Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, , with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . thing could stand againstthe sarissa of the phalanx,which had never yet foundits match. Darius was oncemore seized with waiting for support orfor reinforcements, withoutpersonal effort to retrievewhat might have been buta temporary disadvantage,but full of terror, especiallywhen his own charioteer felltransfixed by a. spear, heturned and fled. The splen-did array of Oriental legionshas lost its lead
Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, , with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . thing could stand againstthe sarissa of the phalanx,which had never yet foundits match. Darius was oncemore seized with waiting for support orfor reinforcements, withoutpersonal effort to retrievewhat might have been buta temporary disadvantage,but full of terror, especiallywhen his own charioteer felltransfixed by a. spear, heturned and fled. The splen-did array of Oriental legionshas lost its leader. Willno one fill his place and callinto action the myriads ofbrave souls eagerly waiting to do the Great King service? The cavalry of the Persian left had by this time alsobroken and was being driven back by Aretes upon the sec-ond line, which should but did not advance to,its support,throwing it into quick confusion. The flight of the GreatKing put an end to any idea of resistance by the Persiancentre and left. The vast mass began to melt to the rear,and but a few charges of the Macedonian right were neededto send them, as at Issus, ebbing in consternation from Arbela (third phase). 380 DANGER TO THE LEFT. While Alexander was heading his wedge for the Persiancentre, and the cavalry of the right was charging home uponthe Bactrians and Scythians of Bessus, the Macedonian lefthad been almost fatally compromised. Into the kings wedgehad been thrust the brigades of Coenus and Perdiccas, andthe rest of the phalanx as far as the right of Simmias hadtried to follow the movement to protect its flank. The latterbrigade and that of Craterus, however, could not join in thekings forward movement, for Parmenio was hard pressed,and needed every man he could collect. The scythed char-iots here may have won more success than on the right. Itis not stated. But the cavalry on the Persian right wasalready moving out to attack the Macedonian left, and thetroops in the Persian r
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