The gathering place of the jackals is a bit like a primitive village, surrounded by a few wooden bars barely made into a fence, inside is a crude tent made of four thick round wood and animal skin. There is a big pot in the middle of the tent, which is the place where the jackals cook food. The primitive clan social system distributes food uniformly, but the strong males and Shaman enjoy it first.
These tents can only be inhabited by the strong males of the Jackal clan. The females and the weak males have no spouse but to sleep in the wilderness or find a cave for themselves.
It''s said that the jackals who are fighting with humans have evolved a lot and have a very strict hierarchy. It is even possible that the most primitive jackal aristocracy system, the rank aristocracy, was born because of the war!
Fortunately, Murphy found that the jackals around his town were more primitive, more like beasts than intelligent life.
This undoubtedly reduced him a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Murphy doesn''t know much about combat.
However, as a product of the information explosion era, even if it is by analogy, Murphy also learned a lot about strategy and tactics from other channels.
After rationally selecting the tactics that belong to the era of hot weapons, Murphy began to sort out the scattered tactical knowledge of the era of cold weapons in his memory.
Before the battle evolved to the era of just pulling the trigger, the tactics in those domestic movies could be basically excluded. The war in the age of cold weapons consumes a lot of physical strength, and the role of morale is particularly important“ This is clearly expressed in the sentence "one spirit, then decline, three exhausts".
After a while of thinking, Murphy thought of a sentence that had been widely spread in previous generations, which came from Sun Tzu''s art of war.
Sun Tzu''s art of war says, "don''t stop the enemy when you return to the army. If you encircle the army, there will be no enemy. Don''t pursue the enemy."
The twelve words are very simple, but they hide the essence of the art of war.
"Wai Shi must que..." Murphy stood on the hillside hundreds of meters away, looking at the gathering place of jackals, and had some calculation in his heart.
There are more than 300 adult jackals in this gathering area. Their villages are just built, and they are made of leather and cloth plundered from human towns.
These jackals are quite ignorant. They sew leather, linen, cotton, and even silk with coarse fishing thread, and then make colorful tents for their houses. The only thing these primitive creatures are good at is to peel and sew crude skin armor. Their clawed palms are not suitable for farming and making crafts. They can''t even build an ordinary wooden house.
There are simple fences around the gathering place, in which there are wild animal cubs captured by jackals, animals plundered from human towns, and maybe even human beings
Marquis Elizabeth has mentioned that the jackals who make up the tribe have learned how to enslave human beings. They know how to enslave the uninjured human beings, raise animals for them, cultivate farmland, build houses and build weapons!
However, it''s obvious that the jackals around here are not so intelligent. I''m afraid that after they capture humans, their first thought is to fill their stomachs.
All the information collected is telling Murphy!
These jackals are evolving!
All over the southern plains, jackals are evolving from primitive beasts to intelligent life.
And their barbaric civilization system is gradually improving in the war with mankind! They began to create primitive cuneiform characters, form a system of military rank nobility, learn to graze and domesticate wild animals, capture slaves, and worship ancestors
Perhaps the clan jackals are still primitive beasts, but the adult jackals absorbed by the karzat jackal tribe have begun to have wisdom!
"Spartan heavy infantry, forward."
The strength of the Greek arms lies in the defensive ability and marching array. In the field, the Greeks without strong cavalry are always unable to harvest the scattered enemy.
Murphy''s attack was at noon, when the Jackal began cooking after capturing its prey.
Jackals are the same as humans, or most intelligent creatures in the world. They all keep the tradition of eating two meals a day.
That''s lunch and dinner.
At about ten o''clock, Murphy ordered the army to have lunch ahead of time, in order to make a surprise attack when the jackals prepared lunch!
At that time, most jackals would return to the gathering place.
"Touch! Touch! Touch
The dull footsteps of Spartan heavy infantry startled the female jackals, who were cooking food, and they let out a cry of panic.
However, the male jackals who came back from hunting took up simple weapons and protected the female and young jackals behind them. They looked warily at the east side of the fence, grinning and howling, trying to scare and drive the enemy away!
It''s a pity that they are facing real soldiers - lifelong professional soldiers! Their howling didn''t even make the footsteps of the Spartan heavy infantry a little messy. On the contrary, because of the fearlessness of the Spartan heavy infantry, the jackals themselves had a little panic.
"Greek infantry, advance!"
Orderly footsteps sounded from the other side of the Jackal colony, and the town was full of Greek infantry approaching the Jackal at the same pace. Unlike the Spartan heavy infantry, the Greek infantry kept shouting like beasts as they advanced.
The two infantry teams approached the Jackal gathering place in a "V" formation.
The infantry formation is widened and lengthened vertically and horizontally, with a big gap at the front end and a small gap at the back end of the "V" formation.
"General guard, speed up!"
Murphy raised his whip and pointed to the gate of the Jackal camp.
The sound of galloping horse''s hooves is more oppressive than the orderly footstep of infantry. There is a riot in the Jackal camp. The strong jackal has taken up arms and rushed to the infantry formation, while the weak jackal wants to escape from the direction without enemies.
Facing the army is different from facing the unarmed farmer.
The latter is only prey in the eyes of jackals, while the former is more difficult to deal with than bears, tigers and leopards!
"Spartan heavy infantry charging, Greek infantry advancing."
Murphy stood alone outside the encircling formation, with the herald and the guard captain at his side. When the encirclement was close to 50 meters, Murphy decisively ordered the Spartan heavy infantry to charge at the best distance!
Spartan heavy infantry, no matter in physical fighting skills or discipline, can not be conquered by Greek infantry. Their high morale can even fight to death when they meet several times as many enemies as their own! So with Spartan heavy infantry, you can use their powerful lethality to tear the enemy''s formation. However, the Greek infantry, no matter in combat effectiveness, discipline or morale, are very general, so the commander must be conservative and enterprising, and use the advantages of the Greek spear square array to steadily advance, reduce casualties, and avoid heavy losses due to the Jackal''s counterattack.
After the Spartan heavy infantry charged, the lower gap under the "V" formation began to close, and only the upper gap was wide open.
"General guard, free throw!"
At Murphy''s command, the general guards split into two and galloped to both sides with a larger "V". After finding the right position, the general guards began to throw javelins at the Jackal gathering area.
"Sparta
The Spartan heavy infantry in blood red cloaks stood their shields in front of them as they approached the fence. Then the fierce soldiers broke through the fence and rushed to the male jackals who were guarding the perimeter.
The Spartan heavy infantry crashing into the Jackal camp is like a huge stone thrown into the lake, which is not only a wave, but also a violent shock to the lake!
These soldiers who stood at the top of the earth at that time were like a sharp sword, so they plunged into the Jackal camp and cut those frightened jackals into two big cakes!
"Good chance!" Murphy, with a bright look, did not hesitate to make the general''s guard attack the separated male jackals surrounded by Spartan heavy infantry and Greek infantry from the side.
The general guards are equipped with javelin and dagger. The length of javelin is about two meters. In general, it can also be used as a short spear.
"Hoo! Drink! Kill me
In the sound of a dull weapon piercing * *, the male jackal who was attacked by three sides soon collapsed.
The fear of death made them lose the courage to fight, and they began to flee in the direction of "V" formation.
Murphy decisively ordered the general guard to bypass the fence from the side and stop the female jackal and the Jackal cubs. Instead of ordering the pursuit of the fleeing male jackals, he contracted his formation to eat up the weak members of the Jackal clan.
The battle was soon over.
The female jackals and the Jackal cubs had little fighting power under the attack of Spartan heavy infantry and Greek infantry.
Within a few minutes, all the female jackals and jackal cubs that were surrounded were turned into corpses.
The soldiers began to treat the wounded and mend the jackals who had not been killed before.
The casualty statistics will come out soon.
During the annihilation of 124 enemy troops, five people were lost and more than 30 people were slightly injured.
The casualties were all on the Greek infantry, and Spartan heavy infantry suffered little. The Jackal''s crude weapons are not enough to hurt the Spartan heavy infantry under the protection of the shield, and the soldiers who died are basically because they were attacked to the critical position. Most of the other wounded soldiers were scratched with claws and holy water. Such wounds would soon heal.
About 200 adult jackals fled.
Murphy calculated the time and ordered the Spartan heavy infantry and Greek infantry to pursue the direction of the Jackal''s escape.
And he himself, with his general guard, went around a nearby river to the North Valley.
There, he ambushed a half team of Greek infantry who had been fighting!