Battlefield of All Sides

Chapter 160
"I, Alexander, don't bother to steal a victory."

While the general and the high priest were singing together, Alexander, who was sitting in the first place, said so, with a firm tone, directly interrupting the two people's suggestions.

"Since the high priest also said that the gods ordered us to win this war, then we must win this war openly."

"To show that we are the children of God."

After Alexander finished speaking these few words, he waved his hand to stop Parminio from continuing, but asked the generals and officers to think of other ways.

So some people proposed a surprise attack in the early morning and evening, and some proposed building a fortress to confront the hundreds of thousands of troops. The opponent had a large number of people and a huge consumption of food and grass, and would definitely be defeated without defeat.Some people also said to get out of this battlefield, find a narrow battlefield and share it.

Various methods were spoken, and the generals below became a quarrel. Alexander above said nothing, and Li Mu below also looked over from time to time.

When these people were fighting more and more fiercely, Alexander actually spoke, but this time he actually asked Li Mu.

"Yake, I want to know, can your phalanx withstand the cavalry attack?"

Alexander suddenly asked such a question, but Li Mu straightened up immediately, looked at Philip with each other, and then spoke.

"Your Majesty, our phalanx is indestructible. Even if there are cavalry charging, it will definitely make him come and go."

When Li Mu said this, the people around looked over and were puzzled, but Alexander nodded in satisfaction and continued.

"Nayake, what if I let your phalanx take the lead?"

People around Li Mu immediately exclaimed when they heard this sentence, and Parminio even said that he quickly explained that such a method was risky, and they now knew what Alexander was going to do.

He is going head-to-head.

Li Mu didn't know how to answer at the moment, but Alexander suppressed everyone's objections, and just looked at Li Mu and asked Li Mu to answer.

Li Mu hesitated for a moment, opened his mouth and was about to say something, but suddenly there was an exclamation from outside the camp, and then the exclamation became even louder, and the whole camp was boiling in an instant.

The people in the tent didn't know what was going on outside, and they all looked at each other in blank dismay. Alexander stood up and walked out, and everyone hurriedly followed.

And when Li Mu walked out of the camp, he was immediately attracted by the changes in the sky.

It was already sunset at this moment, and the sky was originally pitch black, but now it seemed that someone had left many traces in the sky with a paintbrush.

There are countless stars passing by the sky above the head. This is a huge meteor shower, but what is pulled out is the fiery red tail line, which is very shocking.

The soldiers in the camp all looked up at the sky, exclaiming one by one, but after the meteor passed by, a bigger shock suddenly appeared.

I don't know who called the moon. When everyone else looked over, the moon that was supposed to be full tonight was missing a corner!
lunar eclipse!

Li Mu immediately had an answer in his heart. He didn't expect to see such a celestial phenomenon in this ancient time, but his heart only settled down for a moment. Modern knowledge told him that this was just caused by ordinary planetary changes.

But when he looked down and saw the panicked expressions of the generals beside him, Li Mu was shocked.

These ancients didn't know such things like myself, for them, such a celestial phenomenon is a divine punishment!

Sure enough, in the next moment, someone knelt down on the ground and prayed repeatedly, and the surrounding soldiers also looked panic-stricken, and a soldier ran by beside him, and he actually uttered astonishing words.

"A lunar eclipse! The gods are furious, they don't want us to fight like this again!"

"We shouldn't be here, this war is not allowed by God!"

"It was His Majesty who brought us to the ends of the earth. We have discovered the secret of God. This is God's punishment for us!"

People in the camp kept crying and saying this, and Li Mu suddenly looked at Alexander.

These soldiers are already hating this war now, and they are already hating Alexander for launching this war. This will be a manifestation of chaos!
Li Mu was a little flustered at this moment, afraid of what Alexander would do here, and then remembered what Alexander had promised him before. He said that as long as there are soldiers who hate this war, they will withdraw immediately.

Now such a situation will almost certainly lead to such a result, so what exactly is Alexander going to do.

Li Mu watched Alexander clenching his fists, looking at the tense situation around him, but at this time the high priest of the army, Aristander, stood up. He found a carriage loaded with luggage and stood on it. , and then shouted to the people in the field.

"Soldiers! We are soldiers of the Macedonian Empire. We worship the sun god Apollo, and the god of the night can't control us! But the Persians worship the moon goddess Astarte. Tonight's lunar eclipse should be feared. It's the Persians, it's the gods helping us, weakening the Persian gods."

"This is the god telling us that His Majesty will be the one who will rule the Persian Kingdom, and the Persian Kingdom will soon die!"

Aristande's voice was very loud, but the surrounding soldiers actually stopped under his advice. They looked at each other, and suddenly realized that what the high priest said was right, Apollo was the one in their hearts. God, this is the sun god helping us.

The power of faith is so magical sometimes. The camp that was still frightened just now calmed down. Everyone looked at each other and finally turned their eyes to Alexander.

Li Mu also looked at Alexander, but he saw that Alexander looked indifferent. When everyone was looking at him, he stood on the delivery cart, looked around, and said loudly.

"The high priest is right, all soldiers, this is the god who wants us to rule the corrupt Persia, and we will surely win!"

"Let us prepare well. Four days later, we will worship Zeus and the god of war Athena here, and bless us to win!"

Alexander made a final decision and stopped everyone's panic, which also allowed the war to continue smoothly.

Li Mu stood aside and watched, but this time he was not disappointed with the result. Although there was no sign of victory in this battle, Alexander's momentum seemed to indicate that the battle was about to be won. up.

The scene of natural disasters gradually disappeared, and Alexander successfully appeased the soldiers and gave them four days to prepare. During this period, Darius's envoy came again, willing to make huge concessions and demarcate the territory with the Tigris River as the boundary. Returned his wife and daughter, but Alexander refused.

Many people thought that Alexander was going his own way, but Li Mu saw what was behind it.

Alexander told himself that he wanted to return all the crimes of Persia in the past to it.

His current actions can be said to be desperate. He put all his chips on the table and prepared to fight the Persians for the final blow.

After all, this battle can definitely determine the fate of the two countries.

It's just that I don't know if the battle to expand the territory has become like this, whether it is really what everyone hopes.

Also, how can we really win this battle of disparity in strength.

Looking at the vast Persian army in the distance, Li Mu was full of doubts.

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(End of this chapter)