Defending the Ivory Throne by C. J. Fielding

Author:C. J. Fielding [Fielding, C. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B08S3X9MC9
Published: 2021-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27 June AD 82 Africa-Battle of Two Green Armies

Paul never expected to face a large army in his lifetime. He was thousands of miles from Rome, India, Persia, China, and thought he was safe. That’s why the only spears they had were the pig spears. They were perfect for fighting animals and raiders, but they were awful for fighting large, well-armed armies. The previous day they only fought for two hours with them, and that was disastrous. If they had to fight an entire twelve hours with them, it would have decimated the army. Overnight Paul’s army broke the wings off of most of the spears, except for those who had the touch get their pig spears through the gaps in the shields and use the wings to injure and kill their enemies.

The lieutenants were instructed to reform their lines, six men deep. The front of the line was made up of swordsmen with shields. The next four lines were spearmen, and the last line was bowmen. The last two lines of spearmen were not to point their spears at the enemy but instead hold their spears parallel to their line giving the bowmen a place to stand and shoot their bows. The last two lines of spearmen had pairs of spearmen holding their spears so that the bowmen could climb up and have firm footing, one foot ahead and one foot behind, as just one line of spears would not give them the footwork necessary to fire their longbows. The archers were to shoot the second and third lines of the enemy. The front line of the enemy was to be taken care of by the swordsmen and the two lines of spearmen behind them.

This wasn’t anything new, but with so many men attacking the line, they did not get a chance to pull it off in the previous evening's one hour of fighting. Paul hoped it would surprise the enemy.

As for the militia, which was exclusively archers, they would take ox carts into battle filled with arrows. Paul’s plan was for them to constantly shoot at the enemy all day. The only problem with the arrows was that most of them were stone-tipped, but regardless if they hit human skin, they would penetrate.

The retired soldier's job was to keep the enemy from flanking the active-duty soldiers and also to keep the enemy away from the archers. If they had to make a decision between protecting active-duty soldiers or the militia, they were to protect the militia first as they were more exposed.

The diplomatic corps job was to do whatever they felt was necessary. Paul wanted them moving around the battlefield because they looked special. All the diplomats were wonderful archers as a requirement to be in the diplomatic core was to have killed an elephant. The men had to leave their Ivory staffs back in Jiwi Mkuki, and they lacked spears but having a clearly different enemy wondering the battlefield shooting powerful arrows at you randomly and perhaps even showing up and fighting with sword and shield here, and there could confuse the enemy.

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