very fixed, which greatly increases the probability of exposing the food route. There are only a few routes for troop transports, which makes it much easier to explore.

The bad news is that although they successfully found the enemy's grain transport route and troops, they also encountered another famous general of the Macedonian Kingdom, Antigonus.

Antigonus and Seleucus were completely equal in the Macedonian Kingdom. If Seleucus were himself, he would certainly not be qualified to have such a figure serve as his grain transport general.

In fact, if we only consider military ability, Antigonus is definitely superior to Seleucus.

In the Wars of the Diadochi, Antigonus was the only one who stood out in the early stage. His failure was the result of the joint efforts of his opponents. He was defeated by the combination of his opponents, not by any one individual.

His appearance in the grain transport troops was entirely the result of Alexander's intervention.

Obviously, after Alexander learned about the unexpected factor of Mongolia, he deliberately transferred another famous general to help Seleucus.

After arriving in Beidi, Thor became the consort of the Mongolian tribe. This was no secret among the Xirong. Not to mention, although the two families belonged to Beidi and Xirong respectively, they were actually not far apart. One was on the edge of Beidi and the other on the edge of Xirong. They were not neighbors, but better than neighbors.

Antigonus and Seleucus both sent out troops at the same time to face such a small kingdom, which was unprecedented in Macedonia's history of conquest in recent years.

These two people, one is the ancestor of the Antigonid dynasty of Blue Star and one of the greatest commanders of the Hellenistic era, and the other is the founder of the Seleucid Empire and a world-famous politician. They are completely the templates of the two founding monarchs.

Even if there was only one person to deal with such a small kingdom, it would be a waste of talent, let alone two.

Tolui and Jebe arrived with their troops very suddenly, and they were all elite soldiers, each of whom was capable of fighting ten enemies at once. It was a completely unexpected situation, and even with Antigonus there, he was obviously caught off guard.

The battle between the two sides was almost one-sided under the sudden attack. Even his deputy general was shot dead by Zhebie during the battle.

But Antigonus remained calm in the face of danger. He relied on troop transports and food carts to organize a simple line of defense. It was with such a simple line of defense that he resisted the sudden attack by Tolui and Jebe.

Moreover, a portion of the food and grass was protected in time, and not all of it was burned by Zhebie.

After a long siege, Tolui and Jebe failed to capture the city and realized that it would take a long time to capture the remaining troops and burn the last part of the food supplies, even if they could do it.

Their tactical intention is to strike quickly and kill quickly, and once the enemy is defeated, they will be able to flee thousands of miles away. Once they are entangled by others, reinforcements from all around Macedonia will arrive. With the limited number of troops they have, no matter how elite the troops are, they will not be able to withstand the consumption!

Therefore, the two men had a brief discussion and decided to take their troops and leave temporarily.

Of course, it is also because they cannot allow such elite troops to take on such a luxurious task of attacking an enemy.